Conference Session

Assessing Literacies in Engineering Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia R Backer, San Jose State University; Laura E Sullivan-Green, San Jose State University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

limit [2]. With the financial crisis that struck the country in 2008, efforts to manage the fiscal crisis replaced those to reduce the curriculum of the approximately 19% of degrees that remained above the 120-unit limit within the 23 campus system. The CSU Board of Trustees presented a proposal in September 2012 to achieve the unit reduction, in part, by eliminating all advanced GE requirements. This proposal was prepared with no faculty input, in direct contradiction to the deeply engrained shared governance culture within the CSU system. Faculty and campus outcry was immediate and aggressive. The Academic Senate at SJSU, in response to a mandate from the SJSU president, developed an alternative proposal that

Conference Session

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

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Scott R. Hamilton, Northeastern University

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Graduate Studies

potentialinfluences, and some students may be uncertain about what constitutes academic integrity andwhat constitutes plagiarism if they are new to the English language and or western educationalstandards.[1, 18] In summary, the reasons for plagiarism are many and complex.[9]Engineering educators may debate the relevance of plagiarism to the practice of engineeringtoday. The reality is that many master of science degree programs in engineering fields rely onthe development of technical and problem solving skills in their respective curriculum. As aresult, students may not be required to develop and refine writing or research skills. Often, theprimary objective most masters programs at the Case Study University, is securing full-timeemployment. Because of the

Conference Session

Developing an Academic Framework Supportive of our Military Veterans

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Blake Stringer, Kent State University, Kent; Maureen McFarland, Kent State University, Kent

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Diversity

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Military and Veterans Constituent Committee

cohortsAbstractThe capstone course sequence in an engineering or engineering technology program bringstogether all elements of the curriculum into a comprehensive learning experience. A team ofstudents works together, combining the topics learned during their undergraduate coursework tocomplete a substantial design project. Design courses can be uncomfortable for many studentsbecause of the open-ended nature of the requirement, leading to many questions such as “Are weon the right track? Do I have the right answer? Are we approaching this the right way?” Due totheir unique experiences, student veterans in engineering are well positioned to enable theircohorts to overcome these challenges. The military experience teaches veterans to becomeproblem-solvers

Conference Session

Works in Progress: Curricula and Pathways

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alma H. Rosales, Colorado State University; Andrea M. Leland, Colorado State University; Olivera Notaros, Colorado State University, ECE Department; Richard F. Toftness, IEEE High Plains Section; Thomas J. Siller, Colorado State University; Michael A. De Miranda Ph.D., Colorado State University; Alistair Cook, Colorado State University; Melissa D. Reese, Colorado State University; Zinta S. Byrne, Colorado State University; James Warren Weston, Colorado State University; Anthony A. Maciejewski, Colorado State University

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Educational Research and Methods

determiningthe appropriate integration points, timing, and interactive tactics for weaving all of the contentfrom Table 3. Whether delivering the material through in-class activities or industry ledexercises, this process allows her to see how soft skills development can be integrated andreinforced across multiple points in the curriculum, and how industry partnerships can beleveraged to enhance the overall learning experience. The approach is unlike previousprofessional formation activities, which delivered professional content in silos. As an example,Table 4 illustrates how anchoring concepts and professional learning might come together in aknowledge integration activity.Table 3: Content for professional formation thread Professional Formation

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 2

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elizabeth Nilsen, Purdue Center for Regional Development; Thema Monroe-White, SageFox Consulting Group; Edward F. Morrison, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Phil Weilerstein, VentureWell

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

educational settings,the use of strategic doing in such environments is growing. Some recent examples includedeployment at individual universities seeking to reform their curriculum, as a technique forstudents to better organize teams in classes like capstone design, the transformation of academicdepartments, and the formation of cross-disciplinary research teams to address “grandchallenges.”This paper describes the process and its application to engineering education, specifically in aneffort to increase the range and quality of innovation and entrepreneurship offerings forundergraduate engineering students.Program descriptionThe Pathways to Innovation (Pathways) program is an initiative of the National Center forEngineering Pathways to Innovation

Conference Session

Developing an Academic Framework Supportive of our Military Veterans

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vukica M. Jovanovic, Old Dominion University; Anthony W Dean, Old Dominion University; Carol L Considine, Old Dominion University; Karina Arcaute, Old Dominion University; Petros J Katsioloudis, Old Dominion University; Mileta Tomovic, Old Dominion University; Thomas B. Stout, Tidewater Community College; Connor Schwalm, Old Dominion University; Jennifer Grimsley Michaeli P.E., Old Dominion University; Yuzhong Shen, Old Dominion University

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Diversity

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Military and Veterans Constituent Committee

Technology (BCET) at ODU. His research has focused mostly on control systems (integration and testing) and the reliability and maintainability of complex systems. He has been selected as both a NASA and an ONR Faculty Fellow. He regularly teaches courses in Ma- rine Engineering and in Maintained Systems. Most recently Dr. Dean was on the Headquarters Staff the American Society of Naval Engineers. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering, and a B.S. in Nuclear Engineering Technology, from the Batten College of Engineering and Technology at Old Dominion University. Additionally, Dr. Dean received an MBA from the College of William and Mary. Prior to is academic career Dr

Conference Session

1st and 2nd Year Instruction in Design

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ruturaj Soman, Florida A&M University/Florida State University ; Nikhil Gupta, Florida State University; Chiang Shih, Florida A&M University/Florida State University

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

the modern engineering world, traditional in-class teachingmethods may need to be modified to adequately prepare students to be competent in today’sindustry. Therefore, there is an increased emphasis in providing design experience throughintegrated project-based learning throughout the engineering curriculum. In this paper, we willpresent our recent efforts at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Florida Agriculturaland Mechanical University-Florida State University College of Engineering (FAMU-FSU COE)to develop a coordinated and integrated three-semester course sequence to the capstone experience.The broad aim is to introduce the overall design process through project planning, management,and product development with an emphasis

Conference Session

College-Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session II: Curriculum

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Farrokh Mistree, University of Oklahoma; Zahed Siddique, University of Oklahoma; Maysam Pournik, University of Oklahoma; Bryan William Bodie

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Diversity

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College Industry Partnerships

Laboratory at Georgia Tech. Farrokh’s current research focus is model-based realization of complex systems by managing uncertainty and complexity. The key question he is investigating is what are the principles underlying rapid and robust concept exploration when the analysis models are incomplete and possibly inaccurate? His quest for answers to the key question are anchored in three projects, namely, Integrated Realization of Robust, Resilient and Flexible Networks Integrated Realization of Engineered Materials and Products Managing Organized and Disorganized Complexity: Exploration of the Solution Space His current education focus is on creating and implementing, in partnership with industry, a curriculum for

Conference Session

Using Laboratories for Instruction in Mechanical Engineering

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heather Dillon, University of Portland; Nathan Schmedake, University of Portland; Karen Elizabeth Eifler, University of Portland; Timothy A Doughty, University of Portland; Ken Lulay, University of Portland

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Mechanical Engineering

Paper ID #14548Design of a Curriculum-Spanning Mechanical Engineering Laboratory Ex-perimentDr. Heather Dillon, University of Portland Dr. Heather Dillon is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Portland. Her teaching focuses on thermodynamics, heat transfer, renewable energy, and optimization of energy systems. She currently leads a research team working on energy efficiency, renewable energy, and fundamental heat transfer. Before joining the university, Heather Dillon worked for the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) as a senior research engineer.Nathan Schmedake, University of

Conference Session

College-Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session II: Curriculum

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Edward Pines, New Mexico State University; Patricia A. Sullivan, New Mexico State University

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College Industry Partnerships

diverse workforce withour various partners. Collectively, we identified a need to expand student learning at theundergraduate level beyond the classroom, thus a model for pop-up professional developmentworkshops soon followed. These workshops were developed as an outcome of our multi-yearparticipation in the Pathways to Innovation program, which was funded by the National ScienceFoundation and managed by Stanford University and VentureWell to integrate innovation andentrepreneurial skills across the engineering curriculum. The Pathways program has become achampion of the pop-up model as a flexible format for enhancing student learning across multi-disciplinary areas. The specific pop-up model adopted at New Mexico State University

Conference Session

Capstone Design Courses II

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Pezeshki, Washington State University; Jacob William Leachman, Washington State University; Michael Richey, The Boeing Company

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Design in Engineering Education

State University Jacob Leachman is an Assistant Professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State University (WSU). He initiated the HYdrogen Properties for Energy Research (HY- PER) laboratory at WSU in 2010 with the mission to advance the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of hydrogen systems. He received a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Idaho in 2005 and a M.S. degree in 2007. His master’s thesis has been adopted as the foundation for hydrogen fuel- ing standards and custody exchange, in addition to winning the Western Association of Graduate Schools Distinguished Thesis Award for 2008. He completed his Ph.D. in the Cryogenic Engineering Laboratory

Conference Session

Engineering Management: Six Sigma, Data Modeling, and Risk Management

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kate D. Abel, Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Engineering and Science)

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Engineering Management

concepts oninformatics and other data analytics, modeling and visualization topics beyondOperations Research into its’ curriculum. Recent alumni, and cooperative educationstudents alike, have been impressed with the quality and quantity of employmentprospects. Should other Engineering Management programs consider the addition ofsuch topics to the foundation of their curriculums? This article will discuss the pros andthe pushbacks to making what others call an ‘area of emphasis’, core to a traditionalEngineering Management curriculum.IntroductionThe Engineering Management Body of Knowledge (EMBoK) contains EngineeringManagement principles and practices over 11 different knowledge domains1. (See Table1 below which summarizes the domain areas in the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn Johnson, Colorado School of Mines; Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines; Barbara M. Moskal, Colorado School of Mines

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

sociotechnicalthinking pervades the entire engineering curriculum. The focus here is on an engineering science(ES) course.During the Fall 2014 and Fall 2015 semesters, our research team integrated social justiceconcepts into the ES core course “Introduction to Feedback Control Systems” (IFCS) at ourpublic university, the Colorado School of Mines (CSM). Our motivation was to introducestudents to a missing or underrepresented element of the curriculum at CSM, and to do so in sucha manner that challenges the “sacred cow” notion of the ES core curriculum2, 3, reinforcing thehigh value of social justice to engineering as opposed to placing it in a course with lowerperceived value. We have previously reported on results from this integration4, 5; this paper

Conference Session

Focus on the Classroom: Innovative Pedagogies

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kapil Chalil Chalil Madathil, Clemson University; Kristin Kelly Frady, Clemson University; Anand K. Gramopadhye, Clemson University; Jeff Bertrand; Rebecca S Hartley, Clemson University Center for Workforce Development

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Two Year College Division

in the educational sector in both live and online environments as an adjunct instruc- tor in computer technology for Greenville Technical College and as a Career and Technology Education teacher. Kris earned a B.S. in Management from Clemson University, a Masters of Arts in Teaching in Business Education from the University of South Carolina, and an Ed.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in Educational Technology and online learning from the University of Florida. Her research interests include implementation of digital learning solutions in technical and vocational education, development of career pathways utilizing stackable certificates, educator professional develop- ment in communities of

Conference Session

Curricular Issues in Computing and Information Technology Programs I

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Masoud Naghedolfeizi, Fort Valley State College; Sanjeev Arora, Fort Valley State University; Nabil A. Yousif, Fort Valley State University; Xiangyan Zeng, Fort Valley State University

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Diversity

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Computing & Information Technology

Paper ID #17134Computer Science Curriculum Redesign at Fort Valley State UniversityDr. Masoud Naghedolfeizi, Fort Valley State College Dr.Masoud Naghedolfeizi is a senior professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Fort Valley State University. His academic background includes a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering with minor in instrumentation and control, an M.S. in Metallurgical Engineering, and M.S. and Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering. Dr. Naghedolfeizi’s research interests include instrumentation and measurement systems, applied articial intelligence, information processing, and engineering education

Conference Session

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division: Engineering Alignment with Core Curriculum (Physics)

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Meera N.K. Singh PEng, University of Calgary; Qiao Sun, University of Calgary; Cassy M. Weber, Science Alberta Foundation (o/a MindFuel)

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Diversity

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Engineering Physics & Physics, Pre-College Engineering Education Division

. Depending onthe activities accessed, learners can strategically gravitate toward information presented in eithera sensing or an intuitive manner.The third dimension of learning style differentiates between visual and verbal (or auditory)learners. One of the great advantages of the DLMS and its digital delivery of curriculum contentis that with multimedia, visual and auditory learners can be simultaneously engaged. Games,videos, and other digital interactives seamlessly integrate music, sound, narration, images, andwritten text in order to maximize the modalities in which students may be best captured with thematerial.The fourth dimension of learning style as defined in the FSLM contrasts sequential and globallearners. One of the defining elements

Conference Session

Software Engineering Constituent Committee Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dan Budny P.E., University of Pittsburgh; Elizabeth E. Vidal, Universidad Nacional de San Agustín

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Diversity

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

such as proceedings, journals and transactions. As part ofthe assessment protocol, each student was asked the schematic contribution of the referencedarticles.C. RA II and Ability (f): An understanding of the ethics and professional responsibilityHerker[18] states the teaching of ethics should not be a course. Ethics needs to be integrated tomany of the curriculum courses. Herker proposes ethical aspects in engineering should achievethe following results: (a) increase the sensitivity of ethics (b) increase in the knowledge ofrelevant standards or behaviors (c) ethical judgment improved and (d) improves the will powerethics.The course of RAII gives the students a space to develop these aspects. During the writingprocess, the student had to find

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Understanding and Changing Engineering Culture

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Omoju Miller, UC Berkeley

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ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity

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Women in Engineering

Paper ID #17160Gaining Insights into the Effects of Culturally Responsive Curriculum onHistorically Underrepresented Students’ Desire for Computer ScienceMs. Omoju Miller, UC Berkeley Omoju Miller is the lead researcher on the ”Hiphopathy” project at UC Berkeley. She has an undergrad- uate degree in Computer Science (2001) and a Master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering (2004) from the University of Memphis. She has over a decade of experience in the technology indus- try. She is currently a doctoral candidate at UC Berkeley in Computer Science Education. Omoju also served in a volunteer capacity as an advisor to

Conference Session

Labs & Hands-on Instruction II

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pong P. Chu, Cleveland State University

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Diversity

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Electrical and Computer

. Learning in one area supports learning in another.”The study also calls the labs a missed opportunity and states that3: “…[The labs] can be more effectively used in the curriculum to support integration and synthesis of knowledge, development of persistence, skills in formulating and solving problems, and skills of collaboration. Design projects offer opportunities to approximate professional practice, with its concerns for social implications; integrate and synthesize knowledge; and develop skills of persistence, creativity, and teamwork.” Our work is motivated by the study. Instead of treating the labs as the adjuncts that followthe learning of the theories and presenting them in a limited “component context,” we use

Conference Session

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division: Evaluation: Impact of Curriculum for PreK-12 Engineering Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph E. Michaelis, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Mitchell Nathan, University of Wisconsin - Madison

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

Curriculum & Instruction, the Department of Psychology, and the Wisconsin Center for Education Research. He is a member of the steering committee for the Delta Program (part of the national CIRTL Network), which promotes the development of a future national STEM faculty committed to implementing and advancing effective teaching practices for diverse student audiences. Prof. Nathan currently is Director of the Center on Edu- cation and Work and Director of the Postdoctoral Training Program in Mathematical Thinking, Learning, and Instruction. He is an inductee and executive board member of the University of Wisconsin’s Teaching Academy, which promotes excellence in teaching in higher education

Conference Session

Instrumentation Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maged Mikhail, Purdue University - Calumet; Ali Alavizadeh, Purdue University - Calumet

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Instrumentation

nongovernmental organizations. His research in- terests include complex systems modeling and simulation, and systems engineering and their applications. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Incorporating a Software System for Robotics Control and Coordination in Mechatronics curriculum and ResearchAbstractThe goal of this paper is twofold: to develop a software system using MATLAB to control andcoordinate of tasks between mobile robot and robotic arm to solve sophisticated robotics tasks,and to use the software in teaching an undergraduate course in robotics in Mechatronics programat the university. This robotic system will help students to understand the basic and

Conference Session

Assessing Literacies in Engineering Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan McGrade, Indiana Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #14759Integrating Literature and Problem-Based Learning in a First-Year Engi-neering AcademyDr. Susan McGrade, Indiana Institute of Technology Dr. McGrade is a Professor of English at Indiana Institute of Technology, where she teaches a range of classes from First-Year Composition to African American Literature. She often works closely with the College of Engineering, and has developed both an integrated model for English instruction within a Software Engineering program, and a problem-based learning curriculum for a First-Year Engineering Academy. She is also the current NSBE Chapter Advisor

Conference Session

Assessment & Accreditation in ECE

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fong K. Mak, Gannon University; Ramakrishnan Sundaram, Gannon University

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Diversity

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Electrical and Computer

from data collected at the mastery levelwill generate sets of action items which feedback to the program for improvement. Even withdata collected only at the mastery level, for instance at a large university, the amount of datacollected will still be an issue for a timely evaluation. Figure 3 shows a commonly used processof how the GR assessment model is implemented [9, 15]. Figure 2: Sample curriculum outcomes-mapping matrix Figure 3: The GR assessment processSince there are vast amounts of data collected even for the mastery level courses, a sample ofdata, 10% for example, are actually being assessed by an independent multi-rater team. Theindependent raters are in general selected to be

Conference Session

ECE-related Engineering Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dennis A. Silage, Temple University; Keyanoush Sadeghipour, Temple University

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Electrical and Computer

to be prevalentfor the EE curriculum?Unfortunately, the reverse, the ME for EEs course in the EE curriculum, is not endemic andinfusing mechanics into such EE courses as electromechnical systems, control theory andelectrical power and energy conversion remains challenging. Although some EE programs haverecognized this curricular deficit and have engaged their ME department colleagues to provide aservice course, such a course has been only sporadically provided and often not required. Asurvey of peer institutions, using the predicate that the single ME for EEs course be acomprehensive upper division offering, has found that only 18 of 94 (19%) EE programs haveeither an elective (14) or requisite (4) course.Although the ME for EEs course is

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Spencer Seung Kim, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST); Elizabeth Dell, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE)

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

plastics and environmental consideration in materials selection for production design, the impact of technology paired with active learning pedagogies on student learning, and effective strategies for increasing gender diversity in STEM disciplines. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Transforming Curriculum for Workforce Development in Green Plastics Manufacturing Technology (GPMT) for STEM: Lesson LearnedIntroductionManufacturing is integrally tied to advancements in materials science and engineering. "GreenPlastics Manufacturing Technology" (GPMT) is an emerging discipline that encompasses arange of activities in science and technology, from the research and development of non

Conference Session

Research on Diversification, Inclusion, and Empathy II

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joachim Walther, University of Georgia; Shari E. Miller, University of Georgia; Nicola W. Sochacka, University of Georgia; Michael Alvin Brewer jr., University of Georgia

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, in other words, to see the full picture of what it means to develop andembody empathy in engineering. The being dimension thus indicates that in order toconceptually define and pedagogically support empathy in engineering, engineering educatorsneed to critically and reflexively engage with larger ethical commitments and moral principles.Integration of empathy modules in a project-based engineering and society courseBased on the theoretical model described above, we designed and implemented a series ofempathy modules into a sophomore engineering and society course that is part of the above-described, new, mechanical engineering curriculum at the University of Georgia. The goals ofthe project were to: (i) achieve a substantive integration of

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic University; Alyssa J. Harris, Florida Atlantic University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Paper ID #15230Estimation as an Essential Skill in Entrepreneurial ThinkingDr. Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic University Dr. Raviv is a Professor of Computer & Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Florida Atlantic University. In December 2009 he was named Assistant Provost for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. With more than 25 years of combined experience in the high-tech industry, government and academia Dr. Raviv developed fundamentally different approaches to ”out-of-the-box” thinking and a breakthrough methodology known as ”Eight Keys to Innovation.” He has been sharing his contributions with profession

Conference Session

Architectural Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amber Bartosh, Syracuse University; Bess Krietemeyer, Syracuse University; Sinéad C. Mac Namara, Syracuse University

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Architectural

0.0% 10.0% 20.0% 30.0% 40.0% 50.0% 60.0% 70.0% 80.0% Figure 7: Student evaluation of instructor emphasis on technical issues in the design studio.In addition to the closed-ended questions outlined in the graphs above, the students surveyed weregive an open-ended opportunity to add any observations they might have about technical teachingin the curriculum. Of the 53 undergraduate students who responded to the survey, 20 gave answersto this question. The most dominant themes that emerged in these answers were desires forincreased integration between the required technical courses and the design studio. A number ofstudents placed the emphasis on the studio environment as a place to achieve this aim

Conference Session

Social Responsibility and Social Justice I: Pedagogical Perspectives

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines; Juan C. Lucena, Colorado School of Mines

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #15537Making the Invisible Visible: Integrating Engineering-for-Social-Justice Cri-teria in Humanities and Social Science CoursesDr. Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines Jon A. Leydens is an associate professor in the Division of Liberal Arts and International Studies at the Colorado School of Mines, USA, where he has been since 1997. Research and teaching interests include communication, social justice, and engineering education. Dr. Leydens is co-author of Engineering and Sustainable Community Development (Morgan and Claypool, 2010) and editor of Sociotechnical Com- munication in Engineering (Routledge, 2014

Conference Session

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

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicholas Andres Brake, Lamar University; Fatih Alperen Adam

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Civil Engineering

is at Lamar University (where the failure rate typically rangesfrom 30%-40%). In general, the objective of the course is to improve student ability to solveengineering problems. At larger universities, the course enrollment in Statics is typically high; insome cases, surpassing 300 students which places limitations on an instructors’ ability to assignhands-on projects that require space to tinker with physical objects. Several researchers havehowever, reported successful integration of project based assignments, which includes but is notlimited to: analysis, design, and construction of a machine9, truss bridge9,10,11,12,13,14, and afriction climbing machine9.Although most students by their sophomore year have taken a computer course