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Multidisciplinary Efforts in Upper-level Courses

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Timothy R McJunkin, Idaho National Laboratory; Craig G Rieger, Idaho National Laboratory; Aunshul Rege, Temple University; Saroj K Biswas, Temple University; Michael Haney, University of Idaho; Michael John Santora, University of Idaho; Brian K. Johnson, University of Idaho, Moscow; Ronald Laurids Boring; D. Subbaram Naidu P.E., University of Minnesota Duluth; John F. Gardner, Boise State University

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

 instructors plan to attempt to augment the participation from the disciplines outside ECE by incorporating short modules in core classes of the subject areas of human factors, cybersecurity, and other relevant disciplines to introduce the concept or ResCS and encourage participation in the ResCS course. To provide more in depth exploration and completeness of projects the ResCS course will have an optional second semester structured as an undergraduate capstone or graduate thesis support to encourage completion of concepts into implemented designs. The team seeks to disseminate the successes of the course and the Grid Game to other universities and continue to encourage related disciplines at universities to participate in this interdisciplinary

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College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session III: Collaboration

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Diane L Peters PE, Kettering University; Anne M Lucietto, Purdue University

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College Industry Partnerships

with them; often,these collaborations are each run separately and therefore can be considered to be separatecollaborative efforts. Such collaborations often focus on providing projects for students, for theircapstone design course or a similar class. One example of this is Olin College. Another model iswhen a university has a strong experiential learning program that features co-op or internshipexperiences, such as the co-op program at Kettering University, Drexel University, or theUniversity of Cincinnati. Collaborations may also focus on the professional development offaculty members, as at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.Olin College (www.olin.edu)As in all engineering programs, Olin College students perform a capstone project. In the

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Assessment II: Learning Gains and Conceptual Understanding

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brian M. Frank, Queen's University; Natalie Simper, Queen's University; James A. Kaupp, Queen's University

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

research project investigating the development and measurement of general learning outcomes. Natalie comes from an Australian Senior-Secondary/ Post-Secondary teaching background, with experience at the State-wide level in curriculum development, large-scale assessment, and evaluation and assessment of outcomes based education.Dr. James A. Kaupp, Queen’s University Assessment and Quality Assurance Coordinator (Msc ’06, PhD ’12) at Queen’s University, Kingston, On- tario, Canada in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science. Educational research interests include engineering education development, cultural change in higher education, higher-order thinking develop- ment and assessment, outcomes-based data-informed

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division Poster Session: Works in Progress

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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A. Leyf Peirce Starling, The Engineering Place, North Carolina State University; Diane Brauner, Perkins School for the Blind

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

schedule.Choosing appropriate activities tied into themes allowed for consistent reinforcement of not onlythe engineering design process, but also explicit instruction of science concepts. Following asuccessful Capstone Project model, the students concluded the camp by completing theengineering design process to solve a problem that they defined as socially relevant. Figure 1provides a brief description of the activities completed in camp.Pictures of campers doing sample activities:Figure 1: Camp Schedule and Activities Day Theme Activity Description Move into Dorms, Students move into dorm rooms, work with Orientation and

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Diversity in Community Engagement Implementation I

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ann-Perry Witmer P.E., Univerity of Illinois College of Engineering; Keilin Jahnke, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

. As a result, it is hoped that the students will determine an effective collaborative learningapproach that informs each others’ areas of interest regarding international developmentsustainability, while building a knowledge base for better understanding the interrelationshipsamong these disciplines to evaluate long-term interactions between an engineered infrastructureand a recipient community.We emphasize that this course is not design-based, such as an Engineering Capstone project, nordoes it teach technical design. Instead, it focuses engineering minds on the non-engineeringinfluences that must be considered to produce a successful, sustainable engineering design for arecipient outside the designers’ own sociocultural experience.Course

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Developing Infrastructure Professionals

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Douglas Schmucker P.E., University of Utah; Joshua Lenart, University of Utah; Steven J. Burian P.E., University of Utah; Amir Mohaghegh Motlagh, University of Utah

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Diversity

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Civil Engineering

-scale interventions and chose to approach changes cautiously byconducting a small pilot study involving the courses in the professional “core.”Three course were selected (CVEEN 1000, 3100, and 4910) as appropriate candidates. Thesecourses represent students from across the program and constitute the core of the department’sprofessional skills-related offerings. Practical issues caused the co-authors to implement theinfrastructure theme in only two courses: CVEEN 1000 and 3100. The capstone course (CVEEN4910) was already overloaded with a focus on development and execution of design projects; aswell, many aspects of an infrastructure perspective were already embedded in the course from theoutset of this study.4 Rubric DevelopmentThe initial

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 10

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Galina Burylina, Kazan National Research Technological University; Phillip Albert Sanger, Purdue University - West Lafayette; Julia Ziyatdinova; Dilbar Sultanova

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Diversity

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Paper ID #17396Approaches to Entrepreneurship and Leadership Development at an Engi-neering UniversityMrs. Galina Burylina, Kazan National Research Technological UniversityDr. Phillip Albert Sanger, Purdue University - West Lafayette Dr. Sanger is a professor in the School of Engineering Technology in the College of Technology of Purdue University. His focus and passion is real world, industry based, senior capstone experiences both domes- tically and internationally. He has successfully developed this area at Purdue and at Western Carolina University. Prior to his career in academia, Dr. Sanger had a successful 30 year

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CEED Paper Session 1: Using Co-Op and Internships to Improve Diversity, Retention, Learning, and Assessment

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vedaraman Sriraman, Texas State University - San Marcos; Bobbi J. Spencer, Texas State University - San Marcos; Kimberly Grau Talley P.E., Texas State University - San Marcos; Araceli Martinez Ortiz, Texas State University - San Marcos

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Diversity

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

, families, and students from underrepresented communities. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Early Internships for Engineering Technology Student Retention: A Pilot StudyAbstractResearch in engineering technology major retention suggests that early internships present anoutstanding opportunity for freshman and sophomore students to engage, socialize, and learn incommunities of practice and to “discover” the link between theory and practice early in theiracademic tenure, leading to a consequent improvement in retention rates. At Texas StateUniversity, the traditional senior-level capstone internship program was reengineered andconverted into a sophomore level

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Architectural Division Technical Session 1

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Edward M. Segal, Hofstra University; Sigrid Adriaenssens, Princeton University

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Architectural

course.IntroductionEngineering design projects that focus on real world problems can help prepare students for thechallenges that they will face later in research settings and industry. In some architectural and/orcivil engineering curricula, students are exposed to design in first-year and/or senior capstonecourses. In an existing academic curriculum that lacks first-year and/or senior capstone coursesit may not be feasible to add new courses that are entirely focused on design. As an alternative tostandalone design courses, design components can be integrated into other courses that arealready part of the curriculum. Bucciarelli1, in a review of a workshop held by the EngineeringCoalition of Schools for Excellence in Education and Leadership (ECSEL), describes a set

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Biomedical Division Poster Session

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Margo Cousins, University of Texas, Austin; Lynda K. Gonzales, University of Texas, Austin; Erin Dolan, University of Texas, Austin; Kathryn E. Flowers, Texas 4000 for Cancer; Courtney Becker, Texas 4000 for Cancer; Laura Suggs, University of Texas, Austin; Mia K. Markey, University of Texas, Austin

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Biomedical

Paper ID #15347Work in Progress: Enhancing the Undergraduate Research Experience throughPartnership with a Non-profit OrganizationMs. Margo Cousins, University of Texas, Austin Ms. Cousins oversees undergraduate and graduate academic advising at the Department Biomedical Engi- neering at The University of Texas at Austin. She directs the office in strategic academic and professional development advising, capstone projects program, industry partnerships, first-year interest groups, and other special programs.Lynda K. Gonzales, University of Texas, AustinDr. Erin Dolan, University of Texas, AustinKathryn E. Flowers, Texas 4000

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Environmental Engineering Division: Curricula, Criteria, Student Performance, and Growth

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Prahlad Murthy, Wilkes University

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Environmental Engineering

“computer intensive (CI)”. In the ENV programcurriculum, the two senior capstone project courses satisfy the WI and OPO requirements;Hydrology and Air Quality are the two courses that are designated as CI and satisfy thegraduation requirements.Engineering topics that are part of the curriculum are appropriate to the discipline ofenvironmental engineering in many ways. Courses like CADD Laboratory, Engineering ProjectAnalysis, and Professionalism & Ethics, Statics, Strength of Materials, EngineeringThermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics support material and concepts in courses such asEnvironmental Engineering Hydraulics, Water Quality, Water and Wastewater Treatment, AirQuality, and Air Pollution Control. Moreover, topics covered in the above

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Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary Carpenter Ed.D., CCD - Custom Curriculum Design; Logan Edward Micher, Florida Polytechnic University; Chris Yakymyshyn; Jorge Vargas, Florida Polytechnic University; Christina Drake, Florida Polytechnic University

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Design in Engineering Education

. The Wickenden Report5(1930) recommended design projects for sophomores and juniors, and the Grinter Report6 (1955)recommended engineering programs contain both technical (including design) and social(general education, social sciences) goals. Credit hour caps reduced or eliminated courses suchas shop, design and manufacturing technology by the 1960’s. Reconsideration of these changesbegan in earnest by the late 1980’s. For example, a 1997 National Science Foundation reportSystemic Engineering Educational Reform- An Action Agenda7 listed teamwork, project-basedlearning and industry interactions as important areas of emphasis. In addition to the creation ofsenior year capstone design classes, existing freshman introductory classes were modified

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Courses in Emergent Areas

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel Lepek, The Cooper Union; Marc-Olivier Coppens, University College London (UCL)

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Chemical Engineering

Coppens’s experience in transforming the capstone Chemical ProcessDesign course at his former US university, and a project-based course on fractals in chemicalengineering taught in the USA and the Netherlands. Working together, this new elective courseprovided students with an introduction to the emerging research area of Nature InspiredChemical Engineering, leveraged new technologies to help improve the learning process, andprepared them for applications in the future workplace.Centre for Nature-Inspired EngineeringThe overarching vision of the Centre for Nature-Inspired Engineering is to use nature as aguiding platform to seek potentially transformative solutions to engineering grand challenges,such as sustainable energy, clean water, and

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 5

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John K. Estell, Ohio Northern University; David Reeping, Ohio Northern University; Heather Sapp, Ohio Northern University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

having computing professionalsperform the development or using service learning as part of a capstone design course tocomplete the project.12-13 Having a real-world end user in the form of elementary school childrenchanged the perspectives of the programmers; for example, these are some of the remarks madein the post-activity survey: “This program was geared towards kids from fourth to sixth grade so we had to keep that in mind. It wasn't just a game that we were trying to do, the overall outcome of the application was for the kids to learn from it.” “[The program was] a real program to be used by real people, and not being shoved into some archive where it will never see the light of day.” “We had to think differently

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Student Preparation for, and Outcomes from, Community Engagement Efforts

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kurt Paterson P.E., James Madison University; Christopher Swan, Tufts University; David W. Watkins, Michigan Technological University

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

first program was an optional senior capstone project taking place with a community inCentral or South America, including two weeks of field work abroad. The second program was agraduate research program with a local service component developing sustainable developmentteaching materials with K-12 teachers based on the graduate student’s research. The thirdprogram involved short-term (three months) of field research in East Africa embedded within atwelve-month long research program on small-scale infrastructure research. The fourth programwas the Engineers Without Borders chapter at MPuT. The last student program was a graduateprogram comprised of one year of campus course work, followed by two years of field researchin a community partnering

Conference Session

The Intersection of Higher Ed and Industry

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mitchell L. Springer PMP, SPHR, Purdue University - West Lafayette; Mark T. Schuver, Purdue University - West Lafayette

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Continuing Professional Development

participants in non-STEM graduate programs. The hierarchy of disciplines,then, are:  Technology  Liberal Arts  Management  Health and human sciences  Engineering  AgricultureWhat separates STEM from non-STEM program offerings is the orientation toward technicalleadership versus first-, second-, or third-line leadership. More specifically, STEM is strictlyleadership of STEM oriented endeavors, providing various courses in six sigma, qualityinitiatives and business statistics with a coupled directed project. Non-STEM program offeringsare for leadership positions with a general understanding of team collaboration, human resourcemanagement and similar non-technical courses, culminating with a capstone project.The

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International Division Poster Session

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anna Sukhristina, Kazan National Research Technological University; Artem Bezrukov; Julia Ziyatdinova

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Diversity

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International

integrating industrial platforms for educationalpurposes is widely spread among engineering institutions – colleges and universities. Forinstance, students of engineering programs are required to undergo an internship at industrialenterprises of the region and perform a capstone project to demonstrate the new competenciesthey have obtained within the internship period. While regional academic-industrialcooperation through cluster partnership demonstrates positive results for training highlyqualified specialists at present, it should involve international experience in order to remainup-to-date in the forthcoming years.However, the idea of expanding clustering to an international level brings up the series ofpotential issues that arise from the

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Chemical Engineering Division Poster Session

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elizabeth M. Hill, University of Minnesota - Duluth

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Chemical Engineering

course of a single semester so steps eight through ten of theVaughen’s Design Project Road Map are reserved for the capstone design course students takelater in the curriculum. If the topic chosen for the risk assessment is not for a chemical process, itstill needs to address the first seven steps and the instructor may provide insight on how to alterthe scope slightly to allow it to be approved.The students gain a base knowledge of the area of risk assessment prior to receiving the aboveassignment in a manner that caters to multiple learning styles as described by Felder andSilverman. The learning styles of this index were updated in 2003 and their applicability for theprescribed pre-work is shown by the bracketed text in the following

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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

final exam questions, are included.Preliminary findings indicate that in general this approach can work, but that there arecertain content areas in which the available resources are very weak. A summary ofresources used and student ratings of each will also be provided.BACKGROUNDThis paper describes work completed at Ohio Northern University (ONU), a small, private,comprehensive university focused on undergraduate education. At ONU, engineeringstudents are heavily involved in design projects throughout the curriculum. A course in thesenior year called “Process of Design” is required for all mechanical engineering students.This course provides content to accompany the capstone projects, a model that is notunique1.Previously, this course was

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 1

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rebecca Komarek, University of Colorado, Boulder; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder; Daria A. Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

production 2. Lawbooth Makes legal consultation easy with an online platform 3. GoodEats Meats Brings local, high-quality, smoked barbecue to our Boulder and beyond 4. Innate Introduces information display to your bathroom mirror 5. Kitables Puts all of the components for your next DIY project in one, organized container shipped to your door 6. Pallas, Inc. Mitigates hair loss in chemotherapy patients with a novel cold cap technology 7. Surya Conversions Produces hybrid conversion kits for auto-rickshaws in developing countries 8. Vektor Tech Automates the

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Labs & Hands-on Instruction II

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Pong P. Chu, Cleveland State University

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Diversity

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Electrical and Computer

themas a cohesive framework to connect and integrate the individual courses. The lab framework willkeep the lecture content intact but update the experiments and projects to make students aware ofthe big picture, help them to relate the individual subjects, and apply and integrate the previouslearning in a new context. The labs spread over all hardware related courses, including freshman engineering,introductory digital systems, advanced digital systems, computer organization, embeddedsystems, hardware-software co-design, and senior capstone design. The complexities andabstraction levels of the experiments and projects gradually grow as students progress throughthe curriculum. The key concepts are repeated in different courses with increasing

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Innovative Instructional Strategies for Integrating Sustainability

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Diane L. Bondehagen, Florida Gulf Coast University; Simeon J. Komisar, Florida Gulf Coast University; Robert O'Neill, Florida Gulf Coast University

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Civil Engineering

and future generations. Currently a project-basedapproach to promoting student knowledge and skill in sustainability design is limited to upperlevel environmental engineering courses. The long-term goal is to introduce sustainability-related activities and projects throughout the curricula and to assess levels of expertise insustainability as students progress towards graduation. This longitudinal study will attempt to elucidate differences between Civil andEnvironmental teaching strategies implemented to integrate sustainability concepts in coursedelivery. Continual assessment will help identify more effective teaching methods and yearlysenior level capstone design course assessments will evaluate student skill in

Conference Session

Education Programs in BME

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Katherine E Reuther, Columbia University; Michael John Cennamo, Columbia University; Tiffany Wen-an Guo, Columbia University

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Diversity

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Biomedical

biomedical problems. During biomedical design, a range ofstrategies can be used to identify a problem and to generate and evaluate solutions. At ColumbiaUniversity, we have an established program for teaching biomedical design to undergraduateswhich culminates in our capstone ‘Senior Design’ course. However, no specified designexperience exists for terminal degree BME Master’s students. Design courses are traditionallytaught utilizing a textbook, lectures, and a team design project, with often limited time forinteractions between and among teams and instructors in the classroom. We also recognized thatthe background and educational and professional goals of undergraduates and graduate studentsare unique. Therefore, we saw a valuable opportunity to

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Biomedical Division Poster Session

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer R. Amos, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Marcia Pool, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Karin Jensen, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; John Vozenilek

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Diversity

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Biomedical

, Urbana-Champaign Dr. Marcia Pool is a Lecturer in bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In her career, Marcia has been active in improving undergraduate education through developing problem-based laboratories to enhance experimental design skills; developing a preliminary design course focused on problem identification and market space (based on an industry partner’s protocol); and mentoring and guiding student teams through the senior design capstone course and a translational course following senior design. To promote biomedical/bioengineering, Marcia works with Women in Engineering to offer outreach activities and is engaged at the national level as Executive Director of the biomedical

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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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MD B. Sarder, University of Southern Mississippi

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Graduate Studies

programs are non-thesis Masters Programs, with only a few requiring a capstone project. Although not conclusivefrom this data we can see that in general, the graduate degree programs offered in logistics &transportation have a heavy focus on workplace readiness by encouraging interaction withrelevant corporations and by helping working professionals to further advance their careers in thelogistics & transportation fields.IntroductionUS domination in manufacturing in the 1980s were declining steadily until recently due to themass outsourcing of US products and services to overseas countries (see figure 1). On the otherhand the logistics transportation sector is booming in the US (see table 1) [1]. Even though massoutsourcing is blamed for

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Works in Progress: Curricula and Pathways

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Engineering has worked for years to continuouslyimprove its approach to professional formation, relying heavily on input from constituentsranging from alumni and corporate partners to faculty and current students. The most influentialstakeholder group has been the department’s Industrial Advisory Board (IAB), and for the pastdecade the IAB has driven a number of initiatives designed to teach and build capacities forprofessional skills, often called “soft skills.” As shown in Table 2, the IAB’s recommendationshave been delivered in silos, mostly via the senior design capstone experience. ECE 202 CircuitTheory Applications – which now includes a project design component in the sophomore year –has served as the vital lower-level course for introducing

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Aerospace Engineering Education

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Scott Fleming, Georgia Institute of Technology; Amy Pritchett, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Aerospace

avionics, are segmented into separate design tasks. Technical componentdesign teams must iteratively integrate critical information from adjacent technical systems into theirdecision-making process.31 Thus, communication of knowledge about the design of an aerospace vehicleneeds to occur through time as the design evolves.Aerospace engineering capstone design courses are typically one to two semester courses that askstudents to design an aerospace vehicle using a given set of requirements while interacting on a team.While there is some variability in the requirements of a design task, most capstone design projects coverthe conceptual design phase of the aerospace engineering design process.33 Fixed wing design courseprojects generally ask students

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division: Addressing the NGSS: Supporting K12 Teachers in Engineering Pedagogy, Engineering Science, Careers, and Technical Pathways

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

S. Jimmy Gandhi, California State University - Northridge; Vidya K Nandikolla, California State University - Northridge; George Youssef, San Diego State University; Peter L. Bishay, California State University - Northridge

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

realizing their design through 3D printing. In this module, a historic background about 3D printers is first introduced, and then the impact of 3D printers on third industrial revolution is discussed. Students will be able to immediately hold, evaluate, test and use their designs as well as share it with each other and the world. 3. Capstone Design Project The main goal of the third module is to design an assistive technology mechanical object to help people with special needs. Each group of students deliver well-defined 3D solid models, fully functional assistive technology device, formal design report, and formal design presentation.Survey Findings & AnalysisThis paper was written at the

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Writing and Communication I

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nancy B. Barr, Michigan Technological University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

students improve their technical writing skills. Thispaper details a comprehensive study of a GTA training program implemented in a largemechanical engineering department. Situated within the field of Writing Across theCurriculum/Writing in the Disciplines, the program was developed to meet the unique needs ofthe department’s GTAs and address perceived deficiencies in undergraduate student writing byteaching best practices in writing evaluation. Two methods were used to assess the efficacy ofthis program: 1) Qualitative methods such as interviews and an open-ended survey were used togain the perspective of the GTAs and their students on a variety of issues; and 2) A summativeassessment compared Senior Capstone Design final reports completed prior

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Instrumentation Technical Session

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Herbert L. Hess, University of Idaho, Moscow

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Instrumentation

Paper ID #16899Designing Communications and Power for an Instrumentation System forNatural Resources Research in a Remote Mountainous LocationDr. Herbert L. Hess, University of Idaho, Moscow Herb Hess is Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Idaho, where he teaches subjects in He received the PhD Degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1993. His research and teaching interests are in power electronics, electric machines and drives, electrical power systems, and analog/mixed signal electronics. He has taught senior capstone design since 1985 at several universities. c