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Engineering Economy Division Technical Session 3

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gilbert C Brunnhoeffer III P.E., Roger Williams University

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Engineering Economy

Paper ID #19798Engineering Economics for Freshmen EngineersDr. Gilbert C Brunnhoeffer III P.E., Roger Williams University Practiced Civil Engineering and Engineering Management in the U S Army for 20 years. Engaged in software engineering for three years and ran factories producing engineered materials for the aerospace and electronics industries for seventeen years. Teaching career includes engineering mechanics, civil engineering, and construction management for seventeen years. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Engineering Economics for Freshmen EngineersFreshmen

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Division Technical Session 2

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert P. Leland, Oral Roberts University

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Diversity

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Engineering Economy

career, which may be an understatement.From the survey results for the readings, the largest responses from the students were on the TataNano and India Inventors. Both of these had strong connections to engineering. The strongpositive rating for the India Inventors appears to be due to the positive impact on people in India.For the in class topics, most students chose the more technical topics on the Cost of Mars andCongolese Wireless Network (which is also a very dramatic story). As a general rule, the favoritetopics seem to be ones that involve the positive impact of technology on human need, that bringtogether the students’ expertise and career goals with their desire to help people and make adifference.Students selected most of the possible

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Division Technical Session 2

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Isaac W Wait, Marshall University; Sameh M. El-Sayegh, American University of Sharjah; Salwa Mamoun Beheiry, The American University of Sharjah

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Engineering Economy

American University of Sharjah. He holds a Ph.D. in Construction Engineering and Project Management from Texas A&M University, USA, and an M.S. in Construction Management from Texas A&M University, USA. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) from the Project Management Institute (PMI) since 2006. Prior to his academic career, he worked in the construction industry in Greece & Yemen with Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC) and in the US with the Morganti Group Inc. His areas of research and teaching interest are construction & project management, project control and construction contracting. He published over forty research papers in international reputed project management journals

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Division Tech Session 2, IE-ing the Classroom

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dia St. John, University of Arkansas; Eric Specking, University of Arkansas

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

implemented in a middle school classroom in order to focus onproblem solving. On-campus recruitment events offer more freedom in determining activityoutcomes and are typically more broadly focused on introducing students to engineeringdisciplines and careers. It is important that each event is aimed at the prescribed goals.The location and time frame of the event are important to consider for logistical purposes.Consider the amount of mess an activity will produce as well as the space and setup requirementswhen matching it with the appropriate facility.[5] These factors are also important to considerwhen determining the time requirements for a project, including setup and cleanup. The timingof an activity is a very delicate balance. It is important

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Division Technical Session 3

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Billy Gray, Tarleton State University; Daren Davis, Tarleton State University; Erick C Jones P.E., University of Texas, Arlington

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Engineering Economy

and unconscious assumptions throughout his career. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Integrating Costing into an Engineering Economics CourseIntroductionThe Engineering Technology department at Tarleton State University has been working with itsindustrial partners for over 20 years to allow students the opportunity to engage in real worldprojects during their senior capstone projects. Over the past few years, the projects haveincreased in complexity and have shifted from facility layout and safety based projects to nowinclude tool and process design, with the added benefit that many of the companies are taking theprojects and implementing them at some point after students have

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Division Technical Session 3

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Diversity

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Engineering Economy

Paper ID #18126Case Studies Under Your Nose: Using Campus Projects as Case Studies forEngineering EconomyAimee T Ulstad P.E., Ohio State University Aimee Ulstad, P.E is an Associate Professor of Practice in the Integrated Systems Engineering Department at The Ohio State University. Prior to joining the faculty at Ohio State, Aimee was an industry professional in various field in engineering for over 30 years. Aimee received her degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Masters in Business Administration from Ohio State. She began her career as a packaging equipment engineer at Procter and Gamble, then moved to Anheuser-Busch

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Industrial Engineering Division Tech Session 2, IE-ing the Classroom

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alejandro Salado, Virginia Tech; John Ray Morelock, Virginia Tech; Arash Baghaei Lakeh, Virginia Tech

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Diversity

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

changingconditions, and made decisions informed by constraints. Particularly, we sought to identifylearning frameworks that fit the data well and would help us improve the design and assessmentof the activity in later iterations. We found that the learning frameworks of metacognition anddiscrepancy resolution combined to explain most student activity relative to our learningobjectives, and these frameworks suggest several points of improvement for the design andassessment of the simulation game.IntroductionResearch shows a disconnect between academia and industry in terms of engineering educationand practice (Johri & Olds, 2011). In particular, early career engineers believe that “engineeringwork is much more variable and complex than most engineering

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Engineering Economy Division Technical Session 3

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ted Eschenbach, TGE Consulting; Jerome P. Lavelle, North Carolina State University; Neal A Lewis, University of New Haven

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Engineering Economy

matter whether a replacement analysisfocuses on a personal vehicle or an industrial forklift? In other cases, personal finance willrequire extensions of current coverage. Projects may be financed by bonds, but these bonds arealso investments available to individuals and retirement funds.We suggest that the shift in types of retirement funding and the seemingly ever increasing levelof student debt create an obligation for faculty teaching engineering economy to increase thefinancial literacy of their students. Students who cannot do more than “scrape by” when theyreceive their degrees or afford continuing education throughout their career are unlikely to excelas engineers. Students who cannot save for retirement or next month’s loan or mortgage

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Division Tech Session 1: IE-ing a Broader Perspective

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susan O. Schall, SOS Consulting, LLC

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

the history of engineering education.” Actions toattract and train technically active mid-career professionals as ABET evaluators would takelonger. The Participation Project and its successor, Partnership to Advance VolunteerExcellence (PAVE) continued the collaboration between member societies, volunteers, andheadquarters staff to advance ABET’s commitment to continuous quality improvement of itsvolunteer processes beginning in 2003. PAVE led to a program evaluator competency model,new experiential volunteer training, workshops on assessment, and a new volunteer managementtool. Further demonstrating commitment to continuous quality improvement, ABET wasformally recognized as ISO 9001:2008 certified in 2015.Engineering Criteria as a Quality

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Engineering Economy Division Technical Session 2

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Omar Ashour, The Pennsylvania State University, The Behrend College; Faisal Aqlan, Penn State Behrend; Paul C. Lynch, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College

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Engineering Economy

Technology in 2005 and 2007, respectively. Dr. Ashour is the first recipient of William and Wendy Korb Early Career Professorships in Industrial Engineering at Penn State Behrend. His research interest mainly includes process improvement, modeling and simulation, and decision making modeling of manufacturing and healthcare systems. He is a member of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE), Jordanian Engineering Association (JEA), and Society of Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM). Currently, Dr. Ashour serves as a co-Chair for the Modeling and Simulation track in the 2017 IISE Annual Conference and Expo, a chair for the Sustainable Manufacturing track in the 2016 Detroit IEOM

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Division Tech Session 1: IE-ing a Broader Perspective

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alejandro Salado, Virginia Tech

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

honestly and fairly (Colby & Sullivan, 2008). As a result,multiple efforts in engineering education are geared towards incorporating ethics concepts inengineering curricula. Some of these efforts are described in the next section. In fact, someauthors suggest that ethics should be made a cornerstone element in engineering education(Moore, 2011). However, this has not been achieved yet and students lack the necessaryexposure during their education to navigate through the ethical conflicts they will face duringtheir careers (Herkert, 2002).This paper contributes to this body of work by blending ethics with traditional optimizationproblems in industrial engineering. The proposed approach enables incorporating ethics withoutincreasing or modifying

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Division Tech Session 1: IE-ing a Broader Perspective

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cristina D. Pomales-Garcia, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez campus; Christopher Papadopoulos, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez campus

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

% -- -- Value (Q9) Real World (Q9) 40% 98% 58% -- Ethics (Q5) -- 87% -- -- Legal (Q6) -- 73% --Discussion and ConclusionsThe findings show the richness of experiences gathered from students’ reflection duringproject experiences, instead of solely inquiring about concepts or ideas learned during thecourse. Indeed, it is through such introspection that students develop the capabilities thatsecure self-transcendence and generate meaning (Harris, 2015), helping them to form aconception of their future career as IEs. There was