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Graduate Education Model, Industry and Practitioner Experience - Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 1

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chi-Ning Chang, Texas A&M University, Department of Educational Psychology; Brandie Semma, Texas A&M University; Debra A. Fowler, Texas A&M University; Raymundo Arroyave, Texas A&M University

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Graduate Studies

development of theparticipants include competency rubrics, individual development plan, and ePortfolio. Twelvecompetency rubrics assist in the assessment of program learning outcomes encompassing theproposed professional and technical skills, , including 1) interdisciplinary knowledge generation,2) collaboration, 3) conflict resolution, 4) oral communication, 5) written communication, 6)self-reflection, 7) ethics, 8) interdisciplinary research, 9) multidisciplinary skills, 10) materialsscience engineering, 11) informatics, and 12) design. The rubrics were adapted from theliterature and feedback from the project faculty customized them to the interdisciplinarymaterials science, informatics and design program (example in Appendix A). An

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They need more than technical skills!

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pradeep Kashinath Waychal, Guruji Education Foundation; Anil Dattatraya Sahasrabudhe P.E., All India Council for Technical Education

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International

(wisdom synthesis).Share: The framework includes the phase to share learning with cluster peers and to evaluate students’performances. The framework has presentation templates for both mid-semester and end-semester examinations.Clusters are free to seek written reports, demonstration of live performances, or allow use of native languages forsharing. The framework also identifies attributes of great learners such as questioning, networking, self-belief,and expects students to assess themselves on those attributes, and prepare and execute plans to become greatlearners.ExecutionAt the outset, the program director presented the framework to all faculty members and pursued them to enroll asmentors to different areas. The director explained the program

Conference Session

Balancing Act: Ideas in Pre- & Post- Surveys and Assessment of Professional Skills

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William J. Davis P.E., The Citadel; Simon Thomas Ghanat P.E., The Citadel; Kweku Tekyi Brown P.E., The Citadel; Dimitra Michalaka P.E., The Citadel

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Civil Engineering

Paper ID #18528Application of Indirect and Direct Measures for Student Teamwork OutcomeAssessment within an Undergraduate Civil Engineering CurriculumDr. William J. Davis P.E., The Citadel William J. Davis is a professor in Civil & Environmental Engineering at The Citadel in Charleston, SC. He received his Ph.D. in civil engineering from Georgia Tech and is a registered professional engineer. His research interests focus on infrastructure resiliency, transportation facility planning and design, highway safety, and active living by design. He teaches courses in capstone sengineeirgn design, engineering management

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Poster Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Margaret Pinnell, University of Dayton; Richard Douglas Stock; Vanisa Turney

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

STEM design project. The lessons included a reading andwriting component based on the science concept. This component required instructors to preparea reading and writing lesson not only based on the science concept aligned to the challenge butalso tailored to the ability level of each reading group. Students were frequently tasked withusing manipulatives during this time to encourage them to find evidence to support what theyread in the text and to also encourage them to read the text carefully and to ask and answerquestions on the topic.On the second day of the activity, the students engaged in a guided research activity focused onOhio Revised Science Standards for online research of the science concept. This plan wasformulated to ensure

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rambod Rayegan, Prairie View A&M University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

theworkforce in building-related fields. The purpose of this paper is to elaborate on challenges ofconducting this project for the first year as well as lessons learned in overcoming these challenges.The course was implemented for the first time in Fall 2016 in a minority serving university.Three core components of the project are (a) establishing a building energy efficiency laboratory;(b) developing and implementing a new elective course curriculum; and (c) developing partnershipwith local building-related industry.All three core components that were slated to happen as part of the initial planning anddevelopment phase were completed.The major challenge that inevitably altered the project timeline was with the logistics of the labestablishment

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yin Pan, Rochester Institute of Technology; Sumita Mishra, Rochester Institute of Technology; David I. Schwartz, Rochester Institute of Technology (GCCIS)

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

and several other community colleges by more than 150 freshmen in CyberSecurity 101 courses. A majority of the players considered IPAR cases/modules more interestingthan other regular lab assignments. Comparing these unconventional game-based exercises withother regular lab assignments, 80% students felt the game-based labs as more interesting andengaging. 20% students liked the idea but felt some modules are not as challenging as regular labs,since they were given too much help. We plan to build some higher-difficulty level games in thenear future to meet these students’ needs.In addition, we presented (or will present) our game and modules to communities via conferencessuch as NICE, ATE PI, CISSE, SIGITE, and SIGCSE. As of now, sixty-one

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shane A. Brown P.E., Oregon State University; Matthew Stephen Barner, Oregon State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

sooner would allow them more timeto plan their curriculum for implementing their innovations. They also expressed not wanting anin-class worksheet attached with each demonstration because it often took up too much classtime for what they originally intended when creating the demonstration. Another major request atthe 2015 workshop was for enough hands-on demonstrations to put in the hands of each of theirstudents to follow along with during class lectures and use during interacting learning activities.9These concerns were addressed and accounted for in the following year.Activity 4: Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM) Assessment of Adoption EffortsAudio data was collected during the 2014, ‘15, and ‘16 workshops while participants were intheir

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Make It!

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Juan Song, Alamo Colleges District; Sheng-Jen Hsieh, Texas A&M University; Daniel M. Sherry, Alamo College

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Manufacturing

and outputs to theprocess. Based on these, students need to know about movement of parts through the processincluding robotic motion, motor control, hydraulic control, and pneumatic control. Then theyneed to connect the MecLab sub-systems and learn about each of the three units: conveyancesystems, feeders, and pick-and-place robots. Students are then challenged with an assignment toproduce two products: a black base with a black cap and the other is a metal (chrome) base witha black cap. They must produce an individual plan with a drawing of the production line layoutusing the conveyance, feeder, and robot sub-systems. Additionally they will provide a 3-5minute presentation of their system to the class. Then a group drawing and presentation

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Weihang Zhu, Lamar University; Julia Yoo, Lamar University; James C Curry; Brian Craig P.E., Lamar University; Jiang Zhou, Lamar University; Hsing-wei Chu P.E., Lamar University; Nicholas Andres Brake, Lamar University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

activities which areassessed based on a point-based method. Two undergraduate students, one IE and one ME, wererecruited to document their activities and serve as the coordinators. The two student assistantsare not SCOPE Scholars. At the beginning of fall 2016, another SCOPE orientation was held with similaractivities. One student assistant graduated and was replaced by another student. According to the proposed plan, SCOPE Scholars are expected to receive enhancedmentoring and participate extracurricular activities. During the orientation, the scholars are givena list of elective activities. The activities are categorized into five categories as planned in ouroriginal proposal. Each category has one required activity and several

Conference Session

Biomedical Division Poster Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexander J. Carroll, North Carolina State University; Andrew J. DiMeo Sr., UNC & North Carolina State University; Hatice O. Ozturk, North Carolina State University; James McCall, North Carolina State University

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Biomedical

project manager. He is Business Advisor and Speaker for the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation, Director of Duke NeuroInnovations, and on the planning team for BME IDEA. He holds a BS in Physics, English Literature, and Secondary Education from UNC Charlotte, an MS in BME from UNC Chapel Hill’s Medical School, and a Ph.D. from the UNC/NCSU BME Department. Andrew has two children, 15-year-old daughter Virginia Elaine and 13-year-old son Andrew, Jr. His wife, Abigail Kent, is a nurse at the NC State Highway Patrol.Dr. Hatice O. Ozturk, North Carolina State University Dr. Hatice Ozturk is a Teaching Associate Professor at North Carolina State University, Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biomedical

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathleen Alfano, College of the Canyons

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

funding in these technological areas and willmake recommendations to assess post-grant achievement of students funded by NSFATE, better elucidating the impact of the overall program.Building on prior NSF ATE grants related to this proposal and CREATE Consortium:NSF DUE: 9850283 (ATE Planning), 9950015 (ATE Project), ATE Regional Centers(0202396), (0602615), (1002653), (1239631), (1345306), and (1540493).CREATE’s initial project had four primary goals: curriculum development, enrollmentand retention, work-based site experiences, and professional development. ProjectCREATE met or exceeded all of its objectives. The project completed the local, regional,and state curriculum development and approval processes and began offering 30 newengineering

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Work-in-Progress Posters: Computers in Education Division Poster Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Darren K. Maczka, Virginia Tech; Jacob R. Grohs, Virginia Tech

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Diversity

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Computers in Education

-60 minutes of continuous use. For this reason, we planned to limit the timeparticipants were wearing the cap to 45 minutes. Flexible wires connect the cap to the fNIRSmachine which limits large movements, but does not restrict typical movements associated withprogramming, i.e. hand movement, leaning back while remaining to sit, etc.As part of the setup process, a researcher started screen-capture recording hardware. Because wedid not want to require that participants install special software we needed an external means torecord screen capture data. For the first two participants we used a camcorder pointed at theparticipant’s computer screen. The resulting video was only moderately useful as the camcorderdid not consistently focus on the

Conference Session

Revolutionizing Engineering Departments (RED)

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chell A. Roberts, University of San Diego; Rick Olson, University of San Diego; Susan M. Lord, University of San Diego; Michelle M. Camacho, University of San Diego; Ming Z. Huang, University of San Diego; Leonard A. Perry, University of San Diego

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Educational Research and Methods

of these change initiatives. We learned the importance of social actors in creating a discourse of change within engineering, the conditions that produced successes, and that resources must be mobilized and structures must accommodate changes in order for them to succeed. 4. Strategic Planning: The university has recently conducted a strategic planning process that has resulted in six pathways including Changemaking and Care for Our Common Home. We have leveraged this institutional initiative by conducting three strategic planning sessions in the school that emphasized developing a shared meaning of Changemaking Engineering. Faculty members performed a SWOT analysis, identifying the most important

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Aerospace Hot Topic: Unmanned Aerial Systems

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Srikanth Gururajan, Saint Louis University

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Aerospace

over a longer period of time and plan to incorporate the findings insubsequent papers and presentations.In recent years, the use of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) has seen an explosive growth andhas shown promise for even more, thanks to the drop in cost of the airframe and associatedavionics. Furthermore, the release of Part 107 UAS rules in 2016 and the easing of restrictions oncommercial UAS operations by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) have resulted in anew landscape for novel and yet to be conceived UAS applications and operations in theNational Airspace System (NAS) and it will only grow more diverse in the future.As it stands today, while major aerospace corporations are still a significant part of this UASlandscape, small

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ETD Capstone Projects

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kimberly Grau Talley P.E., Texas State University; Farhad Ameri, Texas State University

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Diversity

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Engineering Technology

course as well.Product Planning (Week 1-2): In this phase, design teams are expected to understand theunderlying problem that is intended to be addressed by the final product and develop the projectsmission statement. The mission statement of the project contains the broad description of theproduct, the main assumptions, the key business goals, the primary and secondary markets forthe product, and the main stakeholders of the product. The design teams are cautioned that theproduct description that is created in the product planning phase should only identify theproduct’s basic functions and it should avoid implying any specific concept. The missionstatement serves as the project contract that defines the scope of the project and its

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First-Year Programs: Sunday 5-Minute Work-in-Progress Postcard Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie Chiki, Ohio University; Braden Vale Jay Robinson, Ohio University

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First-Year Programs

].IntroductionOhio University is a public, residential college located in the Midwest with approximately18,000 undergraduate students, including 1,800 undergraduates in the Russ College ofEngineering and Technology. At our institution, students must pass every course required fortheir major in three attempts or fewer, often with a grade of C or better, or they are dismissedfrom the major. To reduce the number of students being dismissed, we created a self-assessmentand contract based on appreciative and proactive advising for use during individual meetingswith students on their third attempt of a class. Appreciative advising uses a positive approach tohelp students identify their strengths and co-create a plan to reach their goals using thosestrengths [2

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Architectural Division Technical Session 3

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Orla LoPiccolo M. Arch, PDip (CM), Architect, State University of New York, Farmingdale

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Architectural

Scheduling (CON 401W), Advanced Project Planning and Scheduling (CON 406). Professor LoPiccolo brings private and public sector architectural work experience; architectural teaching experience; service on and off campus; sustainable construction knowledge, scholarship and course integration; service learn- ing course integration; and a commitment to continual improvement to the Department of Architecture and Construction Management at Farmingdale State College, SUNY. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Teaching and Learning through Telling Faculty Work Experience Stories: A Preliminary StudyAbstractStudents who are engaged in their coursework learn and retain

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Poster Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Luke Nogales, New Mexico State University; Rolfe Sassenfeld, New Mexico State University

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Diversity

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

offered the week before classes began in the fall of 2015 andthe second was offered again the week before classes in the fall of 2016. The workshop wasloosely structured around the LLP methodology for creating startups as well as the engineeringdesign process. Students were placed on teams and given a predetermined innovation seedproject that was based on a university related problem. They developed hypotheses of designsolutions, made a test plan, got out of the building to test their hypothesis with customers andstakeholders, and iterated until they validated (or invalidated) their solutions. Along the way,they learned about value propositions, product-market-fit, the scientific method, customer-centricdesign, and teamwork.Just as the first year

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Design in BME

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University; Annmarie Mullen, Bucknell University

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Biomedical

, functional parts that are using in tool making such as molds and dies, and medicalmodels including pre-operative physical models and prostheses.3The medical industry was one of the early adopters of RP through “surgical planning andrealization,”5 (i.e. visualizing and planning out a surgery before performing it using rapidprototypes of organs and implants). One of the earliest uses was in CMF (Craniomaxillofacial)surgery where there “are congenital, system-bound growth disorders, facial craniosynostoses…and other congenital skull and face dysplasia.”5 The complexity and high variability of thepresentation of the disorders require patient specific treatments. Rapid prototypes of the facialstructure, made using the patient’s scans, have allowed

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Motivation

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Benson, Clemson University; Catherine Mcgough Spence, Clemson University; Daniel Michael Kuzbary; Julia L. Sharp, Colorado State University

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Educational Research and Methods

beliefs about competence in a domain; it is notnecessarily task-specific. Students’ expectancy is based partly on their self-efficacy14 in additionto their perceptions about the difficulty of the goal, their prior experience, and peerencouragement from others19 . Students with high self-efficacy use more cognitive andmetacognitive strategies as well as self-regulatory strategies such as planning, monitoring, andregulating20 .Future Time PerspectiveFuture Time Perspective (FTP) theory takes into account aspects of achievement motivation thatpertain to students’ perceptions of the time dimension of tasks and goals21-23 . FTP integratesperceptions about the future into present task completion and motivational goal setting. FTPprovides insight into

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Two-year College Potpourri

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Burton Dorsey, Washington MESA; Elizabeth Apple Meza, University of Washington; Phyllis G. Harvey-Buschel, Washington MESA

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Diversity

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Two Year College Division

; Atwater, 2005). Also found to be important in previous research arefamily support, especially for Latino students (Amaya & Cole, 2001; Cole & Espinosa, 2008;Russel & Atwater, 2005), undergraduate research opportunities (Kinkead, 2003; Chang,Sharkness, Hurtado & Newman, 2014), and advising to clarify school or career plans (Hurtado,Cabrera, Lin, Arellano & Espinosa, 2009). Students also appear to persist and transfer when theythink of themselves and others (e.g. faculty) recognize them as “science people” (Carlone &Johnson, 2007), and when they consider science as an important part of their self-identity(Chang, et al. 2011; Espinosa, 2011). A welcoming campus racial climate is also important(Hurtado et al. 2007) as is

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Engineering Physics & Physics Division Technical Session 4

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joona Kurikka, Aalto University

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Engineering Physics & Physics

Learning,Problem-Based Learning and Learning through Design, all of which CBI draws some content,but has the closest connections with Project-Based learning (Dym et al., 2005), which is definedas “learning through complex, open-ended projects, which typically results in a product orconcept”. Similar settings are faced in academia by project-based development courses such asME310 in Stanford University and IDBM and PDP -projects at Aalto University, and in globallydistributed corporate product development organizations; “skunkworks” or consultancies.Research methodologyThe author is currently working at CERN as part of the IdeaSquare development team and hasparticipated in planning and coordinating the CBI course. The material for this paper has

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ETD Learning Approaches

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wesley L. Stone, Western Carolina University; Hugh Jack P. Eng. P.E., Western Carolina University

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Diversity

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Engineering Technology

developed. ENGR 199 - Introduction to Engineering Practices and Principles I - ​An introduction to the engineering discipline. Group work, oral communication, problem solving and design process will be introduced through lecture and project-based learning activities. Freshman Engineering majors only. 2 Lecture, 2 Lab. ENGR 200 - Engineering Practices and Principles II - ​Engineering practices and principles, teaming, project planning, written communications, and conceptual design processes will be introduced through lecture and project-based learning activities. 2 lecture, 2 lab. ENGR 350 - Engineering Practices and Principles III - ​Engineering project-based learning (open-ended) with

Conference Session

ETD Curriculum

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Troy Harding, Kansas State University, Polytechnic Campus; Thomas E. Mertz, Kansas State University, Polytechnic Campus; William E. Genereux, Kansas State University, Polytechnic Campus; Sue A. Guzek, Kansas State University, Salina; Timothy Bower, Kansas State University, Polytechnic Campus

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Engineering Technology

observed that students are often unable to see a broader perspectiveof why they are studying various topics and required classes. Students seem to be less able tomake the connections that they need to make between the different classes and disciplines. Thispaper discusses a computer technology curriculum and its weaknesses, subsequent changes thatwere implemented with a program overhaul, and an assessment plan that was devised todetermine if those changes were effective towards meeting the learning goals.The changing expectations of both students and their future employers motivated us toreexamine and overhaul the way we teach computer technology. We revised our student learningoutcomes to better reflect industry needs and to make assessment more

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Curricular Issues in Computing and Information Technology Programs I

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gene Lee Fisher Ph.D., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Computing & Information Technology

programs? Figure 2: IAB Survey. time-consuming and lacks guidance." • In [15] Sandersen says "The changes to the ABET-CAC assessment criteria are significant, and most programs are going to have to revise their assessment plans before their next visit."A majority of the literature reports on ABET accreditation conclude the beneficial results of theABET process justify the time and difficulty of conducting the process. All of the papers thatconclude thusly are by authors from departments that have successfully gone through theprocess.As noted in Section 2.1 of the paper, there are a large number of computer science degree pro-grams that are not ABET accredited. For

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Construction 1: Special Topics in Construction Education: BIM, Simulation, Sustainability, and Safety

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eddie Rivera Olivencia, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez; Carla Lopez Del Puerto, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez; Jose L. Perdomo, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez; Antonio A. Gonzalez-Quevedo P.E., University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

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Construction

construction workers in PuertoRico. This paper contributes to the body of knowledge by increasing the understanding regardingthe current construction safety training needs in Puerto Rico and the development of a trainingmodule to make the construction industry in Puerto Rico safer for construction engineering andmanagement students who will work in the construction industry and construction workers.IntroductionIn 1970 the United States Congress passed the Occupation Safety and Health Act (OSHA). Eversince the act was passed the construction safety management practices and techniques have beencontinuously improving. Safety planning and management efforts increased because theresponsibility was placed on the employer (OSHA 1970). The construction

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Micaela Sandoval, Texas A&M Health Science Center; Malini Natarajarathinam, Texas A&M University; Lauren Neala Holder, Texas A&M University; Mary Kathryn McDougal, Texas A&M University; Mary E Campbell, Texas A&M University; Bruce E. Herbert, Texas A&M University

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Community Engagement Division

’ typically encompasses prototyping and feedback structuresin addition to execution and evaluation (Seidel and Fixson 2013). Throughout the designthinking experience, users rely on two-way communication between all parties, emphasizingempathy and the development of common experiences; the model attempts to ensure independentsustainability by incorporating disparate perspectives from inception to execution (Melles, deVere, and Misic 2011). Engineering design is more analytical with respect to goals and processes. Engineeringproblem-solving primarily works to “balance competing criteria of desired functions,technological feasibility, costs, safety, esthetics, and compliance with legal requirements” (NRC,2012). Engineering design plans are highly

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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jerrod A Henderson, University of Houston; Ricky P Greer, University of Houston; Ryan G. Summers, University of North Dakota; Jason W. Morphew, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

focus on STEM professionals, throughhistorical profiles and as contributors to the program, to show students what careers wereavailable in the STEM fields. One student praised this component of the program stating, “Ithink the program helped me because you helped me introduce a part of what I wanted to do inlife.” (P2, STEM Magnet, 5th). The pre-survey revealed that 18 of 22 (81.8%) students wereinterested in a STEM career, while on the post-survey 21 of 24 (87.5%) indicated a similarinterest. A second finding of interest from the paired pre- and post-survey results was arecognizable shift in student identification from a general interest in STEM to interest in specificSTEM fields when asked to indicate what careers they planned to pursue. For

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Instrumentation Division Technical Session 1

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Asad Yousuf, Savannah State University; Claire Cynthia Lehman, Bill's Robotic Solutions; Mir M. Hayder, Savannah State University

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Instrumentation

acceptable threshold. We planned to use the gas board to initially detect CarbonMonoxide levels (CO). The gas detection board parts did not arrive on time so we were onlyable to take temperature and relative humidity readings [11].A ROS Environmental node had to be developed and run on the PC mounted on the Robot Baseto read the sensor values from Environmental Ardunio Uno through the serial port. The sensordata was combined by the node with position data and time from the Odometry (odom) topic andwritten to an Environmental data file. The Environmental data file was analyzed off line withtools such as Microsoft Office Excel.Part ProcurementFor previous Senior Capstone projects, the students in each group were responsible fordetermining parts and

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Mathematics Division Technical Session 4

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Campbell Rightmyer Bego, University of Louisville; Il Young Barrow, University of Louisville; Patricia A. Ralston, University of Louisville

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Mathematics

professors to monitor participation and learning of the greatamount of material covered in the lectures. In the first semester, the first three weeks are also usedas a diagnostic of mathematics preparation. If a student has an exam average below 50% on thefirst three exams, they are advised to drop out of Engineering Analysis I and register instead forIntroductory Calculus. This course covers algebra, geometry, trigonometry and functions andprepares students with skills needed in calculus. The ideal “flight plan” for students is to take the four required mathematics courses in thefirst four semesters of engineering school: Fall 1, Spring 1, Summer 1 and Fall 2. The engineeringschool is year-round, and it is expected that engineering students