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Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 1

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John M Santiago Jr, Colorado Technical University; Kathy L. Kasley P.E., Colorado Technical University

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Diversity

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Systems Engineering

capstone has been revised around the Vee Modelto describe systems engineering process. The top-down and bottom-up design perspectives arecompared, and weekly deliverables are presented to help students practice systems engineering.A detailed description of weekly deliverables and rubric for the Critical Design Review aredescribed elsewhere1. Two perspectives of the Vee-Model are described to provide a holisticperspective of system-level thinking2-4. A 3D-printed quadcopter with its stable flight controlare provided as an illustration of the student efforts.5 Major blocks of the system include: (1) thequadcopter frame, (2) the control system, and (3) the power and thrust system.The last part of the paper attempts to compare the Vee Model system

Conference Session

Software Engineering Division Technical Session 1

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Derek David Riley, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Software Engineering Division

incorporate SPL engineering. Wefound that our approach improved student application of reusability theory, benefitteddocumentation quality, increased student satisfaction with the course, and increased the percentageof code written reused by students from semester to semester.1. IntroductionA Software Product Line (SPL) is a set of software systems that share common assets and are easyto deploy and configure for new environments [6]. There are many approaches that can be used tocreate an SPL including model-driven development, modularization refactoring, the use of SPLdesign patterns, reuse design, and others, but few software engineering classes have time to teachor apply these concepts. Many of the strategies within SPL engineering reinforce good

Conference Session

Ocean and Marine Division Technical Session 1

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Farzam S. Maleki P.E., Massachusetts Maritime Academy; Gail M Stephens P.E., Massachusetts Maritime Academy

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Ocean and Marine

Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University. Prior to joining the MMA, Gail served as a Civil Engineer Corps officer of the United States Navy for almost 10 years, worked in private industry, and co-founded two companies one in product development and the other in service. She is currently working on her PhD in Engineering and Applied Science in the Advanced Mechanics of Materials program at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 A Case Study on Gender Gap at Massachusetts Maritime Academy Farzam S. Maleki[1], PhD, PE and Gail M. Stephens[2], PE [1] and [2

Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 1

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ibrahim F. Zeid, Northeastern University; Marina Bograd, MassBay Community College; Chitra Javdekar, Mass Bay Community College

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Diversity

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College Industry Partnerships

Award.Marina Bograd, MassBay Community CollegeDr. Chitra Javdekar, Mass Bay Community College Dean, Division of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017ASEE Off‐Site Internship 2017    1  A Collaborative Capstone Industry Project for Community College Students  Abstract The Community College, located in Wellesley, MA offers two certificates in Advanced Manufacturing: Manufacturing Technology and Manufacturing Innovation.  Each certificate can be completed within a year.  The final semester is dedicated to a paid industry internship where students are supervised by both company and faculty

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 1

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dominic M. Halsmer P.E., Oral Roberts University; Robert P. Leland, Oral Roberts University; Emily Dzurilla

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Systems Engineering

integration & test stepsand for motivating students.”1 The following four themes were maintained throughout thiscourse to guide and encourage students in the development process: 1. Physics is activelyopposed to spaceflight, 2. Nothing ever works the first time you put it together, 3. There is neverenough time or money, and 4. Fear [of failure] rules all decisions. They suggest that, ‘Our “fourheuristics of space systems” were a very successful method for engaging the students with thematerial, and can be applied to other parts of the design lifecycle or to other aspects ofengineering.’1 These heuristics were found to be equally applicable in the development of a next-generation ground transportation system, which is the project of interest in

Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 1

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bryan Knakiewicz, Savannah State University

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Diversity

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College Industry Partnerships

acollaborative effort between the students, their faculty capstone advisor, the EPA Region 4College/Underserved Community Partnership Program (CUPP), the Thriving Earth Exchange(TEX), and the City of Midway, Georgia. This collaboration is illustrated in Figure 1 below. Figure 1: Communication in project collaborationIn addition, the project implemented sustainable engineering design features and materials, andwas made available by CUPP.According to the U.S. EPA: The CUPP is based on developing partnerships between small, underserved communities and geographically close colleges/universities to provide a variety of technical support at no cost to those communities. This geographical proximity enables the

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 1

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chrysanthe Demetry, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Suzanne Sontgerath, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

= 419). All of the girls in the Reach group were also invited to participate in a variety offollow-up gatherings and programs in their middle school and high school years. Applicants whowere not selected in the lottery, and any girls who started the two-week summer program but didnot complete it, were placed in the Control group (n = 312). Table 1 shows the number of girls inthe Reach and Control groups by program year.Data CollectionNames and birthdates of the 731 subjects were compiled from program records for the years1997 through 2010. We then collected three data points for each subject from admissionsrecords: whether she applied as an undergraduate (yes = 1, no = 0), whether she was accepted(yes =1, no = 0), and whether she enrolled (yes

Conference Session

Learning and Assessment in ME 1

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Canino, Trine University; Brett Batson, Trine University

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Mechanical Engineering

using collaborative quizzes. However, they did findthat collaborative quizzes encouraged students to come to class prepared and students who tookcollaborative quizzes viewed the quizzes more favorably. Enz and Frosch come to a similarconclusion stating “Peer collaboration improves quiz scores, is favorably perceived by studentsand enhances their course satisfaction, but does not improve subsequent performance on midtermand final examinations taken noncollaboratively.”13 However, Roa, Collins, and DiCarlo find“completing the quizzes in groups enhances the understanding of the material.”14 Moreover,Leight et al. hypothesis that collaborative testing might improve students’ obtainment of lower-order learning outcomes (Bloom’s levels 1 and 2), but

Conference Session

Learning and Assessment in ME 1

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ana Dyreson P.E., University of Wisconsin, Madison; Corinne R. Henak, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Diversity

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Mechanical Engineering

coursework for ME, biomedical (BME), civil, and some otherengineering majors and is typically taken during the sophomore year. Other engineering studentscan take the course as an elective; prerequisites include statics and calculus. The traditionalcourse used the three 50-minute weekly class meetings for lecture. The blended course used thesame class meetings for a mixture of lecture, in-class activities, and problem solving (Table 1).The two non-lecture days were held in a classroom specifically designed to facilitate group workand active learning. The two classes used the same online homework and exam formats.Table 1: Weekly course structures for Traditional and Blended courses in this study Before class Monday

Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 1

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Simeon Ntafos, University of Texas, Dallas

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College Industry Partnerships

industrial participation ever since seniordesign classes were introduced. We place the start of industry-defined senior design at theUniversity of Texas at Dallas in 2005 and the Software Engineering program when the instructorworked with local companies to have them define and participate in software developmentprojects for the Software Engineering senior design class (SE Design) . This naturally led todemand for such projects in the other majors. Efforts to organize such activities and managethem to make for more reliable and uniform experiences led to the introduction of the UTDesignprogram in 2009. UTDesign (reported in [1]) won an innovation award from a regionalTechnology Association in 2013.UTDesign started with 6 projects in 2009 and grew to

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steve E. Watkins, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Randall L Musselman, U.S. Air Force Academy

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Systems Engineering

, simulate, and construct VHF direction-finding antennas that theyuse for a transmitter-hunt exercise [1]. Amateur radio clubs conduct similar transmitter or “fox”hunt activities for their members to improve their technical knowledge and to practice theiroperator skills [2,3]. Amateur radio can be a convenient tool for supplementing engineeringeducation in many areas, including antenna theory [4]. These antenna-locating activities can beapplied to the emerging proliferation of UAVs in modern society. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or unmanned aircraft systems (UASs), have beendeveloped and purposed for civilian, military, and recreational activities [5]. The technology isinterdisciplinary with the incorporation of aerospace structures

Conference Session

Ocean and Marine Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tooran Emami Ph. D., U.S. Coast Guard Academy

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Ocean and Marine

circuit with damping ratio, natural frequency, and the polelocations are studied in both time and frequency responses. In the second parts of laboratorystudents estimate the damping ratio and the natural frequency response from the step responsedata of a vessel at sea1. They apply the principle of standard 2nd order system identification tothe vessel motion about its roll axis. The vessel roll dynamics is defined as a transfer function ofroll-angle and the disturbance torque input.Part 1: Relationship between RLC Circuit and Standard 2nd Order SystemConsider a second order low pass filter shown in Figure 1; the continuous time transfer functionof this cascade RLC circuit can be defined as the ratio of Laplace transform of output voltage

Conference Session

Software Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zesheng Chen, Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne

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Software Engineering Division

hold a book or turnpages. Other users may be any individual who is unable to read conventional printed materialsbecause of blindness, low-vision, or a literacy issue. The project needs to provide an easy-to-access interface for users to input their data such as access to service, service type,demographics, and customer satisfaction. Moreover, the project should deliver Webfunctionalities that allow ACPL to store, retrieve, and analyze users’ data (e.g., users’ profile andother survey data) through Web browsers and mobile devices. The designed Web application isexpected to help ACPL better serve users with disabilities.The system architecture of our designed Web application is illustrated in Figure 1. A user or anorganization can apply for the

Conference Session

Engineering Design Graphics Division Technical Session 1: Instructional

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kaloki Nabutola, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Heidi M. Steinhauer, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Theodore J. Branoff, Illinois State University; Nancy E. Study, Pennsylvania State University, Behrend; Craig L. Miller, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Steven Y. Nozaki, Ohio State University

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Engineering Design Graphics

misconceptionswhich can be useful in evaluating instruction. Researchers involved in science education haveused pre- and post- assessments to measure student learning and validate the need for curriculumrevision [1]. Engineering Graphics has been identified as a field in which the use of a CI couldexpose common misconceptions associated with graphic representation, as well as identify thefundamental concepts that contribute to the generation of those graphics. With varying curriculaacross institutions it can be expected that the implementation of engineering graphics will differ.The development of a standardized instrument to assess the understanding of concepts related toengineering graphics could be beneficial in streamlining or standardizing instruction

Conference Session

Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jiliang Li P.E., Purdue University Northwest, Westville Campus, INDIANA, USA; Jinyuan Zhai, University of Akron

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Engineering Physics & Physics

, students can quickly forget them because we usually do not use them daily inour busy life.However, if the professor or instructor adds some comments that for any soil/rock larger than thelength of his or her foot or 12 inches, the soil/rock is defined as boulder, the students will have alonger and maybe even a lifelong memory of boulder size in the USCS soil classification.Next size boundary is 3 inches length, about one of a person’s figure length, also equal to 1 foot(12 inches) divided by number four (#4 sieve). So any rock/soil larger than 3 inches, a finger’slength, but smaller than 12 inches or one foot is considered as cobbles.The number 4 sieve, roughly 5 mm (4.75mm) is approximately the width of a person’s pinkyfinger nail width.So if the

Conference Session

Engineering Management Division Technical Session 1: Programs, Pedagogies, and Practices

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charlee Millett, Montana State University; William J. Schell IV P.E., Montana State University; Sandra Wilson Kuntz, Montana State University; Durward K. Sobek, Montana State University

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Diversity

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Engineering Management

nursing students was created, the Native HealthcareEngineering Internship (NHEI).The NHEI is a pilot program to improve operations in rural healthcare facilities, with a focus onthose serving AI/AN populations. The program funded the summer employment of two AI/ANundergraduate students, one from Nursing and one from Industrial and Management SystemsEngineering, to perform process improvement projects at rural healthcare facilities in Montana.The program sought to achieve several objectives: 1. Provide an opportunity to improve the retention and success of AI/AN students by employing one engineer and one nursing student in mentored research projects serving the AI/AN healthcare system within Montana. 2. Develop new research

Conference Session

Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Benjamin Crilly, U.S. Coast Guard Academy; Shane P. Corbett, U.S. Coast Guard Academy

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Engineering Physics & Physics

so they can fully appreciate their capabilities as well as their limitations. Studentassessment has shown that our approach greatly enhances understanding of helical antennasystems and has caused significant increase in student enthusiasm for selected topics in antennas.Introduction The helical antenna was invented by Dr. John D. Kraus in the 1940s [1]. The uniquedesign has given this type of antenna several advantages over other directional antennas. Theseadvantages include universal polarization, relatively high gain, broad band capability -withrespect to both directionality and SWR- greater immunity to multipath interference, as well ashaving a relatively simple structure and feed system. Helical antennas are widely used in

Conference Session

Engineering Management Division Technical Session 1: Programs, Pedagogies, and Practices

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth A. Cudney, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Susan L. Murray, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Brittany Groner, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Katie M. Kaczmarek, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Bonnie Wilt, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Kamaria Blaney, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Julie Phelps, Missouri University of Science & Technology

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Engineering Management

thatfocused on students’ preferences for Blackboard or Canvas as part of theundergraduate research effort, which resulted in 137 responses. In addition, a usabilitystudy was conducted to gain qualitative usability data. Among other questions, thestudent preference survey asked students to rank the two systems for the followingtasks: 1. Finding course documents 2. Finding grades 3. Having accurate and updated grades 4. Ease of navigation 5. Intuitiveness 6. Communicating with professorsVolunteers were recruited from the 2016 online survey for a usability study. Duringthe study, students performed a set of five tasks in both Blackboard and Canvas. Eachtask was timed and the number of clicks to complete each task was recorded. Thetasks

Conference Session

Technical Session 1: Collaborating with Engineering Students and Faculty

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pauline Melgoza, Texas A&M University

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Engineering Libraries

consultation area which has a stationwith a 42 inch screen, seats five to six people and has a wireless keyboard and mouse, seeFigure 1. The students are encouraged to use their electronic devices to follow along or takenotes.Figure 1: Teams Consultation DeskThe team meeting includes showing the class guide, demonstrating each relevantdatabase/source, and explaining which library services to use for the project. Typically the first20 minutes cover the class guide, Figure 2, project scope, Knovel or Engnetbase, and Compendex. For example, if the topic is lubrication and the team had only narrowed down the topic to any type of synthetic lubricant, then the first step would be for the librarian to ask about which brand or formulation was being considered

Conference Session

Pre-College: Fundamental Research in Engineering Education (1)

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emilie A Siverling, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Elizabeth Suazo-Flores, Purdue University; Corey A Mathis, California State University, Bakersfield; Tamara J Moore, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Siddika Selcen Guzey, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Kyle Stephen Whipple, University of Minnesota

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

mainpremise of the TAP theoretical framework is that the validity of an argument depends on itslogical structure, and the process for constructing these arguments is argumentation23. The TAPmodel is a general model that can be applied to many disciplines, including philosophy, law, andmathematics, among others. Per Toulmin’s definition, a rational argument contains some, thoughnot necessarily all, of six main elements: claim, data, warrant, backing, modal qualifiers, andrebuttals (See Figure 1). More complex arguments will include more elements. For the purposesof this research, we chose to define an instance of EBR using a limited version of Toulmin’s sixelements in order to explore a greater variety of EBR. This simpler version of “instance of EBR

Conference Session

Pre-college: Summer Experiences for Students and Teachers (1)

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michele Miller, Campbell University; Nina Mahmoudian, Michigan Technological University; Saeedeh Ziaeefard, Michigan Technological University; Mo Rastgaar, Michigan Tech; Micah R. Koller, Michigan Technological University

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

and High School Students in Summer Robotics Program (Fundamental Research)IntroductionRobotics provides an opportunity to engage more students in STEM. Veltman, et al. [1] andChubin, et al. [2] observe that robotics is particularly effective in attracting male student interest.Many current robotics programs are mission-based. That is, students build robots that are strongor fast to carry out a mission in competition with other robots. Several researchers have shownthat female students are often less motivated by competitive, mission based approaches [3-5]. Inour own rural area, females are less likely (1 girl:10 boys) to participate in robotics programs,which mirrors national trends [6]. Female students are more likely to be

Conference Session

Military and Veterans Constituent Committee Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine Smith, Old Dominion University; John Shull, Old Dominion University; Patrick Sean Heaney, Old Dominion University; Yuzhong Shen, Old Dominion University; Anthony W. Dean, Old Dominion University; Jennifer Grimsley Michaeli P.E., Old Dominion University

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underdevelopment (1). The current focus of this development is CAPTIVATE, a serious game to assiststudent veterans in mastering the calculus and physics skills that are necessary prerequisites tothe main engineering curriculum. Building on the development and lessons learned fromMAVEN, a game developed previously to help student veterans master precalculus skills, thedesign and initial implementation for CAPTIVATE involves careful consideration regardinggame and instructional design. Many of the positive aspects from the design of MAVEN havebeen implemented in CAPTIVATE. First, the overall framework developed for MAVEN hasbeen reused. This modular framework involves both a model and process that combine game,instructional, and software design in a way

Conference Session

Pre-College: Fundamental Research in Engineering Education (1)

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico; Jill Marshall, University of Texas, Austin; Ara Winter, University of New Mexico, Department of Biology; Yang Liu, University of New Mexico, Department of Organization, Information, and Learning Sciences

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

. She was selected as a National Academy of Education / Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow. Dr. Svihla studies learning in authentic, real world conditions; this includes a two- strand research program focused on (1) authentic assessment, often aided by interactive technology, and (2) design learning, in which she studies engineers designing devices, scientists designing investigations, teachers designing learning experiences and students designing to learn.Jill Marshall, University of Texas, Austin Jill A. Marshall is an associate professor of STEM Education. She studies how people come to understand and engineer the physical world and how teachers can facilitate that process, as well as equity issues in STEM

Conference Session

Pre-college: Summer Experiences for Students and Teachers (1)

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sharnnia Artis, University of California, Irvine; Gregory N. Washington, University of California, Irvine

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

exposure in STEMactivities through their high school tenure [1-4]. While successful for approximately 7% ofstudents who entered 9th grade in 2001, this system has filtered out 93% of the population,including many students who might have had interest and potential to pursue STEM careers [3].Importantly, this pernicious systemic problem impacts students of color (African American,Hispanic American, American Indian and Alaska Native students) disproportionately. Forexample, in 2010 studentsof color represented 31.3%of the nation’s population[5], but earned 17.8% of theengineering and sciencedegrees [6]. Lookingforward we see that by2020, almost half of thenation’s k-12 schoolpopulation will berepresented by students of Figure 1. In 2001, more

Conference Session

Engineering Design Graphics Division Technical Session 1: Instructional

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Asefeh Kardgar, Purdue Polytechnic Institute; Nathan Mentzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Dawn Laux, Purdue University; Amelia Chesley, Purdue University; David M. Whittinghill, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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section and which semester they were created in, and then assigned a number from one to41. Using the rubric described above, two researchers first independently evaluated just 4infographics, met to discuss any differences in their application of the rubric, and then negotiated1 This was because one of the assignments from the Fall 2015 sample did not actually include afull readable infographic. We discarded that group’s work from this study. 5to a consensus (e.g. to scores for each category that were no more than 1 point apart).Researchers then evaluated four more infographics, and again negotiated any differences. Againindependently, each researcher then evaluated the remaining 32 infographics. Of

Conference Session

Engineering Management Division Technical Session 1: Programs, Pedagogies, and Practices

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ulises Daniel Techera, University of Colorado, Boulder; Christy Bozic, University of Colorado, Boulder; Seth Murray, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Engineering Management

of students (“Face-to-Face” and “Distance”) attended the same blended style coursethat offered those two types of interactions. The instructor teaches students in the classroom whilethe lesson is recorded and uploaded to the learning management system for the distance studentsto view later. Lastly, students who received instruction from prerecorded videos in which theinstructor addresses the students directly in a virtual one-on-one teaching style outside theclassroom will be recognized as “Online” students. Table 1 summarizes the types of students andthe corresponding course modality. Table 1: Student Types Course Modality Type of Students Traditional

Conference Session

Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy J. Garrison, York College of Pennsylvania

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Engineering Physics & Physics

, studieshave shown that it has some significant educational disadvantages. Over the past severaldecades, physics education research has shown that students were not learning the conceptsand/or were not engaged by the methods used in “traditional” physics education.1-4 Those andother studies have motivated a significant amount of research on physics education and muchprogress has been made. A significant body of physics education research has focused ondeveloping and incorporating classroom techniques that reduce or eliminate lecture and replace itwith active learning methods.5,6 Often the focus of the active learning strategies has been tomove away from methods that lead to students memorizing facts and mimicking solutions andtoward developing

Conference Session

Engineering Design Graphics Division Technical Session 1: Instructional

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shilun Hao, Ohio State University; Adrian Hadipriono Tan, Ohio State University; Fei Yang, Ohio State University; Fabian Hadipriono Tan P.E., Ohio State University; Michael Parke, Ohio State University

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Engineering Design Graphics

, dougong, intelligent system, graphical simulation, virtual realityI. Introduction The dougong is a well-known and unique characteristic of ancient Chinese architecture, theterm referring to the components located at the intersections of pillars comprising the roofsupport system of ancient Chinese buildings. In Chinese, the word “dougong” consists of twoparts, “dou” and “gong,” denoting the two basic elements of the dougong structure. Specifically,the word “dou” denotes the inverted cap for support, and the word “gong” denotes the bow-likeblock for supporting the load. Fig. 1 shows these two components in a 3-D model of a typicaldougong structure made in Autodesk 3DS MAX. In the structure of ancient buildings, dougongare constructed on

Conference Session

Military and Veterans Constituent Committee Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Catherine Mobley, Clemson University; Catherine E. Brawner, Research Triangle Educational Consultants; Joyce B. Main, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Susan M. Lord, University of San Diego; Michelle M. Camacho, University of San Diego

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Military and Veterans

Entering the Engineering Pathway: Student Veterans’ Decision to Major in EngineeringAbstractAs the engineering community seeks to widen the pathways toward engineering education,hundreds of thousands of military veterans are initiating their college studies at universitiesacross the U.S. Given this trend, it is essential to better understand the factors that lead studentveterans to choose to major in engineering.We are conducting a comparative case study at four institutions enrolling undergraduate studentveterans in engineering (SVEs). In this paper, we draw upon in-depth interviews conducted withSVEs at two of these institutions to: (1) better understand the factors that shape SVEs’decisions to major in engineering and, (2

Conference Session

Pre-college: Summer Experiences for Students and Teachers (1)

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kimberlyn Gray, West Virginia University Inst. of Tech.; Stephany Coffman-Wolph, West Virginia University Inst. of Tech.

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seeking career advice from both faculty and undergraduatestudents.This summer program attracts many high school students from rural areas who have limited, ifany, exposure to STEM careers and strives to introduce students to STEM disciplines and careersthrough classes and guest speakers from industry. The main goals of this program are to (1)introduce students to a wide variety of STEM fields, (2) increase student’s engineering andscience knowledge, and (3) help students learn what fields they are interested in pursuing (ornot). During the summer of 2016, students were surveyed both pre- and post-camp experienceon their attitudes towards the STEM fields and their knowledge of the types of careers availableto engineers and scientists. At the end