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Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 1

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel B. Oerther, Missouri University of Science & Technology

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Environmental Engineering

to Environmental EngineeringAbstractAs part of a cost-savings initiative, an existing course of ‘introduction to environmentalengineering’ offered using a ‘traditional’ format of didactic class meetings supplemented withhands-on laboratory sessions, was changed significantly. The ‘modified’ format uses ‘blended’,‘flipped’, and ‘mastery’ approaches to teach “2601: Fundamentals of EnvironmentalEngineering” to approximately 60 sophomores pursuing baccalaureate degrees in environmental,civil, or architectural engineering, each semester. This paper presents a summary of the resultsfrom eight course offerings over a period of four years to more than 450 total students.Assessments included student grades; open-ended

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Electrical and Computer Division Poster Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Fred W. DePiero, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Bridget Benson, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; K. Clay McKell, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Electrical and Computer

Paper ID #19457Learner-centered Design of a Web-based Teaching Tool for Circuit Analysiswith Embedded Assessment FeaturesDr. Fred W. DePiero, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Dr. Fred DePiero received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State Uni- versity in 1985 and 1987. He then worked as a Development Associate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory until 1993. While there he was involved in a variety of real-time image processing projects and several laser-based ranging systems. Fred began working on his Ph.D. at the University of Tennessee while still at ORNL, and

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Make It!

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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William H. Heeter; Sheng-Jen Hsieh, Texas A&M University

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Manufacturing

&M University. He holds a joint appointment with the Department of Engineering Technology and the De- partment of Mechanical Engineering. His research interests include engineering education, cognitive task analysis, automation, robotics and control, intelligent manufacturing system design, and micro/nano manufacturing. He is also the Director of the Rockwell Automation laboratory at Texas A&M University, a state-of-the-art facility for education and research in the areas of automation, control, and automated system integration. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 MAKER: Smart Lighting Module for Teaching High School Science and Engineering

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Integrity and the Problem of Cheating

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Teresa Ryan, East Carolina University; Bernd Steffensen, University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt; Colleen Janeiro, East Carolina University

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics

Engineering, Materials and Processes, and Statics. Her teaching interests include development of solid communication skills and enhancing laboratory skills. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Curing the cheating epidemic? A multi-site, international comparison of perspectives on academic integrity and the way we “cure” by teaching———————————————————————————AbstractPlagiarism became an issue in both the scientific and political communities in Germany at thebeginning of the decade. The former German Minister of Defense and the Minister of Educationand Science lost their Ph.D. titles due to plagiarism and subsequently resigned. In response, aGerman

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Practices for Student Learning Engagement

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ergin Erdem, Robert Morris University

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Manufacturing

, implementation of Autodesk MoldflowTM as an instructional tool forpromoting a dynamic interactive classroom environment and providing seamless integration ofclassroom activities such as traditional classroom teaching, computer simulation ofmanufacturing process, and actual physical laboratory experience related with the process. In thatregard, Autodesk MoldflowTM is used as one of the tools that would be used for promotingpositive outcomes associated with the student learning. Autodesk MoldflowTM is used formodeling and simulating of the plastic injection molding process. During computer simulationlaboratories, specific examples of Autodesk MoldflowTM is introduced for providing ideas tostudents on how the manufacturing process would be improved by

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Instrumentation Division Technical Session 1

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mohit Raj Verma, Purdue University, Calumet (College of Technology); Ali Alavizadeh, Purdue University Northwest

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Diversity

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Instrumentation

Paper ID #19107Design and Development of Pneumatic Lab Activities for a Course on FluidPowerMr. Mohit Raj Verma, Purdue University, Calumet (College of Technology) Mohit Raj Verma received his Mechanical Engineering degree from Purdue University in 2014 and after two years of engineering practice and teaching, continued his education at Purdue University Northwest in College of Technology where he is pursuing his M.S. in both Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Technology. He is very fond of learning new things and technology. As an undergraduate he balanced a rigorous course load and a number of extracurricular

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Labs and Experiments

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Dee Clay, Ohio State University

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Chemical Engineering

a variety of courses in the ChE department and currently focuses on the Unit Op- erations Laboratory, Mass and Energy Balances, and Separations. He completed the National Effective Teaching Institute course (NETI-1) in June, 2016. Dr. Clay is married to Dr. Kristy Clay, a veterinarian, and has three children, Luke (14), Natalie (14), and Meredith (12). c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Leading an Effective Unit Operations Lab CourseAbstractThis paper is focused on the logistics and unique learning opportunities present in supervising aUnit Operations laboratory course. Specifically, the paper outlines some best

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EET Papers 2

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elaine M. Cooney, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Paul Yearling P.E., Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Karl J. Huehne, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis

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Diversity

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Engineering Technology

content.For this paper, two student groups, in an EET laboratory experience, are compared based onthe primary metric number of failed attempts to meet circuit board test specifications. Thestudent test body was divided into two groups. A control course section group, where notroubleshooting instruction was given and designated the “As Is” state. The second sectiongroup, “Improved State” was given an extensive troubleshooting methodology as part of theirinitial training. The primary metric, number of failed attempts to meet specification, waschosen as it is easy to measure by student Teaching Assistants (TA) and was also used to assessthe Sigma process capability for each group. The Sigma capability of each group provided afurther measure of the

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Chemical Engineering Division Poster Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kyle Joe Branch, University of Utah; Anthony Butterfield, University of Utah

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Chemical Engineering

Paper ID #19398Development and Usage of an Online Homework System in a Chemical Engi-neering CurriculumKyle Joe Branch, University of Utah Kyle Branch is a fourth-year graduate student at the University of Utah Department of Chemical Engi- neering. He has helped develop and teach a freshman laboratory course, and an introduction to chemical engineering course which both use the online homework system described. His main research interest is in engineering education, focusing on the creation and analysis of interactive simulations for undergraduate chemical engineering courses.Prof. Anthony Butterfield, University of Utah

Conference Session

Make It!

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Golub, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Joseph Michael Derrick

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Manufacturing

Paper ID #20504MAKER: Using 3D Printed Experimental Design and Measurement of Inter-nal and External Flow Convection Coefficient Using 3D Printed GeometriesMr. Michael Golub, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis Michael Golub is the Academic Laboratory Supervisor for the Mechanical Engineering department at IUPUI. He is an associate faculty at the same school, and teaches part-time at two other colleges. He has conducted research related to Arctic Electric Vehicles. He participated and advised several student academic competition teams for several years. His team won 1st place in the 2012 SAE Clean

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Development of Technical and Soft Skills in BME

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Monica Dominique Okon, The Ohio State University; Tanya M. Nocera, The Ohio State University, Department of Biomedical Engineering

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Biomedical

Paper ID #20019Electronic Lab Notebooks Impact Biomedical Engineering Students’ Qualityof Documentation and Technical CommunicationMs. Monica Dominique Okon, The Ohio State University Monica Okon, a current graduate student in biomedical engineering at Ohio State University, became in- terested in engineering education when starting as a graduate teaching associate (GTA) for the Engineering Education Department at Ohio State University. She has had the opportunity to teach the Fundamentals in Engineering laboratory component for the standard courses sequence as well as served as a lead GTA for this department for two years

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K-12 and Graduate Experiences in BME

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sam Dreyer, University of Illinois at Chicago; Miiri Kotche, University of Illinois at Chicago; Jennifer Olson, University of Illinois at Chicago ; Andria Shyjka, University of Illinois at Chicago

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Diversity

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Biomedical

Paper ID #18138Bioengineering Experience for High School Science TeachersMr. Sam Dreyer, University of Illinois at Chicago Sam Dreyer is a Masters student researching ocular therapeutic hypothermia and Brain-Computer Inter- faces. He is also passionate about engineering education, teaching high school students and teachers about bioengineering concepts and methods.Dr. Miiri Kotche, University of Illinois at Chicago Miiri Kotche is a Clinical Associate Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and currently serves as Director of the Medical Accelerator for Devices Laboratory (MAD Lab) at

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CoED: Embedded Systems and Robotics

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeffrey J Richardson, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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Computers in Education

Paper ID #20390Transformation of an Introduction to Microcontroller CourseProf. Jeffrey J Richardson, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) At Purdue, Professor Richardson teaches courses in electric vehicle technology, prototype construction / project development and management, and courses in embedded microcontroller sequence. In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Professor Richardson routinely mentors undergraduate students through his various applied research projects across the university campus. Current research projects include the creation of systems to support autonomous electric

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Ocean and Marine Division Technical Session 1

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Ocean and Marine

-Capacitor (RLC) circuit to the standard 2nd order system transfer function incontrol course. This laboratory also teaches students about an application of standard 2nd ordertransfer function that they would see in their career. Students determine the 2nd order modelingfor a linear time invariant system. They exercise how the location of poles can be changed basedon the variation of damping ratio and natural frequency parameters. These responses illustrate asover damped, under damped, undamped, and critically damped. They learn about the impact ofdamping ratio and natural frequency responses on the step and the frequency responseperformances. In the second part of this laboratory students estimate the system parameters froma given time domain

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Student Division Poster Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Golub, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis

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Student

Paper ID #20516EEGRC Poster: Experimental Design and Measurement of Internal and Ex-ternal Flow Convection Coefficient Using 3D Printed GeometriesMr. Michael Golub, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis Michael Golub is the Academic Laboratory Supervisor for the Mechanical Engineering department at IUPUI. He is an associate faculty at the same school, and teaches part-time at two other colleges. He has conducted research related to Arctic Electric Vehicles. He participated and advised several student academic competition teams for several years. His team won 1st place in the 2012 SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge

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Student Division Poster Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jordan E. Trachtenberg, Rice University

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Diversity

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Student

Paper ID #20677Writing in the Disciplines for Engineers: Implementation and Assessment ofStudent LearningDr. Jordan E. Trachtenberg, Rice University Jordan Trachtenberg received her PhD in bioengineering from Rice University. She has been passion- ate about STEM education and outreach throughout her undergraduate and graduate studies. Her broad teaching interests include teaching K-12 outreach programs in 3D printing and computer-aided design, mentoring undergraduate laboratory and design teams, and organizing graduate professional development opportunities in science communication. She works on collaborative pedagogical

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Materials Division Technical Session 3

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yi Hu P.E., Tatung University; Amy Shumin Chen, Tatung University, Center for General Education; Yung-Yu Chen; Chao Yang Yang, Tatung University; Ching-Long Yeh

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Materials

teach students the aesthetics and critical thinking with creativity. In thisstudy, we merged two design-based courses modules into the original course curriculum topromote the creativity of students in the field of material engineering. The course module (I)“User-Centered Design-Problem Definition” was offered based on the product and useroriented design aspects. The other course module “Experiential Manufacturing and MaterialAesthetics” was proceeded through project-based learning activities. The two course modules were combined into relevant course, Project Laboratory (1) &(2), on the spring semester (2016) as an elective course to undergraduate students. Studentsshould submit their research portfolios and final report of the program

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Understanding the Discipline of Engineering

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Tingerthal P.E., Northern Arizona University

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Educational Research and Methods

practitioners areeducated for their new professions”4(p52). According to Shulman, signature pedagogies have threestructural dimensions – surface (operational acts of teaching and learning), deep (assumptionsabout how best to impart knowledge) and explicit (moral dimension that comprises a set ofbelieves about professional attitudes, values and dispositions). Signature pedagogies inprofessional disciplines also have three temporal patterns: an initial pedagogy that frames andprefigures professional preparation, capstone apprenticeships and a sequenced and balancedportfolio4. Engineering, with its mix of analysis courses, laboratories and design studios, ischaracterized by the latter. Shulman also notes that a signature pedagogy can also be illustratedby

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First-Year Programs: Paying Attention to Retention

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Benjamin B. Wheatley, Colarado State University; Tammy Lynn Haut Donahue, Colorado State University; Kimberly Catton P.E., Colorado State University

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First-Year Programs

interactive experience where students wereable to act as a team member within a group that mocked to show a diverse team struggling withcommunication. This session involved humor, discussion, and lively responses from students inplace of a traditional static lecture.Laboratory SessionsIn place of Friday lecture, students were asked to attend laboratory sessions for one hour [14,3].A total of eleven sessions were provided throughout the week to accommodate all schedules.Sessions included one instructor, 13-16 students, and were held in laboratories with individualworkstations with Microsoft Excel and MATLAB software. Laboratory instructors included aGraduate Teaching Fellow and Undergraduate Learning Assistants (LAs).Laboratory sessions involved a

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Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 10

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Okyere Attia P.E., Prairie View A&M University; Lisa D. Hobson Ph.D., Prairie View A&M University; Pamela Holland Obiomon, Prairie View A&M University; Mahamadou Tembely, Prairie View A&M University

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Electrical and Computer

. Some of statistics are due to teaching approaches that are not suitable for currentpopulations of students that learn and acquire new knowledge quite differently from those ofearlier generations. Several new pedagogical paradigms have been proposed to improveengineering education, such as the use of “hands-on” tools to change the learning style in theengineering classroom to more engaging teaching pedagogies. An approach that is being usedto engage and inspire the electrical and computer engineering freshman students is the ElectricalEngineering Practicum. In this paper, the researchers discuss the various laboratory experimentsperformed by the students, the knowledge and skill learnt by the students, the lessons learnedwhile introducing

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Tips and Tricks for Actively Engaging Students

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daria Gerasimova, George Mason University; Margret Hjalmarson, George Mason University; Jill K. Nelson, George Mason University

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New Engineering Educators

, and the IEEE Signal Processing, Communications, and Education Societies. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Profiles of Participation Outcomes in Faculty Learning CommunitiesIntroduction Significant evidence suggests that undergraduate education in science, technology,engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines needs to be improved 1–4. Research oneffective teaching has recognized interactive teaching and active learning as effective tools inadvancing STEM education: they promote both student achievement 5 and conceptualunderstanding of the material 6. However, despite the growing body of research that supports thistype of teaching, traditional lecturing still prevails in college

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Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 12

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alexander M. Wyglinski, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Travis Fredrick Collins, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Robin Getz, Analog Devices

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Electrical and Computer

Paper ID #18912Sample-Based Understanding of Wireless Transceivers and Digital Transmis-sion Via Software-Defined RadioProf. Alexander M. Wyglinski, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Alexander M. Wyglinski is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and an Asso- ciate Professor of Robotics Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), as well as Director of the Wireless Innovation Laboratory (WI Lab). He received his Ph.D. degree from McGill University in 2005, his M.S. degree from Queens University at Kingston in 2000, and his B.Eng. degree from McGill University in 1999, all in electrical

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Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 1

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Timothy J. Garrison, York College of Pennsylvania

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Engineering Physics & Physics

conceptual knowledge.7 Other studies have looked at changing/enhancing theexperimental/laboratory component.6,8Physics education research has also focused on developing quantitative methods that can be usedto assess the effectiveness of the traditional teaching structure as well as the impact of newteaching strategies. Those efforts led to the development of a number of standardized physicsassessment tests.9,10 Via administration of the assessment tests, numerous physics educators haveshown that active learning methods and improved laboratory experiences provide substantialgains over the traditional lecture/lab format. Details of these methods, their assessment, and theevolution of physics education research have been documented in several books on

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Biomedical Division Poster Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dianne Grayce Hendricks, University of Washington

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Biomedical

Paper ID #20172Making an Introductory Tissue Culture Lab Course Accessible to Novice Stu-dents (Work in Progress)Dr. Dianne Grayce Hendricks, University of Washington Dr. Dianne G. Hendricks is a Lecturer in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Wash- ington, where she leads the Bioengineering Outreach Initiative, Bioengineering Honors Program, and the Bioengineering Summer Camp in Global Health. She holds a PhD in Genetics from Duke University, and BS in Molecular Biology and BA in Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Hendricks’ teaching activities at the University of Washington include

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Multidisciplinary Course Efforts

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenan Baltaci, University of Wisconsin, Stout; Andy S. Peng, University of Wisconsin-Stout

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

teaching for electricalengineering students such as Digital Circuits, Analog Circuits, Electronics, and Introduction toCircuits. eIt is extremely challenging for any course instructor to cover such a diverse topic, engage withstudents, and provide hands-on laboratory experience at the same time. Like many universities,students evaluate the instructor at the end of the semester. Some of the student comments frommy first-time teaching were, “the course being fast pace,” “difficult to understand” and “toomuch math and very few labs.” They also mentioned that they were constantly being rushed tofinish the lab experiment on time. Overall, student feedback clearly showed that students did nothave a positive experience from the only electrical

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EET Papers 1

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jai P. Agrawal, Purdue University Northwest; Yoonill Lee, Purdue University Northwest; Omer Farook, Purdue University Northwest

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Engineering Technology

electronics, and optical/wireless networking systems. He has designed several models of high frequency oscilloscopes and other electronic test and measuring instruments as an entrepreneur. He has delivered invited short courses in Penang, Malaysia and Singapore. He is also the author of a textbook in power electronics, published by Prentice-Hall, Inc. His other books are, Analog and digital communication laboratory, and First course in Digital Control, published by Creatspace (Amazon). His professional career is equally divided in academia and industry. He has authored several research papers in IEEE journals and conferences. His current research is focused on renewable energy technology and wireless power transfer.Prof

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California; Cathalina Juarez, University of Southern California

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

of Research Experience for Teachers (RET) programs funded by the National Science Foundation in which engineering faculty collaborate with middle and high school teachers and their students. One program (3 years) is a comprehensive teacher professional development program in which middle school teachers participate in an intensive summer research experience in computer science and engineering labs, build curriculum based on the laboratory research content that they learn, participate in lesson study, and implement new curriculum in their middle classrooms. The second program (4 years) is a high school teacher RET program with similar components. This paper reports the results of both of the RET programs. The two programs had the combined

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First- and Second-year Design and Professional Development in BME

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christa M Wille, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Dalton James Hess; Jake Mitchell Levin, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Amit Janardhan Nimunkar, University of Wisconsin, Madison; John P. Puccinelli, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Diversity

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Biomedical

all the educational components of the course, we asked students to rate theeffectiveness of each element. Students evaluated each teaching tool related to the effectivenessof each aspect in relation to their future goals. They indicated a trend toward an effectiveresponse related to the hands-on components: design project and the laboratory sessions, with aneutral response on the video lectures/reflections as well as the lecture sessions (Figure 9).Comments from the course evaluations, however, show that video lectures had a polarizingeffect; some students said the videos were “a waste of time” or “busy work” while others saidthey “enjoyed the video lectures” and another student said “[the video lectures made me] realizethat I wanted to

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Dimensions of Engineering Literacy and Engineering in General Education

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John W Blake PE, Austin Peay State University; John Krupczak Jr, Hope College

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

engineering to the general education of college undergraduates … 1) Promote the addition of an engineering course for non-majors to the university core requirements. This needs to be promoted at the highest levels (governors, legislatures, and state boards for state institutions; governing boards for private institutions) as mandates from above will be needed to change university core requirements. 2) The course should be a full three credit (quarter or semester) hour course. 3) The course should include laboratories as well as classroom time. The lab portion may require an additional credit hour. 4) While teaching engineering, the course should incorporate a broad view of technology as well. 5) Institutions should

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Programming, Virtual Reality, and Dynamic Systems

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Zaker Ali Syed, Clemson University; Tianwei Wang, Clemson University; Kristin Kelly Frady, Clemson University; Kapil Chalil Madathil, Clemson University; Jeff Bertrand; Rebecca S. Hartley, Clemson University; John R. Wagner P.E., Clemson University; Anand K. Gramopadhye, Clemson University

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Mechanical Engineering

endless for this technology. Whether it is just a simple simulation of amechanism or a highly complex fluids problem, it can be visually and mathematicallysimulated using VR. However, the benefits of VR are not limited to just its flexibility. Themost crucial advantage of using VR as a teaching aid is that it boosts student learningperformance through visual representation of complex concepts which they might have foundhard to grasp otherwise.6,7 Apart from these, its other advantages include assisting in research,increasing outreach to a wider audience remotely, and making the learning environment saferby eliminating risks. Weber et al. reported that using virtual instruments helped inestablishing a complete state-of-the-art laboratory from a