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

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Julian Ly Davis, University of Southern Indiana; Arthur L. Chlebowski, University of Southern Indiana; David J. Ellert PE, University of Southern Indiana

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First-Year Programs

within a freshmanengineering design course in which students are asked to conceive, design,implement and operate a Six-Section Rube Goldberg machine. Often in the firstyear of an engineering curriculum there is a project based class designed tointroduce students to, motivate students about, and retain students within theengineering discipline. They also begin to instill skills such as: 1. Team Work 2. Systems Engineering through Experimentation, Testing, and CAD & physical Modeling 3. Written Communication 4. Oral Communication 5. Time Management 6. Team ManagementAt this institution, project based classes allow students to develop these skills andexpressly enforces two avenues of technical communication: between and

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Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: The Role of Engineering Education towards Attaining UN Sustainable Development Goals

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Steven J. Burian, University of Utah; Mercedes Ward, University of Utah; Tariq Banuri, University of Utah; Sajjad Ahmad, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Rasool Bux Mahar P.E., Mehran University, Pakistan; David Lawrence Stevenson, University of Utah; James A. VanDerslice, University of Utah; Kamran Ansari; Abdul Latif Qureshi

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Diversity

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Civil Engineering, Community Engagement Division, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Minorities in Engineering

Alabama. Dr. Burian’s professional career spans more than 20 years during which he has worked as a de- sign engineer, as a Visiting Professor at Los Alamos National Laboratory, as a Professor at the University of Arkansas and the University of Utah, and as the Chief Water Consultant of an international engineer- ing and sustainability consulting firm he co-founded. He served as the first co-Director of Sustainability Curriculum Development at the University of Utah where he created pan-campus degree programs and stimulated infusion of sustainability principles and practices in teaching and learning activities across campus. Dr. Burian currently is the Project Director of the USAID-funded U.S.-Pakistan Center for

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Poster Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Megan Reissman, University of Dayton; Allison L. Kinney, University of Dayton; Kevin Patrick Hallinan, University of Dayton

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Montgomery County Exemplary Service Award, 2013). c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 A Capstone Engineering Modeling Course for Developing Creative Problem-Solving A.L. Kinney1, M.E. Reissman1, K.P. Hallinan1 1University of Dayton, Dayton, OH, U.S.A.AbstractOver the past twenty years, nearly all job growth in the United States has emerged from new companiesand organizations with assumedly innovative products, services, and practices. Yet, the nurturing ofstudent creative thinking through truly open-ended problem solving is infrequent in engineeringeducation. Engineering design projects most often come with constraints and

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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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DEED Postcard Session 2 and Presentation of Student Essay Competition Winners

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jered H. Dean, Colorado School of Mines; Kristine R. Csavina, Colorado School of Mines

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

R’ Us, Home Depot, Sears and the wireless charging system recently released for Tesla vehicles through Plugless Power. His specialties include systems engineering, design, and project management for new product development. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering with a Mechanical Specialty (’04) and a Master’s degree in Engineering with a Systems Specialty (’09), both from the Colorado School of Mines.Dr. Kristine R. Csavina, Colorado School of Mines Dr. Kristy Csavina is a Teaching Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines. She has her bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Dayton and her doctorate in Bioengineering from Arizona State

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Learning and Assessment in ME 2

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nina Robson, California State University, Fullerton; Madeline E. Rasche, California State University, Fullerton, Chemistry and Biochemistry Department; Vishalkumar Jayantibhai Ahir, California State University Fullerton; Iulian Mocanu

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Mechanical Engineering

parallel linkages, cams and gear systemsand robot manipulators, to name a few. During the Fall 2016 semester, new experiences in theform of interactive activities, including research projects were developed and incorporatedwithin the course. These activities were specifically designed to enhance the students’knowledge of how the above-mentioned mechanical systems appear in other domains, such asBiomechanics and Biochemistry with the goal of giving the students the opportunity to not onlycross boundaries, but also integrate and use current knowledge in their own area to solveresearch problems in other disciplines.Results related to the three desired learning outcomes (critical thinking, intellectual maturity,and responsibility for own learning

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The Best in DEED

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susannah Howe, Smith College; Laura Mae Rosenbauer, Smith College

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Design in Engineering Education

Australia and New Zealand to identify how capstone courses areimplemented outside the United States and what strategies can be shared across countries. As intheir United States counterpart, the 2015 Australia and New Zealand surveys includedquantitative, categorical, and open-ended questions on capstone course information, pedagogy,evaluation, faculty, students, projects and teams, expenses and funding, sponsors, and respondentexperience and opinion. This paper presents highlights of the resulting data by country, drawingcomparisons where possible across countries: Australia, New Zealand, and the United States.Overall, the essence of capstone design courses in the three countries is quite similar; there arevariations in implementation details, but

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College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 3

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Aaron Carpenter, Wentworth Institute of Technology; James R McCusker PhD, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Durga Suresh, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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College Industry Partnerships

with an array of interdisciplinary design courses that range from introductory to capstone courses.Prof. Durga Suresh, Wentworth Institute of Technology Durga Suresh is an associate professor in the department of computer science and networking and has been teaching at WIT for over fifteen years, including courses in software engineering, databases, archi- tecture, and capstone projects. She has been involved in service-learning projects in urban Boston and has developed CS-outreach-oriented seminar classes in which college juniors and seniors develop and deploy CS curricula to middle school students. She has extensive experience with designing and teaching project based, multidisciplinary courses with collaboration

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Using Real-World Examples

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Saeed D. Foroudastan, Middle Tennessee State University; Cary Richard Woodson, Middle Tennessee State University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

Foroudastan’s teaching experience, he also has performed extensive research and published numerous technical papers. He has secured more than $2 million in the form of both internal and external grants and research funding. Foroudastan is the faculty advisor, coordinator, and primary fundraiser for EVP teams entering national research project competitions such as the Formula SAE Collegiate Competition, the Baja SAE Race, the SolarBike Race, the Great Moonbuggy Race, and the Solar Boat Collegiate Competition. For his concern for and dedication to his students, Foroudastan received MTSU awards such as the 2002-03 Outstanding Teaching Award, the 2005-06 Outstanding Public Service Award, and the 2007 Faculty Advisor of the

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Electrical and Computer Division Poster Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ying Lin, Western Washington University; John Andrew Lund, Western Washington University; Todd D. Morton, Western Washington University

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Electrical and Computer

Washington University Todd Morton has been teaching the upper level embedded systems and senior project courses for Western Washington University’s Electronics Engineering Technology(EET) program for 25 years. He has been the EET program coordinator since 2005 and also served as department chair from 2008-2012. He is the author of the text ’Embedded Microcontrollers’, which covers assembly and C programming in small real-time embedded systems and has worked as a design engineer at Physio Control Corporation and at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory as an ASEE-NASA Summer Faculty Fellow. He has a BSEE and MSEE from the University of Washington. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017A

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Professional Skills and Teaming in Design

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tehya Stockman, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Claire Elizabeth Kincaid, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Thomas Andrew Heale, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Steven Eric Meyer, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Alexandra Coso Strong, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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Design in Engineering Education

in authentic cross-disciplinary design projects. While guidance fromprofessors with industry experience and teaching techniques such as project-based and servicelearning are common approaches to supporting student preparation, there is continued need fordesign education to include a focus on the development of skills to support communicationacross disciplinary and team boundaries (e.g., shared language and clarity of narrative). Theseskills, which are frequently thought of as non-engineering work, are as critical to the completionof cross-disciplinary projects as skills associated with conventional engineering design work(i.e., design and technical practices). As a result, a multiple case study was designed to explorethe practices of

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First-Year Programs: Design in the First Year

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Blake Hylton, Ohio Northern University; Todd France, Ohio Northern University; Louis A. DiBerardino III, Ohio Northern University

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First-Year Programs

education and project-based learning.Dr. Louis A. DiBerardino III, Ohio Northern University Dr. DiBerardino is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Ohio Northern University. His teaching and research interests are in first-year engineering, dynamic systems, and musculoskeletal biome- chanics. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Impact of Various Pedagogies on Design Confidence, Motivation, and Anxiety of First-Year Engineering StudentsIntroductionThe content and pedagogies of first-year engineering programs vary widely from institution toinstitution. In the content space, efforts are underway to establish a first-year body of knowledge[1][13][14

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Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 1

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Systems Engineering

c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 A Laboratory-based Course in Systems Engineering Focusing on the Design of a High-speed Mag-lev Pod for the SpaceX Hyperloop Competition (Work in Progress)AbstractA new course has been developed for undergraduate engineering students that enhances theirunderstanding of the multidisciplinary aspects of systems engineering. Students pursing a generalengineering degree with concentrations in mechanical, electrical, and computer engineering arecollaborating to develop a prototype for a high-speed, magnetically-levitated transportation podfor the Hyperloop Competition, recently commissioned by Elon Musk of SpaceX Corporation.This project is an excellent opportunity

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Design Tools and Skill Development

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Annie Abell, Ohio State University; Kelly DeVore, Columbus College of Art and Design

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Design in Engineering Education

Paper ID #18607Embracing Ambiguity: A Framework for Promoting Iterative Design Think-ing Approaches in Engineering and Design CurriculaAnnie Abell, Ohio State University Annie Abell is an Assistant Professor of Practice at The Ohio State University in the Department of Me- chanical & Aerospace Engineering. Abell received her BS in Mechanical Engineering from Valparaiso University and a MFA in Design Research & Development from The Ohio State University with an em- phasis on Industrial Design. She teaches project-based, product design courses to senior-level and gradu- ate engineering students, as well as an

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Revolutionizing Engineering Departments (RED)

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cara Margherio, University of Washington; Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington; Kerice Doten-Snitker, University of Washington

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Educational Research and Methods

Paper ID #18147Developing a Shared Vision for Change: New results from the Revolutioniz-ing Engineering Departments Participatory Action ResearchDr. Cara Margherio, University of Washington Cara Margherio is the Senior Research Associate at the UW Center for Evaluation & Research for STEM Equity (CERSE). Cara serves as project manager for program evaluation on several NSF- and NIH-funded projects. Her research interests include community cultural wealth, counterspaces, peer mentoring, and institutional change.Dr. Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington Elizabeth Litzler, Ph.D., is the director of the University of

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mohamed Elzomor P.E., Arizona State University; Kristen Parrish, Arizona State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

construction experience while working in the construction industry for different capacities, both in the office and the field. Mr. ElZomor worked as a Project Manager for several years and delivered complex projects, one of which was an iconic $150 million office park. Not only is Mohamed a specialist in the construction field, but also with extensive research within the advanced educational pedagogies, energy, and environmental disciplines. Mr. ElZomor developed an index to define small infrastructure projects’ scope and associated risk. The overall goal of ElZomor’s work is to leverage the integration of energy efficiency measures into construction, building design and operation processes for societal good.Prof. Kristen

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

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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

skills ofcritical thinking, collaboration, and communication. The program provides students with theconfidence needed to enter the dynamic workforce of the future, which requires understanding ofbasic structure, materials and electrical design and computing. This program is guided byproject-based learning, an experiential learning pedagogy that focuses on excitement,engagement, applying the scientific method and engineering process, and making a presentationto demonstrate mastery of these principles. ASPIRE introduces students to the fields of computerscience and engineering. Students participate in hands-on group projects centered on theInternet-of-Things. The experiential learning experience provides students exposure to computerprogramming

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DEED Postcard Session 1

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jack William Giambalvo, Stevens Institute of Technology; Julia Kathryn Vance, Stevens Institute of Technology; Steven Hoffenson, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Design in Engineering Education

productdevelopment: engineering design, design thinking, decision based design (DBD), systemsthinking, axiomatic design, vee model, value driven design (VDD), waterfall model, spiralmodel, agile, total quality management (TQM), theory of constraints (ToC), six sigma, and leanmanufacturing. Through this review, a number of criteria were identified to categorize anddistinguish the approaches, and each approach was then assessed according to the criteria to aidin comparison and evaluation of fit for any given project. Next, a decision support tool isproposed to help designers or project managers select the best methodology for their specificproblems. This decision-making aid takes in information about the nature of the potential projectand uses pre-defined

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International Educational Experiences (1)

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amy Trowbridge, Arizona State University; Ang Liu, University of New South Wales

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Diversity

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International

variety of information and communication technologies were utilized tosupport team collaborations. The main course components included: weekly lectures, teamproject, individual research paper, and cross-cultural exercise. More specifically, a total of 20lectures were offered on a biweekly basis (twice a week), which included 5 special guestlectures delivered by experts who specialize on different GCE topics (i.e., cyber security,sustainable manufacturing, personalized learning, bioenergy, etc.). The class was divided into6 globally distributed project teams to identify a GCE, analyse relevant needs, and propose afuture solution. Students from the same university were tasked to work together to produce amini-movie to present their observations of

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Moreland, Purdue University Northwest; Michael Edward Hoerter, CIVS; SHENG WANG, PURDUE UNIVERSITY NORTHWEST CIVS

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Troubleshooting and Safety SimulatorAbstractAn NSF-ATE project is being developed building upon two previous projects: 1) “Wind TechTV”, a 2010 ATE project which created a library of online training videos for wind turbinemaintenance, and 2) "Mixed Reality Simulators for Wind Energy Education", a U.S. Departmentof Education FIPSE project which produced a series of simulators for wind energy education.The current project is integrating a library of real scenarios with existing simulators to allowstudents to have hands-on experiences that would otherwise be dangerous or impractical. Itincludes open-ended questions for students to learn critical thinking and problem solving.An interdisciplinary team including representatives from four community colleges

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Changing the Engineering Classroom

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Reid Bailey, University of Virginia

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Educational Research and Methods

statistically significant change: students were learning the importance ofproblem formulation activities after the interventions. What remained unclear, however, werethe specific reasons for the improvements.In this research paper, reasons for why student learning of problem formulation’s role in designincreased so dramatically are explored using interviews with students from the classes.We interviewed six students who had taken one of the courses where improved learning wasobserved. These students had taken the course as a first year and were interviewed during springof their junior or senior year. Questions were broad and open-ended, asking students, forexample, to recall projects they had done during their first year and if any of those

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Horizontal and Vertical Integration

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kyle Daniel Balkos, University of Waterloo; Benjamin Dow, University of Waterloo; Shoeleh Shams, University of Waterloo; Rania Al-Hammoud P.Eng., University of Waterloo; Monica B. Emelko, University of Waterloo; Scott Walbridge P.E., University of Waterloo; Chris Bachmann, University of Waterloo

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Civil Engineering

Pedagogical Skill Development through Horizontal Integration of a Second Year Engineering CurriculumAbstractThis paper explores the use of a comprehensive design, management and construction project asa pedagogical teaching instrument for second year engineering students, simulating thechallenges and responsibilities they will face in the professional engineering consultingdiscipline. The primary objective was to educate students in an interactive manner spanningdiverse fundamental skillsets by having them analyse a problem, evaluate various designsolutions and apply their knowledge in a collaborative group effort.Students were randomly arranged into groups of four with the task of designing, constructing,and testing a bridge out of

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Aerospace Hot Topic: Unmanned Aerial Systems

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Subodh Bhandari, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

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Diversity

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Aerospace

precision agriculture. However, there has not been a proportionate increase inthe number of students pursuing graduate or undergraduate level research in the area ofunmanned aerial systems.The Department of Aerospace Engineering at Cal Poly Pomona is currently engaged in severalUAV research projects. Current research focus is on increasing the UAS autonomy. The ongoingresearch projects include development and validation of flight dynamics models of UAVs,4 modeling and simulation,5 development of obstacle and collision

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ETD Manufacturing/3D Printing

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mert Bal, Miami University; Ayodele O. Abatan, Miami University

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Diversity

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Engineering Technology

Paper ID #19554Developing Additive Manufacturing Laboratory to Support Instruction andResearch in Engineering TechnologyDr. Mert Bal, Miami University Mert Bal received his PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Eastern Mediterranean Univer- sity, North Cyprus in 2008. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the University of Western Ontario, and a Visiting Researcher at the National Research Council Canada in London, Ontario, Canada between 2008 and 2010. He was involved in various research projects in the areas of collaborative intelligence, localiza- tion and collaborative information processing in wireless sensor

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Experinces in Manufacturing Engineering Education

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Arif Sirinterlikci, Robert Morris University

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Manufacturing

Manufacturing, Automation and Robotics, and CAE in Manufacturing Processes fields. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Development of an Undergraduate Engineering Research CourseAbstractThis paper presents an effort to develop an undergraduate research course to produce analternative to a mandatory internship course, Engineering Practice taken by all majors includingmanufacturing engineering. The new course is labeled as Engineering Research Projects.However, with the growing enrollments and especially in international students, internshipplacement has become a challenge. The new Engineering Research Projects course will reducethe pressure on Engineering Practice distributing the enrollment in between

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 7

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kelsey Morgan Irvin, University of Missouri, Columbia; Elizabeth Hiteshue, Bain & Company; Samantha Laurel Swanson; Caroline Missouri Wochnick, Augsburg College; Hannah Bech, AmeriCorps VISTA; Amanda Marie Kapetanakis, Augsburg College; Mary Yvonne Lanzerotti, Air Force Institute of Technology; Derrick Langley, Space and Missile Center, Enterprise Ground Services Office (SMC/ADZS); Michael Geselowitz, IEEE History Center at Stevens Institute of Technology; MaryAnn C. Hellrigel, IEEE, IEEE History Center; Gregory Alan Good, American Institute of Physics

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

- neering. During two of her undergraduate years, she worked with Dr. Lanzerotti and Kelsey Irvin on the Oral History Project. Elizabeth currently works as an Associate Consultant at Bain & Company.Samantha Laurel SwansonMs. Caroline Missouri Wochnick, Augsburg CollegeMs. Hannah Bech, AmeriCorps VISTA Hannah Bech graduated Summa Cum Laude from Augsburg College in 2016, studying Sociology with a minor in Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies. She completing a year of service with AmeriCorps VISTA as the Community Engagement Specialist at Venture Academy, a 6-9 public charter school in Minneapolis.Ms. Amanda Marie Kapetanakis, Augsburg College Amanda Kapetanakis is a junior at Augsburg College, majoring in Biology. She

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Sustainability and Hands-On Activities

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yogesh Bhandari, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Akshay Vora, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign; Sengavi Thirupathy; Rashi Singh, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Oscar Azofeifa

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

groups,studied and analyzed options available to them, developed sustainability projects to be proposed,presented their ideas in front of their colleagues (in ENG 573) for critical feedback, consulted withpersonnel at university’s facilities and services (F and S) and other departments, prepared the proposals,and then submitted them before the deadline. This paper is also a part of the exercise, written primarilyby the students in class. It was a valuable experience. Based on lessons learned, this class will be offeredagain in this format in coming semesters.INTRODUCTIONUniversity of Illinois has an Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment (iSEE, [2]). College ofEngineering at the University of Illinois has been offering a graduate

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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 5

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sydnee Drew Mayers, Bowman Creek Educational Ecosystem ; Ellen M. Londergan; Alicia Czarnecki, Bowman Creek Educational Ecosystem; Jay B. Brockman, University of Notre Dame; Gary Allen Gilot P.E., University of Notre Dame; Victoria E. Goodrich, University of Notre Dame; Mary Hergenrother; Adrienne Bruggeman, Saint Mary's College

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Community Engagement Division

   neighborhood   associations   to   create   and implement   a  system   for   determining   optimal   reuse   strategies   provided   an   opportunity   for a   community   engagement   project   between   students   from   the   University   of   Notre   Dame and   the   City   of   South   Bend.   In   October   of   2015,   twelve   students   from   the   university’s Society   of   Women   Engineers   chapter,   known   as   the   Tech   Team,   established   a participatory   design   based   partnership   between   the   City   of   South   Bend’s   Department   of Public   Works   and   the   Southeast   Organized   Area   Residents   (SOAR)   to   address   the vacant   lots   in   the   Southeast   neighborhood   of   South   Bend

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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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Trevor R Ham, The University of Akron; Rouzbeh Amini, The University of Akron

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Biomedical

curriculumand shorten the amount of time given to each topic. When teaching the principles ofprogramming to non-computer science students, it is important to focus on broad, widelyapplicable concepts (i.e., computational thinking), rather than become mired in the applicationand syntax of one specific language.7Active learning shows demonstrable and widespread improvements in student achievement overpassive learning in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, allowingbetter retention of new concepts, more efficiently.8,9 In BME, active learning can consist ofproblem/project-based learning,10 which requires students to undergo the engineering designprocess on their own. These projects can be multidisciplinary, which improves

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Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 2

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert J. Barsanti Jr., The Citadel; Jason S. Skinner, The Citadel

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Electrical and Computer

computer science at The Citadel. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Amplitude Modulation Circuit Implementation for use in an Undergraduate Communication Course for Electrical Engineering StudentsAbstract – Modern descriptions of analog communication schemes are mathematics based usingtransform theory and block diagrams. This presentation style leaves undergraduate students withthe challenge of relating these theories to real world circuit implementations. This is particularlytrue if the lecture class does not have a complementary laboratory component. This paperattempts to bridge this gap by presenting a basic yet comprehensive project that can be used todemonstrate amplitude