Conference Session

Undergraduate Peer Educators: Mentoring, Observing, Learning

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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ASEE Board of Directors

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

are writing intensive and have the technicalwriting course as a prerequisite. Even more of a problem, many Penn State engineering studentswork in internships and co-op experiences without having taken the technical writing course,even though the companies expect those students to write. Worse yet, in those internships, ourstudents are evaluated alongside engineering interns who have had the experience of a technicalwriting course. To address this situation, the Mechanical Engineering Department at Penn State haspiloted an engineering writing course that connects to its required junior-level design course,which is writing intensive. What distinguishes this engineering writing course from traditionaltechnical writing courses is that the

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 4

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark V. Huerta, Arizona State University

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Diversity

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

attitudes appear to make an impacton behavior including the ability to identify opportunities, make connections, and create value.These specific changes in attitudes and behavior point to the development of an entrepreneurialmindset. This experiences overall had a major influence on all three students’ career aspirations.None of these students had entrepreneurial-related intentions prior to college, which makes thefindings all the more interesting.Literature Review The reason for the strong interest to integrate entrepreneurship into engineering educationis it is widely believed entrepreneurship education can lead to the development of knowledge,skills, and attitudes that are in alignment with the ABET E2000 standards (Shuman, Besterfield

Conference Session

Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Engineering Engagement with Community

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Aqdas Malik, George Mason University; Aditya Johri, George Mason University; Habib Karbasian, George Mason University; Rajat Handa; Hemant Purohit, George Mason University

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

social engagement analysis in hashtag campaigns where he investigates the factors affecting retweetability and information diffusion in such contexts.Mr. Rajat Handa Graduate Student in Data Analytics Engineering at George Mason University with an interest in Machine Learning, NLP and social media analytics.Dr. Hemant Purohit, George Mason University Dr. Purohit is an assistant professor in the department of Information Sciences and Technology at George Mason University, USA. His research interest is to study human behavior from the unstructured Web data via an interdisciplinary approach of Computer and Psychological Sciences using social computing and natural language understanding methods

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 4

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn Weed Jablokow, Pennsylvania State University; Neeraj Sonalkar, Stanford University; Ilya Avdeev, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Brian D. Thompson, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Mohamed M. Megahed, Pennsylvania State University; Pratik Subhash Pachpute, Pennsylvania State University,Great Valley

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

move forward instarting a business based on those technologies. The NSF I-Corps™ site featured in this study,located at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM), brings together diverse teams fromregional academic institutions to complete an abridged I-Corps™ curriculum. To date, 73 teamshave completed the I-Corps™ training process at this site; these teams have achieved variouslevels of success in completing the process and moving beyond it in commercializing their work.Along the way, anecdotal evidence has suggested that individual characteristics, teamcomposition, and team interactions are key factors in the success or failure of I-Corps™ teams,but until now, these hypotheses have not been investigated in detail. Our first aim in

Conference Session

Instrumentation Division Technical Session 1

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Akram Hossain, Purdue University Northwest; Mohammad A. Zahraee, Purdue University Northwest

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Instrumentation

a few steps ofprogramming. For example, a Proportional Integral and Derivative (PID) controller can bedesigned, tuned and demonstrated to students in a few steps. This tool can be used to modelan electromechanical device such a servomotor system that consists of a servomotor, a servodrive, an encoder, a gearbox, and a load. The virtual model setup in turn would carry the wholeconcept through graphical demonstrations including timing. Furthermore, this software toolcan communicate with simple real world hardware such as a switch and a light bulb to a verycomplicated hardware like a hydrocarbon based fuel reformer. Page 3 of 15SoftLogix 5800, Studio 5000, and

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shiloh James Howland, Brigham Young University; Gregg Morris Warnick, Brigham Young University; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Randall Davies, Brigham Young University

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics

Electrical and Com- puter Engineering and (by courtesy) Engineering Education at Purdue University. She holds a B.S.E.E., M.S.E.E., and Ph.D. in Engineering Education, all from Purdue. Prior to this she was Co-Director of the EPICS Program at Purdue where she was responsible for developing curriculum and assessment tools and overseeing the research efforts within EPICS. Her academic and research interests include the profes- sional formation of engineers, diversity and inclusion in engineering, human-centered design, engineering ethics, leadership, service-learning, and accessibility and assistive-technology.Prof. Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. Brent K. Jesiek is an Associate Professor in the

Conference Session

Programs and Pedagogies

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Piyush Taneja; Elnaz Safapour, University of Texas at Arlington; Sharareh Kermanshachi, University of Texas at Arlington

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Engineering Management

studies. The studentsmet weekly to present their work to the person who designed the problem and two otherfaculy members. An assessment was performed, and about 70% of the students wanted toinclude the case study approach in other curriculums, and about 90% felt that they gainedknowledge from this curriculum.Self-LearningLearning for the sake of one’s own knowledge by conducting research, reading articles andbooks, or employing other platforms is termed as self-learning or self-directed learning.Everyone takes advantage of this methodology to some extent, and many well-knownpersonalities, such as Marie Curie 39 have been studied. Rodney Stwart40 (2007) conducted astudy in which three factors of self-learning were evaluated: self-management

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 3

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susan P. Gentry, University of California, Davis; Tanya Faltens, Purdue University, West Lafayette (Network for Computational Nanotechnology); William Ashwin Wheeler, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Andre Schleife, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Materials

Paper ID #21908Measuring Student Learning of Crystal Structures Using Computer-basedVisualizationsDr. Susan P. Gentry, University of California, Davis Dr. Susan P. Gentry is a Lecturer with Potential Security of Employment in the Materials Science and Engineering department at the University of California, Davis. In her current position at UC Davis, she is integrating computational modules into the undergraduate and graduate materials curriculum. She is specifically interested in students’ computational literacy and life-long learning of computational materi- als science tools.Dr. Tanya Faltens, Purdue University, West

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Investigating Instructional Strategies

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ricardo Zaurin P.E., University of Central Florida

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

preliminary data, three research questions were formulated toassess the impact of incorporating an Experiential Learning Project as a part of a second-yearcourse on class effectiveness, retention (persistence) and graduation rates, and students’engagement/perception of instruction:Research Questions 1) To what extent does the introduction of IDEAS Active Learning Project improve student’s success in Engineering Analysis Statics? 2) To what extent Active Learning Projects introduced early in the curriculum improve student retention and graduation rates? 3) Do Active Learning Projects improve Engagement, Class Participation, and Students’ Perception of Instruction?Research Design and ControlTo answer these questions, an

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 6

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Samarth Gupta, Purdue University; Greg J. Strimel, Purdue Polytechnic Institute

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

foundation of NSF I-Corps program in the scientific approach oftesting the hypothesis with empirical data. He acknowledged that the lean startup approach findsits roots in trial-and-error approach which is natural to scientific research but alien tomanagement professionals. He testified to the Congressional Committee on Science, Space andTechnology 6 that an unexpected result of this program was an impact on the professor's ownthinking about how they teach their science and engineering students. Since the launch of NSF I-Corps in 2010, more than 800 teams have completed the NSF curriculum from 192 universitiesin 44 states resulting in the creation of more than 320 companies that have collectively raisedmore than $83 million in follow-on funding 7

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Madeline Polmear, University of Colorado, Boulder; Chris Swan, Tufts University; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder; Nathan E. Canney

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics

-engineers. Different perspectives and teaching approachesfor ESI were evident among these groups, and this range of experiences could ultimatelyenhance students’ ethical reasoning abilities, impact their attitudes, and effect their behaviors.It appears that one could not expect to achieve adequate education on ESI within a single course.A single course simply cannot cover the breadth of important microethics and macroethics topicsand reach reasonable levels of cognitive and affective depth. Integrating ESI across a range ofcourses in a deliberate manner can reinforce and build on ideas. Including ESI across thecurriculum has been advocated as an effective way to foster ethical development in an alreadydense technical curriculum [23, 24]. One

Conference Session

Elementary Engineering

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brenda M. Capobianco, Purdue University, West Lafayette; James Lehman, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Pre-College Engineering Education

Paper ID #22418Examining and Characterizing Elementary School Teachers’ Engineering Design-based Instructional Practices and Their Impact on Students’ Science Achieve-mentProf. Brenda M. Capobianco, Purdue University, West Lafayette Brenda M. Capobianco is a Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, and School of Engineering Education (courtesy) at Purdue University. She holds a B.S. in biology from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, M.S. in science education from Connecticut Central State University, and Ed.D. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She teaches elementary science methods and

Conference Session

Connecting BME education to the "real world"

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University

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Diversity

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Biomedical Engineering

Paper ID #21603Sustainable Development Challenge For BMEProf. Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University Dr. Joseph (Joe) Tranquillo is an Associate Professor at Bucknell University in the Department of Biomed- ical Engineering, He is also co-director of the Institute for Leadership in Technology and Management, co-director of the KEEN Winter Interdisciplinary Design Program, and chair of the Biomedical Engineer- ing Division of ASEE. Tranquillo has published three undergraduate textbooks and numerous engineering education publications, and has presented internationally on engineering and education. His work has been featured

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susantha Herath, St. Cloud State University; Rohitha Goonatilake, Texas A&M International University ; Suvineetha Herath

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

areas compared to biological sciences and physical sciences.Minnesota has a large number of academically-talented and financially-needy students. In 2008,only 6.9% of bachelor’s degrees awarded in Minnesota were in STEM according to theMinnesota Office of Higher Education. The financial burden is a significant obstacle for studentsconfronting a challenging curriculum that needs more time commitment.Saint Cloud State University (SCSU) is the second largest in the system of public MinnesotaState Colleges and Universities (MN State). SCSU’s mission is to prepare students for life, workand citizenship in the twenty-first century to positively transform students and the communitiesthrough the discovery, applied knowledge, and creative interaction

Conference Session

Seeking Resilience and Learning to Thrive Through Engineering Education

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julianna Sun Ge, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Edward J. Berger, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

to understand cognitive and noncognitive factors related to success for undergraduate engineering students. Prior to Purdue, she received dual bachelor’s degrees in Industrial Engineering and Human Development and Family Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her prior work experiences include product management, consulting, tutoring, marketing, and information technology.Dr. Edward J. Berger, Purdue University, West Lafayette Edward Berger is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education and Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University, joining Purdue in August 2014. He has been teaching mechanics for over 20 years, and has worked extensively on the integration and assessment of specific

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John M. Santiago Jr., Colorado Technical University; Jing Guo, Colorado Technical University

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Diversity

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Electrical and Computer

, the college successfully developed andimplemented a program curriculum involving day and night classes in electrical engineering andcomputer engineering. The curriculum program consists of 11-week courses and allows aflexible schedule for students to successfully complete an ABET-accredited degree in eitherBSEE or BSCE. During 2017, CoE proudly received an ABET re-accreditation for six yearswith no required interim reports.In 2015, the University tasked the CoE to develop a strategic plan in delivering onlineundergraduate and graduate engineering courses. Starting in April 2015, the college embraced aflipped learning approach for future and online delivery of undergraduate engineering courses.One reason for adopting flipped learning concerns

Conference Session

Computer-related Issues

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles McIntyre, Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis; Sanjeev Adhikari, Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis; Veto Matthew Ray, Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis; James W. White, Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis

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Engineering Technology

from allthat is available is problematic. Similar to our counterparts in the industry, educators must selectsoftware which satisfies a number of often competing requirements. Our software acquisitionsmust compliment the curriculum, integrate with the technical capacity of the institution, andprovide sufficient challenge to students, all the while reflecting current industry standards. Weare thus presented with a shared dilemma: how do both educators and industry decide whichsoftware application(s) to acquire?Software acquisition and adaptation decisions often involve comparing alternatives of severalcriteria. However, the end users of the software systems may not necessarily be familiar with theoverall decision-making criteria. To address this

Conference Session

Problem Solving, Adaptive Expertise, and Social Engagement

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carolyn Plumb, Montana State University; Rose M. Marra, University of Missouri; Douglas J. Hacker, University of Utah; John Dunlosky

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Educational Research and Methods

the Development of Metacognition in Engineering Students in a Problem-Based Learning Program with a Think-Aloud ProtocolThis evidence-based practice paper focuses on how an engineering education program thatpromotes self-regulated learning impacts students’ problem-solving skills. Iron RangeEngineering (IRE) is an innovative, problem-based-learning (PBL) engineering program inVirginia, Minnesota. Throughout the curriculum of this program, students learn about and applymetacognitive skills necessary for self-regulating their learning. For the past several years, wehave been conducting research funded by the National Science Foundation1 to (1) identify themetacognitive skills inherent in self-regulated

Conference Session

Perspectives on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Beyond the Undergraduate Years

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cliff Fitzmorris, University of Oklahoma; Deborah A. Trytten, University of Oklahoma; Randa L. Shehab, University of Oklahoma

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ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity

Paper ID #21502The Career Pathways of Non-tenure-track Full-time Engineering FacultyMr. Cliff Fitzmorris, University of Oklahoma Cliff Fitzmorris is a lecturer in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. He was a practicing engineer in the telecom industry for fifteen years before joining the Uni- versity of Oklahoma as an adjunct instructor, later transitioning to a full-time non-tenure-track teaching role.Dr. Deborah A. Trytten, University of Oklahoma Dr. Deborah A. Trytten is a President’s Associates Presidential Professor and Associate Professor of Computer Science and

Conference Session

Maker Communities and Authentic Problem Solving

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Weiner, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Micah Lande, Arizona State University; Shawn S. Jordan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus

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Educational Research and Methods

Sciences, 2nd ed., R. K. Sawyer, Ed. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2014.[28] D. S. Yeager and C. S. Dweck, “Mindsets That Promote Resilience: When Students Believe That Personal Characteristics Can Be Developed,” Educ. Psychol., vol. 47, no. 4, pp. 302– 314, Oct. 2012.[29] P. Blikstein, Z. Kabayadondo, A. Martin, and D. Fields, “An Assessment Instrument of Technological Literacies in Makerspaces and FabLabs: Assessment of Technological Literacies in Makerspaces and FabLabs,” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 106, no. 1, pp. 149–175, Jan. 2017.[30] J. Saldaña, The coding manual for qualitative researchers. Los Angeles: Sage, 2009.[31] L. J. Martinez, P. A. Sullivan, and E. Pines, “Integration of Engineering Capstone within a

Conference Session

A Technology Potpourri I

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Border, Bowling Green State University

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Engineering Technology

Technology (ECET) program. Within this course set are the curriculum’s networking and communication courses. As is true with his ECET faculty colleagues, Border supports the program with teaching assign- ments, as needed, in freshman- and sophomore-level courses offerings. Examples of these include the sophomore level electric circuits and digital electronics courses. Border teaches a digital communication graduate course within a Ph.D. Consortium Technology Management program, as well as other graduate level courses at BGSU. Border served as interim department chair of the Engineering Technologies department. He served as chair of the university Faculty Senate curriculum and academic affairs committee. He is chair of the

Conference Session

Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bala Maheswaran, Northeastern University; Cristian Scott Stransky, Northeastern University; Haridas Kumarakuru, Northeastern University

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Engineering Physics and Physics

boundaries of traditional classroom-basedapproaches to project- concept- and team-based, and skill- and knowledge-integrated approachesusing real world situations. This new teaching approach can improve the effectiveness ofengineering education. Introducing new teaching approaches is always a challenging task andhas been explored using various tactics, and the detailed work is published in the peer reviewedjournals and proceedings8-13. For experiential energy innovation team project, we selectedmagnetism and its application to generate electricity via an innovative approach. Magnetic 1induction was discovered by Michael Faraday in the mid-19th century14

Conference Session

ET Pedagogy I

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammad Moin Uddin P.E., East Tennessee State University; Keith V. Johnson, East Tennessee State University

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Paper ID #21263Identifying Classroom Management Strategies by Focusing on Diversity andInclusionDr. Mohammad Moin Uddin P.E., East Tennessee State University Dr. Mohammad Moin Uddin is an Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator in the Department of Engineering, Engineering Technology, and Surveying at East Tennessee State University. His current re- search interest focuses on sustainable design and construction, data integration and development of energy models for campus building structures for knowledge based decision making. He also contributed to data analysis methods and cost effective practices of highway

Conference Session

Instrumentation Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dale H. Litwhiler, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus

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Instrumentation

required to developand implement a test procedure to verify specification compliance. A modest budget wasprovided to allow the design teams to purchase materials. The campus machine shop is very wellequipped and staffed and was available to help fabricate custom parts. 3-D printing of parts wasalso an option for the teams to use. An instrumentation amplifier circuit board kit was availablefor the students to integrate into their design. The project provided a very good means ofunifying many aspects of the course. The fabrication experience gained through this project isalso a valuable component of the mechanical engineering curriculum. This paper presentsexamples of student accelerometer designs and data from prototype testing. Equipment

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Oziel Rios, University of Texas, Dallas

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Mechanical Engineering

, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, 2018.[4] Lin, C., Verma, A., "Clarifications of Rule 2 in Teaching Geometric Dimensioning andTolerancing," Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Honolulu, Hawaii,2007.[5] Waldorf, D. J., Georgeou, T. M., "Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T)Integration Throughout a Manufacturing Engineering Curriculum," Proceedings of the ASEEAnnual Conference and Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2016.[6] Paige, M. A., Fu, K., "Spatial Demonstration Tools for Teaching Geometric Dimensioningand Tolerancing (GD&T) to First-Year Undergraduate Engineering Students," Proceedings ofthe ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Columbus, Ohio, 2017.[7] Sriraman, V., De Leon, J., "Teaching

Conference Session

Imagining Others, Defining Self Through Consideration of Ethical and Social Implications

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexis Papak, University of Maryland, College Park; Ayush Gupta, University of Maryland, College Park; Chandra Anne Turpen, University of Maryland, College Park

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

professor in physics at the University of Maryland in the Physics Education Research (PER) Group. Turpen’s work involves designing and researching contexts for learn- ing within higher education (for both students and faculty). Her research draws from perspectives in an- thropology, cultural psychology, and the learning sciences. Through in-situ studies of classroom practice and institutional practice, she focuses on the role of culture in science learning and educational change. She pursues projects that have high potential for leveraging equitable change in undergraduate STEM pro- grams and she makes these struggles for change a direct focus of her research efforts. She also serves on several national leadership bodies

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emre Tokgoz, Quinnipiac University

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Mathematics

Paper ID #21246Conceptual Power Series Knowledge of STEM MajorsDr. Emre Tokgoz, Quinnipiac University Emre Tokgoz is currently the Director and an Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering at Quinnipiac University. He completed a Ph.D. in Mathematics and another Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineer- ing at the University of Oklahoma. His pedagogical research interest includes technology and calculus education of STEM majors. He worked on several IRB approved pedagogical studies to observe under- graduate and graduate mathematics and engineering students’ calculus and technology knowledge since 2011. His other

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tanveer Singh Chawla, Western Washington University; Eric Leonhardt, Western Washington University

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Diversity

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Mechanical Engineering

Paper ID #23889Two Approaches to Optimize Formula SAE Chassis Design Using Finite Ele-ment AnalysisDr. Tanveer Singh Chawla, Western Washington University Dr. Chawla is an Assistant Professor in Plastics and Composites Engineering, Engineering & Design De- partment at Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA. His background is in solid mechanics and materials. Research interests other than in mechanics of materials include manufacturing, characterization and repair of fiber reinforced polymer composites, and diversity in STEM.Mr. Eric Leonhardt, Western Washington University I have been working to develop lower

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Catherine Cohan, Pennsylvania State University; Pradip K. Bandyopadhyay; Amy L. Freeman Ph.D., Tufts University; Ryan Scott Hassler; Mark William Johnson, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona Campus; Mikhail Kagan, Pennsylvania State University, Ogontz Campus; Ann Marie Schmiedekamp; Peter J. Shull, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona Campus

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

. Shull’s peda- gogical efforts include meta-cognitive strategy learning to improve student academic success, an interest in women’s issues within the engineering environment, integrated, experiential techniques to improve engineering students’ social emotional development as applied to teamwork and communication, and program assessment methods that minimize stakeholders’ efforts while maximizing the effectiveness of the measurement tool. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Sustainable bridges from campus to campus: Progress after Year 2 (NSF IUSE #1525367)AbstractPurpose: The purpose of the Sustainable

Conference Session

Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert A Ross, University of Detroit Mercy

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Engineering Physics and Physics

computation or quantum mechanics requires some knowledge ofDirac notation. Coverage of this is sorely lacking in current modern physics textbooks. We haverevised our modern physics course to include some quantum computing projects. Theseintroductory projects can easily be integrated into the curriculum since our engineering studentshave familiarity with MATLAB. The MATLAB environment is designed to handle vectors andmatrices – the fundamental tools of quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics is introduced bydescribing entanglement from the very beginning. Mermin’s device is used as a platform to delveinto the extremely peculiar nature of quantum mechanics.4This paper is organized as follows: first we describe Mermin’s device, next we explain howDirac