Conference Session

Learning Styles

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

SangHa Lee; Stefani A. Bjorklund; John Wise; Thomas Litzinger

you know it's not going to break or not break. I think that's one of those kindof things where you have just like at the end did I do everything that I could. You'd use everypossible resource that I have available. All the people that I have available and you know was Ihonest about everything and just chose what I felt was the best possible choice. If there is noperson there to say oh that was wrong or that was right. Then I guess just with your gut feelingand in your conscious did you do everything you possibly could and I guess that 's the best youcould've done with what you had.This student was judged to be at an intermediate level of development of his conception ofcomplex problem solving. He describes the need to gather information

Conference Session

Assessment Issues

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2002 Annual Conference

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Steve Watkins; Richard Hall; Nancy Hubing; David Oglesby; Vikas Yellamraju; Ralph Flori; Timothy Philpot

order to increase the power of the statistical analyses. 2. Include an objective outcome measure that is more extensive by increasing the number and variety of items, in order to increase the sensitivity of the measure to better capture different dimensions of students learning.References1. Tergan, S., Conceptual and methodological shortcomings in hypertext design and research. Journal of Educational Computing Research, 1997. 16: p. 209-235.2. ABET, Criteria for accrediting engineering programs, in http://www.abet.org, http://www.abet.org, Editor. 2000. Page 7.65.9 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mitchell Neilsen

Session 1526 An Interdisciplinary Curriculum on Real-Time Embedded Systems M.L. Neilsen1, D.H. Lenhert2, M. Mizuno1, G. Singh1, N. Zhang3, and A.B. Gross4 1 Department of Computing and Information Sciences, Kansas State University (KSU) {neilsen,masaaki,singh}@cis.ksu.edu* 2 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, KSU, lenhert@ksu.edu* 3 Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, KSU, zhangn@ksu.edu* 4 The IDEA Center, 211 S. Seth Child Road, Manhattan, Kansas, agross@ksu.edu* Abstract

Conference Session

Knowing Students:Diversity and Retention

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2002 Annual Conference

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Benjamin Flores; Thomas Brady; Helmut Knaust; Connie Kubo Della-Piana; Andrew Swift; Jana Renner Martinez

Mexican nationals, making UTEP thelargest Mexican American majority university in the nation and first in the nation in engineeringbachelor’s degrees awarded to Hispanic students. More than 50 percent of UTEP’s students arethe first in their families to attend college. 4 On average, it takes a successful UTEP student six ormore years to graduate.Figure 1 shows the six-year university-wide graduation rate, 23 percent, as compared toinstitutions with similar demographics. 5 Based on baseline data from the 1990’s, the six-yeargraduation rate for the Colleges of Engineering and Science at UTEP has been slightly lowerthan the university-wide rate despite the fact that the first-year retention rate in these colleges(approximately 70%) has been higher

Conference Session

MINDing Our Business

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2002 Annual Conference

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Geoffrey Bland; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

e t ru e c o lo r p ic t u re t a ke n A ft e r ima g e a n a ly s is wit h M u lt iSp e c s h o win g d ire c t ly fro m o n -b o a rd c a me ra g re e n a re a s in y e llo w a n d b a c kg ro u n d in b lu e CLASS DISTRIBUTION FOR SELECTED AREA Class Pixel (#) Percent 1 green 176407 50.4 2 not green 173513 49.6 Total 349920 100.0 End maximum likelihood classification

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Cultivating Professional Responsibility

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robert Krueger

marginally better.It is true that students recently became outraged thanks to companies like Nike and the Gap, andonce esoteric acronyms like GATT and WTO. Harvard student s no longer buy sweatshirts madein sweatshops, the Gap changed its labor practices at oversees plants to placate its outragedcustomer base, and the Seattle round of the WTO ended in failure. College students have showna penchant to educate themselves around macro issues like globalization. What about localissues? Interest in macro controversies seems to be ephemeral, at best. Responsible civicengagement requires a sustained and determined effort, not a mere catharsis coming from thepervasive inequities of global capitalism. Do students have the ability to engage in local

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Hedrick

. The following rather standard format was used: 1. Understand the problem completely by reading it several times if necessary and asking questions. Draw a picture if possible. 2. List the given facts labeling the picture with the given facts. 3. List the unknown(s) to be found. 4. List the equations that relate the given facts and the unknown(s) to be found. 5. Use the equations from step 4 to solve for the required unknown(s). 6. Check the answer for reasonableness (and correct units).C. Review sessionsAs course coordinator I provided a review session each week for students who wished to attend.While attendance was not mandatory, students from all sections were encouraged to attend. Thereview sessions were not presented in a

Conference Session

Enhancing Engineering Math with Technology

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

D. Reinhard

Session: 2176 Longitudinal Evaluation of Innovative Technology Based Curricula: Integrating the Learning of Mathematics with Applied Science and Engineering Dianna L. Newman, Kenneth S. Manning, Mark Holmes, Robert Spilker University at Albany SUNY/ Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteThe role of technology as a support to instruction and curriculum is now a major concern ofhigher education faculty. An increasing number of students and instructors are using technologyboth in and out of traditional classroom settings. As these changes are being integrated andimplemented, developers and

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Assessment of Biomedical Engineering Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ann McKenna

this paper. Future work will describeeach course in detail and provide the results of each course assessment plan.AcknowledgementsThis work was supported primarily by the Engineering Research Centers Program of the NSFunder Award Number EEC-9876363.References1. Hsi, S., and Agogino, A. M. (1994). The impact and instructional benefit of using multimedia case studies to teach engineering design. Journal of educational hypermedia and multimedia, 3(3/4), 351-376.2. Engineering Deans Council (1994). The Green Report: Engineering Education for a Changing World. American Society for Engineering Education, http://www.asee.org/publications/reports/greenworld.cfm3. http://www.abet.org4. http://www.vanth.org/5. Bransford, J. D., Brown

Conference Session

Learning Styles

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Knight; Jacquelyn Sullivan; Lawrence Carlson

Attitudes: A Cross-Institutional Study,” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 90, 2001, pp. 477-489.5. Poole, S. J., deGrazia, J. L., & Sullivan, J. F. “Assessing K-12 Pre-Engineering Outreach Programs,” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 90, No.1, 2001, pp. 43-48.6. Marchmen III, J. F. “Multinational, Multidisciplinary, Vertically Integrated Team Experience in Aircraft Design,” International Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 14, 1998, pp. 328-334.7. Engineering Accreditation Commission. “Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs: Effective for Evaluations During the 2001-2002 Accreditation Cycle,” Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc. 2001, http://www.abet.org/images/Criteria/eac_criteria_b.pdf8

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Curriculum Development in Graphics

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2002 Annual Conference

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Alice Scales; Aaron Clark

theircurrent positions as engineering/technical professionals and the factors that are influencing theirlevel of job satisfaction.During the fall of 2001, a questionnaire was sent to all of the members in the Engineering DesignGraphics Division of the America Society for Engineering Education living in the United Statesand Canada. The questionnaire was designed to look at job satisfaction and to identifymotivational factors that influence educators’ perception of their work environment(s). Theinstrument, originally developed and validated by Mottaz in 1981, was design to measure theintrinsic and extrinsic variables associated with job satisfaction. 1 Questions in the survey looked atjob responsibilities, salary, supervision, autonomy, promotion, co

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Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Paige Smith

self-efficacy expectations to the selection ofscience-based college majors. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 23, 329-45.6. Didion, C.J.(1993). Attracting graduate and undergraduate women as science majors. Journal of Social Behaviorand Personality, 11, 336-368.7. Ensher, E., and Murphy, S. (1997). Effects of race, gender, perceived similarity, and contact on mentorrelationships. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 50, 460-681.8. Etzkowitz, H. Kemelgor, C., and Uzzi, B. (2000). Athena unbound. New York: Cambridge University Press.9. Fassinger, R. (1996). Notes from the margins: Integrating lesbian experience into the vocational psychology ofwomen. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 48, 160-175.10. Fassinger, R. (2001). Women in non-traditional

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Weining Feng; Alberto Gomez-Rivas; George Pincus

ground and three below. Discomforting vibrations and swaying aretwo problems confronting designers of high-rise structures. With buildings over 200 meters tall,wind loads rater than earthquake loads determine the design of the main structural members.Design wind loads were determined in wind tunnel experiments7.As an additional measure to assure the comfort of the occupants, two tuned mass dampers(TMDs) were installed on the roof to reduce wind-induced motion. A pendulum weighting 50 t iscomputer-controlled so that its swing period counteracts that of the building. The devices wereinstalled in opposite corners of the roof. When the average wind velocity is approximately 20m/s, the TMDs reduced the response acceleration of the building by 50

Conference Session

The Modern ChE Laboratory

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2002 Annual Conference

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Christopher Brazel

Session 3613 Integrating Team Laboratory Experiments Into a Senior Biochemical Engineering Course Christopher S. Brazel Department of Chemical Engineering The University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0203Abstract A laboratory supplement to a senior biochemical engineering course was developed toimprove teaming skills and expose chemical engineering students to nontraditional industries,such as food, pharmaceuticals, biomedical engineering, and bioprocessing. This

Conference Session

Closing Manufacturing Competency Gaps II

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2002 Annual Conference

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Venkat Allada; Rajiv Mishra; Ming Leu; Anthony Okafor; Ashok Agrawal; Frank Liou

presentation and report. A library collecting these reports, to be maintained by UMR’s MEEP, will be available for other students to learn about the project’s history. Successful or not, each case represents a valuable experience to be shared with others. This library will also be accessible to other institutions through the Internet. Course module Adaptation sources Effort in Delivery Module (references) the method(s) Learning adaptation Time process Team-based product 13, 16

Conference Session

Academic Prerequisites for Licensure

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Howard Epstein

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Educationimplementing the policy. This paper gives some background, a broad overview of the TC report,the comments about it, and the status of the issue.BackgroundIn the 1950’s and early 1960’s, most five-year programs in existence were beingphased out as the engineering programs, in general, were reducing credit requirements.The reduction was accomplished by elimination of many skill courses (such asdrafting) and some courses were pushed back into high school. When this transitionwas taking place, many engineering educators justified the reduction in credits byarguing that a master’s degree would become

Conference Session

Unique Lab Experiments

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Brent Vaughn; Chiang Lin

Session 2526 Integrated Web-based Data Acquisition System in Civil Engineering Laboratories Brent M. Vaughn, P.E., Chiang Lin, Ph.D. Southern Illinois University EdwardsvilleIntroductionA hands-on laboratory education has been considered a necessary part of teaching assignments inundergraduate engineering education. Since the 1980’s, many changes have been made to theclassroom teaching due to the advancement of personal computers. In recent years, the usage ofweb-based technology has brought even more potential to improve teaching, especially invarious

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Raj Desai; Ted Loso; Dave Baird; Craig Downing; Gary Frey

2425 The Role of Design and Prototyping in Industry/Education Partnerships Gary S. Frey, David Baird, Ted Loso, Raj Desai, Craig Downing Southeast Missouri State UniversityIntroductionThe purpose of this continuing study was to determine if industry and educational partnershipsare effective ways to improve student learning and provide services that industry could otherwisenot afford. It was thought that Solid Modeling and Rapid Prototyping would be valuable inincreasing the translation between abstract 2-D drawings and actual 3-D parts. In

Conference Session

Tools of Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Hanus; Allen Estes

student s could predict the winner. The students are lead to the conclusion that the composite cylinders are in general plane motion and, although their total masses are roughly equal, their mass moments of inertia are not equal. Therefore, the mass moment of inertia of the composite cylinders will determine the winner and this property is calculated for each composite cylinder: 1. Weigh and calculate the mass of each component of the composite cylinders, 2. Calculate each component’s mass moment of inertia, · Solid core, I core = ½ mcore rcore (1) · Shell, I shell = m shell rshell (2

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Assessment Issues

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ottis Hoskins; Joni Spurlin; Jerome Lavelle; Sarah Rajala

and outcomes. The Assessment Plan is linked with the documents under the Curricular Issues button and the Implementation button; 3. The Related Data button has all of the related data organized by data type and referenced according to the program’s assessment plan; and 4. The documents which indicate how faculty have interpreted the data to determine program effectiveness and documents which show program improvement s can be found under the Program Effectiveness button. Program Program Assessment Implement- Curricular Related Program Home Objectives Outcomes Plan ation Issues Data Effectiveness

Conference Session

Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Wood; Jason Bartolomei; Dave Winebrener; Don Rhymer; Brian Self; Daniel Jensen

Bloom’s taxonomy. With respect to theKolb cycles, it also moves from “Abstract Hypothesis and Conceptualization” (text material) to“Concrete Experience” (non-interactive visualization) to both the “Reflective Observation” andespecially the “Active Experimentation” (interactive open-ended problem) parts of the cycle9.The courseware’s outline for each module follows the same four-part outline of :· Why study that particular module’s topic (e.g. “Bending”)· Visual Overview of topic· Example Problem and· Design ProblemThis structure organizes the content in a simple way to increase efficiency and learning. Contentis framed in terms of real world problems increasing motivation for learning. This is especiallytrue for MBTI “S” types7. Assumptions used

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engr. Educ. II

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2002 Annual Conference

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John DiMilia; Amitabha Bandyopadhyay

. Page 7.116.6Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationBibliography1. Clough, Richard H., Glenn Sears, S. Keoki Sears, Construction Project Management, 2000, pp. 156-176, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. New YorkBiographyAMITABHA BANDYOPADHYAY, Ph.D., P.E. is a professor and the chair of Architecture & ConstructionManagement Department at SUNY Farmingdale. Dr. Bandyopadhyay is a member of ASEE, ASCE, New YorkAcademy of Science and many other regional trade and professional groups. His teaching andresearch interest is in the area of construction engineering & management.JOHN DI MILIA is a

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Engineering Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Todd Rasmussen; Matt Smith; David Gattie

Maymester course is presented in Table 1 as an example of the topicsand location covered during the course.Table 1. Maymester 2002 Schedule.Date Location Topics(s) Lodging13 May Athens, GA Introductory Material Home14 May Athens, GA Introductory Material Home15 May Savannah River Site, Ground water monitoring, Magnolia Springs South Carolina environmental monitoring, State Park (SP), Carolina bays Millen, GA16 May Magnolia Springs, Stream gauging, water

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2002 Annual Conference

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Dean Smith; Jeffrey Franzone; Thomas Slack; Alan Proffitt

available online at: http://www.mhhe.com/engcs/compsci/forouzan/dcn/ Page 7.36.4[4] Cisco 805 RouterHardware Installation Guide, Cisco Systems Inc., 1999. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationTHOMAS B. S LACKMr. Slack is Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering Technology at the Herff College of Engineering at TheUniversity of Memphis. He has 22 years of industrial experience in the areas of computers and networktechnology. He has his BSE in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Hackworth

Dominion University in the ElectricalEngineering Technology senior elective course EET 420 Advanced Logic Design has indicatedthat students have a better understanding of how the Boolean AND, OR, Invert, XOR and XNORoperations are performed. As a result, students typically make fewer errors in reducing andmanipulating Boolean expressions.Bibliography1. Norman J. Block. Abstract Algebra with Applications. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall (1987): 1-5.2. Hackworth, John R. Advanced Logic Design. An unpublished manuscript (1995): 3-1 thru 3-8.JOHN R HACKWORTHJohn R. Hackworth is Program Director for the Electrical Engineering Technology program at Old DominionUniversity. He holds a B. S. Degree in Electrical Engineering Technology and a Master of

Conference Session

To Design and Conduct Experiments

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen McClain

,acting in the vertical direction with no drag resistance, a projectile fired at an angle θ with agiven initial velocity, v, will travel a horizontal distance, s, equal to v 2 sin (2θ ) s= (5) gThe students tested the potato gun on a flat section of a farmland owned by the parents of one ofthe students. They measured the distance each potato traveled using a measuring wheel. Theangle with which the potatoes were fired was determined by measuring the rise, H, and the run, Lof the barrel. Substituting for the angle in the above equation and solving

Conference Session

Freshman Success/Retention Strategies

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Blowers

the entire class. The results from this analysis are shown in Figure 6. 1) Rank the topics that we covered this semester from most useful to least useful? Give a brief description of why you ranked the topics this way. 2) What aspects of the course were most beneficial for you this semester? 3) What topics would you choose to include in this class? 4) Describe one activity that we could do in class that would make one of the topics more informative/more exciting than it was this semester. 5) What common theme(s) did you notice throughout the semester that tied the topics together? Figure 5 - A final open-ended course evaluation by the students. In Figure 6, a lower score means that students

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students for Success

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein; Robert Drew; Matthew Walker; Karl Rink; Dan Gerbus; Dan Cordon; Edwin Odom

Works (IEWorks or IEW),12 was developed at the University of Idaho underthe guidance of Dr. Edwin Odom in 1994. This group was molded after Kelly Johnson’s designof the Skunk Works13 at Lockheed in the 1940’s. Today, IEWorks consists of students involvedin the Mechanical Engineering senior capstone design classes, graduate student mentors, andseveral faculty members involved in engineering design. This paper will focus on the graduatestudent experience in IEWorks.The IEWorks graduate students are funded as capstone senior design team mentors and, inaddition to the typical course load, work together on various projects to challenge the student todevelop these softer skills. With these daunting challenges, much time is spent by the student towork

Conference Session

Cross-Section of Construction Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Osama Abudayyeh

Technology, NISTIR 5536, 1994.2. “The Challenge of the 90’s,” Civil Engineering Magazine, American Society of Civil Engineers, October, 1990.3. Sheehan, J., “Dilemmas Facing Construction Education and Research in 1990s,” Discussion, Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, American Society of Civil Engineers, Volume 117, Number 4, 1991, Pages 795-797.4. Tener, B., “Industry-University Partnerships for Construction Engineering Education,” Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, American Society of Civil Engineers, Volume 122, Number 4, 1996.BiographyOSAMA ABUDAYYEH. Dr. Abudayyeh is currently an associate professor of Construction Engineering atWestern Michigan University. He was a

Conference Session

Practice/Industry Partnership

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Badger; Geraldine Peten; Anil Sawhney

Baltimore, Maryland; majoring in Civil Engineering. § Michael Watson – A sophomore at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona; majoring in Construction. § CarmaLisa Washington – A freshman at El Paso Community College in El Paso, Texas; majoring in Architecture REU STUDENT(S) RESEARCH PROJECT FACULTY MENTOR/ PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORStephanie Barta and The Applicability of Autoclaved Aerated Cellular Concrete in Dr. Anil SawhneyGabriel Buttram