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Size, Civility, and the Classroom Culture: Setting Class Tone with a Student-centered Perspective

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Jenny L Lo, Virginia Tech; Kacie J. Hodges PE, Virginia Tech Dept of Engineering Education; Wm. Michael Butler, Virginia Tech; Tamara Knott, Virginia Tech

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Diversity

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New Engineering Educators

means to better prepare students for industry. He is a Senior Member of AIAA and a member of ASEE. Michael is also a co-inventor on two patents relating to air vehicle design.Prof. Tamara Knott, Virginia Tech Tamara Knott is Associate Professor of engineering education at Virginia Tech. She is the Course Coordi- nator for one of the three first-year engineering courses offered by the department and also teaches in the graduate program. Her interests include assessment and pedagogy. Within ASEE, she is a member of the First-year Programs Division, the Women in Engineering Division, the Educational Research and Meth- ods Division, and the Design in Engineering Education Division. She is also a member of the Society of

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Industrial Engineering Division Technical Session 3

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Angelica Burbano, Universidad Icesi

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Engineering (2003- 2007), Director of the graduate program in Industrial Engineering ( August 2012 – August 2014), and she is currently the IE Department Head. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Integrated Curriculum Design for an Industrial Engineering Program in Latin AmericaAbstractThe Industrial Engineering Department at Universidad Icesi led a systematic review of theIndustrial Engineering (IE) undergraduate program curriculum. Universidad Icesi at Cali,Colombia is a private institution recognized among the best universities in the country. Thecurriculum review and design was conceived as part of the IE undergraduate program’scontinuous improvement process and

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The Intersection of Higher Ed and Industry

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Mitchell L. Springer PMP, SPHR, Purdue University - West Lafayette; Mark T. Schuver, Purdue University - West Lafayette

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Continuing Professional Development

- cle Management Certificate Programs for working professionals. Prior to joining Purdue in 2002, Mark was employed by Caterpillar, Inc for 35 years with assignments in Product Design, Research and De- velopment, Supplier Management, Quality Management, Logistics Management and various leadership positions. He holds an Associate Degree in Drafting Technology from North Iowa Area Community College, a BS in Business Administration and MS in Management from Indiana Wesleyan University. Mark is a member of the American Society for Engineering Education and serves on the Executive Board of the Continuing Professional Development Division. He is also a member of College/Industry Partner- ships, Engineering Technology and

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Electromagnetics & Power Education

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Nurhidajat Sisworahardjo, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga; Ahmed Eltom P.E., University of Tennessee, Chattanooga; Abdul R. Ofoli, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga; Edward H. McMahon P.E., University of Tennessee, Chattanooga

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Chemical Engineering. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Tennessee. He has nineteen years of industrial experience in industrial process and product development in the detergent, paper, and packaging industries. He teaches capstone design, value engineering and engineering economy at the undergraduate level, and technical innovation and advanced engineering economy in the graduate Engineering Management program. His research interests include product development, technical innovation, entrepreneurship, and design. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 A Comprehensive Approach to Power Sector Workforce DevelopmentAbstractThe University

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Multidisciplinary Efforts in Upper-level Courses

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Michael S Thompson, Bucknell University; Andrew Ciotola, Stadler Center for Poetry, Bucknell University; Daniel Mancusi, Bucknell University; Mark Yerger, Bucknell University; Adam B Gegg

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

Paper ID #14939The Bucknell Poetry Path App Experiment: A Collaboration Across CampusProf. Michael S Thompson, Bucknell University Prof. Thompson is an associate professor in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Bucknell University, in Lewisburg, PA. While his teaching responsibilities typically include digital design, computer engineering electives, and senior design, his focus in the classroom is to ignite passion in his students for engineering and design through his own enthusiasm, open-ended student-selected projects, and connecting engineering to the world around them. His research interests

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Using a Real-Options Analysis Tutorial in Teaching Undergraduate Students

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John A. White Jr., University of Arkansas

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Engineering Economy

elective for industrial engineering majors andis occasionally taken by graduate students. The prerequisite for AdvEngEcon is EngEcon. As such,several students are juniors, but the majority are seniors.As taught for many years, AdvEngEcon typically began with a review of material covered inEngEcon: annual worth, future worth, present worth, and rate of return methods of comparingmutually exclusive investment alternatives, after-tax comparison of investment alternatives underinflationary conditions; and replacement analysis. Additional material in AdvEngEcon included: costestimation; capital planning and budgeting; break-even, sensitivity, and risk analysis; decisionanalysis; analytic hierarchy process; and real options. The textbook adopted for the

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Understanding the Military Veteran's Human Resource Needs - Transition from Military Service to the Engineering Profession

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Anthony W Dean, Old Dominion University; Connor Schwalm, Old Dominion University; Patrick Sean Heaney, Old Dominion University; Linda Vahala, Old Dominion University; Yuzhong Shen, Old Dominion University; Jennifer Grimsley Michaeli P.E., Old Dominion University

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Military and Veterans Constituent Committee

career Dr. Dean was Director of Operations and Business De- velopment for Clark-Smith Associates, P.C., and served as an Electrician in the US Navy aboard the USS South Carolina and the USS Enterprise.Mr. Connor Schwalm, Old Dominion University Connor Schwalm earned his B.S. in Physics from Old Dominion University in 2014. Currently, he is an Graduate Student in the Engineering Management and System Engineering Program at Old Dominion University working towards his M.E. in Systems Engineering with an expected graduation of August 2016. Currently, he works as a Graduate Research Assistant for Dr. Tony Dean on Stern2STEM, a pilot program to increase the student veteran population and retention rates in STEM disciplines

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Developing an Academic Framework Supportive of our Military Veterans

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Vukica M. Jovanovic, Old Dominion University; Anthony W Dean, Old Dominion University; Carol L Considine, Old Dominion University; Karina Arcaute, Old Dominion University; Petros J Katsioloudis, Old Dominion University; Mileta Tomovic, Old Dominion University; Thomas B. Stout, Tidewater Community College; Connor Schwalm, Old Dominion University; Jennifer Grimsley Michaeli P.E., Old Dominion University; Yuzhong Shen, Old Dominion University

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Military and Veterans Constituent Committee

recognizing it as an important tool for buildingresilience to climate change impacts such as increased heavy rainfall and heat island effect. Eachagency committed to taking specific action to promote green infrastructure including but notlimited to: creating alliances, providing community assistance, funding, training, development ofmetrics to assess performance of green infrastructure, and promotion best practices. (Federal) The City of Norfolk, the Green Infrastructure Center Inc. and Old Dominion Universityhave collaborated on a National Fish and Wildlife Federation Grant titled “Developing a GreenInfrastructure Plan and Network for the Lafayette River Network”. As part of the project OldDominion University will provide a training program

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NSF Grantees Poster Session I

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Yanna Lambrinidou, Virginia Tech; Nathan E Canney, Seattle University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #14567Professional Formation of Engineers’ Conceptions of ”the Public”: Early-Concept Exploratory ResearchDr. Yanna Lambrinidou, Virginia Tech Yanna Lambrinidou is a medical ethnographer and adjunct assistant professor in the Science and Technol- ogy Studies (STS) program at Virginia Tech. For the past 8 years, she has conducted extensive research on the historic 2001-2004 Washington, DC lead-in-drinking-water contamination. This work exposed wrongdoing and unethical behavior on the part of engineers and scientists in local and federal government agencies. In 2010, Dr. Lambrinidou co-founded the graduate level

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International Division Poster Session

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Anna Sukhristina, Kazan National Research Technological University; Artem Bezrukov; Julia Ziyatdinova

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International

problemthe cluster faces is the need for successful approaches for Asia. The reason is that efficientpractices for Europe had poor effect in Asia-Pacific as different intercultural aspects andvarious details had to be considered to ensure success.This paper describes new practices which have been implemented to solve this problem. First,a Russian research university engaged in research for the cluster was selected as a site whichhelps the cluster with challenging process of internationalization. Next, a representative officeof this Russian university was established in Vietnam to balance cultural, linguistic,psychological, and administrative issues. This office employs Vietnamese graduates of thisuniversity and coordinates cooperation between

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Retention Programs for Diverse Students

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Abbie B Liel P.E., University of Colorado, Boulder; Eva Leong

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ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering, Women in Engineering

95.8 Others## Others includes non-white students who are not classified as underrepresented.Survey design and disseminationThe survey described in this paper was distributed to both undergraduate and graduate students.We recruited participants studying civil or architectural engineering at U.S. universities. Thesurvey targeted students with at least junior standing, to ensure that they had substantialengineering-related course experiences. At the graduate level, we targeted solely studentspursuing degrees in the area of structural engineering.The web-based survey was designed according to best practices in survey design, in terms ofvisual arrangement, types, and organization of questions and compatibility with multiple webbrowsers13

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Social Responsibility and Social Justice I: Pedagogical Perspectives

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Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines; Juan C. Lucena, Colorado School of Mines

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

). Dr. Leydens won the James F. Lufkin Award for the best conference paper—on the intersections between professional communication research and social jus- tice—at the 2012 International Professional Communication Conference. In 2015, he won the Ronald S. Blicq Award for Distinction in Technical Communication Education from the Professional Communica- tion Society of the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). His current research focuses on rendering visible and integrating the social justice dimensions inherent in three components of the engineering curriculum—in engineering sciences, engineering design, and humanities and social science courses. That research, conducted with co-author Juan C

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Innovative Approaches to Ethics Instruction

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shawn Bowers, Gonzaga University; Ellen M. Maccarone, Gonzaga University; George D. Ricco, Gonzaga University

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Engineering Ethics

 issues of societal impact having to do with cultural issues, accessibility issues, computing and public policy, the impact of free and open­source software, and so on. The authors argue that one approach for introducing such topics into a curriculum is through capstone projects, e.g., that develop products to serve the  1, 2, 7, 8​public good. A number of authors​  have developed “best practices” for teaching computer science ethics. Best practices typically involve the use of case studies, hands­on exercises, role­playing, discussion sessions, written assignments, and project work.    2​ Quinn​  surveyed 50 ABET accredited computer­science departments (out of 200 programs at

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Innovative Teaching

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Oscar Antonio Perez, University of Texas - El Paso; Pedro Arturo Espinoza, University of Texas - El Paso; Hugo Gomez, University of Texas - El Paso; Mike Thomas Pitcher, University of Texas - El Paso; Randy Hazael Anaya, University of Texas - El Paso; Herminia Hemmitt, University of Texas - El Paso; Hector Erick Lugo Nevarez, University of Texas - El Paso

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Computers in Education

Paper ID #15087Year Two: Analysis of 3-D Technology Impact on STEM-based Courses;Specifically, Introduction to Engineering CoursesMr. Oscar Antonio Perez, University of Texas - El Paso Mr. Oscar Perez received his B.S. and Masters in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at El Paso with a special focus on data communications. Awarded the Woody Everett award from the American Society for engineering education August 2011 for the research on the impact of mobile de- vices in the classroom. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Mr. Perez has been teaching the Basic Engineering

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Design throughout the Mechanical Engineering Curriculum I

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John Carmine Vaccaro, Hofstra University; Kevin C. Craig, Hofstra University; Alexander Hans Pesch, Hofstra University

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Mechanical Engineering

, model-based design with a balance between theory and industry best practices. He collaborated extensively with the Xerox Mechanical Engineering Sciences Laboratory (MESL), an offshoot of Xerox PARC, during this time. At Rensselaer, he graduated 37 M.S. students and 20 Ph.D. students, and authored over 30 refereed journal articles and over 50 refereed conference papers. In 2006 at RPI, he received the two highest awards conferred for teaching: the RPI School of Engineering Education Excellence Award and the RPI Trustees’ Outstanding Teacher Award. Over the past 20 years, he has conducted hands-on, integrated, customized, mechatronics workshops for practicing engineers nationally and internationally, e.g., at Xerox

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Understanding the Military Veteran's Human Resource Needs - Transition from Military Service to the Engineering Profession

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Military and Veterans Constituent Committee

sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Dr. Lord is a fellow of the ASEE and IEEE and is active in the engineering education community including serving as General Co-Chair of the 2006 Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference, on the FIE Steering Committee, and as President of the IEEE Education Society for 2009-2010. She is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Edu- cation. She and her coauthors were awarded the 2011 Wickenden Award for the best paper in the Journal of Engineering Education and the 2011 Best Paper Award for the IEEE Transactions on Education. In Spring 2012, Dr. Lord spent a sabbatical at Southeast University in Nanjing, China teaching and doing research

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International Division Technical Session 2

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Ivan E. Esparragoza, Pennsylvania State University; Uladzislau Ivashyn, Pennsylvania State University

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International

focuses on the analysis of designated andemergent leaders during the project26.Project-based learning is associated with increased student satisfaction, skills development, andlong-term retention of material27. In engineering education, it is an effective mode in which toteach design28 and can closely model engineering practice: in a typical course, teams ideate,design, and prototype an engineering product. The types of skills developed in project-basedcourses, including teamwork, communication, and self-directed research, are congruent withbroader professional goals for graduating engineering students. Finally, current accreditationguidelines for U.S. schools require a capstone design course for all engineering programs26.Therefore major U.S

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Electrical and Computer Division Poster Session

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Lauren E. Donohoe, Department of Electrical Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University ; Julio Urbina, The Pennsylvania State University - University Park; Tim Kane, The Pennsylvania State University - University Park; Sven G. Bilén P.E., The Pennsylvania State University - University Park

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Electrical and Computer

Paper ID #16754Developments in the Teaching of Engineering Electromagnetics for Improve-ment in Student Interest and UnderstandingMs. Lauren E. Donohoe, Department of Electrical Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University Lauren Donohoe received B.S. Degrees in both Electrical Engineering and Physics from the Pennsylvania State University in 2014. She is currently a M.S. student in Electrical Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. During her graduate studies in electrical engineering, she researched and implemented teaching meth- ods to stimulate interest in students. She chose to perform education and

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Information and Network Security

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Pat Smith, Oklahoma Christian University of Science and Arts

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Computing & Information Technology

course. Students will developa detailed and practical understanding of network system and protocol implementations. Anancillary goal is to reinforce certain software engineering principles in the area of codegeneration (as highlighted section 3 of the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge [4].Lectures provide instruction in 3 main topic areas including (1) A model for Large-scaleNetwork Architecture Design [5]; (2) Network System Architectures and Design [2] [3]; and (3)Software Engineering Topics as they impact the development of the router.The primary goal of the labs is to provide students with an opportunity to begin the week’s workwith the instructor present to answer questions and clarify the week’s development requirements.The three

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Circuits & Systems Education I

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jason McGuire, Sonoma State University; Farid Farahmand, Sonoma State University

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Electrical and Computer

was primarily based onquantitative questions with the last question asking for student comments and suggestions. Wenote that this is an ongoing project and in order to fully understand its learning impact more datais required. All of the students taking the capstone project attended the workshop. Almost all of thestudents felt IoT, LAMP, and Data Visualization were important concepts that they should befamiliar with before they graduate and seek employment. On average, participating studentsspent 12 hours working on the assigned exercises, as described in Section 3, outside of theworkshop. The majority (81 percent) of students expressed that the introduction to MySQL andPHP Section in the workshop should be expanded by a few more hours

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SDR & Programming in ECE Education

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Wesley G. Lawson, University of Maryland, College Park; Stephen Secules, University of Maryland, College Park; Shuvra Bhattacharyya, University of Maryland, College Park, and Tampere University of Technology; Ayush Gupta, University of Maryland, College Park

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Electrical and Computer

. Recktenwald, Gerald W. and David E. Hall, “Using Arduino as a Platform for Programming, Design and Measurement in a Freshman Engineering Course,” ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition. Vancouver, BC. June 26-29, 2011. American Society for Engineering Education.6. https://www.raspberrypi.org/7. http://www.cs.uml.edu/~fredm/papers/martin-chanler-blackfin-handy-board-2007.pdf8. http://www.technologyreview.com/view/514036/beaglebone-black-a-makers-dream/9. Lawson, W., Bhattacharyya, S., Gupta, A., Elby, A., and S. Secules, “An application-driven introductory C programming language course for freshman using the Raspberry Pi - methods and results,” NSF Envisioning the Future of Undergraduate STEM Education: Research and Practice

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First-Year Issues in ECE Education

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jonathan Backens, Christopher Newport University; Anton Riedl, Christopher Newport University; C. Gerousis, Christopher Newport University; Dali Wang, Christopher Newport University

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Electrical and Computer

the overall number ofgraduates as shown in Figure 3, with the trend steadily increasing. The aberration in year 2015 iscaused by several students’ decision to stay a semester longer in order to complete a secondmajor. Thus the data from year 2015 should be looked together with the data from year 2016.The overall retention rate (from freshmen to senior) has thus risen to be on par with the nationalaverage for engineering majors.ConclusionsEarly results from retention data and graduation rates have shown that reorganizing first-yearengineering students’ experience and redesigning the first-year introduction to engineeringcourse have had a positive impact on our students’ attitude toward the engineering discipline.Students had more fun with the

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Faculty Unite! Effective Ways for Educators to Collaborate Successfully

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gouranga Banik, Oklahoma State University

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Diversity

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New Engineering Educators

engineering technology (E and ET) programs are part of STEM, inmany cases E and ET faculty have different academic backgrounds and job responsibilitiescompared to other branches of STEM. E and ET faculty often require industry experience withthe highest academic degree, and have higher teaching and research loads. Faculty are requiredto do a number of things that graduate school and/or industry practice don’t teach them, such asplanning and delivering courses effectively, designing and starting a research program togetting it funded, attracting and managing graduate students and undergraduate students, findingand working with appropriate faculty or industrial collaborators, writing assignments and teststhat are both rigorous and fair, dealing with

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New Trends in ECE Education II

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Ronald F. DeMara, University of Central Florida; Navid Khoshavi, University of Central Florida; Steven D. Pyle, University of Central Florida; John Edison, University of Central Florida; Richard Hartshorne, University of Central Florida; Baiyun Chen, University of Central Florida; Michael Georgiopoulos, University of Central Florida; Ronald F. DeMara, University of Central Florida

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roles awayfrom low-value repetitive tasks towards those having more significant impacts on learningoutcomes. Focusing on the quality of education, skills, and employability of our graduates incomputing-related fields, this work proposes a cost-effective approach to integrate computer-based evaluation with a close-knit review and learning cycle based on directed and open tutoringto collectively form the EPC.3.1 Need for Online EvaluationThe EPC helps maintain and increase the learning quality for current and future CECSenrollments. For example, at the researchers’ institution, undergraduate CECS enrollment hasincreased by 37.4% from 5,375 in Fall 2010 to 7,383 in Fall 2014, with further similar increasesanticipated for the foreseeable future

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Institutional Capacity and Supportive Structures in Engineering Education

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Emily E Liptow, California Polytechnic State University; Katherine C. Chen, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Robin Parent, California Polytechnic State University; Jaclyn Duerr, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Dylan Henson, California Polytechnic State University

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majors at our university. Studentsparticipated in team-building activities that prompted research into their engineering majors andcareer options. In Week 3, we organized an industry career panel with a diverse mix of recruitersand alumni that currently work as engineers. The students asked questions about the panel’s pastcollege experiences, internships, graduate school, and careers. Students also had the opportunityto practice their “60 second pitches” with the panel members to help prepare for a career fair.Throughout the quarter, we incorporated activities that addressed global perspectives ofengineering, current events, and social justice. In Week 4, we collaborated with an EthnicStudies faculty member and her students from a Gender, Race

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Automation, Instrumentation, and Computer Simulations

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Thomas E. McDermott, University of Pittsburgh; Renee M. Clark, University of Pittsburgh

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

). Rank analysis of covariance. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 62(320), 1187- 1200.32. Lawson, A. (1983). Rank analysis of covariance: alternative approaches. The Statistician, 32(3), 331-337.33. Sullivan, G., & Feinn, R. (2012). Using Effect Size-Or Why the P Value is Not Enough. Journal of Graduate Medical Education, 4(3), 279-282.34. Kotrlik, J., Williams, H., & Jabor, M. (2011). Reporting and Interpreting Effect Size in Quantitative Agricultural Education Research. Journal of Agricultural Education, 52(1), 132-142.35. Cohen, J. (1987). Statistical Power Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., 24-27, 40.36. Salkind, N. (ed.), 2010, Encyclopedia of Research

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Gabriel Parmer; Rahul Simha; Chris Toombs; Poorvi Vora; Timothy Wood

2016 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 8-9, 2016 GWUwith their results. A key component of any senior design course is that students enhance theirability to learn and apply computer science concepts independently.Road show. Finally, the “road show” phase focuses on presenting the project in a number ofmediums and venues. This includes posters presented at an end-of-year CS showcase and forparents leading up to graduation; and a final, eight minute presentation of their project to a broadaudience (we invite other faculty, alumni, and all CS students) with an emphasis on giving ahigh-level motivation and description of what was accomplished. Throughout the year, weschedule practice presentations for the students all with the aim of culminating

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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 4A: Retention Programs and Strategies

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Meg Harkins, University of North Carolina - Charlotte

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First-Year Programs

. R. Kelly, "Grit: Perseverance and Passion for Long-Term Goals," J. of Personality and Social Psychology, vol. 92, no. 6, pp. 1087-1101, 2007.[11] A. Duckworth and P. Quinn, "Development and Validation of the Short Grit Scale," Journal of Personality Assessment, vol. 91, pp. 166-174, 2009.[12] The Key to Success? Grit. [Performance]. 2013.[13] S. A. Sorby, "Educational Research in Developing 3-D Spatial Skills for Engineering Students," International Journal of Science Education, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 459-480, February 2009.[14] N. Veurink and A. Hamlin, "Spatial Visualization Skills: Impacts on Confidence and Success in An Engineering Curriculum," Vancouver, B.C., 2011.[15] S. Metz, D. Matt and P

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Retaining and Developing Women Faculty

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gretchen L. Hein, Michigan Technological University; Daniela Faas, Harvard University; Anne M Lucietto, Purdue University; Jacquelyn Kay Nagel, James Madison University; Diane L Peters P.E., Kettering University; Rebecca M. Reck, Kettering University; Mary C. Verstraete, The University of Akron; Deborah J. O'Bannon P.E., University of Missouri, Kansas City

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ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity, Engineering Deans Council

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Engineering and Public Policy, Women in Engineering

Paper ID #15210The Changing Role of Professional Societies for AcademicsDr. Gretchen L. Hein, Michigan Technological University Gretchen Hein is a senior lecturer in Engineering Fundamentals at Michigan Tech. She have been teaching ENG3200, Thermo-Fluids since 2005. She also teaches first-tear engineering classes. She has been active in incorporating innovative instructional methods into all course she teaches. Her research areas also include why students persist in STEM programs and underrepresented groups in engineering.Dr. Daniela Faas, Harvard University Dr. Faas is currently the Senior Preceptor in Design Instruction

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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 2B: Strategies for Writing and Communication Courses

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Penny Kinnear, University of Toronto; Micah Stickel P.Eng., University of Toronto; Brian M. Frank, Queen's University; James A. Kaupp, Queen's University

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First-Year Programs

-based practice paper reports on the first trial of two language screening anddiagnostic instruments at two research intensive institutions, the University of Toronto in a largecity and Queens University in a mid-sized city, partly in response to the growing linguisticdiversity of the student body. The universities chose to use the Diagnostic English LanguageNeeds Assessment (DELNA) jointly developed by the University of Auckland and theUniversity of Melbourne, both of which had similar student demographics to the Canadianuniversities. DELNA has two parts, a screening and a diagnostic. The screening comprises avocabulary section and a speed reading section that screen for academic vocabulary knowledgeand academic literacy. The diagnostic is a