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Teaching Mechanical Systems: What's New

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ashok Kumar Manoharan, Auburn University; P.K. Raju, Auburn University; Chetan Sankar, Auburn University

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Mechanical Engineering

AC 2010-1369: USE OF MULTIMEDIA CASE STUDIES IN AN INTRODUCTORYCOURSE IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERINGAshok Kumar Manoharan, Auburn University Ashok Kumar Manoharan is a Doctoral Student in Mechanical Engineering at Auburn University. He received his B.S from Anna University, India in 2006. He has been working as a Graduate Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Mechanical Engineering course for the past two years. His research areas include Innovations in Teaching Engineering, Adoption techniques for Implementing new teaching methodologies.P.K. Raju, Auburn University P.K Raju is a Thomas Walter Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Auburn University and has more than 42 years

Conference Session

Developing Young MINDS in Engineering - Part II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University

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Minorities in Engineering

skills.The analysis for this study will include differentiation between three programs and minority andnon-minority students in a new study. To date over 90% of the students in these programs havebeen retained through graduation in engineering or computer science. Over 30% of the CCtransfers and 40% of the non-transfer students have gone on to graduate school.I. IntroductionArizona State University (ASU) is a large Research I university, the largest public university inthe United States with over 68,000 students on four campuses. The ASU Tempe campus is thelargest single campus in the nation with over 53,000 students. The Ira A. Fulton Schools ofEngineering is located on the Tempe campus with close to 4,000 undergraduate students and2,300 graduate

Conference Session

Assessment & Continuous Improvement in ET: Part I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carmine Balascio, University of Delaware; Thomas Brumm, Iowa State University; Steven Mickelson, Iowa State University

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Engineering Technology

student learning and assessment.Steven Mickelson, Iowa State University Steven Mickelson, Ph.D. is a Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering at Iowa State University (ISU). He is the Director of the ISU Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, Director ISU Learning Communities, Co-Director Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Department. He earned bachelor’s, M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Agricultural Engineering from ISU. His research focuses on the evaluation of agricultural best management practices for determining their effectiveness in reducing chemical and soil losses to surface water bodies. He also conducts research related to

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CE Capstone: Innovations in Learning & Assessment

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael McGinnis, University of Texas, Tyler; Ronald Welch, University of Texas, Tyler

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Civil Engineering

mustdefend their decisions at this time and receive feedback from both the client and theengineers. The clients give feedback on the success of the design in meeting initialvisions, and the engineers give feedback on the realism of the solution, solutioneffectivenss and practicality, and strengths and areas for improvement in the studentsdesign.2.4 Professional Plans Reviewed with Design Teams Post ProjectAn area of improvement that the UT Tyler CE Program is looking to incorporate in futureofferings is allowing students to review actual plans of their project produced by workingengineers. Using a real site enables this opportunity. The activity can be structured tosimulate a design review with a government agency, and students would see the

Conference Session

Exemplary Outreach Programs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Karen Davis, University of Cincinnati

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

) Individual brainstorming on pipe layout design; (b) completed design on CAD layout.3. Vision and Precision Allison Mayborg graduated from the University of Cincinnati in June of 2009 with a degree inMechanical Engineering. During her co-op terms at three different companies, she worked in variousindustries, roles, and locations. At L'Oreal USA Manufacturing, Allison worked in the packaging areafor shampoo and conditioner, running time studies and starting up a new packaging line. She then wentto work for Duke Energy in the generation maintenance service group. She provided technical supportfor capital projects at the coal fired power plants in the Midwest region. Her next assignment with DukeEnergy took her to Charlotte, North Carolina where she

Conference Session

Innovative Courses/Pedagogies in Liberal Education I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Deborah Sinnreich-Levi, Stevens Institute of Technology; Susan Metz, Stevens Institute of Technology; David Silverstein, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education

and Pank. He previously worked as a technical writer for a market research firm. Page 15.703.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Improving the Ability of Engineering Students to Communicate Their Technical Discoveries to Non-Technical AudiencesAbstract:The Engineer of 2020 identifies the ability to communicate as a key attribute of successfulengineers. ABET requires engineering schools to ensure students’ ability to communicateeffectively upon graduation. Yet traditionally, the ability to communicate has been interpretednarrowly, simply requiring students to convey technical information to

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cheryl West, UMass Lowell; John Duffy, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Manuel Heredia, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Linda Barrington, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Massachusetts Lowell is a National Science Foundation (NSF) funded programthat began as a curricular reform initiative designed to infuse S-L sequenced throughoutengineering curriculum. The strategic objective was to have at least one course with a S-Lproject each semester for students in a typical undergraduate degree sequence. This approachhas broad goals to promote development of better engineers, more engaged citizens, along withengineering the common good in communities. Extensive integration of S-L into core requiredengineering courses within five engineering departments: Chemical, Civil, Electrical,Mechanical, and Plastics, has provided various research opportunities to assess impacts of S-Lon students.The SLICE program began in the fall of 2004

Conference Session

Fulfilling the CE BOK2 - Case Studies

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth McManis, University of Louisiana

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Civil Engineering

and post-baccalaureate formal education as well as pre-licensure experience. Specific emphasis is giventhose BOK2 outcomes that previous survey data identified as being a challenge for manyprograms to address within current curricular design. The curriculum, as developed, isconsidered to be BOK2-complient, in addition to meeting current university graduation andABET/EAC accreditation requirements.IntroductionThe first edition of the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge for the 21st Century1 (BOK1) wasreleased in January 2004. Based on various inputs, a second edition of the Civil EngineeringBody of Knowledge for the 21st Century2 (BOK2) was developed and released in February 2008.The BOK1 has already impacted accreditation criteria and civil

Conference Session

Learning by Doing

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nicholas Melin, United States Military Academy; Richard Hallon, United States Military Academy; Joseph Hanus, United States Military Academy

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Civil Engineering

for transportation engineering education.By using the practical problem of designing a road and structuring the presentation of materialaround the student’s efforts, the authors aim at providing relevant experience to students that willprepare them for future challenges. As an end-state, it is hoped that teaching methods, as used inConstruction Management and the Introduction to Transportation Course, will facilitate thedevelopment of graduates who have reached the highest levels of Blooms taxonomy and are ableto synthesize, evaluate and characterize the efficacy of the construction methods they utilize. Page 15.416.16Bibliography1

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Developing Systems Engineering Curricula

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alice Squires; Robert Cloutier

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Systems Engineering Constituent Committee

a great deal of data has been collected and stored. However, only asmall subsection of this data has been analyzed or reviewed for applicability to general Page 15.531.1educational theory and specifically to systems engineering education research. One areathat remote education research consistently emphasizes is the importance of interactionsamong students and between the instructor and the students.4,5,16 In reference toasynchronous remote online course design research, Swan (2000) found: “…three (andonly three) course design factors that contribute significantly to the success of onlinecourses. These are a transparent interface, an instructor who

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Chiara Silvestri; Adriana Hera; Malcolm H. Ray; Siamak Najafi

enhance thestudents understanding of the engineering notions and to motivate them exploring alternativesolutions to practical problems. Two particular cases, involving instruction of undergraduate andgraduate level classes, are here depicted. Software packages for technical computing (MATLAB)and finite element analysis (ANSYS) served for development of classroom demonstrations andassignments in a matrix analysis of structures undergraduate course. Transient dynamic finiteelement program (LS-DYNA) and pre and post-processor (LsPrePost) were employed forillustration of wave propagation concepts taught in an impact strength of materials andcrashworthiness graduate class. To help students acquiring the necessary skills to effectively use these

Conference Session

Rethinking Traditional Pedagogical Strategies

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nicholas Massa, Springfield Technical Community College; Michele Dischino, Central Connecticut State University; Judith Donnelly, Three Rivers Community College; Fenna Hanes, New England Board of Higher Education

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Two Year College Division

jaundice?" ≠ Watt's my light? - The package on an energy-saving light bulb says the 26 watt fluorescent has the same light output as a 100 watt incandescent. Can Cal Poly Pomona students verify this statement? ≠ Of mice and Penn - UPenn McKay Orthopaedic Research Lab graduate students study the healing of tendon injuries using mouse tendons. Can optics provide a non-contact method for measuring mouse tendon properties? ≠ Hiking 911 - Two boys are lost in deep woods in rough terrain. Penn State Electro Optics Center (EOC) needs to recommend the best technology to locate them. ≠ Blinded by the Light – A man is arrested for blinding a pilot with a laser pointer. Is he innocent or guilty? Make your

Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Narayanan Komerath, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Aerospace

comments received by the students at their Undergraduate Research Opportunities posterpresentation are very revealing. The experienced viewers who came through commended the aptstrategy of using the ideal area distribution as a way to estimate minimum wave drag, and thenarguing that aircraft designers would come very close to this in the eventual design. They alsocommended the students for their success in “proving” that there is indeed a new market forsupersonic airliners, and strongly encouraged them to go forward, since they (the viewersincluding some former pilots of supersonic aircraft) were eager to see the age of supersonicairliners come alive. In sharp contrast, the “judges” who were mostly graduate students inengineering, proved to be

Conference Session

Innovations in Civil Engineering Education I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Angela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Civil Engineering

survey used for this research is presented in the Appendix.Questions 1 and 6 were used by Bramald and Wilkinson13, while the remaining questions werebased on the Kagawa45 study; questions 2, 3, 4, 5 were identical to Kagawa45 survey questionsand questions 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 were similar.Research Goals Page 15.803.5The goals of this study were to introduce sustainability into a required first year civil engineeringcourse and determine the impacts on the students. The unit on sustainability was coupled withan evaluation of student attitudes and perceptions of sustainability, measured using ananonymous written survey administered in-class and in-class

Conference Session

High School Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Todd Kaiser, Montana State University; Peggy Taylor, Montana State University; Carolyn Plumb, Montana State University; Howard Tenenbaum, La Jolla High School, San Diego Unified School District; Seth Hodges, St. Michael Indian School, St. Michaels, AZ

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

licenses. Taylor holds a BS in Biology with Chemistry minor, MS in Science Education, and Ed.D. in Curriculum and Instruction.Carolyn Plumb, Montana State University Carolyn Plumb is the Director of Educational Innovation and Strategic Projects in the College of Engineering at Montana State University. She works on various curriculum and instruction projects including instructional development for faculty and graduate students. She also serves as the college’s assessment and evaluation expert, currently evaluating the success of various programs and projects, including the Designing Our Community program, the Providing Resources for Engineering Preparedness program (funded by the U.S

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vladimir Genis, Drexel University; Michael Mauk, Drexel University; Yury Gogotsi, Drexel University; Dhruv Sakalley, Drexel University; James Hagarman, Drexel University; Holly Burnside, Drexel University

Shri Govindram Sekseria Institute of Technology and Sciences, Indore, M.P., India in 2006. After graduation, he warked for Tata Consultancy Services, India as a Web applications developer. Currently, he is a PhD student in the School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems at Drexel University with a concentration in Neuroengineering. He is a research assistant in the School of Technology and Professional Studies working on the NSF grant titled “Development of the Laboratory-Based Course in Lean Six Sigma Nanomanufacturing”.James Hagarman, Drexel University Page 15.422.1 Dr

Conference Session

Frontiers in Engineering Management

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew Czuchry, East Tennessee State University; Michael Parker, Bristol Tennessee Essential Services; Robert Bridges, B&W Y-12 Technical Services, LLC

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Engineering Management

model are illustrated in the minicase discussed in a later section of this article. Ways to tailor these results to EngineeringManagement education are suggested below.Implications for Engineering Management EducationShould Sustainability become an independent field or could Systems Engineering andEngineering Management become the integrating factors that achieve the overarchingsustainability objective? Recognizing that sustainability resources are trending in an acceleratedupward direction, graduate education and applied research programs may be encouraged toincrease emphasis here. Although positive in nature, such a change would be disruptive andnon-linear in nature. When viewed through a Performance Excellence lens, this challenge maybecome

Conference Session

Thinking, Reasoning & Engineering in Elementary School

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gerald Mora, New Mexico Tech; Ricardo Negron, WPAFB; Robert McGahern, DDR&E; Eugene Brown, Virginia Tech

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

institutions to make directconnections between the curricula and the practice of science and engineering.The motivation for such educational outreach programs is well known. Among the features thatsuch programs are designed to include are providing real-world exposure to the use of scienceand engineering for middle and high-school students, enhancing the technical literacy of thegeneral population, and increasing the number of U.S. citizens earning degrees in science andengineering.Two Air Force K-12 programs will be described. They are the Dayton Regional STEM CenterPartnership at the Wright Patterson AFB (WPAFB), OH, and the Air Force Research Laboratory(AFRL) La Luz Academy at the Kirtland AFB (KAFB), NM.The Dayton Regional STEM Center

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2010 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Dave Sly; Daniel Bumblauskas; Frank Peters

within the Industrial and ManufacturingSystems Engineering department (IMSE).Review of Sales and Marketing Positions for EngineersThe committee conducted a review of sales and marketing postings within the COE, on thenumber of advertised positions that had Sales or Marketing in their title or description, as well asthe number of graduates with Sales or Marketing in their job title. It was interesting to find thatwhile nearly 15% of job postings indicated Sales or Marketing functions, that only around 1% ofpost-graduation job titles included Sales or Marketing. This difference is attributed, in part, tothe fact that many students are not reporting their job title to career services, and also that it islikely that a sales or marketing position

Conference Session

Assessment & Continuous Improvement in ET: Part I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alberto Gomez-Rivas, University of Houston-Downtown; Lea Campbell, University of Houston, Downtown; George Pincus, University of Houston, Downtown

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Engineering Technology

completesurprise to many faculty and administrators.The parallel with industrial quality control can provide guidance regarding assessment todepartment chairs of engineering technology departments. Consider that you are in a plantmixing concrete and that you want to implement a quality control program for the product ofyour plant. To consider that implementation and continuous verification of the quality of theproduct can be performed at no cost is unreasonable. Research on this subject indicates that thecost of quality control in this type of facility is about six percent of the total cost of the product1.Standard practice in construction engineering is for the owner to hire an engineering firm thatwill be in charge of quality control to assure that the

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2010 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Stuart Kellogg

established, the actual measurementand ultimate impact on students is less clear. For example, mentoring/advising problems oftencited by students include the non-availability of faculty outside of the classroom, large sectionsizes taught by graduate assistants, too many courses taught by non-English speaking instructors,or simply the perception of being reduced to a number; e.g., one student of many. Althoughthese characteristics are often associated with larger research oriented universities and are not asprevalent on our campus, which has a stronger focus on undergraduate education, we are notimmune to similar concerns. Indeed, retention rates at our university, while competitive, arehardly exemplary. At the same time, while retention rates have

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Education: Upperclass Years

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lisa Bullard, North Carolina State University; David Ollis, North Carolina State University

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Chemical Engineering

: “Engineering programs must demonstratethat their graduates have…”ABET Criteria: Related Assignment:(f) an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility 4, 5(g) an ability to communicate effectively 1-6(h) the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering 3-5solutions in a global and societal context(i) recognition of the need for, and ability to engage in life-long learning 3-5(j) a knowledge of contemporary issues 4,5The course website structure appears in Table 3, which links the student to further resources inall key areas: syllabus and

Conference Session

Technology-Enhanced Learning

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Steven Cramer, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Robert Jeanne, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Moira Lafayette, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Michael J. Litkow, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Amber R. Smith, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Lillian Tong, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Continuing Professional Development

: ≠ Orientation workshops for instructors which highlight the background educational research, student survey data from previous semesters, and provide activities to practice writing open-ended higher-order thinking questions. These workshops built a community of users and provided more information to faculty about best practices in scientific teaching. ≠ Meetings between the instructors and the programmer to learn how the instructors would tag responses. Our team began with the idea of being able to quickly sort responses and provide feedback. After talking to faculty we found that there are many methods of sorting responses and different perspectives on the types of feedback that should be sent to

Conference Session

Exemplary Outreach Programs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kimberly Edginton Bigelow, University of Dayton

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

career motivators for girls and the messages that girls hear about Page 15.1024.3engineering. One of the most important motivators that help girls determine what field to go intois the ability to make a difference, yet their understanding of engineering comes from themessages they hear that engineering is challenging, difficult but rewarding, and uses math andscience to solve problems.5 If this perception can be changed through exposure to theengineering fields that best exemplify this ability to make a difference and impact lives, femalesmay be more likely to go into engineering.This paper discusses a service-learning outreach assignment

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Orla S. LoPiccolo

Teaching” 2nd Ed, San Francisco, Wiley 200912 Watkins, Gregory K. “Engineering Graphics: The Fate of Pencil, Paper, and the 2-D Drawing”13 Contero, Manual, et al. “Learning Support Tools for Developing Spatial Abilities in Engineering Design”14 Westmoreland et al. “Sketching During Mechanical Design: Studying Sketching at the University of Maryland”, ASEE National Conference 2009 AC 2009-157015 Evans et al. “Attributes of Engineering Graduates and Their Impact on Curriculum Design” 1993 American Society for Engineering Education. Reprinted from Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 82, No. 4, October 1993. Journal of Engineering Education16 McArthur, J. M., & Wellner, K. L. (1996). Reexamining spatial ability within a

Conference Session

Administering First-Year Programs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Caverly, Villanova University; Howard Fulmer, Villanova University; Sridhar Santhanam, Villanova University; James O’Brien, Villanova University; Gerard Jones, Villanova University; Edward Char, Villanova University; Frank Mercede, Villanova University; Pritpal Singh, Villanova University; Randy Weinstein, Villanova University; Joseph Yost, Villanova University

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First-Year Programs

semiconductor devices, electronics, and renewable energy and his research areas include solar cells, battery monitoring systems and electric vehicles.James O’Brien, Villanova University Prof. O’Brien is a faculty member in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He is the Coordinator for the New Freshman Program.Gerard Jones, Villanova University Dr. Jones is Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, where he has taught courses in heat transfer, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, computational fluid mechanics, and solar thermal analysis. Currently, he serves as associate dean for the 900-student undergraduate engineering program. His recent service-learning work on analysis and design of

Conference Session

Rethinking Traditional Pedagogical Strategies

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Frankie Santos Laanan, Iowa State University; Dimitra Jackson, Iowa State University; Soko Starobin, Iowa State University; Mary Darrow, Iowa State University

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Two Year College Division

AC 2010-1019: EDUCATING FUTURE ENGINEERS: ROLE OF COMMUNITYCOLLEGESFrankie Santos Laanan, Iowa State University Frankie Santos Laanan is associate professor and director of the Office of Community College Research and Policy at Iowa State University. His research focuses on the role of community colleges in serving as a pathway for women and minorities in STEM.Dimitra Jackson, Iowa State University Dimitra Jackson is a doctoral student and research associate in the Office of Community College Research and Policy at Iowa State University. Her research interests focuses on underrepresented students in STEM fields.Soko Starobin, Iowa State University Soko Starobin is assistant professor

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Canan Bilen-Green, North Dakota State University; Elizabeth Birmingham, North Dakota State University; Ann Burnett, North Dakota State University; Roger Green, North Dakota State University

administrators, who were concerned about the status of womenfaculty at North Dakota State University, prepared a proposal for the NSFADVANCEInstitutional Transformation grant1. The group, called FORWARD (Focus on Resources forWomen’s Advancement, Recruitment/Retention, and Development), sought to develop anunderstanding of the climate for women faculty at North Dakota State University. In order toincrease the participation of women at all faculty ranks, by changing institutional culture andpractices, this ad hoc committee collected and analyzed institutional data and conducted severalsurveys to document the present climate and understand institutional barriers to women’ssuccess. The committee researched relevant literature and best practices developed

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2010 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

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........................................................................................................................................... 76“The Dismantling of the Engineering Education Pipeline” Amelito Enriquez, Kate Disney, & Erik Dunmire .................................................................................... 88“Blending Contemporary Research in Sustainability and Fundamental Skills for Graduate Success into a Team Taught, Introductory Graduate Course”* Allison Kipple & Dieter Otte .................................................................................................................. 101“Remembering the Past to Inform the Future: Engineering and the Holocaust” Marilyn A. Dyrud.................................................................................................................................... 103Session RR: Recruitment and

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High School Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Douglas Oppliger, Michigan Technological University; Jean Kampe, Michigan Technological University; Valorie Troesch, Michigan Technological Univeristy

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

measurements. • Our Mission to be Green: The Arthur Hill H.S. DIPLOMATS are researching, designing, and constructing a Michigan Natural Green Spot, consisting of a variety of floral plants, vegetables, and shrubs along with a pathway in an 80 x 130 foot area on the school’s campus. It will provide an educational space for the students and a place for the community to visit. • Underwater Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) Competition: Utica Community Schools students participated in the annual MATE (Marine Advanced Technology Education) Underwater ROV competition. Preparation for this starts early in the school year and extends beyond the end of the year into the summer months. In 2009, the Utica team