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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Seda Yilmaz, Iowa State University; Kathryn Jablokow, Pennsylvania State University; Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan; Eli M. Silk, University of Michigan; Meisha Nicole Berg, Iowa State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Paper ID #8808Investigating impacts on the ideation flexibility of engineersDr. Seda Yilmaz, Iowa State University is an Assistant Professor of Industrial Design who teaches design studios and lecture courses on devel- oping creativity and research skills. For her research, she investigates design approaches and ideation, ethnography in design, foundations of innovation, creative processes, and cross-disciplinary design team dynamics. She is the author of more than 20 peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. She also serves on review, advisory, and scientific boards of various journals and conferences. Her

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Ocean and Marine Division Technical Session 1

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Radian G Belu, Drexel University (Tech.); Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University (Tech.)

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Ocean and Marine

electrical engineering, electronics and computerengineering, or system design, etc.. First we focus on the word objectives and criteria and ask thestudent to write a paragraph stating the objectives, principles, and the decisive factors to reachthe stated objectives. The second step is conceptualization and laying down the foundation forhow to achieve the stated objectives. The students are encouraged to draw a block diagramshowing different components of the system they want to design. A set of questions are posed tostudents to further understand the task at hand. These are typical questions:• What are the input signals to system and, what are their characteristics and magnitudes?• Do the inputs require signal conditioning?• Do the inputs

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Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 4

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Madeleine C Brannon, George Washington University ; Zoe Szajnfarber; Thomas Andrew Mazzuchi, George Washington University

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Systems Engineering

Engineering course forfirst semester freshman at George Washington University. Herein is described the planning andimplementation of the course, the student feedback, and the lessons learned.II. Curriculum DesignIn planning for the course, a review of what peer universities were attempting was conducted. Alist published by INCOSE in July 2013 of the Systems Engineering programs was used to deriveprograms for undergraduate students. Several universities were contacted from the INCOSE list,Table 1 represents the information obtained from these universities on methodologies. Inaddition to the responses below, 6 universities reported that they did not have an introduction toSystems Engineering course. The list is by no means comprehensive but gives a

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Student Learning, Problem Solving, & Critical Thinking 2

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amy Elizabeth Bumbaco, University of Florida; Elliot P. Douglas, University of Florida

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Educational Research and Methods

Paper ID #9382A thematic analysis on critical thinking in engineering undergraduatesMiss Amy Elizabeth Bumbaco, University of Florida Amy Bumbaco is a PhD candidate in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at University of Florida, USA. She is working on engineering education research as her focus. Her current research interests include first year engineering education, critical thinking, qualitative methodologies, and peer review. She received her BS in Materials Science and Engineering at Virginia Tech. She founded an ASEE student chapter at University of Florida and is currently an officer of the

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Sustainability and Hands-on Engineering Education

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paula Ann Monaco, Texas Tech University ; Audra N. Morse, Texas Tech University

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Environmental Engineering

-course heldduring the program. SHWYF offers two sessions for students entering grades 8-11th and 4-7th. Page 24.438.4TTU provides a high school outreach program in Brazil comprised of a full-English curriculum,consisting of American high school courses such as literature, writing, history, economics,government and public speaking10. As the program expands, students travel to the United Statesfor a three week summer experience that includes enrollment in mini-courses administered bythe SHWYF program. Brazilian students range from grades 9th-12th with a majority being firsttime visitors to the United States.Table 1: Number of students attending

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Evaluation of Ethical Development

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jill L. May, Illinois Institute of Technology; Alan Mead, Illinois Institute of Technology; James Kemp Ellington, Illinois Institute of Technology

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Engineering Ethics

, structural equations modeling, meta-analysis, research methods, and statistical analysis. He sits on the editorial board for Journal of Business and Psychology and the Journal of Computerized Adaptive Testing. Since 1989, he has published over 80 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and conference presentations. Prior to joining the faculty at IIT, he spent several years as a consultant, research scientist, and psychometrician. Dr. Mead received his Ph.D. in psychology from University of Illinois-Urbana in 2000 with a concentration on I/O psychology and a minor concentration on quantitative psychology.Dr. James Kemp Ellington, Illinois Institute of Technology Dr. Kemp Ellington is an assistant professor in the

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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Garrick A. Aden-Buie, University of South Florida; Autar Kaw, University of South Florida; Ali Yalcin, University of South Florida; Ram Pendyala, Arizona State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Paper ID #9042Prof. Ram Pendyala, Arizona State University Ram M. Pendyala is a Professor of Transportation Systems in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment at Arizona State University. His expertise lies in the study of human activity-travel behavior, sustainable mobility strategies, public transportation systems, and the land use, travel, energy, and air quality impacts of a wide range of transportation policies and technologies. Dr. Pendyala has conducted more than $5 million in sponsored research and published nearly 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. He serves on the editorial boards of a number of journals including Transporta- tion, Transport Reviews, Journal of

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Models of community engagement practices

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeffrey Scott Bates, University of Utah; Karen J. Krapcho, University of Utah; Crystal Orantes, University of Utah

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Community Engagement Division

found that students are more likely to beretained and graduate if they have a supportive peer group, social involvement, a good attitudetoward engineering, and pre-college analytical skills1-4. The Engineering Ambassador Programaims to provide retention and more engineering graduates through all of these means. It does soby creating a community of engineering students who work together to recruit high schoolstudents to the field of engineering by providing them with awareness of engineeringopportunities, academic advice, and analytical skills through hands-on activities. This programalso benefits the ambassadors as it engages them in a learning community experience, which isknown to provide their participants with practical competence, personal

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Nanotechnology

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mangilal Agarwal, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis; Maher E. Rizkalla, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Sudhir Shrestha, IUPUI; Hazim A El-Mounayri, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Kody Varahramyan, IUPUI

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

number of local companies in the areas of CAD/CAM, CNC machining, and process development/improvement. Dr. El-Mounayri is a member of ASME, ASEE, and SME. He has published over 75 technical papers in renowned peer-reviewed journals and technical conferences in his Page 24.697.1 field and gave presentations at various national and international conferences.Dr. Kody Varahramyan, IUPUI c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Paper ID #10093Dr. Kody Varahramyan received his Ph.D. in Electrical

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Track 3 - Session 1

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2014 ASEE International Forum

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Morgan M. Bakies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Karen Seliah Lamb, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Student Development

represented and promoted by the internationalorganization Junior Association for Development in Europe (JADE), established in 1992.According to the 2012 European Commission study of 2,500 recent college graduates, JEstudents obtain full-time employment after graduation more quickly than their peers due to theirbetter developed skills in adaptability, creativity, networking, and analysis.4 Junior Enterprisestudents are intrinsically motivated to take an active role in their education as engineers throughproject-based learning.At UIUC, Junior Enterprise gives students an opportunity to hone their skills outside oftheoretical instruction with experiential learning. The founders of UIUC’s Junior Enterprisebelieve that engineering students need more

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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Christine Haas, Engineering Ambassadors Network; Karen A. Thole, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Melissa Marshall, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Joanna K. Garner, Old Dominion University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

. Dr. Thole has published over 180 peer-reviewed archival journal and conference papers and advised over 50 theses and dissertations. She founded the Experimental and Computational Convection Laboratory (ExCCL) which is a Pratt and Whitney Center of Excellence for heat transfer. She is a Fellow of ASME and serves as the Chair of the Board of Directors for the International Gas Turbine Institute, as the Chair of the ASME - ME Department Head Executive Committee, as a member of the Vision 2030 Committee, and as the Chair of ASME’s Committee on Honors. She has been recognized by the U.S. White House Champion of Change for recruitment efforts in STEM and by Penn State’s Rosemary Schraer Mentoring Award.Ms. Melissa

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Advances in CAD with Emphasis on Dimensioning

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Holly K. Ault Ph.D., Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Linjun Bu; Kejiang Liu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Engineering Design Graphics

software and were able to justify the strategies they used during the experimental lab.As in the Johnson study17, the graduate students were instructed to build the part shown in Figure2, with half of the class instructed to model based on speed and efficiency and the remaining halfof the class instructed to build a robust, flexible model that would accommodate design changes.Students were given one hour to complete the initial model, and completion times were recorded.In the second part of the lab, the students were asked to make design changes as shown in Figure8. Unlike the Johnson study20-23, the second phase of the lab utilized parts that were modeled bythe instructor rather than models created by their peers. Half of the students in each

Conference Session

Student-Centered Information Literacy

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marian G. Armour-Gemmen, West Virginia University; Robin A.M. Hensel, West Virginia University; Mary L. Strife, West Virginia University

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Engineering Libraries

employed different media,PBL was used in each session. Felder and Brent7 (2003) discuss the lifelong learning componentof the ABET standards as well as the importance of PBL. Detlor8 (2012) writes that PBL oractive learning type methods, “challenge students to actively engage with information andresources to solve problems and create knowledge.” Both Dochy9 (2003) and Prince10 (2004)stress the importance of PBL or Active Learning in engineering education. Prince and Felder11(2007) provide an overview of different aspects of inductive teaching and learning. AlthoughPrince and Felder (2007) argue that PBL does not a have a “statistically significant effect onacademic achievement as measured by exams,” this current analysis found a

Conference Session

Evaluation of Ethical Development

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Qin Zhu, Purdue University; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University; Megan Kenny Feister, Purdue University; Patrice Marie Buzzanell, Purdue University; William C. Oakes, Purdue University; Alan D. Mead, Illinois Institute of Technology

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Engineering Ethics

Paper ID #10060Dr. Alan D. Mead, Illinois Institute of Technology Alan D. Mead, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the Illinois Institute of Technology where he teaches individual differences, psychometrics, structural equations modeling, meta-analysis, research methods, and statistical analysis. He sits on the editorial board for Journal of Business and Psychology and the Journal of Computerized Adaptive Testing. Since 1989, he has published over 80 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and conference presentations. Prior to joining the faculty at IIT, he spent several years as a consultant, research scientist, and psychometrician. Dr. Mead received his Ph.D. in psychology from University of Illinois

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Architectural Design Topics in Architectural Engineering

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Cherif Megri, North Carolina A&T State University

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Architectural

: those in the upper 75 percentile, those in the 50 – 75 percentile and those below the 50 percentile populations. Thus the assessment results compiled are based on course performances and grades, exams, projects, presentations of students, and writings as required in some courses. Furthermore, each course specifically addresses the learning outcomes and relation between the course and the Program outcomes, the methods used for the evaluation of students’ performance and the relevance of the course materials to the Program outcomes following the standards adopted for the assessment process.  Students will be provided with the course descriptions including learning objectives and outcomes

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The Nature of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Session 4

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Michael Ferguson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University and Central Queensland University; Kathryn Jablokow, Pennsylvania State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

University and a Professorial Re- search Fellow at Central Queensland University. He has degrees from Swarthmore College, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the University of Florida. His research on the longitudinal study of engineer- ing students, team assignment, peer evaluation, and active and collaborative teaching methods has been supported by over $12.8 million from the National Science Foundation and the Sloan Foundation and his team received Best Paper awards from the Journal of Engineering Education in 2008 and 2011 and from the IEEE Transactions on Education in 2011. Dr. Ohland is past Chair of ASEE’s Educational Research and Methods division and a member the Board of Governors of the IEEE Education Society

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Impact of Community Engagement on Communities

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carlos German Montoya Rodriguez, Ohio State University; Mariantonieta Gutierrez Soto, The Ohio State University; Roger Dzwonczyk, The Ohio State University; John A Merrill, Ohio State University; Howard L. Greene, Ohio State University; Miriam Cater, Ohio State University

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Community Engagement Division

Engineer (PE) PUBLICATIONS 51 Peer-reviewed journal publications 74 Conference presentations 9 Short papers 10 PatentsDr. John A Merrill, Ohio State University Dr.Merrill is Associate Director of the Engineering Education Innovation Center at Ohio State University.Dr. Howard L. Greene, Ohio State University Page 24.188.1 Howard Greene is a Senior Project Manager and Research Specialist at the Ohio State University (OSU) who directs K-12 Education Outreach for the College of Engineering. Dr. Greene has built capacity in several aspects of Humanitarian Engineering (HE) through the Engineering Education

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Materials Division Technical Session 1

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen J. Krause, Arizona State University; Dale R Baker, Arizona State University; Adam R Carberry, Arizona State University; Terry L. Alford, Arizona State University; Casey Jane Ankeny PhD, Arizona State University; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University; Bill Jay Brooks, Oregon State University; Cindy Waters, North Carolina A&T State University; Brady J. Gibbons, Oregon State University; Sean Maass; Candace K. Chan, Arizona State University

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Materials

evidence-based (or nontraditional) teaching methods . She serves as the College of Engineering liaison to ASEE and advises the Society of Women Engineers student chapter and leads the students in developing and implementing yearly outreach events for the K-8 female community. She is author of many peer-reviewed conference proceeding for the ASEE Annual Meetings and the FIE meetings.Prof. Brady J. Gibbons, Oregon State University Dr. Brady Gibbons is an Associate Professor of Materials Science in the School of Mechanical, Industrial, & Manufacturing Engineering at Oregon State University. His research specializes in structure-process- property relationships in multifunctional thin film materials. His group focuses on

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ala A. Qattawi, Automotive Engineering Department at Clemson University –International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR); Paul J. Venhovens, Clemson University; Johnell Brooks, Clemson University

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Design in Engineering Education

results, rather it highlights the tools needed to reach them; 3)revision and assessment plans. The evaluation process can include self, peer, student tofaculty, and faculty to student assessments to ensure that the learning objectives are met; 4)promoting participation and involvement through proper social organization of the studentsgroups, faculty, and public community. The students’ groups and forums should bestructured to promote participation. The participation should provide structure for thenecessary roles and interaction needed for project completion, which may include mentoringroles of faculty, mentoring and/or advising from industry professionals and even studentsgroups.Ayas and Zeniuk [7] suggested two additional elements for PBL model

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DEED Melange

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Wang, University of California, Berkeley; Alice Merner Agogino, University of California, Berkeley

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Design in Engineering Education

and methods; MEMS synthesis and computer-aided design; artificial intelligence and decision and expert systems; and gender/ethnic equity. Dr. Agogino has authored over two hundred peer-reviewed publications in these subject areas. She is a member of AAAI, AAAS, ASEE, ASME, AWIS, NAE and SWE and served as Chair of the AAAS section on Engineering (2001-2002). She serves on the editorial board of three professional journals and has provided service on a number of governmental, professional, and industry advisory committees, including the NSF Advisory Committee for Engineering, Engineering Directorate, (1991-96, Chair 1996-97); Guidance Committee of the ”Removing Barriers to Collaborative Research” project of the

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Multidisciplinary Capstone Design

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael P. Frank, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering; Kamal E. Amin, Florida A&M University/Florida State University; Okenwa I. Okoli, Florida A&M University/Florida State University; Sungmoon Jung Ph.D., FAMU-FSU College of Engineering; Robert A. Van Engelen, Florida State University; Chiang Shih, Florida A&M University/Florida State University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

department, who then assigns the student’s final overallcourse grade based on this information and other factors, such as peer review data and varioussmaller, department-specific assignments that may be associated with each individual course.Current Year’s Interdepartmental Projects Table 2 below lists the Senior Design projects this year that involve students (and facultycoordination/advising) contributed by multiple engineering departments at our College, out ofthe set: Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), Electrical and Computer Engineering(ECE), Mechanical Engineering (ME), and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (ME); theengineering departments that are currently involved in each project are indicated with an ‘X.’ The

Conference Session

Laboratory Experiences with Signal Processing and Controls

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University (Tech.); Yalcin Ertekin, Drexel University (Tech.); Radian G. Belu, Drexel University (Tech.)

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

for all the BSET majors. The course focuses on planning, development, andimplementation of an engineering design project, which includes formal report writing, projectdocumentation, group presentations, and project demonstrations. The goal of these courses is todemonstrate the ability to manage a major project involving the design and implementation ofproducts with a mixture of electrical and mechanical elements as a member of a productinnovation and/or development team. In these project-based courses, the students are expected toeffectively manage their time and team efforts to produce a working prototype of a product inthree ten-week quarters. Progress and formal reports, and oral presentations constitute integralcomponents of this course

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Innovative Techniques in Structural Engineering Courses

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew W. Roberts, University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Angela Marie Jones, University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Michael K. Thompson, University of Wisconsin, Platteville

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Civil Engineering

. Angela Marie Jones, University of Wisconsin–Platteville Angela Jones teaches First-Year English Composition / Rhetoric and Research Writing at UW–Platteville and adds Screenwriting to the above courses at the University of Dubuque. She has worked as a Tech- nical Writer & Editor at ENGEO, a geotechnical engineering company in San Ramon, CA. She takes special care to uphold brevity in most writing instances, and has led a writing workshop for engineers and geologists that tackles wordiness and related style issues.Dr. Michael K Thompson, University of Wisconsin, Platteville Keith Thompson is an associate professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Wisconsin

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Methodological & Theoretical Contributions to Engineering Education 3

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alice L Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Canek Moises Luna Phillips, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Educational Research and Methods

)? Reflect and memo. Memo: how does this help us think about answering our research questions? Consider: Memo on RCG lenses 7. A. how is my RCG (including intersectionally) operating here? (Word doc) B. how is RCG (including interjectionally) operating here? Of what is this a case? Write up short case of interview using insights from passes, memos (especially the ruling relations memos (step 4) and the TOC

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Gender Perceptions and Girls in K-12 Engineering and Computer Science

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christina Deckard, SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific; David Quarfoot, SDSU/UCSD; Kimberly C Csanadi

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

compriseabout 28% of the population, but their presence in nonacademic science and engineeringpositions is only about 9%[5]. Clearly, these groups represent large reservoirs of untappedpotential for new STEM professionals. We can no longer afford to waste the talent of two-thirdsof our increasingly diverse population. As stated in President Obama’s Executive Order No.13583[6]: “We are at our best when we draw on the talents of all parts of our society, and our greatest accomplishments are achieved when diverse perspectives are brought to bear to overcome our greatest challenges.”This important idea is extended in Peter Godfrey-Smith’s “Theory and Reality”, who writes thatsome female philosophers believe that “the experiences of the

Conference Session

Engineering Physics & Physics Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Warren A. Turner, Westfield State University; Glenn W. Ellis, Smith College; Robert J. Beichner, North Carolina State University

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Engineering Physics & Physics

-based, pedagogically appropriate approaches and curricula including Peer Instruction 6,Workshop Physics7, Real-time Physics8 and Studio Physics9.But, what about circular mechanics? Arnold Aron’s observes 10, “The kinematics of circular motionin a plane is usually glossed over very quickly because of the obvious parallelism to rectilinearmotion. For students who have genuinely mastered the concepts and relations of rectilinearkinematics, this is appropriate since unnecessary repetition would waste their time.” Thisphilosophical approach has pervasively infiltrated introductory textbooks. Whole chapters aredevoted individually to the topics of velocity, acceleration, etc. while all of rotational kinematicsand sometimes even dynamics are crushed

Conference Session

Engineering as a Professional Calling

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Qin Zhu, Purdue University; Brent K Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jian Yuan, Beihang University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, in the “program evaluator competency model”,ABET also emphasizes the professional competency of program evaluators, which mainlyencompasses professional ethics requirements for program evaluators as “professional peers”: “a.conveys professional appearance and demeanor, b. is committed to contributing and adding valueto the evaluation process, c. considered a person with high integrity and ethical standards, d.represents ABET and responsible technical society as a practicing professional, e. willing tomake observations to stimulate innovation and further the program's efforts toward continuousimprovement, f. shows professional respect for institution faculty and staff, g. upholds ABETcode of conduct at all times.”18In contrast, the CEEAA’s

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Student Beliefs, Motivation and Self Efficacy

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adam Kirn, Clemson University; Courtney June Faber, Clemson University; Lisa Benson, Clemson University

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Educational Research and Methods

wanted an in-depth un-derstanding of the specific ways students experience a phenomenon from their perspective26,25 .Initially, interview transcripts were analyzed to create units of relevant meaning28 . These units ofrelevant meaning were established and refined through peer review by the authors29,28 . Next, unitsof relevant meaning were clustered for each participant resulting in a set of themes. Another passwas conducted to further cluster units of relevant meaning based on themes and patterns acrossrespondents. Four common themes emerged across participants: ‘Future Career’, ‘Characteristicsof Future Career’, ‘Future Career’s Influence on Present Action’, and ‘Past/Present PerceptionsInfluence on Future

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Mechanical Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Trivett P.Eng., University of Waterloo

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Mechanical Engineering

thermodynamics students. WhileHeller et al. 8 have helped to clarify the language, they have also shown that the path to achievinggreater student engagement in engineering requires faculty providing an active learningenvironment and demonstrating genuine enthusiasm for the topic, as well as studentsparticipating more fully in activities, and interacting with peers and faculty. As faculty, we hopethat our enthusiasm for teaching leads to student engagement and learning. However, themethods and context need to suit the student’s background.Patterson et al. 9 have proposed that “…in order to attract and retain students in engineeringcourses, the courses must be taught in a context that is familiar to students…” They haveproposed a template based on five

Conference Session

Classroom Management

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

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New Engineering Educators

their progress through higher education focuses on the importance oflearning communities. Realizing the significance of such emotionally sustaining supportnetworks should alert faculty members to the need to seize on opportunities to assist theirdevelopment when these arise. A caring faculty can assist in bringing students closertogether through formation of learning partnerships, peer teaching, and sharing data andinformation with one another. It has been astonishing to see how working in collaborativedissertation groups has affected students. Long after their graduation, students recall themost significant aspect of their graduate program being the interpersonal learning and thedevelopment of collaborative sensitivity and mutual understanding