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NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shane A. Brown P.E., Washington State University; Devlin B. Montfort, Washington State University; Cara J Poor P.E., Washington State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

  I. ABSTRACTThis  paper  describes  work  in  developing  research-­‐based  curricular  materials  for  students’  conceptual  understanding  of  mechanics  of  materials.    The  work  will  begin  in  summer  2013,  and  the  paper  outlines  the  proposed  work  as  well  as  the  preliminary  research  efforts  supporting  the  launch  of  this  project.   II. INTRODUCTIONResearchers  have  known  for  decades  that  students’  conceptual  understanding  of  fundamental  engineering  and  science  concepts  starts  low  and  does  not  change  significantly  after  traditional,  lecture-­‐based  education1-­‐6.    Theoretical  and  empirical  research  in  conceptual  change  and

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Bijan Bayat Mokhtari; Ethan Wong; Aidan Murphy; Andy S. Zhang; Fritzpatrick Roque; Iem Heng

arnthe them latest to engineeringtechnologyusedintheindustryagain valuable practical experience in the process. Thanks to a grant from National SFoundation (NSF) Advanced Technology Education (ATE) division, in fall 201, a MechatronicsTechnology Center (MTC) was established in the department of mechanical engineertechnology department to introduce the latest mechatronics technology to themechanical engineering technology department as well as to the students in theengineering technology department. Many hands-on mechatronics designed projects havcreated for students to learn the latest robotic/mechatronics technology either

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Mathematics Division Technical Session 4

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rebecca Bourn, Tribeca Flashpoint Media Arts Academy; Sarah C. Baxter, University of South Carolina

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Mathematics

students who don’t define themselves asmathematicians, but whose careers require what we will call “mathematical intuition” to supportthe use of technology in solving problems and to anticipate a correct solution.The goal of this paper is to describe a project-based learning experience that has the potential tohelp students build their mathematical intuition by requiring them to formally estimate within thesolution process. By requiring estimations, the project becomes open-ended; students understandthat their answers are not exact, or ‘right’, but are still valid. Framing the project as one thatcorresponds well to students’ sense of what one ‘does’ in their discipline provides a greaterdegree of student autonomy in completing the project because

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Instrumentation Technical Session I

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Asad Yousuf, Savannah State University; Jarvis Brewer T, Savannah State University; Mohamad A. Mustafa, Savannah State University; Alberto G De La Cruz, Savannah State University; Faraz Muhammad Yousuf, 3D Imaging Developer

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Instrumentation

of Technology (Georgia Tech) this fall as an Electrical and Computer Engineering major. Yousuf specializes in basic computer programming, website design, computer graphics design, file mapping, and various other basic component of computers. Yousuf has attended various engineering seminars at Georgia Tech. and NASA, received the ”Best in Festival” award at the International Student Media Festival for website design, and was an intern at the local IT company Speros. During this wireless robot project, Yousuf was asked to create a 3D drawing of the with approximate dimensions. Using Solidworks, the 3D CAD drawing was completed in the duration of two days

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CEED - Technical Session 1

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chris Plouff, Grand Valley State University

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

different formsof involvement by the employer constituents, including course projects, senior capstoneexperiences/projects, and advisory boards. These directly address ABET‟s criteria that studentsare prepared for engineering practice through a curriculum incorporating appropriate engineeringstandards and multiple realistic constraints[2].IntroductionDemonstration that graduates of an engineering program have met the student learning outcomesa-k is required to be compliant with ABET expectations for accreditation. There are many waysthat the learning outcomes can be demonstrated, and most commonly is accomplished throughassessment of some course-related activity including homework assignments, exams,laboratories, and projects. Some of the learning

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Using Communication and Writing Techniques to Improve Student Learning

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Taryn Melkus Bayles, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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Chemical Engineering

chemical engineering programand completed their junior level courses in Transport Phenomena I (Fluids) and II (Heat and MassTransfer). As part of their Transport Phenomena II class, the students were given their originalfreshman engineering design reports and were required to provide an analysis of their design. Theanalysis assignment was two-fold: the students were required to submit a group report re-analyzingthe technical merits of their heart-lung design project and the students were required to submit anindividual reflection paper. The group report analysis included: significance of design criteria,engineering design process and theoretical analysis of data collected. The idea behind the reflectionassignment was to help the students clarify

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Capstone Design and Innovations in ECE

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John J. Burke P.E., Western New England University

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Electrical and Computer

are given table thatlists various costs such labor rates, use of the lab space, and an overhead rate. Thecreation of the budget is a pre-lab task. A post-lab task that is included in the lab report acost report. The cost report details the actual cost of performing the experiment andcomparing the actual costs with the predicted costs.The lecture-based courses all have at least one design project. Modifications were madeto the current design project to include the components that would typically be found in abusiness setting (for example, cost proposals). Students are required to bid on theproject. Students must submit a final report which includes the cost report – including ananalysis of the bid cost versus the actual cost. The professor

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Shahryar Darayan; David Olowokere; Xuemin Chen

85 ASSESSMENT AND CURRICULUM MODIFICATION INELECTRONICS ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM Shahryar Darayan David Olowokere Xuemin Chen Darayan_sx@tsu.edu Olowokeredo@tsu.edu Chenxm@tsu.edu Department of Engineering Technology 3100 Cleburne, Houston, Texas 77004 Abstract: The Electronics Engineering Technology at Texas Southern University has been actively involved with course embedded assessment techniques for more than nine years. The assessment project has spanned the engineering technologies programs, the

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Using graphics in the rest of the engineering courses

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard W Marklin Jr, Marquette University; Jay R. Goldberg P.E., Marquette University; Mark Nagurka, Marquette University

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Engineering Design Graphics

Scholar. Page 23.616.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Freehand Sketching for Engineers: A Pilot StudyAbstractThis paper describes a pilot study to evaluate Freehand Sketching for Engineers, a one credit,five week course taught to undergraduate engineering students. The short-term goal of thiscourse was to improve engineering students’ freehand sketching ability and to assess theirprogress with metrics. The long-term objective (desired learning outcome) of this course is toimprove the creativity and innovation of student design projects by enhancing students’ ability

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Robotics and Automation II

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Guanghsu A. Chang, Western Carolina University

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Engineering Technology

Manufacturing (CIM) class that is designed to teach students how tointegrate industrial robots into a production system; (3) for advanced level programming classesor other specific topics such as robotic simulation, and OLP, where robotic projects can be usedto facilitate real world experience for the students and motivate their interests in the varioustopics. Offline programming is the technique of generating a robot program with using a realrobot machine. This OLP method presents many advantages over the on-line method (Physicallyuse a robot teach pendent to generate a robot program): (1) robot programs are generated withoutinterruptions of robot operation, (2) removal of the students from the potentially dangerousenvironment, (3) there is a greater

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Track 3 - Session II - Faculty Development

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2013 ASEE International Forum

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Anna Friesel, Technical University of Denmark Ballerup Campus; Denis GENON-CATALOT, Grenoble Alpes University; Jean-Marc THIRIET, • Univ. Grenoble Alpes; CNRS, GIPSA-lab, F-38402 Grenoble; Michael Helmut Werner DUPE Hoffmann, Inst. of Microwave Techniques, University of Ulm, Germany

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Faculty Development

teaching in the area of Electrical and Information Engineering (EIE). She col- laborates regularly with universities in Europe and Latin America on topics related to improvement of engineering education. Her research interests include mathematical modeling, system dynamics, control theory, and educational methods in automation, robotics, and in engineering in general.Dr. Denis GENON-CATALOT, Grenoble Alpes University President of Assembly IUT’s Department Telecoms & Network leader Head of Department Telecoms & Network IUT -Valence Co-fonder of the LCIS research Lab in Valence LCIS project’s leader for the Arrowhead Artemis project European demonstrator for energy analytics Project leader for OSAmI ITEA 2 or the

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Building BIM into Construction Curricula

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kevin R. Miller, Brigham Young University; Clifton B. Farnsworth, Brigham Young University; Justin Earl Weidman, Brigham Young University

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Construction

engineering from the University of Utah. He worked as a geotechnical engineer for eight years with the Utah Department of Transportation, spent three years as an Assistant Professor of civil engineering at the University of Texas, Tyler, and has a current appointment as an Assistant Professor of construction management at Brigham Young University.Dr. Justin Earl Weidman, Brigham Young University Justin Weidman received his BS and MS degrees in Construction Management from Brigham Young Uni- versity and a PhD from Virginia Polytechnic and State University in Environmental Design and Planning Justin worked as a project engineer and project manager in the construction industry for 3 years. And has a current appointment as a

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The D/M/A of CE

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Linda Barrington, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Emmanuelle Reynaud, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Ella Willard-Schmoe, University of Massachusetts Lowell

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Community Engagement Division

onecourse with S-L, with between 25 and 30 faculty practicing each year. Over 50 separate courseshave incorporated S-L, with 30 to 35 courses offered per year, providing 1,100 to 1,750 studentS-L experiences annually, for over 1,000 unduplicated students per year out of a totalundergraduate enrollment of over 1,700 students (2011.) Thirty-eight community basedorganizations (CBOs) and over 1,000 individuals with disabilities have been served from the cityof Lowell to Peru, with about 15 to 20 CBOs and 80 to 100 individuals reached any given year.MethodologyThe approach has been to expose College of Engineering students to S-L, primarily through theintegration of S-L engineering projects into core required courses. Students who wish to extenda

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Integrating Curriculum and Labs in Engineering Technology Programs

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Marshall, University of Southern Maine

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Engineering Technology

c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 A Laboratory Based, Problem Solving Pedagogy Prepares Engineering Technology Graduates To Succeed on the JobAbstractOur advancing world of computer integration, process control, industrial automation,and telecommunications requires technical problem solvers and knowledgeabledecision makers. “The activities of problem solving and decision making are closelyintertwined”,1 and both skills can effective be learned through project based capstonecourses. The lab based problem solving environment is organized into clusters. Theseclusters are equipped with components such as computers, printers, programmablelogic controllers, sensors, pneumatic valves

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ETAC/ABET RELATED OUTCOME BASED ISSUES

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Wesley L. Stone, Western Carolina University; Guanghsu A. Chang, Western Carolina University

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Engineering Technology

Education, 2013 An Evolving Capstone Course used in ABET AssessmentAbstractThe Department of Engineering and Technology at Western Carolina University (WCU) hasdeveloped a capstone design course sequence that provides students with industry-relevantprojects, while generating an excellent opportunity to assess many of the ABET (AccreditationBoard for Engineering and Technology) student outcomes, commonly called “a through k.” Inits sixth year the two-semester course sequence sees a healthy list of projects that provide cross-functional opportunities for teams composed of undergraduate students in EngineeringTechnology (ET), Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology (ECET), and ElectricalEngineering (EE).Each of the capstone projects

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2013 ERC

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Rosemarie D Wesson

frontiers of research and innovation. EFRI Office provides opportunities in interdisciplinary areas at the emerging frontiers of research and innovation that (a) are transformative, (b) address national needs/grand challenges, and (c) will make ENG unrivaled in its global leadership. EFRI- In One Slide• MANDATE - Serve a critical role in helping the Directorate for Engineering focus on important emerging areas in a timely manner. – COMMUNITY DRIVEN - Engages the research community (through DCL) and ENG/NSF PDs to identify and fund a portfolio of projects in strategic emerging interdisciplinary areas that may not be supported with current NSF programs and in which ENG researchers

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Robotics, Mechatronics, and Control Systems - Multidisciplinary Perspectives

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Li Tan, Purdue University, North Central; Jean Jiang, Purdue University, North Central

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

, tomeet the requirement of our ME curriculum; and the second part deals with control systemtheory and applications to meet the requirement of our EE curriculum.The designed multidisciplinary course uses the following strategies: theoretical development,software simulation assignments, and case study projects with real-world applications usingMATLAB/Simulink. Furthermore, we carefully design the case study project for the feedbackcontrol system portion so that EE students and ME students minoring in EE are able to constructand test the project in their laboratory course using a LabView platform.The paper is organized as follows. First, the course prerequisites, course content, and teachingmethods will be explained. Second, the outcomes of students

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Software Engineering Pedagogical Approaches

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jon A Preston, Southern Polytechnic State University; Sushil Acharya, Robert Morris University

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

what is learned in courses and applying these softwareengineering processes within the context of real software development projects. The key issue asdocumented by previous studies is how to capture both the conceptual ideas of softwareengineering processes while at the same time (or in following semesters) implementing theseconcepts successfully within software development projects. Typically, the processes are taughtin one course with minimal implementation within a project; at the same time, softwaredevelopment courses emphasize the development with little to no formal utilization of processes.This is not a criticism of faculty; it is simply a very difficult task to cover both the processes andimplementation in a cohesive manner. Covering

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Kurt McMullin; Thalia Anagnos; Jan Hustler; Nancy Thomas

, the IHE partner (Institution of Higher Education)9. Initially, the Project Managementteam was hesitant in their expectations that the project would be able to contribute to this goal.However, as the project evolved, it became evident that the IHE faculty was implementingimproved pedagogical practices in their teaching.To achieve their objectives, the Partnership for Student Success in Science (PS3) worked towardthree goals, targeted primarily at the K-8 schools but related to work at the IHE: 1. Raise the overall science achievement in all PS3 schools and narrow the achievement gap between lower-performing, high-priority schools and their higher performing counterparts. 2. Improve the capacity of pre-service and in-service

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Beyond the Classroom: Summer and Scholarship Programs to Engage Minorities

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Wenshen Pong, San Francisco State University; Nilgun Melek Ozer, San Francisco State University; Hamid Mahmoodi, San Francisco State University; Hao Jiang, San Francisco State University; Cheng Chen, San Francisco State University; A. S. (Ed) Cheng, San Francisco State University

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Minorities in Engineering

university collaborated to developthe Summer Engineering Institute (SEI), which targets female students and underrepresentedethnic minorities. Funded by a grant from the US Department of Education, the SEI is a two-week residential summer camp that offers students the opportunity to gain insight into theengineering profession and the engineering educational system through a combination oflectures, hands-on laboratory activities, field trips, workshops, panels, and projects. The programalso aims to provide students with the skills and resources needed to be successful collegestudents. This paper presents the results and lessons learned from four years of implementationof the SEI, and how the program has succeeded in enhancing interest in engineering

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Jin-Lee Kim

Framework for Sustainability Practices in Construction Education Curriculum using BIM Jin-Lee Kim, Ph.D., P.E., LEED AP BD+C Department of Civil Engineering & Construction Engineering Management, California State University Long Beach, 1250 Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach, CA 90840 - U.S.A Email: jinlee.kim@csulb.eduAbstractThis paper presents a framework to develop a unique and innovative virtual approach in order todeliver sustainability practices using Building Information Modeling (BIM) technology forundergraduate students and implement it as a new hands-on laboratory- and project-based coursein the

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Capstone Design Courses and Tools in support of Systems Engineering Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Xiaojing Yuan, University of Houston (CoT); Heidar Malki, University of Houston (CoT); Xiaohui Yuan, University of North Texas

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Systems Engineering

Paper ID #8146Developing System-Thinking Oriented Learning Modules of Networked Mea-surement Systems for Undergraduate Engineering CurriculumProf. Xiaojing Yuan, University of Houston (CoT) Dr. Xiaojing Yuan is Associate Professor in the Computer Engineering Technology program of Engineer- ing Technology Department. She is the founder and director of the ISGRIN research lab and actively incorporating undergraduate research activities as part of final project requirements in several undergrad- uate junior and senior level courses dealing with sensors, instrumentation, and microprocessor hardware and software. Her research

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Simulation and Programming

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Guanghsu A. Chang, Western Carolina University; Wesley L. Stone, Western Carolina University

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Manufacturing

CAD/CAM knowledgeand promote creativity and innovation. In the last two years, almost 40 students in our programwere involved robotic workcell design projects. In general, all of the students are givenfoundational manufacturing and design concepts, principles, and methodologies of theengineering disciplines during their first two years. MET students have to finish their study ofMaterial Processing I (MET 177), Computer Aided Drafting (MET 142), and productdevelopment and design (MET 144) courses before they are accepted by the program (see Figure1). Page 23.159.3 Figure 1 - MnSU MET program of study

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New Concepts for Alternative and Renewable Energy Courses

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig J. Hoff, Kettering University; Jennifer Aurandt, Kettering University; Matthew R. O'Toole, Kettering University; Gregory W. Davis, Kettering University; Steven Nartker, Kettering University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

23.10.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Motivating Student Learning Using Biofuel-based Activities AbstractStudent learning is greatly enhanced when students are intrinsically motivated by the subjectmatter. For many students the topic of biofuels appeals to their intrinsic desire “to make adifference” with respect to the environment. At Kettering University an interdisciplinary groupof engineers and scientists have found success in motivating students by introducing biofueltopics into the classroom and by offering undergraduate research and project experiences.Through these experiences students are learning both the fundamentals of their disciplines anddeveloping an understanding of the

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Mechanical Engineering (ME) Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Raghuram V Pucha, Georgia Institute of Technology; Tristan T. Utschig, Georgia Institute of Technology; Steven Y. Liang, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Mechanical Engineering

knowledgeprovides learners with a relevant context in which new information can be integrated [7].The undergraduate “Machine Design” course taught in many engineering universities isprimarily focused on teaching the fundamentals of designing mechanical elements for meetingengineering specifications, functionality and failure. It is a content-intensive course in generaland traditionally taught with information based lectures and textbook problem solving, andstudent’s learning is tested with time-bound tests and exams. Teaching the Machine Designcourse using some hands-on activities, projects and case-studies have been reported in theliterature [8-12].In this paper, prior knowledge supported process oriented approaches on students learning in the“Machine

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Materials

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mohamad Dyab, University of Maryland Eastern Shore; Payam Matin, University of Maryland Eastern Shore; Yuanwei Jin, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore

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Mechanical Engineering

Paper ID #6544Providing Learning Opportunities by Designing a Split Hopkinson PressureBarMr. Mohamad Dyab, University of Maryland Eastern Shore Mohamad Dyab currently works at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) on a research project on modeling and simulation of wind turbines for structural health monitoring purposes. Mr. Dyab received his Undergraduate Degree with Honors in Engineering with a Mechanical Engineering Special- ization from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) in December 2012. For his senior design project, Mr. Dyab designed and fabricated a working prototype of a small-size Hopkinson

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NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Spencer Seung-hyun Kim, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST)

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Outstanding Teaching, RIT’s premiere teaching award. Dr. Kim has directed numerous undergraduate research projects and undergraduate and graduate research competitions in the 2012 GPEC (Global Plastics Environment Conference; Division of Society of Plastics Engineers). Page 23.1268.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013Transforming Undergraduate Curriculum for Green Plastics Manufacturing Technology (GPMT)Student-Centered Learning and POGIL ApproachAll learning involves knowledge construction in one form or another; therefore, it is aconstructivist process.1,2

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Cheng Chen; Jose Valdovinos; Frank Sanchez; Nelly Avramova; Hector Santillano; Robert Hartsock

Engaging Undergraduate Students into Advanced Earthquake Engineering Research Cheng Chen, Jose Valdovinos, Frank Sanchez, Nelly Avramova, Hector Santillano and Robert Hartsock School of Engineering, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CAAbstractPreparing undergraduate students for advanced studies is critical to enhance engineeringeducation for future American workforce. This paper presents the engagement of undergraduatestudents into a two-year BRIGE project funded by National Science Foundation. The researchproject aims to establish a reliability assessment approach for real-time hybrid simulation withthe presence of actuator delay during

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The Civil Engineering Technologist and the Civil Engineer – What’s the Difference?

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harry G Cooke P.E., Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST); Todd Dunn, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST); Scott B. Wolcott P.E., Rochester Institute of Technology

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Civil Engineering

complex projects after their first year of work, • Ability of graduates later in their careers to take the lead role in directing design work, as well as manage project budgets and clients, and • Ability of graduates to assume similar responsibilities at similar points in their career, as well as possess the educational and design experience needed for licensure. Table 1 – Overview of Survey StatementsCategory: Preparedness and abilities of new graduates during first year of workStatements: • Have the necessary knowledge in fundamental engineering subjects (e.g. statics, strength of materials, etc.) to start career. • Have

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Teaching - Best Practices

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bimal P. Nepal, Texas A&M University

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Manufacturing

engineering Page 23.536.2technology and equivalent programs), they are more interested in hands-on examples than in 1theoretical stuffs. In other words, Technology students typically want to hear more about theimmediate applicability of the curriculum where as pure Engineering students may be equallyinterested in the theory behind an application. Therefore, most of the graduate courses nowadayshave a project component in it to provide the students with the exposure to real world problems.While this is certainly a key to boost their knowledge and skills of