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2001 Annual Conference

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Robert Baum; Karen Thornton; David Barbe

Session 3454 Campus Entrepreneurship Opportunities David F. Barbe, J. Robert Baum, Karen S. Thornton University of Maryland, College ParkAbstractThis paper discusses a new and unique undergraduate entrepreneurship program at the Universityof Maryland. - The Hinman Campus Entrepreneurship Opportunities (CEOs) Program. TheCEOs Program was initiated in the fall semester of 2000 for students interested in startingentrepreneurial ventures when they graduate. The University and its corporate partners providemany resources, activities, courses, technologies and services to assist the

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1998 Annual Conference

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Robert (Bob) M. Anderson

current situation is that many different software systems areavailable to deliver and administer instruction using the Internet (sometimes referred to below asWWW). Thirty different software systems are listed in Table I at the end of this manuscript.New systems seem to be announced weekly; some systems disappear mysteriously without atrace.An early adopter has a very difficult task to select which software system(s) to use. A list ofcriteria to be considered is presented in Table II at the end of this manuscript. (Table II isadapted from a private communication from Dr. M. Albright, Iowa State University.) My rankordered list of important factors is:1) Try to select a software system that will survive the shakeout in this industry that surely

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1998 Annual Conference

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Wayne Hager; Jacques Lesenne; Dominique Saintive; Richard Devon

newuniversity in northern France, but with roots that go back to the 17th century. It is composed offour campuses that until the early 1990’s were part of the University of Lille. Today, theUniversité d’Artois houses programs in engineering, engineering technology (2 year technicianprograms), and management at its Béthune location, in liberal arts and related disciplines at itscampus in Arras, in natural and applied sciences in Lens, and in law programs in Douaia. As anew university in the French system, it has a strong commitment to internationalism that is beingdirected from the Béthune location, and which initially focused on engineering and engineeringtechnology. In addition to the IUT, the Béthune location also includes an Institut

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1998 Annual Conference

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Zbigniew Prusak

become a more integral part ofengineering technology curricula.REFERENCES[1] Science and Engineering Indicators 1996. A National Science Board report by NSF.[2] Haeck, L.V.J.: “Multi-disciplinary ou le Genie Plus”, Proceedings of ASEE Zone 1 Meeting, Apr.25-26, 1997, West Point, NY, pp.9A3.1-9A3.9.[3] Schon, D.: “Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action.” Basic Books, 1983.[4] Butler, S.: “Labs’ labor lost in Japan”, U.S. News & World Report, June 9, 1997, pp.42-44.[5] Mickelson, S.K., Jenison, R.D., Swanson, N.: “Teaching Engineering Design Through Product Dissection”, Proceedings of ASEE Annual Conference, June 25-28, 1995, Anaheim, CA, pp.399-403.[6] Delatte, N.: “Toward Greater Use of

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Impact of Information Technology on Engineering Education (3215)

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1998 Annual Conference

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Tahar El-Korchi, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Paul P. Mathisen, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Frederick L. Hart, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Science by Tracing Differences in Cognitive Style Distribution", in The Social Psychology of Science, The Guilford Press (W.R. Shadish and S. Fuller: eds), Pp 300-314, 1994.8. Biographical InformationPAUL P.MATHISEN is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering atWorcester Polytechnic Institute. His areas of specialization are in environmental engineering and water resources.In addition to CE 1030, he teaches courses on topics relating to fluid mechanics, hydrology, and transport processesin the environment.FREDERICK L. HART is a professor and Head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering atWorcester Polytechnic Institute. His areas of specialization are in environmental engineering. In

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1998 Annual Conference

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Dava J. Newman; Amir R. Amir

Friedman, D., “Engineering Freshmen Through Advisor Seminars,” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 86, No. 1, 1997, pp. 29–34.[2] Wallace, D. and Mutooni, P., “A Comparative Evaluation of World Wide Web-Based and Classroom Teaching,” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 86, No. 3, 1997, pp. 211–219.[3] Regan, M., and Sheppard, S., “Interactive Multimedia Courseware and the Hands-on Learning Experience: An Assessment Study,” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 85, No. 2, 1996, pp. 123–130.[4] Crismond, D. and Wilson, D., “Designing an Evaluation of an interactive Multimedia Program: Assess MIT’s EDICS,” in Frontiers in Education, IEEE, 1992, pp.18–20.[5] Wankat, P. and Oreovicz, F., Teaching Engineering, McGraw-Hill, Inc. New

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1998 Annual Conference

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Anton Pintar

theSafety Committee). Under the present system the Safety Committee is asked to protect theidentity of the “perpetrator” for the first unsafe act. However, in order to preventaccidents, the Safety Committee is asked to report any repeat of the same unsafe act by thesame individual(s) to the laboratory supervisor or to one of the safety coordinators so thata positive corrective action can be taken.Student participation in the PAWS Program has varied. In the early years of the programapproximately fifteen to twenty PAWS Forms would be submitted during a typical quarter,most of them for equipment related situations and, in some cases, of a “nit-picking” nature.Most of the PAWS Forms were coming from the student Safety Committees. As theprogram evolved

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1997 Annual Conference

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Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre; Larry J. Shuman; Cynthia Atman; Harvey Wolfe

Impact on Engineering Curriculum Design,” Journal of Engineering Education, October 1993, pp. 203-211.9 Samson, Charles H. and James T.P. Yao, “TQM: Let’s Practice What We Teach,” Engineering Management Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3 (September 1990), pp. 51-57.10 Peachy, Burt and Daniel Seymour, “Voice of the Customer: Using QFD as a Strategic Planning Tool,” In Continuous Quality Improvement: Making the Transition to Education, edited by Dean L. Hubbard, (Maryville: Prescott Publishing Co.) 1993, pp. 281-301.11 Murray, Susan, “Credibility in Engineering Education,” 1995 ASEE Annual Conference, June 1995, pp. 1160-1162.12 Ermer, Donald S., “Serving the Customer - TQM in Mechanical Engineering,” 1993 ASEE Annual

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1997 Annual Conference

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Richard L. Marcellus

and problem solving skills is essential.• Yes, it brings real-world type problem solving skills into the classroom.• Yes, I agree with the purpose(s) that the design problems were geared towards. The problems made us think analytically, and outside the constraints of the textbook format.• Yes, I agree with the purpose. But the structure in order to ensure the purpose should have included presentations maybe.• Yes, they helped you apply course work to a real life situation.• Yes, it gave us a chance to look at practical problems and solve them to the best of our ability. There were not any right or wrong answers.• I was always confused as to the purpose of the projects.• Yes. These problems did give us as engineering

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1997 Annual Conference

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Charles H. Dowding; Joseph J. Biernacki

Chemistry 1 0 Geology 5 1 Materials Science 3 0 Others 2 1 Unknown 8 0* Average of 69 applicants who reported GPA with application. Page 2.257.12Hicks, M. D., Katz, J. S., “Where is Science Going?” Science, Technology, & Human Values, v21, n4,p397(28), (Autumn 1996).Dahir, M., Educating Engineers for the Real World - Survey of Engineers’ Education Experience,Technology Review, v96, n6, p14(2), (August

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1997 Annual Conference

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Justin R. Chimka; Karen M. Bursic; Cynthia Atman

ConferenceProceedings, 1996.[27] AitSahlia, Farid, Eric Johnson, and Peter Will, "Is Concurrent Engineering Always a Sensible Proposition?"IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, vol. 42, no. 2, May, 1995, pp. 166-170.[28] Moore, Pamela L., Cynthia J. Atman, Karen M. Bursic, Larry J. Shuman, and Byron S. Gottfried, "DoFreshmen Design Texts Adequately Define the Engineering Design Process?" American Society for EngineeringEducation Annual Conference Proceedings, 1995, pp. 164-171.JUSTIN R. CHIMKAJustin R. Chimka is a graduate student in Industrial Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. He received hisB.S. degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. He is a member of IIE and ASEE.CYNTHIA J. ATMANCynthia J. Atman is an Assistant

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Vivek Badami; Mike Allen; Johnny Graham; Howard Phillips; David Schmidt; Curtis Ensley; Art Edwards; Silvia G. Middleton; Kimberly A. Buch; J. William Shelnutt; Patricia Tolley

about the fun of engineering design and creative problem solving, but they can quickly abandon team and creativity skills if not reinforced by faculty in their disciplines. • In ENGR 1201, because students are exposed to so many faculty, definite in-charge person(s) must be in the classroom every day to provide continuity. • There is a natural tendency to want to put too much in the courses, at the possible detriment of the fundamental course purposes – we have learned to consider carefully what we take out when we put in something new, and to make the net exchange superior. • The semester project in both courses is the cohesive factor providing the rationale and

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M. N. Borges; F. H. Vasconcelos; M. Lewis

. (1985) Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. London: Harper and Row.3. Finch, C.R., e Crunkilton, J.R. (1979) Curriculum Development in Vocational and Technical Education. Allyn and Bacon Inc., Boston.4. Jackson, P. (1990) Introduction to expert systems. Wokinghan: Addison-Wesley.5. Otter, S. (1992) Learning Outcomes in Higher Education. A Development Project Report. UDACE, Employment Department6. Psacharopoulos, G. (1991) Higher education in developing countries: the scenario of the future. Higher Education 21(1), pp. 3-9.7. Robertson, D. (1991) Learning Outcomes and Credits Project. UDACE Project. The Liverpool Polytechnic.8. Watson, G. F. (1992) Refreshing curricula. IEEE Spectrum March 1992, pp. 31-35.9. White, R. M. (1995

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1999 Annual Conference

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Philip Doepker

, Washington, D.C., 1991.2. Dewhurst, Peter, “DFMA and Simultaneous Engineering – Current Status and Future Trends”, ASME Design Conference and Show, Chicago, March 1993.3. “Innovations in Engineering Design Education”, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, A Compendium to the 1993 ASME Design Education Conference.4. “World Class Design Symposium”, Lehigh University, June 1992.5. Pugh, S., “Total Design”, Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1990.6. Doepker, P.E., “Implementing the Product Realization Process in the Design Sequence”, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Winter Annual Meeting, New Orleans, 1993.7. Dunn-Rankin, D., Bobrow, J., Kease, K., and McCarthy, J.M., “Engineering Design in Industry: Teaching Students and Faculty to

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1999 Annual Conference

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Norman L. Fortenberry

examination of articles published inthe Journal of Engineering Education over the past six years. Finally, a model of a coherentresearch process for engineering education is offered from an example drawn physics education.I. IntroductionMajor support for educational research is provided by several private and public and privatesources. The Spencer Foundation provides support for educational research projects in the rangeof $300,000 - $400,000 per year for 3 to 4 years. In fiscal 1998, the Spencer Foundationsupported 30 projects1. The James S. McDonnell Foundation supports Cognitive Studies forEducational Practice; since 1987 the Foundation has expended $25 million in support ofeducational research and training2. The Department of Education’s (ED’s

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1999 Annual Conference

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Michael Morrow

a hardware reset pushbutton. Following the power-up orpushbutton reset signal, a defeatable low-going pulse is generated on /INT0 to force a boot fromthe EEPROM at location 0x1000. However, the PC host can override this function at any timeand force an /INT2 boot from the host port interface. This permits a manual reset to test theEEPROM software, while allowing the PC host to regain control of the lab station by simplysending a ‘RESET’ command from the DSK debugger. Page 4.65.3A 28C64A 8 kilobyte EEPROM is used to hold program data for embedded system operation.This is tailored to match the TMS320C31’s onboard RAM size. EEPROM write

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1999 Annual Conference

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Ronald A. Lessard

tools from Cosmic Software and Ashling. This will givestudents an edge as the tool learning curve is much shorter. These Windows-based toolswill allow for better evaluation of operating robot time constraints and result in a higherperformance software design. Their cost however, is more than an order of magnitudegreater. Regardless of the tools used, the student educational experience can be asuccess. Page 4.227.15References1. Ashley, S., “Getting a hold on mechatronics”, Mechanical Engineering, May 97, 60-632. Chen, N., Chung, H., Kwon, Y., “Integration of Micromouse Project with Undergraduate Curriculum: A Large-Scale Student Participation

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1999 Annual Conference

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William B. Hudson; Donald M. Gruenbacher

next time. Speed up the timetable and teach more stuff. While the group work was okay, we do learn more when you put it on the board. (Note: The chalkboard is much better than the computer for presenting/teaching information. I think it s too early for computers to take on that kind of role. Teachers may be ready for it, but it just seems too weird to me.) Also, try to find a book that can supplement your lectures. Maybe even have required reading assignments. In any case, following a book really helps out some students. Skipping around in a book makes it harder to learn and follow what’s going on. Weekly homework assignment are especially needed to make sure

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1999 Annual Conference

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Patricia M. Yaeger; Rose M. Marra; Francesco Costanzo; Gary L. Gray

://www.abet.org/eac/eac2000.htm.[2] Shaping the Future, A Report on the Review of Undergraduate Education from the Committee for the Re- view to the National Science Foundation Directorate for Education and Human Resources, NSF 96-139 (1996). Available at the following WWW site: http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/EHR/DUE/documents/review/96139/start.htm.[3] “Desired Attributes of an Engineer,” Part of the Boeing Participation with Universities Program. Available at the following World Wide Web site: http://www.boeing.com/companyoffices/pwu/attributes/attributes.html.[4] M. S. Wald, “Engineering Criteria 2000,” International Journal of Engineering Education, 12, pp. 389–390 (1996).[5] Gary L. Gray and Francesco Costanzo, “On

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1999 Annual Conference

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Marilyn Dyrud

): 215-19.41. Schultz, Thomas W. “Practical Problems in Organizing Student[s] into Groups.” FIE Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1 (1998): 242-5.42. Schwartz, Rachel A. “Improving Course Quality with Student Management Teams.’’ Prism 5, no. 5 (January 1996): 19-23.43. Seat, Elaine. “Enabling Effective Engineering Teams: A Program for Teaching Interactive Skills.” FIE Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1 (1998): 246-51.44. Seat, J. Elaine et al. “Making Design Teams Work.” FIE Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1 (1996): 272-5.45. Sener, Erdogan M. “Collaborative Learning in the Construction Technology Curriculum.” ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings (1996). Available: CD-ROM.46. Sharp, John and Richard Culver. “Cooperative Learning in a Manufacturing

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1999 Annual Conference

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Milin Shah; Guoqing Tang; Bala Ram

will be required. Maple source codeswill be provided and can be downloaded from the project web server.The second module is in planning and is to be developed in the Spring semester of 1999.It addresses the selection of a potential location of facilities in a geographical area. Such aproblem is often referred to as the facility location problem. This class of problems canhave several objectives but the most common one is to reduce the total transportation costand the delivery time. When the distance measure used is Euclidean distance, finding anoptimum solution to the problem involves finding partial derivatives and then solving aset of equations to locate stationary point(s). We have recently solved a real problem inlocation for a company and

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1998 Annual Conference

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Jordan Cox; Alan Parkinson

discussed in this paper, the software could potentially be expanded to track studentprogress and to manage assessment. These other possibilities will be explored in the future.References Cited“ABET Engineering Criteria 2000,” Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, 111Market Place, Suite 1050, Baltimore, MD, 21202, (410-347-7700), 1996.Carter, D. S. G, “Information Processing and the Management of Curriculum, Teaching, andLearning,” paper presented at the Leadership and Learning Conference, Perth, Australia, July1995, also Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) document ED 389272.Mann, G., and J. Kitchens, “Curriculum Management System: A Computer ManagedCurriculum,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of

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1998 Annual Conference

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Richard R. Schultz

, utilizing the fast Fourier transform (FFT) to compute the frequency spectrum ofa sampled signal, infinite impulse response (IIR) digital filtering, and the real-time processing of digitalspeech and music signals.References[1] A. V. Oppenheim and R. W. Schafer, Discrete-Time Signal Processing. Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1989.[2] S. K. Mitra, Digital Signal Processing: A Computer-Based Approach. The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 1998.[3] K. Steigletz, A DSP Primer: With Applications to Digital Audio and Computer Music. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1996.[4] R. G. Lyons, Understanding Digital Signal Processing. Addison Wesley Longman, Inc., 1997.[5] J. H. McClellan, R. W. Schafer, and M. A. Yoder, “Experiences in Teaching DSP

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2023 ASEE GSW

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John Steven Aiken

rotation of the shaft. That procedure isrepeated as a new linear electromagnetic pulse restarts the sequence at the beginning of thelinear array in synchronization with the spiral magnetic array on the rotor. There is a 4° separation in alignment between each neodymium magnet on the spiral array.As a result of that separation, and with 90 neodymium magnets on the spiral array, there areapproximately 11.25 neodymium magnets in the linear arrays' magnetic interaction zone at alldegrees of rotation. The absolute position encoder sensor(s) for the control system, detectsthe rotor position and activates the indicated electromagnets to begin and/or continue rotation.Helix motors by their nature, are self starting for both rotation directions, and

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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 2: AI, Computation, and Electronics

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Davis Ferriell, University of Kentucky

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code. In MATLAB with theimage processing toolbox loaded, that command is imshow(imagename) where “imshow” is thetoolbox command and “imagename” is the variable storing the data for the image that is loadedinto the MATLAB workspace.The first step in developing a method to separate background from object(s) of interest is to lookat the pixel values of different areas in an image. The imtool(imagename) in MATLABproduces an interactive version of the image that lets students see the values for the RGB (RedGreen Blue) levels as well as the X and Y coordinates of a pixel in the image. The figure belowshows an example image using imtool.Figure 2: An image of a glass of colored water against a white background. Using theimtool() command in MATLAB, the

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Advancing Equity in Engineering Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Simonne Renee Whitmore, Southern University and A&M College

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Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND)

) persist in the relevant literature. For this reason, it isimperative that current and future research regarding minority segments of the population carefullyestablish the definition and constraints of the terminology used and strive to be a consistent aspossible when implementing said terminology. Although the National Science Foundation (NSF)continues to define URMs as “[r]aces or ethnicities whose representation in STEM employmentand S&E education is smaller than their representation in the U.S. population [including] Blacksor African-Americans, Hispanics or Latinos, and American Indians or Alaska Natives” [14], it hasbeen proposed that a more appropriate term would be Historically Marginalized Communities. Itis suggested that “historically

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Transgression, Conflict, and Altruism

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard A House, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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, Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon. New York: W. W. Norton,2023.[3] “Ezra Klein Interviews Will MacAskill,” The New York Times, Aug. 9, 2022. [Online]Available: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/09/podcasts/transcript-ezra-klein-interviews-will-macaskill.html[4] C. Nelson and S. Peterson, “If You’re an Engineer, You’re Probably a Utilitarian,” Issues inEngineering: Journal of Professional Activities, vol. 108, no. 1, pp. 13-18.[5] K. Huang, “Why Did FTX Collapse? Here’s What to Know,” The New York Times, Nov. 10,2022. [Online] Available: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/10/technology/ftx-binance-crypto-explained.html[6] E. Brown, “New CEO Says FTX Suffered ‘Complete Failure of Corporate Controls,’” TheWall Street Journal, Nov. 17

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Innovative Laboratory Approaches in ECE Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joseph P. Hoffbeck, University of Portland

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE), Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (DELOS)

and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Shanghai, China, 2016.[14] E. Cooney, S. Deal, A. McNeely, and H. Chaubey, “Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Project to Create Musical Effect Box,” in 2019 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration, 2019 CIEC, New Orleans, LA, February 2019.[15] E. Bezzam, A. Hoffet, and P. Prandoni, "Teaching Practical DSP with Off-the-shelf Hardware and Free Software, "2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Brighton, UK, 2019, pp. 7660-7664.[16] Y. Lin and T.D. Morton, “A Microcontroller-based DSP Laboratory Curriculum Paper,” in 2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Columbus, Ohio, USA, June 2017.[17] K.D. Coonley and J. Miles

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Unique Pedagogies for Mechanics Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Adrian Rodriguez, The University of Texas at Austin

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at live Q&A sessions using chat and polling features, where S =(live Q&A sessions) and P = (student polling events).The results from using the chat forum were positive and consistent. A total of 73 questions andcomments were typed across S1-S3 with two instances of 25 occurring as the high. Bycomparison, Cohort 2021 had a total of 8 questions and comments with 4 as the high [7]; asignificant improvement on the order of nine times. The results of the polling were also positive.The responses peaked at 78 students (82% participation) in Poll 2, followed by a steady decreasedown to 62 students (65% participation) in Poll 4. No obvious trend emerges when multiple pollsare used between Cohort 2022 and Cohort 2021. However, the

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED) Technical Session 1 - Women in Computing

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary V Villani, Farmingdale State College, SUNY, New York; Ilknur Aydin, Farmingdale State College, SUNY, New York; Lisa Cullington, Sacred Heart University

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED)

.[5] A. Zengilowski, J. Lee, R.E. Gaines, H. Park, E. Choi, D.L. Schallert, “The collectiveclassroom “we”: The role of students’ sense of belonging on their affective, cognitive, anddiscourse experiences of online and face-to-face discussions,” Linguistics and Education, Feb2023, 73, pp101-142.[6] K. Rainey, M. Dancy, R. Mickelson, E. Stearns, & S. Moller, “Race and gender differences inhow sense of belonging influences decisions to major in STEM,” International journal of STEMEducation, 2018, 5, 1-14.[7] S.L. Rodriguez, J.M. Blaney, “We’re the unicorns in STEM”: Understanding how academicand social experiences influence sense of belonging for Latina undergraduate students,” Journalof Diversity in Higher Education, 2021, 14(3).[8] C