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Issues in Engineering Technology Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Niaz Latif, Purdue University Calumet ; Mohammad A. Zahraee, Purdue University, Calumet (Tech); Joy L Colwell, Purdue University, Calumet (Tech)

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Engineering Technology

presented on student profiles, graduationrate, graduate placement, and application-oriented industry projects. Furthermore, the comingchallenges of maintaining program quality with high enrollment, as well as completion rates, arealso discussed in this paper.Introduction Purdue University Calumet (PUC) started its Master of Science in Technology degreeprogram in 2008. The program has experienced rapid enrollment growth, as well as resourceconstraints, and by 2011 had the third largest enrollment in the nation. Since the inception, theprogram has produced more than a hundred graduates. The success of this program may beattributed to the large demand for an interdisciplinary program in the region, the interdisciplinarynature of the program

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Engineering Libraries (ELD) Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Greg Tourino, North Carolina State University; Martin W. King, North Carolina State University

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Engineering Libraries

Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society, the Fiber Society, the American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists, the Textile Institute, and is a fellow of the Institute of Textile Science in Canada. Page 23.515.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013Engineering Librarians as Partners of Faculty in Teaching Scholarly Inquiryto Undergraduate Students through Curriculum Integration: The Biotextiles Product Development Course BlogAbstractGroup projects are frequently utilized in undergraduate course curricula at the NC

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K-12 Professional Development II

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeremy V Ernst, Virginia Tech; Aaron C. Clark, North Carolina State University; Vincent William DeLuca, North Carolina State University; Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

27 years as a teacher and researcher. He has extensive research and curriculum development experience in STEM disciplines. His research includes the study of thinking processes, teaching methods, and activities that improve technological problem-solving performance and creativity. He has expertise in developing technology education curriculum that integrates science, technology, engineering and mathe- matics (STEM) concepts. Currently, Dr. DeLuca’s research includes projects to develop curricula to teach STEM concepts associated with renewable energy technologies by providing a living laboratory of perfor- mance data from numerous renewable energy systems. The overarching goal of the project is to develop middle

Conference Session

Visualization tools, modeling abilities and grading models

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Theodore J. Branoff, North Carolina State University; Modris Dobelis, Riga Technical University

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Engineering Design Graphics

students’ ability to create solid models when givenan assembly drawing and their spatial visualization ability. Students were administered thePSVT:R and the MCT and were then given an assembly drawing and asked to model as many ofthe seven parts as possible during a 110 minute class period. The parts in the assembly ranged incomplexity from a ball to a valve body. Students were given a ruler to measure parts on the B-size drawing and determine sizes of features based on the given scale (2:1). Relationships wereexamined between the PSVT:R, MCT, modeling activity, final project and the final exam. Thispaper will present the results of this study and discuss implications for future research.IntroductionWith the reduced amount of instructional time

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Secondary (6-12) Outreach

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ibrahim F. Zeid, Northeastern University; Jessica Chin, Northeastern University; Sagar V. Kamarthi, Northeastern University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

state to mandate the use of engineering in K-12 curricula. Morerecently, the NGSS (Next generation Science Standards) draft and Common Core standards also embracethe engineering-based pedagogy. Typically, the use of engineering in high school teaching centers aroundusing the engineering design process in the classroom. The authors have observed over a three-yearfunded research project that biology and chemistry are the hardest STEM subjects to implement theengineering approach, unlike other disciplines such as physics, math, and engineering subjects. Thispaper describes two case studies of two teachers, one teaches zoology and the other teaches biology. Thepaper outlines each case study, the teacher implementation, classroom results by students

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Development of Computational Tools

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Biswanath Samanta, Georgia Southern University; Yong Zhu, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA 30458

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Computers in Education

slower pace in the USuniversities compared to the international counterparts 32, 33. In the US, it has been considered invarious forms and at different levels in engineering curricula. As examples, Mechatronics hasbeen proposed as a module at freshman level in an Introduction to Engineering course35, a seniorelective to ME/EE, a required course in EE/ME 26, 28, 30, a track/concentration option31, a separateprogram34 and also a graduate course or graduate degree option33. The course has been deliveredin different formats from traditional lecture and lab combination26, 37 to entirely project-based Page 23.417.2approach30, 39. The coverage of

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Beyond BS: Issues Affecting Graduate Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cole C McDaniel, California Polytechnic State University; Allen C Estes, California Polytechnic State University

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Civil Engineering

theprogram with the undergraduate degree, offering a non-project option, managing theprogram through continuing education, collaborating with other departments, partneringwith industry, and accommodating students who did not graduate from the Cal PolyARCE undergraduate program. This paper offers a history of this masters program,describes these various issues, presents the current state of the program and makesrecommendations for its future.IntroductionThe Cal Poly Architectural Engineering Department’s masters program was launched infall 2007 due to student demand and ASCE policy 465’s declaration of the mastersdegree as the first professional degree for the practice of civil engineering at theprofessional level1. The mission of this master’s

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Global Engineering Education Cross-Cultural Awareness and Social Impacts

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Luis Gerardo Chang, Universidad de Piura; Christine Marie Fiori P.E., Virginia Tech; Edward J. Jaselskis, North Carolina State University; Cliff Schexnayder, Arizona State University; Lisa G Hogle, Arizona State University; Jennifer S Shane, Iowa State University

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International

North Carolina State University. He was educated at the University of Illinois, receiving a BS in general engineering in 1980, an SM in civil engineering (empha- sis in construction engineering and project management) from MIT in 1982, and a PhD in civil engineer- ing (emphasis in construction engineering and project management) from the University of Texas-Austin in 1988. He has conducted research and has published in the areas of construction project success, ad- vanced information technologies, and multi-cultural workforce development. Dr. Jaselskis has served as a program director for the National Science Foundation. He is a registered professional engineer and has memberships in several organizations [American

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Community Engagement Division Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ella Willard-Schmoe, University of Massachusetts Lowell; John J. Duffy, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Emmanuelle Reynaud, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Linda Barrington, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

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Community Engagement Division

-L, such asinstitutional support, faculty attitudes, and the intrinsic level of applicability of course material tocommunity issues.In the 2011-2012 academic year, 162 students in 9 courses in a College of Sciences participatedin S-L projects and were surveyed about their experience. These responses are compared tothose of 811 students in 33 courses from the College of Engineering, who completed the samesurvey; 93% of engineering students surveyed had done S-L that semester and/or previously.Compared to science majors, engineering students reported a significantly (5% level) strongerpositive effect of S-L on their persistence in their major, their interest in the subject matter of thecourse, their ability to plan and carry out a project for

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Asad Esmaeily

, bar development length, serviceability in terms of crack width anddeflections.Students are divided into 4 groups to do the “formwork”, “caging”, “pouring”, and “testing” in 4different 2 hour laboratory sessions.All of the students participate in the first session for introduction to the laboratory and generalprocedure; the third session to observe the pouring process and making concrete sample; and the lastsession for testing concrete samples and beam specimen.The project provides students with a real-world design and hands-on experience to enhance theirunderstanding of reinforced concrete structures.In the survey conducted at the end of semester, students consistently and unanimously stated that theproject effectively provides them with a

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Study Abroad, International Experience, Exchange Programs and Student Retention

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Keilin Tarum Deahl, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Eileen Walz, University of Illinois; Russell Korte, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Valeri Werpetinski, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Laura D Hahn, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Judith A Sunderman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; J. Bruce Elliott- Litchfield, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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International

Paper ID #6991Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudes Acquired through Engineering Student Ex-periences AbroadKeilin Tarum Deahl, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Keilin Deahl is a graduate student in Systems and Entrepreneurial Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She completed her undergraduate degree in General Engineering at Illinois with a concentration in Sustainable Development. Deahl is interested in international experiences in engineering and how to better integrate project-based learning into the engineering classroom.Eileen Walz, University of Illinois Eileen Walz is

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Robotics, Mechatronics, and Control Systems - Multidisciplinary Perspectives

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael A. Gennert, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Taskin Padir, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

, and S.M. in Electrical Engineering in 1980 and the Sc.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1987 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Gennert is interested in Computer Vision, Image Processing, Scientific Databases, and Programming Languages, with ongoing projects in biomedical image process- ing, robotics, and stereo and motion vision. He is author or co-author of over 100 papers. He is a member of Sigma Xi, NDIA Robotics Division, and the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council Robotics Cluster, and a senior member of IEEE and ACM.Dr. Taskin Padir, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Page 23.1049.1

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Sustainability and engineering education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer Mueller PE P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; John Aidoo, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Environmental Engineering

engineering societies (including the American Society of Civil Engineers,the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers,the National Society of Professional Engineers, and the National Academy of Engineering)formally stated the need for engineers to “deliver solutions that are technically viable,commercially feasible, and environmentally and socially sustainable.” As civil engineers designpractical solutions to include economic feasibility and environmental impacts of a project, thereis a need to develop more engineers who are aware of and equipped with the ability to designsolutions that include sustainability principles, enhancing their services to society and theenvironment3.Although the need exists, as

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Crossing Boundaries - Service Learning and Interdisciplinary Teams

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Edwin R. Schmeckpeper, Norwich University; Michael Puddicombe, Norwich University

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Construction

University of Idaho, the Land-Grant College for the State of Idaho, and worked as an engineer in design offices and at construction sites.Dr. Michael Puddicombe, Norwich University Page 23.1175.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013The Confluence of Information:Teambuilding is not enough to produce successful interdisciplinary teamsIntroductionMulti-disciplinary collaboration is recognized as a requirement for superior performance in therealization of projects in the built environment1. However, due to their different “thoughtworlds,” collaboration between professionals from different

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2013 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Faruk Yildiz

ATTRACTING YOUNG MINDS TO ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY FIELDS WITH MOBILE RENEWABLE ENERGY EDUCATION Faruk Yildiz fxy001@shsu.edu Sam Houston State University Huntsville, TX 77341AbstractVarious ways to attract young minds to STEM fields have been implemented bynon-profit organizations and institutions through volunteer work or funding.Mobile Renewable Energy Education (MREE) is a long term project aimed toprovide area (especially rural) K-12 students and teachers with an appliedmathematics, engineering and science curriculum package based on Photovoltaic(PV), wind power, energy conversion and

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NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David L. Soldan, Kansas State University; Don Gruenbacher, Kansas State University; Noel N. Schulz, Kansas State University; Blythe A Vogt PE, Kansas State University; William Bowes Hageman, Kansas State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

. She has a total of over nineteen years of teaching experience including other schools such as Michigan Technological University, University of North Dakota, and Virginia Tech. Noel is active in teaching, research and service. She enjoys teaching electrical engineering and power engineering topics to students. In research and graduate studies, she has been very active having graduated 40 MS and 12 PhD students; published 160 papers and 2 book chapters; and brought in over $10 M in external research through individual and collaborative projects including an U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER award. She has been active in the IEEE Power & Energy Society serving as Secretary from 2004-2007, Treasurer

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Topics in Energy Management

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Esther T. Ososanya, University of the District of Columbia; Sasan Haghani, University of the District of Columbia; Wagdy H Mahmoud, University of the District of Columbia

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

monitor daily electricity consumption has becomeincreasingly important with the ever growing demands for energy. Monitoring and quantifyingpower consumption enables engineers to notice problems with systems while in operation, andalso better plan future systems from the data gathered. As a result, power quality (PQ)measurement concepts are evolving from instantaneous metering to continuous monitoring andrecent developments in measurement technology make PQ monitoring systems more powerful.This equates to the construction and utilization of more flexible, compact and intelligent PQsystems.The goal of this project was to design, construct and test a monitoring system that is cost-effective, reliable and easily deployable in any environment. The

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Ameneh Akbari; Karla Ananias; Jeffery Bouchard; Qian Wang P.E.; George Law

New Technology and Design Methodology for Micromouse: Challenges and Solutions Ameneh Akbari, Karla Ananias, Jeffery Bouchard, Qian Wang, and George Law Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering California State University, Northridge, CA 91325AbstractThe micromouse project has been integrated in many university curricula internationally. In theproject, the students design and build an autonomous robot which explores and maps a fixed sizemaze, and races to the center of the maze in the shortest time. These mice will compete in IEEEor other engineering society sponsored competitions every year. Normally, the students will usea microcontroller or a microprocessor

Conference Session

Design Methodology and Evaluation 2

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer Buelin-Biesecker, North Carolina State University; Eric N. Wiebe, North Carolina State University

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Design in Engineering Education

pedagogies has beenidentified in the research literature and national standards documents. Two design and problem-solving instructional approaches were explored in this study: the DEAL method(Define/Explore/Anticipate/Look back) and the choice-based approach, a nonlinear, student-driven method. Creative outcomes resulting from student projects developed under DEAL andchoice-based conditions were measured and compared in this study involving 132 middle schoolstudents. Seventy-two student projects were developed using video game design software, thirty-six for each instructional method. They were completed with students opting to work alone or inpairs. The Consensual Assessment Technique was then employed using seven adult raters tocompare outcomes of

Conference Session

New Course Development Concepts in ET

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Biswajit Ray, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania

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Engineering Technology

integrating sensors,and data acquisition hardware and software; and experiment-design project implementation andreporting experience. This paper presents the course format including the typical content,laboratory setup and experiences, and student-initiated experiment-design project details.Course-embedded assessment data supporting the course objectives and associated studentoutcomes are also reported.IntroductionThe ability to conduct and design experiments is rated as one of the most desirable technicalskills of engineering and engineering technology graduates1. Specifically, the referenced surveyindicates that employers want graduates with a working knowledge of data acquisition, analysisand interpretation, and an ability to formulate a range of

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Reception & Poster Session

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2013 ASEE International Forum

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Brett Tempest, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Miguel Pando P.E., University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Sandra Loree Dika, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Michael Adam Hoff, UNC Charlotte

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ASEE International Forum

engineeringstudents to travel and to participate in service projects centered on international development.The club grew rapidly in membership and established relationships with a university in Peru aswell as an Andean community near Cuzco, Peru. This community has twice been the destinationof ISC students during summer trips. Although student interest in the program has been highbecause of its social, adventure and altruistic components, undertaking it as a university entityrequires justification from a student development standpoint. There are many venues throughwhich young travelers might make overseas excursions and engage in community service,however, students participating through a university would be expected to develop knowledgeand skills in the

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2013 GSW

Authors

George Kitamura; Kristin Milam; Elvin Hii; Chris Kniffin; Alexander Graves; Amit Oza; Bernd Chudoba

engineers. Overall, the skills developed through the project will allow eachteam member to carry on techniques and knowledge to other aircraft conceptual design. IntroductionThe Supermarine Spitfire is one of the most iconic and beloved aircraft or its era, and thissemester, a group of senior students was able to participate in the active learning experience ofreverse engineering this exceptional airplane as a part of the Senior Design Capstone Course.The Senior Design Capstone Course compiles the years of undergraduate studies to test andapprove the student’s engineering abilities. Under the direction of Dr. Bernd Chudoba the senior class was tasked to reverse engineer the famous World War II fighter

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Assessment of Community Engagement

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder; Kurt Paterson P.E., Michigan Technological University; Chris Swan, Tufts University; Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University; David O Kazmer, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Annie Soisson, Tufts University

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Community Engagement Division

Paper ID #7162Spectra of Learning Through Service ProgramsDr. Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder Dr. Angela Bielefeldt, P.E., is a professor and associate chair for Undergraduate Education in the De- partment of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. She began integrating service-learning projects into her senior capstone design course for environmental engineering in 2001.Prof. Kurt Paterson P.E., Michigan Technological University Kurt Paterson is a associate professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, but also director of Michi- gan Tech’s

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NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca L. Damron, Oklahoma State University; Sohum A Sohoni, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; YoonJung Cho, Oklahoma State University; Kerri S Kearney, Oklahoma State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

set of digital tools including asoftware development environment (IDE), an instruction set architecture (ISA), a referencedesign in Verilog reflecting a contemporary CPU architecture, and Verilog modules for input-output interfacing. In addition to the software and hardware, PLP provides curricular materialslike tutorials, projects, and quizzes. All parts of the system are open-source and publicly hosted;a public mailing list serves as a communication channel between users and developers of thesystem. PLP’s strengths are its vertical integration and ability to connect fundamentals likeprogramming and compiling with the underlying hardware.With an overarching system like PLP, different aspects are taught and used in different courses,and

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David A Saftner, University of Minnesota Duluth; Sara D. Ojard, University of Minnesota Duluth; Eshan V. Dave, University of Minnesota, Duluth; Nathan William Johnson, University of Minnesota Duluth; Eil Kwon; Rebecca Teasley, Civil Engineering University of Minnesota Duluth

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Design in Engineering Education

a New ProgramABSTRACTThe University of Minnesota Duluth’s Department of Civil Engineering accepted its firststudents in 2008, graduated its first class in 2012, and first offered a capstone design course inthe spring semester, 2012. Groups of five to six students designed a building on a local site.Students organized their teams based on interest in a particular branch of civil engineering,allowing individual students to focus their efforts on a particular subject. Based on feedbackfrom faculty, practicing engineers, and students, several changes were implemented prior to thefall 2012 semester. These changes included making the group size smaller, modifying the gradedsubmissions, and changing the project location. Most significantly, the

Conference Session

Integrating Curriculum and Labs in Engineering Technology Programs

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zhibin Tan, East Tennessee State University; William H. Blanton, East Tennessee State University; Qianru Zhang, East Tennessee State University

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Engineering Technology

. The hardware-based laboratories have been successfully integrated into the digital signal processing course at many universities. However, most labs were designed only for very common signal processing problems such as the FIR/IIR filter design, FFT and so on. In this paper, a system for real-time EEG (electroencephalograph) signal acquisition, processing and presentation was proposed and will be implemented with the Texas Instrument’s TMS320C6713 DSK being used as the hardware platform. As a practical application of C6713 DSK in biomedical signal processing, this project is designed as a complement of the current DSP laboratories of the Digital Signal Processors course for senior level undergraduates/graduates

Conference Session

Experiences in Engineering Community Engagement

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edmund Tsang, Western Michigan University; Darrell G. Harden II, Michigan Department of Transportation; Danielle Elise Larson- Jaramillo, Western Michigan University

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Community Engagement Division

Transportation and K-8 schools, and the federal program, Safe Routes to Schools (SRTS),serves as the service-learning design project for CCE 1001. Preliminary results show studentsimproving oral communication skills and gaining awareness of the factors contributing topoverty through the SRTS project.IntroductionCCE 1001, “Introduction to Engineering Design,” is a first-semester course that has served as theanchor class of a learning community for civil and construction engineering (CCE) studentssince 2005 at Western Michigan University (WMU), a state regional university in Kalamazoo,MI. Students in a learning community take the same 3-to-5 classes together in fall semester andthe same 2-to-4 classes in spring semester. By progressing through the first

Conference Session

Faculty and Course Evolution: Teaching With Technology, Online Delivery, and Addressing Emerging Student & Industry Needs

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wayne P. Pferdehirt, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Continuing Professional Development

of instruction and stu- dent support. Prior to joining UW-Madison, Wayne directed the Midwest solid waste consulting services of Camp Dresser McKee and led energy conservation research projects for Argonne National Laboratory. He has a BS in engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University, an MS in civil engineering with an emphasis in regional planning from Northwestern University, and is a licensed professional engineer. For more information about UW-Madison’s online graduate engineering degree programs see http://distancedegrees.engr.wisc.edu Page 23.1224.1 c American

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New Approaches and Applications to Enhance Technological Literacy - Part II

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Thalia Anagnos, San Jose State University; Becky Carroll, Inverness Research, Inc.; Shannon Weiss, David Heil & Associates, Inc.; David R. Heil, David Heil & Associates, Inc.

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

Paper ID #6419Public Works for Public Learning: A Case StudyDr. Thalia Anagnos, San Jose State University Thalia Anagnos is a professor in the General Engineering Department at San Jose State University where she has taught since 1984. Her research interests are in structural engineering, earthquake loss estimation and risk analysis, engineering education, and informal education. On this project she is helping to develop materials aimed at K-12 that complement the exhibits.Becky Carroll, Inverness Research, Inc. Becky Carroll has worked for Inverness Research since 1990. Her work has involved studies of K-12

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Best of DEED

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Denny C. Davis, Washington State University; Ronald R Ulseth P. E., Iron Range Engineering

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Design in Engineering Education

plan is presented forintegrating teamwork development into an engineering program to prepare graduates forsubsequent development of high performing teams in the professional workplace. A case isdiscussed to illustrate how team development is achieved in a project-based curriculum setting.IntroductionThe great engineering challenges of the twenty-first century are complex and multidisciplinary innature [1]. Engineers engaged in addressing problems of societal concern that have economicimpact will necessarily be members of multidisciplinary teams that bring diverse expertise andperspectives to the problem solving process. In general, a team is “a small number of people withcomplementary skills who are committed to a common purpose, set of