Conference Session

Dynamic Systems and Control

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chan Ham, Kennesaw State University ; Mohsin Mohammad Taufiq, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Diversity

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Mechanical Engineering

Page 26.518.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Development of a Ball-and-Plate SystemAbstractThis paper presents the development of a dynamic ball-and-plate system successfully completedfor a one-semester Senior Capstone Design project. A group of five undergraduate studentsdeveloped the project concept and constructed a prototype within a semester, integrating majormechatronics engineering concepts learned in classes. The three-degree-of-freedom systemconsists of sensors, actuators, and controls to keep a free rolling ball in a desired position on aflat plate, accounting for any possible external disturbances. Due to its complexity, multiple stepswere taken to solve the

Conference Session

Innovative Use of Technology I

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rachel Louis Kajfez, Ohio State University; Krista M. Kecskemety, Ohio State University; Max Kross, Engineering Education Innovation Center

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Computers in Education

results.IntroductionEffectively using technology in the classroom has been a concern in education for many years.1, 2While there are a variety of technologies that are used to support education (e.g., computers3,clickers4, cell phones5, etc.), we have chosen to focus our work on electronic notebooks (i.e.,website development for project documentation). We not only explain and explore the use ofthis technology in our courses, we assess its impacts comparing sections without the newtechnology to sections with the implementation.There is a body of work in education that evaluates and discusses the impacts of electronicportfolios (EPs) which in many ways are similar to electronic notebooks. EPs are digitalcollections of artifacts that provide authentic, valid, and reliable

Conference Session

Topics Related To Engineering Design Graphics Division

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary A. Sadowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Sheryl A. Sorby, Ohio State University

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Diversity

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Engineering Design Graphics

a professor at both Purdue University and Arizona State Univer- sity, Mary’s specialty is computer and technical graphics. Dr. Sadowski received her B.S. from Bowling Green State University, her M.S. from The Ohio State University, and her Ph.D. from Purdue University.Dr. Sheryl A. Sorby, Ohio State University Dr. Sheryl Sorby is currently a Professor of STEM Education at The Ohio State University and was re- cently a Fulbright Scholar at the Dublin Institute of Technology in Dublin, Ireland. She is a professor emerita of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics at Michigan Technological University and the PI or coPI on more than $9M in grant funding, most for educational projects. She is the former As

Conference Session

INDUSTRY DAY SESSION: CMC PANEL SESSION TWO

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susannah Howe, Smith College

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Corporate Member Council

 such short visits and recommendations for pursuing a similar sabbatical experience.  Introduction  Sabbatical experiences provide an opportunity for faculty to immerse themselves in current scholarship, to explore new areas of research, and/or to pursue professional development. For capstone design instructors, many of whom coordinate projects with industry sponsors, a logical option for sabbatical is to spend it in industry. This option is particularly attractive and useful for faculty members who have followed the standard academic pathway and have not previously worked as practicing engineers.  The engineering literature is surprisingly sparse on faculty sabbaticals, and what literature exists focuses more on the use of sabbaticals for

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John E. Shamma; Rupa Purasinghe, California State University, Los Angeles

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Diversity

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Civil Engineering

Paper ID #12294Introduction to Sub-Branches of Civil Engineering Fields through a CreativeFreshmen Civil Engineering Design CourseMr. John E. Shamma John E. Shamma is the Facility Planning Team Manager for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California overseeing Metropolitan’s infrastructure reliability and vulnerability investigations. He was the Project Engineer for the Inland Feeder Water Conveyance System’s Arrowhead Tunnels project from 1993 – 2005. He was responsible for the design and construction of two 12 foot diameter tunnel seg- ments totaling approximately 11 miles in the San Bernardino Mountains

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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joseph Jinlee Kim P.E., California State University, Long Beach

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

, international construction, project delivery systems, statistical methods for construction engineers, project management practices, and engineering educational research methods. He is an active member of the American Society for Engineering Education and American Society of Civil Engineers, Construction Research Council of Construction Institute, ASCE. Page 26.352.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Closing Achievement Gaps using the Green-BIM Teaching Method in Construction Education Curriculum Jin-Lee Kim

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2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Norman Ettedgui; Joe Cooney; Brian LaBar; Ernest Frimpong; Gilbert Szeto; Amelito G. Enriquez; Kwok-Siong Teh; Cheng Chen; Hamid Mahmoodi; Wenshen Pong; Hamid Shanasser; Xiaorong Zhang

improve undergraduate STEM education and increase the recruitment and retention of STEMstudents, engaging community college students in cutting-edge STEM research is a significantstrategy for inspiring students’ interest in STEM and enabling them to discover their capacity touse STEM to make a difference in the world. With support from the NASA CIPAIR (CurriculumImprovements and Partnership Award for the Integration of Research) program, in summer 2014,four sophomore engineering students from Cañada College, a Hispanic-Serving community college inCalifornia’s Silicon Valley participated in a ten-week summer research internship project in aresearch lab on intelligent cyber-physical systems (CPS) at San Francisco State University, apublic

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First Year Programs Division Poster Session: The Best Place to Really Talk about First-Year Education

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Noah Salzman, Boise State University; Janet Callahan, Boise State University; Gary LeRoy Hunt, Boise State University; Carol Sevier, Boise State University; Amy J Moll, Boise State University

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First-Year Programs

educational research interests include freshmen engineering programs, math success, K-12 STEM curriculum and accreditation, and retention and recruitment of STEM majors.Dr. Gary LeRoy Hunt, Boise State UniversityCarol Sevier, Boise State University Carol Sevier is the Freshman Engineering Coordinator at Boise State University. She received her BS in Electrical Engineering from South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD. She was employed at Hewlett Packard for 16 years where she held a variety of positions in Quality Assurance, Manufacturing and Marketing. She also served as the Development Director at the Discovery Center of Idaho, a hands-on science center. Carol has overseen the project-based Introduction to Engineering

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Engineering Management Division Technical Session 1

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kate D. Abel, Stevens Institute of Technology (SES)

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Engineering Management

, communication and project managementskills that many say are missing from the traditional engineering education (Felder, Vest,etc). Authors like Sheppard, et. al. advocate for modifying the engineering classroom toallow ways these skills can be taught.Success in business is determined by the technical skills within the organization.However, success of a business is also based on those employees having anunderstanding of what the business really needs. Technical professionals need to be betterattuned to customer needs and stakeholders’ perspectives, in order to align technicalprogress with business strategy. Such real world understanding is missing fromtraditional engineering education. Many say that the Capstone Design experience issupposed to be where

Conference Session

Communication Across the Divisions III: Writing as Social–Technical Integration

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vukica M. Jovanovic, Old Dominion University; Megan McKittrick, Old Dominion University; Pilar Pazos, Old Dominion University; Daniel Richards, Old Dominion University; Julia Romberger

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Diversity

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Computing & Information Technology, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Comparatively Mapping Genres in Academic and Workplace Engineering EnvironmentsAbstract In the Engineering workplace, one must be able to negotiate many genres of writing: he orshe must deliver updates, understand technical requirements, weigh project priorities, develop andcarry out problem-solving techniques, all while using different forms of technical communication.Engineering work relies on the ability to flexibly transition between a variety of technical writinggenres, while also navigating the broad array of technologies required to effectively complete theseprojects. However, the genres and types of writing present in the workplace do not always reflectthe genres and types of writing undergraduate Engineering students

Conference Session

Ocean and Marine Division Technical Session 1

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert H. Mayer Jr., U.S. Naval Academy; Angela Schedel, U.S. Naval Academy

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Diversity

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Ocean and Marine

presents its habitat design to a panelof volunteer faculty members and classmates who critique both the design and the team’s oralpresentation.This paper provides insights into the project tasking; the roles and responsibilities of the differentdesign engineers; and the basic engineering considerations and computations required of the finaldesign. It addresses typical conflict issues arising among team members and the means to theirresolution, and presents elements – both positive and negative – of the typical team presentation.Achievement of project learning goals and a summary of assessment results are also discussed.IntroductionThe Hex-Oid Habitat (H-O-H) Design Challenge is an academic exercise developed for theocean engineering program at the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Robin Adams, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Molly H Goldstein, Purdue University, West Lafayette; K. Anna Douglas, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

University, West Lafayette Anna earned her M.S. Ed in School Counseling and PhD in Educational Psychology from Purdue Univer- sity. Her research interests are related to measurement and assessment in engineering education. Page 26.1054.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Large-scale Research on Engineering Design in Secondary Classrooms: Big Learner Data Using Energy3D Computer-Aided DesignAbstractThrough a five-year collaborative project, the Concord Consortium and Purdue University areapplying a data-intensive approach to study one of the most fundamental research topics

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rob Henry Kinzel; Deborah K. Nykanen, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Rebecca A Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Winston Sealy, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Rachel E Cohen, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Jennifer Veltsos, Minnesota State University, Mankato

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

buildrelationships with other scholars from diverse STEM disciplines. The seminar coursework iscentered on semester-long investigative projects designed and completed by teams, typicallymultidisciplinary ones. A small group of faculty oversees the seminar and selection of scholars.Our approach in this program is to provide faculty mentoring for the scholars while alsodeveloping stepping-stone peer-mentoring for professional development. This structure supportsstudents and helps them develop leadership qualities. The recipients, as defined by the programcriteria, are diverse: multiple majors (all eligible STEM majors are included), male, female, andnon-traditional students, as well as students with different ethnicities, religious affiliations,backgrounds

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 2

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Doug Bullock, Boise State University; Janet Callahan, Boise State University; Susan E. Shadle Ph.D., Boise State University

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Mathematics

relativelyconstant; however, profound changes were made across all sections in terms of pedagogy,homework, timing of course content, grade computation and exam content.  The motivation for focusing on Calculus I arose from a five-year National Science FoundationScience Talent Expansion Program grant that was awarded in 2010 to a multi-disciplinary teamthat spanned engineering, mathematics and science. A major grant objective was to raise first-semester, full-time retention of students in STEM majors. The projects supported several year-long faculty learning communities (FLCs) of about 10 instructors each. With significantinvolvement from mathematics faculty, the first two FLCs prepared the ground for pedagogicalreform of calculus. In 2013-14, a final FLC

Conference Session

Issues in Engineering Technolgy Education

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Terence Geyer, Eastern Washington University; William R Loendorf, Eastern Washington University

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Engineering Technology

for bothstudents and faculty.IntroductionThe courses covered in this report give a representation of the various class instructional modesexperienced by Engineering Technology students (lecture-nonmathematical, lecture-mathematical, lecture/lab, lecture/discussion) and span the full range of types of studentworkload, as well as instructor grading demands. The project was conducted using twoinstructors who were attempting to gain a better control of all of the demands placed on studentsand faculty in our changing economic realities in higher education. In most colleges that have ahigh amount of transfer students, it has become increasingly more difficult to estimateenrollment numbers and program/course demand in a timely manner. While students

Conference Session

Practical Teaching in Manufacturing – 2

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenifer Blacklock, Colorado School of Mines; Derrick Rodriguez P.E., Colorado School of Mines

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Manufacturing

 and  understand  basic  manufacturing  topics  in  the  classroom.1  For  this  reason,  it  is  essential  for  ME  undergraduates  to  understand  how  parts  and  components  are  manufactured,  with  the  goal  of  developing  better  engineers  and  designers.      With  the  incorporation  of  several  open-­‐ended  design  challenges  and  hands-­‐on  projects  throughout  Field  Session,  specifically  related  to  manufacturing  topics,  students  begin  to  learn  the  following  concepts  early  on  in  the  undergraduate  curriculum:  1)  proper  dimensioning  and  tolerancing,  2)  manufacturing  tolerances,  3)  material  selection  4)  automated  manufacturing  techniques,  5)  manual  manufacturing  techniques,  6)  CAD-­‐CAM

Conference Session

First-year Programs Division Technical Session 10: Paying Attention to Retention

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steffen Peuker, California Polytechnic State University; Nova Alexandria Glinski Schauss, Oregon State University

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First-Year Programs

developed linking student development focused first-year coursesand a project called “Design Your Process of Becoming a World-Class Engineering Student”.The project is set within first-year engineering orientation courses that pair academic successstrategies with engineering college knowledge. Through the project students are challenged todesign their individually tailored learning process to have a significant impact on their academicsuccess by improving the students’ skills, confidence, and motivation to succeed in engineering.The approach is currently implemented in over 30 institutions nationwideError! Reference source notfound. . The results from two four year institutions— Oregon State University and University ofAlaska Anchorage—one

Conference Session

International Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wangping Sun, Oregon Institute of Technology; Qi Zhang, Yangzhou University

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Diversity

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International

, engineering, architecture, computer science,medicine, agriculture, animal husbandry, etc.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangzhou_University)In spring 2014, the College of Mechanical Engineering gave the approval to the authors of thepaper to design and pilot a graduate engineering course, Advanced Manufacturing Systems. Itwas a 40-hour, lecture-based, interdisciplinary course that covered material processing, processimprovement and process optimization. The course was taught in English and the Americanengineering teaching style was adopted.Approach to build the American classroom environmentIn the US, the instructor usually uses project-based learning to motivate the students’ interests 8.The class is more flexibly-structured and the instructor is

Conference Session

Broad Perspectives on the Chemical Engineering Curriculum

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Troy J. Vogel, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; David L. Tomasko, Ohio State University

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Chemical Engineering

methods of attaining compliance with this criteria. This work shows 2 differentmethods of complying with the criteria within large public universities with undergraduatestudent populations in excess of 700 each. One method places emphasis on integrating safetythroughout the entire core curriculum within mini design projects mainly through student self-learning. The topics are then reinforced within the capstone courses during senior year. Thesecond method places emphasis on distributing safety topics among the unit operations andsenior design courses supplemented by an elective course in Chemical Process Safety. Repeatedemphasis of safety alongside technical content results in a relatively strong connection to thecontext of chemical process

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hua Li, Texas A&M University-Kingsville; Mohamed Abdelrahman, Texas A&M University-Kingsville

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

Paper ID #12827Integrating Research in Sustainable Energy and the Environment across Dis-ciplines through a NSF funded REU SiteDr. Hua Li, Texas A&M University-Kingsville Dr. Hua Li, an Assistant Professor in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Texas A&M University- Kingsville, is interested in sustainable manufacturing, renewable energy, sustainability assessment, and engineering education. Dr. Li has served as PI and Co-PI in different projects funded by NSF, DOEd, DHS, and HP, with a total amount of more than 2.5 million dollars.Prof. Mohamed Abdelrahman, Texas A&M University-Kingsville Dr. Abdelrahman

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Topics Related To Engineering Design Graphics Division

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nancy E. Study, Pennsylvania State University, Erie

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Engineering Design Graphics

peer assessment plan, students handed a print of the multiview drawing in tothe instructor at the beginning of lab then the assignments were redistributed to the students sothey could assess the drawings and mark any errors. Correctly identifying the majority of theerrors on the drawing they marked up was part of each student’s grade. Actual grading andassigning point values to the errors was not part of the peer review, this was done by theinstructor.Grades on the individual assignments along with final project and exam scores were compared tothose from previous semesters. Grades on the individual assignments improved significantly butthere were no significant differences in the exam grades or overall grades. This may be due, inpart, to the

Conference Session

Subjects in Renewable Energy and ET

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fred Chiou, Electronics Engineering Technology at Weber State University

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Engineering Technology

Electronics Engineering Technology Department of Engineering Technology Weber State UniversityAbstractMany energy efficiency projects have been performed in Weber State University campus in thepast years. The achievement is remarkable. This paper will address the design of a pilot project,Solar Charging Station, through student’s senior project for education and research. Students willlearn the theory of solar Photovoltaic (PV) systems and to build an experimental solar chargingstation to charge the electric bikes and electric bikes. The integrated system will be used as thedemonstration for the two new courses, Renewable Energy and Solar PV Systems, at the WeberState University. The

Conference Session

Best of DEED

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ibrahim Mohedas, University of Michigan; Grace Louise Cravens, Sienko Research Group; Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan; Kathleen H. Sienko, University of Michigan

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

to address this gap in the literature by determining what students perceive therole of stakeholders should be during the design process and identifying the design project traitsthat facilitate learning the value of human-centered design processes.Research DesignStudy PurposeThe goal of this study was to determine how student perceptions of stakeholders differed beforeand after their capstone design experience, and to determine if and how the students’ interactionswith stakeholders during the semester changed their perceptions. We also explored how different Page 26.1695.2design project traits may have affected the level of stakeholder

Conference Session

General Technical Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeremy Wayne Gilreath, Guilford College; Chafic Bou-Saba, Guilford College

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Computers in Education

with Raspberry PiAbstractOur paper describes a challenging and enjoyable undergraduate student project that details theprocess of configuring a Raspberry Pi into an advanced multimedia player as a headless systemcontrollable by infrared remote or secure shell (SSH) protocol. This paper provides amethodological, step-by-step set of specific instructions on how to replicate this project. Theundergraduate student applied concepts from operating systems (OS), networks, and electronicsinto practical steps to exploit readily available open-source software packages and highly-customizable hardware components. Electronic components were soldered to build a modifiedprinted circuit board (PCB) with a liquid crystal display (LCD) screen and push-buttons

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sushil Acharya, Robert Morris University; Priya Manohar, Robert Morris University; Peter Y Wu, Robert Morris University; Ali A. Ansari, Virginia State University; Walter W Schilling Jr., Milwaukee School of Engineering

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

CourseAbstractEffective teaching requires effective teaching tools. This pedagogical requirement is especiallyimportant for software engineering education, where graduates are expected to develop softwarethat meets rigorous quality standards in functional and application domains. To enhancestudents’ understanding of the needs of the professional software industry, lecture notes aresupplanted by additional pedagogical tools being developed at the author’s institution for asoftware verification and validation (V&V) course. These active learning teaching tools,consisting of class exercises, case studies, and case study videos, are being developed inpartnership with industry. The basic objective of the project is to improve software education sothat it is

Conference Session

Make It!

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Sarkis Babikian, Vaughn College of Aeronautics & Technology; Terry K Beesoon, Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology; Shouling He, Vaughn College of Aeronautics & Technology; Hossein Rahemi, Vaughn College of Aeronautics & Technology

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Diversity

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Manufacturing

c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 3D Printer from Scratch Made with e-WasteASTRACTIn this project we present our idea about building a 3D printer based on the recycled electroniccomponents. The motivations for us to work on the project are (1) 3D printing technology asnext industrial revolution has caught wide attention around the world. With the development ofthe technology, a custom part that would previously take a great deal of time and money for aprofessional manufacturer to produce can now be made much quicker at a very low cost.Particular for college engineering education, students can produce different innovative parts fortheir new designs for robots or unmanned aerial vehicles using a self-made

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2015 ASEE Workshop on K-12 Engineering Education

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Greg Burnham, Allen High School Allen ISD; Kenyan D Burnham

Paper ID #14311Play Drive Electric Car ChallengeMr. Greg Burnham, Allen High School Allen ISD Greg Burnham has been integrating engineering projects into science classes in Texas for thirteen years. Currently he teaches engineering and robotics and coaches FRC Team 5417 at Allen High School in Allen, Texas. Greg spends his summer months collaborating with Texas Tech University WCOE and IDEAL Institute to conduct science and engineering camps and teacher training. He received a Bachelor’s of Science in Multi-Disciplinary Science from Texas Tech University.Mr. Kenyan D Burnham

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2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

M. Zoghi; L. Crask; B. Hyatt; V. Luo; W. Wu

that will have great potential to improvemankind’s quality of life. The overarching thematic areas include energy and environment,health, security, and learning and computation. The GCSP has five components: (1)interdisciplinary curriculum, (2) hands-on projects or research experience, (3) entrepreneurship,(4) service learning, and (5) global perspective. The aforementioned roadmap will not onlyenhance students’ skills and knowledge needed to solve complex societal problems, but willprovide realistic and exciting opportunities for students to get engaged.There is an increasing number of engineering programs worldwide adopting the GCSP roadmapwithin their existing undergraduate and/or graduate education. The details of a proposed GCSPin the

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2015 ERC

Authors

Eric Rohlfing

DEVELOPMENT CYCLE 5Changing the Model Create Select Projects Programs Identify White Advanced Manage Space Technology Development Technology-to-Market Markets and Skills and Stakeholder Techno-economics Resources engagement (value) (implementation) (people) 6The ARPA-E PortfolioAs of January 2015, ARPA-E has funded over 400 projects

Conference Session

Curriculum Exchange

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Kjolsing P.E., University of California, San Diego; Yael Van Den Einde, University of California, San Diego

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Paper ID #11220Internalizing the Symbolic World: Using Low-Cost Shake Tables to ConveyEarthquake Engineering Concepts to Secondary School Students (K-12 Divi-sion: Curriculum Exchange)Mr. Eric Kjolsing P.E., University of California, San Diego Eric completed his B.S. degree in 2007 and his M.S. degree in 2008 in Structural Engineering from UC San Diego. In 2011, Eric earned his M.B.A. from San Diego State University with a coursework emphasis in finance and a thesis outlining a competitive framework for firms in the transportation industry pursuing Design-Build projects. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. at UC San Diego in