Conference Session

Faculty Career Development

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Miraglia, Syracuse University ; Sharon W. Alestalo, Syracuse University; Shobha K. Bhatia, Syracuse University

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Women in Engineering

lives and aspirations of STEM woman graduatestudents. The political debates shaping women in science continue to impact the personal lives ofindividual women. WiSE-FPP operates at this individual level to support women’s persistenceand success in STEM. By offering programs and events that provide skills and strategies fornegotiating gender-based inequalities in academia and industry, WiSE-FPP seeks to underminethese systems of inequality one STEM graduate at a time.Gender MattersIn the 1970’s, the women’s rights movement coined the phrase, “the personal is political.” Thestatement reflects the belief that women’s personal struggles reach beyond their individual livesto inequalities embedded in institutional contexts. In regards to women in STEM

Conference Session

ChemE Potpourri

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bill Jay Brooks, Oregon State University; Debra Gilbuena, Oregon State University; John L. Falconer, University of Colorado, Boulder; David L. Silverstein, University of Kentucky; Ronald L. Miller, Colorado School of Mines; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University

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Chemical Engineering

, including: highlights of AIChE Concept Warehouse news, added questions, new tutorials and comments about submitted questions. Search View, filter, and search for questions. Then, select question(s) for use in class. Organize, group, download (MS Power Point, MS Word), or assign (via projection in-class or Manage Tests sent to student laptops or smartphones) ConcepTests. Confidence and short answer explanation prompts can be added to questions during assignment. ConcepTests View information after questions have been answered, including all or a

Conference Session

Attracting Young Minds: Part I

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rafic Bachnak, Texas A&M International University; Rohitha Goonatilake, Texas A&M International University

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Minorities in Engineering

School (Female) Middle School (Female) 5 7 3 8 Total male: 12 Total female: 11Pretest/posttest comparison has been done for 21 participants as depicted in Figure 1. Twoparticipants were unable to take the posttest due their involvements in other campus summeractivities. Pretest/Posttest Comparision 40 y = 0.0241x + 29.72 T R² = 0.0016 e 35 s

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Problem-based and Challenge-based Learning

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Angela van Barneveld, Purdue University; Johannes Strobel, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Greg Light, Northwestern University

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Educational Research and Methods

deep learning in students and; an integrative rather than anadditive approach to the inclusion of new content or to meet accreditation requirements. Page 25.1272.16 [First Authors Last Name] Page 16 ReferencesABET. (2009). Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs. Retrieved from http://www.abet.org/Linked%20Documents- UPDATE/Criteria%20and%20PP/E001%2009-10%20EAC%20Criteria%2012- 01-08.pdf.Ahlfeldt, S., Mehta, S., & Sellnow, T. (2005). Measurement and analysis of student engagement in university

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2012 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Qinghai Gao

human being has limited number of biometrics. Therefore, it is a desirable to generatemultiple independent biometric templates from biometric image (s). The partial fingerprint basedverification methods we are proposing in this paper mainly focus on achieving this goal. The rest of the paper is organized as follows. Section 2 reviews previous work done byothers on matching partial fingerprints. Section 3 briefly states our contribution. Section 4introduces the methods of generating partial fingerprint images and the matching algorithm. Insection 5 we give our preliminary testing results. Section 6 summarizes and concludes the paper.Literature review Generally it is easier to obtain partial fingerprints than full fingerprints

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2012 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Qinghai Gao

human being has limited number of biometrics. Therefore, it is a desirable to generatemultiple independent biometric templates from biometric image (s). The partial fingerprint basedverification methods we are proposing in this paper mainly focus on achieving this goal. The rest of the paper is organized as follows. Section 2 reviews previous work done byothers on matching partial fingerprints. Section 3 briefly states our contribution. Section 4introduces the methods of generating partial fingerprint images and the matching algorithm. Insection 5 we give our preliminary testing results. Section 6 summarizes and concludes the paper.Literature review Generally it is easier to obtain partial fingerprints than full fingerprints

Conference Session

Standards and K-12 Engineering

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jenny Daugherty, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Rodney L. Custer, Black Hills State University; Debra Brockway, Stevens Institute of Technology; Daniel A. Spake, Purdue University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

paper describes the design and development of an assessment to measure the learning ofengineering concepts. Important issues that have been encountered during the developmentprocess are discussed so as to serve to inform future efforts in developing sound instrumentationfor K-12 engineering. The assessment development process and resulting issues can beappropriately framed within the context of an engineering design problem. Just as Dym, Little,Orwin, and Spjut (2009) defined engineering design as a “a systematic, intelligent process inwhich designers generate, evaluate and specify designs for devices, systems or processes whoseform(s) and function(s) achieve clients’ objectives and users’ needs while satisfying a specifiedset of constraints

Conference Session

Engineering Education and Comparative Studies at Universities throughout Asia, Far East

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Peter Jay Kutnick, University of Hong Kong; Yuen-Yan Chan, University of Hong Kong; Pok Yee Lee, University of Hong Kong

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International

. & Greenwald, S., et al. (Eds.) (2007). University collaboration for innovation: Lessons from the Cambridge MIT Institute. Global Perspectives on Higher Education. Rotterdam, Sense.17. Moreland, J., Jones, A., & Barlex, D. (2008). Design and technology inside the black box. London: GL Assessment.18. Adams, R. S., Turns, J., & Atman, C. J. (2003). Educating effective engineering designers: The role of reflective practice. Design Studies, 24(3), 275-294.19. Brophy, S., Klein, S., Portsmore, M., & Rogers, C. (2008). Advancing engineering education in P-12 classrooms. Journal for Engineering Education, 97(3), 369-387.20. Thurston, A., Topping, K., Christie, D., Tolmie, A., Murray, P., & Swan, M. (2007

Conference Session

Ethical Cases and Curricula

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert M. Brooks, Temple University; Jyothsna Kavuturu, St.Joseph’s College; Mehmet Cetin, Temple University

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Engineering Ethics

AC 2012-2976: INTERRUPTED CASE METHOD FOR TEACHING ETHICSIN TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING AND SYSTEMS MANAGEMENTCOURSEDr. Robert M. Brooks, Temple University Robert Brooks is an Associate Professor of civil engineering at Temple University. He is a Fellow of ASCE. His research interests are engineering education, civil engineering materials, and transportation engineering.Jyothsna K. S., St.Joseph’s College Jyothsna K. S. is in the Department of English, St.Joseph’s College, Bangalore. K. S. secured a gold Medal for the highest aggregate marks in the Post Graduate English Literature course at St.Joseph’s College (autonomous). K. S. has been working for the Department of English, St.Joseph’s College, for almost two

Conference Session

Two-year Institutions Help Fill the STEM Pipeline

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elaine P. Scott, Seattle Pacific University; Hannah F. Azevedo, Seattle Pacific University

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Two Year College Division

AC 2012-4939: LESSONS LEARNED FROM A PROGRAM TO ENCOUR-AGE AND ENABLE TRANSFER STUDENTS TO COMPLETE THEIR EN-GINEERING DEGREESDr. Elaine P. Scott, Seattle Pacific UniversityHannah F. Azevedo, Seattle Pacific University Page 25.889.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Lessons Learned from a Program to Encourage and Enable Transfer Students to Complete their Engineering DegreesIntroductionOur Engineering Department is working to increase the number of community college transferstudents in our engineering program through a National Science Foundation funded S-STEMgrant. The goal of the grant

Conference Session

Global and Cultural Issues in Construction

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Whitney A. Lutey, Montana State University; Penny M. Knoll, Montana State University

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Construction

. Page 25.948.2The state’s eastern region was part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and was part of the Lewisand Clark Expedition in 1804 to 1806. With the findings of gold and copper in the late 1850’s,Montana became a US Territory on May 26, 1864 and the 41st state on November 8, 1889.Mining and cattle ranching have been the major themes of the state history. Mining has beenassociated with the state since the late 1850’s with the discovery of gold in Bannack Creek (nearthe capital) and by 1888, had more millionaires per capita than any other city in the world. Cattleranching has been associated with the state since the late 1800’s, mostly due to the HomesteadAct of 1862 and its revision in the early 1900’s, which expanded the amount of land a

Conference Session

FPD III: Innovation in Design in the First Year

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ann Saterbak, Rice University; Mark Embree, Rice University; Maria Oden, Rice University

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First-Year Programs

step in the designprocess or an important skill such as writing technical documents or teamwork. During theremaining 45 minutes, students meet in their design teams to work together. The first half of thesemester is devoted to defining the design problem, developing the design context review,establishing design criteria, brainstorming solutions, using a Pugh matrix to evaluate and selectone or two solutions, and then defining and describing the selected solution(s) in more detail.During design team meetings, each team has access to its own whiteboard.During the second half of the semester, half of the class periods are similar to the formatdescribed above; the other half of the class periods are entirely devoted to team meetings.Lecture topics

Conference Session

Global Engineering Models: Curriculum Development, Improvements, and Partnerships

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kurt M. DeGoede, Elizabethtown College; Momodou Jain

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International

undergraduate colleges in theUS. While faculty at UTG (and smaller colleges in the US) will struggle to compete with theR1's in the scholarship of discovery, the playing field can be leveled or even tipped to theiradvantage in the other areas. Faculty at many smaller US colleges and UTG will likely alwayshave greater teaching responsibilities and less access to costly research laboratories andresources (library, software, database access, support staff, technicians, etc.). This clearly tips thecompetitive balance toward the R1's in the scholarship of discovery. However in the scholarshipof teaching, an increased valuation of teaching should provide opportunity to raise visibility inthis area of scholarship. Evidence of this can be seen every summer at

Conference Session

From Entrepreneurship Education to Market

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James V. Green, University of Maryland, College Park

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

contact throughout the project on data requirements,scheduling meetings, and project coordination. Clients are asked to be demanding of the studentteams in the mold of hired consultants, but still collaborate with them as they would with a newemployee.For the formation of student teams, candidate projects are defined in a one- to two-page scope ofwork by the client. All candidate projects are collected in a single email and distributed toHinman CEOs students near the start of the semester. Within approximately one week, studentsmay apply for multiple projects, but will be selected for no more than one.To apply, students send an email to the Hinman CEOs staff stating what project(s), in order ofpreference, that they are interested in joining

Conference Session

Research Informing Teaching Practice II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Renata A. Revelo Alonso, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Michael C. Loui, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Educational Research and Methods

Outside EngineeringIntroductionAssessing the state of engineering education within the larger community of educators, theNational Science Foundation has highlighted the need for an understanding of engineering infields outside of engineering and “attention to STEM literacy for the public at large”1. In the1995 NSF report Restructuring Engineering Education: A Focus Change2, one of thesuggestions to address such a need was to offer engineering courses to non-engineering students.Consequently, in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s, engineering departments slowly began to offercourses for students who did not plan to major in engineering. Because few such generaleducation courses were offered in the past, little is known about the long-term student

Conference Session

Innovative Course Developments in Construction

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Tingerthal P.E., Northern Arizona University

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Construction

confidence in understanding)Turning now to the topics themselves (see Table 2), the average ranking of each topic rangedfrom 1.58 for “free body diagrams” to 2.65 for “section modulus” (N=60). Most confidence wasshown in topics taught early in the semester and dealing with force and load. Least confidencewas shown with concepts taught later in the semester, and dealing with section properties (S),bending (stress, beam moment) and pure stress and strain. These lower ranked concepts dealwith more complex concepts. The notable exception to the relationship between order ofpresentation and ranking are the topics dealing with wood properties and design.Looking at performance on exam, a paired-sample t-test was used to compare the scores ontopics chosen

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ikseon Choi, University of Georgia; Yi-Chun Hong, National Central University; David K. Gattie, University of Georgia; Nadia N. Kellam, University of Georgia; Melissa G. Gay, University of Georgia; Lucas John Jensen, University of Georgia; Hyojin Park, University of Georgia; YounSeok Lee, University of Georgia

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

summer youth program.Ms. Hyojin Park, University of Georgia Hyojin Park is a doctoral student pursuing a degree in learning, design, and technology at the University of Georgia. She obtained a master’s degree in educational technology from Korea. Her research interests are mobile-based learning, real-world problem solving, and scaffolding.Mr. YounSeok Lee, University of Georgia Younseok Lee is a doctoral student in the Learning, Design, and Technology program at the University of Georgia. He holds a B.S. in electronic engineering and information technology and an M.S. in computer science with an emphasis in computer graphics. He worked for the Mobile S/W company for five years as a mobile S/W programmer and Project

Conference Session

Future Directions of Continuing Professional Development

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gonca Altuger-Genc, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

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Continuing Professional Development

] Litzinger, T., Wise, J., Lee, S., and Bjorklund, S., 2003, “Assessing Readiness for Self-directed Learning”,Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition[3] Jiusto, S., DiBiasio, D., 2006, “Experiential Learning Environments: Do They Prepare Our Students to be Self-Directed, Life-Long Learners?”, Journal of Engineering Education, July 2006, pp: 195-204[4] Litzinger, T., Wise, J., and Lee, S., 2005, “Self-directed Learning Readiness Among Engineering UndergraduateStudents”, Journal of Engineering Education, April 2005, pp: 215-221[5] Kay, J., 2008, “Lifelong Learner Modeling for Lifelong Personalized Pervasive Learning”, IEEE Transactions onLearning Technologies, Vol.1, No.4, October-December

Conference Session

Projects in ECE

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Mohamed, Florida International University; Osama A. Mohammed, Florida International University

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Electrical and Computer

Defuzzification Crisp Input 2 Rule BaseFig. 10. A block diagram of the fuzzy controller utilized in this paper. S SB M MB B BB VS S SM SB B VB 1 1 0.8 0.8 Membership Membership 0.6 0.6 0.4 0.4

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Potpourri

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lawrence E. Whitman, Wichita State University; Don E. Malzahn, Wichita State University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

Page 25.1263.5 World   Table  4  MBTI  Step  II  Facets20   E I N S Initiating Receiving Abstract Concrete Expressive Contained Imaginative Realistic Gregarious Intimate Conceptual Practical Active Reflective Theoretical Experiential Enthusiastic Quiet Original Traditional T

Conference Session

Recruitment, Retention, and First-year Programs in ECE

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Wilczynski, University of Southern California; Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California; Michael Crowley, University of Southern California

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Electrical and Computer

together to do the design and implementationplanning. The integration of C3’s user-interface work with C4’s back-end code is the primarychallenge. And, of course, since the C4 students have already taken C3, there will be naturalmentoring about user-interface and animation issues.The projects have evolved, but are now based on work that Wilczynski did during hisentrepreneurial career when his company built manufacturing applications in an area called cellcontrol7. In the fall we do an assembly cell. In spring we do a glass-processing line. Schematicsof the cells, which the students will build and animate, are shown in figures 1 and 2 in theappendix. Here are links to the specifications the students start from:http://www-scf.usc.edu/~csci201

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2012 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

David Kazmer; Katie Bardaro

States, individual states have primary authority over their publiceducational systems. Here, legislatures also perform economic analysis regarding the needs of their constituents and 1Professor and Associate Dean, College of Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell, One University Avenue, Lowell, Massachusetts USA 01854; david_kazmer@uml.edu 2Lead Research Analyst, PayScale, Inc., 542 1st Avenue S, Suite 400, Seattle, Washington USA 98104; KatieB@payscale.com2012 ASEE Northeast Section Conference University of Massachusetts LowellReviewed Paper April 27-28, 2012the allocation of

Conference Session

Laboratory Innovations

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Aflaki, Christian Brothers University

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Mechanical Engineering

a strain gage based scale called SqueezoMeter designed to measure theapplied squeezing or pushing force. It is made of an S-shaped sensing element equipped with 4-strain gages, and two rectangular aluminum plates to apply the force.The second experiment, HuggoMeter, consists of two parallel ¼ inch aluminum beams mountedon two 8.5 x 16 x 1 in hard boards that are 1.25 inches apart. Mounted on the constant bendingportion of these beams are 4 strain gages forming a 4-active arm Wheatstone bridge. Studentscan hug the HuggoMeter and apply forces to it. The induced strains are measured through a dinrail mounted signal conditioner and A/D module, converted to the applied force and displayed onthe PC screen.These experiments, while entertaining and

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shweta Chopra, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Gary R. Bertoline, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Chad M. Laux, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Women in Engineering

will be designed based upon socialconstructionist theories using communicative prospective 11, which will reveal how femalestudents create, negotiate and shift their identities while selecting, studying and practicing inSTEM field. Research questions include: a) what do they think about graduate education; b)what does pursuing career in STEM field mean to female?; c) what messages are enunciate aboutSTEM discipline, and how does these messages differ at different points in a female’s life?; d)what were the initial factor(s) compelling females to choose STEM as field of study?; e) whatfeatures of STEM discipline seems enticing or dispiriting to females from pursuing educationand practice in these area?; f) what kind of guidance, mentoring, and

Conference Session

Training and Mentoring of Graduate Teaching Assistants

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Raslinda Ghazali, Purdue University; Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Graduate Studies

29, Student ID GKJ2]. The third form entails providing an answer with nointerpretation; feedback includes the correct answer by copying directly from GTAresources, while providing an answer with interpretation means the GTA provides thecorrect answer with some interpretation. In this example, “Devon Dalton is the CEO ofD. Dalton Technologies, but Devon is not the direct user of the procedure. Devon willreceive, evaluate, and archive the procedure but will not use the procedure for itsintended use. The Logistics Manager is the direct user of the procedure” [2008, GTAN02, Team 10, Student ID E2YG]. In this example, the GTA shows evidence ofinterpreting the student response - s/he provides information about the students’ actualresponse before

Conference Session

Research and Graduate Studies

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University; Korine Steinke Wawrzynski, Michigann State University; Rachel Mangiavellano, Michigan State University; Evan McCune, Michigan State University

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Graduate Studies

collaborations, undergraduate research, and collaboration as an administrative model. New Directions for Teaching and Learning. 2002 Jun 1;2002(90):81–90.5. Kuh GD. High-impact educational practices: what they are, who has access to them, and why they matter. Association of American Colleges and Universities; 2008.6. Kinkead J. Learning Through Inquiry: An Overview of Undergraduate Research. New Directions for Teaching and Learning. 2003 Mar 1;2003(93):5–18.7. Grimberg S, Langen T, Compeau L, Powers S. A Theme-Based Seminar on Environmental Sustainability Improves Participant Satisfaction in an Undergraduate Summer Research Program. Journal of Engineering Education. 2008 Jan;97(1):95–103.8. National Science Foundation

Conference Session

Hands-on Laboratory and Design Experiences in Environmental Engineering

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Parhum Delgoshaei, Virginia Tech; Vinod K. Lohani, Virginia Tech

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Environmental Engineering

-browser window -which contributes to making the remote lab experience feel more real and scalable to multipleusers at the same time. Although multiple users can view the link at the same time, only one cancontrol the instruments remotely (for example to change the sampling time). In Fig. 7, the userhas been granted control after requesting it from the server hence the message “Control granted.” Fig. 7. LEWAS tabbed interface accessed in client’s Web browser showing weather parameters in an indoor test. Functional Operation of LEWASFig. 8 shows the operational diagram of LEWAS lab. As depicted in this figure, first, eachenvironmental parameter is converted to a digital representation of 0’s and 1’s through dataacquisition that takes

Conference Session

Online Learning

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan L. Miertschin, University of Houston (CoT); Carole E. Goodson, University of Houston; Barbara L. Stewart, University of Houston

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Computers in Education

elements or structures are valuable to students in enhancingtheir time management for the enrolled course. A limitation of the reported results is that actualimprovement in time management skill was not measured; rather, the students’ perception ofimprovement was measured. Further study with measures of actual time management skills iswarranted. Further, longitudinal study regarding the persistence of time management skillacquired could elucidate important relationships about transfer of this necessary life skill to othercontexts. Page 25.911.12References1. C.E. Goodson, Miertschin S., Stewart B. “On-line Delivery of Courses: What Components

Conference Session

Energy Education Courses, Labs, and Projects

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Teodora Rutar Shuman, Seattle University; Gregory Mason P.E., Seattle University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

advanced cycles; air-conditioning processes of humid air; ReheatRankine cycle including means to improve its efficiency; Otto and Diesel cycles; Brayton withintercooling, reheating and regeneration; property diagrams, p-v, T-v, T-p, T-s, h-s, p-h, andPsychrometric chart . The course schedule is shown in Table 1 and is divided into ten weeks;each quarter typically contains ten weeks. Each week has 200 minutes of lectures, contents ofwhich are shown in the second column. Seven labs are offered, in weeks 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, and 10.Labs 1-4 require only 60 minutes per team; labs 5 and 6 require 90 minutes; Lab 7 is a two-and-ahalf hour tour of HVAC systems used to air-condition medical research laboratories at FredHutchinson Cancer Research Center

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sara Hooshangi, George Washington University

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Continuing Professional Development

of our Bachelor’s Degree Completion program as we continue togrow and improve the program. We hope to better serve our metropolitan region and contributeto the overall increase of college graduates within the region. We plan to expand the program inthe future to provide students with a larger number of elective courses and more options forspecialized tracks. Several tracks such as health IT, engineering patent and nanotechnology areunder consideration to be added to this program. 1 S. W. Popper and C. S. Wagner.” New Foundations for Growth: The U.S. Innovation System Today and Tomorrow”. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2002. 2 R.D. Atkinson and M. Mayo, “Refueling the U.S. Innovation Economy: Fresh Approaches to