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NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Leda Lunardi, NC State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Power Page 23.1277.5Table III: Sample of research projects in different disciplinesREU PARTICIPANT ACTIVITIESDuring the ten week program the students are presented with a schedule of organized activities.Some are jointly co-sponsored by the NC Office of Undergraduate Research and other summerprograms to create developing inter and multidisciplinary network. A typical schedule ofactivities includes:  Campus, safety and laboratory training  Professional development seminar on ethics and responsible conduct  Workshop on public presentation skills and career planning  Graduate school application and fellowship opportunities at

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"Modular" Learning

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jason M. Keith, Mississippi State University; Bill B Elmore, Mississippi State University; William Todd French, Mississippi State University; Hossein Toghiani, Mississippi State University; Rebecca K. Toghiani, Mississippi State University

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Chemical Engineering

, Mississippi State University Dr. Hossein Toghiani is the Thomas B. Nusz Endowed professor and an associate professor of Chemical Engineering at Mississippi State. He received his B.S.Ch.E, M.S.Ch.E, and Ph.D. in Chemical Engi- neering from the University of Missouri-Columbia. A member of the Bagley College of Engineering Academy of Distinguished Teachers, Dr. Toghiani has taught a variety of courses at MSU, including Pro- cess Control, Transport Phenomena, Reactor Design, Engineering Materials, Thermodynamics, both Unit Operations Laboratories and graduate courses in Advanced Thermodynamics, Transport Phenomena and Chemical Kinetics. He performs research in the areas of catalysis, fuel cells and nanocomposite materials.Dr

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Software Applications in ET Programs

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth W. Jackson, Southern Polytechnic State University; Gregory L. Wiles P.E., Southern Polytechnic State University

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Engineering Technology

Paper ID #6041Using Nonlinear Programming to Optimize the Fiber Packing Density of Op-tical Fiber Cables- A Short Problem-Based Learning CourseDr. Kenneth W. Jackson, Southern Polytechnic State University Kenneth W. Jackson, Ph.D. – P.E. Dr. Ken Jackson received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He also holds an M.S.M.E and a M.S. I.E. from Georgia Tech and a B.S.M.E from Auburn University. Before joining SPSU he worked for 15 years at the Bell Laboratories as a Consulting and Distinguished Member of Technical Staff. At Bell Labs Dr. Jackson worked on the design, development and

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2013 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Faruk Yildiz

. The large-sized training units onwheels are for outdoor experiments, and the small-sized training units can be used outdoors orcan be used indoors by with light (light bulb) and wind (fan) when weather conditions are notfavorable. Prior to the period of performance, five of the large training units had already beenbuilt for the mobile energy laboratory. During the period of performance, five more largetraining units were built along with 10 small-sized training units. For wind energy experiments,the large training units connect to a portable commercial wind turbine. Similarly, the small-sizedtraining units connect to peripheral components, such as a 10-inch by 10-inch photovoltaicmodule. Using worksheets, students learn about the function of

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Hao Jiang; José Carrillo; Alam Salguero; Ellaine Talle; Enrique Raygoza; Xenia Leon; Ben Lariviere; Amelito G. Enriquez; Wenshen Pong; Hamid Shahnasser; Hamid Mahmoodi; Cheng Chen

Engaging Underrepresented Community College Students in Engineering Research Hao Jiang1, Jose Carrillo2, Alam Salguero2, Ellaine Talle2, Enrique Raygoza2, Xenia Leon2, Ben Lariviere 1, Amelito G. Enriquez2, Wenshen Pong1, Hamid Shahnasser1, Hamid Mahmoodi1, Cheng Chen1 1 School of Engineering, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 2 Cañada College, Redwood City, CAAbstractOne of the effective methods to engage and excel underrepresented minority (URM) students inthe STEM field is to “replace standard laboratory courses with discovery-based research”, asmentioned in the 2012 PCAST report [1

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Lucia Riderer; Harmonie A. Hawley

members to study at the graduate level and to pursue their career dreams.Three field trips were held throughout 2012 as part of the second component of Links toEngineering. Several EEWIE members visited the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CAand the Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Laboratory at California State Polytechnic University,Pomona during the summer, 2012. Two of the EEWIE participants attended a three-day NASAAdvanced Rocketry Workshop in Huntsville, Alabama from July 18 to 21, 2012.The final component of Links to Engineering was to have students work on Engineering-relatedresearch projects. Members were not required to conduct research, but several students opted todo so. Three EEWIE members joined the Citrus College Rocket Owls

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2013 GSW

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John Sibert; Matthew Goeckner; Dave Galley; Kory Goldammer

articulation agreements have beeninstitutionalized, they now represent a platform for recurring future communication/collaborationamong the STEM departments across all three campuses.Summer Undergraduate Research Experiences for Transfer StudentsUndergraduate research experiences have been shown to be an excellent opportunity forengagement and persistence within STEM degree plans.10 Thus, the Collaborative placed twentySTEM students from Collin and Richland College in the research laboratories of UT Dallasfaculty in the summers of 2011 and 2012 with an additional twelve planned for the summer of2013. The research areas covered a wide STEM base including biology, chemistry, geosciences,applied mathematics, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering

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2013 GSW

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Cherif Aissi; Mohammed Zubair

control and avoid chaos butalso how to design chaotic circuits and develop applications, which explore these phenomena.Realizing the educational value to introduce undergraduate students to the phenomena of chaos, Proceedings of the 2013 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference, The University of Texas at Arlington, March 21 – 23, 2013. Copyright ©2013, American Society for Engineering EducationLonngren [1] describes an interesting electronics experiment to illustrate the existence of chaos.The described laboratory experiment with the accompanying theory is a good start for the studentto grasp and understand chaos. As a continuation of this goal and to enhance studentsunderstanding of

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Md. Mamunur Rashid; Mahbub Ahmed; Khalil Dajani; Jobaidur Rahman Khan; Haider Bhuiyan

engineering andProceedings of the 2013 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 2mechanical engineering), engineering technology (civil and mechanical), computer sciencecourses as well as courses from other disciplines (i.e., Introduction to Arabic). The engineeringcourses include introductory and advanced undergraduate level, and graduate level – both lectureand laboratory based courses. The student satisfaction and teaching performance were measuredbased on the calculated SSE and SET indices.The necessary data were gathered from student evaluation forms from five different institutions.The name of institution, discipline, and list of courses are provided in Table

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K-12 Robotics

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mehmet Ayar, TUBITAK; Bugrahan Yalvac, Texas A&M University; Fatih Ugurdag, Ozyegin University; Alpaslan Sahin, Texas A&M University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

field notes when thestudents were taught theoretical background, engaged in practical work to make their own robot,and compete with each other to win the final race. Field notes were taken when invited speakerstalked about their research interests. We observed the students as they worked at the electric-electronic laboratory and they tested their robot models on the race courses. We identifiedstudent-student, student-faculty, and student-mentor interactions. These observations were ameans for us to observe the iterative processes through which robot models were developed.We transcribed the interviews verbatim and analyzed them using the constant-comparativemethod30. We triangulated the findings from interviews with the field notes and

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2013 GSW

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Amit Oza; Gary Coleman; Lex Gonzalez; Bernd Chudoba; Paul Czsyz

Saturday Morning Session 1 - Student Solution Space Screening of a Hypersonic Endurance Demonstrator Amit Oza, Gary Coleman, Lex Gonzalez, Bernd Chudoba Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department University of Texas at Arlington Paul Czysz Hypertech Concepts LLC St. Louis, MO AbstractThe Solution Space Screening for a Hypersonic Endurance Demonstrator program was atwo and one-half month study to: Demonstrate the Aerospace Vehicle Design (AVD) Laboratory

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Robots and K-12 Computer Applications

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeffrey Laut, Polytechnic Institute of New York University; Vikram Kapila, Polytechnic Institute of New York University; Magued G. Iskander P.E., Polytechnic Institute of New York University

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Computers in Education

Paper ID #6150Exposing Middle School Students to Robotics and Engineering through Legoand MatlabMr. Jeffrey Laut, Polytechnic Institute of New York University Jeffrey Laut received his B.Sc. degree from the Polytechnic Institute of New York University in 2009 and his M.Sc. degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 2011, both in Mechanical Engineering. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, where for the 2011-2012 academic year he was a teaching fellow in their GK-12 program. Laut conducts research in the Dynamical Systems Laboratory, where his interests include controls

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New Approaches in Engineering

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Audrey Lynn LaVallie, Turtle Mountain Community College; Eric Asa, North Dakota State University; G. Padmanabhan P.E., North Dakota State University

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Minorities in Engineering

shown that students who engage in research projects are morelikely to enroll in and complete STEM degree programs when compared to other students9.Increased understanding of the research process10,11,12, a shift from passive to activelearning13,14,15, enhanced research and laboratory skills10,11,16,17, and increased understanding and Page 23.307.2interest in the discipline are some of the benefits undergraduate students gain by engaging inresearch. Students are also more likely to pursue careers in the STEM field when they hadexperienced undergraduate research- gains were particularly noticeable among minorities3.Also in the last several years

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Methods, Techniques, and New Programs in Graduate Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Niaz Latif, Purdue University, Calumet ; Joy L Colwell, Purdue University, Calumet (Tech)

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Graduate Studies

Modeling Simulation and Computer Graphics log/current- catalog/FOI/CEN01.htm University of Georgia The University of Georgia Distributed http://www.cs.uga.edu/~maria Simulation Laboratory /pads/index.htm Portland State Graduate Certificate in Computer Modeling & http://www.pdx.edu/sysc/prog Simulation ram-systems-science- graduate-certificates Modeling and Simulation Certificate http://www.defense.gatech.ed Georgia

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Product Development and Manufacturing

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jay R Porter, Texas A&M University; Joseph A. Morgan, Texas A&M University; Wei Zhan, Texas A&M University

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Engineering Technology

. The following section discusses these coursesand how they impact the product development experience being delivered to the students.ENTC 269: Embedded C Programming As most of the product development activities within the ESET Program include anembedded intelligence device, the faculty decided to replace the typical C Programming coursewith an internally taught Embedded C Programming course and associated laboratory. In sodoing, the students were engaged in the embedded software high-level language developmentenvironments at an earlier point in their academic careers. The students were also able to better Page 23.472.4understand the

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Perspectives and Approaches to Teaching Simulation and Design-Based Courses

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Turton P.E., West Virginia University

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Chemical Engineering

system available at our university are illustrated in Figure 5 and illustrate therichness of the virtual environment. Two examples of how student activity might be affected byITS technology are: • In laboratory sessions, students might perform virtual experiments on a distillation tower that processed a toxic or explosive chemical (impossible to do in current day unit operations laboratories). The virtual equipment might be of commercial scale, comprising say of a tower 5 m in diameter containing 120 trays along with a thermosiphon reboiler, a partial condenser, reflux pumps, overhead drums, etc. A team of students might be set a task of evaluating the separation efficiency of the tower by

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Aerospace Division Technical Session 4

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Narayanan M. Komerath, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Aerospace

Paper ID #8072A Case Study on Advancing Learning in An Upper-Level Engineering CourseDr. Narayanan M. Komerath, Georgia Institute of Technology Professor Dr. Narayanan Komerath is a professor of Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Institute of Tech- nology, and director of the Experimental Aerodynamics and Concepts Group and the Micro Renewable Energy Systems Laboratory. He has over 300 publications, over 120 of them peer-reviewed. He holds three U.S. patents, and has guided fifteen Ph.D.s, more than 50 M.S.s and more than 160 undergraduate research special problem projects. He is a former chair of the Aerospace Division

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INT. Engineering Education: Developments, Innovations, Partnerships, and Implementations

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael J. Dyrenfurth, Purdue University, West Lafayette; James L. Barnes, James Madison University; Susan Kubic Barnes, James Madison University

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International

Laboratory hpcinnovationcenter.com/ By providing U.S. industry the opportunity to harness the power of supercomputing, the HPCIC boosts the nation's competitiveness in the global marketplace.Independent Centers• Boston Innovation Center: There are lots of ways that the Boston Innovation Center, now being built near the Institute of Contemporary Art, could turn ...• Cambridge Innovation Center cic.us/ (seems more of a building than a center) Neighboring the MIT Page 23.28.24 campus and steps away from the Red Line in the heart of Kendall Square, Cambridge Innovation Center is the largest flexible office facility ...• Cary Innovation

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jessica A Kuczenski, College of San Mateo / San Francisco State University

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Engineering Ethics

Page 23.1097.3of the laboratory courses that are found at bachelor degree granting institutions. The surveywritten and delivered at CC is available in Appendix C. A total of 91 students were surveyed atCC, all from the Introduction to Engineering (ENGR 1020) course. CC students are composed ofa mix of traditional and non-traditional students from various backgrounds. Many students are inthe first year of their engineering study, but many have other degrees or have pursued studies inother areas prior to joining the engineering department. At CC, students took the survey on paperafter a lecture and discussion on engineering ethics, without the instructor present. Studentresponses were collected by a student volunteer and results recorded by a

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Engineering Management In The Classroom

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brian E. White, CAU-SES; S. Jimmy Gandhi, California State University, Northridge

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Engineering Management

Paper ID #6547The Case for On-Line College Education - a work in progressDr. Brian E. White, CAU-SES Brian E. White received Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Computer Sciences from the University of Wiscon- sin, and S.M. and S.B. degrees in Electrical Engineering from M.I.T. He served in the United States Air Force, and for 8 years was at M.I.T. Lincoln Laboratory. For five years Dr. White was a principal engi- neering manager at Signatron, Inc. In his 28 years at The MITRE Corporation, he held a variety of senior professional staff and project/resource management positions. He was Director of MITRE’s Systems En- gineering

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Innovative Pedagogy in Civil Engineering Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Steven J. Burian, University of Utah; Jeffery S Horsburgh, Utah State University; David E Rosenberg, Utah State University; Daniel P. Ames, Brigham Young University; Laura G Hunter, Utah Education Network; Courtenay Strong, University of Utah

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Civil Engineering

Paper ID #6973Using Interactive Video Conferencing for Multi-Institution, Team-TeachingDr. Steven J. Burian, University of Utah Dr. Steven J. Burian is an associate professor in the Urban Water Group in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Utah. Dr. Burian’s career spans more than a decade during which he has worked in design engineering, as a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, as a profes- sor at the University of Arkansas and the University of Utah, and as a director of an engineering design and sustainability consulting firm he co-founded. Dr. Burian received a Bachelor’s

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Computers in Education Division - General Technical Session 1

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Glenn W Ellis, Smith College; Yanning Yu, Northwestern University

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Computers in Education

 (44  participants)  and  Fall  2012  (34  participants).    The course met twice a weekfor 80 minutes and included a weekly 170 minute laboratory. A theoretic course narrative (seethe appendix) framed learning within the context of innovation and efficiency and expandedupon the following intended learning outcomes for the course:• Develop an efficient command of the basic information, procedures and methodology needed to understand the mechanical behavior of an object under loading.• Develop the ability to use your knowledge in innovative ways.• Improve your competencies needed to participate in a knowledge organization.Mechanics concepts covered included an introduction to stress and strain; 2-d and 3-d rigid bodyequilibrium

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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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Ahmed Imran, Ajman Univeristy of Science & Technology, UAE; Mohamed Nasor M. Kalil; Fahar G. M. Hayati, Ajman University of Science & Technology

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International

various relevant competencies. This involved ensuring appropriate prerequisites and sequencing for the courses in the study plan. 4. The program contents were enhanced to ensure that the students’ interest and motivation in engineering were developed and sustained from the early stages of the programs. This involved adding topics, courses and activities in the early years of study so that the students could learn about their field of study as well as interact with the specialized faculty members from their respective programs.In addition, necessary resources to support implementation of the programs like laboratories,libraries, computers, hardware and software were also strengthened and updated.After more than

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ABET Accreditation, Assessment and Program Improvement in ECE.

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Diane T. Rover, Iowa State University; Douglas W. Jacobson, Iowa State University; Ahmed E. Kamal, Iowa State University; Akhilesh Tyagi, Iowa State University

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Electrical and Computer

Transmission, Access and Optical Systems.Prof. Akhilesh Tyagi, Iowa State University Akhilesh Tyagi is an associate professor of computer engineering at Iowa State University. He has also been with Computer Science department at Iowa State University, Laboratory for Computer Science at MIT, Computer Science department at UNC-Chapel Hill. He teaches classes in embedded systems and computer architecture. He received his PhD in Computer Science from University of Washington in 1988. Page 23.694.2 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Implementation and Results of a Revised ABET

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NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christopher D. Schmitz, University of Illinois; Michael C. Loui, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Renata A Revelo, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

able to like fix my fan not because they taught me that but because they really broke it down so that you could understand that a lot of things are just that you take it a step at a time. (Student 11) Page 23.719.5The majority of students said that the final project increased their confidence about tacklingfuture technical projects either on their own or through other courses. As above, many of thecomments specifically say that it is not necessarily the specific technical skill taught, but theencouragement to take the material beyond to other applications. Many of the interviewedstudents said that practical laboratory and Web

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Capstone Design and Innovations in ECE

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Electrical and Computer

, High Frequency Circuit Design, Antenna Design and Analog Electronics. Prior to joining WNE, Dr. Burke was with the EM Observables Division of Mission Research Corporation (MRC) from 1995 to 2000. From 1992 to 1995, Dr. Burke was with the MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation (MSC) Corporation. From 1990 to 1992, Dr. Burke was with Compact Software as a senior research engineer. From 1987 to 1990, Dr. Burke was with the Microwave Electronics Laboratory at the University of Massachusetts. From 1984 to 1986, Dr. Burke was with the Hughes Aircraft Corporation. Page 23.813.1 c American

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iSTEM

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University; Elizabeth A Parry, North Carolina State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Paper ID #7327Creating a STEM School Using Engineering ConnectionsDr. Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University Dr. Laura Bottomley received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1984 and an M.S. in Electrical Engi- neering in 1985 from Virginia Tech. She received her Ph D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University in 1992. Dr. Bottomley worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories as a member of technical staff in Transmission Systems from 1985 to 1987, during which time she worked in ISDN standards, including representing Bell Labs on an ANSI standards committee for physical layer ISDN

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NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shane A. Brown P.E., Washington State University; Devlin Montfort, Washington State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

materials.AcknowledgementsThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation Course,Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement Program under Grant No. 0837749. Anyopinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material arethose of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation.Bibliography1. I.A. Halloun and D. Hestenes, The Initial Knowledge State of College Physics Students. American Journal of Physics, 53(11): p. 6. (1985).2. S. Krause, J.C. Decker, and R.F. Griffin. Using a materials concept inventory to assess conceptual gain in introductory materials engineering courses. in Frontiers in Education. (2003).3. G.L. Gray, et al. The dynamics concept

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CEIII Wrapup

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Austin Bates Talley, University of Texas, Austin; Richard H. Crawford, University of Texas, Austin; Christina Kay White, University of Texas, Austin

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

learning techniques3,4. The programprovides guidance to K-12 teachers on using design problems in their classrooms to teachapplied mathematics and science. The PDIs teach engineering concepts through the use ofeveryday technology, directed laboratory activities, and design briefs. Since 1998 our programhas used LEGO® MINDSTORMS® robotics as the focus for hands-on experiences. The programhas its roots in engineering design theory and learning science research. To clearly demonstratethe effectiveness of this teaching approach, the entire program is taught using the methods theparticipants are expected to use in their classrooms. This curriculum exchange paper is presentedas a part of dissemination of the program’s research and resources; information

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Materials

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mohammad Kamal Hossain, Tuskegee University

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Mechanical Engineering

Professor and Research Faculty in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). He served as a Technical Advisor for the senior design project at UNLV. He teaches CAD, cap- stone design, and solid mechanics courses at the undergraduate and graduate level. He has been involved with the capstone design program at TU since his tenure in 2008. His course design projects are sponsored by industry and government laboratory which include GM, JOHN DEERE, AFRL, and NUCOR. He is the Lead-Faculty Contact for the Advancement of Collaborative Engineering Education (PACE) at TU. Page