Conference Session

Student Success II: Self-Regulatory, Metacognitive, and Professional Skills

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald R. Ulseth, Iron Range Engineering

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Educational Research and Methods

: “Students are self-regulated to the degree theyare metacognitively, motivationally, and behaviorally participants in their ownlearning”15. A key to SRL is that the “learner displays personal initiative, perseverance,and adaptive skill” when pursuing her learning14. Further features of SRL includestudents’ “self-oriented feedback loops” and the students’ choices of learning processes,strategies, and responses14. Key components in SRL are planning, goal setting, strategyselection, environmental monitoring, help seeking, and maintaining a sense of self-efficacy12.Whereas metacognition covers all aspects of the person, tasks, and strategies from boththe knowledge of and process using domains, self-regulated learning is more focused onusing

Conference Session

Instrumentation Division Technical Session 2

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lash B. Mapa, Purdue University - Calumet; Suraiya Jannat Khan, Purdue University - Calumet

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Diversity

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Instrumentation

for the usersto plan their tracking system.Tag readability depends on many variables, such as type of tag and antenna, distance from tag toantenna, tag orientation and tag placement. Also interferences with the surroundings due to otherwireless devices might have some effects on tag readability. The major interest in this research isto obtain a foot print depending on the tag readability in 3-D space in real time.EQUIPMENTResearches performed with RFID system requires a specific Antenna, Tag and Receiver. There aretwo types of tags, active and passive tags. Active tags require a continuous source of power. Theyare either connected to a power infrastructure or they use energy from an integrated battery. Onthe other hand, passive tags do not

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Division Poster Session

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth M. Hill, University of Minnesota - Duluth

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Chemical Engineering

. • Be sure to include o Scope (i.e. campus wide policy, specific utilities process, timeframe of analysis in current state or if historical data available, etc.) o Methods of research planned. (See assignment on Moodle for definitions and examples of primary, secondary, and tertiary) • You should complete this BEFORE lab on dd/mm/yy • If you see another entry with a similar topic, that is OK, but if more than 3 students are researching the same thing, please choose a different topic. • Recall, any surveys or interviews planned must also be discussed with the instructor BEFORE they are to be conducted.One week prior to the scope definition due date, the instructor

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Poster Session

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenni Buckley, University of Delaware; Amy Trauth, University of Delaware; Michael Chajes P.E., University of Delaware; Lori Pollock, University of Delaware; Kevin R. Guidry; Michael L. Vaughan, University of Delaware; Jeannie S. Stephens, University of Delaware

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First-Year Programs

easing the transition to college and providing structure and support foracademic resource-seeking and planning [1,2]. Lastly, we considered the administrative overheadof the course, both in its original format and following the redesign; and we compared our resultsto anticipated expenditures for a small-section PBL format course.MethodsDescription of Prior Version of the Course Our FYE engineering course, Introduction to Engineering (EGGG101), is a 2-credit, 14week course, with two lecture sections of 325 to 350 students. The course is open to all students,with 98% of enrollees being first-semester freshmen engineering students (all majors), excludingthe recently launched Biomedical Engineering major. Prior to the course revision, a

Conference Session

1st and 2nd Year Instruction in Design

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marjan Eggermont, University of Calgary

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Design in Engineering Education

common reading program” for incomingfirst year students.1,2 Typically, a book is selected by a campus committee and introduced duringsummer orientation activities. Students are expected to read the book in early fall and participatein discussion groups and other activities during the fall and/or winter semesters. Our first yeardesign and communications course at The Schulich School of Engineering at the University ofCalgary participated in 2013 for the first time because the book – No Impact Man by ColinBeavan - addressed questions about sustainable living and added value to a planned designproject. Students were asked to read one chapter of the book, to critically discuss this chapter intheir ‘chapter’ groups, and assign a spokesperson to

Conference Session

Developing Infrastructure Professionals

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Douglas Schmucker P.E., University of Utah; Joshua Lenart, University of Utah; Steven J. Burian P.E., University of Utah; Amir Mohaghegh Motlagh, University of Utah

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Diversity

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Civil Engineering

communications for the Depart- ment of Civil & Environmental Engineering and the Department of Chemical Engineering. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Utah in Rhetoric and Writing Studies and an M.A. in English from Montana State University. His research focuses on land management policy in two discrete areas. The first relates to civil infrastructure projects and landscape-scale impacts on habitat, community resilience, and long- term land use planning; the second involves the utilization, conservation, and management of big game wildlife resources. For the past five years he has led various transdisciplinary teaching and research projects examining land and wildlife resource management conflicts vis-`a-vis

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 3

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

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Diversity

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International

interaction and help break thetraditional lecture dominant pattern when cooperative learning protocols are deployed. Thepaper will illustrate how cooperative learning can advance academic success, quality ofrelationships, psychological adjustments, and attitudes toward the college experience. Whatneeds to be done to move the process forward? What are the key components of successfuldeployment of active learning in general and cooperative learning in particular? How tofoster and expand the community of engineering faculty who use cooperative learning?What plans, efforts, and resources need to be mobilized to institutionalize pedagogies ofengagement including cooperative learning at the department or college level?Next, it identifies barriers to

Conference Session

Pedagogical Considerations for Teaching Engineering Professionals

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachel LeBlanc, WPI

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Continuing Professional Development

quality efforts have been focused onenhancing the quality of our graduate engineering programs, this knowledge is also being appliedto gap courses. As part of the WPI’s new strategic plan, one of the elevate impact initiatives isfocused on pioneering competency-based online education with a focus on engineering educationat the graduate level. This focus and investment has allowed us to reexamine the gap coursesand identify areas for enhancement. Efforts are currently underway to transition those coursesfrom traditional lecture-based courses to competency-based courses. While we expect the moveto competency-based graduate courses to be a large undertaking, we expect the gap course effortto be minimal since the courses had already been modularized

Conference Session

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division Poster Session: Works in Progress

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sahid Linés Rosado Lausell, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Kevin Pitts, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Jana Sebestik, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; George Reese, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Adam Poetzel, University of Illinois

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

; Middle School Student Interactions. Students in attendance during the fourth Saturday were asked if they enjoyed interacting and working with the undergraduate student volunteers. In the future, we hope to encourage more robust mentor/mentee relationships by allowingfor more interactions outside of the program. These strategies could include a PenPal program, ora visit day on campus so students can see what a typical day at a university looks like for theirmentors.Future Plans Research shows that providing long-term engagement is crucial in moving youth fromsimply having an interest in science to actually having the skills, knowledge, and self-efficacy topursue careers in science13

Conference Session

Social Responsibility and Social Justice II: From Classroom to Community

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna M. Riley, Virginia Tech; Janice L. Hall, Virginia Tech

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

. Itshould be noted that Algiers is located in the West Bank district of New Orleans and was one ofthe less-impacted areas after Katrina, an “Immediate Opportunity Area”a as it would later becalled in the action plan set forth by the Urban Planning committee for the Bring New OrleansBack Commission.23 The vice president and Algiers legislators presented the proposal for thenew charter schools to an invitation only group on October 5, 2005 without informing theOPSB.21 The vice president for Algiers schools emailed the proposal to board members the nightbefore the scheduled OPSB meeting, which was held on October 7, 2005. It was announced atthe OPSB meeting by New Orleans Governor Kathleen Blanco that charter schools were to bebuilt in New Orleans and

Conference Session

Assessment, Course, and Curricular Development

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Glenn T. Wrate P.E., Northern Michigan University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

parameters on the relay, connectingthe test leads, developing the test plan in the Doble software, and running the tests. Based onpreliminary feedback, the students also prefer this arrangement. The only drawback to this iscoordinating individual student testing times, since setup and running the tests can sometimestake two hours (more if the students run into problems).In the future, the plan is to add SEL-321 relays (already in the lab) along with a SEL-311 (in theprocess of being donated by a local utility), to match the protection schemes of local utilities.While this lab is similar to laboratories at some universities3, it does not have the advancedcommunication capabilities or other advanced features of some of the premier laboratories4, 5

Conference Session

Research on Diversification, Inclusion, and Empathy II

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joanna K. Garner, Old Dominion University; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University - University Park; Christine Haas, Engineering Ambassadors Network; Avi Kaplan, Temple University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

that purpose. A third component is beliefs – knowledge and conceptions that arestated as being true about the world or about a domain, such as engineering. The fourthcomponent is action possibilities – plans, intentions, strategies, and behaviors that the individualfeels are possible or impossible in the role. These four components emerge continuously throughsocial interactions in different contexts, and interact in a dynamic fashion among themselves, andwith analogous components that belong to other important roles of the person. The four components interact dynamically to form the basis for motivated decisionmaking and action in the role. For example, a student might have a particular set of beliefs aboutthe field of engineering such

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Bernadette Longo, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Dave M. Kmiec, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #16271From Workplace to Classroom - Document Workflow and Engineering Com-munication PedagogyDr. Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Dr. Julia M. Williams is Executive Director of the Office of Institutional Research, Planning, and Assess- ment and Professor of English at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Her research areas include tech- nical communication, assessment, accreditation, and the development of change management strategies for faculty and staff. Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Engineering Education, International Journal of Engineering Education, IEEE Transactions on

Conference Session

Subjects in 3D Printing and ET Programs

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rex C Kanu, Purdue University (Statewide Technology); Caleb Hale, Purdue Polytechnic Institute; Patrick O'Neal Piper, Ivy Tech Community College

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Diversity

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Engineering Technology

to engineering materials which include metals, ceramics,plastics, and composites in two 100-level courses. Primarily, the contents of these coursesconsisted of topics such as the nature of materials, structure-property relationships,manufacturing methods, and techniques of determining engineering materials’ propertiesaccording to industrial procedures described in the standards such as those of the AmericanSociety for Testing and Materials. These same students, according to their academic plans, wererequired to take a freshman technical design graphics course, where they are introduced to 3Dprinting. Thus, it seemed reasonable to synergistically utilize the skills acquired from two tothree freshman courses in a project-based learning

Conference Session

Potpourri: Various Issues and Topics in Graduate Studies

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Catherine G.P. Berdanier, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Ekembu Kevin Tanyi, Norfolk State University; IRVING K CASHWELL Jr, Norfolk State University; Tasha Zephirin, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica Farmer Cox, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Diversity

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Graduate Studies

for human use B 5 Nanostructure synthesis and characterization C 3 Development of SPASER technologyFor this study, we employed a mixed methods research plan which included survey data andcontent analysis methods. The surveys employed are evaluative rather than predictive, andrequired trainees to rate their performance and their team’s performance in a number of differentcategories. The surveys were compiled from important elements of teamwork as found inliterature. The same survey was sent to participants each week for four weeks, so short-termlongitudinal data on the same criteria is collected. The survey protocol is given in Appendix A.As a

Conference Session

CAD Within Engineering Design Graphics

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Holly K. Ault Ph.D., Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Arnold D. Phillips Jr., Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Diversity

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Engineering Design Graphics

simplifies the designprocess, so pre-planning a modeling strategy is not necessary as compared to history-basedmodeling. Users working on existing models do not need to understand the modelingstrategy used to create the model, and do not need to search through the feature tree toidentify specific feature parameters in order to make a change to the geometry. The directmodeling approach facilitates quickness and responsiveness-to-change, making it an idealapproach where speed and flexibility are important3. Due to the absence of the history tree, models created using the direct modelingapproach exhibit greater interoperability. Files can be saved in standard formats such asSTEP, Parasolid, or ACIS, and imported into other CAD packages without loss

Conference Session

Idea Generation and Creativity in Design

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keelin Siomha Leahy, University of Limerick; Seda Yilmaz, Iowa State University; Colleen M. Seifert, University of Michigan; Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan

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Design in Engineering Education

recorded or included in this study.FindingsThe main findings for the instructors’ experiences are reported in 7 categories grouped accordingto timing: 1) Before DH session (interview), 2) During DH session (video recording), and 3)Reflection after DH session (interview) (Table 2).Table 2: Capturing the findings Time Category Description 1. Before DH A. Past experience Instructors’ experience before, during and session teaching DH further the DH session / Future plans for using them in their classrooms B. Preparations Meetings, planning, and discussions regarding

Conference Session

Computers in Education Division Poster Session

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christian Kreiter MSc, Carinthia University of Applied Sciences; Danilo Garbi Zutin P.E., Carinthia University of Applied Sciences; Michael E. Auer, Carinthia University of Applied Sciences

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Computers in Education

laboratories.To fulfill our third goal, we plan to hold a pilot phase, which is scheduled from April to May2016. In this phase, all remote labs will be presented to international partners – secondaryschools from Romania and Slovenia. Apart from this, the Austrian Federal Ministry ofScience, Research and Economy held a month-long contest in October 2015 to involvestudents into science projects. Applicants were between 10 to 18 years old and it was hoped toboost their interest in STEM subjects. We found this to be a great opportunity to promoteremote labs to a wider audience and to get first impressions of how students use them. Thus,we took part in the contest with already existing remote labs and provided a survey for thestudents to fill out for each lab

Conference Session

Biomedical Division Poster Session

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Margo Cousins, University of Texas, Austin; Lynda K. Gonzales, University of Texas, Austin; Erin Dolan, University of Texas, Austin; Kathryn E. Flowers, Texas 4000 for Cancer; Courtney Becker, Texas 4000 for Cancer; Laura Suggs, University of Texas, Austin; Mia K. Markey, University of Texas, Austin

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Biomedical

training, culminating in the 10-week charity bike ride.During the training months, riders train by riding 2000 miles with their team, raise at least$4500, and volunteer for 50+ hours in their community. The Texas 4000 training programincludes a comprehensive curriculum based around Eight Foundational Skills – Self Awareness,Communication, Resiliency, Efficient Planning, Peer Respect, Situational Leadership, TechnicalKnowledge & Skills, and Vision & Action.Goals of interaction between the BME CUReS REU Site and Texas 4000The interaction of the BME CUReS and Texas 4000 was intended to be mutually beneficial in anumber of ways. The first is that the Texas 4000 riders and riders-in-training get to interact withcancer researchers. This allows

Conference Session

Biomedical Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carrie A. Francis, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Rachel L Lenhart, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Jason R. Franz, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University; Jarred Kaiser, Boston University; Joseph Towles PhD, University of Wisconsin - Madison

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Biomedical

in responsefollowing the event. Question 3 was not directly tied toan activity, requiring students to extrapolate from theirexperiences. The other two questions (2 and 6) wereanswered correctly by more than 80% of students atthe start.Student inspiration is more difficult to track, in partbecause we did not link responses from specificstudents between surveys. Hence, the lack ofsignificant change on these questions could represent asubset of students with increased interest and anothersubset with decreased interest, cancelling one anotherout. In relating biomechanics to careers, our activitiesmay have communicated the relevance ofbiomechanics to athletics, but in the future we plan tocreate clearer links between biomechanics andadditional

Collection

2016 ERC

Authors

Joseph Mait

researcher • If appropriate, develop joint statement of work within CRADA • More Information at www.arl.army.mil • Army Science Planning & Strategy • ARL Technical Strategy 2015-2035 • Research@ARL • Open Campus Open HouseUNCLASSIFIED The Nation’s Premier Laboratory for Land Forces UNCLASSIFIED www.arl.army.mil/opencampus/UNCLASSIFIED The Nation’s Premier Laboratory for Land Forces UNCLASSIFIEDUNCLASSIFIED The Nation’s Premier Laboratory for Land Forces UNCLASSIFIEDUNCLASSIFIED The Nation’s Premier Laboratory for Land Forces UNCLASSIFIEDUNCLASSIFIED The Nation’s

Conference Session

Out-of-school-time Engineering: Implications for Underrepresented Students

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aaron Kyle, Columbia University; Rachel Lauré Sattler, Columbia University, Biomedical Engineering Department; Hanzhi T. Zhao, Columbia University, Department of Biomedical Engineering; Christine Kovich, HYPOTHEkids

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering

Workshop/Lab MON. Brainstorming & Solution Selection, Solution Mockups Workshop/Lab Week 3 TUES. Basics of Prototyping and Testing, Solution Selection Workshop/Lab WED. Proof of Concept Testing Lab THUR. Guest Speaker, Proof of Concept Testing Workshop/Lab MON. Call with Customer (Uganda), Business Planning in Design, Prototyping Workshop/Lab TUES. Prototyping Lab Week 4 WED. Prototyping

Conference Session

Proven Strategies in Classroom Engagement Part I: Artifacts for Creative Pedagogy

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

S Alireza Behnejad P.E., University of Surrey, UK

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Civil Engineering

improving the student engagement. Another aimof the Project is to facilitate the participants’ learning during the process of the design andconstruction. Understanding by Design (UbD) described by Froyed et al as an increasinglypopular tool for educational planning that is a teaching method focused on a betterunderstanding of students throughout a design process 8.4. MethodologyTo appraise the potential benefits of the DAD Project, as an example of employment of full-scale physical models in civil engineering education, a ‘mixed method’ has been utilised. Toelaborate, mixed methods are defined as the third methodological approach following thequantitative and the qualitative methods. In a mixed method, data collection or analysis maybe done

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade - Reflections and Advice on the Educational Process

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Emmanuel Early, The University of Houston-Clear Lake; Jose Daniel Velazco, University of Houston-Clear Lake; Miguel Rosales, University of Houston-Clear Lake; Edgar Cantu, AutoSol Inc.

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Diversity

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Student

mentors, who were critically involved in both the planningand execution of each of the following areas: BSC orientation, the development of onlinesupporting resources, Tech Friday workshops, tutoring, and the organization of a yearly STEMchallenge.It is important to note that all the events and services provided by BSC are run by the studentmentors. The faculty in charge of the program provide the resources needed and ensure that theprogram is producing valuable results. We, the BSC student mentors, plan the events, decide onTech Friday topics, manage the website and event registrations, develop activities for our STEMchallenge, and write all documents used in our activities, including this paper. We, the BSCmentors, will describe below the

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Division Poster Session

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin P. Whittaker, Louisiana State University; Amiel Kirtikar, Louisiana State University; Adam T. Melvin, Louisiana State University

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Chemical Engineering

were exposed to several personal development workshopsled by chemical engineering upperclassman, faculty members, and administrators. Topicsincluded (1) AIChE activities (e.g. the ChemE car team and attending conferences), (2) SAChE(the online safety training certification program offered by AIChE), (3) the DistinguishedCommunicators program offered at LSU, (4) STEM outreach opportunities, (5) planning forgraduate school, (6) an overview of electives and concentrations offered within the chemicalengineering department, (7) a time management course, and (8) how to give and receivefeedback. The students were allowed to pick and choose which workshops to attend during athree and a half hour block of time on the first day of the camp, effectively

Conference Session

New Pedagogical Approaches in Chemical Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anthony Butterfield, University of Utah; Kyle Joe Branch, University of Utah

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Chemical Engineering

-than-perfect score was giventhere typically existed a significant deficiency in the senior teams’ management strategies, whichcame up in freshmen student comments. Most all of the freshmen freeform comments have beenpositive. The most common problems freshmen have vocalized about their senior managers overthe years have been related to senior teams being unresponsive or resistant to involving thefreshmen in their projects in a meaningful way. To address this problem after the first year, wenow specifically assess the plans of senior teams’ for freshman workers in their proposal rubrics,before they are ever assigned freshman employees. This added scrutiny and accountability hasapparently improved senior planning and the freshman experiences on

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George Youssef, San Diego State University; Enrique A. Ainsworth, University of California - Los Angeles; Casey Ann Shapiro, UCLA Center for Educational Assessment; Hannah Whang Sayson, UCLA Center for Educational Assessment; Marc Levis-Fitzgerald, University of California - Los Angeles

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Diversity

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Mechanical Engineering

Monitoring and advising. Their approach to achievethese objectives consists of five-step plan: 1) recruiting a substantial pool of high-achievingminority students with interests in math and science who are most likely to be retained in thescientific pipeline; 2) offering merit-based financial support; 3) providing an orientation programfor incoming freshmen; 4) recruiting the most active research faculty to work with the students(it takes a scientist to train a scientist); and 5) involving the students in scientific researchprojects as early as possible, so that they can be engaged through the excitement of discovery [3–5]. The similarities between the two programs suggest the importance of their objectives andapproach in the design and

Conference Session

Using Laboratories for Instruction in Mechanical Engineering

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heather Dillon, University of Portland; Nathan Schmedake, University of Portland; Karen Elizabeth Eifler, University of Portland; Timothy A Doughty, University of Portland; Ken Lulay, University of Portland

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Mechanical Engineering

. 5 • Estimate the convection coefficient for a real system using experimental values like temperature, material, and geometry. • Determine thermodynamic properties using measured experimental data (pressure, temperature, relative humidity, etc).Development objectives: • Employ proper citations and references in all formal written work. • Negotiate and resolve conflict independently within the group. • Discuss independent experimental plan and ideas with classmates and instructor.The thermodynamics laboratory oven modules were the first to be implemented and theexperiment designed was the focus of the existing assessment for the ovens. The laboratoryhandout was designed to facilitate the objectives in different ways

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J. Craig Prather, Auburn University; Haley Kay Harrell, Auburn University; Lesley Erin Bartlett, Auburn University; Stuart M. Wentworth, Auburn University

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Electrical and Computer

University began encouraging eportfolios across campus as part of its QualityEnhancement Plan. A description of eportfolios and its educational justification is given in thenext section. Thus, in support of the university’s plan, and with the hope and anticipation ofproviding a better learning experience for our students, we decided to replace the RF SystemsLaboratory technical memos with eportfolios as our method to develop the writing ability of thestudents.Supporting TheoryThe use of eportfolios in higher education has become increasingly common. Some estimates saythat more than 50% of college students in the United States have used eportfolios in somefashion [3]. While eportfolio use is common, the purposes for eportfolio implementation

Conference Session

Addressing Diversity Issues in Engineering Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jackie Perez, Texas A&M University - Dwight Look College of Engineering; So Yoon Yoon, Texas A&M University; Teri Kristine Reed, Texas A&M University; Cecelia Diane Lawley, Texas A&M University

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Diversity

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Two Year College Division

, Texas was one of five majorityminority states11. These partnerships increase educational opportunities and support efforts toproduce engineers reflective of the community. This paper shares the challenges and successeslearned during the first three years of the program and the planned expansion to further recruit,retain, and graduate a more diverse engineering demographic through a pathway of co-enrollment and partnership with two-year institutions.II. Background of the PartnershipsThe Texas public education system includes 39 public universities, 50 public community collegedistricts with multiple campuses and 75 of the 409 designated Hispanic Serving Institutions(HSIs) in the United States (18.3%)12,13. From 2000 to 2015, the number of