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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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David L. Silverstein, University of Kentucky; Lisa G. Bullard, North Carolina State University; Warren D. Seider, University of Pennsylvania; Margot A Vigeant, Bucknell University

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Chemical Engineering

Principles: Synthesis, Analysis, and Evaluation. He has co-ordinated the design project course for over 30 years involving projects provided by many practicing engineers in the Philadelphia area. He is recognized for research contributions in phase and chemical equilibria, azeotropic distillation, heat and power integration, Czochralski crystallization, nonlinear control, and safety and risk analysis. He has authored or coauthored over 110 journal articles and authored or edited seven books. Dr. Seider was the co-recipient of the AIChE Warren K. Lewis Award in 2004, and the recipient of the AIChE Computing in Chemical Engineering Award in 1992. In 2011, he received the AIChE F. J. Van Antwerpen Award, and in 2008, he was

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NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dhananjay Kumar, North Carolina A&T State University; Devdas M. Pai, North Carolina A&T State University; Courtney Lambeth, North Carolina A&T State University; Robin Guill Liles, North Carolina A&T State University; Narayan Bhattarai, North Carolina A&T State University

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EDUCATION Dhananjay Kumar, Devdas Pai, Courtney Lambeth, Robin Liles, Narayan Bhattarai North Carolina A & T State University, Greensboro, NC 27214ABSTRACTThis National Science Foundation supported Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education (NUE)project takes into account the need for a better integration of theory, experiment, andapplications. We have reported three different approaches toward enhancing undergraduatenanoscience and engineering education with an emphasis on devices and systems. We are usingthe practical approach of direct engagement of the students in ongoing research in our advancedmaterials laboratories. Our first activity for enhancing nanoscience and nanoengineeringeducation was to introduce simple concepts of

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NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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Mo Ahmadian, Eastern New Mexico University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #5932Influence of S-STEM Funding: Challenges and SuccessesDr. Mo Ahmadian, Eastern New Mexico University Dr. Mo Ahmadian is a professor of Electronics Engineering Technology at Eastern New Mexico Univer- sity. He also serves as ABET/TAC program evaluator for Electronics and Computer Engineering Tech- nology programs. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Before starting Ph.D. work, he worked three years as a project engineer. Page 23.745.1

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Assessment of Student Learning 1

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nidal Al-Masoud, Central Connecticut State University; Viatcheslav Naoumov, Cental Connecticut State University; Steven Joseph Kirstukas, Central Connecticut State University

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Educational Research and Methods

in academia he worked as Assistant, Associate, Full Professor, and Departmental Head at Kazan Aviation Institute, and Visiting Full Professor at Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering De- partment at University of Tennessee, Knoxville. In 2007 he joined CCSU School of Engineering and Technology as an Associate Professor. He taught about 30 undergraduate and graduate courses; was sci- entific advisor of multiple Ph.D. and Dr. of Science Dissertations. Area of research and teaching interests - Propulsion, Aerothermodynamics, Combustion and Heat Transfer. Instrumentation. Performed research projects for Russian and French Aerospace Agencies, NASA, DOE, DOD, and Automotive Company SAAB. Author of 3

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Design Based Energy Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alamgir A. Choudhury, Western Michigan University; Jorge Rodriguez PhD, MBA, Western Michigan University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

absence of accurate mathematical model, experimental understanding of energyconservation and losses in a functional prototype of a product is a priori for a design process withemphasis on energy efficiency. To study the energy efficiency of designed product, a multipurposelaboratory equipped with thermo-fluid process components, sensors, data acquisition and analysis tools isbeing developed. It will allow installation and operation of the prototypes, and experimental study ofperformance of the components. Analysis of the experimental data will lead to optimization of geometry,materials and other design details of the components. The methodology will be practiced in undergraduatedesign projects and eventually incorporated in the product design

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Xiaomin Jin; Xiao-hua Yu; Xiang-Ning Kang; Guo-Yi Zhang

, respectively. In summer 2009, Simeon Trieu, one of Prof. Jin’s graduatestudents, was awarded an NSF EAPSI summer and he also won the 1st place CSU researchcompetition on graduate engineering and computer engineering level in 2010, because ofworking on the project. Now Prof. Jin is supported by 1) NSF Grant OISE Award #1029135from year 2010 to 2013 and 2) Chinese National Key Research Lab Collaboration Grant 2010-2011 and 2011-2012. Those grants enable the Prof. Jin to bring more US students to work inChina. Since 2012, our new goal is to let students in both countries to freely choose theirresearch topics and their advisers. This paper will discuss how those activities are running in thepast years and what the key issues of the program are. The paper

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Binod Tiwari

from their early stage ofundergraduate studies, 61 students were involved in various research projects in collaborationwith the author. Students were chosen from different levels of their undergraduate level studies,ranging from sophomore to senior, and GPAs ranging from 2.5 through 3.9. To increasediversity, priority was given to have students from different ethnic backgrounds as well asgender. Parameters chosen to assess the success of the program were - GPA, awards andscholarships, conference presentation, publication, and progress to graduate level studies. Onlythe data pertinent to undergraduate students are considered in this study, although graduatestudents were also involved in this study.Background of Selected StudentsOut of 61

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Wade Winfrey; Kale Morris; Coady Morris; Raju Dandu

pan and 180 degree tilt. The new gimbal designed by the team is a simpleand cost-effective solution for the desired result. The camera retains all Toshiba electronics whileutilizing a new and improved system for pan and tilt. The system also allows for auto-stabilization software which reduces camera shake.IntroductionFor this project, we were tasked with modifying a Toshiba conference camera gimbal owned bythe UAS Department at K-State Salina and adapting it for use on an Unmanned Aircraft. TheToshiba camera gimbal had several setbacks. The stepper motors which controlled the gimbalwere jerky and were not compatible with the stabilization software the UAS department wants touse in conjunction with it. To fix these issues we decided that the

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Mechatronics

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anca L. Sala, Baker College of Flint

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Mechanical Engineering

. Page 23.751.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Infusing Mechatronics and Robotics Concepts in Engineering CurriculumAbstract: Mechatronics and Robotics have continued to grow in importance in recent yearswhich has led many colleges and universities to start offering courses on these topics. A brandnew technical elective course, “Introduction to Mechatronics”, was offered for the first time inspring 2012 at the author’s institution. While the course provides for ten weeks of instruction inMechatronics, as an elective it does not reach a sufficient number of students. The authorreceived a competitive grant internal to the institution for a project to infuse mechatronics androbotics concepts and

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Manufacturing Partnerships

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Arif Sirinterlikci, Robert Morris University; Tony Lee Kerzmann, Robert Morris University

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Manufacturing

student goals are shifting some of the placements fromindustrial based internships to in-house engineering and research projects or off-campus researchprograms at other institutions. Real world experience, if it is working for industry or if it iscompleting in-house projects, inherently leads the students to participate in cognitive synthesis aswell as evaluation; the two highest levels of Bloom Taxonomy.2 These external programs arefunded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Experiences for Undergraduates(REU) or the NASA Summer Programs. These research experiences are also treated similarly tothe industrial internship positions, since they are under the umbrella of the same course.This paper will present the undergraduate student

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Trends and Applications in Curricula and the Capstone Experience

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kristen L. Sanford Bernhardt, Lafayette College; David S. Hurwitz, Oregon State University; Rhonda K Young, University of Wyoming; Rod E. Turochy, Auburn University; Shane A. Brown P.E., Washington State University; Joshua Swake, Oregon State University; Andrea R. Bill, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Kevin Heaslip, Utah State University; Michael Kyte, University of Idaho, Moscow

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Civil Engineering

primary areas of research are in intersection operations, traffic signal control systems, highway capacity, and transportation engineering education. Page 23.68.2 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 A Model for Collaborative Curriculum Design in Transportation Engineering EducationAbstractThe National Transportation Curriculum Project (NTCP) has been underway for four years as anad-hoc, collaborative effort to effect changes in transportation engineering education.Specifically, the NTCP had developed a set of learning outcomes and associated

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2013 GSW

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Christina K. White; Richard H. Crawford

Arlington, March 21 – 23, 2013. Copyright © 2013, American Society for Engineering Educationinternational scholars striving with hope in this challenging time. We do more than hope for abetter, safer, and more accessible world for our global citizens because, as agents of change, weput that hope into action with the work and research that we conduct. Margaret Mead oncewisely advised, "Never doubt that a small group of people can change the world. Indeed, it is theonly thing that ever has." Commensurate with her notion we face the 21st Century EngineeringGrand Challenges locally with student-facilitated projects and globally as a network of activists.Teachers, students, community members, policy makers, and industry are working

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FPD 6: Transitions and Student Success, Part II

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stacy Holander Gleixner, San Jose State University; Katherine Casey, SJSU College of Engineering; Jared T. Tuberty, San Jose State University; Sanela Latic; Patricia R Backer, San Jose State University; Emily L. Allen, San Jose State University

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First-Year Programs

, introductory materials science, electronic materials, kinetics, and microelectronics processing. She has been involved in a number of innovative curriculum development programs and educational research projects on improving student learning in engineering through the use of active learning and service learning. In 2010, she was awarded the College of Engineering Award for Excellence in Service. In 2007-2008, she was an SJSU Teacher Scholar. In 2002, she was awarded the College of Engineering Excellence in Teaching award.Katherine Casey, SJSU College of Engineering Katherine graduated with a B.A. in Psychology and an M.A. in Experimental Psychology from SJSU. She now works in the College of Engineering as Engineering

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2013 GSW

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Xiao Peng; Lex Gonzalez; Eric Haney; Amen Omoragbon; Bernd Chudoba

communities keep and use such valuable inheritance. Inthis context, we do routinely witness events such: (i) the failure of aerospace projects, like TitanIV, whose explosion has been deemed the responsibility of a design defect; (ii) the losing ofvaluable aerospace specialists and their expertise, like at Boeing, “…more than half of theBoeing work force will be eligible for retirement within the next decade. That's roughly 80,000employees’ cumulative corporate wisdom walking out the door.”; (iii) the ostensibly well-keptbut not easily accessible knowledge has seldom shown its value and contributed to activities, likethe books and journals covered by dust in library.In order to efficiently use energy, time and money, and apply previous precious

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Reception & Poster Session

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2013 ASEE International Forum

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Michael A. Gennert, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Gretar Tryggvason, University of Notre Dame

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ASEE International Forum

Electrical Engineering in 1980 and the Sc.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1987 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Gennert is interested in Computer Vision, Image Processing, Scientific Databases, and Programming Languages, with ongoing projects in biomedical image process- ing, robotics, and stereo and motion vision. He is author or co-author of over 100 papers. He is a member of Sigma Xi, NDIA Robotics Division, and the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council Robotics Cluster, and a senior member of IEEE and ACM.Prof. Gretar Tryggvason, University of Notre Dame Gretar Tryggvason is the Viola D. Hank Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Depart- ment at the University of Notre Dame. He

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2013 GSW

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Nripendra N. Sarker; Mohan A. Ketkar

the application of MultiSim simulation tools for the rest of the semester.The second method, introduced in Spring of 2012, was a mix of three things, i) traditionalhardware, ii) MultiSim software, and iii) the use of XILINX FPGA on Digilent Nexys 2 board,the project being built using XILINX ISE software.First MethodThe equipment shown in Figure 1 was used to teach the truth tables of some basic logic gates andsome simple digital circuits. Students appreciated this part as they could visualize how the digitsystems work. They also identified the hassles of wire connections together with bugs generatedfrom faulty and/or loose connections combined with often malfunctioning of the box itself thatholds the board. As the complexity of circuit grew

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Integration of Manufacturing and Society

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jaby Mohammed, Petroleum Institute

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Manufacturing

. Since then, the Programhas enjoyed excellent support and grown to over 1,000 students on three campuses.There are three campuses for the governor’s scholars programs and they are housed in thevarious Universities (Public and Private Universities) in Kentucky.There are many engineering schools in the nation that conduct summer school for students sothat it provides a pre-college experience that challenges and promotes STEM (Science,Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) experience. Many schools use this as a recruitmenttool to get the students from all around to experience the taste of campus life, experience handson projects, and with related experience. Valencia Community College offers a more specializedAssociate degree in pre-engineering

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NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shawn H Maison, Central Michigan University and Bangor Township Schools; Adam J. P. Bauer, CMU; Steven Shapardanis, Central Michigan University; Thomas Stuart White; Ze Zhang; Bingbing Li, Department of Chemistry, Science of Advanced Materials Doctoral Program, Central Michigan University ; Qin Hu, Central Michigan University; Tolga Kaya, Central Michigan University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Michigan University (CMU). Prior to joining CMU, From 2007 to 2010, Dr. Kaya was a post-doctorate associate at Yale University. From 1999 to 2007, he was a research and teaching assistant at Istanbul Technical University. In 2007 he became a consultant at Brightwell Corp. He was a senior VLSI analog design engineer and project coordinator at Microelectronics R&D Company from 2000 to 2006, and a visiting assistant in research at Yale University from 2004 to 2005. Dr. Kaya received B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electronics Engineering from Istanbul Technical University in Istanbul, Turkey. His research interests in electrical engineering and applied sciences are analog VLSI circuit design, MEMS sensors and energy

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Curriculum Development

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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MD B. Sarder, University of Southern Mississippi

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

companies will face labor shortages and future regional economicdevelopment will be hampered.Logistics Transportation is a multidisciplinary applied science and engineering program. Highschool students are not familiar about this promising filed. Without creating an awarenessprogram in the K12 system, a consistent supply of students in logistics transportation program inuniversities will not be realized. Due to the tremendous need of this profession, we havedesigned a secondary curriculum in logistics transportation for high school students with the helpof public and private funding. The curriculum design consists of six modules of lectures, handson projects, and educating the K12 educators. The lecture modules and hands on projects aredesigned to

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Minority Student Success

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rafic Bachnak, Texas A&M International University; Rohitha Goonatilake; Sofía Carolina Maldonado, Texas A&M International University; Dan Mott, Texas A&M International University

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Minorities in Engineering

2011 Commencement Ceremony. Throughout her TAMIU education, she has been a member of the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society and Vice-President and Treasurer of the Society of Engineering at TAMIU. In addition, Sof´ıa was a Research Assistant for the project ”Topography of an Object: Detection and Display (Software and Hardware)” and was team leader of the Engineering Senior Project Design entitled ”New Classroom Propulsion Demonstrator.”Dr. Dan Mott, Texas A&M International University Dr. Mott is the Chair of Biology & Chemistry and Associate Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at Texas A&M International University. He is currently PI and/or Co-Pi in $7.8 million in grants supporting Hispanic students in

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Programs in Entrepreneurship

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nada Marie Anid, New York Institute of Technology; Steven H. Billis, New York Institute of Technology; Marta Alicia Panero, New York Institute of Technology

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Technology Innovation Center(ETIC). The ETIC will consolidate and expand the School’s ongoing industry-academicpartnerships by fostering innovation and promoting collaborations between industries, theacademic community, professional organizations, and government. The ultimate goal of thepartnerships is to strengthen the SoECS’ educational and programmatic offerings in order tograduate engineering professionals for the 21st Century. The premise is that by creating the rightlearning environment for students to engage with industry in innovative real-world problemsolving, project-based learning, teamwork, direct contact with practitioners, they will gain keycompetency and entrepreneurship skills required in today’s rapidly evolving

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Assessment of Community Engagement

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jane M. Fraser, Colorado State University-Pueblo; Leonardo Bedoya-Valencia, Colorado State University, Pueblo; Jude L. DePalma, Colorado State University, Pueblo; Nebojsa I Jaksic P.E., Colorado State University, Pueblo; Ananda Mani Paudel, Colorado State University, Pueblo; Hüseyin Sarper, Colorado State University-Pueblo; Ding Yuan, Colorado State University - Pueblo

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Community Engagement Division

with anintensive 4-day summer workshop (including a community college faculty member), whichresulted in action items including plans to alter specific courses. We also describe theDepartment of Education funded grant that is supporting this work to incorporate sustainability,service learning, and advances in educational technology in all STEM programs at ouruniversity.Unique features of these community and university efforts include the involvement of all facultymembers in our department in the project and as authors on this paper and the increasinginvolvement of engineering faculty and students in our community‟s sustainability efforts.IntroductionIn the Department of Engineering at Colorado State University-Pueblo, we are increasing

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NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University (Tech.); Yalcin Ertekin, Drexel University (Tech.); Radian G Belu, Drexel University (Tech.)

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

University (Tech.) Dr. Radian Belu is an assistant professor within the Engineering Technology program at Drexel Uni- versity in Philadelphia. He holds the second position as research assistant professor at Desert Research Institute–Renewable Energy Center at Reno, Nev. Before Drexel University, Dr. Belu held faculty and research positions at universities and research institutes in Romania, Canada and the United States. He also worked for several years as a project manager and senior consultant. He has taught and developed undergraduate and graduate courses in electronics, power systems, control and power electronics, elec- tric machines, instrumentation, radar and remote sensing, numerical methods and data analysis

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K-12 Professional Development I

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anant R. Kukreti, University of Cincinnati; Eugene Rutz, University of Cincinnati; Julie Steimle, University of Cincinnati; Howard E. Jackson, University of Cincinnati; Catherine Maltbie, University of Cincinnati

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

her bachelor of arts in English and Secondary Education from Thomas More Col- lege. She served as development director and managed academic programs in two non-profit organiza- tions, Pregnancy Care of Cincinnati, and the Literacy Network of Greater Cincinnati, before coming to the University of Cincinnati in 2009. Steimle initially coordinated UC’s Supplemental Educational Services Program. Currently, she is the project director of the Cincinnati Engineering Enhanced Math and Science Program.Prof. Howard E. Jackson, University of Cincinnati Howard E. Jackson received the B.S. in Physics from the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, in 1965 and the Ph.D. degree from Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, in 1971

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POTPOURRI

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeffrey Chastine, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Computing & Information Technology

two representative student projects. This workalso discusses the results of two surveys on student perceptions of a course in AR under thehypothesis that, because AR encompasses several elements shown to be engaging in theclassroom, students would perceive AR as highly engaging. The first survey was administered tostudents who participated in the course, while the second was given to the general computingpopulation within SPSU. The goal of the survey is to help educators make informed coursedecisions using the data collected.IntroductionAs a new technology emerges, students are naturally curious about how it works and how itmight be applied across a variety of contexts. Frequently, however, there are significant costsassociated with working

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NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Xia Wang, Oakland University; Qian Zou, Oakland University; Laila Guessous, Oakland University; Gary Barber, Oakland University; Michael A Latcha, Oakland University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #7524Engaging US Engineering Students in Fuel Cell Research at a Foreign SiteDr. Xia Wang, Oakland University Dr. Xia Wang is an associate professor in the department of Mechanical Engineering at Oakland Uni- versity. Her research and teaching interests lie in the areas of fluid mechanics and heat transfer, with an emphasis on fuel cell and battery technology. She was the program director for the NSF-funded project entitled International Research Experience for Students: Collaborative Research Activities with China on Fuel Cells at Oakland University.Dr. Qian Zou, Oakland University Dr. Qian Zou is an

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K-12 Professional Development I

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bradley Bowen Ed.D, North Dakota State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

integrating project- based activities into the K-12 classroom that incorporate STEM learning and engineering concepts as well as providing professional development for K-12 teachers. Page 23.1134.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Teachers in Industry: Measuring the Impact of a K-12 Teacher Internship ProgramIntroductionThe importance of STEM learning is becoming common knowledge across the educationalcommunity. Although many people will have different opinions about what true STEM learningis, most everyone will agree that making the classroom

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Restructuring/Rethinking STEM

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chris Robinson, University of South Carolina; Sarah C. Baxter, University of South Carolina

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Art.Interdisciplinary context is provided in order to establish a sense of application and relevancethat can be taken on to advanced coursework in either discipline. For each visual concept, termsare defined, student outcomes are listed and an assignment is provided for use in a project-basedlearning environment.Background:In Experiences in Visual Thinking, Robert McKim1 looks at the kinds of images that provide afoundation for visual thinking, which he defines as seeing, drawing and imagining. EdwardTufte’s books2,3, provide ample evidence that an awareness of visual design and anunderstanding of visual concepts are critical for effective statistical and scientific communication.His historical examples and worst-case examples are particularly relevant to

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Minority Student Success

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Annita Alting, Grove School of Engineering, The City College of the City University of New York; Feridun Delale, City College of the City University of New York; Joseph Barba, City College of the City University of New York

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Minorities in Engineering

Bridges to Engineering: Success for TransfersAbstractThe Grove School of Engineering (GSOE) of the City College of New York partnered with twocommunity colleges to improve the transfer and success of students moving into a bachelor’sprogram in engineering. A broader goal of the project was to increase the success of all studentsenrolling in the Grove School of Engineering.The project took place from fall 2005 through spring 2012. Its three main components were: 1)Introducing lower level undergraduate students to research, 2) A summer research course forcommunity college students considering the GSOE, and 3) Harmonization of science, math andsome entry level engineering science courses across the participating schools. We trackedenrollment

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Programs in Entrepreneurship

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Steven B. Shooter, Bucknell University; Seth Orsborn, Bucknell University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

of Education, is leading a guest“lecture” on her particular view on innovation. With her are two students who worked withProfessor Henry to found a student-run non-profit organization they call the Poolpass Project.Also with her are the inspiration for the project, Mr. Rotolo and his minister. Professor Henrytells the story of how she was inspired to start this venture after reading in the newspaper abouttwo elementary school children who drowned in the nearby Susquehanna River one summerafternoon. Despite a newly remodeled and improved public swimming complex in town, thechildren were swimming in the dangerous river because they could not afford the $4 fee to go tothe pool. One child drowned when trapped by submerged rocks in the river and