Conference Session

Software Engineering Constituent Committee Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vignesh Subbian, University of Cincinnati; Carla C. Purdy, University of Cincinnati

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

UnLecture furthers theunderstanding of concepts that students learn from traditional lectures and laboratory projects. “I do remember seeing a diagram (in my co-op) that was made during one of our meetings … I believe it was a class diagram, since it showed what some classes would contain and what methods we would need to implement. I didn’t know UML then…” “It does seem like it takes a lot of time to create models for a software project but it will force you to think and know how the software will be structured and designed. This can also lead to solving many issues that may arise before any coding is actually begun.” “Another point from this Unlecture I found interesting was when one student talked about his experience as

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2014 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

F.T. Fisher; R.S. Besser; K. Sheppard; C.H. Choi; E.H. Yang

§ Photonics properties ofcomponents of this aspect of the course take place in themulti-user Micro Device Laboratory (MDL), a class 100 clean Nanophotonics nanomaterialsroom facility available to nanotechnology researchers, which § Optical tweezerscontains a complete suite of micro/nanofabrication and § Photonic crystals: a band gapcharacterization equipment. for photons § Introduction: how biologyThe second thread of the course entails characterization and “feels” at the

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Tamer Abukhalil; Madhav Patil

ASEE 2014 Zone I Conference, April 3-5, 2014, University of Bridgeport, Bridgpeort, CT, USA. UBSwarm: Design of a Software Environment to Deploy Multiple Decentralized Robots Tamer Abukhalil Madhav Patil Robotics, Intelligent Sensing & Control (RISC) Robotics, Intelligent Sensing & Control (RISC) Laboratory Laboratory School of Engineering, University of Bridgeport School of Engineering, University of Bridgeport 221 University Avenue, Bridgeport, USA 221 University Avenue, Bridgeport, USA

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2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Christopher McComb; Fariborz Tehrani

. Undergraduatestudents also participate in major research projects by assisting graduate students. Their trainingat this stage includes laboratory safety, literature studies, data mining, documentation, andpresentation skills. At senior level, students may choose to enroll in an independent study,implement their research skills in senior design project, or define an undergraduate thesis. At thisstage, they meet advisor at least twice a month to learn about experimental and analytical studies.A typical undergraduate research should develop and implement either an experimental or ananalytical plan using available resources in college.At graduate level, students incorporate all previous components at a higher academic level. Atypical graduate research includes

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2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Gordon Romney; Pradip Dey; Mohammad Amin; Bhaskar Sinha

to have an individual, dedicated“virtual” computer on which to experiment and complete a laboratory assignment withoutmodifying, if desired, the host “physical” computer and its resources11. Operating systemvirtualization has been a great facilitator at SOEC in the teaching of computer science,information technology and security courses6,10. A physical, hypervisor host machine has thecapability of running multiple operating systems concurrently, each of which is a guest machineor virtual machine (VM)12. Examples of a Hypervisor executing as an application are: 1)VMware Workstation under the Windows 8 O/S; 2) Parallels under the Mac OS X, or c) OracleVirtualBox on Windows, Mac OS X or Linux. Virtual Labs (VL). Lab assignments using VMshave

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew L. Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University; Donald D. Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University; Robert W. Fletcher, Lawrence Technological University; Eric G. Meyer, Lawrence Technological University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Experience committee, chair for the LTU KEEN Course Modification Team, chair for the LTU Leadership Curriculum Committee, supervisor of the LTU Thermo-Fluids Laboratory, coordinator of the Certificate/Minor in Aeronautical Engineering, and faculty advisor of the LTU SAE Aero Design Team.Dr. Donald D. Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University Donald D. Carpenter, PhD, PE, LEED AP is Professor of Civil Engineering where he teaches courses on ethics/professionalism and water resources. Dr. Carpenter is an accredited green design professional (LEED AP) and practicing professional engineer (PE) whose expertise includes Low Impact Development (LID), innovative stormwater best management practices (BMPs), hydrologic and

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Capstone Design

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael P. Frank, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering; Kamal E. Amin, Florida A&M University/Florida State University; Okenwa I. Okoli, Florida A&M University/Florida State University; Sungmoon Jung Ph.D., FAMU-FSU College of Engineering; Robert A. Van Engelen, Florida State University; Chiang Shih, Florida A&M University/Florida State University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

projects are appropriate to run as full-fledged interdepartmental multi-discipline efforts,the course coordinators must use their judgment, and be somewhat selective.Collaborations with Non-Engineering Departments Over the years, a number of Senior Design projects at our College have also involvedcollaborations with departments outside of the engineering school, thereby further extending themultidisciplinary reach and scope of our program. For example, for the last three years, two of our departments (ECE and ME) haveengaged in a partnership with Florida State’s department of Earth, Ocean & AtmosphericSciences department, and two of its associated research laboratories, to have teams of ourengineering students develop various new

Conference Session

WIED: Strategies Beyond the Classroom

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kelsey Morgan Irvin, Washington University in St. Louis; Elizabeth Hiteshue, University of Pennsylvania; Mary Yvonne Lanzerotti, Air Force Institute of Technology; Sheldon Hochheiser, IEEE History Center; Michael Geselowitz, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

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Women in Engineering

specific to the subject, basedon understanding of the subject’s life and career, and more general questions designed to furtherthe more general aims of a study to be based on a group of related interviews.Training of Undergraduates in Human Subjects TrainingBoth Ms. Irvin, Ms. Hiteshue, as well as the PI, Dr. Lanzerotti, completed Human Subjects Page 24.962.6Training through the institution’s Institutional Review Board (IRB) prior to conducting the oralhistory interviews of the distinguished leaders. This course is “suitable for investigators andstaff conducting research with human subjects at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)and for

Conference Session

Best of DEED

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

R. Keith Stanfill, University of Florida; Amy Rigby, www.amywriting.com; Maureen Milch, University of Florida

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Design in Engineering Education

laboratory access iswithheld until all team members complete the assignments.IntroductionThe Integrated Product and Process Design (IPPD) Program1-4 is an innovative educationalinitiative at the College of Engineering of the University of Florida (UF). In weekly classesspanning two consecutive academic semesters, (eight months), students from various engineeringand business disciplines are taught how to design products and processes. Then, working in smallmultidisciplinary teams under the guidance of faculty coaches and industrial liaison engineers, Page 24.1240.2the students design and build an industrial product or design a manufacturing process

Conference Session

Software Engineering Constituent Committee Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gustavo Lopez, Universidad de Costa Rica; Alexandra Martinez, Universidad de Costa Rica

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

researchare free; two are commercial standalone tools. This prevents students from viewing the vul-nerabilities as a whole problem. We think this could be useful for a course that is focused onsecurity testing but not for an introductory course on software testing.Garousi7 presents open modern software testing laboratory courseware that is similar to theone we report in this paper, but he uses several tools and SUTs. One of his findings is thattesting educators should align the choices of SUTs and tools with the ultimate goal of thecourse at hand, the type of students, and the time and resources available to the students inthe course.Other forays into improving the teaching of software testing have been reported. For in-stance, Cowling5 describes how

Conference Session

Beyond Students: Issues of Underrepresentation among Parents and Professionals

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Araceli Martinez Ortiz, Texas State University, San Marcos

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Minorities in Engineering

: The National Academies Press.10) Denson, C. D., & Hill, R. B. (2010). Impact of an engineering mentorship program on African- American male high school students’ perceptions and self-efficacy. Journal of Industrial Teacher Education, 47(1), 99-127.11) Sanders, T. (2004). No Time to Waste: The Vital Role of College and University Leaders in Improving Science and Mathematics Education. United States Department of Education. http://www.ecs.org/html/Document.asp?chouseid=548012) Henderson, A. T., & Mapp, K. L. (2002). A new wave of evidence: The impact of school, family, and community connections on student achievement. Austin, TX: Southwest Educational Development Laboratory

Conference Session

Ethical Behavior in Academia and Beyond

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adeel Khalid, Southern Polytechnic State University (ENG); Beth Stutzmann, RLC- Research Learning Community, Southern Polytechnic State University; Margaret Loraine Lowder, Southern Polytechnic State University; Mir M. Atiqullah, Kennesaw State University; Rajnish Singh, Southern Polytechnic State University; Craig A. Chin, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Engineering Ethics

including prevalence[11, 12, 13, and 14]; motivations [15]; personal characteristics and attitudes of perpetrators [12,16, and 17]; detection [14]; deterrence [15, and 18] and the correlation between academicdishonesty and the students’ ethical behaviors going forward into their careers [19]. Many ofthese studies [11, 15, 16 and 17] have used surveys of students and/or faculty as the main sourceof data. Anyanwu [20] provides case studies that indicate that plagiarism may often be a result ofstudents’ failure to understand the rules of proper citation. Others concentrate on academicdishonesty in laboratory setting [13] or in test taking [11, 16, and 17] or consider a wide range offorms of academic dishonesty in the aggregate [15].Some studies [15

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Education Session 3

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pradeep Kashinath Waychal, Pune Innovation Centre

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

developed a Creativity Index based on the MBTI instrument.Higuchi 32 explains analysis of empirical experiment for measuring effect of creativityimprovement before and after the Idea Marathon System training for about a 3 monthsperiod, for R&D and laboratories staff using TTCT Figural tests. There are some efforts indeveloping the competency at colleges. Putkonen, et al. 33 have proposed pedagogy andconcluded that the context of working life offers better opportunities for inculcatinginnovative (creative) skills. They have not used any specific measures, though. Jiazeng, etal.34 have introduced a separate course on Creative Studies and used TTCT to prove thatcreativity can be improved through education. While they have provided pre measurements

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven M. Yalisove, University of Michigan; Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan

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Materials

Paper ID #10870Eliminating Lectures (and video lectures) in Large Introductory MaterialsScience and Engineering Courses: Large Gains in Student LearningProf. Steven M. Yalisove, University of Michigan S. M. Yalisove obtained a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania in 1986. After a post doc at Bell Laboratories, he joined the Michigan faculty in 1989. In 1996 he was a Fulbright scholar at the FOM institute in the Netherlands. He is currently the Associate Director of the Materials Laboratory at the Center for Ultrafast Optical Sciences at the University of Michigan. Yalisove’s

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Vernengo, Rowan University; Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Jennifer Kadlowec, Rowan University; Johannes Strobel, Texas A&M University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

therapeutics, thus PNIPAAm has beenextensively investigated for applications such as protein delivery 58-61. We produce PNIPAAm polymers in our laboratory regularly, and it can be achieved with astraightforward free-radical polymerization of NIPAAm monomer in water using a redoxinitiator 26. The hydrogel can be made magnetic by suspending magnetic Fe3O4 powder inaqueous solutions of PNIPAAm, below the LCST. Upon application of a magnetic field with asolenoid, the presence of the magnetic particles will cause the solution to heat above the LCST,causing collapse of the polymer around the magnetic particles and the squeezing out of the drug.A pulsatile release profile can be generated by turning on and off the magnetic field 53. The K-12 students

Conference Session

Graduate Ethics Education & Professional Codes

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard S. Stansbury, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach; Joshua Lloyd Olds, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach; Eric Joe Coyle, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

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Engineering Ethics

materials and technical data, participation mustbe limited to U.S. Persons as defined in ITAR 12019 with proof of citizenship/naturalization. Aregistration of project participants must be maintained for access control to any ITAR restrictedclassroom or laboratory. A laboratory manager must ensure positive ID of all entrants into thelaboratory, and any foreign nationals must be escorted. Citizenship must be verified before thesharing of any export controlled materials within the lab. All persons working within the ITARcontrolled space must be adequately briefed on ITAR policies and sign the University's ITARnon-disclosure form.ITAR controlled items must be clearly identifiable. The item should be labeled “ITAR Export-Controlled”. If the item is of

Conference Session

FPD 8: Teaching Design in the First Year

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessica E.S. Swenson, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach; Merredith D. Portsmore, Tufts University; Ethan E. Danahy, Tufts University

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First-Year Programs

the design process. These studies ask participants to solveconceptual design tasks in a laboratory setting and most are structured as individual tasks.In addition to VPA and the coding scheme, Atman et al.10 measured time devoted to the task aswell as step of the design process, the number of transitions between design steps, the number of Page 24.558.3requests for information, the number of alternative solutions developed, and rated the quality ofeach participant’s final solution.In Atman’s 1999 work,10 freshman and seniors were asked to conceptually design a playground.Freshman spent most of their design time modeling, developing the

Conference Session

Research Experience in Stormwater Management

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vinod K. Lohani, Virginia Tech

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Civil Engineering

, especially beginning with a briefpresentation and building from there. Students report growing confidence in their own communicationskills and observing improvement in the skills of others.”Writing Research Papers: TrainingDuring the weekly forums, a special seminar was offered by the author to discuss the importanceand process of good technical writing. Key issues in paper writing were emphasized throughoutthe program. REU fellows were provided with an author’s guide to prepare their final researchreports.Gaining Laboratory/Field Research and Latest Computing SkillsREU fellows are provided with opportunities for field research, analytical laboratory work,computer modeling and testing of theoretical concepts

Conference Session

Flipping ECE Courses

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth A. Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Dianna L. Newman, University at Albany/SUNY; Meghan Morris Deyoe, University at Albany, SUNY

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Electrical and Computer

places as Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Universities of Texas and Wisconsin in the U.S., Kyoto and Nagoya Universities in Japan, the Ioffe Institute in Russia, and Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology in Ukraine. He was ECSE Department Head from 2001 to 2008 and served on the board of the ECE Department Heads Association from 2003 to 2008. He is presently the Education Director for the SMART LIGHTING NSF ERC.Dr. Dianna L. Newman, University at Albany/SUNY Dr. Dianna Newman is Research Professor and Director of the Evaluation Consortium at the University at Albany/SUNY. Her major areas of study are program evaluation with an emphasis in STEM related programs. She has numerous chapters, articles, and

Conference Session

Computers in Education General Technical Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yi Gu, Michigan Technological University; Nilufer Onder, Michigan Technological University; Ching-Kuang Shene, Michigan Technological University; Chaoli Wang, Michigan Technological University

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Computers in Education

State Univer- sity in 2006. From 2007 to 2009, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Davis. Dr. Wang’s research interests include scientific visualization, large-scale data analysis and visualization, user interface and interaction, information visualization, and visualization in education. At Michigan Tech, he co-directs the Graphics and Visualization Laboratory and participates in research activities at the Immersive Visualization Studio. His research has been supported by Michigan Technological University, the National Science Foundation, and the Dave House Family Foundation

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steve Gorrell, Brigham Young University; C. Greg Jensen, Brigham Young University; Brett Stone, Brigham Young University; Edward Red, Brigham Young University; Michael Richey, The Boeing Company; Fabian Zender, The Boeing Company; Michael Wright; David E. French, The Boeing Company; Shigeo Hayashibara, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott; Carl Johnson, Georgia Institute of Technology; John P. Sullivan, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Aerospace

Paper ID #9767Aerospace Partners for the Advancement of Collaborative EngineeringDr. Steve Gorrell, Brigham Young University Dr. Steve Gorrell joined the BYU Mechanical Engineering Department in 2007 following an eighteen year career as an Aerospace Engineer at the Air Force Research Laboratory Propulsion Directorate. There Dr. Gorrell pioneered the use of high performance computing (HPC), hi-fidelity time-accurate CFD, and Particle Image Velocimetry to investigate and understand unsteady flow physics in high performance gas turbine engine fans and compressors. Dr. Gorrell has published 64 technical papers on unsteady

Conference Session

Teaching Communication I

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald S Harichandran, University of New Haven; David J Adams, Technical Communications Consultant; Michael A. Collura, University of New Haven; Nadiye O. Erdil, University of New Haven; W. David Harding, University of New Haven; Jean Nocito-Gobel, University of New Haven; Amy Thompson, University of New Haven

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

demonstrate the skills and habits acquired through PITCH courses. Student outcomes for the project were established based on an extensive survey ofemployers, alumni and faculty. Communication instruments include technical memoranda, posterpresentations, oral presentations, laboratory reports, proposals, and senior design reports. Inaddition to text elements, the use of tables and graphics also are addressed. Advice tables,annotated sample assignments and grading rubrics are being developed for each instrument toassist students in their work and facilitate consistency in instruction and assessment acrossmultiple instructors teaching different course sections. Within each of the seven programs, specific courses within all four years are

Conference Session

Topics Related to Civil Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles E. Riley, Oregon Institute of Technology; Roger V. Lindgren, Oregon Institute of Technology; Sean St. Clair, Oregon Institute of Technology; David K. Thaemert P.E., Oregon Institute of Technology; Matthew Sleep, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Civil Engineering

spurred changes to the degreerequirements. The last accreditation visit occurred prior to the curriculum redesign and rollout ofthe co-terminal program. The updated BSCE has not been accredited yet.The civil engineering department functions with five faculty members: four full-time teachingfaculty and one part-time teaching/department chair. In addition, the department includes onefull-time technician who aids in the operation of its laboratory space. With only five facultymembers, the program has four specialty areas: structural, transportation, geotechnical and waterresources engineering. Each of these specialty areas has its own dedicated laboratory space andis directed by the faculty member(s) with the associated subject matter expertise.The

Conference Session

Curricular Issues in Computing and Information Technology Programs II

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Osvaldo Mangual, Honeywell Aerospace; Marvi Teixeira, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico; Reynaldo Lopez-Roig, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico; Felix Javier Nevarez-Ayala, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico

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Computing & Information Technology

University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez and a BSEE degree from Polytechnic University. Professor Teixeira is an IEEE Senior Member, a Registered Professional Engineer and a former ASEE-Navy Summer Faculty Fellow.Mr. Reynaldo Lopez-Roig, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico Mr. Lopez received his B.S. in Computer Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico in 2013. His work as an undergraduate research assistant was related to the implementation and benchmark- ing of parallel signal processing algorithms in clusters and multicore architectures. Mr. Lopez is currently working at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a Software Systems Engineer.Prof. Felix Javier Nevarez-Ayala, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico

Conference Session

Mechanical Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig J. Gunn, Michigan State University; Pavel M. Polunin, Michigan State University

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Mechanical Engineering

pp.Brief narrative of procedure, measured Individual); Technical Analysis,data, deduced and analyzed data, plotted Economic Analysis, Recommendationresults with discussion and conclusions. for ActionME 391 – Mechanical Engineering ME 412 – Heat TransferAnalysis Design Project Documentation: FormalReading, thinking, and teamwork Report (1 @ 10 pp. + App., Individual) Memo Reports (X @ 2 - 5 pages App.IndividualME 451 – Controls (Senior)Laboratory and Project Reports: Laboratory Experiment Written Reports (2 Formal Reports,Individual); Abstract, Nomenclature, Introduction, Analysis, Results, Discussion

Conference Session

Pedagogical Approaches in Construction Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jiong Hu, Texas State University, San Marcos; Araceli Martinez Ortiz, Texas State University, San Marcos; Vedaraman Sriraman, Texas State University, San Marcos

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Construction

better evaluation ofstructural integrity and rational analysis of potential causes of distresses. In contrast to theconventional lecture and laboratory environment, in which students were told to use specificequipment or tools for specific specimens, student in this exercise were asked to identify theequipment or tools that they might require and then consult with the instructor on theprocedural details of equipment usage. Specifically, students were required to include a casestudy in each of their posters. Students were to present their poster in front of the judge panelcomposed of industrial experts and faculty members from related programs within thedepartment. Two examples of student posters may be found in Figure 2. All posters were setup

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy J. Hinds, Michigan State University; S. Patrick Walton, Michigan State University; Mark Urban-Lurain, Michigan State University; Daina Briedis, Michigan State University

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First-Year Programs

, mechanics, computational tools and international product design as well as graduate-level courses in engineering innovation and technology management. He has conducted research in the areas of environmentally-responsible manu- facturing, globally-distributed engineering teaming and early engineering education development and has over 30 years of combined academic and industrial management experience. He received his BSME and MSME degrees from Michigan Technological University.Dr. S. Patrick Walton, Michigan State University S. Patrick Walton received his B.ChE. from Georgia Tech, where he began his biomedical research career in the Cardiovascular Fluid Dynamics Laboratory. He then attended MIT where he earned his M.S

Conference Session

Integration of Engineering and Other Disciplines (Including Liberal Arts)

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Otto, Singapore University of Technology and Design; Bradley Adam Camburn, University of Texas, Austin, and Singapore University of Technology & Design; Kristin L. Wood, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD); Giacomo Nannicini, SUTD; Roland Bouffanais, Singapore University of Technology and Design; Elica Kyoseva, Singapore University of Technology and Design; Jean Wan Hong Yong, SUTD; Dario Poletti, Singapore University of Technology and Design; Robert E Simpson; Aditya Prasad Mathur

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

was the sum of these aspects.This was confirmed when studying the correlation of the 2D grades assigned in each subject withthe overall final grades in each subject. In the systems course, the correlation was 44%, and in Page 24.763.15the thermodynamics course the correlation was 30%, which is about what one would expectbetween hands on laboratory grades and overall subject matter grades. When each subjectcourse grades a 2D project alone on the subject matter contribution to 2D, then those grades willnot correlate, and do not grade the multidisciplinary nature of the 2D

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Capstone Design

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Cherif Megri, North Carolina A&T State University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

engineering profession in their respective Page 24.765.3disciplines. The course differs from other lecture and laboratory based courses in the engineeringcurriculum in fundamental ways.ASEE Annual Conference, 2014The purpose of capstone design course, required of all seniors, is to provide a realistic experience byintegrating basic material learned during the engineering undergraduate program to address real-lifedesign problem from schematic phase into the construction design levels, including advanced engineeringdesign aspects in certain selected focus areas of technical discipline.There is no unique model for teaching multidisciplinary

Conference Session

Research Experience in Stormwater Management

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Walter McDonald, Virginia Tech; Randel L. Dymond, Virginia Tech; Vinod K. Lohani, Virginia Tech; Daniel S. Brogan, Virginia Tech; Richard Lee Clark Jr., Virginia Western Community College

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Civil Engineering

CoursesThe LEWAS was designed as an educational outreach tool to promote water sustainabilityconcepts through discovery based classroom modules that utilize a remote laboratoryenvironment. Through real-time data acquisition and display via the LabVIEW website, theLEWAS simulates a remote laboratory where students can virtually situate themselves at theLEWAS site. These modules were built upon previous empirical research developed by LEWASmembers that suggest that access to real-time data improve a student’s understanding of watersustainability concepts2. The LEWAS modules were developed and implemented first in twofreshman level courses the local community college in the spring 2013 semester, and again in thefall 2013 semester. In total