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Continuing Professional Development Division Technical Session 2

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sheng-peng Wu, University of Wisconsin at Madison

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Continuing Professional Development

Paper ID #12194Accessibility, Usability, and Universal Design in Online Engineering Educa-tionSheng-peng Wu, University of Wisconsin at Madison Sheng-peng (Hank) Wu is an Instructional Support Project Assistant in Department of Engineering Pro- fessional Development, and also a PhD candidate in Digital Media program in Department of Curriculum and Instruction, UW-Madison. Wu’s current projects focus on dynamic web design, qualitative and quan- titative data analysis, computer language acquisition, and gamified learning management systems

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New Engineering Educators Division Technical Session 3

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Denise Wilson, University of Washington; Cheryl Allendoerfer, University of Washington; Rebecca A. Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Tamara Floyd Smith, Tuskegee University; Melani I. Plett, Seattle Pacific University; Nanette M. Veilleux, Simmons College; Mee Joo Kim, University of Washington

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Diversity

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New Engineering Educators

informal study groups. In follow upinterviews and focus groups, students also chose to discuss their experiences in study groups(83%) or lab groups (82%) but also commented frequently on their participation in professionalsocieties. Of these students, most (87%) found benefit in participating in these groups, and amajority of the students (72%) felt that they benefitted in ways related to operating within thegroup as an integral part of the team. Most students stressed the social learning provided by thegroup as compared to a single individual working alone.IntroductionABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) requires that every undergraduateengineering student is active in teams (either formed by faculty or self-assembled) at

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Models and Practices of Community Engagement for Engineering Faculty

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tamara Ball, UCSC Baskin School of Engineering; Michael S. Isaacson, University of California, Santa Cruz

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

course at UCSC wherein interdisciplinary teams of students work in an layered apprenticeship model with community mentors to design and implement sustainable solutions to water, energy, waste, transportation and social challenges using ”green technology”. Dr. Ball has worked as a research fellow with two NSF Centers for Learning and Teaching and most recently on several NSF projects that focus the integration of engineering and social science to support the advancement of experiential learning for sustainability in higher education.Dr. Michael S. Isaacson, University of California, Santa Cruz Michael Isaacson is the Narinder Singh Kapany Professor emeritus, professor of electrical engineering, Director of the Center

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Qualitative Methodologies

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joachim Walther, University of Georgia; Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Nicki Wendy Sochacka, University of Georgia

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

colonialbackdrop.This brief overview of the literature illustrates the potential limitations of traditional approachesto research ethics when applied to qualitative research, a challenge that is crucially important forthe growing discourse around the use of interpretive methods in engineering education. Theanalysis of prior work in the areas of feminist and de-colonizing methodologies points to theinherent link between considering ethics as an integral part of research and the holistic quality ofresearch findings. In the following we build on this discussion to explore a practice-based way ofintegrating ethical considerations into the research process as part of a larger, cohesiveconsideration of research quality.Theoretical frameworkThe Quality Framework that

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Research on Diversification & Inclusion

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jane L. Lehr, California Polytechnic State University; Michael Haungs, California Polytechnic State University

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Diversity

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, New Engineering Educators, Student, Women in Engineering

Polytechnic State University (CPSU). Jointly offered by the Collegesof Liberal Arts and Engineering, LSE is understood as a fourth “computing discipline” by theDepartment of Computer Science (alongside computer engineering, computer science, andsoftware engineering). Admission to the program is by internal transfer only. Accepted studentscomplete rigorous technical education, including 44 units of support courses shared with theCollege of Engineering as well as the CPSU General Education curriculum; 34-35 units ofadditional coursework in an engineering specialization (computer graphics OR electricalengineering (power) OR industrial/manufacturing engineering (systems design) OR anindividualized course of study); 24 units of additional coursework in a

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

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Jing Pang

Harmin and Melanie Toth, “Inspiring Active Learning: A Complete Handbook for Today’s Teachers”, Association for Supervision & Curriculum Deve, Alexandria, Virginia, 2007.5 Sagini Jared Keengwe, “Handbook of Research on Educational Technology Integration and Active Learning”, IGI Global Book Series: Advances in Educational Technologies and Instructional Design, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 2015.6 Guoping Wang, “Principles and Practices: Multisim in Teaching Digital Systems Design”, Proceedings of the 2006 ASEE Illinois/Indiana and North Central Conference, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 2006.7 Shawki Areibi, “A First Course in Digital Design Using VHDL and Programmable Logic”, Proceedings on 31st ASEE/IEEE

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Practical Teaching in Manufacturing – 2

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jenifer Blacklock, Colorado School of Mines; Derrick Rodriguez P.E., Colorado School of Mines

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Manufacturing

Paper ID #13396Hands-on Manufacturing Concepts Taught to Sophomore Level Students Dur-ing a Unique Field Session ExperienceProf. Jenifer Blacklock, Colorado School of Mines Dr. Jenifer Blacklock is the Assistant Department Head in the Mechanical Engineering department at Col- orado School of Mines. Jenifer is active in the Undergraduate Curriculum in the Mechanical Engineering department and is an advocate of using hands-on-learning tools to help develop strong math, science and engineering foundations.Dr. Derrick Rodriguez P.E., Colorado School of Mines Dr. Rodriguez is a Teaching Associate Professor at the Colorado School

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Innovation in Engineering Leadership Education

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard J. Schuhmann, The Landing School; Andrew Michael Erdman, Pennsylvania State University; Jack V. Matson, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Dean H. Lang, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Jeffrey G. Soper, Montreux School of Business; Donald H. Horner Jr., Jacksonville University

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Engineering Leadership Development Division

the first Chair, and the late Dr. William Leonhard gave full backing to theEngineering Leadership Development Minor throughout its existence.In May, 1992, Dr. Matson was recruited from the University of Houston by the EngineeringCollege at Penn State to be the first Director of The Leonard Center for Innovation andEnhancement of Engineering Education. The stated goal of the Center was to identify the needsof the students and of the marketplace, develop curriculum innovations and teaching methods,test the innovations, and integrate the successful results into the engineering programs. Drawingon his experience developing and teaching courses in creativity, innovation, andentrepreneurship, Matson applied those lessons to the creation of the

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Broadening Participation in Engineering

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marie Anne L Mundy, Texas A&M Kingsville; Sel Ozcelik, Texas A&M University Kingsville; Mohamed Abdelrahman, Texas A&M University-Kingsville; David Ramirez, Texas A&M University-Kingsville

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

% 44%Table 4: Number of Engineering GraduatesAcademic Year Academic Year Academic Year Academic Year Academic Year2006-2007 2007-2008 2008-2009 2009-2010 2010-2011137 123 139 149 167CASCADE seeks to increase the number of well-qualified engineers for South Texas. Projectstrategies focus on implementation of design experiences throughout the engineeringundergraduate curriculum with linkages to JIL to provide access to authentic design projects.This is overlaid with an innovative cascaded mentoring program to support student success.Initially, CASCADE will pilot the curriculum implementation of design experiences in the

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Innovations in Manufacturing Laboratories

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John T. Tester, Northern Arizona University

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Manufacturing

manufacturing laboratories offered were in the context of an overall practice-basedengineering curriculum that incorporated collaboration with industry and fully developedlaboratories. This curriculum may be considered ideal for a design and manufacturing-orientedprogram. It was developed with comprehensive resource support through grants from the NationalScience Foundation (NSF), Sandia National Laboratories, and the federal Technology ReinvestmentProgram. The Learning Factory model was considered well-conceived and successful, as evidencedby its implementation in the engineering curricula of a number of additional universities, includingUniversity of Missouri-Columbia, and Marquette University.3 Recognizing the limited resources ofintuitions that are

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Biomedical Engineering Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephanie Pulford, Center for Engineering Learning and Teaching (CELT); Alyssa Catherine Taylor, University of Washington

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Biomedical

Paper ID #12398Work in Progress: Implementation of Peer Review to Enhance Written andVisual Communication Learning in Bioengineering Capstone ReportsDr. Stephanie Pulford, Center for Engineering Learning and Teaching (CELT) Dr. Stephanie Pulford is an instructional consultant within University of Washington’s Center for Engi- neering Teaching & Learning, where she coordinates the Engineering Writing & Communication Devel- opment Program. Dr. Pulford’s professional background in engineering includes a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, an M.S. in Engineering Mechanics, and a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering as well as

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Introductory Experiences in Chemical Engineering

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alexander Vincent Struck Jannini, Rowan University; Mary Staehle, Rowan University; Joseph Francis Stanzione III, Rowan University; Christian Michael Wisniewski, Rowan University

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Chemical Engineering

Paper ID #12159Green Chocolate? - Investigating the Sustainable Development of ChocolateManufacturing in a Laboratory-Based Undergraduate Engineering CourseProf. Alexander Vincent Struck Jannini, Rowan University Alexander Struck Jannini is an adjunct professor at Rowan University. His previous work has been focused on incorporating aspects of pharmaceutical engineering into the undergraduate curriculum. Alex plans on continuing his education and receiving a Ph.D. in chemical engineering. His areas of interest are drug delivery and drug loading characteristics of dissolvable thin films.Dr. Mary Staehle, Rowan University

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Laboratory Experiences in Chemical Engineering

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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William M. Clark, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Chemical Engineering

circulating water and the desire to avoid taxing the heating and Page 26.130.2cooling equipment. Tp QFigure 1. Temperature controlled reactor vessel schematic.Figure 2. Temperature controlled reactor system from Syrris, Ltd also used for biodiesel reactionstudies.Computer SimulationAs indicated above, at this point in the curriculum, few of our students knew control theory. Wecould have used an excellent Matlab control tutorial2 if we wanted a purely equation-basedmodel using transfer functions and time constants, but it was not our aim to teach control theoryand Laplace

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Software Applications in ET Programs

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Isaiah I. Ryan, Western Washington University; Aaron Cramer, Western Washington University; Ying Lin, Western Washington University

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Engineering Technology

DSP techniques. For instance, the “SIRI”function in iphone 4 uses DSP-based speech recognition algorithms. High quality headphonesemploys DSP-based noise cancelation techniques as well.DSP has become an integral part of Electronic Engineering Technology (EET) and ElectricalEngineering curricula at higher institutions worldwide. To fulfill a successful DSP curriculum, itis critical to complement lectures with well-designed hands-on laboratory exercises. It has beenwidely acknowledged that hands-on experiences improve teaching and learning efficiency andreinforce students’ comprehension of abstract topics1,2,3,4. Page 26.1307.2Motivations and

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Innovation in Engineering Leadership Education

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jay B. Brockman, University of Notre Dame; Victoria E. Goodrich, University of Notre Dame; Gary Allen Gilot P.E., University of Notre Dame

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Engineering Leadership Development Division

programs present and presenting. COMPLETE 2014 offered achance to network with 14 other universities with Engineering Leadership programs. There is much in common in terms of the challenges to changing the status quo in how engineering education is done. Leadership is viewed as important, but extra-curricular with rigorous engineering curriculum making it difficult to insert leadership classes while displacing core engineering curriculum. Feedback from alumni and business is that leadership is much more emphasized in practice than it is in academic preparation. A key comment from an industry presenter who hires a lot of engineers: “Engineers are hired for technical skills. Engineers are fired for

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2015 Northeast Section Meeting

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Sigrid Berka

. This paper is interested in showing how those desired attributes can actually be nurtured and achieved by an innovative engineering curriculum which integrates the humanities with a mandatory long-term stay abroad 7. More specifically, it concentrates on showing how the complementarities within a sequence of domestic to global research opportunities (at our German academic partner, the TU Braunschweig) to an internship in a globally operating company in Germany is uniquely set up to foster the kind of attributes within our German IEP undergraduates the ASEE study has deemed crucial for engineers to function effectively in today’s global economy. Background In the five-year dual degree International Engineering Program (IEP) 8 whose mission is

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Innovations in Manufacturing Laboratories

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Arif Sirinterlikci, Robert Morris University; Alexandra M. Macek , Robert Morris University ; Bruce Allen Barnes Jr., Robert Morris University

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Manufacturing

Robotic Application” by Yeh and Hammondwhere Wayne State University completed a project for Applied Manufacturing TechnologiesInc. 3. Their paper described the details of an industrially sponsored student vision project atWayne State for a robot to pick up car wheels from the conveyer line and place themaccurately into the drop-off fixture. In a similar effort to generate interest within their ownprogram and from local industries, The Department of Technology at Northern IllinoisUniversity responded to strength its curriculum by adding new relevant areas in itsautomation courses such as machine vision4. Within NIU’s automation course, basicsprinciples of vision are covered, including camera systems, basic optics, lighting, and imagecapturing and

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Educational Strategies in Architectural Engineering

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shahnaz J. Aly, Western Kentucky University

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Architectural

19th century” [3]. While computer development began in the 1940s,the CAD industry began to take shape in the 1960s [3], [4]. The use of CAD became widespreadin architectural practice in the 1990s. Initially CAD was mainly used for 2D drafting, “emulatingtraditional hand drafting practices” [3] while at the same time enabling editing and revisions ofdrawings without the need to redo the entire drawing [5]. With advancements in research inindustry as well as universities CAD evolved to 3D using wireframe geometry [3]. Thewidespread use of CAD in industry has led to training in CAD tools becoming an integral part ofarchitecture and engineering curricula.According to Andia, computers affected architectural education in five distinct ways that

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Broadening Participation in Engineering

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kevin O'Connor, University of Colorado Boulder; Frederick A. Peck, Freudenthal Institute, School of Education, University of Colorado; Julie Cafarella, University of Colorado, Boulder; Jacquelyn F. Sullivan PhD, University of Colorado, Boulder; Tanya D Ennis, University of Colorado, Boulder; Beth A Myers, University of Colorado Boulder; Daria A Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado Boulder; Beverly Louie, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

Science. She spearheaded design and launch of the Engineering GoldShirt Program to provide a unique access pathway to engineering for high potential, next tier students not admitted through the standard admissions process; early findings revealed significant challenges in calculus readiness. Sullivan was conferred as an ASEE Fellow in 2011 and was awarded NAE’s 2008 Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education.Tanya D Ennis, University of Colorado, BoulderBeth A Myers, University of Colorado Boulder Beth A. Myers is the engineering assessment specialist for the Integrated Teaching and Learning Program at the University of Colorado Boulder. She holds a BA in biochemistry, ME in engineering management

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Introductory Experiences in Chemical Engineering

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joseph J. Biernacki, Tennessee Technological University

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Chemical Engineering

is generally not practiced outside of these isolated contexts, studentsthat learned these formalisms will inevitably revert to “hunt and peck” strategies for solvingmaterial balances and for doing thermodynamic phase or reaction equilibrium calculations ratherthan apply a degrees of freedom analysis as a starting point. This lack of skill and understandinglimits the students’ ability to accurately formulate problems; an area that can be greatly improvedby implementing a pervasive approach to the utilization of a robust and generalized degrees offreedom formalism throughout the curriculum. IntroductionThe undergraduate chemical engineering student is typically introduced to the concept of degreesof freedom for the first time in either a

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BIM in Architectural Engineering

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christopher Monson, University of Washington; Hoda - Homayouni, University of Washington; Carrie S Dossick, University of Washington; Anne K Anderson, Washington State University

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Architectural

effect on the final solution, or by providing limitsto the problem range so that ambiguity is reduced and likely solution paths revealed.Designing the Vignette WorkshopsAs BIM uses and practices emerged over the past decade, architecture, construction andengineering programs began to introduce these software tools and business practices intocoursework. While some curricula integrated BIM modules into existing courses, others createdstand-alone BIM courses.2 Here at the University of Washington, we chose to develop a stand-alone elective course entitled Virtual Construction. This class, taught in the ConstructionManagement department, was designed as an elective course in an undergraduate constructioncurriculum. Students from other AEC

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Innovation in Engineering Leadership Education

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Logan Oplinger, Arizona State University; Micah Lande, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Shawn S. Jordan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus

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Engineering Leadership Development Division

Makers design experiments and systems (b, c) solve problems (e),possess the ability to engage in life-long learning (i), and utilize techniques and skills toaccomplish goals (k).In order to achieve these goals educators may be able to apply Making opportunities to theengineering education curriculum. This can be achieved especially through project-basedlearning, a teaching method suggested in Educating Engineers: Designing for the Future of theField28. Design projects allow for students to integrate knowledge and develop skills28. Studentsoperating in self-managed teams would be able to develop leadership skills through operating invarious roles5. By taking on the typical role of “team lead” students are able to developleadership roles as

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Laboratory Experiences in Chemical Engineering

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paul B. Golter, Washington State University; Bernard J. Van Wie, Washington State University; Arshan Nazempour, Washington State University

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Chemical Engineering

activity. This is expected to help isolate the effect of the hands-onactivities from homework and other course activities.AcknowledgementsWe gratefully acknowledge support from NSF through grant numbers DUE 1023121 and DUE1432674 and the Norcliffe Foundation for support of the work.References1. Abdul, B., et al. Experience with an Intensive, Hands-on Pre-transport Course. in American Society of Engineering Education. 2011. Vancouver, BC.2. Aglan, H. and S. Ali, Hands-on experiences: An integral part of engineering curriculum reform Journal of Engineering Education, 1996: p. 327-330.3. Arce, P. and L. Schreiber, High Performance Learning Environments, Hi-PeLE. Chemical Engineering Education, 2004(Fall Issue): p. 286

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Software Applications in ET Programs

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen A. Strom, Pennsylvania State University, Erie

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Diversity

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Engineering Technology

. However, if you can marry these two concepts together, then you have hit a home run.In our school, the Computer Engineering Technology curriculum is set up so that programming andembedded circuit design is taught via a series of courses: (a) Introduction to ‘C’ programming, (b)Digital Design and Embedded Systems, (c) C++ and object orientated programming and (d) anIntermediate Embedded Systems course. After completing this series, the students can continue onwith an Embedded Linux course, as well as a Software Engineering (process and agiledevelopment) course. Page 26.971.2This arrangement of courses is a bit unusual in that Technology

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Teaching & Learning in Graduate Programs

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Branimir Pejcinovic, Portland State University

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Diversity

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Graduate Studies

will include improved critical thinking andwriting, increased motivation, improved life-long learning skills, better topic coverage, andincreased depth of coverage. Ideally, iSLR would be introduced into the wider curriculum andwould address student skills and abilities that are difficult to attain in regular coursework.The rest of the paper is organized as follows: Section II gives an overview of uses of SLR inother disciplines, especially in medicine and software engineering. Section III discusses uses ofiSLR as pedagogical tool in engineering and includes implementation details. Section IV isdevoted to assessment methods and results. Finally, section V discusses lessons learned, offerssome conclusions, and points to future work.II

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Curricula Innovations in Engineering Economics

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paul J. Kauffmann P.E., East Carolina University; Joseph Wilck, East Carolina University; Paul C. Lynch, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Engineering Economy

universities are seriously debated in this literature.Key in general to our current work is the question of whether student perception relates tostudent learning. A common term in this literature is “constructive alignment”10 which describesthe concept that the curriculum is designed so that the learning and assessment are aligned. Ifthis is effectively accomplished, students in turn attain the goals intended for the course. In thisview, students are responsible for their own learning and the expectation is that there isconsistency between student perceptions of learning and the actual results. Kunh and Rundle-Thiel11 are an example of a study built on this premise and they found student perception oflearning was correlated with actual student

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Practical Teaching in Manufacturing – 2

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Wangping Sun, Oregon Institute of Technology; Yanqing Gao, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Manufacturing

Transportation Active Safety Institute (TASI) at Indiana Purdue University Indianapolis and a researcher and adjunct assistant professor in University of Arizona. Page 26.1489.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Teaching Statistical Quality Control by Applying Control Charts in the Catapult Shooting Experiments1. introductionIn today’s highly competitive business environment, high quality products and services arenecessary 1. Statistical Quality Control (SQC) has been widely accepted as an important conceptin manufacturing engineering curriculum. Introducing SQC

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Discussions on Research Methodology: ERM Roundtable

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kevin O'Connor, University of Colorado Boulder; Frederick A. Peck, University of Colorado; Julie Cafarella, University of Colorado, Boulder; Carlye Anne Lauff, University of Colorado, Boulder; Daria A Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado Boulder; Mark Rentschler, University of Colorado at Boulder; Jenna McWilliams, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

sure they go just above the knee. We don’t want short skirts; those aren’t business appropriate at all.As highlighted above, and in a presentation slide used by the TAs, students wereexplicitly encouraged to integrate an “attention getter” into their presentations; the class’sTA’s described these attention getters on their slide as a “fact, joke, or greeting.” Page 26.880.10Of the six groups, three chose to begin with a joke; of the remaining three groups, twobegan with a fact and one did not include any of the three possible attention getters.Because of the relative prevalence of humor, and because of humor’s role

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Flipped Classrooms in Mechanics

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rebecca Komarek, University of Colorado, Boulder; Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Mechanics

some statics classes, as many as 35 percent of students earn a D or an F. Thesegrades are typically not high enough for the student to move on to subsequent classes and maydramatically alter a student’s plans for earning an engineering degree in a certain period of time. Page 26.890.2Therefore, targeting key courses in the sophomore year that serve as a foundation for furthercoursework in the discipline may be particularly effective in helping students.While evidence shows that implementing more active teaching and learning strategies areeffective in improving student engagement and learning4, there is often a disconnect betweenacknowledging

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

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Brian Sandford

Hispanic population intheir native Spanish language. This is especially relevant if not profound in consideration of theHispanic immigrant populations in the U.S. from Central and South America who principallywork in the construction and service industries in America. In the fall of 2010, an email inquirywas sent to all construction management students at Pittsburg State University (PSU) todetermine student interest in a Spanish for Construction course. The inquiry produced a majorityof positive responses from students and resulted in the development of a Spanish forConstruction course offered for the first time in the spring of 2010 in the College of Technologyat PSU. The course has been offered every semester since its inception and has moved