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NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

treatment facilities in central California. He was the recipient of the NSF CAREER award in 2011. Dr. Brown’s research interests are in conceptual change, epistemology, and social or situated cognition. Specifically, his research focuses on theoretical approaches to understanding why some engineering concepts are harder to learn than others, including the role of language and context in the learning process.Mr. Devlin Montfort, Washington State University Page 23.355.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Curricular Materials and Methods for

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Crossing Boundaries - Service Learning and Interdisciplinary Teams

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Philip A. Dunn Jr. P.E., University of Maine

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Construction

. Page 23.491.7The museum saved in excess of $5000 for the project. They had been quoted a cost of $6000 fora new sign. Materials for the sign cost around $600 and concrete paint and grout was around$100. The board of the museum was very pleased with the final projects.Lessons learnedThe use of volunteer labor through student engagement has many benefits that students willhopefully carry with them through their professional careers. 1. Developing practical solutions at the most economical and beneficial use of the client. Non-profits and public sector entities have constrained budgets that must maximize their financial inputs. There is no ability to expand the budget. The project will be used by many for an extended period of

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Two-Year College Division Transfer Topics Part I

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Erin Shealy, Clemson University; Catherine E. Brawner, Research Triangle Educational Consultants; Catherine Mobley, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Clemson University; Richard A. Layton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Two Year College Division

Society for Engineering Education, 2013 A Descriptive Study of Engineering Transfer Students at Four Institutions: Comparing Lateral and Vertical Transfer PathwaysStudents who attend two or more institutions during their post-secondary educational careers, ortransfer students, make up just over one-third of all American students.1 Additionally, 25% ofstudents who transfer will do so more than once.1 Reasons for transfer vary widely, but usuallyinclude academic, financial, or institutional factors.2 Moreover, reasons for transferring may bedifferent from reasons for discontinuing coursework until a later date (stopping-out), as thosewho stop-out normally identify more personal reasons for leaving an institution compared to theacademic

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Graduate Student Experience

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janet Y Tsai, University of Colorado at Boulder; Daria A Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado Boulder; Beverly Louie, University of Colorado, Boulder; Virginia Lea Ferguson, Mechanical Engineering; University of Colorado; Boulder, CO; Alyssa Nicole Berg, University of Colorado Boulder

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Graduate Studies, Student

mentor and mentee gender affect the development and mode (supervisory vs. coaching) of the mentoring relationship?Implications of the two emerging models of research mentoring are discussed both in the localcontext of administering the mentoring program and in the broader context of mentoringprograms overall and other types of research-focused mentoring relationships.BackgroundYOU’RE@CU Program DetailsThe YOU’RE@CU mentoring program has three main goals: (1) increase retention ofundergraduate students in engineering with particular focus on women and underrepresentedminorities, (2) expose students to engineering research careers in academia and industry, (3)encourage graduate students to develop mentoring skills through a hands-on

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Capstone Design

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University; Elise M. Barrella, James Madison University; Robert L. Nagel, James Madison University; Jacquelyn Kay Nagel, James Madison University; Justin J Henriques, James Madison University; Daniel Devon Imholte

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Design in Engineering Education

methodology, learning through service, problem based learning methodologies, assessment of student learning, as well as com- plex problem solving. Her other research interests lie in cardiovascular fluid mechanics, sustainability, and K-12 engineering outreach. Dr. Pierrakos is a 2009 NSF CAREER Awardee. Dr. Pierrakos holds a B.S. in Engineering Science and Mechanics, an M.S. in Engineering Mechanics, and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Virginia Tech.Dr. Elise M. Barrella, James Madison University Dr. Elise M. Barrella is an Assistant Professor of Engineering at James Madison University, focusing on transportation systems and sustainability. Prior to joining the JMU Engineering faculty in 2012, Dr. Barrella was

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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

result of their involvement with research.The remaining two students found the experience made no difference to their motivation, whichwas already high to begin with.We illustrate the personal benefits of undergraduate research by providing a number ofcomments from participants. Any identifying information is removed.On how research experience influenced their motivation for engineering: “I learned that research is a field that one can make a career in. Also, the professor and TA were very intelligent and helpful. Although the topic was complicated for a sophomore like me, they made it easier for me to understand by providing me with the relevant papers on the topic and suggesting me to search articles from scientific

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Software Applications in ET Programs

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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jai p agrawal, Purdue University, Calumet (Tech); Omer Farook, Purdue University Calumet (College of Technology)

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Engineering Technology

horizontal learning throughactive and engaged discourse and discussion. Students are empowered to charter their learn-ing and feed their curiosity. These classroom practices and laboratory environment provides achallenging and invigorating environment that prepares them for a lifelong learning processand career path.Part 1 – Basic 1. Intro to Python 2 hours 2. Basics 2 hours 3. Sequences (Strings, Lists, Tuples, Dictionaries, Sets) 2 hours 4. Math (use NumPy and Matplotlib modules) 2 hours 5. Functions 2 hours 6. String manipulations

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Institutional Perspectives and Boundary Work

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ron D Dempsey, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

engineeringtechnology educational programs is not well defined. The career status of technicians,technologists, and engineers is not understood by educator or employer.”37 This confusion withengineering has not abated over the years. Engineering technology suffers, as an academic andeconomic discipline, from a lack of clarity about what it is, what its graduates do, and confusionabout the boundaries between it and its more powerful and well-known discipline, engineering.Using the paper’s theoretical framework for boundary work of knowledge, practice, and power,one can see the how the boundaries between engineering technology and engineering lackdemarcation, to the detriment of engineering technology. Knowledge. ABET, the national accrediting body for

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Reception & Poster Session

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2013 ASEE International Forum

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Devanandham Henry, Stevens Institute of Technology / Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC); Tim L Ferris, University of South Australia; Alice F. Squires, Stevens Institute of Technology (SES); Massood Towhidnejad, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach

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ASEE International Forum

development of GRCSE was to conduct a survey of systems engineering(SE) graduate programs offered internationally. This exposed the author team to differencesbetween these programs in a number of issues including matters arising from local marketconditions, jurisdictional issues, education traditions, the place of a postgraduate degree in theeducation and work career of students, industry domains which needed to be supported, the typesof work into which graduates would expect to proceed, and the balance of systems-centric anddomain-centric SE needs. This diversity was recognized and accepted in the GRCSE project asthe contextual facts-on-the-ground which must be accommodated to enable a referencecurriculum to meaningfully inform program design to an

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NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michele Miller, Michigan Technological University; James P. De Clerck, Michigan Technological University; Sheryl A. Sorby, Ohio State University; Laura Maria Roberts; William J. Endres, Michigan Technological University; Kevin David Hale

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #7337Meeting the NAE Grand Challenge: Personalized Learning for EngineeringStudents through Instruction on Metacognition and Motivation StrategiesDr. Michele Miller, Michigan Technological University Dr. Michele Miller is an associate professor of Mechanical Engineering at Michigan Technological Uni- versity. She teaches classes on manufacturing and does research in engineering education with particular interest in hands-on ability, lifelong learning, and project-based learning.Dr. James P. De Clerck, Michigan Technological University After an eighteen year career in the automotive industry, Dr. De Clerck joined the

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Special Initiatives and Programs at Two-Year Colleges

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Farzin Heidari, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

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Two Year College Division

3 hours NANO2151 Career Planning and Industry Tours 1 hours NANO2970 Industry Internship 2 hoursTotal Core Credit Hours 27 hours Program Requirements 72 hrsTable1: NANO-Science Technology Dakota County Technical CollegeCentral New Mexico Community College (CNM):CNM Advanced System Technology program enables its students to succeed in Electronics,photonics and MEMS. The Automation and Telecommunication concentration provides CNMstudents with the analog and digital lab and hands-on experience to get started in high tech careerof industrial automation and control. Courses offered in this concentration provide hands-onexperience in robotic automation, microcontroller and PLD

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Assessment of Student Learning 2

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jesse Pappas, James Madison University

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Educational Research and Methods

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mei Zhang, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering; Amy B Chan Hilton, Florida State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

of research of experience before graduating with a Bachelors degree. I wish to send my thanks to Dr. xx for giving me the opportunity to prove myself in the advanced materials lab prior to my junior year. I would also like to thank my adviser Dr. xx for his continued support and guidance. This experience was hugely important in starting my career and I would highly recommend any undergraduates to take advantage of research opportunities such as this.” − “A good opportunity to pursue research at the College of Engineering; facilitates communication between students and professors they would likely

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Teaching - Best Practices

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wayne P Hung, Texas A&M University; Wm Adam Farmer, Texas A&M University

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Manufacturing

. Thesecond highest rank was for strategy using technology focus, and the lowest was for strategy thatrelied heavily on classroom orientation.Having hands-on laboratory is one condition, but the laboratory practices should be relevant toprepare graduates for their manufacturing career. Miller5 surveyed 25 department heads of USmanufacturing programs and concluded that an exemplary manufacturing program should: a) Require more technical coursework b) Require or strongly encourage cooperation with industry c) Maintain closer relationships with industry d) Has more manufacturing faculty and students e) Place a greater emphasis on teaching f) Provide numerous, well-equipped facilities g) Produce graduates more knowledgeable of materials and

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Topics in Energy Management

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Esther T. Ososanya, University of the District of Columbia; Sasan Haghani, University of the District of Columbia; Wagdy H Mahmoud, University of the District of Columbia

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

Paper ID #7655The Design of a Wi-Fi Enabled Cloud Monitoring DeviceDr. Esther T. Ososanya, University of the District of Columbia Dr. Ososanya is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of the District of Columbia. During her career, Dr. Ososanya has worked for private industry as a circuit development engineer and as a software engineer, in addition to her academic activities. Her Research Interests are in VLSI ASIC design, microcomputer architecture, Embedded Systems design, Biosensors, and Renewable Energy Systems. Dr. Ososanya has managed and Co-PI several research grants, and has

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Design Methodology and Evaluation 1

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicholas D. Fila, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Design in Engineering Education

Research and Learning (INSPIRE) at Purdue University. Dr. Purzer is a NAE/CASEE New Faculty Fellow. She is also the recipient of a 2012 NSF CAREER award, which examines how engineering students approach innovation. Her expertise is on assessment and mixed-methods research. Page 23.1227.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 The Quality of Engineering Decision-Making in Student Design TeamsAbstractEngineers often must decide between multiple design options that present tradeoffs. Engineeringstudents gain experience making and justifying such decisions during team design projects

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NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Spencer Seung-hyun Kim, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST)

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

RochesterInstitute of Technology (RIT). We developed an educational approach and undergraduateteaching modules for Green Plastics Manufacturing Technology within foundational courses inthe materials and manufacturing education. The outcomes of the project bring innovation andchanges, not only in terms of creating an effective instructional model for the undergraduateSTEM education, but also by encouraging students to do research as they prepare for careers in Page 23.1268.7green plastics manufacturing technology (GPMT).AcknowledgementThe National Science Foundation (Award No DUE-1044794) supports this GPMT project.Bibliography1. Hmelo-Silver, C., Ducan

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Engineering Libraries (ELD) Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alison Bradley, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; R. Daniel Latta, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Meg Harkins, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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Engineering Libraries

on how well the design process is used andhow well the final designs meet design specifications and performance criteria.    What do we expect in an Introduction to Engineering paper?    The course requires the students to complete five assignments with a substantial researchelement. Two of the papers are the Whole Life Concepts and Disciplines parts 1 and 2, whichtakes the student through the decisions that lead to a specific career goal, then considers the skills, Page 23.1382.4knowledge, and tools needed to reach that goal. The research involved in the Whole Life Papershould evaluate the market for a particular engineering profession

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2013 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Gonca Altuger-Genc

tolearn how to get to a place when we are driving. So by default, we are equippedwith the basic skill set of self-learning. Unfortunately that basic skill set of self-learning doesn’t always get fully incorporated into our careers. Students tend tohave problems in adopting a learning style [1]. Some students understand theimportance of self-directed learning and develop an appreciation to be a self-directed learner. “Self-regulated learners are aware when they know a fact orpossess a skill and when they do not” [2]. Self-directed learning is learning with the aim of implementing theinformation into one’s life; academic, professional or personal. “The key tocontinuing professional development is learning, which comes about in differentways

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Fabricio Braga Soares de Carvalho; Orlando Rocha Baiocchi; Robert Friedman

; andextending its reach and support within the community.The Institute offers students unique R&D opportunities and hands-on preparation for computing-related careers in information-centric industries that are fundamental to the future of the state ofWashington. In addition to its core undergraduate and graduate programs, the Institute hasdeveloped new applied computing partnerships with other academic units on the UW Tacomacampus, such as Healthcare Leadership, Criminal Justice, and Geographic Information Systems.With research strength in Big Data, Information Assurance, CyberSecurity, and Wireless SensorNetworks, the Institute of Technology’s faculty brings their expertise both into the classroom andthe community.Science Without Borders

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Raman Unnikrishnan; Victor H. Delgado; Hye Sun Moon; Edward Sullivan

students, to the extent possible by law, emphasizes participation bystudents from groups with low eligibility rates for four-year colleges. Some of the features of theprogram include: 1. Building a support community among students with similar career goals 2. Constructing the bridges necessary to establish a mentor-protégé relationship between faculty and students 3. Expecting excellent performance by studentsj. Freshmen Advising: Bucking Against the Campus Culture of General Education FirstOne of the quickest ways of discouraging an engineering or computer science student is throughadvising the student to take all general education courses first. Such advice was very commonuntil relatively recently because the campus culture

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Lee Gatton; Saeed Khan

Engineering Educationneed for additional training. In fact a student could use this type of development experience inrobotic healthcare as a foundation for their career. The Robotics Virtual Organization (RoboticsVO) which is sponsored by the National Science Foundation, states in its 2013 edition of ARoadmap for U.S. Robotics From Internet to Robotics1 that areas that present the keytechnological and research challenges in robotics are; physical human-robot interaction andinterfaces; social human-robot interaction and interfaces; robot-mediated health communication;automated understanding of human state and behavior during robot interactionThis research project involves applying Social Assistive Robotic (SAR) technology to reducingin-home healthcare

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Walter W. Buchanan; Muhammad H. Kehnemouyi

Proceedings of the Spring 2013 Mid-Atlantic Section Conference of the American Society of Engineering Education 32 2activities that encourage young people to pursue careers in engineering. ASEE also uses itswebsite and newsletters to publicize top Prism articles about engineering. Other top ASEEpublications include the Journal of Engineering Education (JEE), our peer-reviewedinternational journal that is published quarterly by ASEE in partnership with a global communityof engineering education societies and associations

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Shahryar Darayan; David Olowokere; Xuemin Chen

which individual courses succeed in achievinginstructional objectives which contribute to educational objectives and program outcomes;program level assessment evaluates the effectiveness of degree programs in achievingeducational objectives and program outcomes, and career level assessment is aimed at evaluatingthe professional success of graduates, as well as their ability to function effectively in the realworld. These are all related to the program assessment.As part of an academic institution, a department will have many stakeholders, or constituents.Our department lists its stakeholders for our undergraduate students as follows:  Current and prospective undergraduate students  Faculty of the department  Faculty of the

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Yaseen Mahmud; Masud Salimian

appropriate videos and post it through discussion groups and Facebook. During the lecture and subsequent class discussion of the processes under review, students are expected to add to the transfer of knowledge by sharing points and information gleaned from the digital sources and their textbook. The lecture is supported by a weekly hands-on laboratory. Students are questioned, in a non-test environment, while working on their lab projects about relate theories and concepts.IntroductionIn an industrial Engineering curriculum, a manufacturing processes course meets three categoriesof students’ employment needs after graduation: (1) Students whose professional career directlyinvolves

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Capstone Design

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

E James Nelson, Brigham Young University; Tatevik Christensen; Fernando S Fonseca, Brigham Young University; A. Woodruff Miller, Brigham Young University

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Design in Engineering Education

application inpreparation for entry into a career.” Durel [3] offers another perspective stating that capstone canbe seen as a “rite of passage or luminal threshold through which participants change their statusfrom student to graduate. A capstone course should be a synthesis, reflection and integration,and a bridge or a real-world preparatory experience that focuses on the post-graduation future.”Other definitions include, a crowning course or experience coming at the end of a sequence ofcourses with the specific objective of integrating a body of relatively fragmented knowledge intoa unified whole [4], and an experimental learning activity in which analytical knowledge gainedfrom previous courses is joined with the practice of engineering in a

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Experience in Assessing Technological Literacy

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claire L. Antaya, Arizona State University; Kristen Parrish PhD, Arizona State University; Elizabeth A Adams P.E., Chandler Gilbert Community College; Amy E. Landis, Arizona State University

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

and environmental, construction engineering and constructionmanagement programs, and is known for research on the connections between the builtenvironment and human and natural systems.MCC is the largest of ten community colleges in the Maricopa Community College District andis the largest community college in the nation, comprising more than 40,000 students, offeringtwo-year degrees as well as transfer, career and certificate programs and is one of ASU’s largesttransfer providers. The Physical Sciences Department at MCC includes traditional freshman andsophomore level astronomy, chemistry, engineering, geology and physics courses. Engineeringcourses are designed to prepare student to transfer to four-year degree-granting institutions.MCC has

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Tricks of the Trade

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael L.W. Jones, PhD Candidate Faculty of Information, University of Toronto

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Student

receive sometoken curricular reward for their efforts, the time and energy spent on such projects dwarf whatstudents would normally spend in formal classes, and many teams don’t receive any formalcurriculum acknowledgement. Such projects are largely a work of love realized by passionateand driven students, primarily on a voluntary basis. Robert Stebbins’ concept of serious leisure is an appropriate frame to examine suchactivity in a range of informal and voluntary settings. According to Stebbins, people engaged ina serious leisure effort show the following characteristics: a) perseverance to accomplish the task at hand; b) the ability to progress along a career-like path; c) the investment of significant investment

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Secondary (6-12) Outreach

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ibrahim F. Zeid, Northeastern University; Jessica Chin, Northeastern University; Sagar V. Kamarthi, Northeastern University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

of modifying organisms. The students’ feedbackwas primarily based on limited exploration of the overall capstone challenge. Students wished there wasmore leeway regarding the organisms they could modify. For some students, they desired a more open-ended challenge, while others were comfortable with more direction.With this particular class, we discussed multiple aspects of how biology and engineering intersect. Manystudents could not provide examples of career opportunities in biology. Students also did not understandthat chemistry and biology affects almost everything they eat and drink. Furthermore, students did notunderstand that biology has a lot to do with everyday items such as the sneakers they wear and thefurniture they sit on. Until

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Research Initiatives

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Tillman, The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP)

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

worksheet focusedinstruction. More specifically, students collaborated to solve math problems more than thecontrol group, which involve a set of valuable skills they will need to succeed as engineers andessentially in several STEM careers. Particular components of the PBL unit that encouragedteamwork and collaboration and the engagement survey will also be discussed in detail.IntroductionConnecting real world problems with academic content is an important part of engineeringeducation, and within this are several opportunities for students to see the connection betweenseveral academic subjects and their applicability in the real world, particularly withmathematics1. Helping students to learn these connections at early ages can set the foundation