Conference Session

Peace, Conflict, and Sustainability: Addressing Global and Ethical Issues in Engineering Education

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert J Muscat, Global Peace Services USA; Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Donna M Riley, Virginia Tech; Rebecca A Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics, Engineering and Public Policy

involved in Page 26.1216.5planning and implementation) should take account of factors such as:1. Is the project located near borders between rival groups?2. Will the location and design of irrigation channels impinge on divisions between different ethnic (or religious, etc) groups?3. In the case of international waterways, consider the World Bank’s safeguard cautions.4. The World Bank cautions should similarly be applied to projects in internationally contested areas, and in border-spanning resource development (e.g. natural gas, petroleum, water).5. Are there external “diseconomies” (e.g. pollution causing health or economic damage) that

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 4

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bhavna Hariharan, Stanford University

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics

thecommunity is embedded in. This approach is in keeping with the KGC mission ofcreating “shareable prosperity” that “seeks to mobilize knowledge to serve men, women,and children living in extremely impoverished conditions through active collaborationwith those people. And it seeks to do this in ways that build bases for sustained inquiryby those men, women and children.” It can be best achieved through the “practice ofethics of care”1.    The Global Engineers’ Education (GEE) course that served as the research setting for thispaper is founded on a decade of work at the KGC at Stanford University aimed atfundamentally understanding the nature of challenges we face in creating shareableprosperity and on developing methods for applying research

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nolan Alexander LaSota, University of Pittsburgh; Robert S. Parker, University of Pittsburgh; Cheryl A Bodnar, University of Pittsburgh

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

from2011-2013, their results showed improvement in the students’ knowledge of the additivemanufacturing processes. In the 2012-2014 study, the Missouri University program evaluatedstudents with a survey before and after the program, along with weekly presentation evaluations.The Missouri study obtained qualitative data through interviews with the participants prior to andafter completion of the REU program. It was also stated that the program seemed to improveyear after year and succeeded in increasing the students’ awareness of additive manufacturing.10Research QuestionsThe research questions that we had in this study were: 1. Does the REU program contribute to increasing students’ understanding/perception of the systems medicine field

Conference Session

Evaluation: Diversity in K-12 and Pre-college Engineering Education

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer R Amos, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Carla D Hunter, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Kathryn B. H. Clancy, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Ayesha Sherita Tillman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Diversity

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Page 26.1299.2provides a framework for current issues such as healthcare, health disparities, and sustainability. Figure 1: Schedule for GAMES Bioengineering 2014Guiding Principles Principle 1: Science in the service of society. Many of the existing science, technology,engineering and mathematics (STEM) engagement opportunities operate on a “deficit model”form of science outreach. That is, they are unidirectional and share new knowledge with thepublic, under the assumption that the public would become more engaged with science if theyjust knew more of it4.The GAMES model brings girls together for a week, consistently engagingthem on the relationship to what they are doing in their lab exercises to the real

Conference Session

Teaching and Learning Strategies II

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cyrus Habibi P.E., University of Wisconsin-Platteville; Annelise Shirley Roti Roti, University of Wisconsin - Platteville; Motahareh Alaei, Minnesota State University, Mankato

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Educational Research and Methods

, copyingwithout trying, etc., either did not happen or were negligible in comparison to the positiveconsequences.Minichiello et al. replicated the study originally done by Widmann to clarify the nature of theinconsistency between engineering students and faculty opinions regarding the use of solutionmanuals4. Their results show that the majority of students use solution manuals after they tried tosolve assigned homework on their own. This paper aims to describe faculty and students’perspectives regarding solution manuals.Methods 1. Sample Selection and DemographicsThe College of Engineering, Mathematics and Science (EMS) at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, with an enrollment of over 2500 and over 150 faculty and teaching staff, is one of

Conference Session

Assessment of Engineering Leadership Skills

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Scott Rebentisch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Stephen Townsend, Project Management Institute; Edivandro Carlos Conforto, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Engineering Leadership Development Division

their careers, many, if not most mayreasonably expect to play a leading role in an engineering or product development effort at somepoint. Will they have the necessary preparation and skillset? And where should this preparationtake place? These issues are the focus of this paper, which is based on a study of engineeringleaders and the skills and roles that are essential to the work they do. What skills will be required of an engineering leader? In a typical matrix organizationleadership roles might involve permutations around project or functional, or technical ormanagerial (1). In a program, a program manager would fill the managerial role while a chiefsystems engineer might fill a technical role (although in some cases both roles might

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Geoffrey L Herman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Irene B. Mena, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Matthew West, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Jose Mestre; Jonathan H Tomkin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

iterative implement-evaluate development cycles, it is expectedthat faculty will emergently adopt RBIS that meet their course design goals and objectives suchas increased student learning, motivation, and retention.The purpose of this paper is to (1) describe our initial experiences with creating the CoPs andwith attempting to change the teaching culture to be one of collaborative joint ownership withinCoPs, (2) describe the groups of instructors who are successfully forming CoPs and discuss thecharacteristics of effective and ineffective CoPs, based on observation data, and (3) describe thedifferent RBIS that have been implemented, and the fidelity and success of implementation thus

Conference Session

Socio-Technical Issues in Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Priya Balasubramanian, Grand Valley State University; Nael Barakat, Grand Valley State University

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics

the origins of bioethics. The beginning of bioethics was in the early 1960’s whenHastings center along with other ethics organizations opened their doors to address theapprehension and fascination of society towards advances in medicine and technology. TheseProceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, New Orleans, LA. June 2016 – Balasubramanian and Barakat. Page 1 of 11organizations observed that bioethics was required to answer questions that originated fromincreased public awareness of medicine and the concerns surrounding the moral questions relatedto various technological developments. Hence, in 1974, National Commission for the Protectionof Human subjects (NCPHS) was established and the need for bioethics and the work of

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 6

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sara P Rimer, University of Michigan; Sahithya Reddivari, University of Michigan; Aline Cotel, University of Michigan; Elizabeth Frances Cloos Dreyer, University of Michigan

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Diversity

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International

; and studies emphasizing and elucidating needs specific to female undergraduates in Liberia, and moreover, undergraduate students in war­torn countries. This paper will present a programmatic overview of this camp. Additionally, this paper will present preliminary data gathered by semi­structured interviews and focus groups with Liberian undergraduate engineering women on the need for and benefit of such an international community. The leadership camp will build on these results, and continue to be held over the coming years to strengthen the partnership between the two organizations and to continue supporting the Liberian students as they persist in the engineering profession.1.  Introduction  The need for strategies to empower Liberian

Conference Session

Student Success I: Interventions and Programs

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jaclyn Marie Esqueda, University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Christina Curras, University of Wisconsin, Platteville

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Educational Research and Methods

with the centermanager.In order to promote the new space, a grand opening event was held at the start of the fall 2013semester. University administrators and all students, staff, and faculty in the College of EMSwere invited to attend and learn about the space and its services. Email communications, acampus press release, and flyers were used to promote the open house and the new space. Thespace is also advertised continuously through a website and Facebook page.Initially, CenterPOINT was open and staffed seven days per week for a total of 81 hours perweek. Hours were Monday through Thursday from 8:00 am to 10:00 pm, Friday from 8:00 am to5:00 pm, Saturday from 1:00 to 8:00 pm, and Sunday from 1:00 to 10:00 pm. After analyzingusage during the

Conference Session

Corporate Member Council Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nada Marie Anid, New York Institute of Technology; Marta A Panero, New York Institute of Technology; Brian Carbonette, New York Institute of Technology

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Corporate Member Council, Diversity

announced in June 2012. The federal and state agencies providedinfrastructure funding, which was augmented by funds from NYIT and the support ofnumerous industry partners.The ETIC is an illustration of the SoECS’ core beliefs and mission. The School’s high-quality undergraduate and graduate programs prepare students for advanced studies andchallenging positions in business, government, and industry. The SoECS is guided in thismission by the three tenets embraced by NYIT: 1) professional preparation of students; 2)applications-oriented research; 3) access to opportunity for all qualified students. Toaccomplish its mission, the SoECS offers a broad range of outstanding, accreditedacademic programs; supports faculty members who are effective teacher

Conference Session

Works in Progress: Classroom Practice

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

M. Austin Creasy, Purdue University (Statewide Technology)

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Educational Research and Methods

be related to some models of educational feedback 1-6 wherethe two-feedback-loop model presented by Narciss 6 is an example that shows how instruction,tasks, feedback, and new instruction are interconnected in a cycle. But, the relation to feedbackmodels is not the focus of this paper. The emphasis of this paper is to measure all the actions ofa student in the entire learning cycle where the instruction is provided using a flipped course withtry-again feedback used with the practice problems. The measurement will be used to assesshow a student uses both the instruction and feedback provided.An instructor controls a lot of variables in a learning cycle and therefore can governor manyfactors that occur during learning. These variables include

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Retention Programs for Diverse Students

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Carlson, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Shaobo Huang, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Cassandra M Birrenkott, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Sarah Folsland, Woment in Science and Engineering

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ASEE Diversity Committee

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Minorities in Engineering, Women in Engineering

diversity, particularly the recruitment of womento that particular program. Aligning with the goal, the following objectives were developed.Objective 1: Increase the enrollment and retention of the female engineering students.Objective 2: Improve female students’ attitudes and perceptions toward careers in engineeringfields.Objective 3: Enhance female students’ self-efficacy in the learning of engineering.Objective 4: Increase the six-year graduation rate of female students (currently at 53% for theuniversity). The department placed an emphasis on increasing the general graduation rate of allwomen students as opposed to just women engineering students to be aligned with theuniversity's strategic goals.In alignment with these objectives, from 2011

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 5A: Work-In-Progress: 5 Minute Postcard Session I

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heidi Cian, Clemson University; Michelle Cook, Clemson University; Lisa Benson, Clemson University

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

to approximateeliciting problem solving skills that would be utilized in an actual workplace setting (althoughnone would actually be defined as ill-defined). Table 1 details the data collection for the study.Student commentary was coded by researchers for evidence of metacognition and strategy use.Students were included in the count for contributing codes if their work was coded for eithermetacognition or strategy use.Table 1: Data collection by semester Semester Total Number of students Number of students Number of students students in contributing codes contributing codes for contributing codes for sample for story problem open-ended problem exercise problem Fall

Conference Session

Addressing Diversity Issues in Engineering Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tressa Kay Mikel, University of California, Berkeley; Frank Hoang, University of California, Berkeley; Pedro S. H. Kim, UC Berkeley; Maria-Isabel Carnasciali, University of New Haven; Shannon Ciston, University of California, Berkeley

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Diversity

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Two Year College Division

 undergraduate engineering degree, and in this study are limited to students age 25 and older. The presence of adult students enriches undergraduate engineering programs because their added life experience allows them to approach their studies with unique perspectives, motivations, and strategies compared to their  1​younger peers.​  Because of the added challenges that adult students face, their presence in undergraduate programs must be supported to improve retention of this valuable group of  2​students.​  Prior studies have shown that identifying with engineering is linked to both  3​educational and professional persistence.​  Our research focuses on the development of engineering

Conference Session

Best Practices and Lessons Learned in Design Projects

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Y. Chiou, Drexel University; Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University; Tzu-Liang Bill Tseng, University of Texas - El Paso

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Manufacturing

the most productive at exchanging heat. The green-energy solar collectorswere set up and made fully functional.Energy Efficiency Design MethodologyFigure 1 shows a graph of both panels’ efficiency percentage versus the difference of inlet andambient temperatures. The most productive operation of a collector is when the temperature of theinlet liquid (Ti) is the same as the surrounding temperature (Ta). Flat panel collectors are usuallyare 75% effective when Ti equals Ta, whereas evacuated tubes have a proficiency of around 50%.Collectors tend to operate 30°F to 80°F above surrounding temperatures to deliver end-usetemperatures from 100°F to 130°F. Efficiency is poor when the inlet temperatures have risen. Thiscauses the heat exchange from the

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Nilsen, Purdue Center for Regional Development; Thema Monroe-White, SageFox Consulting Group; Edward F. Morrison, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Phil Weilerstein, VentureWell

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

most useful for addressingchallenges that are complex, require many people, and in which there is a high degree ofuncertainty about the best approach.1 This set of conditions holds true far beyond productdevelopment.One such scenario is that of planning and implementation of organizational interventions –anenvironment in which “strategic planning” is often the tool of choice but one which is ineffectivein a networked (rather than hierarchical) context. An alternative approach described in this paperis “strategic doing”. As in agile product development, the approach uses iterative cycles ofimplementation, learning and reflection, and improvement, with a focus on rapidexperimentation and gradual scaling up of solutions. While not designed for

Conference Session

Issues in Academic Integrity and the Value of Portfolios, Case Studies, and Supportive Programs

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Catherine T. Amelink, Virginia Tech; Benjamin David Lutz, Virginia Tech; Marvin K. Karugarama, Virginia Tech; John J. Lesko, Virginia Tech

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Diversity

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Graduate Studies

for members ofunderrepresented populations (i.e., women and minorities), and is further exacerbated when enteringgraduate students come from different schools than those which they are entering to pursue a graduatedegree 1. In other words, while the transition to graduate school is a challenge for everyone, certainfactors can amplify this challenge for different individuals. Thus, this article articulates a framework of apilot summer graduate engineering bridge program and the assessment of its impact.The transitions to new educational contexts are not unique to graduate education, and studies haveexamined the transition from high school into undergraduate program, particularly among engineeringstudents 2, 3. Conclusions from these studies

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Raber, Michigan Technological University; Jim R. Baker, Michigan Technological University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

three areas in whichengineering education must justifiably direct considerable attention.4 The Enterprise model, bydesign and in practice, requires a high degree of interaction among team members and betweenstudent team members and faculty advisors and industry mentors. Research establishes that theseinteractions are the most predictive measures of positive change in college students’ academicand personal development and satisfaction.1 The Enterprise program, as a core imperative foreducating engineers for the future, teaches and trains students for professional practice – withpractice understood as the “complex, creative, responsible, contextually grounded activities thatdefine the work of engineers at its best”.7The program, with its emphasis

Conference Session

Best of DEED

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven C. Zemke, Gonzaga University; Diane L. Zemke

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

communication is challenging on several fronts. Students have notacquired the necessary object language, they, like many, struggle to describe shapes, and theylack sufficient repertoire.Study context and methodsThis study was conducted in a private undergraduate university within its Engineering Schoolunder the approval of the Institutional Review Board. The seven students who volunteered toparticipate, four males and three females, were Mechanical Engineering juniors within a requireddesign course.Each student was asked to describe three common items from a hardware store: The first was alow-flow garden sprinkler assembly, the second was a steel electrical junction box, and the thirda pair of slip joint pliers. These items are shown in Figures 1-3

Conference Session

Faculty Development I: Attitudes Towards Teaching

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Debra A. Fowler, Texas A&M University; Maria L. Macik, Texas A&M University; James Kaihatu, Texas A&M University; Chelsea A. H. Bakenhus, Texas A&M University

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Educational Research and Methods

threats, and implications includingnext steps.II. Background and context for change in faculty perspectivesThe PRD process follows eight basic steps, and seeks to center the curriculum on the learner,rather than the educator (Fowler, Macik, Turner, & Hohenstein, 2015). The steps are describedas the CVEN department faculty, students, and administration involved in this study experiencedthem.Step 1) Select team members and orient them to the process. The department chair andcurriculum team leadership met with the educational developer on PRD to review and furtherdefine the steps of the process and reach agreement. A graduate student, pursuing a professionalmaster’s degree in civil engineering, was hired to support the effort in September of

Conference Session

Innovations in Communications and Wireless Systems Education

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vuk Marojevic, Virginia Tech; Richard M. Goff, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education; Carl B Dietrich P.E., Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech; Taeyoung Yang, Virginia Tech; Christian W. Hearn, Weber State University; Nicholas F Polys, Virginia Tech Advanced Research Computing; R. Michael Buehrer, Virginia Tech

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Electrical and Computer

practical teaching tools andmethods for educating students as well as radio engineers and researchers about new trends inwireless communications with a focus on spectrum sharing.1 IntroductionWireless communications research is investigating how to make better use of the radio frequency(RF) spectrum. Increasing the throughput per unit bandwidth (spectral efficiency) is a popularchoice that is continuously improved and employed in practice. Reusing frequency bands oppor-tunistically (dynamic spectrum access or DSA) is still in the research phase, but is likely to makeits transition to practice in the near future based on the currently ongoing license auctions for theAWS-3 and other bands in the United States.These techniques are covered in

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2019 CIEC

Authors

Sean Tavares; Shawn Banker; Christopher LeBlanc; Jonathan Ferguson

University of New Hampshire wasestablished in 1973 as a centralized research facility within the Office of the Senior Vice-Provostfor Research. The UIC, located at the main campus of the University in Durham, NewHampshire, houses much of the shared, high end scientific, analytical instrumentation for theuniversity. The main campus is approximately 1 hour from the Manchester campus where theET Program resides.The mission of the University Instrumentation Center (UIC) is to support the research, teaching,and engagement missions of UNH by providing access to the best analytical instruments,scientists, and engineers. In support of the university’s engagement mission and as a broaderimpact requirement for many federal grant programs, the UIC partners

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 2A: Using Alternative Measurements to Look at Students and Their Success

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nick Tatar, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Lauren Van Beek, University of St. Thomas; Laura Ann Lilienkamp, Smith College

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

the ways first-year engineering students develop their identity.Research on first-year students suggests the first semester plays a major role in student retention,particularly in fields such as engineering, as many students know whether or not they willcontinue studying engineering by the end of the fall semester and few students transfer intoengineering after the first year.1 Motivational psychologists such as Deci (1995) have argued thatautonomy is essential to student identity development, as well as lifelong learning.In this study researchers investigated how first-year students spent six hours of free time as partof a first year, first semester course at a small engineering college. The instructor designed thesesix hours to encourage

Conference Session

Electromagnetics & Power Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nurhidajat Sisworahardjo, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga; Ahmed Eltom P.E., University of Tennessee, Chattanooga; Abdul R. Ofoli, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga; Edward H. McMahon P.E., University of Tennessee, Chattanooga

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Diversity

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Electrical and Computer

of Education (HCDE), and the Southeast TennesseeDevelopment District (SETDD). The holistic approach taken by the partnership addresses allaspects of workforce development: recruiting high school students into the power sector careers;training the next generation of technicians, engineers, and managers; and instructing the existingworkforce in new technologies.UTC is ideally situated for collaborations with the power industry. Situated less than a mile fromboth TVA’s operations center and from the headquarters of EPB, the local power distributorwhich was a recipient of a $112 million DOE smart grid grant 1, UTC regularly pulls from theseorganizations for adjuncts and research partners. In 2006, UTC gathered a group of leaders fromthe local

Conference Session

SDR & Programming in ECE Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kurt VonEhr, Grand Valley State University; William Neuson, Grand Valley State University; Bruce E. Dunne, Grand Valley State University

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Electrical and Computer

software is loaded to perform the necessary processingand no hardware modification is required. This approach allows for ease of adaptability, shortensdevelopment effort and greatly reduces cost and complexity. The generic architecture of an SDRsystem is shown below in Figure 1. Figure 1: General SDR ArchitectureThe advantages of using SDR in commercial applications also applies to its use in an academiclaboratory setting. Many recent papers describe the use of SDR systems for academicinstructional purposes. These include various analog and digital communications experimentsand projects3,4,5,6 based on the popular Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) platform(available from Ettus Research/National Instruments7

Conference Session

Integrating Systems Engineering into the Capstone Project

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vigyan Jackson Chandra, Eastern Kentucky University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering, Systems Engineering

ideas rooted inSystems Engineering.The International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE)1 defines Systems Engineeringas “an interdisciplinary approach and means to enable the realization of successful systems.”The Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge (SEBoK), created by Body of Knowledge andCurriculum to Advance Systems Engineering (BKCASE) project2, notes that systemsengineering includes the “full life cycle of successful systems, including problemformulation, solution development and operational sustainment and use.” As noted in theSEBoK, a host of criteria such as continuous process improvement, considerations fortradeoffs, system integration, safety, recycling, etc., are needed while developing solutions fortechnical problems. In fact

Conference Session

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

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sergio Celis, Universidad de Chile; Camila Aguirre, Universidad de Chile

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

(continues, ordinals, and dichotomous ones) based on detailed information aboutstudent grades in their first-year courses. Among these variables we included ratio ofpassed versus enrolled credits, variation of grades from first to second semester in bothpassed and failed courses, and difference between the final grade and the minimum gradefor passing, which in this case is 4, where 1 is the minimum and 7 the maximum of thescale. The decision about how much academic data to include in the model deserves somediscussion. In our case, a consecutive failing can only happen in the second semester. Theearlier we are able to detect those likely to fail a course twice in a row, the better. On theother hand, with more time to capture academic data

Conference Session

Curriculum Exchange

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristen M Clapper Bergsman, Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering; Eric H. Chudler, University of Washington; Lise Johnson, The Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering; Michael W. Shaw, Cleveland STEM High School; Shannon Jephson-Hernandez, Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

neurological issuesassociated with TBI and developing technologies. They identify current research to better Page 26.731.2understand these issues and neural engineering efforts to support the needs of patients affectedby TBI. Students explore normal brain function, the impacts of brain injuries, and the potential ofneural engineering devices through the use of a Brain Box model (see Figure 1). In this activity,students build a physical model of the lobes of the brainusing PVC pipe and then use craft materials to constructmodels of the neurons within the lobes. After building theBrain Box model, students connect neurons within andacross lobes and then

Conference Session

International Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia Fox, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Ergem Senyuva; Joe Spaulding, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis

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International

Political Science Electrical Engineering Psychology Environmental Engineering Public Policy Environmental Studies Shipbuilding and Ocean EngineeringInitially, there were 15 teams established at the workshop. Of the 15 teams, 5 teams chose not tocontinue with their projects due to lack of commitment and/or lack of time due to their busyschedules in school after the workshop was completed.Below are descriptions of the remaining 10 teams that continue to work on their projects: 11 1. The “FoodSlowers” team is from Koç University. This team is working on multiple projects relating to the “slow food” concept. They are introducing the concept of “slow food” to their