Conference Session

Methodological & Theoretical Contributions to Engineering Education 3

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Educational Research and Methods

MacGyver where the lead character would resolve each episode’spredicament by fashioning an escape plan out of found objects.2 Technology and sharing ofinformation via the Internet has greatly increased the ability for smaller communities with sharedinterests to coalesce and grow.The label “Maker” is a self-determined one assigned by affinity or involvement in a largerMaking community. Makers are do-it-yourself-minded individuals participating in informalcommunities (doing-it-with-others) that support and celebrate building and prototyping technicalproof-of-concept exploration and ad-hoc product development. A Maker is a modern-daytinkerer and hands-on doer and fashioner of stuff. The range of expertise could be large butnovices and experts alike

Conference Session

The Use of Games and Unique Textbooks in Mathematics Education

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adrian J. Lee, Central Illinois Technology and Education Research Institute; Sheldon H. Jacobson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; William A. Cragoe, Sacred Heart-Griffin High School

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Mathematics

Direction This paper presents an analysis of the NCAA basketball tournament which is entirelymathematical in its methodology. However, the modeling process and its applications havestrong engineering implications. This section provides a few example topics for classroominstruction that could potentially follow this tournament analysis within a high school Page 24.930.9engineering course, along with future extensions planned for the current curriculum. Examples of well-established engineering applications involving the use of Bernoulli trialsand binomial and geometric distributions reside in the practice of quality control. In a large batchof

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Luster-Teasley, North Carolina A&T State University; Sirena C. Hargrove-Leak, Elon University; Cindy Waters, North Carolina A&T State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

probablily of being exposed toheavy metals. Scenario 3 minimic workers in the plan working without personal protectiveequipment and being exposed to heavy metals at a high rate. Lab Skills: Statistical Analysis ofdata, hazardous waste, public health, risk. (Figure 1)Case 2: Role Play - Ms. Hines and the sick 5th Grade Class Students participate in a role play exercise where an elementary teacher calls into work tolet her principal know that she is ill. The principal proceeds to inform the teacher that otherstudents in her 5th grade class are ill too. The day before the class had a field trip to a local parkthat is known to have a high population of geese. The students and the teacher were exposed tocontaminated water when and went to a local

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Marshall, University of Southern Maine; Carl Nelson Blue, University of Southern Maine

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New Engineering Educators

learning stylethat is the result of neuroscience research on how the human brain processes and retains newinformation”. 1Introduction“Acknowledging that students learn at different speeds and that they differ in their ability tothink abstractly or understand complex ideas is like acknowledging that students at any given agearen’t all the same height: It is not a statement of worth, but of reality”.2 In a differentiatedclassroom and laboratory, the teacher proactively plans and carries out varied approaches tocontent, process, and product in anticipation and response to student differences in readiness,interest, and learning needs. According to Tomlinson, our teaching style “can influence astudents’ IQ by 20 points in either direction, that’s a 40

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine Valle, Georgia Institute of Technology; John D. Leonard II, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Women in Engineering

. Page 24.997.14We have yet to develop the predictive model at this stage and plan to present it in the finalversion of this work.In future work, we also plan to look at ethnicity and race, and whether URMs also exhibit thesame behavior as women and white men (we suspect that is not the case). We also plan toconduct interviews, both one-on-one and in focus groups, to better uncover the rationales behindthese behaviors and results.Bibliography1. National Science Board’s 2014 “Science and Engineering Indicators”, http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind14/2. Marra, R. M., Rodgers, K. A., Shen, D., Bogue, B., “Leaving Engineering: a Multi-Year Single Institution Study,” Journal of Engineering Education, 101(1), 6-17, 2012.3. Ohland, M., Brawner, C

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Christine Haas, Engineering Ambassadors Network; Karen A. Thole, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Melissa Marshall, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Joanna K. Garner, Old Dominion University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

madeprogress on placing teaching materials online to help faculty at the pilot school train newrecruits. For instance, we created a set of teaching materials including instructional slides withdetailed teaching notes. Equally important, we created and posted online a high quality video ofa sample engineering ambassador presentation [18]. This video can be viewed atwww.engineeringambassadors.org.Greatest Challenges to the Network and Our Plan to Address Those ChallengesOur team has identified the following challenge as the greatest facing the EngineeringAmbassador Network in this first year of the Type II TUES grant: Maintaining the momentumand quality that the pilot schools had coming out of the inaugural national workshop. Althoughwe will run on-site

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gene Dixon, East Carolina University

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Design in Engineering Education

), this technical review is used to detect and resolve design errors and omissions that may include a failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA). • Release to Test/Build (RTB): a review that verifies issues identified in the CDR have been appropriately resolved, test plans are developed and safety/hazards analysis are completed. This review focuses on user and builder hazard minimization and may involve iteration to an earlier review phase.Main1 makes the point that for an efficient design process, the most critical design reviews arethe early ones. Design inadequacies that are unidentified, unchecked or unresolved until laterphases often result in costly design modification. As the design develops the cost of making

Conference Session

Integrating Engineering & Liberal Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

reluctance among the engineering faculty to opening up their courses to studentsfrom outside of engineering – itself representing a potent example of the technical core ofengineering being insulated from perceived outside incursions. In fact, only one elective programin the College wanted to have its courses recognized as part of the core curriculum, which meantthe Associate Dean was eager get a class like Discovering Engineering on the books for allstudents at Purdue. Given such factors, my department head and I agreed that the time was rightto take over the effort, and the Associate Dean replied in kind by partially funding one of mygraduate students to help design and teach the next iteration of the course.We planned to offer the course again in

Conference Session

Preparing Future Educators

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Linda M. Head, Rowan University; Melanie Basantis, Rowan University; Steven H. Chin, Rowan University; Bernard Pietrucha, Rowan University

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Graduate Studies

preparations are targeted to the backgroundand skills level of the students. Classroom/laboratory delivery requires that the TF: a) present in Page 24.1271.5a professional manner, b) maintain a classroom environment that is conducive to learning for allstudents, c) monitor student attention and apparent understanding of the course content, d) assiststudent groups with activities, and e) assess learning and plan for future sessions.While summer programs for middle and high school students typically do not have the samerigorous treatment of academic content that is found in a college course, the learningenvironment can mimic many of the same situations

Conference Session

Improvements in ECE Signals and Systems

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cory J. Prust, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Steven Holland, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Richard W. Kelnhofer, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Electrical and Computer

interface to the PC soundcard. Figure 3 below shows a screen capture from GRC thatimplements an FM radio receiver using a built-in WBFM Receive block and includes an audiosink to play back demodulated sound. Figure 3: Screen capture of a broadcast FM radio receiver in GNU Radio CompanionAlong with the student-owned RTL-SDR, we also plan to leverage a more capable SDR for in-class experiments. By pairing the low-cost RTL-SDR with an SDR transmitter, such as the EttusResearch B200 shown in Figure 4, the instructor can generate a wide variety of signals that canbe used for controlled experiments within the course. We plan to include such experiments inorder to demonstrate lecture concepts, as active learning exercises, and to investigate

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Techniques in the Classroom

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald W. Welch, The Citadel; Kevin C. Bower PE, The Citadel; Kaitlin Marley, The Citadel; Ally Kindel Martin, The Citadel

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Civil Engineering

number of engineering students in respective program. The concept ofincreasing the number of engineering students thereby increasing the number of graduates wasanalyzed as part of strategic planning for the School of Engineering. Key indicators found duringthis study were increased marketing, preparedness of the incoming students, retention of thosewho arrive, and the addition of new programs. This paper will only focus on the retention ofthose students who arrive each year as freshman. The School of Engineering used a simplesuggestion by one of its faculty concerning a well-known concept such as SI, supplementalinstruction, to improve retention of engineering freshman by nearly 20%. This paper willestablish the conditions prior to the

Collection

2014 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

James Solderitsch

muchpaper, but Thingsquare has published plans to offer customer- faster than traditional software tools, resulting in rapidlyspecific cloud instances where use of the API will be crucial to developed solutions that solve real business challenges.creating customized applications. For now, the API UI (not Applications built on ThingWorx can bring value to smartshown) provides the means to generate an API key and some connected products. A demonstration video of ThingWorx inillustrative examples of how to use this key to make REST-style action is available [10].calls to your devices using a command line tool such as curl or PTC is just beginning to roll out its academic program forwget. You can

Collection

2014 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Abdullah Konak; Jungwoo Ryoo; Sadan Kulturel-Konak

email asking for information or tasks to be done. 2 Another challenge of group work in e-learning is planning overhead. The difficulty in communicating with people also contributes to the increased planning overhead. It turns out

Collection

2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Joseph Chen; Mark Molnar

different team members to rotate into the • Develop a project management plan leadership position at each stage. This may mean that each h f team, in order to accommodate projects of different scale, may Stage 2 – Measurement/Analysis Phases have a different scheduling (see Fig 2). At the end of each stage, the team submits its work for review, allowing feedback • Collecting base line data • Determine process

Collection

2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Gary P. Halada; Nancy McCoy Wozniak

integrated into the rubric. Overall, the rubric and our through a survey which is included within the students’assessment plan focuses on four categories: effective eportfolio. By having their supervisors fill out the survey, notteamwork (cited highest as a skill desired in job applicants by only do faculty have another tool for assessment but also thethe National Association of Colleges and Employers, 2012); student is encouraged to explore the experiential learningprofessionalism (including ethics); the importance of being a nature of the internship with their mentor. The validity of thelife-long learner; and integrative learning (including survey of course depends on employers/mentors

Collection

2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Selyna Perez Beverly

Affairs and to bring additional areas of expertise to thecourse. Faculty and teaching partners are invited and encouraged to attend professional developmentworkshops to become familiar with the goals of the course, the teaching methods used in the course, andto engage in the FYE course material to strengthen the mission of the course. Faculty that teach thecourse meet on a regular basis throughout the academic year to discuss the course, share best practices,plan joint activities, and give feedback regarding the course.First Year Advising ProgramThe changing characteristics and diverse needs of students have also affected academic advisingmethods within higher education. The current generation of students are technologically acute anddesire quick

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2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Shervin Zoghi; Eric Liguori; Manoochehr Zoghi; Fariborz Tehrani; The Nguyen

integral part of this newlyrevised curriculum. The concepts are first introduced in the CM orientation course. Then,through faculty/industry professional mentorships, speaker series, student organization activities,and seminar series students are further exposed to the entrepreneurship ideas and get involved inleadership opportunities. Specific learning outcomes entail: providing students a rich learningexperience and understanding how the construction business operates. Identifying the bestpractices of companies in terms of size, specialty, and minority ownership. Understandingvarious aspects of a start up such as planning, marketing, financial, legal, and human elements,as well as, acquisition or operation of a construction business from the

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2014 ERC

Authors

Mary Galvin

CAREER, % - Centers programs such as MRSEC, Nano, IGERT, MRI and STC GRF. 23.8 FY14 and FY15• FY14 has not come back from Congress – legislation will provide the National Science Foundation with $7.172 billion, an increase of $287.8 million (or 4.2 percent) over the FY '13 Current Plan (CP) (http://www.nsf.gov/about/congress/113/highlights/cu14_0123.jsp) – Not every Division will get 4.2% increase.• FY15 – President’s request released today - – $7.3B for the National Science Foundation – $1295.96M for MPS vs

Conference Session

Raise the Bar – Visions for the Future, Bodies of Knowledge, and Accreditation Vicissitudes.

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark William Killgore PE, F.ASCE, D.WRE, American Society of Civil Engineers

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Civil Engineering

, energy production studies, and strategic planning. He spent nearly 30 years as a consulting engineer and also worked for the Corps of Engineers. He also served as adjunct faculty at Seattle University where he taught water resources engineering and fluid mechanics. Mr. Killgore received both a Bachelors of Civil Engineering degree and Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish from Seattle University (1978) and a Master of Science in Civil Engineering degree specializing in water resources and environmental engineering from the University of Washington (1984). He holds the Diplomate, Water Resources Engineer (D. WRE) specialty certification from the American Academy of Water Resources Engineers and is a licensed Professional

Conference Session

Biomedical Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marcia A. Pool, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Jennifer L. Groh, Purdue University Women in Engineering Program, West Lafayette; Allison L. Sieving, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Biomedical

contact hours)mini-design project based on a BME capstone senior design project in which each team workedto develop a “smart” gown which could replace traditional hospital gowns and measurephysiological signals (heart rate and respiration). Day 1 consisted of introducing participants toBME, brainstorming ideas for obtaining signals and implementing into a gown (sketchdocumented) and equipment overview. Day 2 involved building, design iteration, andverification testing; it also included gown assembly and planning for a scientific style poster.Day 3 began with an introduction to giving a professional presentation and continued withdeveloping the poster; the day concluded with participants presenting their posters and solutionsto their

Conference Session

Curriculum Development and Assessment in Chemical Engineering

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vincent Wilczynski, Yale University; Isabella M. Quagliato, Yale University: School of Engineering & Applied Science

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Chemical Engineering

Paper ID #9491A Systematic Approach to Prepare for ABET AccreditationDr. Vincent Wilczynski, Yale University Vincent Wilczynski is the Deputy Dean of the School of Engineering & Applied Science at Yale Univer- sity. As the Deputy Dean, Dr. Wilczynski helps plan and implement all academic initiatives at the School. In addition, he manages the School’s teaching and research resources and facilities, including establishing the Yale Center for Engineering Innovation and Design. Previously Dr. Wilczynski served as the Dean of Engineering at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. Dr. Wilczynski served in fellowships at the MIT

Conference Session

STEM and ECE

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kundan Nepal, University of St. Thomas; Andrew Tubesing, University of St. Thomas

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Electrical and Computer

Arduino Hardware/software interface, a digitaldesign project using discrete integrated circuits) or the design of an entire curriculum (multiplelessons) around the Arduino/Electrical Systems. The final projects were evenly split betweenthorough lesson plans and Arduino based systems. The three technical projects are brieflydescribed below: a) Design of an Arduino controlled adjustable power supply. This project entailed the designing and building of an Arduino controlled adjustable power supply that can deliver anywhere from 0 to +15V output at 0 to 5A of current from a unit plugged into a household AC outlet. The circuit consisted of AC to DC converter with a step-down transformer, a full-wave rectifier and large capacitors

Conference Session

Socio-cultural Elements of Learning through Service

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kaitlin Litchfield, University of Colorado, Boulder; Amy Javernick-Will, University of Colorado, Boulder; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder; Cathy Leslie P.E., Engineers Without Borders - USA

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Community Engagement Division

the introduction, EWB-USA continues to be mentioned as an influential learningactivity, particularly in project-based service learning (PBSL) and learning through service(LTS) literature (e.g. 14,15). In his study on LTS students, which included EWB-USA students,Carberry15 found that LTS students exhibited personality traits “which fl[y] in the face ofengineering stereotypes” (p.110). As a result, we plan to compare personality profiles, usingquestions from the big five personality domains16, between EWB-USA engineers with Non-EWB engineers. In his report, Carberry went on to say that “[t]he inclusion of students withsuch personality profiles is a necessity for the success of engineering” (p.110). We agree that adiversified engineering

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Women in Engineering

first-year projects courses were beneficial in helping students understand thepotential for engineering to positively impact people’s lives. Of the students who indicated thattheir primary reason for selecting an engineering major was to help people, 50% persisted in CE,AE, or EvE disciplines, 11% transferred to other engineering disciplines, and 39% transferred tonon-engineering disciplines. These students cited multiple reasons for plans to transfer out ofengineering. Most of the students motivated to a career where they could help people maintainedthis vision for non-engineering disciplines. The study results indicate that serving societythrough engineering is a significant motivation for many female students and that furtheremphasis on the

Conference Session

Mentoring Minorities: Effective Programs, Practices, and Perspectives

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew B. A. McCullough, North Carolina A&T State University; Stephanie Luster-Teasley, North Carolina A&T State University; Clay Gloster Jr., North Carolina A&T University (Tech); Leotis Parrish, North Carolina A&T State University; Marcia F. Williams, North Carolina A&T State University; Ronnie S. Bailey, North Carolina A&T State University

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Minorities in Engineering

one US patent and led the effort to establish a new BS degree program in Computer Engineering at Howard University.Mr. Leotis Parrish, North Carolina A&T State UniversityDr. Marcia F Williams, North Carolina A&T State University Marcia Williams is the Director of STEM/Sponsored Programs in the College of Engineering at North Page 24.483.1 Carolina A&T State University, and has more than 20 years of experience in organizational development, strategic planning, proposal development, and grants implementation and administration. Marcia earned a B.S. in Industrial Technology from North Carolina A

Conference Session

Sustainability

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Katherine Watson, The Citadel; Joshua Pelkey, AirWatch; Michael Owen Rodgers, Georgia Institute of Technology; Caroline R. Noyes, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

future generations from doing so as environment.” well.”Multi-Structural “Sustainability is the concept of “Providing for the needs of the using materials and energy in a way present while maintaining the that will not affect the population of environment and resources for the the future.” needs of the future.”Relational “Responsible planning and use of “The use of resources in a way that natural and economic resources enhances the current situation with long-term survival and economically, environmentally

Conference Session

Focus on African-American and Hispanic Engineering Students’ Professional and Academic Development

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Terrell Lamont Strayhorn, Ohio State University; Fei Bie; Leroy L. Long III, Ohio State University; Blossom A. Barrett, Ohio State University

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Minorities in Engineering

students’entire educational experience. Students indicated their level of satisfaction using a 4-pointLikert-type scale that ranges from 1 (“poor”) to 4 (“excellent”). Similarly, the NSSE elicitsinformation about students’ grades in college. Students reported their GPA based on an 8-pointscale ranging from 1 (“C- or lower”) to 8 (“A”).The primary independent variables assessed the frequency and nature of African American andHispanic STEM students’ engagement with faculty members and peers. This includedengagement inside classes (e.g., worked with other students on projects during class) and outsideclasses (e.g., talked about career plans with a faculty member). Specifically, five items measuredthe frequency with which students worked on a research

Conference Session

Innovative Graphics Instruction

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert A. Chin, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

. The objective was to ensure that all design technology graduates possessedan understanding of technology management practices in the areas of production, planning, andcontrol; quality control; safety; and management specifically. The goal was to improve the levelof understanding of technology management among graduating design technology graduates.An initial study of the students’ performance was completed in the spring of 20121. In this study,the performance of design technology majors on their understanding of technology managementwas ascertained. The criterion for success included (a) a 91% pass rate for all who sat for thecertification exam and (b) for those who did not pass the exam, the number of correctly answeredexam items will fall

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Javier Orozco P.E., UPV; Joseph S. Sun, University of Pennsylvania; Karen McDonald, University of California, Davis; Carlos Jiménez-Rico, Universitat Politècnica de València; Juan-Miguel Martinez-Rubio, Universitat Politecnica Valencia

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International

researcher" figure and reciprocity of exchanges apply. o Are difficult to implement under non structured cooperation because of problems for coordinating the research plans.  Awareness and dissemination has to be focused on personal links and cooperation of researchers. TEE has proved that joint fund seeking activities are key to doctoral collaboration. This has been more clearly outlined by the lack of Post-doc activity in the US and Canada.Research focus groupsToday’s collaboration in education has not evolved at the same pace as interpersonalinteractivities for research and joint work among research Universities. The excellence of anengineering program cannot be granted without the

Conference Session

Construction Safety and Risk Management

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Neil Opfer, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; David R. Shields P.E., University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Tagged Divisions

Construction

program. A subsidiary benefit was that in planning Page 24.320.7for safety it also forced one to better plan for the work package itself. Therefore there was notonly a safety benefit but a productivity benefit as well.In discussions with safety-conscious contractors in the years since then this author has beenstruck by how many of those contractors follow this same practice of mandatory pre-job JSAsattached to their work packages.Mandatory Substance Abuse TestingNumerous contractors over the years have implemented requirements for substance abuse testingfor their employees on either a pre-job basis, randomly, or on a post-accident basis. In