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Developing Young MINDS in Engineering - Part II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Showkat Chowdhury, Alabama A&M University; Mohamed Seif, Alabama A&M University

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Minorities in Engineering

the various causes of this low representation, and then discusses some remedies.Based on a survey conducted, involvement of undergraduate students in research or projectsrelated to their discipline, financial assistance and proper mentoring were found to be among thetop factors that can improve the learning outcome and retention of underrepresented minoritystudents in engineering.A group of ten undergraduate engineering students were engaged in a challenging project todevelop a high power Rocketry Program at Alabama A&M University in cooperation withNASA and Alabama Space Grant Consortium. The students were involved in the design,construction, testing, launching, and recovery of a reusable rocket with a science payload. Theactivities

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Innovative Pedagogies for Teaching Introductory Materials

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen Krause, Arizona State University; Elliot Douglas, University of Florida; Cindy Waters, North Carolina A&T State University; Michael Prince, Bucknell University; Trevor Harding, California Polytechnic State University

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Materials

Mechanical Engineers, and the US National Science Foundation-sponsored SUCCEED Coalition. He is also active in the POGIL project; he has been invited to attend the last three POGIL National Meetings and serves on the Education Research Committee for the project. He has received several awards for his work, including the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the Ralph Teetor Education Award from the Society of Automotive Engineers, being named a University of Florida Distinguished Teaching Scholar, and being named the University of Florida Teacher of the Year for 2003-04. He is a member of the American Society for Engineering Education, the American Educational

Conference Session

Engaging Students

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Leslie Hadaway, Norwood High School; Megan Urbaitis, Norwood High School; Regina Lamendella, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Daniel Oerther, University of Cincinnati; Andrea Burrows, The University of Cincinnati; Mike Borowczak, The University of Cincinnati; Anant Kukreti, The University of Cincinnati

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Environmental Engineering

paper presents an innovative teaching approach, how it is implemented, student responseresults of the implementation, and the assessment of impact on student learning. The findings arebased on surveys given to the students after each lab lesson taught in partnership with university(Project STEP) and community members. The purpose of this paper is to showcase authentic molecular technology research methods thathave been incorporated into a high school level water quality study in cooperation with awatershed restoration program. Typically, water quality studies focus on chemical analysis suchas pH, dissolved oxygen, biochemical oxygen demand, orthophosphates, nitrates, temperature,turbidity, macro-invertebrate survey and fecal coliform cultures

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Innovations in First Year Programs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Zane Mitchell, University of Southern Indiana; Marco Lara Gracia, University of Southern Indiana; Ronald Diersing, University of Southern Indiana; Glen Kissel, University of Southern Indiana

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First-Year Programs

through a summer program at thecompletion of their freshman year with one-on-one mentoring with faculty members for thatsummer, their sophomore year, and the summer after their sophomore year. The first offering ofthis program occurred during summer of 2009 with three engineering faculty members selectedto provide guidance to four freshmen. The students had the opportunity to not only work on theirprojects, but also to learn about projects that other students and faculty were doing in the basicsciences. This paper will present the early results of this program, both for the summer portionand the on-going mentoring relationships. Assessment methods include student performance intheir sophomore classes and qualitative assessment of student

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Assessment & Continuous Improvement in ECET: Part II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Youakim Al Kalaani, Georgia Southern University; Shonda Bernadin, GSU

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Engineering Technology

identified by EET faculty as qualifying measures forevaluating the program outcomes. These measures can be categorized as: I- Direct Measures: ≠ Multiple course-level outcomes, typically measured with standards established in a rubric that contribute to a program level outcome. ≠ Single and multiple faculty assessments of a student presentation using a rubric- based assessment tool. ≠ Peer assessment of a student presentation using a rubric-based assessment tool. ≠ Faculty evaluation of a senior project. ≠ Faculty evaluation of student laboratory reports. Assessment is made from selected technical courses from across the curriculum. II- Indirect Measures

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Faculty & Program Exchanges: Internationalizing, Collaborations, Interactions

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sabina Jeschke, Aachen University of Technology (RWTH); Lars Knipping, Technische Universitaet Berlin; Olivier Pfeiffer; Nina Reinecke, Technische Universitaet Berlin; Erhard Zorn, Technische Universitaet Berlin

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International

robots, research cooperation in virtual worlds and cooperating IT systems, in particular cloud computing. In addition to her full professorship in Aachen, she holds a co-professorship at the University of Stuttgart, targeted towards the coordination of several eResearch projects. Sabina Jeschke received her diploma (M.Sc.) in physics at the Berlin Institute of Technology in 1997, graduating with distinction. Holding a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation, she spent several months of research at NASA in Moffet Field, CA/USA during her studies. From 08/2000 to 05/2001, she worked as an assistant professor at GaTech (Georgia Institute of Technology

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Innovations in Civil Engineering Education I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Steven Burian, University of Utah

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Civil Engineering

references to sustainability at the lowerlevels, targeted modules in junior and senior level courses, and dedicated project-based electivesat the senior and introductory graduate level. A sustainability knowledge survey wasadministered to students at the sophomore, senior, and Masters levels to determine their relativeknowledge of terminology, concepts, and practice as it relates to sustainability and civilengineering. The results were analyzed to determine the relative knowledge and depth ofunderstanding of sustainability at the three levels that have been exposed to different levels ofsustainability content in the civil engineering curriculum. The results are also synthesized withanalysis of student recognition of sustainability in course

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Student Attitudes and Perceptions

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer Atchison, Drexel University; Dorothea Holmes-Stanley, St. Cyprian's School; Adam Fontecchio, Drexel University; Eli Fromm, Drexel University

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Educational Research and Methods

Scientist with the Legislative Office of Research Liaison of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. He has been Principal Investigator of a number of bioengineering research projects involving implantable transmitters and sensors and their use in physiologic measurements. He was the Principal Investigator of the Drexel E4 educational reform project, the Gateway Engineering Education Coalition and is currently PI of an NSF funded GK-12 project. He is member of the NAE and a fellow of the ASEE, the IEEE, and the AIMBE. He is the recipient of a number of other awards and honors including the Bernard M. Gordon Prize of the National Academy of Engineering

Conference Session

High School Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amy Prevost, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Mitchell Nathan, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Benjamin Stein, University of Wisconsin; Allen Phelps, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

and at the Center on Education and Work. He uses experimental and discourse-based research methods to understand the cognitive, social and embodied nature of STEM learning and instruction. He is currently co-principal investigator of the AWAKEN project in engineering education, along with Professors Sandra Shaw Courter and L. Allen Phelps.Benjamin Stein, University of Wisconsin Benjamin Stein is a graduate student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, where his work is in hyperspectral laser design. Before returning to school, he worked as a math instructor at Stern College for Women of Yeshiva University and an electronics design engineer at ASML. These experiences as an

Conference Session

Innovative Courses/Pedagogies in Liberal Education II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paul Ross, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Liberal Education

time and are not even necessarilyconsistent. Whether or not a planet will be hospitable and welcoming to intelligent life seems inmany instances unpredictable. Academic courses are a little like that.The “freshman comp” course described in this paper exists within a “first year” program in theCollege of Engineering; it covers basic communication skills, research, oral presentations, andelementary project management; it addresses professional and liberal education issues; itattempts to create a “learning community” by focusing on the big theme of “space exploration.”At UW-Madison this course has its home in a Technical Communication program within theCollege of Engineering; additionally, the opportunity and empowerment to innovate have

Conference Session

Tablet and Portable PCs for Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lin Li, Prairie View A&M University; Sherri Frizell, Prairie View A&M University; Yonggao Yang, Prairie View A&M University

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Computers in Education

PCs and interactive teachingapplications have proven to be effective in increasing student engagement and supporting teacherinstruction. More importantly, leveraging these technologies, innovative teaching methodologiescan be developed to improve lecturing efficiency and facilitate assessment. This paper presentsan on-going project in the Computer Science Department at Prairie View A&M University thatfocuses on revamping the teaching of computer science and engineering courses by incorporatingtablet PCs and modern educational technology into the classroom. The goal of the project is toenhance student and teacher interaction, improve teaching effectiveness, and increase students’interests in course content.In this paper, we describe the

Conference Session

Engaging Students

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Junko Munakata-Marr, Colorado School of Mines; Jennifer Schneider, Colorado School of Mines; Barbara Moskal, Colorado School of Mines; Carl Mitcham, Colorado School of Mines; Jon Leydens, Colorado School of Mines

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Environmental Engineering

working with sanitation treatment systems in the developed and developing world. Bothofferings of the case-study module involved two team assignments, a small-scale case study of acommunity in a developing country and a major semester-long design project focused on a U.S.community, as detailed in the sections that follow. The nontechnical content was intentionallyintegrated into the course using a case-study approach. This section summarizes the design andimplementation of the instructional activity.Course Instructors. To support student learning with respect to both the technical andnontechnical issues, three instructors collaborated on case-study module implementation. Thefirst instructor was the environmental engineer involved in developing

Conference Session

Assessment and Evaluation in Design

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kristen Facciol, University of Toronto; Lisa Romkey, University of Toronto; Jason Foster, University of Toronto

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Design in Engineering Education

methodologies and expectations within specific engineeringdisciplines is an important first step in developing a curriculum that enables engineers to workacross those disciplines. An instrument that supports the analysis of a Faculty’s progressiontowards this end is a valuable addition to the engineering design educator’s toolbox.Introduction and MotivationThe goal of this project was to design an instrument to assess the student perception ofengineering design and how it evolves through courses and over time. The instrument design wasinformed by examining four capstone design courses from across the Faculty of Applied Scienceand Engineering at the University of Toronto; more specifically, from the disciplines ofChemical, Electrical & Computer

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Programmatic Issues in Physics or Engineering Phys

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Randy Buchanan, University of Southern Mississippi; Christopher Winstead, University of Southern Mississippi; Anton Netchaev, University of Southern Mississippi; Steven Allee, University of Southern Mississippi

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Engineering Physics & Physics

measurement of H2 concentration in the purge gas. A commercialH2 sensor will be characterized for use as the real-time sensor and H2 concentration as anindicator of the effectiveness of the purging process, thus enabling the minimizing of heliumwaste. A test apparatus for water and liquid nitrogen flow research was retrofitted to provide formeasurement of hydrogen in a helium flow stream. Results are currently being compiled but willbe presented in the final paper, as well as the overall process and activities related to studentlearning.Student InvolvementThe project was the result of collaboration between the programs of Physics and ElectronicsEngineering Technology. Students participated in the design, specification, acquisition, andinstallation of

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2010 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Angel Riggs; Kirby Smith; Cindy Blackwell; Paul Weckler; Dan Tilley; Rodney Holcomb; Shelly Sitton; Ron Delahoussaye

University. This evaluation was conducted as away to provide participant feedback to the Innovations Process faculty in order to benchmark thecourse. As a unique course funded by a USDA Higher Education Challenge grant this projectallowed the faculty of the interdisciplinary course to reflect on the first year of the project anduse feedback from the students of that year to make changes for future years.Student participants in the Innovations Process course are placed in interdisciplinary teams andchallenged to solve a real-world problem in partnership with a local (Oklahoma) sponsorcompany. The participants combine engineering, business and communications skills to developa prototype, budget analysis and a comprehensive communications plan with

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2010 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

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J. S. Burmeister; K. A. Watson

design. Theuse of spaghetti bridges in introduction to engineering courses has been done before; however,only one bridge is typically done per student team. Requiring the students to design more thanone bridge and loading each to failure has a greater impact on student learning by forcing thestudents to understand the consequences of the differences between their bridges. A descriptionof the design project and the results from implementing the project in improving the impact onstudent learning and the appreciation of engineering are reported.IntroductionThe construction and subsequent loading to failure of a spaghetti bridge is detailed in Karweit1.In this seminal work, the benefit of a “virtual lab” (www.jhu.edu\virtlab\bridge\truss.htm)2

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Thinking, Reasoning & Engineering in Elementary School

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Pelletier, Northern Essex Community College; Linda Desjardins, Northern Essex Community College; Paul Chanley, Northern Essex Community College; Lori Heymans, Northern Essex Community College

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2010-1411: TEACHING ENGINEERING ACROSS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLSMichael Pelletier, Northern Essex Community CollegeLinda Desjardins, Northern Essex Community CollegePaul Chanley, Northern Essex Community CollegeLori Heymans, Northern Essex Community College Page 15.1171.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Teaching Engineering Across Elementary SchoolsAbstract:As part of a grant-funded three-year project, a cooperative effort took place to introduceEngineering is Elementary (EiE) into the elementary schools of four public school systems.Twenty-two teachers, one from each elementary school in the four school districts, weredesignated as lead teachers

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Aerospace Technical Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Roger Forsgren, NASA Headquarters; Lauren Miller, NASA Headquarters

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Aerospace

AC 2010-1995: UNIQUE EDUCATION & WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT FORNASA ENGINEERSRoger Forsgren, NASA Headquarters Roger C. Forsgren, Deputy Director, NASA Academy of Program/Project & Engineering Leadership (APPEL), Office of the Chief Engineer, NASA Headquarters, National Aeronautics & Space Administration Roger C. Forsgren is the deputy director of the NASA Academy of Program/Project and Engineering Leadership (APPEL). NASA APPEL, managed through the Office of the Chief Engineer at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC, provides the Agency’s engineers and project managers with educational resources encouraging foundational learning, professional development, and

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Engineering Design: Implementation and Evaluation

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xaver Neumeyer, Northwestern University; Ann McKenna, Northwestern University

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Educational Research and Methods

student and faculty perceptions of productive conflict. Themain conflicts that were reported in our study included conflicts of commitment, differentideas about the project direction as well as different working styles.Results from this research will enable us to rethink common models of team conflict anddevelop direct and indirect intervention strategies that can help students to better integrateemotion and intellect in engineering design and innovation.IntroductionAlthough design projects and course structures may vary, there has been a consistentattempt to integrate team experiences into the engineering design curriculum 1-5. Whilethere has been significant work that describes instructional approaches for integrating andassessing teamwork

Conference Session

Signal Processing Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hanjun Xian, Purdue University; Krishna Madhavan, Purdue University

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Computers in Education

curriculum? and (3)What are the characteristics of a middleware framework that will allow the inclusion of real-world data sources within the classroom? Currently, we support a total of 1136 sensors from avariety of sources. This dataset contains sensor data of air temperature, water temperature, waterlevel, wind speed, air pressure, precipitation, conductivity, and soil moisture, and is being rapidlyexpanded to support a large universal set of open sensors.Success of this project provides a chance to bring practice-oriented education into engineeringclassrooms. Students will be able to access real-time, real-world sensor data with a single iPhoneapplication. Effective visualization and interface for navigation of sensor data helps

Conference Session

Teaching Technological Literacy - Engaging Students

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Walk, Old Dominion University

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Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

perspectives on acceptance criteria and adoption rates of newtechnology. Quantitative technology forecasting studies have proven reliable in projecting intime technological and social change using relatively simple models such as logistic growth andsubstitution patterns, precursor relationships, constant performance improvement rates of change,and the identification of anthropologically invariant behaviors. In addition, extensive studies ofthe evolution of patents have uncovered not a series of breakthrough discoveries or creations, butpredictable trends of incremental technological innovation, governed by a short list of parametricvariations.This paper presents an overview of the major processes describing technological changeindentified through

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Special Session: Impacts of Service in Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kurt Paterson, Michigan Technological University

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Educational Research and Methods

AC 2010-2028: SPECIAL SESSION: DEVELOPING INTERCULTURALENGINEERS THROUGH SERVICEKurt Paterson, Michigan Technological University Page 15.1083.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Developing Intercultural Engineers Through ServiceAbstractThis paper reports on recent efforts to understand the cultural awareness among engineeringstudents. A standard assessment program has been instituted across the various programs atMichigan Technological University with pre-, during-, and post-project phases. The mixed-methods assessment plan consists of surveys, reflection statements, journaling, a wellnessindicator, the Intercultural Development Inventory, and project

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Kara Cokeley; Claire Mockler; Min Feng Zheng; James Patrick Abulencia

energyresearch as a six credit sequence. By allowing students to perform independent research,students benefit from a learning experience that allows them to think both critically andcreatively. Most importantly, these hands-on projects help increase student interest in the fieldof renewable energy, which will become important in educating the next generation of engineers.I. Introduction The search for renewable fuel is continually growing as the world’s energy demandsconstantly increase. The reserve of non-renewable fuels continues to be exhausted, and asresearch in this field intensifies, it is imperative to educate students, specifically engineeringstudents, on the importance of alternative energy. At this current pace of consumption

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Paul C. King; Gerarda M. Shields

the needsof the millennial or digital generation by incorporating multimedia into our classrooms in a structured,meaningful way well before students enter the college learning environment. City Polytechnic HighSchool has embarked on this effort through their Integrated Projects course offerings.The City Polytechnic High School of Engineering, Architecture and Technology (CityPoly) welcomedits first cohort of freshman in fall 2009. As a five year secondary school, these students will not onlyreceive a high school diploma in three years but may also continue on to an associates degree in areassuch as architectural, civil engineering and construction management technology at New York CityCollege of Technology (CityTech), part of the City

Conference Session

Technological Literacy and K-12 Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Steven Essinger, Drexel University; Ryan Coote, Drexel University; Pete Konstantopoulos, CAPA High School; Jason Silverman, Drexel University; Gail Rosen, Drexel University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

often either like STEM courses or artsand humanities courses. The goal of our program is to capture students’ perceived interests andsupport them in coming to see the relationship between the creative and performing arts andbroader STEM concepts. This goal was accomplished through the design, development, andimplementation of a variety of inquiry-based labs. These labs, which were developed primarilyby undergraduate and graduate engineering students, focused on a diverse set of topics includingimage processing, robotics, bioinformatics, and audio processing. Project staff implementedthese labs to students in an arts magnet school that is part of a large urban school district. In this paper, we discuss preliminary results from the first

Conference Session

Women in K-12 Engineeering & Outreach Programs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tirupalavanam Ganesh, Arizona State University; John Thieken, Arizona State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

. Participants were expected to take part in the afterschool program for two-years,beginning in their seventh grade, thereby providing for an in-depth year-round experience. Thiseffort is part of a three-year National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsored project under theInformation Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program. Middleschool students took part in a long-term in-depth afterschool program over two-years thatincluded both school year and summer experiences where they engaged in a variety oftechnology-rich project-based challenges. Site selection met the NSF ITEST program objectivesof targeting underrepresented populations in the STEM fields. A purposeful selection strategywas used to select cohorts from four middle schools

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xuemin Chen, Texas Southern University; Yongpeng Zhang, Prairie View A&M University; Lawrence Kehinde, Texas Southern University; David Olowokere, Texas Southern University

up of an Internet-based laboratory forinteractive learning. Faculties from two Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU)collaborate on this project, with the aim of revamping some existing laboratories with virtual andremote functionalities. The objectives of this effort are to improve the learning of under-represented student population in the ET program; provide a platform to publish the VR-Labcourseware developed in senior projects; promote inter-institutional collaboration by developingand sharing VR-Lab courseware; develop faculty expertise through research and teachinginitiatives; and disseminate results and findings of the project to other universities and colleges.In this paper, the authors intend to demonstrate their

Conference Session

BME Course and Curriculum Development

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lily Laiho, California Polytechnic State University; Nikki Adams, California Polytechnic State University; Kristen Cardinal, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo; Matthew Burd, California Polytechnic State University; Daniel Walsh, California Polytechnic State University; Trevor Cardinal, California Polytechnic State University

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Biomedical

Engineering, Biological Sciences, or AnimalScience.After completing their coursework, students complete a nine-month internship in a stem cellresearch lab at one of our partner institutions. The nine-month internship, which addresses all ofour programmatic learning goals, allows students to further develop their laboratory and criticalthinking skills in a research-intensive environment with a rigorous and independent project.Upon completion of their research internships, students return for one final quarter ofcoursework. During the quarter, students complete a Master’s Project Course that allows them toapply the skills gained during the research internship to existing research efforts at ouruniversity. This Master’s Project provides students with

Conference Session

Engineering Collaboration: Faculty & Student in K-12 Programs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Holly Anthony, Tennessee Technological University; Melissa Geist, Tennessee Tech University; Sally Pardue, Tennessee Tech University; Mohamed Abdelrahman, Tennessee Technological University; Evangelynn Thurber, Cookeville High School

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

immerses high school mathematics and science teachers into the design andprocesses of engineering research. Teachers conduct their research alongside engineeringstudents (undergraduate and graduate) with supervision from engineering faculty in variousdisciplines (mechanical, chemical, etc.). Of central importance to the project team is how tofoster the translation of that research into practice, specifically into the high school mathematicsand science curriculum. This paper explores the viability and flexibility of the Legacy Cycle as avehicle to (1) train teachers to be researchers, and (2) as a planning and implementation modelteachers can use to take engineering concepts and research into their classrooms.RETainUS is designed so that teachers

Conference Session

New Collaborations

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Strife, West Virginia University

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Engineering Libraries

describe using online or video tutorials generally, with somefascinating articles about various video tutorials for students in engineering and the sciences. Page 15.839.2Jack Maness from the University of Colorado, Boulder published an article in the Summer 2006Issues in Science & Technology Libraries (ISTL) that evaluated streaming video used to deliverinstruction to engineering students in the distance education program6. Barsky and Lindstromwrote an article in the Fall 2008 issue of ISTL about podcasting at the University of BritishColumbia1. Berger discussed a podcasting pilot project at the University of Virginia2. Robertsand Bhatt wrote