Conference Session

Software Engineering Topics

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James N. Long, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

. 8To allow for testing of systems in a closely controlled laboratory environment, vehicles basedsolely on internal combustion power sources are not practical due to emissions and requiredmechanical infrastructure. These limitations were overcome through adaptation of electricvehicle (EV) technologies. EV platforms provide real-world components that are clean, easy forsoftware students to construct, and easy to scale from “toy” size platforms to full size vehicledeployments.Electric Vehicle IntegrationElectric vehicle technologies provide a clean platform for use in development of software basedvehicle projects. With minimal cost, a simulation and/or emulation environment can beconstructed allowing full development and deployment of an

Conference Session

The Role of Engineering in Integrated STEM--uh STEAM--uh Education!

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bettina J. Casad, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Mariappan Jawaharlal, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

variables intervene.Researchers have used the TPB5,28-29, and its predecessor, the theory of reasoned action30 topredict education-related behaviors. Butler31 found that attitudes toward science and social normsregarding science were significant predictors of elementary and middle school students‟intentions to complete their laboratory and non-laboratory science assignments, readings, andprojects. Crawley and Black32 showed that attitudes, norms, and perceived control significantlypredicted 8th through 11th graders‟ intentions to enroll in a high school physics class. Davis andcolleagues33 found the TPB to be an accurate model in predicting African American high schoolstudents‟ intentions to complete high school, which predicted graduation three

Conference Session

Graduate Education in ETD

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Enrique Barbieri, University of North Texas; Vassilios Tzouanas, University of Houston, Downtown

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Engineering Technology, Graduate Studies

heavier prescription of mathematics and science. The transformation graduallyled to an increase in lecture hours in upper division engineering courses richer in theory but withless room for laboratory practice 3. More recently and paradoxically, engineering departmentshave been pressured to reduce the total number of required credit hours in a 4-year B.S. degreeplan while simultaneously increasing the acquisition of business-related skills. For at least thepast 20 years, engineering programs have also seen the need to address attrition and keep theirmajors engaged via freshman courses that are hands-on, laboratory-oriented, and fun. The events of the 1950’s also set the stage for the proliferation of EngineeringTechnology (ETEC) programs as

Conference Session

Energy, the Environment, and Nano Technology

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julanne K. McCulley, Weber State University; Dustin Scott Birch, Weber State University; Megumi Usui Leatherbury, Weber State University; Kelly A. Harward, Weber State University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

this multidisciplinary engineering project along withcourse goals and capstone project documentation will be documented and disseminated in thefinal paper March 2012. Page 25.959.3OverviewThe College of Applied Science and Technology (COAST) is eagerly updating curriculum toinclude instruction on the various forms of alternative energy. We engage our engineeringtechnology students in active learning through applied laboratory experimentation. But, thedevelopment process of applicable laboratory experiments has proven to be costly to the collegewith expensive equipment and duplicated efforts from the various engineering technologyprograms. To

Conference Session

Ethics Education, Global Health, and Outreach in BME

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John D. DesJardins, Clemson University; Ellen Breazel, Clemson University; Marilyn Reba, Clemson University; Irina Viktorova, Clemson University; Jonathan Bradford Matheny, Clemson University; Taufiquar R. Khan

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Biomedical

AC 2012-4226: EMPHASIZING CORE CALCULUS CONCEPTS USINGBIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS TO ENGAGE, MENTOR, AND RETAINSTEM STUDENTSDr. John D. DesJardins, Clemson University John DesJardins received his Ph.D. in bioengineering from Clemson University in Dec. 2006 and has worked for more than 15 years as a biomechanical research engineer. He has co-authored more than 150 peer-reviewed journal and conference publications in the areas of biomechanics, biomaterials tribology and mechanical testing, and is the director of the Laboratory of Orthopaedic Design and Engineering at Clemson University. He currently leads or participates in many multi-disciplinary research teams on projects funded through NASA, DoD, DoT, NSF, biomedical

Conference Session

The Teacher as Manager: Best Practices for Culminating Design Experiences

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James B Guthrie P.E., California Polytechnic State University; Allen C. Estes, California Polytechnic State University; Jill Nelson P.E., California Polytechnic State University; Brent Nuttall P.E., California Polytechnic State University

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Civil Engineering

Architecture and Environmental Design at California Polytechnic StateUniversity in San Luis Obispo is the only college in the nation that has departments ofArchitecture, Architectural Engineering, Construction Management and LandscapeArchitecture in the same college. The institution has a 60 year tradition of collaborationbetween the engineering, architecture and construction disciplines, particularly at thelower division level. To enhance this collaboration, the college committed to providingan upper division, interdisciplinary experience to every student in the form of a projectbased, team oriented five unit studio laboratory that every student would take. Thecourse is now in its third year and requires small teams of architecture, engineering

Conference Session

Advances in Communication Instruction

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Beth Bateman Newborg, University of Pittsburgh; Teresa L. Larkin, American University; Dan Budny, University of Pittsburgh

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

ofengineering and how engineering has impact on society. X University’s Physics 100embraces liberal arts-oriented approaches to understanding and liberal arts-orientedlanguage choices to maximize “non scientists’” understanding of scientific clarity,accountability, precision, and proof.With an emphasis on Newtonian Mechanics, Physics 100, Physics for the Modern World(PMW) is a foundation-level course within the sciences portion of the General Educationcore at X University. Many students who enroll in PNM are liberal arts majors and do soto fulfill their General Education requirements for the sciences. The course also has arigorous laboratory component. Students in this course are encouraged to engage in thelearning of physics in many ways. In addition

Conference Session

The Teacher as Manager: Best Practices for Culminating Design Experiences

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William P. Manion, University of Maine; Judith A. Hakola, University of Maine

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Civil Engineering

AC 2012-3868: CIVIL ENGINEERING CAPSTONE CONSULTANTS: FROMRFP TO REALITYMr. William P. Manion, University of Maine William P. Manion, M.S., P.E., is an instructor in civil and environmental engineering at the University of Maine in Orono. He has taught courses in materials, soil mechanics, computer applications, graphics, and project management since 1998. He has also performed laboratory research, worked for a heavy earthwork construction company, captained charter boats, and managed a land development project. Al- ways interested in new effective teaching strategies, he employs many different pedagogical methods and techniques.Ms. Judith A. Hakola, University of Maine

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Transportation and Geotechnical Engineering

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yusuf A. Mehta, Rowan University; Leslie Ann McCarthy P.E., Villanova University

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Civil Engineering

laboratory activities, students will identify known variables, NGoal 2 - Objective 3: The Civil Engineering Program at formulate key relationshipsRowan University will produce graduates who between them and solvedemonstrate the ability to identify, formulate, and engineering problems.solve engineering problems (ABET E). Outcome 2: Students will students learned the identify, formulate, and solve new pavement design problems in

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy I

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J. Mendoza-Garcia, Purdue University and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana; Ida B. Ngambeki, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Lamis J. Behbehani, Purdue University; Demetra Evangelou, Purdue University, West Lafayette; P. Suresh C. Rao, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica Farmer Cox, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Engineering and Public Policy

policy 17. Cassaza reinforced this idea: [Engineers]…“must understand that there are different audiences for which different techniques must be used”3 . Likewise, Dunn 13 made their students present their project to the external public, the Chicago Page 25.383.6Department of the Environment and to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), a verydifferent audience to engineers.Finally, a further skill related with communication, is the ability to express opinions, relay facts,and articulate arguments clearly and concisely in writing. This skill is “substantially different[from] writing laboratory or design project reports” 4. This knowledge can

Conference Session

ECE Curriculum Improvement

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marcin Lukowiak, Rochester Institute of Technology; Andrew Meneely, Rochester Institute of Technology; Stanislaw P. Radziszowski, Rochester Institute of Technology; James R. Vallino, Rochester Institute of Technology; Christopher A. Wood, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Electrical and Computer

, received a M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science. While in industry, he worked in small and large companies doing product development and industrial research. His responsibilities included both hardware and software development at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Siemens Corporate Research, and AVL, including microcode for a graphics processor, real-time medical image processing, and data acquisition and communications protocols for semiconductor process control. Since 1997, he has been a faculty member in Rochester Institute of Technology’s Department of Software En- gineering, now in the position of Chair. His professional interests are in the engineering of software for real-time and embedded systems. He was a recipient of

Conference Session

Service as an Element of Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Pamela Dexter, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jane Hunter, University of Arizona; James C. Baygents, University of Arizona; Michael Gerard Thompson

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

in 1991, the same year he received a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Prince- ton University. He also holds an M.A. (Princeton, 1981) and a B.S. (Rice, 1980) in chemical engineering. For three years prior to joining the UA, Baygents was a Visiting Scientist, then a Research Fellow, at the Space Science Laboratory of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. In 1995, he received the Arizona Mortar Board Senior Honor Society award for outstanding faculty service. In 1997, he was awarded an International Research Fellowship by the National Science Foundation for study at the University of Melbourne. In 2009, he was recognized by ChEE and the College for Excellence at the Student Interface. He is a

Conference Session

Epistemic Research

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ji Hyun Yu, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Johannes Strobel, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Educational Research and Methods

, 34(1), 61-84.6. Bucciarelli, L.L. (1994). Designing Engineers, Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press.7. Florman, S.L. (1994). Existential Pleasures of Engineering, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press.8. Lin, C.-C., & Tsai, C.-C. (2009). The relationship between students’ conceptions of learning engineering and their preferences for classroom and laboratory learning environments. Journal of Engineering Education, 98(2), 193-204.9. Stevens, R.,O’Connor, K., Garrison, L., Jocuns, A., & Amos, D.L. (2008). Becoming an engineer: Toward a three dimensional view of engineering learning. Journal of Engineering Education, 97(3), 355–68.10. Turns, J., Atman, C., Adams, R., & Barker, T. (2005). Research on engineering student

Conference Session

FPD II: Hands-on Curriculum in the First Year

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen W. McKnight, Northeastern University; Michael E. Pelletier, Northern Essex Community College; Paula G. Leventman, Northeastern University

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First-Year Programs

AC 2012-3794: A FIRST-YEAR ”INTRODUCTION TO ENGINEERING”COURSE AT A COMMUNITY COLLEGE USING HANDS-ON MATLABEXPERIMENT CONTROLProf. Stephen W. McKnight, Northeastern University Stephen W. McKnight received a Ph.D. in solid state physics from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1977 and had postdoctoral positions at Emory University and as National Research Council Fellow at the Naval Research Laboratory before joining the faculty in the Physics Department at North- eastern University in 1980. In 1988, he became an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and in 2001 was promoted to Professor of electrical and computer engineering. He has published more than 50 refereed

Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adeel Khalid, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Aerospace

them the autonomy to choosetheir own project formulations and strategies, which in turn increases their motivation. Some ofthe past students projects include designing and building of wind tunnel models, 3-D aerospacemodels, variable pitch thrust measurement apparatus, flight simulation frame, water tunnel etc.All of these products become part of the aerospace laboratory to be used by future students.Project based learning at the individual course level is familiar in engineering education. It isused almost universally in capstone design and laboratory courses. There has been growingfrequency of project based learning approach in first year engineering courses and courses thatengage students in consulting projects [5, 7]. Because of its

Conference Session

FPD VIII: Crossing Bridges and Easing Transitions into the First Year

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Helen M. Doerr, Syracuse University; Jonas Bergman Arleback, Syracuse University; AnnMarie H. O'Neil, Syracuse University

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First-Year Programs

model thatis usable in a wide range of contexts. The central mathematical construct around which theinstructional sequence was organized is the understanding of average rate of change throughinterpreting, analyzing and predicting the behavior of linear and non-linear phenomena as theychange over time.The Model Development SequenceModel development sequences are structurally related tasks, beginning with a model elicitingactivity (MEA) and followed by model exploration activities and model application activities.These tasks are not step-by-step procedures (as often found in laboratory projects), but rather areopen-ended tasks that encourage students to express their own ideas about a situation and thenexplore and apply those ideas in other

Conference Session

Pedagogical Advancements in Engineering Management

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

S. Jimmy Gandhi, Stevens Institute of Technology; Brian Sauser, Stevens Institute of Technology; Brian E. White, Complexity Are Us - Systems Engineering Strategies; Alex Gorod, Visiting Fellow, University of Adelaide; Vernon Ireland, University of Adelaide

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

the the Systems Development and Maturity Laboratory (http://www.SysDML.com/), which seeks to advance the state of knowledge and practice in how we manage system lifecycles. He teaches courses in Project Manage- ment of Complex Systems, Designing and Managing the Development Enterprise, Advances in System of Systems Engineering, and Systems Thinking. In addition, he is a National Aeronautics and Space Ad- ministration Faculty Fellow, Editor-in-Chief of the Systems Research Forum, and Associate Editor of the IEEE Systems Journal.Dr. Brian Emery White, Complexity Are Us - Systems Engineering Strategies Brian E. White received Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in computer sciences from the University of Wisconsin, and S.M

Conference Session

FPD XI: Tidbits and Cookies

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jesse J. French, LeTourneau University; Paul R. Leiffer, LeTourneau University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

the future on the highlights of these handouts.) Page 25.1302.15 Appendix 4. Laboratory Activity SampleENGR1513 Fall 2011Engineering Lab #3 Dissection, Reverse Engineering, and RedesignBackground Dissection and Reverse Engineering are common components of the design process forworking engineers. In order to improve existing products or benchmark the state of the art,engineers often use dissection and reverse engineering. Dissection is the process of orderly disassembly of an object to its subcomponents.Implied in this process is that the engineer does not know exactly how the assembly

Conference Session

STS Perspectives on Engineering Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Department and the Secretary of the committee  Ronald H. Robnett, professor of Engineering and Business Administration and a fiscal officer in the DIC (MIT’s sponsored research office)  C. Richard Soderberg, a theoretically oriented mechanical engineer and head of that department  Julius Stratton, physicist and director of Research Laboratory for Electronics, the postwar incarnation of the Radiation Lab Page 25.1322.3Among the other items the committee discussed was an unsolicited letter from the head of thePhysics Department, John Slater, expressing his unabashed preference for a curriculum moresolidly

Conference Session

Technological Literacy and Technological Policy

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zachary Foltz, Iowa State University; Amanpreet Kaur, Iowa State University; William Henry Tushaus, Iowa State University; Christopher Sears Mikelson, Iowa State University; Brian Vincent Skalak; Mani Mina, Iowa State University

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

Energy’sresponsibility as much as committees of both chamber of the United States Congress.The current Secretary of Energy is Dr. Steven Chu. Secretary Chu is a well-known scientist, whoreceived a Nobel Prize for Physics. Chu also educates the next generation of scientists as auniversity professor. Before President Obama appointed Chu to Secretary of Energy, Chu was adirector of a national laboratory of the Department of Energy. As Secretary of Energy, Chu’smain job is to implement President Obama’s energy plans [12].The current Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee is Senator JeffBingaman, a Democrat from New Mexico. Senator Bingaman graduated with degrees ingovernment and law. After working for the Army Reserves and practicing private

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gamze Ozogul, Arizona State University; Amy M. Johnson, Arizona State University; Martin Reisslein, Arizona State University; Kirsten R. Butcher, University of Utah

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

analysis), and learning environment(i.e., instructional program). Further, the experiment was conducted in a laboratory environment,not in situ (i.e., classroom). Future research should examine the experimental design used in thisstudy in other instructional contexts, domains, and learning environments. A critical next step in investigating the influence of representation type andrepresentation guidance is to explore different sequences of these representations. As has beenshown in other domains, the use of concrete examples, followed by more abstractrepresentations, can be beneficial to transfer of knowledge to novel situations59 and that learnerstend to naturally transition from representing a domain in a concrete manner to a more

Conference Session

Tablets Large and Small

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mahnas Jean Mohammadi-Aragh, Virginia Tech; Christopher B. Williams, Virginia Tech

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Computers in Education

availablecourse management software primarily to distribute course content (e.g., slides) to students. Inaddition, the software can be used to implement various instruction interventions including polls,electronic ink, and screen broadcast. Limited instructor training is available for the software.New instructors are encouraged to observe more experienced instructors classrooms for TPCincorporation strategies.The first-year engineering program consists of a two-semester course sequence. Each semester-long course is composed of one 50-minute large lecture (ranging from 75-300 students) and onetwo-hour, hands-on laboratory (approximately 30 students) each week. This research studyinvestigates a new instructor assigned to teach one of the large lectures (93

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2012 ERC

Authors

Van Stephen Blackwood

Air Force Research Laboratory AFOSR Overview 5 March 2012 Dr. Van Blackwood Air Force Office of Scientific Research Air Force Research LaboratoryIntegrity  Service  Excellence 1 Happy 6 0 th Birthday AFOSR 1951 - 2011AFOSR Spring Review March 5-9, 2012Arlington VAViewing:http://www.ustream.tv/channel/spring-review-2012http://onlinemediaevent.com/afosrspringreview/Archive:https

Conference Session

The "Education" in Experiential Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heather Lynn Ogletree, San Jacinto College; Anthony Zippay, Arizona State University

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

Students”. Kimberly Kendricks and AnthonyArment. Ohio State University, Journal of College and Science Teaching Vol. 24, 2011.“National Science Foundation-Sponsored Colloquy on Minority Males in STEM”. NormanFortenberry, Catherine Didion, Beth Cady, Wei Jing, Simil Raghavan. Journal of AfricanAmerican Males in Education Feb/Mar 2011 – Vol. 2 Issue 1Boyer Commission in Educating Undergraduates in the Research Laboratory. (1998).Reinventing undergraduate Education: A blueprint for Americas research universities”. MenloPark, CA: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Page 25.523.10

Conference Session

Engineering Education and Comparative Studies at Universities throughout Asia, Far East

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rafiqul Islam, Northwestern State University

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International

are interested as many of them offermarket-oriented courses that almost guarantee them a job upon graduation. They save on salariesof the faculty by employing teaching staff on a part-time basis or by relying on teachers fromalready established public universities. The private universities are very often linked withuniversities abroad. This connection helps the students to move to USA, Canada, UK, Australia,Germany, Japan etc. for higher studies. Even though all the private universities startedfunctioning in hired premises for classrooms, laboratories and offices, they started buildingcampuses using the interest from the certificates of deposits (CD) of the profits3

Conference Session

FPD X: Addressing Retention in the First Year

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lizzie Y. Santiago, West Virginia University; Robin A.M. Hensel Ed.D., West Virginia University

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First-Year Programs

proposed steps. 4. Private Tutors Available for student in need of a one-one tutoring experience. 5. Out of Class Students are exposed to scientific and non- Page 25.538.8 Experiences engineering lectures and attend field trips, all activities outside the classroom. 6. Study Laboratory (also Students are required to attend the Engineering known as Study Lab) Learning Center for at least 2 hours a week to

Conference Session

Global Studies, Initiatives, and Study Abroad Programs

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven J. Burian, University of Utah; Pedro Romero, University of Utah

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International

project assignment by providing additional depth across a range oftopics from all students.Site VisitsLastly, a key aspect we chose to integrate the Costa Rica experience into the learning objectivesis to schedule an itinerary that resembles a 3.5 week tour of the country. We will begin theprogram in the capital city of San Jose where we will meet with researchers and students at theUniversity of Costa Rica National Laboratory for Materials and Infrastructure (Lanamme) and atthe Institute for Sustainable Development. We will proceed to travel to six different locationsover 23 days, returning back to San Jose to conclude the study abroad and return to the U.S. Ateach location we have day trips planned to infrastructure sites including new highways

Conference Session

Project-based and Cooperative Learning in ECE

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig A. Chin, Southern Polytechnic State University; Garth V. Crosby, Southern Illinois University, Carbonale

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

manifests itself aslower grades received on their various forms of assessment.Cooperative learning is an instructional approach in which students work together in groups on alearning task (e.g. assignment, project or laboratory) that is structured to have the followingessential elements1,2: 1. Positive interdependence. This refers to the need to have every team member involved in achieving the group task. This is implicitly encouraged, because if any group member fails to do their part, the whole group suffers the consequences. 2. Individual accountability. Each member will be held responsible for completing his/her contribution to accomplishing the group task and understanding the contributions of the other

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Curriculum Issues

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Phillip R. Foster, University of North Texas

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Engineering Technology

. It was, therefore,tentatively assumed that the proposed new engine would most likely adhere to those parameterscharacteristic of air-cooled Gammas, the subject of the author’s earlier work. Some of thesewere constructed in the laboratory facilities at the author’s university. Utilizing their numbersguaranteed that the size of the machining equipment available would be sufficient for theproposed engine. These parameters included: power cylinder dimensions, phase angle, volumecompression ratio, displacer cylinder volume, and displacer dimensions. The power cylinderbore and stroke were 1.000” X .625” (volume = .491 in3). The phase angle was set at 90°, anangle also frequently cited in the Gamma literature. 6 The volume compression ratio was set

Conference Session

Preparing Engineering Students for the Global Workplace

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Catherine T. Amelink, Virginia Tech; Nicole P. Sanderlin, Virginia Tech; Elizabeth M. Tront, Virginia Tech; Joseph G. Tront, Virginia Tech

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International

courses outside of the college of engineering that had a more liberal arts focus. Of theeight students who participated in the focus group, all commented that they had strong interest in Page 25.597.5traveling overseas again or working abroad in the future. Four of these pursued longer-termstudy abroad or international internship programs during the course of their undergraduatedegree, with two successfully completing programs. One spent a semester in Australia andanother participated in a six-week research laboratory course in Denmark. A third student hadapplied for a semester-long program but did not attend because of problems with course