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Multidisciplinary Technical Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Magdalini Z. Lagoudas, Texas A&M University; Bugrahan Yalvac, Texas A&M University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

-128. 8. Yalvac B., Smith H. D., Hirsch P., & Birol G. (2006). Teaching writing in a laboratory- based engineering course with a “How People Learn” framework, New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 108, 59-73. 9. Hardy M., King M., Bigelow R. (2010). Analysis of Operator Responses to Mitigate Temperature Rise in Electrical Auxiliary Building, ICONE18-30119. Page 22.65.14

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2011 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Grant Crawford; Elizabeth Bristow

describes a practical application of learning theory as well as the teaching andreinforcement of that theory as part of continuing faculty development in an emergingeducational system.IntroductionWhat did you do with your summer vacation? In 2009, a group of faculty members from theUnited States Military Academy at West Point and the United States Air Force Academy joinedforces and traveled to Afghanistan for the sole purpose of helping to build that nation’s fledglinguniversity system. Their focus of effort was at the National Military Academy of Afghanistan(NMAA) located in the capital city of Kabul. They joined the core cadre of advisors as rotating Copyright ASEE Middle Atlantic Regional Conference

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kathleen L. Kitto, Western Washington University; Debra S. Jusak, Western Washington University

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NSF Grantees

andEngineering] project are to measure if improvements in student learning outcomes, studentengagement, and successful course completion are possible if the structure in basic materialsengineering courses are transformed from primarily deductive practice to an InformationCommunication Technology (ICT) enabled inductive teaching and learning environment. Thespecific innovations that are proposed in the project are the development of MSE educationapplications for the iPod Touch that are designed to facilitate and support collaborative learningexercises which target specific student learning objectives which are known to be challenging formany students in MSE courses. It is hoped that the combination of specific learning objectivetargets, completed in

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Technology in the ECE Classroom

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Jakob Fritz, Oklahoma State University; Wira Mulia, Oklahoma State University; Sohum Sohoni, Oklahoma State University; Kerri S. Kearney, Oklahoma State University; Mwarumba Mwavita, Oklahoma State University

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Electrical and Computer

organizational consulting in leadership, orga- nizational and team development, and executive coaching. She holds an M.B.A. in management and an Ed.D. in educational leadership.Mwarumba Mwavita, Oklahoma State University Visiting Assistant Professor teaching graduate courses in Research, Evaluation, Measurement, and Statis- tics in the School of Educational Studies. My research interests are in teaching and learning of STEM courses at both K-12 and college. Specifically, examination of factors influencing student performance in STEM related courses and instructional pedagogies at the college level associated with success in STEM courses

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Engineering Ethics Issues Part One

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Craig Titus, Purdue University; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Margaret Huyck, Illinois Institute of Technology; William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jill L. May, Illinois Institute of Technology

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Engineering Ethics

. Page 22.1436.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 The Creation of Tools for Assessing Ethical Awareness in Diverse Multi-Disciplinary ProgramsIntroductionAlthough an attention to ethics has long been part of the engineering profession—all of the coreengineering societies have codes of ethics governing their own disciplines—the changes inacademic accreditation standards in recent years have reified the challenge engineering educatorsface of identifying best practices for teaching and assessing ethical awareness. It has becomenecessary to adapt engineering curricula to meet the needs of what is quickly becoming a moresocially-sophisticated profession, but curricula can

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Research on Engineering Design Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ann F. McKenna, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Gül E. Okudan Kremer, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Carolyn Plumb, Montana State University; Hyun Kyoung Ro, Penn State University; Alexander Yin, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Educational Research and Methods

AC 2011-599: APPROACHES TO ENGAGING STUDENTS IN ENGINEER-ING DESIGN AND PROBLEM SOLVINGAnn F. McKenna, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus Ann McKenna is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering in the College of Technology and Innovation at Arizona State University (ASU). Prior to joining ASU she served as a program officer at the National Science Foundation in the Division of Undergraduate Education and was on the faculty of the Segal Design Institute and Department of Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University. Dr. McKenna’s research focuses on understanding the cognitive and social processes of design and innova- tion, design teaching and learning, the role of adaptive expertise in

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Manufacturing Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Pavel Ikonomov, Western Michigan University; Alamgir A. Choudhury, Western Michigan University

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Manufacturing

at Vir- tual Reality Center Yokohama, Japan, Associate professor at Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of technology, Japan, Vis. Professor at UCLA and NIST. He has extensive industrial and teaching experience in different countries university research centers and companies. He is considered and expert in CAD/CAM, robotics, and Virtual Reality simulation for industry and nanomanufacturing. Dr. Ikonomov published more than 100 papers in journal, proceedings, a book and severs chapters in books, a patent.Alamgir A. Choudhury, Western Michigan University Alamgir A. Choudhury is an Associate Professor of industrial and manufacturing engineering at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan. His MS and PhD are from

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David B. Benson, Kettering University

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NSF Grantees

transfer breaks down.Methodology The research being conducted under the NSF’s Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Page 22.1071.5Improvement Program (CCLI) consists of “pre-test” assessment at the start of a term of studentcapability in pre-requisite knowledge and skills (integration, differentiation, dot product,equilibrium conditions, etc.) across the curriculum. Student responses to these assessmentquestions are analyzed to determine the approach which each student took in addressing theproblem and to identify aspects of their thought processes: this is especially important in thoseproblems where the students answered the assessment questions

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Industrial Collaboration and Applications

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert J. Durkin, IUPUI

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Engineering Technology

AC 2011-237: PARTNERING SMALL BUSINESS NEEDS WITH ENGI-NEERING TECHNOLOGY EDUCATIONRobert J Durkin, IUPUI Teaches Engineering Technology courses in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Technology at IUPUI. 30+ years in manufacturing as an Engineer, Engineering Manager and General Manager of Production. 2 US patents BSEE - Indiana Institute of Technology MBA - University of Notre Dame, Magna Cum Laude Page 22.1142.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Partnering Small Business Needs with Engineering Technology

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Information Systems and Computing Potpourri

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Guy Johnson, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Computing & Information Technology

Mobile GIS and GPS software. Additionally, thiscourse provides students with the opportunity to plan and implement field surveys in a teamenvironment, as well as perform laboratory-based geospatial data analysis on informationcollected in the field. The course emphasizes the integration of geospatial technologies for fieldsurveys. Topics include: • Principles of Global Positioning Systems (40%) • Data accuracy requirements (10%) • Mobile GIS software (10%) • Field mapping planning and implementation (20%) • Location-based services and asset tracking (20%)Educational and career outcomes • Students will be able to describe the principles of Global Positioning Systems (GPS) location measurement • Students will be

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Developing Young MINDS in Engineering: Part I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Abhijit Nagchaudhuri, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Emin Yilmaz, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Craig Daughtry; Geoffrey Bland, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Wallops Flight Facility; Madhumi Mitra, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore

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Minorities in Engineering

AC 2011-382: ACTIVE LEARNING PROJECTS IN A MINORITY SERV-ING LAND GRANT UNIVERSITY ADDRESS ENGINEERING CHALLENGESIN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARD-SHIPAbhijit Nagchaudhuri, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore Abhijit Nagchaudhuri is a Professor in the Department of Engineering and Aviation Sciences at University of Maryland Eastern Shore. Dr. Nagchaudhuri is a member of ASME and ASEE professional societies and is actively involved in teaching and research in the fields of engineering mechanics, robotics, systems and control, design of mechanical and mechatronic systems, precision agriculture and remote sensing. Dr. Nagchaudhuri received his bachelors degree from Jadavpur University in Calcutta

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Project-Based Education in Energy Curriculum

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Radian G. Belu, Drexel University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2010 ASEEEConference & Exposition, June 20 - 23, Louisville, Kentucky (CD Proceedings).24. R.G. Belu and D. Koracin, E-learning Platform for Renewable Energy Sources, 2010 ASEEE Conference &Exposition, June 20 - 23, Louisville, Kentucky (CD Proceedings)25. R.G. Belu, A Project-based Power Electronics Course with an Increased Content of Renewable EnergyApplications, June 14-17, 2009 Annual ASEE Conference and Exposition, Austin, Texas (CD Proceedings).26. R.G. Belu and A.C. Belu, A DecisionSupport Software Application for Design of Hybrid Solar-Wind PowerSystems- as Teaching-Aid, 2007Annual ASEE Conference, and Exposition, Honolulu, Hawaii (CD Proceedings

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chung-Suk Cho, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; David S. Cottrell, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Candace E. Mazze, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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NSF Grantees

Paper ID #2108Research in Progress: Transforming and Integrating: Evolving ConstructionMaterials & Methods to the Next LevelChung-Suk Cho, University of North Carolina, Charlotte Dr. Chung-Suk Cho is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Department of Engineering Technology. His teaching and research focus on project scope definition, pre-project planning, sustainable construction, project administration, construction safety, construction simulation, and project management. He has prior teaching experience at North Carolina A&T State University in construction management and

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Fostering Student Learning

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gerald Sullivan, Virginia Military Institute; James C. Squire, Virginia Military Institute; George Mercer Brooke IV, Virginia Military Institute,Department of Physics and Astronomy

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Educational Research and Methods

industry.James C. Squire, Virginia Military Institute James Squire is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Virginia Military Institute. He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the United States Military Academy in West Point, NY and served in the army as a Military Intelligence officer during Desert Storm. Although his PhD is in electrical engineering, he completed his doctoral work in a biomedical engineering laboratory at MIT and has interests in analog and digital instrumentation, signal processing, biomechanics, patent litigation, and cardiology. At VMI he teaches analog electronics, continuous time and discrete time signal processing, and advises a variety of independent study projects.George M. Brooke

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SE Capstone Design Projects, Part II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Radu F. Babiceanu, University of Arkansas, Little Rock; Daniel Rucker, University of Arkansas, Little Rock; Hussain M Al-Rizzo, University of Arkansas, Little Rock; Seshadri Mohan, University of Arkansas, Little Rock

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Multidisciplinary Engineering, Systems Engineering

Communications (1979) (High Honors), Post- graduate Diploma in Electronics and Communications (1981) (High Honors) and M.Sc. in Microwave Communication Systems (1983) (High Honors) from the University of Mosul, Mosul, Iraq. From May 1983 to October 1987 he was working with the Electromagnetic Wave Propagation Department, Space and Astronomy Research Center, Scientific Research Council, Baghdad, Iraq. On December, 1987, he joined the Radiating Systems Research Laboratory, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada where he obtained his Ph.D. (1992) in Computa- tional Electromagnetics, Wireless Communications, and the Global Positioning System. For his various

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Integration of Liberal Education into Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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K.L. Jordan, Michigan Technological University; Anahita Pakzad, Michigan Technological University; Renee Oats, Michigan Technological University

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Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

experiment” 6 to encourage studentparticipation and promote the use of new technology is now a common practice inuniversities and colleges around the world. As early as the 1990s, teaching and learningwith the internet has: increased student enthusiasm; provided an avenue for efficient data Page 22.642.2exchange; encouraged collaborative, student-led learning; promoted the discussion ofcourse topics before, during, and after class; and offered a variety of learningenvironments5, 6. In its initial stages, internet-based learning was offered through e-maillists, bulletin boards, and basic web sites 6. In some instances, those students receivingweb instruction

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Design in Freshman and Sophomore Courses

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tiffany Veltman, University of Calgary; William (Bill) Rosehart, University of Calgary; Marjan Eggermont, University of Calgary; Denis Onen, University of Calgary

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Design in Engineering Education

consisted of onedesign course in each of the two semesters, with an emphasis on laboratory experiences.Through these courses, the students were given 245 minutes of lab time each week (divided intotwo weekly lab periods of 170 minutes and 75 minutes, respectively) to work on various open-ended design challenges, as well as 50 minutes each week for lectures, which taught primarilywritten and graphical communication skills. The initial design course utilized the projects toexperientially develop important skillsets, such as the design process, project management,verbal communication, teamwork, social considerations, and the application of scientific andmathematic principles. These skills were expected to be developed by the students, with

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International Experience, Effective Instruction, and Student Exchange Programs

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elizabeth M. Tront, Virginia Tech; Joseph G. Tront, Virginia Tech

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International

of engineering or scienceprinciples in the classroom and subsequently practice the theory in the laboratory. Importantly,our scheme also includes mechanisms to measure how successful the classroom experienceshave translated into the immersed environment.Classroom Training for LeadershipWe have observed that leadership is not easy to teach but rather that students can be moldedthrough leadership experiences. Leadership, in other words, can be developed. To that end, wehad experts on leadership/management lecture in class. We assigned the students scholarlyreadings on leadership. We implemented leadership development activities. The activities wedesigned were meant to help them to identify their personal strengths and weaknesses as well

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2011 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Scott Bronikowski; Christopher Lowrance; Kenneth Viall

study problems and short in-class announced quizzes given overvarious periodicities. After teaching three separate electrical engineering courses at the UnitedStates Military Academy under both course models, we concluded that the benefits certainlyoutweigh the costs.Literature ReviewA civil engineering multicourse study found that quiz performance was correlated to testperformance, and homework performance had little correlation for most courses, and onlymoderate correlation in one course1. Their study included graded homework and fewer quizzesthan our proposal. Bluman, Rowland, and Mockensturm2 used an opposite approach to attemptto force the successful completion of homework. Their iterative homework grading andresubmission method required

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Entrepreneurship Courses and Outcomes I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ken Vickers, University of Arkansas; Carol Reeves, University of Arkansas

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

University and has mentored more than 30 undergrad- uate and graduate business plan teams since 2002. In 2010, Carol’s teams won more national business plan competitions than teams from any one university in the 25 year history of the competitions. Carol has won two national awards for innovation in entrepreneurship pedagogy and won the prestigious University of Arkansas Alumni Association Faculty Distinguished Achievement Award for Teaching in 2009. She earned a Ph.D. in Strategic Management with an Entrepreneurship Concentration from the University of Georgia in 1988. Page 22.944.1 c

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Project-Based Learning

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Oscar G. Nespoli, University of Waterloo; Harry Tempelman, Hitachi Construction Truck Mfg Ltd.; Ryan Spencer; Steve Lambert, University of Waterloo

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Design in Engineering Education

ofimportant behaviors. Recommendations include incorporating a professional spine in thecurriculum, whereby students may have an opportunity to integrate their knowledge in acontextual environment. A second recommendation outlines the need for students to makeconnections between theory and practice and to develop the thinking skills required forengineering practice. This requires an inductive, as opposed to a deductive, approach to teachingand learning.The integration of professional identity, knowledge and skills requires that students have anopportunity to experience engineering practice, through so-called approximations to practice.Often this means exposing students to laboratory or design project teaching methods (they aredifferent). A recent

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Irina Igel, Polytechnic Insititute of New York University; Ronald Leonel Poveda, Polytechnic Institute of New York University; Vikram Kapila, Polytechnic Institute of New York University; Magued G. Iskander, Polytechnic Institute of New York University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2011-1871: ENRICHING K-12 MATH EDUCATION USING LEGOSIrina Igel, NYU Poly IRINA IGEL received the B.S degree in Mathematics with a minor in Computer Science from NYU-Poly, Brooklyn, NY, in 2009. Upon graduating she received an Adjunct Instructor position at the Department of Mathematics at NYU-Poly, teaching undergraduate math courses to incoming freshmen. She is currently serving as a teaching Fellow at the Bedford Academy HS under NYU-Poly’s GK-12 program funded by NSF and CBRI consortium of donors. She is perusing the M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering with emphasis on Control and Dynamical Systems. Her research interests include cooperative control of multi-agent systems, flocking and shoaling behavior

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Effective Projects and Experiments in Instrumentation and Control

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chao-Chia Cheng, National Central University; Lee king-lien, Department of Electro-Optic Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan 542, R.O.C.; Chih-Hsiung Ku, National Dong Hwa University

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Instrumentation

, the integration ofthis measurement apparatus can be divided by four parts: “system design”, “optical systemintegration”, “data acquirement”, and “data analysis”. Students from Physics Department andDepartment of Optics and Photonics had been participated in this project in their “Special TopicsStudy” course. In this paper, we would like to share our approach to realize the physical conceptwith the community in the hope that this selected topic will be helpful for teaching the principlesand methods about index characterization.Measurement principle and resultAs shown in Fig-1, one laser beam is incident on a prism of apex angle . The first air-prisminterface which laser beam enters is regarded as “entrance face” and the one which laser

Conference Session

Oceans & Marine Technical Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Deidre Sullivan, Marine Advanced Technology Education Center; Jill Marie Zande, Marine Advanced Technology Education Center

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Ocean and Marine

AC 2011-2555: THE MATE CENTER: ADDRESSING THE NEED FOR AQUALIFIED OCEAN WORKFORCEDeidre Sullivan, Marine Advanced Technology Education Center Deidre Sullivan Director Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center Biography Deidre Sullivan is the PI and Director of the Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center at Monterey Peninsula College (MPC) in Monterey, CA. Deidre conducts workforce research related to marine and geospatial technologies. Deidre is also the department chair for the Marine Science and Technology program at Monterey Peninsula College and teaches courses in seaflooring mapping, GIS, and the Earth and marine sciences. Deidre received her undergraduate degree in Aquatic Biology and

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ETD Design IV: Construction and Civil Engineering Technology

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Barry Dupen, Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne; Regina Leffers, Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne

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Engineering Technology

AC 2011-706: THE COLUMBIA CITY TRAILHEAD: A COLLABORA-TIVE CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY CAPSTONE EX-PERIENCEBarry Dupen, Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne Dr. Dupen is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Technology at Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW). He has 9 years’ experience as a metallurgist, materials engineer, and ma- terials laboratory manager in the automotive industry. His primary interests lie in materials engineering, mechanics, and engineering technology education. He is an experienced contra dance caller.M. Regina Leffers, Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne Regina Leffers, Ph.D. is the Director of the Center for the Built Environment and

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Professional Graduate Education and Industry

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard A. Coffman, University of Arkansas; Micah Hale, University of Arkansas

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College Industry Partnerships, Graduate Studies

Professional Engineers, and the United States Society on Dams. Rick’s research focuses on laboratory and field testing of soils and remote sensing applications within geotechnical engineering.Micah Hale, University of Arkansas Page 22.707.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Faculty and Student Involvement in a Graduate Level Civil Engineering Seminar SeriesAbstract: In an effort to establish a “community of learning” within the Civil EngineeringDepartment at the University of Arkansas, a new graduate student seminar series was created

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sheng-Jen Hsieh, Texas A&M University; Punit Deotale, Texas A&M University

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NSF Grantees

AC 2011-1996: DESIGN OF PROBLEM SOLVING ENVIRONMENT FORAUTOMATED SYSTEM INTEGRATION EDUCATIONSheng-Jen Hsieh, Texas A&M University Dr. Sheng-Jen (”Tony”) Hsieh is a Professor in the Dwight Look College of Engineering at Texas A&M University. He holds a joint appointment with the Department of Engineering Technology and the De- partment of Mechanical Engineering. His research interests include engineering education, cognitive task analysis, automation, robotics and control, intelligent manufacturing system design, and micro/nano man- ufacturing. He is also the Director of the Rockwell Automation Laboratory at Texas A&M University, a state-of-the-art facility for education and research in the areas of

Conference Session

Design Tools & Methodology I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Junichi Kanai, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Samuel Chiappone, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Design in Engineering Education

currently Associate Director of the O.T. Swanson Multidisciplinary Design Laboratory and Clinical Associate Professor of the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering at RPI. His responsibilities include managing the operation of the Design Laboratory and optimizing the experience for students working on engineering design projects.Samuel Chiappone, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute SAMUEL G. CHIAPPONE, JR. Manager, Fabrication & Prototyping, School of Engineering Education MS Management Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 1999 BS Teacher of Technical Education Subjects - State University of NY, Oswego, NY, 1997 AAS Industrial Tech. /Mfg. Option - Hudson Valley Community College, Troy, NY

Conference Session

Evolving Engineering Libraries: Services, Spaces, and Collections

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Megan Sapp Nelson, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Engineering Libraries

also likely audiences.Graduate students, particularly in the STEM disciplines, must learn data management skills.They will never know their discipline without electronic data capture. However, graduate studenteducation in data curation skills is patchy and frequently reliant on the advisor professor to teachthose skills. For professors who are learning the skills themselves, it is difficult to teach allnecessary skills across the data lifecycle. Additionally, not all graduate students work directlywith an individual advisor in a laboratory. Fellowship students, who are expected to create theirown research plan, may be missed by lab-based data management training. Add in the fact that

Conference Session

FPD VII: Innovative Curriculum Elements of Successful First-Year Courses

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gerald W. Recktenwald, Portland State University; David E. Hall, Louisiana Tech University

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First-Year Programs

. Page 22.1609.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Using Arduino as a Platform for Programming, Design and Measurement in a Freshman Engineering CourseAbstract Arduino is a compact, inexpensive, open-source electronics prototyping platform builtaround an Atmel AVR microcontroller. The features, cost, and small size makes Arduino apotent tool teaching as well as practical device use in engineering projects. This paper reports onadapting the Living with the Lab (LWTL) curriculum to the Arduino platform. LWTL wasdeveloped with the Boe-Bot mobile robotics platform and the Basic Stamp microcontroller. TheArduino is more modern and has better technical capabilities, but