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Mechanical Engineering Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Raghu Echempati P.E., Kettering University

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Mechanical Engineering

, it will become clear that the fieldof mechanical engineering and physics dominates compared to the other fields and areas, thusgiving a huge scope and opportunity to develop more lesson plans and examples in the otheracademic areas and courses. Although most of these examples are provided by and used by alimited number of faculty, opportunities are there to market them more effectively to studentsand other faculty. These examples serve as a repository to the students providing some sort of„blended‟ or „flipped classroom‟ atmosphere.Numerous studies support these teaching methods [2, 3]. Blumenfeld et al. [4] elaborate on theprocesses of PBL: "Project-based learning is a comprehensive perspective focused on teachingby engaging students in

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Tactical Approaches to Entrepreneurship Education

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yan Tang, American Society of Mechanical Engineers; Yung Lun Wong, AquaSolve Ventures; Marc Compere, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Engineering. His background is in dynamic sys- tem modeling and simulation, nonlinear control, hardware-in-the-loop, hybrid-electric vehicles, and solar powered water purification. He teaches Instrumentation, Vehicle Dynamics, Hybrid-electric Vehicles, and Senior Design. He recently co-founded a small business called AquaSolve Ventures selling large and small solar powered water purifiers. He is involved in Project Haiti which is a student movement to de- sign the 6th solar water purifier for installation in Haiti this summer. His current research is focused on reducing diesel emissions, improving solar panel effectiveness with phase change materials, and helping to define the water-energy-climate nexus

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Educational Strategies in Architectural Engineering

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shahnaz J. Aly, Western Kentucky University

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Architectural

Paper ID #13745Student Experiences and Perceptions on the Evolving Nature of Digital Toolsin the Architecture ClassroomMs. Shahnaz J. Aly, Western Kentucky University Shahnaz Aly, OAA, LEED AP, M. Arch, is a licensed Architect in India and Canada and Assistant Profes- sor in the Department of Architectural and Manufacturing Sciences at Western Kentucky University. She has 10 years professional experience in the architecture and construction industry in residential, commer- cial and mixed-use projects. She has 5 years of experience in teaching and research in areas of architec- tural design, sustainable design, historic

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Software and Programming

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Clinton Andrew Staley, California Polytechnic State University; Corey Ford, California Polytechnic State University

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Diversity

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Computers in Education

sessions, total time spent, how farahead of deadline students start, and time of day worked. We compare work patterns betweenstudents who completed the assignments on time, and those who did not. We also comparestatistics such as recent numbers of good and bad test runs and editing activity against reportedstudent frustration levels. Finally, we review a sample of student compile errors in two differentC language projects, one by beginning programmers, and the other by upperdivisionprogrammers, and report the types of errors made in each group.We find several interesting results from these comparisons: students often work in short stints,they work fewer late hours than might be expected, and early starts on a project, while useful, arenot as

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Concurrent Paper Tracks - Session II

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2015 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Nicolas Couto Giffoni dos Santos, SIUC Leadership Development Program; Bruce DeRuntz, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; Rhonda K Kowalchuk, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

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Diversity, International Forum

, PhD, is a Professor in the College of Engineering at Southern Illinois University Car- bondale where he teaches classes on project management and leadership. He consults with universities and companies on their leadership development of human resources for six sigma and project manage- ment teams. He is the Director of SIUC’s Leadership Development Program and the former Editor of the ASQ’s Quality Management Forum. He is a Fellow with the American Society for Quality and holds certifications for Six Sigma Black Belt and Quality Engineer.Dr. Rhonda K Kowalchuk, Southern Illinois University Carbondale Rhonda K. Kowalchuk is an Associate Professor of Quantitative Methods at Southern Illinois University Carbondale

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2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Lavanya Kumari

waterfallmodel, design is done only once. This method cannot practically lead to an accurate design forcomplex systems, that too in current fluid market with demanding users and cut-throatcompetition. Most software projects using this methodology fail to meet their objectives. Inincremental models, the whole cycle of software activities is repeated in increments, which againbecomes restrictive. But in the iterative model, the design itself goes through several iterationsuntil it has reached a point of accuracy which satisfies the designers, reviewers, practitioners, andstakeholders. Incremental design is about adding new elements, which one can choose to doiteratively, while iterating is about reworking and refining16. In this paper, we start by

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2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Martin Koch

freshman level course with no prerequisites. Itis a three-hour, one unit course that meets for 10 weeks and is taught in a lecture/activity format.The mission of the course is to teach engineering students about the wide array of processes thatcomprise the metal casting industry. This is done through a combination of traditional lecture,interactive computer tutorials/ case studies, traditional foundry lab experiences and the use ofCAD/CAM systems to produce CNC milled patterns and AM produced patterns and molds.Our engineering programs are hands-on. We firmly believe that the educational experiences aregreatly enhanced by projects and the making of things. In the evolution of the course it becameapparent that the need for careful planning to avoid

Conference Session

Working in Teams: ERM Roundtable

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gina M Quan, University of Maryland, College Park; Ayush Gupta, University of Maryland, College Park; Andrew Elby, University of Maryland, College Park

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Educational Research and Methods

design teams shape whetherand how students’ contributions to the design project are recognized.4 Given this, groupcomposition in design teams becomes an important instructional decision since access todisciplinary knowledge and identity can influence students’ future trajectories. However,mechanisms by which roles affect broader relationships to design are underexplored. Our aim isto understand students’ emergent roles in design teams, and how this may or may not interactwith their complex relationships (epistemological and affective) to computer programming anddesign. We unpack how pairing students of different levels of expertise influences students’access, their sense of whether or not they can participate in a discipline. We suggest that

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K-12 & Pre- College Engineering Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ricky T Castles, East Carolina University; Zhen Zhu, East Carolina University

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Diversity

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

systems, but he has ongoing projects in the area of hospital patient health monitoring. He is actively engaged in K-12 outreach through several venues including Summer Ventures, high school STEM day, the NC Science Olympiad, a Math Science Partnership grant, volunteer work with a local literacy camp, Boy Scouts Robotics Merit Badge counseling, and teaching the science portion of VBS and children’s Sunday School at his local church.Dr. Zhen Zhu, East Carolina University Zhen Zhu is an assistant professor at East Carolina University. From 2010 to 2013 he was a senior research engineer and a principal investigator with the Navigation Systems Division and the Advanced Concepts and Technologies Division in Northrop Grumman

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Making in Design

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vincent Wilczynski, Yale University

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

problem-based learning and service learning alsobecame popular approaches to connect course material with field applications, often using client-driven scenarios and open-ended challenges.5,6 This attention to increasing student engagementwas in part prompted by an increased awareness of the value of active learning and team-basedproblem solving.These initiatives manifested themselves in a variety of fashions, including improving studentexperiences using cornerstone and capstone design projects as well as the creation of U.S.Government sponsored initiatives. For example, the grant-funded “Learning Factory” projectwas developed to simultaneously create a practice-based curriculum and the supporting physicalfacilities required to design/fabricate

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K-12 & Pre- College Engineering Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rosalyn Hobson Hargraves, Virginia Commonwealth University; LaChelle Monique Waller, Virginia Commonwealth University

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Diversity

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

, and mathematics(STEM). Toward that end many summer informal STEM education experiences have beenestablished for middle school students. While these experiences can be very fun and engaging forstudents, they often consist of prescribed experiments, projects, and investigations. Here wepresent a novel summer enrichment program, Everyday Engineering, which consists of both theprescribed experiments/activities and also a design project based investigation which allows thestudents to explore their imaginative side in the design and prototyping of an invention of theirown creation.The Everyday Engineering program, designed for middle school students, was a one week allday (8:15 am – 5:00 pm) summer camp on the campus of a Virginia Commonwealth

Conference Session

Ocean and Marine Division Technical Session 1

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William M. Simpson Jr., U.S. Coast Guard Academy; Raymond S. McCord, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Ocean and Marine

and creating a valid ship structural model, it ispossible to incorporate its use into general naval architecture courses without the requirement tobecome an expert in structural finite element analysis. The use of MAESTRO in the graduateprogram affords the students greater insight into ship structural response to load effects that arenot always accurately analyzed by current manual methods (simple prismatic beam analysis). Inthe undergraduate program, the students use MAESTRO to develop a structural model as part oftheir senior ship design project. There has been difficulty in the undergraduate program in thedevelopment of a whole ship model, but the software allows the mid-portion of the ship structureto be easily created. In both the

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Fundamental: K-12 Students' Beliefs, Motivation, and Self-efficacy

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joel Alejandro Mejia, West Virginia University; Dustin Drake, Utah State University; Amy Wilson-Lopez, Utah State University - Teacher Education and Leadership

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Diversity

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

experienceswhere the adolescents had the opportunity to research, analyze, and/or design solutions toproblems affecting their community. The adolescents worked in teams of three or four membersover the course of one school year to develop a solution to the problem they selected. Pre andpost-interviews were conducted to determine the adolescents’ perceptions of engineering andtheir self-efficacy in engineering. Data revealed that the participants’ sense of engineering self-efficacy increased after participating in the project. In addition, the participants’ perceptions ofengineering changed over time. This exploratory study suggests that authentic engineeringexperiences, defined as experiences in which students identify real problems they want to solvefor

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2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Bryan K. Allen; Gordon W. Romney

1 Agile Capstone Integration of Free, Disparate Cloud Services Produced a Prototype Application that Tracks Airborne Wildfire Firefighting Resources Bryan K. Allen and Gordon W. Romney School of Engineering and Computing National University, San Diego, CAAbstractA prototype application designed to leverage state-of-the art cloud computing technologies wasdeveloped as a capstone project for U.S. Defense Support to a Civilian Authority mission. Theoutcome of this paper demonstrates the Agile development and

Conference Session

Fundamental: Tools and Content for K-12 Engineering Education

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elizabeth Cady, National Academy of Engineering; Greg Pearson, National Academy of Engineering; David R. Heil, David Heil & Associates, Inc.; Derek W Rector, Diamax Information Systems; Jana Jurukovska, Diamax Information Systems

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Paper ID #12252Developing a Toolkit and Online Community of Practice to Support Imple-mentation of Engineering in PreK-12 Education (Other)Dr. Elizabeth Cady, National Academy of Engineering Dr. Elizabeth Cady is a Program Officer at the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) working on en- gineering education topics such as building skills in project management and change leadership, diversity, and developing communities of practice. She also staffs the Frontiers of Engineering Education sympo- sium, which recognizes and supports innovative engineering faculty members. She co-edited a resource collection translating

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ECCD International Outreach

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joakim Sigurd Wren, Linkoping University

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Diversity

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

profile are in general satisfied, including the 30 %studying abroad. Many of the bachelor projects carried out abroad are located in emergingcountries which highlights the competence deficiency in countries outside the industrialized partsof the world.IntroductionThe general trend in society is towards increasing sustainability, including economic, social andenvironmental aspects. Sustainability is also related to corporate social responsibility (CSR),which can be referred to as the industry equivalent for businesses that intend to prosper in thelong run1,2, and is highly reflected also in engineering education3.There is an increasing demand on education in energy engineering in a broad sense, includinge.g. environmental technology and energy

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ECCD Innovations in Energy Engineering & Technology

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Faruk Yildiz, Sam Houston State University; Ulan Dakeev, University of Michigan, Flint; Kenan Baltaci, University of Wisconsin, Stout; Keith L. Coogler, Sam Houston State University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

near industrial technology laboratory building at Sam Houston StateUniversity were the vibration source. The building used for this project is a combined laboratory Page 26.599.4and shop and classroom facility with two condenser units–one single fan and one twin fan. Theinitial study employs the twin fan unit. Initially, the AC condenser unit was studied, and potentialpaths of the study were generated.Figure 3. R-410A XP series 6-1/2 ton 60Hz AC Condenser UnitFigure 4. Pictorial of AC condenser unit showing waste energy sources for energy harvestingViewing the unit from above, the rotation of both fans is clockwise. The fan blade length

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College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 2

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert G. Batson P.E., University of Alabama

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College Industry Partnerships

Paper ID #11099Sabbatical Leaves with Industry–Three ExperiencesDr. Robert G. Batson P.E., University of Alabama Bob Batson is a professor of construction engineering at The University of Alabama. His Ph.D. training was in operations research, and he has developed expertise in applied statistics over the past thirty years. He currently teaches the required courses in project management, safety engineering, engineering man- agement, and engineering statistics within the undergraduate programs of the Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering Department, and graduate courses in operations research and supply chain

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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kyoung-Yun Kim, Wayne State University; Carolyn E Psenka PhD, Wayne State University; Kathy Schmidt Jackson, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Karl R Haapala, Oregon State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

within the constructionism approach that underlies thepedagogical philosophy of this study. The project to develop the CooL:SLiCE cyberlearningplatform and planned evaluations within this cyber environment are next discussed.CooL:SLiCE Cyberlearning Environment The CooL:SLiCE project supports sustainable engineering education by leveragingcyber-technology’s role in learning environmentally responsible lifecycle engineering. A multi-institutional team of researchers from Wayne State, Penn State, and Oregon State universities arecollaboratively developing the innovative distributed cyberlearning platform to facilitate students’consideration of the range of human controlled and initiated impacts products have on the naturalenvironment. The

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Kara Vance; Abdullah Konak; Sadan Kulturel-Konak; Gul E. Okudan Kremer; Ivan Esparragoza

of the instruments for assessing teamwork KSA. Broadly, teamworkassessment instruments can be categorized into two groups: peer evaluations and tests. Peerevaluations mainly focus on student projects and aim to achieve a fair summative evaluation ofthe individual contribution of each team member to project outcomes. Teamwork tests focus onmeasuring teamwork knowledge and/or personal traits, such as leadership, that are known to beimportant for teamwork. Teamwork tests are widely adopted by the industry for the selection ofteam members.1Existing instruments for assessing teamwork KSA do not include items to measure studentinterest for learning teamwork. Recently, we have proposed an assessment framework based onthe Model of Domain Learning

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

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Timothy Burg; Pamela Mack; Ian Walker; Richard Groff

Southwest – Midwest – North Midwest Sections)current applications. We will answer questions such as “How does the Roomba robot clean thefloor in a house?” We will explore the economics of robots and their use as a tool to boostproductivity. The lecture topics will be reinforced with hands-on projects -- the students will useLEGO Mindstorms to explore robot construction and intelligence. We will analyze emergingtrends to develop our own predictions for the future of robotics. The projects will culminate witha design project where students work with a group to build their own walking robot. In theirfuture careers as business leaders, educators, physicians, etc. students will make decisions aboutrobotics; the course outlined below will provide the

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2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Jim Helbling; Angela Beck

their own teaching teams. Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 133ContextERAU/Prescott is a 4-year university located in Northern Arizona with an enrollment ofapproximately 2000 undergraduate students. The two most popular engineering degree programsare Aerospace Engineering (AE) and Mechanical Engineering (ME). Within the AE/MEcurriculum, there is a strong emphasis on hands-on application and conceptual design projects toprepare students for senior capstone design courses.Students majoring in AE

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Research to Practice: STRAND 4 – K-12 Engineering Resources: Best Practices in Curriculum Design (Part 1)

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristin M Brevik, North Dakota State College of Science; Kristi Jean, North Dakota State College of Science; Frank M. Bowman, University of North Dakota; Bradley Bowen, North Dakota State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Paper ID #13828Impact of the You’re Hired! Program on Student Attitudes and Understand-ing of Engineering (RTP, Strand 4)Mrs. Kristin M Brevik, North Dakota State College of Science Kristin Brevik is the STEM Outreach Specialist at North Dakota State College of Science. She received her M.S. from the University of North Dakota in Chemical Engineering and her B.S. from Minnesota State University Moorhead in Physics. Her research focus is in STEM education and project design.Dr. Kristi Jean, North Dakota State College of Science Dr. Kristi Jean is associate professor in the Applied Sciences and Technology at the North Dakota State

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Robotics, Automation, and Product Development

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kee M Park, Queensborough Community College

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Engineering Technology

the process, students learned to design for manufacturing, build withinmaximum build envelope of the 3D printers, assembly for parts, and resolve fitment issues.Additional parts to be designed include side skirts, motor and battery covers, and a rear wing.The outcome of such learning experiences from this project can be expanded to interdisciplinaryproject oriented courses for engineering students to enhance their learning experiences.IntroductionThe goal of this project is to introduce new technology in the class room and inspire studentsabout using 3D printers for design and manufacturing processes. Most engineering colleges havebeen providing outdated technologies in current high technology era. Engineering studentsexperience lack of next

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ECCD Innovations in Energy Engineering & Technology

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Radian G Belu, University of Alaska Anchorage; Richard Chiou, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.); Tzu-Liang Bill Tseng, University of Texas, El Paso; Lucian Ionel Cioca, "Lucian Blaga" University of Sibiu, Romania

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

Paper ID #11879Development of a course in energy management for engineering and technol-ogy programsDr. Radian G Belu, University of Alaska Anchorage Dr. Radian Belu is Associate Professor within Electrical Engineering Department, University of Alaska Anchorage, USA. He is holding one PHD in power engineering and other one in physics. Before joining to University of Alaska Anchorage Dr. Belu hold faculty, research and industry positions at universi- ties and research institutes in Romania, Canada and United States. He also worked for several years in industry as project manager, senior engineer and consultant. He has

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Evaluation: Exploring the Impact of Summer Programs on K-12 Youth.

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University; Jerome P. Lavelle, North Carolina State University; Susan Beth D'Amico, NC State University; Landon Drew LaPorte, North Carolina State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Engineering Equity Extension Project and served as a curriculum consultant on a National Science Foundation Gender Equity grant. She also co-authored the Engineering Connections to STEM document published by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. She is currently serving on a commit- tee with the National Academy of Engineering, Guiding the Implementation of K-12 Engineering.Dr. Jerome P. Lavelle, North Carolina State University Jerome P. Lavelle is Associate Dean of Academic Affairs in the College of Engineering at North Carolina State University. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of engineering economic analysis, decision analysis, project management, leadership, engineering management and

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Innovation in Engineering Leadership Education

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Engineering Leadership Development Division

and vocational pathways. Dr. Lande received his B.S in Engineering (Product Design), M.A. in Education (Learning, Design and Technology) and Ph.D. in Me- chanical Engineering (Design Thinking) from Stanford University. Dr. Lande is the PI on the NSF-funded project ”Should Makers Be the Engineers of the Future” and a co-PI on the NSF-funded project ”Might Young Makers Be the Engineers of the Future?”Dr. Shawn S. Jordan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus SHAWN JORDAN, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of engineering in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of En- gineering at Arizona State University. He teaches context-centered electrical engineering and embedded systems design courses, and studies the use of context

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2015 ASEE Workshop on K-12 Engineering Education

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Beau Vezino, University of Arizona; Scott A Weiler, Amphi MIddle School

Paper ID #14296Creative Engineering & Programming with MaKey MaKey invention KitsBeau Vezino, University of Arizona Beau R. Vezino is a Ph.D. student at the University of Arizona’s College of Education. His focus is engineering and science education. Beau currently teaches the science/engineering methods course for pre-service teachers and works on several related research projects. Beau is certified teacher and holds a MS in Education in Curriculum and Instruction (2009) and a BS in Mechanical Engineering (2005). Beau’s research focus involves K-12 teacher education related to engineering. He is the curriculum writer

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Curriculum in Engineering Leadership Development

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lynne Cowe Falls, University of Calgary; Robyn Paul, University of Calgary; Gord Aker P.Eng. PCC, Logical Leadership

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Engineering Leadership Development Division

result of their roles in various student societies and project teams with leadershiptraining, mentoring and coaching. This allows the students not only to learn new skills andknowledge but to apply and adapt these elements in a real work situation all within the securityof a safe learning environment.Reflections will be made by looking at historical feedback data and accounts from the foundingmembers of the program, who have been involved in all of its eight years. It is anticipated that anunderstanding will be gained into the students’ perceptions of the offered activities and thestudents’ commitment to their own personal leadership development. This case study willprovide a model for undergraduate institutions looking to provide similar

Conference Session

Mobile and Emerging Technologies in Construction

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric A. Holt, University of Nebraska, Kearney; James M. Benham, JBKnowledge, Inc.; Ben Fitzgerald Bigelow, Texas A&M University

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Diversity

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Construction

constructionindustry continues to advance educators must be aware of what the “cutting edge” of technologyin construction is, so they can expose their students to it, and more thoroughly prepare them forwhat they will interact with in their careers. This study utilized a survey of construction industryprofessionals to learn about advances in technology and where they are being used. The internetbased survey netted more than 1,000 responses and produced a sample for each question thatranged from n = 116 to n = 1,014. Specifically this study sought to learn about the use ofaugmented and virtual reality technology, the technology that industry professionals have seenand hope to see used in future projects, and the barriers to technology adoption. The