Conference Session

Engineering Management Division Technical Session 2

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Browder, Bristol Tennessee Essential Services; Andrew J. Czuchry, East Tennessee State University; Leslie Boughers, Bristol Tennessee Essential Services; Caroline Deutsch, East Tennessee State University; Nina Muehl, East Tennessee State University

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Engineering Management

differentlevels of importance on the components of sustainability given in the Baldridge definition. Theapplied research presented in this paper provides a conceptual framework for translating strategyinto implementation results via a modified Plan – Do – Check – Act Shewhart / Demingimprovement opportunity identification and corrective action closed loop management cycle.The framework given in Figure 1 has proven effective in introducing discontinuous innovationsin an engineering technology business and has three best practices embedded that have enhancedinternal efficiencies as well.This framework may also make a contribution to those in higher education faced with thechallenge of reforming engineering education in the Engineering Management

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2014 EDI

Authors

Laura Steinberg

much time on development.9. Create and follow a strategic plan Communication10. Find ways to communicate with all constituencies – alot.  Transparency  Leadership – leverage your relationshipsAnd one more thing… Have funchilds.play.users.btopenworld.com/ebay/C10.jpg

Conference Session

Continuing Professional Development Division Technical Session 1

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Reeping, Ohio Northern University; Kenneth Reid, Ohio Northern University; John K. Estell, Ohio Northern University

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Continuing Professional Development

(TISP), which is normally designed to train engineers to hold in-service workshops for teachersusing lesson plans available from tryengineering.org1. Due to the limited availability ofpracticing engineers in the Dominican, the team worked directly with the teachers 2.The first trip included running workshops in three different private institutions: Center forChristian Education & Development (CCED) / Lucille Rupp Schools, Elias Piña, and ElCercado3. The following year, a three day workshop was held at one large public high school,Liceo Pedro Henriquez Urena. These workshops included design challenges often found in a firstyear engineering course, discussions on learning styles, and methods of integrating anengineering mindset into the

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2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Mudasser Wyne; Alireza Farahani

identified by the lead faculty over the five year period.The Five-Year Program Review requires faculty to reflect on factors influencing student successin the program and provide comments. The program lead and the department chair are asked toanalyze student retention and graduation rates. The results from the Five-Year Program Reviewas well as the suggested action plans and resource allocations for the program are itemized in aMemorandum of Agreement that requires approval by the school Dean and Provost. Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2014, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Division Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Evan C. Lemley, University of Central Oklahoma; Bob Melton, Putnam City Schools; Elizabeth Ann Allan, University of Central Oklahoma; Grant M. Armstrong, University of Central Oklahoma ; James E. Stewart, University of Central Oklahoma; Morshed Khandaker, University of Central Oklahoma

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

 student design projects along with a plan for implementation by theend of the four workshops.The four Saturday workshops were spaced over the course of seven weeks in the Fall 2013.  Teachers,grant investigators (___, ___, and ___), and engineering student assistants (____ and ____) werepresent from early morning to mid­afternoon for each workshop session.  Engineering faculty werepresent for each meeting as well; co­author ____  served as the lead engineering faculty mentor andwas present for the first session, while all participating engineering faculty (____, ____, ____, and____) were present for the last three meetings.In the first workshop, presentations were given by one of the co­authors (____) on the Next GenerationScience Standards and

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Khaled Almgren; Christian Bach

digitized. Businesses is much more than that. It is a system whereby you have anare depending on technology to help them enhance their entire electronic organization. However, everything newbusiness processes. Companies are looking for an information brings new challenges. ERP has not only brought obstaclessystem that can handle massive workloads. This is where to system developers, but to organizations, as wellEnterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems come into play. (McGaughey & Gunasekaran, 2007).An ERP integrates different subsystems into one huge systemthat shares one database. It enhances productivity and brings The ERP

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Programs and Courses Session 5

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Perry Samson, University of Michigan

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

askedquestions designed to determine their understanding of linkages between the Equity Ownershiptools presented in ENTR 599 and the real world situations of their unique business opportunitiesand future opportunities. The written portion required: A. Project Summary (1 page limit) B. Project Description (10 page limit) C. Biographical Sketches (2 page limit for whole team) D. Budget (not to exceed $150,000) with budget justification for each significant item. E. Equipment, Instrumentation, Computers, and Facilities (1 page limit)The goal was to simulate a SBIR proposal process as we felt this supported our overarchingtheme to encourage bootstrapping in their start-up planning. Details of the Project

Conference Session

Embedded Systems and Mobile Computing

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cory Brozina, Virginia Tech; David B. Knight, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education

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Computing & Information Technology

potentially enhance learning processes across the world.University MOOC AdoptionWhile MOOCs have provided the educational arena with a lot of excitement and opportunity,higher education institutions are still undecided (55%) or have no plans (33%) for offering aMOOC6. Many institutions are waiting to see whether the movement is sustainable or becomesan educational fad. One of the biggest proponents of MOOCs and leaders in their developmenthas been Georgia Tech, which plans to offer a computer science master’s degree program on theUdacity platform beginning in January 2014. This program will greatly reduce the cost of thedegree program for students, and enrollment in the Udacity-based platform will be less than$7,0007. It remains to be seen how the

Conference Session

Structural Education Topics in Architectural Engineering

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James B. Guthrie, California Polytechnic State University; Pamalee A. Brady, California Polytechnic State University

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Architectural

, particularly, are developed.Following Structures I and Structures II, is a course entitled Structural Systems (ARCE 226).This course is for ARCH and CM students only. This is the course in which the focus shiftsfrom structural elements to building structural systems. Working with the knowledge studentsgained in Structures I and Structures II, students develop the skills to analyze simple buildingscomposed of axial and bending members. They learn about structural stability in 3D, gravity andlateral loads, the development of framing plans, the behavior and comparison of structuralbuilding systems, framing schemes and building configuration related to vertical and lateralloads.Following the Structural Systems course, the ARCH and CM students took Small

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2014 ERC

Authors

George Hazelrigg

CMMI Overview George A. Hazelrigg Acting Division Director forCivil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation Mary Toney Acting Deputy Division DirectorContext: NSF Strategic Plan, 2014-2018• Transform the Frontiers of S&E -- promotes the progress of science, creates opportunities for transformational advances.• Stimulate Innovation – emphasizes broader impacts to advance national health, prosperity, welfare, and to secure the national defense.• Excel as a Federal Science Agency --emphasizes the importance of NSF as an exemplar of an agency that expects to attain excellence in all operational aspects. http://www.nsf.gov/news

Conference Session

Leadership, Entrepreneurship and Ethics Education

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald J. Bennett F.ASEE, F.ABET P.E., University of St. Thomas; Niaz Latif, Purdue University Calumet (College of Technology); Aco Sikoski, Ivy Tech Community College; Steven Wendel, Sinclair Community College; Mohammad A. Zahraee, Purdue University Calumet (College of Technology)

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Manufacturing

areshared.backgroundAdvanced manufacturing is a matter of fundamental importance to the economic strength andnational security of the United States.1 A National Strategic Plan For AdvancedManufacturing, February 2012, outlines a federal strategy for advanced manufacturing thatseeks to achieve five objectives: Objective 1: Accelerate investment in advanced manufacturing technology, especially by small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises, by fostering more effective use of Federal capabilities and facilities, including early procurement by Federal agencies of cutting-edge products. Objective 2: Expand the number of workers who have skills needed by a growing advanced manufacturing sector and make the education and training

Conference Session

Teaching and Assessment Methodologies

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chris Plouff, Grand Valley State University; Christopher P. Pung P.E., Grand Valley State University; Hugh Jack, Grand Valley State University

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Manufacturing

program outcomes. Most manufacturing programs welcome the external review tovalidate their efforts.The Four Pillars of Manufacturing Engineering (Four Pillars) model was developed in 20114. Itprovides a clear graphical outline of the core content of manufacturing programs. The four pillarsmodel has been adopted by the accreditation groups in ABET and ATMAE, through the SME.The four pillars model groups specific knowledge and skills into topic- and process-basedcategories. The content of the Four Pillars model has been related to industry practices includinga recent study by Nutter5. Therefore, an assessment plan that maps an academic curriculum to thefour pillars can directly establish an industry relevance.This paper outlines a process for

Conference Session

Use of Technology for Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Priya Manohar, Robert Morris University; Sushil Acharya, Robert Morris University; Peter Y Wu, Robert Morris University

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Manufacturing

education, Software Verification & Validation, Data Mining, Neural Networks, and Enterprise Resource Planning. He also has interest in Learning Objectives based Education Material Design and Development. Acharya is a co- author of ”Discrete Mathematics Applications for Information Systems Professionals- 2nd Ed., Prentice Hall”. He is a member of Nepal Engineering Association and is also a member of ASEE, and ACM. Acharya is a recipient of the ”Mahendra Vidya Bhusak” a prestigious medal awarded by His Majesty the King of Nepal for academic excellence. He is a member of the Program Committee of WMSCI, MEI, and CCCT and is also a Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and

Conference Session

Distance Learning in Engineering Technology

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steve C. Hsiung, Old Dominion University; John M. Ritz, Old Dominion University; Ece Yaprak, Wayne State University; Feng Jao, Ohio Northern University

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Engineering Technology

the instructional modules. The lab modules doprovide step-by-step instructions to have students complete laboratory work. In addition there arequestions to be answered and worksheets to be used for grading the laboratory work within thelaboratory modules. There are also faculty developed videos that show how the trainer is toperform or control other mechanism that support each lab module. These have been found to aidstudent understanding of laboratory outcomes. Other laboratory modules are planned to alignwith the 16 content modules. # Module Titles # Module Titles 1 Microcontroller Technology 9 Stepper Motors Controls 2 Numbers and Programming Languages 10 DC

Conference Session

Global Perspective and Experiential Learning in Civil Engineering

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrea L. Welker, Villanova University; Seri Park, Villanova University; Susan B. Mackey-Kallis, Villanova University

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Civil Engineering

Internationalization Efforts at Villanova UniversityAbstractIn 2012, Villanova University joined the American Council of Education (ACE) as a member oftheir Internationalization Laboratory. The goal of joining this laboratory was to develop astrategic plan for comprehensive internationalization that will help strengthen the university’sglobal leadership and engagement. ACE describes a process to develop, implement, and monitoran internationalization plan. This paper will describe the status of current internationalizationactivities at the university; specifically focusing on how the Department of Civil andEnvironmental Engineering can help the university articulate, assess, and attain theirinternationalization goals. This

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2014 EDI

Authors

Paul C Johnson

Ten Top-of-Mind Topics for Success New Deans Forum Engineering Deans Institute 2014 Paul C. Johnson1. “Your” Assignment2. Aspirations & Attributes3. Values & Expectations4. Metrics5. Annual Progress & Planning6. You Have a Plan – So What?7. Your Time, Your Health, Your Growth IRA A. FULTON SCHOOLS OF ENGINEERING engineering.asu.edu Your AssignmentThis is generally what the superpowers and major investors at your institution (e.g.,President, Provost, Chancellor, etc.) expect your school or college to accomplish.Can you articulate your assignment clearly? Can you explain why it is good for yourorganization?It is important that you own it. Your

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Education Session 3

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tammy VanDeGrift, University of Portland; Jon Down, University of Portland

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

ProgramEntrepreneur Scholars (E-Scholars) is a select group of undergraduate students who create newbusiness ventures or develop and implement strategies to improve existing enterprises. Studentsin the E-Scholars program develop their entrepreneurial mindset. They learn how to come upwith innovative ideas and develop realistic business plans around them. Through requireddomestic and international travel they also learn how to do business anywhere in the world.E-Scholars commit to an academic curricular program, taking three three-credit entrepreneurshipcourses during their junior year. Students apply during the fall semester of their sophomore yearthrough a process that requires references, interviews and an essay describing the mutual benefitof their

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2014 EDI

Authors

Joseph Helble

model; little attention to incorporating entrepreneurial focus explicitly into PhD THAYER SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AT DARTMOUTHDartmouth “Engineering PhD Innovation Program” - 2008 Designed to be SMALL, SELECTIVE, FOCUSED Goal: LIMIT to 5 new students per year Separate criteria beyond PhD - extra COURSEWORK, write and present BUSINESS PLAN, conduct late-stage 6 mo. INTERNSHIP REVERSE FELLOWSHIPS - funded yrs 3-5 of PhD PROJECT SEED FUNDING also provided Luce Foundation grant 12/08 THAYER SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AT DARTMOUTHPhD Innovation Program – Fall 2013, 5 year status updateComplements ugrad and MEM offerings, enabling representation of full

Conference Session

Innovative Assessment Techniques in Civil Engineering Courses

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erik R. Wright P.E., United States Military Academy; Joseph P Hanus, U.S. Military Academy

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Civil Engineering

- reer Course and the Joint Engineer Operations Course. Erik has served three one-year tours in Baghdad, Iraq with the most recent tour ending in June 2010. During that tour, Erik was an Infrastructure Analyst with various infrastructure related duties such as data collection and management, condition analyses of infrastructure systems, and functional subject matter expert for validating national critical infrastructure assets. Past assignments include: Forward Engineer Support Team – Main Detachment Commander; Pla- toon Leader; Infrastructure Analyst at Corps Level; Civil Engineer, Plans Officer and Logistics Officer at Battalion Level. Erik’s Current research focuses on the construction of nuclear facilities and the

Conference Session

Industry Collaboration in Construction Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rogelio Palomera-Arias Ph. D., University of Texas at San Antonio; Craig D. Capano, Everglades University

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Construction

collaborative team member on the internship team. Plan the intern experience and assess performance. Suggest ways for strengthening intern’s competencies. Clearly communicate their expectations. Orient intern to work place, staff, and organization. Regularly confer with the intern. Provide ongoing documentation on intern’s demonstration of essential competencies.University supervisors are expected to: Review intern’s work. Review and complete intern plan. Develop timelines for intern activities. Maintain intern’s profile. Provide feedback and record outcomes in evaluation/tenure documents.The application package for the “AGC Education & Research Foundation Professional FacultyInternship Program”1 was developed with the intent to fit as

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2014 ERC

Authors

Alma Wickenden

and industry working in a collaborative and profitable partnership to advance NASA mission  70 onsite partners (including 10 universities and over 45 companies)  Developed culture of collaboration NASA Research Park: 2020 Campus Plan  Proven business management and  2003 U.S. Government “Best processes Innovative Policy” national award  Large-scale leases  National Research Council Review, “new model of industry-government  Google (42 acres 1.2M sf) partnerships

Conference Session

Software Engineering Constituent Committee Division Technical Session 1

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J. Jenny Li, Kean University; Patricia Morreale, Kean University

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

time measurements: 1) Planning time: the duration from a student receiving the problem to the time (s)he startingto write code. Because these students haven’t taken any software engineering courses, they don’thave any formal knowledge of design and specification. They rely on the reading of the projectdescription to understand the requirements of the project. So this measurement tells us how muchtime the students take to comprehend the project requirements and it is not the time for design orrequirement analysis. 2) Coding time: the duration from when the student starts to write the code to her/hisattempt to run the first usage scenario of the project. The definition of this one is critical to ouranalysis, which clearly divides up

Conference Session

Construction Education Topics in Architectural Engineering

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura Elizabeth Leach, Western Kentucky University

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Architectural

creative technique indocumenting the design. This was a rather large issue, because this course is the student’s firstexposure to the standard techniques of documentation. To adequately cover the additional,specialized techniques of documenting individual student situations that occurred in their designsthrough plan, elevation and section, detailing constructability and reducing material wasteportions of the course suffered.While the students did not understand that the quality of their work suffered because of the issuesthat occurred, as an evaluator of the student work and a professional in the industry, it wasapparent that the complexity and quality of the construction drawings did not match thecomplexity of the designs produced by the students

Conference Session

Best Practices and Lessons Learned in Capstone Design Projects

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher P. Pung, Grand Valley State University; Hugh Jack, Grand Valley State University

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Manufacturing

 Overview of Design Products ● Needs Identification and Specifications ● Design Concepts and Embodiments ● People and Teams ● Decision Making ● Planning and Managing Projects ● Finance, Budgets, Purchasing, and Bidding ● Communication, Meetings, and Presentations ● Universal Design Topics ● Reliability and System DesignGiven the key role of the capstone project course, the content is carefully chosen to ensure accreditationcriteria and outcomes are addressed. As mentioned before, this does require some material that is notwell suited to other classes, but well suited to industry sponsored projects. The four pillars ofmanufacturing model1 represents a professional perspective on the outcomes from a

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Suleiman A. Ashur, Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne; Mohammad Alhassan, Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne

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Civil Engineering

insupporting ABET accreditation of the Civil Engineering program as well other programs in thedepartment are presented.1. IntroductionThe Civil Engineering (CE) program started at Indiana University-Purdue University FortWayne (IPFW) in 2006; the only public program offered in the area that enables students to getexcellent public education while living at home and attending school. In December 2008, theCivil Engineering Assessment Plan (CEAP) was developed and approved, based on thedepartment’s existing “one-assessment-plan-fits-all” format that was developed for all programsin 2004. The assessment plan requires intensive effort to implement and lacks consistency anddocumentation in some aspects of assessment. In order to meet the ABET requirements

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Moijue Kaikai; Erin D. Baker

, discussions, and oralinterest solving energy issues, and spread awareness across their presentations; and to improve student skills in critical thinkingown communities. and problem solving, especially engineering problem solving, Keywords—renewable; sustainable; curriculum; and sharpen student skills in math and science. The variouseducation; energy; awareness; lesson plans; wind lessons plans are framed around a hands-on wind turbine project to achieve these objectives. I

Conference Session

Preparing Minority Students for Undergraduate and Graduate Research

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary R. Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University

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Minorities in Engineering

of the program scholarship.The difference between an Honors College and the Academic Success Program is that we do notprimarily seek only the top academic students. Although we welcome top students, the minimumcriteria for receiving a scholarship is as follows:  Minimum 3.0 GPA  Full-time engineering or computer science major  U.S. Citizenship, Permanent Resident, or refugee  Unmet financial need as defined by FAFSAIn addition, we focus on females and underrepresented minority students. We have maintained aprogram representation of about 60% female and/or underrepresented minority students.1The ASAP class is based on the “Guaranteed 4.0 Plan” by Donna O. Johnson.2 Basic to this planis a detailed time management system

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregg L. Fiegel, California Polytechnic State University; James L. Hanson, California Polytechnic State University; Nazli Yesiller

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

that provide opportunities fordiscovering new knowledge; (2) to mentor a diverse team of undergraduates; (3) to promotegraduate study as a future professional goal; and (4) to provide instructive and appealing learningcomponents. Undergraduates in the program attain three learning outcomes: design, conduct,and document a research experiment; function effectively on a multidisciplinary research team;and summarize both the technical and experiential aspects of the research experience. Theprogram assessment plan and initial program results are discussed in the paper. The researchteam assessed and evaluated specific performance metrics defined under each outcome, where aperformance metric represents a skill or ability that the undergraduate

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gene L. Harding, Purdue University

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Aerospace

introductory communications course. ATC and IFF systems are presented to explain theirpurpose and illustrate the substantial overlap in function (ATC is civilian, IFF is military).8The major emphasis in the systems material is on radar, which is used extensively in EWoperations and is perhaps least familiar to the students. The introduction includes radar’spurpose, antenna type(s), continuous wave (CW) vs. pulsed, and monostatic vs. bistatic.6,1,9 Thistopic was initially planned for two lectures, but was stretched to three lectures because thestudents struggled with the material. After the intro, pulsed and CW radars are treatedseparately, including range calculations for pulsed radar and Doppler shift for CW radars.Finally, radar ranging is covered

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Technical Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Victoria Townsend, University of Windsor; (Ruth) Jill Urbanic P.Eng., University of Windsor

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Industrial Engineering

emphasized by the experientiallearning approach, where students interact with and formulate these connections personally in adynamic system. Specifically, the experiential learning iterative cycle used in this workshop isDeming’s plan-do-check-act (PDCA) cycle[4]. By combining the SOLO relational andexperiential learning approaches as a methodology for the workshop, a learning space is createdfor each student to challenge, test, find, question, and create project management relationships ina dynamic system. This combination yields the opportunity for each learner to developsituational awareness – a critical trait of a dynamic project manager and decision-maker (and atrait rarely discussed in the engineering education literature).MethodologyAfter