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Extending a Hand Back: Older Students Inspiring Younger Students

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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AJ Almaguer, University of California, Berkeley; Roy Tangsombatvisit, University of California, Berkeley; Matthew Ford, University of California, Berkeley; Susan Yushan Chen, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley Engineers and Mentors; Lisa A. Pruitt, University of California, Berkeley; Neil Ray, University of California, Berkeley

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Page 22.302.14We would like to thank our advisor for supporting the organization and getting it started. Wewould also like to thank our mentoring professors who have dedicated their time and expertise inteaching us how to teach effectively, the after school directors for providing us with a place toteach, as well as our community partners for providing us with funds, materials, and a locationfor our mentor training workshop. And finally, we would like to thank the rest of the BEAMstaff for devoting their time efforts to make BEAM a success.References[1] Dorph, R., Goldstein, D., Lee, S., Lepori, K., Schneider, S., Venkatesan, S. (2007). The status of scienceeducation in the Bay Area: Research brief. Lawrence Hall of Science, University of

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Developing Young MINDS in Engineering, Part II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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G. Padmanabhan, North Dakota State University; Carol Davis, North Dakota EPSCoR

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Minorities in Engineering

AC 2011-185: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH-MENTORING FOR TRIBALCOLLEGE STUDENTSG. Padmanabhan, North Dakota State University G. Padmanabhan, Ph. D., P.E., M. ASEE, F. ASCE is a professor of civil engineering at North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota. He is a long standing member of ASEE and ASCE. Currently, he is also the Director of North Dakota Water Resources Research Institute. He has been active in STEM education outreach activities to minorities at the college and high and middle school levels for the last ten years.Carol Davis, North Dakota EPSCoR Dr. Carol Davis is a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa. She helped establish Turtle Mountain Community College in the early 1970’s and served

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Civil Engineering Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James D. Bowen, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Peter Thomas Tkacik, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Kimberly Warren, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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Civil Engineering

benefit is determined using a four-parameter “S-shaped” function of bridge strength.Grades are assigned using a weighted comparison of bridge profits (82%) and the group’saccuracy in predicting the strength of their bridge (18%) according to profit and accuracy gradestandards established at the beginning of the semester. Thus, although it is considered acompetition, students do not compete for grades, as there is a fixed and predetermined standardthat determines each project’s grade. The current group design project is intended to provide a range of learning experiencesfor the freshman engineers. First being a group project it is intended to introduce freshmanengineers to collaborative design and division of labor within a project. Second

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Mechanical and Architectural Engineering Laboratories

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Teodora Rutar, Seattle University; Gregory Mason, Seattle University

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

; refrigeration and heat pump cycles, including absorption andcascade refrigeration, and other advanced cycles; air-conditioning processes of humid air; ReheatRankine cycle including means to improve its efficiency; Otto and Diesel cycles; Brayton withintercooling, reheating and regeneration; property diagrams, p-v, T-v, T-p, T-s, h-s, p-h, andPsychrometric chart .The course includes four lectures each week and a weekly lab. Each lab is preceded by lecturesand homework that cover related theoretical concepts; specific concepts are mentioned in eachlab description below. Weekly lab assignments are listed in Table 1. The table indicates whetherthe students are required to complete a pre-lab assignment prior to the lab, and whether studentswrite a formal

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2011 Northeast Section Meeting

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Christian Bach; Salvatore Belardo; Hassan Bajwa; Sahas Sakhare

," Information Systems Research, vol. 3, pp. 60-95, 1992.[3] J. K. Ho, "Bridging academic research and business practice with the new media," Information Resources Management Journal, vol. 13, pp. 6-15, 2000.[4] J. Pfeffer and R. I. Sutton, The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action. Boston, Massachusetts: Harvard Business School Press, 1999.[5] S. L. Rynes, et al., "Across the great divide: Knowledge creation and transfer between practitioners and academics," Academy of Management Journal, vol. 44, pp. 340-356, 2001.[6] T. M. Amabile, et al., "Academic - practitioner collaboration in management research: A case of cross-profession collaboration," Academy of Management Journal, vol

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SE Capstone Design Projects, Part II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Catherine Skokan, Colorado School of Mines

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Multidisciplinary Engineering, Systems Engineering

means are equal ( p<< .001). Once again, the most gain was made with questions 2 and 5.Due to the differences in point distribution with the removal of quesiton 1 for the second year, itis not possible to perform direct statistical anaylsis between the two years. However it is stillpossible to make some observations. It is surprising to see all the 0’s on question 2 whenlooking at the points distribution for the 2010 post-test. The amount invalid samples (incompletetests) for 2009/2010 was also remarkable. Both years showed improvement on questions 2 and5. Question 2 addressed Quality Function Deployment while question 5 addressed the content ofprogress reports. These are both topics that are directly applied to design projects in this

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Information and Network Security

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Peng Li, East Carolina University; John M. Jones, East Carolina University; Kris Kareem Augustus, East Carolina University

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Computing & Information Technology

PC to teach computer networking and operating systems”, Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Information Technology Curriculum, Lafayette, Indiana, USA, 2003.2. A. Gaspar, S. Langevin, W. Armitage, R. Sekar, and T. Daniels, “The role of virtualization in computing education”, Proceedings of the 39th ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education Portland, Oregon, USA, 2008.3. J. Ekstrom, M. Bailey, “Teaching Web Deployment with OS-virtualization”, Proceedings of 2009 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Austin, Texas, USA, 2009.4. P. Li, “Integrating Virtualization Technology into Remote Lab: A Three- Year Experience”, Proceedings of 2009 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Austin, Texas, USA

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Developing Young MINDS in Engineering: Part I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christine E. Hailey, Utah State University; Chandra Y. Austin, Auburn University; Cameron Denson, North Carolina State University; Daniel L. Householder, Utah State University

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Minorities in Engineering

college: Nine elements of effective outreach. Albany: State University of New York Press.6. Bandura, A. (1988). Organizational application of social cognitive theory. Australian Journal of Management, 13(2), 275-302.7. Lent, R.W., Brown, S.D. & Hackett, G. (1994). Toward a unifying social cognitive theory of career and career and academic interest, choice, and performance. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 45(1), 79-122.8. Bandura, A. (1977). Self-efficacy: toward a unifying theory of behavioral change. Psychological Bulletin, 84(2), 191-215.9. Bandura, A.(1986). Social foundations of thought and action: A social cognitive theory. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall.10. Zeldin, A. L., Britner, S. L., Pajares

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Teaching Statics

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeffrey L. Newcomer, Western Washington University

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Mechanics

’ self-assessments. As such, students’ self-assessments should not be used in program or course assessment, at least in Statics, as anythingother than a supplement to direct assessment measures. It is possible that students’ self-assessments do reflect something of value and interest, such as confidence, that could be usefulin the improvement of instruction and course material, but they do not show a strong orconsistent correlation with performance on actual problems in Statics.Bibliography1. Sarin, S., and Headley, D., “Validity of Student Self-Assessments,” Proc. of the ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June, 2002, http://www.asee.org/acPapers/ 2002-831_Final.pdf.2. Collura, M. and Daniels, S., “How

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Information Literacy: Preparing Students for the Real World

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Patsy Hulse, University of Auckland; Dahlia Dantang Han, University Auckland, Engineering Library; Emil Melnichenko, University of Auckland; Susan Brookes, University of Auckland, Engineering Library

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Engineering Libraries

. Page 22.981.8References 1. Hulse, P., St George, J. S., Wang, Li. (2009) How well does collaboration work in engineering project curriculum redesign? ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings. 2. Wichita State University Libraries. (2003). Empower; information literacy. 2003, from http://library.wichita.edu/empower/ 3. Queensland University of Technology. (2010). Pilot; your information navigator. from https://pilot.library.qut.edu.au/index.jsp 4. Waterford Institute of Technology Library, W. OLAS - information literacy online. from http://library.wit.ie/olas/ 5. Harrison, N., Harley Haddow Consulting Engineers,. (2009). Internet for civil engineering. from

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Computational Tools

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Thad B. Welch III P.E., Boise State University; Sam Shearman, National Instruments

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Computers in Education

: Inexpensive hardware and softwaretools,” in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing,pp. 2934 – 2937, March 2010.[2] C.R.A. Gonzalez, C.B. Dietrich, S. Sayed, H.I. Volos, J.D. Gaeddert, P.M. Robert, J.H. Reed, and F.E. Kragh,“Open-source SCA-based core framework and rapid development tools enable software-defined radio education andresearch,” in IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 47, Issue 10, 2009, pp. 48 – 55.[3] T.B. Welch, T. Kent, C.H.G. Wright, and M.G. Morrow, “An Affordable Software Defined Radio,” inProceedings of IEEE DSP/SPE Workshop, pp. 791 – 796, January 2009 .[4] S. Katz and J. Flynn, “Using software defined radio (SDR) to demonstrate concepts in communications andsignal processing

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Curricular Issues in Computer-Oriented Programs

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Afsaneh Minaie, Utah Valley University; Paymon Sanati-Mehrizy, University of Pennsylvania; Ali Sanati-Mehrizy, Pennsylvania State University; Reza Sanati-Mehrizy, Utah Valley University

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Computing & Information Technology

intends on attending Medical School.Ali Sanati-Mehrizy, Pennsylvania State University Ali Sanati-Mehrizy is a medical student at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center at Pennsylvania State University. His research interests include the application of mobile computing in the sciences. Upon completion of medical school, he hopes to pursue a career in Internal Medicine/Pediatrics with a further specialization in Hematology-Oncology.Dr. Reza Sanati-Mehrizy, Utah Valley University Page 22.926.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Integration of Mobile Computing into

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Students' Abilities and Attitudes

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kendrick T. Aung, Lamar University

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Mathematics

method of a differentialequation. This kind of question is better suited to engineering students than simply giving Page 22.1371.7them a differential equation and asking them to solve it numerically. An exampleproblem is given below. A sample problem The following equation describes the velocity of a car. Determine the positions of the car, x in meters, at t = , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 s using Euler method. Compare the numerical solutions with the exact solution at t = 2 and 5 s. dx 2 9cos t 9, x (t 0) 0 Equation (2

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Innovations in Teaching Physics or Engineering Physics I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sudipa Mitra-Kirtley, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Rana Mitra, Southeastern Louisiana University; Maarij M Syed, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Engineering Physics & Physics

. M. Saul, D. Deardorff, D. S. Abbott, R. J. Beichner, “Evaluating introductory physics classes in light of the ABET criteria: An example from the SCALE-UP Project”, 2000 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, (June 2000). 10. S. Mitra-Kirtley, “Thoughts on Studio Physics”, Optics and Photonics News, (Sept.1998). 11. S. Mitra-Kirtley, “Studio Physics at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology”, 2000 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, (June, 2000). 12. Doyle Davis, “Vidshell software”, New Hampshire Technical College 13. http://www.ncsu.edu/per/scaleup.html;http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/tt/2001/dec19/physics.h tml; 14. Kate Kirby, Roman Czujko, and Patrick Mulvey, The Physics Job Market: From Bear to Bull in a

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Software Engineering Projects

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Massood Towhidnejad, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Thomas B. Hilburn, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Joseph E. Urban, Texas Tech University; Gregory W. Hislop, Drexel University; Richard Stansbury, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

, Texas Tech UniversityGregory W Hislop, Drexel UniversityRichard Stansbury, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach Richard S. Stansbury is an assistant professor of computer science and computer engineering at Embry- Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, FL. His current research interests include unmanned aircraft, certification issues for unmanned aircraft, mobile robotics, and applied artificial intelligence. At Embry-Riddle, his teaching activities include the capstone senior design course for computer and software engineers. He received his BS and MS degrees in Computer Engineering (2002 and 2004 respectively) and PhD in Computer Science (2007) from the University of Kansas. As a graduate research

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Recruitment & Retention of Women II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elizabeth T. Cady, National Academy of Engineering; Norman L. Fortenberry, American Society for Engineering Education; Catherine Didion, National Academy of Engineering

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Women in Engineering

57.8%, with women receiving approximately 851,824 degrees and menreceiving approximately 621,911 degrees in 20061. During that time the percentage of womenreceiving bachelor’s degrees in science and engineering (S & E) fields increased from 24.8% to50.5%, and the number of women earning S & E degrees increased from 45,634 to 239,273 inthat time. However, the percentage of women with bachelor’s degrees in engineering was 19.5%in 2006, although that is an increase from 0.4% in 1966 and represents an increase in totalnumber of women’s degrees from 146 in 1966 to 13,300 in 2006. Certain engineering fields haveeven lower numbers and percentages of women graduates. For example, the percentage ofwomen attaining electrical or mechanical

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WIED Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Silvia Carreno-Castillo, Universidad de las Américas, Puebla; Aurelio Lopez-Malo, Universidad de las Américas, Puebla; Enrique Palou, Universidad de las Américas, Puebla

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Women in Engineering

, private, and research-oriented university in Mexico, focusing on howfaculty implicitly or explicitly describe the boundaries of engineering, and how their descriptionsreproduce or resist historically-influenced ideas about women’s and men’s work.Difficulties and potential uses of the category of gender as an analytical unitAmerican feminism prompted the use of the category of gender in the 1970’s with the intentionto differentiate social and cultural constructions of the biological facts. In addition, to thescientific goal of understanding social reality, with the sole intent to point out that humancharacteristics considered “feminine” were acquired by women through a complex individualand social process, rather than derived “naturally” from

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Richard A. Layton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Daniel Michael Ferguson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Misty L. Loughry, Georgia Southern University; David J. Woehr, University of Tennessee; Hal R. Pomeranz, Deer Run Associates

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NSF Grantees

Department of Management at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He received his Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1989. Dr. Woehr ’s research focuses on the measurement and evaluation of individual job performance, managerial assessment centers, and applied measurement. Dr. Woehr currently serves as an associate editor for Human Performance and is an elected fellow of the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psy- chology (SIOP), the American Psychological Association (APA), and the Association for Psychological Science (APS).Hal R Pomeranz, Deer Run Associates Hal Pomeranz is the lead developer of the SMARTER Teamwork tools. He is a Faculty Fellow of the SANS

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Gaffar Gailani; Sidi Berri; NIEVES ANGULO

NASA CIPAIR NNX10AU73G and ourpartners at NYCRI and CUNY-LSAMP.ReferencesBoyd, M., and Wesemann J., 2009. “ Broadening participation in undergraduate research: fostering excellence and enhancing the impact.” Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR)G. Gailani, M. Benalla, R. Mahamud, S. Cowin, and L. Cardoso, 2009. “Determination of thepermeability of the lacunar canalicular porosity”, ASME J. of Biomech. Engr, v131-10, pp101007(7pages).Ranglin, S., Das, D., Mingo, A., Ukinamemen, O., Gailani, G., Cowin, S., and Cardoso,L., 2009. “ Development of a mechanical system for osteon isolation”. Proceedings of the ASEEMid-Atlantic Conference, PA, Oct. 2009.Shaul R, 2010. “ Mechanical Engineering Technology Major Encourages Other students

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Jessica L. Buck; Bertiel Harris; Elizabeth Y. McInnis

increased academic performance. Service-learning has a positiveeffect on interpersonal development, student comprehension, and team work. Students seethemselves as positive contributors to their community, feeling they can impact the worldaround them.ReferencesAbravanel, S. A. (2003). Building community through service-learning: the role of the 160 community partner: ECS Issue Paper. Denver: Education Commission of the State.Billig, S. H. (2000). Research on k-12 school based service-learning: the evidence thatbuilds. Phi Delta Kappan, 658-664. Retrieved from http://www.servicelearning.org/library/resource/1698Bradford, M. (2005). Motivating students through project based-service

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Barrie Jackson

ourgraduates need a balanced approach to education, not a purely science approach. I have had aprofound interest in the process of learning and I sincerely believe as many others do that changeis essential in the sphere of education of proto engineers. Lastly I intend to describe the TEAMprogram with which we try to address some of the needs of our students. . At an FIE conference a few years ago I was discussing how the requisite core body ofknowledge expected of a Chemical Engineering graduate has expanded dramatically since he andI graduated in the middle 1950’s. At that time what little we took with us from University hadsome modest value to our employer, but today that simply is rarely the case. I was fortunate in joining a

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Bhavna Sharma; Birdy Reynolds

volunteer for extra professionaldevelopment opportunities,21B. Reynolds, M.M. Mehalik, M.R. Lovell and C.D. Schunn. (2009). Increasing Student Awareness of and Interest inEngineering as a Career Option through Design-Based Learning. International Journal of Engineering Education, pp. 1-11.2 L. Desimone, A. C. Porter, B. F. Birman, M. S. Garet, and K. S. Yoon, The Newsletter of theComprehensive Center Region VI, 8, 2005, p. 3.and equality of access issues can arise, unless selection for admission into such programs explicitlyaddresses equity issues. A variation of the professional development approach that we explore in thispaper is the NSF's Research Experience forTeachers (RET) program, in which teachers are paid toparticipate in engineering

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2011 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Kalyan Mondal

application by bit levelinterface programming. Thus at the end of our course, the students feel more comfortable inprogramming with any given set of support functions as they may face in their industrial career.New rubrics to assess the specialized learning outlined in this paper are under development andwill be used for the course. The results will be reported in a future publication. Copyright ASEE Middle Atlantic Regional Conference April 29-30, 2011, Farmingdale State College, SUNYReferences[1] Wong, S., Cotofana, S. "On Teaching Embedded Systems Design to Electrical Engineering Students."Retrieved March 13, 2011, from http://ce.et.tudelft.nl/publicationfiles/620_14_s_wong_ES.pdf.[2] Flynn, A. M

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2011 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Bradley A. Hyatt

is also a Registered Professional Engineer and LEED AccreditedProfessional with over ten years of professional experience in program and project managementof facilities, engineering, and construction projects.BibliographyBeheiry, S. M. A., Chong, W. K., Haas, C. T. (2006). “Examining the Business Impact of OwnerCommitment to Sustainability.” Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 132(4),384-392.Gruenther, K., Bailey, R., Wilson, J., Plucker, C., and Hashmi, H. (2009). “The Influence ofPrior Industry Experience and Multidisciplinary Teamwork on Student Design Learning in aCapstone Design Course.” Design Studies, 30, 721-736.Johnson, B. T., and Gunderson, D. E. (2008). “Educating Students concerning Recent Trends inAEC: A Survey

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2011 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Wayne C. Pilkington

of this technology in engineering educationprograms should not continue. These resources will become far more ubiquitous in the nextseveral years as tools improve, as server storage capacity continues to become more affordable,and as network bandwidths and infrastructure expand.References1. Green, K. (2010, October). 2010 National Survey of Information Technology in U. S. Higher Education. The Campus Computing Project. Retrieved from http://www.campuscomputing.net/sites/www.campuscomputing.net/files/Green- CampusComputing2010.pdf2. Kolowich, S. (2009, November 9). Fans and Fears of Lecture Capture. Inside Higher Ed., Retrieved from http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/11/09/capture3. Smith, S., Salaway, G., Caruso, J., (2009

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ECE Division Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mustafa G. Guvench, University of Southern Maine

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Electrical and Computer

in oxide while a trench is back-etched in three steps torelease the device(s) above: (1) RIE removes the bottom oxide at the trench; (2) removal of thesubstrate using DRIE, stopping at the insulating oxide, and (3) a wet etch is used to remove theinsulating oxide from the bottom side of the field silicon. Once the trench is fully formed, theprotective oxide is etched from the top surface. Next, a photoresist mask is placed on the devicelayer so a final blanket metal consisting of 50nm of chromium and 600nm of gold can bedeposited for such things as residual stress, added mass, a second matrix of connectivity or anyother function a designer can imagine. Figure 1 gives cross section of the resulting structure. Thepiece seen hanging in air is

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Project-Based Learning

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert A. Marlor, Northern Michigan University

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Design in Engineering Education

the cut. This provides a nicely mitered joint, which can then be reinforcedwith 1/16” thick plates cut from balsa wood sheet stock.The top and bottom chord members are best constructed by starting with one continuous lengthof balsa wood, and then laminating pieces to it in the middle region where the higher loadsrequire a thicker cross-section. It is very difficult to construct straight chords by piecing themtogether in shorter lengths from joint-to-joint.To keep the bottom chords parallel when connecting the two truss panels together, one can tapethe chords to a sheet of paper with two parallel lines drawn on it. To keep the truss square andplumb, the trusses can be held in a vertical position with a carpenter‟s square or other

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Multidisciplinary Technical Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven G. Northrup, Western New England College

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

the surveys would not be used to as input to their individualgrades and that the data would be used for both ABET assessment of their ability tofunction on multidisciplinary teams3 and for publication in peer reviewed paper(s).Figure 7 shows the survey that was used to assess the level of interdisciplinary interactionwithin the multidisciplinary teams. Several of the questions ask the students to reporttheir knowledge of the interactions between the other disciplines. For example,“Implementation of the speed control required all CPE’s and EE’s to work together”,when answered by a mechanical engineer, the question required the mechanical engineerto report his/her knowledge of the level of interaction between the computer andelectrical

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gül E. Okudan Kremer, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Linda C. Schmidt, University of Maryland, College Park; Noe Vargas Hernandez, University of Texas, El Paso

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NSF Grantees

recommendationspresented in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of theNational Science Foundation.Bibliography1. Grand Challenges for Engineering, National Academy of Engineering, http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/, 2008.2. The Engineer of 2020: Visions of Engineering in the New Century, National Academy of Engineering, ISBN-13: 978-0-309-09162-6, 2004.3. Seymour, E. and Hewitt, N. (1996). Talking About Leaving: Why Undergraduates Leave the Sciences, Westview Press, ISBN-10: 0813389267.4. Masters, C., Hunter, S. and Okudan, G. (2009). Design Process Learning and Creative Processing: Is There a Synergy? ASEE Conference Proceedings.5. Bilén, S., Devon, R. and Okudan, G. (2002). Core

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Knowing Ourselves: Research on Engineering Education Researchers

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie M. Gillespie, University of Miami; Ann F. McKenna, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Russell Pimmel, National Science Foundation

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Educational Research and Methods

. (2008). Revolutionizing education through innovation: Can openness transform teaching and learning?. In T. IIoyshi & M. S. Vijay Kumar (Eds.), Opening up education: The collective advancement of education through open technology, open content, and open knowledge (pp. 261-276). Retrieved on 3/11/11 from http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11309&mode=toc4. Froyd, J. E. (2008). White paper on promising practices in undergraduate STEM education. Paper presented at the Workshop on Evidence on Promising Practices in Undergraduate Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education, Retrieved from http://www.physics.emory.edu/Faculty/weeks/journal/froyd- na08.pdf on 3/11