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Educating Students for Professional Success

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrea Burrows, The University of Cincinnati; Anant Kukreti, The University of Cincinnati; Mike Borowczak, The University of Cincinnati; Amr Safwat, The University of Cincinnati

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Graduate Studies

the countless, lonely hoursspent in the laboratory, reading, and writing. While I understand my research has very importantand tangible environmental impacts, I found myself still feeling something was missing in myscientific endeavors; sharing my research experience with the generation that will improve on itand carry it forward. I was excited by the fact that students at Norwood High School were eagerto learn about my research, they understood my research, and realized the positive impacts ofconducting scientific research.” This type of learning, not acquired in a classroom setting, isinvaluable for future faculty.Fellow Feedback DataFellows are at the heart of Project STEP. A review of the survey reflections submitted by 12 ofthe 15 past

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Computational Tools and Simulation III

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Stanley, Kettering University; Gianfranco DiGiuseppe, Kettering University

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Computers in Education

/Thermodynamics_Software/Suppliers/pid5061.htm2 Bhattacharjee, S., http://thermo.sdsu.edu/testcenter/3 Patrick Tebbe, Patrick, et.al, “Development of Software Applications forthermodynamics Related Courses: The THERMOVIEW Project”, ASEE AnnualCongress and Exposition, 20014 Friedman, Ella, “Interactive Learning Tools For Undergraduate Thermodynamics”,ASEE Annual Conference, 20045 Kumpaty, Subha, “Learning Enhancement in Thermodynamics Classroom via use ofTEST™ Software in Design Projects and Laboratory”, ASEE Annual Conference, 20026 Gramoll, Kurt, et. al., “Online Interactive Multimedia For EngineeringThermodynamics”, ASEE Annual Conference, 20047 Stanley, Richard, “Interactive Web Based Animation Software: An Efficient Way toIncrease the Engineering

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Leadership and Strategic Planning

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cynthia Fry, Baylor University; Gregory Leman, Baylor University; William Jordan, Baylor University; Brian Garner, Baylor University; Brian Thomas, Baylor University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

-disciplinary teams; and(g) an ability to communicate effectively.Student communication performance in senior design is assessed by the professors. Designperformance is assessed by the professors as well as project sponsors (if there is an externalsponsor). Students do anonymous peer assessment of how they work on teams. Teaminvolvement is also assessed by the professors in charge of the course. Senior design is one oftwo courses that are used as the prime location in which to assess criteria (c) and (d). Criterion(g) is assessed through two courses, senior design and senior laboratory. We believe that bycomparing results over time we will likely see an improvement in these three areas. With onlyone data point (spring 2009 offering of senior design) we

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New Research & Trends for Minorities in Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amy Freeman, Pennsylvania State University; Anita Persaud, Pennsylvania State University; Drey Kharem, Pennsylvania State University; William Rothwell, Pennsylvania State University; Edgar Yoder, Pennsylvania State University

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Minorities in Engineering

educational resources, from tutoring to special workshopsand media. It determines whether students have access to computer and other electronicresources. In a broader sense, income dictates where families live and the local tax basethat funds public schools. Schools located in communities that include wealthier taxpayers have a wide range of educational resources, such as qualified teachers, currenttextbooks and laboratories, and a wide range of subjects available for study 36. Schoolsthat receive less tax support from poorer residents will often be under-resourced. Asbudgets are cut, math and science are often the first to be diluted or eliminated,preventing those students from entering fields that require strong math and science skillssuch as

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Educational Research & Methods Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Qaiser Malik, Michigan State University; Punya Mishra, MSU; Michael Shanblatt, MSU

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Educational Research and Methods

: assessment and the quest for best practices at the Cooper Union., 2005.16. D. P. Ausubel, Novak, J. D. and Hanesian, H., Educational psychology: a cognitive view. New York, Holt: Rinehart and Winston, 1978.17. J. D. Novak, and Gowin, D. B., Learning how to learn: Cambridge University Press, 1984.18. J. D. Novak, Gowin, D. B., and Johansen, "Using concept mapping as an assessment method," in North central regional educational laboratory, 1983.19. A. Arruarte, Elorriaga, J. A., and Rueda, U. , "A template-based concept mapping tool for computer-aided learning," in Second IEEE international conference on advanced learning technologies (ICALT'01), 2001.20. Q. H. Malik, Mishra, Punya, Shanblatt, Michael "Identifying Learning

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New Learning Paradigms I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gary Behm, Rochester Institute of Technology; Jeanne Behm, Rochester Institute of Technology; Scott Bellinger, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Joseph Stanislow, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Educational Research and Methods

AC 2010-1808: STEPWISE METHOD FOR DEAF AND HARD-OF-HEARINGSTEM STUDENTS IN SOLVING WORD PROBLEMSGary Behm, Rochester Institute of Technology Gary Behm is a Senior Project Associate and Director of the NTID Center on Access Technology Innovation Laboratory and a Visiting Lecturer at NTID. He is a deaf engineer at IBM who received his BS from RIT and his MS from Lehigh University. He currently serves as a loaned executive at NTID/RIT working in the Center on Access Technology and the department of Engineering Studies. At IBM, he is a delivery project manager in the Rapid Application Development Engineering System. Behm has six patents and has presented over 20 scientific and technical papers

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Capstone Design Pedagogy I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daria Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado, Boulder; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder; Gary Pawlas, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Design in Engineering Education

investigating teenage girls’ participation in engineering and technology activities from multiple disciplinary frames, the impact of four-year hands-on design curriculum, and the effects of service learning in engineering education.Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder DANIEL W. KNIGHT is the engineering assessment specialist at the Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory (ITLL) and Program. He holds a BA in psychology from Louisiana State University, and an MS degree in industrial/organizational psychology and a PhD degree in counseling psychology, both from the University of Tennessee. Dr. Knight’s research interests are in the areas of retention, program evaluation and

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2010 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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R. Asmatulu; E. Asmatulu; B. Zhang

, 2006, pp. 964-967. Biographical Information RAMAZAN ASMATULU Dr. Asmatulu has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Wichita State University for five years. He has conducted several research in the area of nanotechnology, biotechnology and education, and published over 100 journal articles and conference proceedings. He has developed nanotechnology research and teaching laboratories, and taught courses in his areas.Proceedings of the 2010 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education,Lawrence, KS, September 22-24, 2010 11 EYLEM ASMATULU Mrs

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2010 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Charles Baukal; Joe Colannino; Wes Bussman; John Matsson

, proceedings of the 2007 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, paper AC 2007-1562.12 P. Dunn, Creating industrial partnerships with construction-management technology programs, proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, paper AC 2009- 1114.13 F.S. Gunnerson, R.T. Jacobsen and G. Pillay, A strategic alliance between regional universities and industry at a national laboratory, proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, pp. 3895-3903.14 C. Baukal, J. Colannino, W. Bussman, and G. Price, Industry instructors for a specialized elective course, proceedings of

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2010 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Keith E. Hedges

dramatic event that has broad impacts in engineering. Educatorsmay identify a significant event as the Kansas City Hyatt walkway collapse. Although thisbecame a learning moment in engineering education, its discussion or laboratory reenactmentexhibits synchronicity between the instructor and the learner and not the learner and the event.This asynchronous experience has the students learning about the event with a historicalsensibility. All of the relevant conclusions from academia and practice are available in the publicdomain. When engineering programs lack courses engaging real-time phenomena, they mayinhibit students from thinking critically and formulating their own opinions and conclusions fromlive events. A need exists for exploring

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2010 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Sara E. Wilson; Peter W. Tenpas; Ronald L. Dougherty; Christopher D. Depcik; Kenneth Fischer

faculty to include more Proceedings of the 2010 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education  6   evaluation components in their presentation or by changes in the measurement andinstrumentation curriculum.A challenge for the department during this period has been a large growth in the size of theundergraduate program, which has presented considerable strain on the laboratory classesincluding measurement and instrumentation classes. These results demonstrate that while theincreased

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Shawn P. Gross; David W. Dinehart; Aleksandra Radlinska; Joseph Robert Yost

faculty members and utilize afour meeting per week format, in which there are three 50-minute periods (Monday, Wednesday,and Friday) used primarily for lectures. The fourth period is a 165-minute “flex” period thatmeets on Thursdays, and can be used for lectures, laboratory exercises, exams, or for overarchingproblem solution periods.Aside from the integration of concepts described above and the use of overarching problems asdescribed below, Mechanics I and II are taught in a fairly traditional manner. Most 50-minutelecture periods involve a set of PowerPoint lecture slides that run on average about 15 minutes,and then the instructor solves two or three example problems for the remainder of the period.Students are assigned simple homework

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Kara Cokeley; Claire Mockler; Min Feng Zheng; James Patrick Abulencia

have done and what could be done in a college laboratory tounderstand how to obtain biodiesel from algae. At this point we also chose a strain of algae togrow and eventually extract the necessary components to make our own biodiesel. The strainchosen was Neochloris oleoabundans, a freshwater microalga. Through our literature research, we were able to understand the process behind obtainingbiodiesel from algae, and it is not a simple one. The production of biodiesel starts with theextraction of fatty acids and two of the more popular methods, involving an external energysource, are ultrasound-assisted extraction and microwave-assisted extraction. Research has beendone that concludes microwave-assisted extraction is the best method to

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Ronald C. Lasky

too weak to travel 20 kilometers, too much light and itwould violate laser safety requirements. Unfortunately, due to the small size of the fiber core, 1about 9 micrometers, geometric optics does not suffice. Therefore, the modeling of thisphenomenon requires numerical integration of laser optical modes to the fiber optical modes.Figure 1, is a physical schematic of this system.Fortunately, I had discovered a young PhD at an optical research laboratory who had developed acomputer program to calculate the coupling of light in such optical systems. My productspecifications were such at I could tolerate a 3 dB power loss within the mechanical

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Vijay Kanabar; Robert Schudy

,and other areas while at BBN Technologies, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, TASC, and Symbolics. Hisbusiness experience includes IT director, CEO, and chief scientist. He can be reached atrschudy@bu.edu.References 1. Vijay Kanabar, “INTRODUCING KNOWLEDGE-BASED PROJECTS IN A SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT COURSE”, ACM SIGCSE Proceedings, 1988, p 114-118 2. Manual for Preparing and Teaching Courses in the Online MSCIS Program November 8, 2005 3. Documentation and Product references to the various vendors – Microsoft, Google, Iocom, Twitter, Gantter.com, Blogger, Vista, Blackboard, Wimba.

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Dan Brosnan; Dana Hawes; Max Nielsen; Salah Badjou

microcontroller can use to navigate to the curb. The Handi-Finder wasinterfaced to the microcontroller through an ADC. A potentiometer was used to create a 2.55Vreference voltage across pins 5 and 3 of the ADC. Working with a matched Radiotronixtransmitter and receiver [8], [9] the team ran many laboratory tests to understand the relationshipand the requirements of the system. The transmitter needs 3 volts power and a square wavesignal in order to transmit correctly. Two AA batteries and a 555 timer chip [10] were used topower the transmitter. The 555 timer was used to generate a square wave. The receiver also ispowered by a 3 volt supply; similarly the team used two AA batteries to power the receiver. Thedata out pin of the receiver is connected to the

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2010 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

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Brian Meadows; Charles Judah; Michael Berman; Derrick Jones; Ryan Rawson; David Alvarez; James Flynn; Sharlene Katz

. Laboratory testing has confirmed this and range testing has yielded resultscommensurate with this.The most important lesson learned in this project is setting realisitic, sufficiently short termgoals. Everyone has a tendency to overestimate what they can accomplish and grosslyunderestimate the amount of time it will take. Students are notorious for procrastinating. Given afull academic year to complete a project, the most diligent students would probably start to getreal work done around the half-way point. Most would start even later. This leads to staying upall night for a few weeks straight, rushing to put everything together, and not meeting all theproject requirements. This can be avoided by having weekly goals that must be met

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2010 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

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James Helbling

program is AerospaceEngineering (AE). Within the AE curriculum, there is a strong emphasis on laboratory anddesign work to prepare the students for senior capstone design courses.Students majoring in AE must choose one of two design tracks: aircraft or spacecraft. Theaircraft track culminates in a sequence of two (2) senior design courses: Aircraft Preliminary 298Design and Aircraft Detail Design. Likewise, the spacecraft track also has two (2) senior designcourses: Spacecraft Preliminary Design and Spacecraft Detail Design.In each of the Preliminary Design courses, students work in teams to design a conceptual aircraftor spacecraft from the ground

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2010 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

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A.M. Vollstedt; E. L. Wang

computer laboratory with 24 students at a time, working in pairs. Theclass alternates between a workshop and a mini design project every other week. During theweeks in which a workshop format is used, the class consists of an interrupted lecture wherestudents alternate between listening for brief periods and then actively participating (i.e.,programming). LEGO® robots were used so that students would have a tangible application fortheir computer programs. Projects and assignments were designed to improve critical thinkingskills and cognitive development.Participants in this study were all mechanical engineering students enrolled in thisinterdisciplinary course in the spring of 2009, who volunteered to take a critical thinking test andseveral self

Conference Session

Potpourri of First-Year Issues

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rod Paton, University of Auckland; Chris Smaill, University of Auckland; Gerard Rowe, University of Auckland

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First-Year Programs

of Physics Department at anotherlarge and well-regarded high school. This academic, perhaps unsurprisingly, has a specialresearch interest in the transition from high school to first-year engineering.This paper reports on the observations of and the conclusions reached by the first author as hespent a full academic year immersed in the University of Auckland’s first-year engineeringprogramme. Few formal requirements were imposed; by choice the teacher sat in on thelectures, tutorials and laboratory sessions of several engineering courses. He also chose toenrol in two university courses in order to learn social-sciences research methods that heapplied during his year at the university. While the teacher did involve himself in several

Conference Session

Capstone Design Projects

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer Dawson, York College of Pennsylvania; Stephen Kuchnicki, York College of Pennsylvania

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Design in Engineering Education

oral communication to describe the data, calculations, analysis, and experimental results used to substantiate design decisions. (b, g, k) Course Outcome 5 – An ability to recognize ethical dilemmas and make appropriate decisions. (f)Several methods have been used to assess student work in Capstone Design to assign grades andimplement the outcomes assessment process. For week-to-week evaluation, students haveprovided self progress reports and maintained a laboratory-style engineering notebook wherethey have recorded all design work and meeting notes. The course instructor grades these selfreports and notebooks weekly. Students have written individual learning goals based upon the

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Administering First-Year Programs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rick Williams, East Carolina University; William Howard, East Carolina University

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First-Year Programs

incorporate best practices from the National Science Foundation’s Engineering EducationCoalitions.1 Among these best practices was the “Implementation of ‘engineering up front’: theexposure of freshmen to hands-on, real world engineering practice early in their undergraduateeducation, ranging from ‘professional level’ laboratory facilities to realistic design projects.”2Two freshman courses designed to provide students early exposure to engineering concepts werecreated. Both were six-credit courses. The first, ICEE 1010 (ICEE stands for IntegratedCollaborative Engineering Environment), was taught in three one-hour lectures and three two-hour lab sessions per week. Topics included graphics, introductions to mechanical and electricalengineering

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Programs Using New Instrumentation Concepts

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Layton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Thomas Adams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Instrumentation

AC 2010-1626: ON TEACHING THE OPERATING PRINCIPLES OFPIEZORESISTIVE SENSORSRichard Layton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Richard A. Layton is the Director of the Center for the Practice and Scholarship of Education (CPSE) and an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He earned a B.S. in Engineering from California State University, Northridge, and received his M.S. and Ph.D., both in Mechanical Engineering, from the University of Washington, Seattle. His areas of scholarship include student team management, assessment, education, and remediation, undergraduate engineering laboratory reform focused on student learning, data analysis

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Research on The First Year II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Melissa Dagley-Falls, University of Central Florida; Michael Georgiopoulos, University of Central Florida; Cynthia Young, University of Central Florida

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First-Year Programs

, communications, medical field, manufacturing, transportation engineering, amongst others. Dr. Georgiopoulos is a Director of the Machine Learning Laboratory at UCF.Cynthia Young, University of Central Florida Cynthia Young is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics in the UCF College of Sciences and a Co-PI of the NSF-funded S-STEM program at UCF entitled the "Young Entrepreneur and Scholar(YES) Scholarship Program" as well as the NSF-funded STEP program entitled "EXCEL:UCF-STEP Pathways to STEM: From Promise to Prominence." Dr. Young's research interests are in the mathematical modeling of atmospheric effects on laser beams. She currently has projects with the Office of Naval Research

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Student Learning and Assessment

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Josh Coffman, University of Arkansas; Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas; Daniel Jensen, United States Air Force Academy; Christina White, Columbia University; Ashland Brown, University of the Pacific; Jiancheng Liu, University of the Pacific; Kristen Kaufman, University of Texas, Austin

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Mechanical Engineering

Guide to Criterion-referenced Test Development, Page 15.1110.16 Validation, and Test Score Usage, Laboratory of Psychometric and Evaluative Research Report No. 70, School of Education, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 1978, pp. 61-66.13. Osterlind, S.J., Constructing Test Items: Multiple Choice, Constructed Response, Performance, and Other Formats, Second Edition, Kluwer Academic, Norwell, MA, 1998, pp. 59-66, 83-88, 107-159, 163-202.14. McDonald, M.E., Systematic Assessment of Learning Outcomes: Developing Multiple-Choice Exams, Jones and Bartlett, Sudbury, MA, 2002, pp. 83-116, 119.15. Miller, P.W

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Pedagogy and Assessment in ECE

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Syed Masud Mahmud, Wayne State University; Cheng-Zhong Xu, Wayne State University

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Electrical and Computer

research can promote retention for a variety of reasons. V. Tinto et. al.1 reportedthat students often fail to graduate due to a lack of persistence, rather than due to lack ofintelligence or ability. Being familiar with “hands-on” technology in a laboratory where theybecome familiar with current equipment boosts self-confidence2. Participation in research groupscan promote persistence in a variety of ways, in part by increasing personal attachment to theresearch group and the research objectives. Secondly, the mentoring process inherent in therelationship between the research supervisor and the student researchers permits identification ofproblems at critical junctures. Finally, the student researchers can learn important skills that willpromote

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2010 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Josh Coffman; Joseph J. Rencis; Daniel J. Jensen; Ashland O. Brown; Jiancheng Liu; Kristen Kaufman; Christina White

Tests and Assessments, Fifth Edition, Allyn and Bacon, Needham Heights, MA, 1993, pp. 36-60.11. Haladyna, T.M., Developing and Validating Multiple Choice Test Items, Third Edition, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, NJ, 2004, pp. 14, 67-126, 187, 217-229.12. Hambleton, R.K., and Eignor, D.R., A Practitioner’s Guide to Criterion-referenced Test Development, Validation, and Test Score Usage, Laboratory of Psychometric and Evaluative Research Report No. 70, School of Education, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 1978, pp. 61-66. Proceedings of the 2010 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Benson, Kettering University; Ada Cheng, Kettering University; Odesma Dalrymple, ASU Polytechnic

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Mechanical Engineering

Failure AnalysisThe research being conducted under the NSF’s Course, Curriculum and Laboratory ImprovementProgram (CCLI) consists of pre-instruction and post-instruction assessment of student capabilitywith support topics and skills (integration, differentiation, dot product, equilibrium conditions,etc.) across the curriculum. Student responses to these assessment questions are analyzed todetermine the approach which each student took in addressing the problem and to identifyaspects of their thinking process: this is especially important in those problems where thestudents answered the assessment questions incorrectly. The different methods by whichstudents approach these problems are then be categorized and a catalog of the most common“modes of

Conference Session

Teaching Technological Literacy - College Courses and Minors

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Krupczak, Hope College; Mani Mina, Iowa State University; Robert J. Gustafson, Ohio State University; James Young, Rice University

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Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

AC 2010-1055: DEVELOPMENT OF ENGINEERING-RELATED MINORS FORNON-ENGINEERING STUDENTSJohn Krupczak, Hope College Professor of Engineering, Hope College. CASEE Senior Fellow, National Academy of EngineeringMani Mina, Iowa State University High Speed Systems Engineering Laboratory, Director of Minor in Engineering Studies (MES) Program at Iowa State UniversityRobert J. Gustafson, Ohio State University Honda Professor for Engineering Education and Professor, Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, and Director, Engineering Education Innovation CenterJames Young, Rice University Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Engineering Education in India, the Far East, and Central Asia

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Junqiu Wang, Purdue University; Nathan McNeill, Purdue University; Sensen Li, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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International

Japan and Western powers. PeiyangUniversity acted as a model for the founding of many of other early Western style universities inChina.At its founding, Peiyang University hired many foreign professors who drew up the overalleducation plan of the university, designed the courses that were to be taught, and selected thetextbooks to be used. Furthermore, the university purchased scientific equipment directly fromthe United States to stock its laboratories. The university also subscribed to more than 100Western scientific and engineering journals in an effort to keep faculty and students up-to-datewith the latest knowledge in their academic fields15.Peiyang University had two programs of study: a college-preparatory program and anundergraduate