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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

Persaud, Pennsylvania State University Anita Persaud is the Associate Director and Research Associate for the Office of Engineering Diversity (Multicultural Engineering Program) at The Pennsylvania State University. She received her BA from Queens College in Queens, New York, majoring in Psychology, and she received her MEd and DEd degrees in Counselor Education from the College of Education from Penn State University. She is the Senior Diversity Researcher on a current NSF-STEM grant where she is responsible for assisting Penn State branch campuses in creating their own ASE summer bridge programs. She also teaches First Year Seminar courses for incoming engineering students.Drey

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Dan Brosnan; Dana Hawes; Max Nielsen; Salah Badjou

Autonomous Garbage Removal System Dan Brosnan Dana Hawes Max Nielsen Salah Badjou, Ph.D. Department of Electronics and Mechanical Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, MA 02115 Session Topic: Teaching project based courses and design courses, including senior design course AbstractThis paper reports on the design, construction and testing of an automated garbage removalsystem. This project was undertaken in the course of junior-level

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Larry Shuman, University of Pittsburgh; Mary Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Tuba Pinar Yildirim, University of Pittsburgh; Nora Sieworiek, University of Pittsburgh

usable MEAs to differentengineering disciplines; and extending the MEA approach to identifying and repairingmisconceptions, using laboratory experiments as an integrated component, and introducing anethical decision-making dimension [1].Our overall research goal is to enhance problem solving and modeling skills and conceptuallearning of engineering students through the use of model eliciting activities. In order toaccomplish this goal at the University of Pittsburgh, we are pursuing two main research routes:MEAs as teaching tools and MEA as learning assessment tools. Under the first – using MEAs asa teaching tool – we are focused on three main activities: 1. Development of effective model eliciting activities: The creation of MEAs for upper

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tirupalavanam Ganesh, Arizona State University; John Thieken, Arizona State University; Dale Baker, Arizona State University; Stephen Krause, Arizona State University; Monica Elser, Arizona State University; Wendy Taylor, Arizona State University; Chell Roberts, Arizona State University; Jay Golden, Ph.D., is a faculty member in ASU’s School of Sustainability and codirector of the; James Middleton, Arizona State University; Sharon Robinson Kurpius

with K-12 educators to design and deliver an extra-curricularmiddle school engineering education program.The program utilized the engineering design process as the fundamental construct forengagement with the novel teaching and learning experiences. The program providedexperiences where participants learned engineering and information technology skills throughactivities such as simulating desert tortoise behaviors, and researching and developing designs tomitigate the urban heat island. They also participated in leadership development activities overthe summer serving as docents for younger children at the local science center, a researchinternship with the university, and an industry internship with a local energy and water

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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

analysis of networking protocols, secure wireless communications, and privacy-protected vehicle-to-vehicle communications and simulation techniques. He has supervised a number of projects with Ford Motors and other local companies. He is currently the Editor of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Transactions on Passenger Cars: Electrical and Electronic Systems. He is the author of over 100 published peer-reviewed journal papers and conference proceedings. He has supervised four Ph.D. dissertations and eight M.S. theses. Dr. Mahmud is a member of SAE, the American Society for Engineering Education, Sigma Xi, and Tau Beta Pi. He received the President’s Teaching Excellence Award from

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Entrepreneurship and Design

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Wells, North Dakota State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

AC 2010-32: A MODEL FOR INTEGRATING ENTREPRENEURIALINNOVATION INTO AN ENGINEERING CAPSTONEDavid Wells, North Dakota State University David L. Wells has been Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at North Dakota State University since January 2000. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in process engineering and production engineering systems design and in product innovation and entrepreneurialism. His instruction is characterized by heavy reliance upon project-based, design-centric learning. Course projects are drawn from real industrial applications with real industrial constraints, often interactive with a corporate sponsor. Students are challenged to design

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CE Capstone: Innovations in Learning & Assessment

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gregg Fiegel, California Polytechnic State University; Jay DeNatale, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Civil Engineering

of deep foundations, consolidation settlement, reinforced concretespread footing design, reinforced concrete stem wall design, masonry design, timber design,seismic analysis and design, geometric highway design, pavement design, stormwater collectionand management, culvert design, closed channel flow, and pumps. We worked closely with ourIndustrial Advisory Board and local practitioners to develop this list of topics. Faculty membersand local practitioners give the modules. The students attend these modules in their design teamsin a laboratory environment, and concepts are reinforced through in-class problem solving.Course Format and LogisticsCourse DeliveryDelivery occurs via a two meeting per week in a lecture-lab format that is valued at

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Design Projects across the Curriculum

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dan Cernusca, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Ghulam Bham, Missouri University of Science and Technology

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Design in Engineering Education

thehorizontal alignment is explained). The remaining part of this paper details the steps takentowards restructuring the material for highway alignment design covered under the mandatoryTransportation Engineering course offered to civil engineering undergraduate students at a majorMidwest engineering school. This course laboratory covers highway design activities as part of aclass project.Research Questions and MethodThe overall objective of this study was to explore to what degree the use of the framework Page 15.1034.5proposed by the model of threshold concepts can help to improve the learning process in adesign-focused Transportation Engineering

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Learning by Doing

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James O'Brien, Villanova University

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Civil Engineering

AC 2010-1419: SERVICE LEARNING IN THE COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING ATVILLANOVA UNIVERSITYJames O'Brien, Villanova University Professor Jim O’Brien is a tenured Faculty member in the College of Engineering of Villanova University. At Villanova he has won numerous awards for teaching including the Lindback Award, the Farrell Award, and the Engineering Teacher of the Year Award. He has served as the Director of the Computer Aided Engineering Center, Director of Villanova PRIME Program (engineering community outreach), and Chairman of many department and college committees. His areas of specialization are in Hydraulics and Hydrology, Water Resources Management, Computer Aided Design, Engineering

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Engineering Collaboration: Faculty & Student in K-12 Programs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Edwards, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College; Kathryn Holliday-Darr, Pennsylvania State University-Erie, The Behrend College; Melanie Ford, Pennsylvania State University, Erie

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

successful outreach program which was originally designed to target girls, buthas been expanded to include all high school students. This is just a sampling of the largenumber of colleges and universities who are actively engaged in these kinds of outreachactivities.In addition to college and university initiatives there are a wide range of private efforts focusedon improving STEM education in K-12 schools. Project Lead The Way partners with industry,universities and public schools to promote engineering in middle and high schools6. IEEE hasrecognized the importance of motivating the teachers to improve STEM education, so theyconduct seminars nationally to teach the teachers to use a wide range of hands on activities theyhave developed7. Many others

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Assessment of K-12 Engineering Programs & Issues

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michele Strutz, Purdue University; Matthew Ohland, Purdue University; Erin Bowen, Purdue University; Eric Mann, Purdue University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

the implementation of high-engagement teaching methods.Erin Bowen, Purdue University Dr. Erin Bowen (previously Dr. Erin Block) has multiple areas of expertise include aviation psychology, human performance in aviation maintenance and high-consequence industries, and safety in high-consequence industries. Her research and expertise has been featured in several national and international news outlets, including an appearance on the nationally syndicated radio program, "Rudy Maxa's World with Christopher Elliott". Dr. Bowen is a member of the multidisciplinary Hangar of the Future research laboratory at Purdue, identifying and building tools and processes to enhance Next Generation

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Retaining Women Engineering Students

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington; Stephanie Jaros, University of Washington; Suzanne Brainard, University of Washington; Susan Metz, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Women in Engineering

Information Technology, as well as the lead on UW's NSF ADVANCE internal evaluation team. She is a member of ASA, ASEE, and WEPAN.Stephanie Jaros, University of Washington Stephanie L. Jaros is a Consultant for the Center for Workforce Development and is also a doctoral candidate in the University of Washington’s Department of Sociology. Stephanie’s research interests include gender, reproduction decision-making and inter-personal power dynamics. She is a former Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellow with the National Academies, served as a consultant for the Committee on National Statistics and received the Award for Excellence as a Teaching Assistant from the

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Faculty & Program Exchanges: Internationalizing, Collaborations, Interactions

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Hill, University of Detroit Mercy; Patricia Pena, Federal University of Minas Gerais

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International

compete in an increasingly globalized world, questions still remainabout how to best meet this need. The specific goals of the project implemented in this paperwere to teach students about cultural awareness and to give them experience working andcommunicating with a team of international collaborators. Techniques to achieve similar goalsthat have been explored by other educators include foreign language instruction9, study abroadprograms10,11, international team projects12,13, and broader degree and certificate programs with aglobal focus14,15.Several barriers exist that hinder the implementation of the above techniques. One such barrier isthe large number of technical courses required by most modern engineering curricula. The sheernumber of

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BME Course and Curriculum Development

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Aston, East Tennessee State University; William H. Blanton, East Tennessee State University

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Biomedical

Page 15.233.2Equipment Theory, by R. Aston (2) distributed as a permanently accessible PDF file, is described.This book is written at the junior/senior undergraduate level in biomedical engineering. A coursebased on the subjects in the e-book has been taught to seniors by its author about 7 times. Thetext has been used in the classroom to teach biomedical engineering and technology byinstructors other than the author in three different colleges over the past four semesters: DeVryCollege of New York: Fall 08 to two biomedical undergraduate engineering students; FloridaInternational University to 28 Biomedical engineering undergraduates, Spring ‘09 (repeatedSpring ‘10), and East Tennessee State University, to 19 biomedical engineering

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Mentoring First Year Students

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daina Briedis, Michigan State Univesity; Nathaniel Ehrlich, Michigan State University; Colleen McDonough, Michigan State University; Jon Sticklen, Michigan State University; Thomas Wolff, Michigan State University

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First-Year Programs

has lead a laboratory in knowledge-based systems focused on task specific approaches to problem solving. Over the last decade, Dr. Sticklen has pursued engineering education research focused on early engineering; his current research is supported by NSF/DUE and NSF/CISE.Thomas Wolff, Michigan State University Dr. Thomas F. Wolff is Associate Dean of Engineering for Undergraduate Studies at Michigan State University. He is principal investigator on several NSF grants related to retention of engineering students. As a faculty member in civil engineering, he co-teaches a large introductory

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Creativity and Innovation in Engineering Design

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christina White, Columbia University; Austin Talley, University of Texas, Austin; Daniel Jensen, United States Air Force Academy; Kristin Wood, George Washington University; Andy Szmerekovsky, US Air Force Academy; Richard Crawford, University of Texas at Austin

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Design in Engineering Education

conditionthrough design. To enrich engineering education, it critical that we advance our teaching ininnovation and design processes. This research focuses on the ideation component of innovationthrough the investigation of a suite of concept generation techniques. These techniques havebeen developed for engineering education across disciplines and at all levels of curriculum. Inthis paper, we advance our suite of techniques through the evolution of a method known as“principles of historical innovators.” Based on the deployment of the techniques, including theevolved method, at the freshman- and senior-levels, we execute a study to understand if the suiteof techniques enables students to generate a large quantity of diverse concepts and if the

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Modeling Student Data

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Dyrenfurth, Purdue University; Mike Murphy, Dublin Institute of Technology; Gary Bertoline, Purdue University

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Educational Research and Methods

ispresented in the following list. Items referenced with [29] are quoted from the THE ThomsonReuters Survey and those with [31] from the ARWU.1. Financial indicators a. Income from research grants and awards (may be intramural or external) [29] Page 15.1008.14 b. Total expenditures [29] c. Income from teaching [29] d. Analysis of income sources (government, private, competitive, industry) [29] e. Analysis of expenditures (staff salaries, teaching, reserch, library, real estate) [29] f. The size of the resource supporting the program i) Size of the endowment ii) Number and state of equipment of the laboratories and facilities

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Enhancing Recruitment and Retention in Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Keith Walters; Keisha Walters

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

attack.Field Trip to Mississippi State UniversityThe Mississippi Governor’s School is held at the Mississippi University for Women, a primarilyliberal arts institution located in Columbus, MS. As part of the course, all of the students weretaken on a one-day field trip to Mississippi State University, located approximately 20 milesaway in Starkville, MS. The students were given guided tours of three research facilities. Thefirst was the Aerospace Engineering wind tunnel laboratory. The tour included both a subsonicand supersonic wind tunnel. The students were shown a demonstration of drag in the subsonictunnel, including a demonstration of the effects of dimples on the drag for a sphere, a topic thatwas later discussed in more detail during the

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Luis Godoy, University of Puerto Rico; Pedro Covassi, National University of Cordoba (Argentina)

, structural stability, granular flow, computational mechanics, and plates and shells, and results of his research have been published in more than 150 peer-reviewed journal papers. At present, he has been awarded an NSF-CCLI research grant.Pedro Covassi, National University of Cordoba (Argentina) Pedro A. Covassi graduated as a Civil Engineer at the National University of Cordoba (Argentina) and is currently a doctoral student at the National University of Cordoba in Argentina working in the Geotechnical Laboratory. He has been awarded a scholarship from the National Agency for the Promotion of Science and Technology (FONCYT) in Argentina

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Sustainable Energy Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christopher Simon, University of Nevada, Reno; Ted Batchman, University of Nevada-Reno; Christine Taylor, Lewis and Clark University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

presentations from industry leaders and policymakers—renewable energy is changing so quickly, that it is important for students to gain information from “top name” leaders in the renewable energy marketplace as well as from national and state policymakers who make rules that govern markets and create incentives.  Team-based problem solving. Students will work together to create optimal energy system designs for sustainable communities. The students will use a web-based free shareware program known as HOMER™, which is available for download from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)-- http://www.nrel.gov/homer/.  Class discussion. We will use the assigned texts, guest presentations and

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Improving Mechanics & Structural Modeling Courses

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Soutas-Little, Michigan State University

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Mechanical Engineering

, Advanced Dynamics, Advanced Elasticity, Tissue Biomechanics and Biodynamics. He has won teaching excellence awards and the Distinguished Faculty Award. During his tenure at Michigan State University, he chaired the Department of Mechanical Engineering for 5 years and the Department of Biomechanics for 13 years. He directed the Biomechanics Evaluation Laboratory from 1990 until he retired in 2002. He served as Major Professor for 22 PhD students and over 100 MS students. He has received numerous research grants and consulted with engineering companies. He now is Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering at Michigan State University

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Enhancing Environmental Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jess Everett, Rowan University

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Environmental Engineering

15.943.2materials before covering them in class. Calculation exercises were used as homework (HW) toPage 15.943.3Page 15.943.4was insufficient evidence to claim that students completing MML homework performed betterthan the students using traditional paper-based, instructor-graded homework (at a significancelevel of 0.05). However, the student success rate (final grade of A, B or C) was 70% in theMyMathLab group and 49% in the traditional homework group. In another study, introductoryphysics students completed homework using either the Web or paper.12 Performances on regularexams, conceptual exams, quizzes, laboratory, and homework showed no significant differencesbetween the two groups. Students in an electrical engineering signals and systems course

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Best Practices in Existing College-Industry Partnerships

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Marshall, University of Southern Maine

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College-Industry Partnerships

Requirement for GraduationIntroductionProfessional internships are not a new concept to college and university programs.However, to require this experience in the form of a demanding, well designed andimplemented internship is a very time consuming investment, which will yield excellentreturns for your students and for your program. Students, both traditional and non-traditional, are given an opportunity to demonstrate, advance, and refine technical andsupervisory competencies learned in the classroom and in the laboratories. Graduateswith this type of resume-worthy experience have a substantial advantage over peers withno internship experience. “Once, having an internship or two on your resume made you areal standout in the marketplace. Today

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Signal Processing Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Santucci, Arizona State University; Tushar Gupta, Arizona State University; Mohit Shah, Arizona State University; Andreas Spanias, Arizona State University

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Computers in Education

AC 2010-2233: ADVANCED FUNCTIONS OF JAVA-DSP FOR USE INELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING COURSESRobert Santucci, Arizona State UniversityTushar Gupta, Arizona State UniversityMohit Shah, Arizona State UniversityAndreas Spanias, Arizona State University Page 15.131.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Advanced Functions of Java-DSP for Use in Electrical and Computer Engineering Senior Level CoursesAbstractJ-DSP is a java-based object-oriented programming environment developed by Arizona StateUniversity as an educational tool for teaching fundamentals and applications of Digital SignalProcessing (DSP). This paper presents three new J-DSP

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Retention Strategies in Action Part I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University; Armando Rodriguez, Arizona State University; Anita Grierson, Arizona State University

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Two Year College Division

. He's the PI on two NSF S-STEM grants providing academic and career guidance to students in CSEM fields. He's a Professor of Electrical Engineering within the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering at ASU. Prior to joining ASU, he worked at MIT, IBM, AT&T Bell Laboratories and Raytheon Missile Systems. He has consulted for Eglin Air Force Base, Boeing Defense and Space Systems, Honeywell and NASA. He has authored over 190 technical papers and three engineering texts. He has given more than 60 invited presentations - including 13 plenaries. Since 1994, he has directed an extensive engineering mentoring-research program that has served over 300 students. He's an AT&T Bell Labs Fellow, Boeing A.D

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Norb Delatte, Cleveland State University; Patricia Ralston, University of Louisville; Matthew Roberts, University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Pamalee Brady, California Polytechnic State University; Manoochehr Zoghi, Cal State Fresno; D. Joseph Hagerty, University of Louisville; Xiong Yu, Case Western Reserve University

technical lessons learned, as well as theirresponse to the case studies. Case study questions were included on homework assignments andexaminations. Survey questions linked student achievement to educational outcomes. Thefocus groups identified additional benefits to the use of case studies. The sophomore studentsobserved that the cases helped build engineering identity, and provided historical understanding.The cases made the technical information relevant and linked theory to practice. In addition, faculty who participated in the case study workshops have been surveyedabout the time commitment required to implement the case studies, and whether the benefitsjustify the investment. Since teaching and revising a course is a time-consuming

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Learning By Doing in Chemical Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paul Golter, Washington State University; Bernard Van Wie, Washington State University; Gary Brown, Washington State University; David Thiessen, Washington State University; Baba Abdul, Washington State University

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Chemical Engineering

presentation.Background – What we have doneFor the past 12 years we have been developing a pedagogy that combines aspects of Cooperative,Hands-on, Active and Problem based Learning into a unique classroom environment, which we refer toby the acronym CHAPL. This has been developed in a required second semester junior year course, FluidMechanics and Heat Transfer. This course is the second course in our transport series.CHAPLis a group-centered learning approach in which the instructor and teaching assistants act aspreceptors to assist groups in narrowing the discussion focus, probe and guide group thinking whenmisconceptions are encountered and, on occasion, assist groups in resolving conflicts. One of thepedagogical tools central to this approach is the “Jigsaw

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Student Attitudes and Perceptions

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tuba Yildirim, University of Pittsburgh; Mary Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Larry Shuman, University of Pittsburgh

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Educational Research and Methods

Page 15.1050.7GSE for measuring of modeling self-efficacy. In building our self-efficacy scale, we followedtwo essentials: first, we investigated other relevant scales in fields that are close to engineeringmodeling and academic setting, and second, we observed the guidelines suggested by Bandura.Pajares [28] provides a comprehensive list of the relevant efficacy scales for academic settings.We used his list of scales and added other available scales to create a comparison list of scales.This list is provided in Table 3.Table 3. Major Self-efficacy Scales for Various Academic Tasks Source Sample Question or Direction Answer Options Teaching Efficacy How much can you …? [Completed by various

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ADVANCE Grants and Institutional Transformation

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christine Grant, North Carolina State University; Jessica Decuir-Gunby, North Carolina State University; Barbara Smith, North Carolina State University

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Women in Engineering

; Instruction at NC State University. Her research and theoretical interests include race and racial identity in education, African American academic achievement, emotions in education, and critical race theory. Dr. DeCuir-Gunby has served as a statistical consultant on numerous projects including the GenScope Assessment Project, a project designed to assess the use of technology on high school students' learning of genetics. She teaches courses in Educational Psychology, Adolescent Development, and Mixed Methods Research. She is a co-PI on an NSF ADVANCE Leadership grant.Barbara Smith, North Carolina State University Barbara Smith is the Executive Assistant Director of the PURPOSE Institute

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Demonstration and Project Enhancements in Chemical Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Allen Yang, Cornell University; Kathryn Dimiduk, Cornell University; Susan Daniel, Cornell University

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Chemical Engineering

important aspect of this project because traditionally, the chemical engineeringcurriculum stresses the scaling up of laboratory chemical reactions to larger chemical processingunit operations and often students enter the class with the bias that chemical engineering means“scaling up”. Particularly as studies of biochemical reactions in microbiological systems, suchas proteomics or in microfabricated devices as in the body-on-a-chip described here, are soprevalent in the chemical engineering research literature, it is important that students are exposedto the possibilities and advantages for scaling down chemical processes and the related careerchoices.Student appreciation of the significance of scale down on several levels (efficiency, safety