Conference Session

Spatial Visualization

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sheryl A. Sorby, Ohio State University; Norma L. Veurink, Michigan Technological University

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Engineering Design Graphics

AC 2012-3305: SPATIAL SKILLS AMONG MINORITY AND INTERNA-TIONAL ENGINEERING STUDENTSDr. Sheryl A. Sorby, Ohio State University Sheryl Sorby is Visiting Professor in the Engineering Education and Innovation Center at the Ohio State University and Professor Emerita of mechanical engineering-engineering mechanics at Michigan Techno- logical University. She recently served as Program Director within the Division of Undergraduate Educa- tion at the National Science Foundation. She began her academic career on the faculty at Michigan Tech in 1986, starting first as an instructor while completing her Ph.D. degree and later joining the tenure-track ranks in 1991. Sorby is the former Associate Dean for Academic Programs in

Conference Session

Laboratory Development in ECE I

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Victor P. Nelson, Auburn University; John Y. Hung, Auburn University

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Electrical and Computer

its kind in the U.S.Prof. John Y. Hung, Auburn University John Y. Hung is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Auburn University, where he has been on the faculty since 1989. Prior to his academic career, he worked for Johnson Controls, Inc., in the field of digital controllers for commercial building automation systems, and also worked as a consultant in control systems design. Hung is a Fellow of IEEE, and is President-elect of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES). Previously, he served IES as Treasurer and Vice President for Conference Activities. He served as General Co-chair for the 2008 IEEE Industrial Electronics Conference (IECON-2008) and the 2010 IEEE International Symposium on

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Methods of Teaching and Learning in Construction

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kirsten A. Davis, Boise State University

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Construction

successful.IntroductionIntroductory courses within an academic field of study are often challenging for first-yearstudents. They are often required to acquire a new discipline-specific vocabulary – terminologythat will be used throughout their academic and professional career – and they are often notprepared for the amount of self-directed studying they must do to be successful.Students regularly overestimate their knowledge and abilities1. Accurate self-knowledge,defined as the ability to accurately judge one’s level of knowledge, is necessary at the collegelevel. Students must be able to recognize what they already know, but more importantly, whatthey do not know so they can take steps to ensure that their end knowledge meets instructor andcourse expectations2. Some

Conference Session

First-year Programs Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Berg, University of Texas, Brownsville

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First-Year Programs

interaction among faculty and students. This provided a foundation ofmutual respect. The warm relationship persisted and grew for the college careers of the studentswho stuck with Engineering. Page 25.1203.9Discussions and exercises following the history of engineering videos also helped studentsdevelop lasting academic relationships as discussions were non-competitive, non-threatening,and the subject matter was broad, deep and equally new to all. Thus, there was more value to thecourse than merely English practice.The students who showed no strong inclination to do homework during the Summer Bridge alsoshowed no strong inclination to do so after

Conference Session

Linking K-12 to Post-secondary

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kelly B. Crittenden, Louisiana Tech University; James D. Nelson, Louisiana Tech University; Galen E. Turner III, Louisiana Tech University; Jane A. Petrus, Louisiana Tech University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

College of Engineering and Science at Louisiana Tech University. In her role, she assists engineering and science students in academic advising, career planning, and more. She also helps coordinate K-12 outreach programs like TechSTEP. Petrus has a degree in mechanical engineering and spent two years working for the Dow Chemical Company before working at Louisiana Tech University. Page 25.1209.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Summary Results from Seven Years of LaTechSTEP: A High- School Teacher Development and Student Recruiting ProgramAbstractLaTechSTEP is a

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Lessons learned

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Merredith D. Portsmore, Tufts University; Jessica E. S. Swenson, Tufts University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

communities. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1995. 32(1): p. 99-119.3. Kotte, D., Gender Differences in Science Achievement in 10 Countries. Vol. 9. 1992, New York: Peter Lang. 305.4. Kennedy, K. Engineering Career Day For Girls: Briding the Gap Between High School & The "Real" World. in American Society for Engineering Education. 2006. Portland, Oregon.5. Christie, B. Girls, Solidworks, Robots and Mouse Trap Cars....Oh My. in American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference. 2010. Louisville, KY.6. Noble, J., et al. Empowering Girls: Measuring The Impact Of Science Technology And Engineering Preview Summer Camps (Steps). in American Society for Engineering Education Annual

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NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Santosh Chandana Golagani, University of Texas, San Antonio; Moosa Esfahanian, University of Texas, San Antonio; David Akopian, University of Texas, San Antonio; Can Saygin, University of Texas, San Antonio

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

) Laboratory. He received his B.S. (1989), M.S. (1992), and Ph.D. (1997) degrees in mechanical engineering with emphasis on manufacturing engineering from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara in Turkey. In his academic career, he worked at the University of Toledo (1997-1999) and the Missouri University of Science and Technology (formerly University of Missouri, Rolla) (1999-2006) before joining UTSA in Aug. 2006. For more, please visit http://engineering.utsa.edu/˜saygin/. Page 25.1270.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Template–Based Image Processing Toolkit for

Conference Session

Track 3 - Faculty Development

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2012 ASEE International Forum

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R. Murugesan, Anna University of Technology Madurai

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Track 3 - Faculty Development

University, Philadelphia, USA, and Villonova University, Philadelphia, USA. The experience and expo- sure earned during the visit gives an helping hand in building the Anna University of Technology Madurai matching with international standards. Dr. R.Murugesan has an illustrious career of over 33 years in academic arena and has about 31 interna- tional journal/conference publications and 30 national journal/conference publications to his credit. He has authored 18 books in various disciplines. He was a National Executive Council Member of ISTE (In- dian Society for Technical Education) for seven terms and also served as National Students Advisor for Institution of Engineers. He was a Member of the Syndicate of Anna

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2012 ASEE International Forum

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Nagarjuna Sadineni, Mission10X Wipro Technologies; Rajendra Kumar v Joshi, WIPRO Technologies

GC 2012-5623: MISSION10X TRANSFORMING TEACHERS FOR EN-HANCING EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS OF ENGINEERING GRADUATESMr. Nagarjuna Sadineni, Mission10X Wipro Technologies Nagarjuna holds an MBA in Technology Management from Latrobe University, Melbourne in addition to Technical Qualification from GIOE, Hyderabad, India. Nagarjuna, is a Wipro (NYSE Listed as WIT) veteran and has adorned various functional roles and cham- pioned pioneering initiatives during his 20+ years of ongoing stint at Wipro and its affiliates. He started his career with the manufacturing operations team at Wipro Peripherals factory, Mysore and subsequently moved into the marketing team at Bangalore, his contributions in both the roles were signif

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2012 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Christi Patton Luks; Laura P. Ford; Weston Kightlinger

Junior studying Chemical Engineering/Pre-Med at The University of Tulsa. As theproject lead, Weston managed this project through the design and implementation. Weston has received manyhonors in his academic career including being awarded a CH2M Hill Engineers Without Borders-USA Scholarshipfor 2012.Proceedings of the 2012 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education

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2012 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Douglas K. Ludlow

, understanding and being able to apply the key thermodynamic concepts thatthey will find useful in their future careers. This assignment was first attempted in the summer 2011 semester without much success.The primary difficulty was that the shortened format of the summer semester did not allow thestudents enough time to formulate and produce a video. Also with fewer students in the classthere seemed to be a lack of critical mass of students who had some experience with creatingvideos. The assignment was revised and given again during both the fall 2011 semester andspring 2012 semester. During both of these semesters the assignment was enthusiasticallycompleted by both classes. A modified assignment, as will be described below, was givenduring

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2012 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Jesse E. Jaeger; Jibin T. Chacko; Richard A. Maier; James Patrick Abulencia

new technology, which can become skills for future careers [5].The study was conducted over two years with the class of 2012 and 2013. Each year the studentswere separated into groups to create an educational video that illustrates a fluid dynamics conceptthat both engineers and non-engineers can learn from. A list of possible subjects to focus on wasprovided, but students were not restrained to those topics. The project was first assigned to aclass of 2012 with 32 students. The students did not receive any additional resources, such asvideo editing software, to complete the project in the five week period. The next year the projectwas assigned to a class of 2013 with 35 students under the same conditions as the first year’sgroup. The desired

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2012 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Laura-Ann S. Chin; Kenneth A. Kroos; Justinus A. Satrio

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2012 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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5 8I 4 9J 5 9I 1 4.5 3.333333ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Spring 2012 Conference, University of Delaware, April 20-21, 2012 Page 4 of 7Qualitative Results:The following is the list of questions given to the Jigsaw II students and their average responsesbased on a Likert Scale of 1(Strongly Disagree) to 5(Strongly Agree).1. I remember more when I explain what I have learned to someone else. 3.89 (Agree)2. Working in groups in class is similar to what I expect to be doing in my future professional career. 3.89 (Agree)3. Working in groups helps the

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2012 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Joseph J. Helble; Carolyn E. Fraser; Eric R. Fossum

students in academic positions at peer institutions. While this is one important outcome for Ph.D.engineering students, we estimate, based on the number of engineering assistant professors in the United States andthe number of Ph.D. degrees granted in engineering each year, that no more than approximately 10-15% ofgraduates obtain tenure track faculty positions [4, 5]. Most engineering Ph.D. recipients pursue careers in industry,often in industrial R&D, where their deep technical knowledge is of immediate application. In both of these paths,however, the educational program focuses entirely on the students’ technical education. Little attention is paid to thepotential benefits associated with helping engineering Ph.D. students develop, as part

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2012 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

John Finnie

help and guidance.John FinnieDr. Finnie is currently a Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He receiveda Ph.D. and M.S. in Civil Engineering from Utah State University and a B.S. in Agricultural Engineering fromCalifornia State Polytechnic University in Pomona. During his academic career, he has served as a departmentChair and Associate Dean of Engineering. He has taught courses in water resource engineering, engineeringmechanics, finite element analysis, surveying, and engineering economics. His research interests include numericalsolution of free surface and groundwater flows, engineering economics, and the history of technology.2012 ASEE Northeast Section Conference

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2012 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Laura-Ann S. Chin; Kenneth A. Kroos; Justinus A. Satrio

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2012 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Jesse E. Jaeger; Jibin T. Chacko; Richard A. Maier; James Patrick Abulencia

new technology, which can become skills for future careers [5].The study was conducted over two years with the class of 2012 and 2013. Each year the studentswere separated into groups to create an educational video that illustrates a fluid dynamics conceptthat both engineers and non-engineers can learn from. A list of possible subjects to focus on wasprovided, but students were not restrained to those topics. The project was first assigned to aclass of 2012 with 32 students. The students did not receive any additional resources, such asvideo editing software, to complete the project in the five week period. The next year the projectwas assigned to a class of 2013 with 35 students under the same conditions as the first year’sgroup. The desired

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2012 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

Authors

Erin Zeqja; Rachael Ashton

experience construction contracting through the DCC perspective. Thehigh quality standards set for every project DCC constructs will indubitably permeate with eachstudent throughout the entire length of their professional career. Over 50 students from the USAand Middle East have now experienced this unique and life enriching internship program. Thisinternship program is an invaluable opportunity for students to experience engineering practicedon a global scale. 9Acknowledgements 1. Samuel P. Clemence, Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence in the Syracuse University Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering 2. Dr

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2012 Northeast Section Meeting

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Olga Lepsky; Michael Werner

. INTRODUCTIONAt our institution the majority of the undergraduate computer science majors go on to careers as software engineerswith a few continuing directly into graduate education. We have developed a hands-on approach to teachingalgorithms that emphasizes programming, benchmarking and tweaking. This report builds on our experience over athree-year period involving two different courses: “Analysis of Algorithms” and “Bioinformatics Algorithms”. Wefollow standard texts [10, 13], the students frame the problem, describe the solution and express an appropriatealgorithm in pseudocode. They derive a timing function and the Big-O behavior of the algorithm.Students then write programs in C++, C# or Java to implement the algorithms. After thorough testing to

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology Projects and Applications

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Antonio Francisco Mondragon, Rochester Institute of Technology; Jeanne Christman, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Engineering Technology

whole system is in sleep mode, theonly power consumed will be due to leakage of the operation units that monitor for an event tooccur. The speed at which the processor can wake up and be fully operational again is a keyaspect on these implementations. In many commercial processors available to students, that timehas been scaled down to less than 10s. Implementation of various low power features has led tothe claim by hard core processor manufacturers that a product can be designed that will operatemore than a decade on a single battery. A ten year battery life is of particular concern to studentswho plan to make a career of designing embedded systems for use in inaccessible locations suchas the human body.In addition to training students for

Conference Session

The Teacher as Manager: Best Practices for Culminating Design Experiences

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michelle Oswald Beiler P.E., Bucknell University; Arthur D. Kney, Lafayette College; David A. Veshosky, Lafayette College

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Civil Engineering

, Lafayette College Arthur D. Kney has been a resident of Bethlehem, Penn. since 1993. He lives with his lovely wife Linda, their brilliant eight-year-old daughter, and two wonderful cats. Kney received his doctorate of philosophy (Ph.D.) in environmental engineering from Lehigh University in 1999 and his professional engineering li- cense in 2007. He is currently serving as an Associate Professor and Department Head in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Lafayette College. Throughout Kney’s career, he has been active in the community, at the local, state, and national level. He has served as chair of the Pennsylvania Water Environment Association (PWEA) research committee, Chair of the Bethlehem

Conference Session

Thinking About the Engineering Curriculum

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Judith A. Sunderman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Raymond L. Price, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Educational Research and Methods

in P-12 career and technical educa- tion for the Illinois State Board of Higher Education/Illinois State University; research and evaluation for the Illinois Assessment and Accountability Project (Illinois State Board of Higher Education/University of Illinois); and the Entrepreneurial Leadership in STEM Teaching and Learning (Project EnLiST - Na- tional Science Foundation/University of Illinois). Her research focus and area of expertise is personal development, sustainable transformative learning environments, and curricular change. She has worked with curriculum/programs in a variety of areas, including teaching centers, engineering, business, honors, national scholarship advising, animal sciences, human

Conference Session

ADVANCE and Related Faculty Issues

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Corey Schimpf, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Marisol Mercado Santiago, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University

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Women in Engineering

University. She has a B.Eng. in chemical engineering from McGill University, and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in industrial and systems engineering with a Ph.D. minor in women’s studies from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is Co-PI and Research Director of Purdue University’s AD- VANCE program, and PI on the Assessing Sustainability Knowledge project. She runs the Research in Feminist Engineering (RIFE) group, whose diverse projects and group members are described at the web- site http://feministengineering.org/. She is interested in creating new models for thinking about gender and race in the context of engineering education. She was awarded a CAREER grant in 2010 for the project, ”Learning from Small Numbers: Using

Conference Session

Making Headway: Two-year/Four-year Curriculum Alignment and Also U-G Research

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James K. Nelson Jr. P.E., University of Texas, Tyler; Mary Eileen Smith, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board; Martha M. Ellis

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Two Year College Division

Society of Civil Engineers for curriculum redesign supporting the civil engineering body of knowledge. He is actively engaged in developing strategies for enhancing the STEM education pipeline in Texas and nationally and has testified before the Texas Senate Higher Education Committee in that regard. He served on a committee of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to develop a statewide articulation compact for mechanical engineering and currently chairs the council for developing articulation compacts in other engineering disciplines. He also served on the Texas State Board of Education committee preparing the standards for career and technical education.Dr. Mary Eileen Smith, Texas Higher Education Coordinating

Conference Session

Training and Mentoring of Graduate Teaching Assistants

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kevin Andrew Richards, Purdue University; Juan Diego Velasquez, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Lindsey B. Payne, Purdue University

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Graduate Studies

for future research.1. IntroductionGraduate students attending large, research-intensive institutions of higher education are oftenprovided departmental funding as teaching assistants (TAs). This is especially true in the case ofhigh enrollment and service courses such as English, mathematics, foreign languages andintroductory courses in disciplines such as psychology and sociology. Although the specificresponsibilities of TAs vary among institutions and even between departments within the sameinstitution, many graduate students serving in these positions are asked to deliver content andeven serve as primary instructors1. These teaching responsibilities are important to graduatestudent development as individuals who intend to pursue careers

Conference Session

FPD I: Research on First-year Programs Part I

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kelsey Joy Rodgers, Purdue University; Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica E. Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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First-Year Programs

, employers and managers are unable to give completefeedback that satisfies employees need to understand their current successes and shortcomings.7In the STEM research community, fellow researchers must give feedback on most papers prior topublication, which means the STEM community could not disseminate research withouteffective feedback.8 Ensuring that our STEM educators, professionals, and researchers arecapable of effective feedback is crucial for the continuing success of the STEM community.Due to the need for informal and formal feedback in STEM careers, it is vital to teach futureSTEM professionals how to develop and give effective feedback during their undergraduateeducation. Teaching peer feedback enables students to do more than just give

Conference Session

Research Informing Teaching Practice I

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chris Venters, Virginia Tech; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech; Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Tech

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Educational Research and Methods

Virginia Tech Engineering Communication Center. Her research includes interdisciplinary collaboration, commu- nication studies, identity theory, and reflective practice. Projects supported by the National Science Foun- dation include interdisciplinary pedagogy for pervasive computing design, writing across the curriculum in statics courses, and a CAREER award to explore the use of e-portfolios to promote professional identity and reflective practice. Her teaching emphasizes the roles of engineers as communicators and educators, the foundations and evolution of the engineering education discipline, assessment methods, and evaluating communication in engineering.Dr. Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Tech Marie C. Paretti is

Conference Session

Computers in Education Division Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yogendra M. Panta, Youngstown State University; Hyun W. Kim, Youngstown State University; Param C Adhikari, Youngstown State University; Sanket Aryal, Youngstown State University

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Computers in Education

educators convince the need forincorporating CFD course in the curriculum of undergraduate engineering education. Thus,number of universities that develops and implements a CFD course for undergraduate andgraduate engineering students is growing every year, especially for mechanical, civil,biomedical, energy, and aerospace engineering disciplines 2, 3, 4, 5. Incorporating a CFD into thefluid curriculum will not only benefit to have better understanding and visualization offundamental fluid dynamics and prepare them for higher studies and research but also support toachieve their short and long term career goals. Furthermore, it is felt that an early introduction toCFD may inspire the students to take advanced fluid mechanics courses or go to

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Transportation and Geotechnical Engineering

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susan Conrad, Portland State University; Timothy James Pfeiffer P.E., Foundation Engineering, Inc.; Tom Szymoniak, Portland State University

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Civil Engineering

students for engineering practice, the importance of writing isoften emphasized. The need for improved writing skills is a regular finding in surveys ofemployers and graduates.1,2,3 Practicing engineers note the importance of communication skills,including writing, for advancing their careers.4 Accreditation criteria since 2000 have alsoreflected the importance of writing.Within civil engineering practice, writing takes on an even more important role than in manybranches of engineering. There is a vast array of writing behind any civil engineering project –qualifications proposals, cost proposals, scoping notes, technical memos, design reports, site visitreports, reports for regulatory agencies, e-mails among the team, plan sheet notes and