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SED Technical Session: Applications

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John M. Santiago Jr, Colorado Technical University; Jing Guo, Colorado Technical University

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Systems Engineering

performance/cost trade-offs and defend engineering decisions in the design of a customer-based system.6. Account for human and societal constraints in the design of a specified system.7. Demonstrate effective written and oral communication skills in a team product design.Specific Student Objectives:1. Students will generate a list of performance criteria from a system description.2. Students will convert performance criteria to specifications.3. Students will identify tools appropriate to the design of a system.4. Students will develop a total plan to design and demonstrate a prototype of a specified system.5. Students will independently acquire a familiarity with any tools necessary to the completion of the team project.6. Students will generate

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Manufacturing Division Technical Session 1

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sheng-Jen Hsieh, Texas A&M University

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Manufacturing

programming support [2].Billard describes a common method for programming of robots—Robot Programming byDemonstration, also known as imitation learning [3]. Nicolescu and Mataric discuss naturalmethods for robot programming, including instructive demonstrations, generalization overmultiple demonstrations and practice trials [4].In the area of industrial robots, Pan et al. provide a comprehensive review of the recent researchon programming methods for industrial robots, including online programming, offlineprogramming, and programming using Augmented Reality (AR) [5]. Wang et al. propose anoptimized path planning method for off-line programming of an industrial robot [6]. Sang Choiet al. present a lead-through method and device for industrial robots

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Engineering Design Graphics Division Technical Session 3 - Spatial Visualization Topics

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hannah Budinoff, University of California, Berkeley; Audrey Ford, University of California, Berkeley; Sara McMains, University of California, Berkeley

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Diversity

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Engineering Design Graphics

Audrey Ford is a 5th year PhD candidate in mechanical engineering at the University of California Berke- ley.Prof. Sara McMains, University of California, Berkeley Professor McMains directs the Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing Lab in the Department of Me- chanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. Her pedagogical research interests include engineering design visualization and auto-grading of engineering drawings. Her other research interests include Geometric DFM (Design for Manufacturing) feedback, computational geometry, geometric and solid modeling, CAD/CAM, GPU algorithms, computer aided process planning, additive manufacturing, computer vision, and machine learning. She received her

Conference Session

Engineers and Communities: Critical Reflections of Challenges, Opportunities, and Practices of Engaging Each Other

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Malini Natarajarathinam, Texas A&M University; Wei Lu, Texas A&M University; Mary E. Campbell, Texas A&M University

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

] “The group contract creation went well. It allowed us to communicate early and often which has led to success as a group. There has not been any major conflict.” [quoted from an IDIS 343 student] Furthermore, 70 out of 79 (88.6%) of students reported that they did not have any conflictwhen creating the group contract. 28 out of 79 students recalled that there were some clauses thatthey wish they had included in the contract; most were in regards to the schedule, plan, andattendance of group meetings (13 responses), and specifications of individual expectations andassignments (11 responses). Many mentioned that the Group Contract had played an importantrole in the project, one student wrote: “When our group created our

Conference Session

Engaging Students with Creativity and Innovation

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alison Henry, University of Alberta; Lucinda Johnston, University of Alberta

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Engineering Libraries

students to plan their submission over the break. Graduatestudents are invited to submit a 300 dpi-or-higher image, with title, plus a 200-word,plain-language description explaining how the image relates to their research. Participants mustbe current graduate students in good standing, and images must meet minimum size andresolution requirements that allow printing the images at a length of twenty-four inches on theshort edge. Entries are accepted over a three week period from mid-January to early February.Organizers and campus partners developed the Images of Research Submission PreparationWorkshop for the purpose of offering guidance to graduate students who are interested in makinga submission. For the 2018/2019 competition, the FGSR permitted

Conference Session

Best Practices in Out-of-School Time

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chris San Antonio-Tunis, Museum of Science, Boston; Joelle Clark, Northern Arizona University; Christine M. Cunningham, Museum of Science, Boston; Cathy P. Lachapelle, Museum of Science, Boston

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education

steps of the engineering design process: youth learn about a problem, explore availablematerials, plan a design, create and test it, improve it, and finally, groups share their designs in awhole-group “showcase” activity. See Table 3 for a detailed unit map.Table 3. Overview of unit activities Activity Remote Sensing Unit Water Resource Unit Prep 1 Youth are introduced to the Engineering Youth are introduced to the Engineering Design Process as they work together to Design Process as they work together to engineer a tower to support a model engineer a tower to support a model antenna water tank Prep 2 Youth match

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Curriculum and Assessment II

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jingshan Wu, Zhejiang University; Yujie Wang, Zhejiang University; Hanbing Kong, Zhejiang University; Ling Zhu, Zhejiang University

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Computing and Information Technology

educationalparadigm for engineering can no longer be adapt for the emergence of complexsystems and grand challenges. As a response, School of Engineering launched a newLong Range Plan “Engineering with a Big E: Integrated Engineering Education”(Moses, J., 1994), which is essentially the integration of engineering technologies andengineering science at first and the integration of STEM and non-STEM elements aswell (Kong H.B, 2011).The “Big E” strategy led to CDIO (Conceive, Design, Implement, Operate) approachin the Department of Aerospace Engineering (Crawley, 2001) and had a profoundinfluence on engineering education: Olin College of Engineering came up with“Engineering2.0” demanding new qualities for the next generation of problem solvers(Miller R.K., 2017

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Embedded Systems & Cybersecurity for ECE

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maddumage Karunaratne, University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown

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Electrical and Computer

backed by writtendocumentation and oral presentations at the department seminar. Students complete the project workwith a live demonstration at the end of the second semester in front of an audience consisting of agroup of general public and experienced EE/COE engineers. Part II of this paper emphasizes important parts of the embedded systems course leading to adiscussion of the capstone project course and its requirements. Part III provides a detail discussion ofthe results of a survey completed by students after they have received the grades for the proposal anddesign phases of the project, but before starting the second semester of their projects. Finally, part IVsummarizes the findings with future plans to explore more on this

Conference Session

Engineering Design Process Activities with Secondary Students

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Briscoe, American Society of Naval Engineers; Leigh S. McCue, George Mason University; Dale A. Lumme, American Society of Naval Engineers

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education

andincrease their understanding of the key aspects of each mission. Mission requirements mustalways be met before a ship can be tested. However, mission objectives are evaluated by a scoreat the end of game play, so students’ understanding of how to receive the highest score willalways be informed by testing and gameplay. This cyclical game flow parallels the cyclicalengineering design process in Appendix I of the NGSS, as well as engineering processes fromNASA and Massachusetts Department of Education [3] [4].FLEET contains multiple authentic missions so that students can better see themselves as navalengineers and experience the wide range of job duties available to naval engineers. The Supplyand Logistics mission exposes students to route planning

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Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 11

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ashley C. Huderson, ASME; Aisha Kenya Lawrey, ASME; Thomas Perry P.E.; Kenneth R. Balkey P.E., ASME

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Mechanical Engineering

spread through each of the typical four years with easilyaccessible, appropriate, effective, and ready-to-deploy instructional resources and faculty guidesat no cost.Methodology:Standards Infusion Module DevelopmentA cadre of nineteen (19) engineering education and standards experts from ASME Standards andCertification Committees were assembled in the initial development, planning and execution ofthe project. During the project year, these experts developed instructional modules and guides,derived from the initial modules in Figure 1.The modules were developed for use throughout all four years of ME and MET degree programsand were applicable to multiple industries. All the modules have been successfully classroompiloted at least once by the

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Connecting Theory and Practice in a Change Project - And What I Wish I Knew Before I Started

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jill K. Nelson, George Mason University; Margret Hjalmarson, George Mason University

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Faculty Development Constituent Committee

were asked, and whenneeded, the interviewer included further probes or follow-up questions to elicit more informationabout the interview participant’s response. The interview included questions about motivationsfor participating in a SIMPLE group, their degree of participation in the group, their approach toteaching (teaching philosophy), new techniques they had tried or planned to try, and feedbackthey had about what was most useful and how to make the groups more valuable to participants.In a first round of coding, interview transcripts were coded using the five stages of adoption fromRogers’ DOI framework. Responses to questions about current teaching practices and newstrategies considered and/or adopted were analyzed for stages of adoption

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adrian Leos; Kaitlin Harlan; Brooke A. Merrill, Texas A&M University; Sin-Ning Cindy Liu, Texas A&M University; Cynthia K. Lang, Texas A&M University; Robert C. Martin, Texas A&M University; Carolyn L. Sandoval, University of California, San Diego; Mindy Bergman, Texas A&M University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests in- clude workplace safety, occupational health, and fairness and mistreatment in the workplace and in STEM classrooms and programs. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 DIY Classroom Observations: A Toolkit for Novice Classroom ObserversAbstract“Improving Student Experiences to Increase Student Engagement” (ISE-2) was funded by theNational Science Foundation, through EEC-Engineering Diversity Activities, at Texas A&MUniversity. The grant activity focuses on a faculty development program for faculty who teachfirst- and second-year engineering courses. As part of the evaluation plan, classroomobservations were conducted by the ISE-2 team

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karinna M. Vernaza, Gannon University; Saeed Tiari, Gannon University; Scott Steinbrink, Gannon University; Lin Zhao, Gannon University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

, and the capability ofconnecting to the grid”. When the students were informed that they had to give up the location ofthe Bayview Park due to uncertainty of the master plan of that region, they dived into design forbus stops right away with enthusiasm. After selecting the bus stop right outside the Knight Club(an on-campus student coffee shop), they realized that the entire roof of the Knight Club mightbe available, so the system size was scaled bigger, for the newly-identified location. The focusshifted from “aesthetically pleasing attraction…” to “harvest renewable energy to reduce theutility bill for the Knight Club”. Students spent time and effort to search for suitable system forthe roof size and researched regulations for the site

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Indira Chatterjee, University of Nevada, Reno; Tim Robinson, University of Nevada Reno; Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno; Jennifer R. Amos, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

changed on it too because, um yeah, I didn’t knowthat we had to work in teams, like I thought you’d just be like one person doing it, and it wouldjust be kind of easy to do, but it’s not, you need like a team, cause if you only have like acomputer scientist then to build a rover, just him working on it, you’d only be able to do theprogram, but then the rest of it you wouldn’t be able to do so”.3.Planning and ‘future self’: This theme emerged around camper comments regarding whatclasses they need to take in the future in order to become engineers. Typical quotes are: “So likeyou said it is going to make me take some certain classes that could help me. Like, let’s say Iwanted to get into robotics. So I would most likely take a class that’s like

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Houshang Darabi, University of Illinois, Chicago; Peter C. Nelson, University of Illinois, Chicago; Rezvan Nazempour; Renata A. Revelo, University of Illinois, Chicago; Ludwig C. Nitsche, University of Illinois, Chicago; Jeremiah Abiade

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

be self- directed in their educational planning process and overall academicsuccess. One of the major components of FESP is a required engineering orientation course that istitled ENGR100.ENGR100 is a required course for all incoming first year students to the COE at the University ofIllinois at Chicago. It acclimates students to university support programs such as tutoring centersand career services, while at the same time introducing them to industry leaders and engineeringprofessional societies. In addition to ENGR100, S-STEM Scholars were also required to take acomplementary course to ENGR100, ENGR194.ENGR194, as part of FESP, was offered for the first time in the Fall of 2018. This course wasopened to all engineering students, including

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maeve Drummond Oakes, CISTAR at Purdue University; Monica E Cardella, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Maryanne Sydlik, Western Michigan University; Kristin M. Everett, Western Michigan University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

mentoring with graduate students andother CISTAR program personnel. The external evaluators administered pre and post programsurveys and mid-point interviews to both participants and mentors to collect formative feedbackon the potential impacts of the project on the participants, graduate mentors, and to ask whetherthe goals and objectives were accomplished as planned, and identify strengths and limitations ofthe project. These evaluation strategies will be detailed as well as modifications to programmingbased on the results of this assessment.OverviewThe Center for Innovative and Strategic Transformation of Alkane Resources (CISTAR) is aNational Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Research Center (ERC) grant. ERCs areintended to integrate

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leslie Atkins Elliott, Boise State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

engagement with those ideas. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Engineering Design In Scientific InquiryAbstractThe Engineering Design in Scientific Inquiry (EDISIn) Project addresses the engineeringpreparation of secondary science teachers by embedding engineering design into a science coursefor single-subject STEM education majors (future secondary teachers), and developing asequence of lesson plans and annotated video for faculty who seek to embed engineering designin their science courses. While undergraduate laboratories are rich with designed experimentalapparatus, it is rare that students themselves play a role in designing and producing artifacts inthe service of

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Courtney June Faber, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Lisa Benson, Clemson University; Rachel Louis Kajfez, Ohio State University; Marian S. Kennedy, Clemson University; Dennis M. Lee, Clemson University; Anne Marguerite McAlister, University of Virginia; Karina Sylvia Sobieraj, Ohio State University; Teresa Porter, Ohio State University; Alessandra St. Germain, Clemson University; Guoyong Wu, Clemson University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

research experiences. Theseactivities include reading journal articles, running experiments, preparing materials forexperiments, writing up the results of their work, presenting research findings, repeatingexperiments, developing plans for data collection and analysis, and analyzing data. Some of theseactivities are epistemic practices because they are directed towards gaining knowledge orincreasing understanding. Through reflection, epistemic metacognitive skills (EMS), on theirresearch activities and social interactions, students build and refine their knowledge of howresearch works. This knowledge of how research works affects students’ existing and developingbeliefs and perceptions about what a researcher does and about knowledge and knowing

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aldo A. Ferri, Georgia Institute of Technology; Bonnie H. Ferri, Georgia Institute of Technology; Robert S. Kadel, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

teammates who felt excluded in the conversations might not be as motivated towork on those parts of projects. In the role-playing exercise, students were asked to pick rolesand use one of the motivations that were identified by the students.The initial plan was to find intervention methods that instructors could use when they notice thatsome students were being excluded. The students, though, felt that intervention methodstargeted, at specific students would be counterproductive and requested that the inclusivity bepart of the team expectations and training, rather than a targeted intervention.In Fall 2018, the authors administered a pilot survey designed to validate the results of Zhu andMeuth’s [21] survey of communication, teamwork, and

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ECE Division Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yuting W. Chen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Electrical and Computer

situation. These two incidents highlightedthe complexity of running computerized exams and the unpredictable human errors that comeswith them.Early in the spring of 2016, IT gave their final notice to discontinue service for computerizedexams starting in the fall of 2016. Although this creates an inconvenience, it also presents anopportunity for the course staff to gain full control of the exam infrastructure.Phase II: Self-Supported Computerized ExamThere are two components in self-supported computerized exam that require planning: hardwareand software. Since we no longer can block off a large number of computer labs, we have toresort to the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) model. Students will need to bring their owncomputers to use in the exams

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Faisal Aqlan, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College; Qi Dunsworth, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College; Melanie R. Ford, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College; E. George Walters III P.E., Penn State Erie, The Behrend College; Jessica Resig, Pennsylvania State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

and forester curiosity, (9) Discovery-based learning, (10) Interleaved course design. In each workshop, the participants had the opportunity to work individually or with apartner to design their curriculum unit. Throughout the face-to-face interactions and online, theteachers shared their educational challenges, resources, their plan to integrate the RET programwith their subject area, as well as the implementation plan of the developed curriculum unit. Theparticipants also had access to meet with workshop leaders to discuss their curriculum unit andreceive feedback. Figure 6. Automation workstation for inspecting 3D printed parts4. Program EvaluationThe program is evaluated in two phases. The first phase is to collect

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James L. Huff, Harding University; Benjamin Okai, Harding University; Kanembe Shanachilubwa, Harding University; Nicola W. Sochacka, University of Georgia; Joachim Walther, University of Georgia; Stephen Secules, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Mackenzie Beckmon Sharbine, Harding University; Jeremiah Sullins, Harding University; Shari E. Miller, University of Georgia

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

research, broaden my knowledge base, engage in evidence-based practices to promote the quality of life, and ultimately be an avid contributor to the world of academia through research, peer reviews, and publications.Mr. Kanembe Shanachilubwa, Harding University I am an undergraduate mechanical engineering major anticipating graduation in May of 2019. I am a member of the Beyond Professional Identity research group based in Harding University located in Searcy, Arkansas. I plan to further my studies in engineering education in graduate school particularly in regards to equipping students to work in development and sustainability.Dr. Nicola W. Sochacka, University of Georgia Dr. Nicola Sochacka is the Associate Director

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Masoud Ghodrat Abadi, California State University, Sacramento; Sean Lyle Gestson, Oregon State University; Shane A. Brown P.E., Oregon State University; David S. Hurwitz, Oregon State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

are as follows:I. Collaboratively identify relevant concepts and contexts with students, faculty and practicingengineers. Here we define practicing engineers as having 1) the expertise of the respondingtransportation professionals emphasized combinations of signal timing, urban planning, andtransportation design or expertise on pressurized pipe flow 2.) participants had a range ofexperience from 2 to 17 years, and the sample was approximately 40 percent women. Thisproject is focused on two specific areas of engineering (traffic signal timing and pressurized pipeflow). Specifically, we will use 6 semi-structured interviews with transportation engineers and 6semi-structured interviews with hydraulics engineers to help develop authentically

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Graduate Studies Division Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yuting W. Chen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Hyun Hannah Choi, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Blake Everett Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Mattox Alan Beckman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Lucas Anderson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Graduate Studies

Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.The training is to be applicable to all types of GTA contexts: lab, discussion, and lecture. Becausemany of our engineering students’ career goals are within non-academic settings, students oftenhave little natural motivation to develop effective pedagogical skills. As explained in our previouspaper 1 , the team made a strategic decision to combine the teaching of leadership skills and peda-gogical skills in order to appeal to GTAs who plan to go into non-academic careers. In this paper,we will present our logic model for the iELITE program, which has four categories of inputs:GTAs, Engineering Faculty, Administration (College and Departments), and External Partners (in-dustry sponsors

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Engaging Community through STEM partnerships

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathalia Ospina-Uribe, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus ; Pamela Cristina Silva Díaz; Aidsa I. Santiago-Roman, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Christopher Papadopoulos, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

University ofPuerto Rico, Mayagüez (URPM) to promote community-based “Do-It-Yourself” solutions.Especially after Hurricane María, many isolated communities were left with no choice other thanto respond and adapt relatively independently from government or other aid agencies. Theconcept of Community Resilience is therefore the focus of this study. This concept includes notonly temporary measures of ‘survival’, but also the broader notion of sustainable communitiesand planning [5]. Our approach to community resilience is participatory, with the understandingthat many solutions lie within the innovative capacities of “victims”. We draw upon CreativeCapacity Building (CCB) as an approach to train community members to develop skills to designtheir own

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division Technical Session 3

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Byul Hur, Texas A&M University

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

ARMprocessors starting Fall of 2016. ARM processors have been widely adopted by industry andhave been used in a wide range of applications based on the current market. In this paper, thetransitional effort in the course development and outcome was described. It generatedmicrocontroller architecture and embedded system software courses providing a balancedapproach between theory and hands-on learning skills through relevant laboratory assignmentsand term projects. The author plans to continue the effort in delivering practical and hands-onlectures and laboratories. In the Engineering Technology Department at Texas A&M University,a resident master’s program will start from this Fall of 2019. The author plans to teach a newgraduate course focused on

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Mechanics Division Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aaron Price Barnett; Nick M. Safai, Salt Lake Community College

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Mechanics

. Performed various consulting tasks from USA for several oil companies (Jawaby Oil Service Co., WAHA Oil and Oasis Co., London, England). The responsibilities included production planning, forecasting and reservoir maintenance. This production planning and forecasting consisted of history matching and c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Paper ID #25469prediction based on selected drilling. The reservoir maintenance included: water/gas injection and gas liftfor selected wells to optimize reservoir production plateau and prolonging well’s economic life.Terra Tek, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT, 1985-1987; Director

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Megan Patberg Morin, North Carolina State University; Elena Nicolescu Veety, North Carolina State University; Pam Page Carpenter

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

: Wireless Charger Implementation - In today’s world, and especially in the UnitedStates, municipal rapid transit systems are rare because nearly all require substantial governmentsubsidies to maintain financial viability. In response, this project proposes a new personal rapidtransit architecture with a unique economic design. The solution is to build an ultra-lightweightand low-cost transit system with autonomous vehicles that carry one or two passengers at a time.The initial concept demonstration is planned to be used for the REU site.A 2017 REU participant has made a tremendous impact on the program and this project. Herecently graduated at NC State University with an electrical engineering degree. Theopportunities granted to him by the UGRS

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacquelyn Kay Nagel, James Madison University; Ramana Pidaparti, University of Georgia; Christopher Stewart Rose, James Madison University; Elizabeth Marie Tafoya; Prabaharan Graceraj Ponnusamy, University of Georgia; Tyler Jeffrey Wahl, James Madison University; Jessica Besnier, James Madison University ; Jordan Claire Capelle, James Madison University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

, defined dichotomy, defining rough ideas, and transition from rough idea to sketch–had strong positive influence on the specific design engineering attributes of – imagination,innovation, and design solution definition. These relationships demonstrate that the designsolutions can be innovative following C-K theory. These correlations also provide evidence tofurther the belief that biomimicry is a significant approach to enhancing engineering curricula.Our instructional resources have resulted in design concepts that more closely resembledbiological inspiration, learning from nature to innovate rather than copying, as opposed tobiological imitation that closely resembles the observable features of biological systems.Research ApproachOur plan to

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Merredith D. Portsmore, Tufts University; Jessica Watkins, Vanderbilt University; Rebecca Deborah Swanson, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach

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Pre-College Engineering Education

gain morefamiliarity with engineering and the engineering design process [e.g. 8, 9], there is a need tobetter specify what exactly is important for teachers to learn. For instance, while teachers shouldbe familiar with the steps of an EDP, research suggests that this is not sufficient to productivelyfacilitate students’ engineering. In a prior project [10], we documented how teachers’ attention tosteps of an EDP can be a barrier for their meaningful engagement with their students’engineering. When a teacher focused solely on students progressing through each step of theEDP, she missed productive aspects of students’ thinking that deviated from the linear processshe had planned [11]. These findings motivated us to consider how to support