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Qualitative Methodologies

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amy E. Slaton, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.); Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

Environmental and Ecological Engineering at Purdue University. She was co-PI of Purdue’s ADVANCE program from 2008-2014, focusing on the underrepresentation of women in STEM faculty positions. She runs the Feminist Research in Engineering Education (FREE, formerly RIFE, group), whose diverse projects and group members are described at feministengineering.org. She received a CAREER award in 2010 and a PECASE award in 2012 for her ”Learning from Small Numbers” project researching the stories of un- dergraduate engineering women and men of color and white women. She received ASEE-ERM’s best paper award for her CAREER research, and the Denice Denton Emerging Leader award from the Anita Borg Institute, both in 2013. She

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2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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aseducators prepare the next generation of engineers.There were over 90 submissions which resulted in many excellent papers and posters. As you readthese proceedings, you will see a roadmap marked by breadth, depth and innovation that will beused to navigate engineering education. Educators constantly hear that our students are changing.These proceedings demonstrate that our educators are more than prepared for this change.This conference included educators, researchers and practitioners from industry, academia andgovernment. We were fortunate to have several keynote speakers including: Dr. Don Czechowicz,Project Leader at General Atomics, San Diego, CA; Dr. Muzibul Khan, Corporate Planner,Kyocera Communications, Inc. San Diego, CA; Dr. Justin

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ECCD Applications in Energy and Thermodynamics

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ahmed Cherif Megri, North Carolina A&T State University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

, plumbing, fire protection and lighting. Also, he supervises many courses in the frame of interprofessional projects (IPRO) program. Dr. Megri wrote over 100 journal and conference papers. Overall, Dr. Megri taught more than 30 different courses at University level in the AE area. Areas of Interests: - Zonal modeling approach, - Integration zonal models/building energy simulation models, - Zero Net Energy (ZNE) building, - Airflow in Multizone Buildings & Smoke Control, - Thermal Comfort & Indoor Air Quality, - Predictive modeling and forecasting: Support Vector Machine (SVM) tools, - Energy, HVAC, Plumbing & Fire Protection Systems Design, - Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) Application in Building

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General Technical Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nebojsa I. Jaksic, Colorado State University, Pueblo; Pratik Dilip Desai; Ryan Van Deest; Jude L. DePalma, Colorado State University, Pueblo

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Computers in Education

lamp consists of a lamp base and a lamp shade. The lamp basehosts a Cypress PSoC 4 kit4 with three capacitive sensors for user interaction. The base coverhosts a NeoPixel ring consisting of 12 RGB LEDs with integrated programmable drivers. TheseLEDs are electrically connected to the PSoC. Also, the base cover is designed to accommodatemany different student-built lamp shades. PSoC Creator 3.15,6 is used to program the smart lamp.Materials and devices required for successful completion of the smart lamp project are providedin the bill of materials, Table 1. Table 1. Bill of Materials for the Smart Lamp WorkshopPart # Part Name Description

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Nuclear and Radiological Division Technical Session 1

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bryndol A. Sones, United States Military Academy

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Nuclear and Radiological

that makes easy the assessment of the some of the trickier ABET Student Outcomes to measureIntroduction This paper describes a one-year nuclear engineering capstone designcourse that is rich in assessment data to evaluate student achievement in severalABET (previously known as the Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology) Student Outcomes (SOs). Efforts in the course begin about sixmonths prior to its start by engaging students with a course overview, generalguidance about design project options, and a requirement for students to provideprofessors with their topical interest areas. Over the summer, professors work toalign student interests with faculty capabilities and with possible external projectclients. Students are

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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susan Conrad, Portland State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #12742Dispelling Student Myths about Writing in Civil EngineeringDr. Susan Conrad, Portland State University Susan Conrad, Professor of Applied Linguistics, is the head of the Civil Engineering Writing Project, in which engineering faculty, engineering practitioners, and writing specialists collaborate to improve writ- ing instruction in civil engineering courses. She has written numerous articles and books about English grammar, discourse, and corpus linguistics. Page 26.552.1

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Enviromental Engineering Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Veera Gnaneswar Gude P.E., Mississippi State University; Dennis D. Truax PE, BCEE, F.ASCE, Mississippi State University

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Environmental Engineering

Paper ID #12224Methods to Instill Critical Thinking in Environmental Engineering StudentsDr. Veera Gnaneswar Gude P.E., Mississippi State University Dr. Gude is an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Mississippi State University. He has degrees in chemical (BS, 2000) and environmental engineering (MS 2004, PhD 2007) disciplines. He has over 14 years of academic, industrial, and research experiences on various projects related to chemical and environmental engineering disciplines. He is the chair and board representative for Ameri- can Solar Energy Society’s (ASES) Clean Energy and Water (CEW

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division: Strategies Beyond the Classroom

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alka R. Harriger, Purdue University; Gloria Childress Townsend, DePauw University; Dawn Laux, Purdue University

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

Paper ID #13684Supporting Women in Computing through Regional ConferencesProf. Alka R Harriger, Purdue University, West Lafayette Alka Harriger joined the faculty of the Computer and Information Technology Department (CIT) in 1982 and is currently a Professor of CIT. For the majority of that time, she has been actively involved in teaching software development courses. From 2008-2014, she led the NSF-ITEST funded SPIRIT (Surprising Possibilities Imagined and Realized through Information Technology) project. Since October 2013, she has been co-leading with Prof. Brad Harriger the NSF-ITEST funded TECHFIT (Teaching

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ECCD Innovative Teaching Applications

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ilya Y. Grinberg, Buffalo State College; Matin Meskin, University at Buffalo; Mohammed Safiuddin, University at Buffalo, SUNY

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Diversity

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

). Phase 1 of the test bed is illustrated in Figure 3.This project demonstrates capabilities for providing a secure connection betweenSCADA systems affiliated with respective Microgrid. The model of the Microgrid atBuffalo State consists of a scaled-down set of equipment that includes generation,transmission, distribution, protection, monitoring, and control. Page 26.1503.5 Fig. 3. Phase 1 Test BedSCADA system supplied by Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL) has beeninstalled to facilitate connection of IEDs (such as relays, meters, sensors, etc.) for accessto the cloud servers. The SCADA system sends commands to equipment

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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ricardo Jose Morocz, Georgia Institute of Technology; Bryan D Levy, Georgia Institute of Technology; Craig R. Forest, Georgia Institute of Technology; Robert L. Nagel, James Madison University; Wendy C Newstetter, Georgia Institute of Technology; Kimberly Grau Talley P.E., Texas State University; Julie S Linsey, Georgia Institute of Technology

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Page 26.1631.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 University Maker Spaces: Discovery, Optimization and Measurement of ImpactsAbstractIt is essential that modern engineers not only master engineering science and analysis, but theymust also learn to drive the next generation of design, creation, and innovation. In parallel to thesuccess of community maker spaces outside of academic settings, many universities are movingbeyond traditional machine shops and building multi-disciplinary maker space design centers.This project seeks to understand and use these new environments to achieve elusive aims inengineering education such as improving at-risk student retention

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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carl Nelson Blue, University of Southern Maine

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

- NSF#1153281). This paper provides information on the progress of USM’sSummer Bridge Program that was developed as our model for blending the elements ofrecruitment, retention, and placement into an integrated, comprehensive but non-intrusiveprogram that promotes student success in transitioning from high schools and communitycolleges to University of Southern Maine. In the terms of broader Impacts: The project providesincreased opportunities for a larger, more diverse population of students, non-traditional,underrepresented and first generation, to obtain a STEM degree and to be placed in an awardingSTEM job upon graduation. This pilot study provides educational opportunities from entry todegree completion for 41 academically talented and

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Pritpal Singh; Amanda Kelly; Kathy Nazar

3 Office of Program and Institutional Research Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania 19085 USA Kathleen.nazar@villanova.eduAbstractOver the last eight years, Villanova University has been creating a culture in which engineering studentshave been provided opportunities to develop an entrepreneurial mindset. These opportunities include anengineering entrepreneurship minor open to engineering students of all majors, extra-curricular activitiesranging from short 15-20 minute events to competitions spanning several months, inter-university seniordesign projects, and embedded activities in core engineering classes. The question arises as to howeffective these

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Russell Trafford; Linda Head

designed toprovide students, from day one, a resource to experience what working on real world problemswith team members from other disciplines is like and how they can work together and bringexpertise from their specific subset of skills to the project at hand. At the freshman level theclass is held twice a week, one 55 minute lecture, and one 165 minute lab. In the lectures, eachinstructor covers a core set of topics which focus on Engineering Fundamentals such asProduct Development, Reverse Engineering, Design Tools, Ethics, Team Development,Problem Solving, and many more1. These lectures are fairly uniform across each section of theclass to help provide all freshman students with the same set of skills when enteringSophomore year and Sophomore

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2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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David F. Hosterman; Wblesther Gama; Andrew Vitaljic; Jonathan H. Poluan; Ali A. Ballout; Yong X Gan; James L. Smith; Jimmie C. Oxley

. In thispaper, we will present how to improve undergraduate student education through high impactactivities in a cooperative learning setting. Specifically, scalable, low cost manufacturing processfor making high performance energy conversion nanomaterials is dealt with. Cooperativelearning on several upper division general engineering courses including Independent Researchand Studies, Senior Capstone Design, Special Topics on Nanotechnology is investigated. Severalscalable, low cost manufacturing research tasks are adopted to enhance the context learningthrough cooperative learning approach that integrates advanced manufacturing research activitiesinto both academic and social learning experiences. Team-based research projects areimplemented

Conference Session

Engineering Economics Teaching Tools

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shervin Zoghi, California State University, Fresno

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Diversity

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Engineering Economy

, teamwork-intensive activities, and group projects. Numerous studies show the positive influencecollaborative learning had on promoting higher levels of understanding and stronger retention ofmaterial6. As such, practices have been successfully established in engineering economicscourses. One such course is the University of Pennsylvania’s ESE 400/540 – EngineeringEconomics course. In conjunction with the aforementioned studies and ABET requirements, ESE400/540 mandates that the expected outcome is to “be able to work effectively in teams of 4 or 5to perform case study analyses and to present findings in written reports and verbalpresentations” [ABET Program Outcome D]. The professor integrated this by assigning teamcase study projects, whereby

Conference Session

Innovation in Engineering Leadership Education

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cheryl Allendoerfer, University of Washington; Rebecca A. Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Jennifer Karlin, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Ronald R. Ulseth, Iron Range Engineering; Dan Ewert

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Engineering Leadership Development Division

a two-year, project-based program that allows students with two-yearcollege degrees to complete a bachelor’s degree in engineering. The program is a partnershipbetween a community college and a state university, separated geographically by severalhundred miles. The program takes place at the community college, targeting students in that partof the state and responding to the needs of local industries. Because of the complex nature of theinstitutional partnership, as well as the project-based, team-focused emphasis, the program servesas an innovative model for engineering education.IntroductionThe engineering profession is becoming steadily more global in nature,1 creating the need forengineering education to develop a graduate who is

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Research on Design Learning

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer Wegner, University of Michigan College of Engineering; Stefan M Turcic II, University of Michigan; Gail Hohner, University of Michigan

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

student reflective learning outcomes during a final Leadership/Mentorshipcourse, after their participation in significant, experiential design projects in the University ofMichigan’s Multidisciplinary Design Program in the College of Engineering. Throughout thecourse, class discussions and assignments prompted students to reflect and examine theirpersonal experiences in engineering design projects, their learning (both technical andprofessional), leadership, and team styles as well as understand group development anddynamics.A feature of the projects was the integration of students from diverse disciplines in engineeringwith other programs such as: Art, Architecture, Primary Sciences, Kinesiology, and Business.The diverse teams provided a rich

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Technical Session 2

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Allen C. Estes, California Polytechnic State University; Thomas A. Lenox , Dist.M.ASCE, F.ASEE, American Society of Civil Engineers; Richard O. Anderson P.E., Somat Engineering, Inc.

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Civil Engineering

in the U.S., Europe, and East Asia. He retired at the rank of Colonel. During his military career, Dr. Lenox spent 15 years on the engineering faculty of USMA – including five years as the Director of the Civil Engineering Di- vision. Upon his retirement from the U.S. Army in 1998, he joined the staff of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). In his position as educational staff leader of ASCE, he managed several new educational initiatives – collectively labeled as Project ExCEEd (Excellence in Civil Engineering Education). As ASCE’s Executive Vice President, Dr. Lenox led several educational and professional career-development projects for the civil engineering profession – with the overall objective of

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University; John L. Falconer, University of Colorado, Boulder; David L. Silverstein P.E., University of Kentucky; Bill Jay Brooks, Oregon State University; Debra May Friedrichsen; Christina Smith, Oregon State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

research interests particularly focus on what prevents students from being able to integrate and extend the knowledge developed in specific courses in the core curriculum to the more complex, authentic problems and projects they face as professionals. Dr. Koretsky is one of the founding members of the Center for Lifelong STEM Education Research at OSU.Dr. John L. Falconer, University of Colorado, Boulder Professor of Chemical and Biological EngineeringDr. David L. Silverstein P.E., University of Kentucky David L. Silverstein is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Kentucky. He is also the Director of the College of Engineering’s Extended Campus Programs in Paducah, Kentucky, where he has taught for

Conference Session

Cooperative & Experiential Education Division Technical Session 2

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Twila Ortiz, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Beth M Holloway, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Michael T. Harris, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Andrea R Pluckebaum, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Leah H. Jamieson, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

University, West Lafayette Leah Jamieson is the John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering at Purdue University, Ransburg Distin- guished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and holds a courtesy appointment in Purdue’s School of Engineering Education. She served as the 2007 President and CEO of the IEEE. She is co- founder and past director of the EPICS – Engineering Projects in Community Service – Program. With colleagues Edward Coyle and William Oakes, Jamieson was awarded the 2005 NAE Bernard M. Gor- don Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education for the creation and dissemination of EPICS. She was an inaugural recipient of the NSF’s Director’s Award for Distinguished Teaching Scholars

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Building Information Modeling (BIM) in Construction Education

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Adrian Hadipriono Tan, The Ohio State University; Fabian Hadipriono Tan P.E., The Ohio State University; Frank M. Croft Jr. P.E., Ohio State University

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Diversity

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Construction

Adrian H. Tan and Fabian H. Tan Department of Civil Engineering The Ohio State University Abstract – In the field of construction engineering, the use of computer imaging, and more recentlyvirtual reality, has become instrumental in the creation of educational simulations, which can be used topresent techniques and details in a manner that is easily understood by students. Because these tools areincreasingly used in the simulation of modern buildings and construction projects, the same system can becombined with engineering and historical studies as a means of demonstrating the construction of ancientmonuments, which will enable historians and engineers to understand the

Conference Session

Revitalization of Manufacturing Education

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Niaz Latif, Purdue University, Calumet; Steven Wendel, Sinclair Community College; Mohammad A. Zahraee, Purdue University, Calumet; Aco Sikoski, Ivy Tech Community College; Ronald J. Bennett F.ASEE, F.ABET P.E., University of St. Thomas

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Manufacturing

Paper ID #11765Leadership Capacity Building for Manufacturing EducationDr. Niaz Latif, Purdue University Calumet (College of Technology) Dr. Niaz Latif is the Dean of the College of Technology at Purdue University Calumet (PUC). He has served for two years as the Dean of the Graduate School and additional two years as the Interim Asso- ciate Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Studies at PUC. He has been Principal Investigator for National Science Foundation grants and US Department of Labor grant. He oversaw more than eighty sponsored research/project grants with a value of more than $20 million. He has authored/co

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Research on Diversification & Inclusion

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jane L. Lehr, California Polytechnic State University; Michael Haungs, California Polytechnic State University

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Diversity

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, New Engineering Educators, Student, Women in Engineering

liberal arts specialization;and at least 4 LSE courses: two on project-based learning, a senior project course, and acapstone.As of Fall 2014, over 34.5% of the 55 LSE total graduates are women. Eighteen of these 55alumni graduated with an engineering concentration that included at least 4 quarters of theintroductory computer science sequence (CSC 123, 101, 102, and 103) – and thus, for thepurposes of this paper, function as a comparison group to the computing disciplines at CPSU andnationally. Of these eighteen LSE-computing disciplines alumni, seven, or 38.9%, are women. Page 26.1095.2Why this difference? One explanation is that LSE is a small

Conference Session

Make It!

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sangarappillai Sivaloganathan, United Arab Emirates University; Hayder Zulafqar Ali, University Instructor; Iman Abdulwaheed, United Arab Emirates University; Sayeda Abboud Al Ameri, United Arab Emirates University

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Diversity

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Manufacturing

trained on a long term technology transfer (plastic mold making) project between government of Pakistan and government of Japan. He holds a master degree in Mechatronic Engineering and bachelor in Mechanical Engineering both from the University of Engineering and Technology Lahore Pakistan. He has extensive teaching and industrial experience.Mrs. IMAN ABDULWAHEED, United Arab Emirates University Mrs IMAN ABDULWAHEED;graduated from United Emirates Emirates University in February in 2014 with a mechanical engineering degree.During her residency in the university she was an enthusiastic par- ticipant in academic and extracurricular activities.She was an active member and office holder in ASME, ASAA and Robotics and

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First-year Programs Division Technical Session 10: Paying Attention to Retention

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sydney N Hallman, University of Oklahoma; Chad Eric Davis P.E., University of Oklahoma

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First-Year Programs

coursesare similar in content, but they strive to be tailored to the needs of the two types of students thatare enrolled by having different schedules, structures, and mentorship approaches. The followingsections detail the structure and content of the freshman and transfer orientation classes,respectively. III. FEOC StructureOne of the major objectives when designing the content of the FEOC is to assist first-yearstudents in adapting to college life and become more comfortable with the CoE. For the last fewsemesters, this has been accomplished through exposure to the different engineering majorsoffered and some of the post-graduation opportunities available for each degree. Additionally,the freshman course has a supplementary project-based

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Reimagining Engineering Information Literacy: Novel Perspectives on Integration, Assessment, Competencies & Information Use

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Fosmire, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Amy S. Van Epps, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Nastasha E Johnson, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Engineering Libraries

stakeholders.”4Simply put, badges, or microcredentials, are typically small-scale awards for demonstrating insome fashion, competency in a particular area. Often, this is accomplished by carrying outstipulated tasks (e.g., answering 20 multiplication questions correctly or programming a robot tocarry out a particular function), but, badges can be awarded for ‘soft skills’ such as participatingin online forums or providing leadership on a particular project, in ways that are more subjectiveand at the discretion of the awarder. Badges in general are not new, with, for example, the BoyScouts and the armed forces having over a century of history awarding badges, ribbons, medalsand the like to indicate participation, mastery, and extraordinary

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Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susannah Howe, Smith College; Sophia L Poulos, Smith College; R. Keith Stanfill, University of Florida

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Design in Engineering Education

design learning in middle school students and to support entrepreneurship at primarily undergraduate institutions. Her background is in civil engineering with a focus on structural materials. She holds a B.S.E. degree from Princeton, and M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell.Ms. Sophia L Poulos, Smith College Sophia Poulos is an engineering student at Smith College. She is interested in structural engineering and has worked on earthquake engineering projects through NEES activities at UCLA. She is a research assistant on the CDHub 2.0 initiative.Dr. R. Keith Stanfill, University of Florida Keith Stanfill holds the academic rank of Engineer and serves as the Director of the Integrated Product and Process

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Clement Ekaputra; Zuyi Huang

2015 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Spring Conference A Teaching Module for Educating High School Students in Process Control with a Simulink-Based ControllerAbstract: U.S. high school students are often weak in math and science, thus it is important tobroaden the participation of high school students in these fields before they start to loseconfidence and interest in them. One way to attract more high school students in math andscience is through interesting research projects. This work presents an example for educatinghigh school students to design a controller for a lab-scale microbial fuel cell (MFC) that cangenerate electricity from the organic compounds in the waste water. Upon the

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Manufacturing and Machine Component Design

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sandra Anstaett Metzler P.E., Ohio State University; Blaine W. Lilly, Ohio State University

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Mechanical Engineering

course that involves the students in a design-build project. In addition tothe design-build project, the first year engineering program covers a broad range of engineeringconcepts and skills, and is intended to give students an overview of engineering practice andmethods. The design-build project in the first year program is a group project, as is frequently thecase with these types of assignments. Students enter their specific engineering disciplinefollowing the completion of their first year engineering program. Students entering theMechanical Engineering program have a wide range of skills and knowledge regardingmachining and electronics, depending on their prior exposure and experience. Given that mostmechanical engineers will be working on

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Women in Engineering Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Terri Christiansen Bateman, Brigham Young University ; Lisa C Barrager, Brigham Young University; Rebecca Peterson, Brigham Young University; Spencer P. Magleby, Brigham Young University

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

majors is theimplementation of support programs. Research literature on effective strategies to increasediversity in STEM fields generally describes support programs as activities crafted to helpovercome factors that deter underrepresented students' from pursuing programs in STEM areas.2NSF supported research indicates that “Students that participate more frequently in supportactivities are less likely to leave engineering than those who do not participate or participate lessfrequently.” 3Based on this hypothesis, Brigham Young University and other universities are implementingsupport programs at the undergraduate level to encourage and assist women in engineering andtechnology majors including mentoring networks, projects for freshmen, and