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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division: Engineering Alignment with Core Curriculum (Physics)

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Meera N.K. Singh PEng, University of Calgary; Qiao Sun, University of Calgary; Cassy M. Weber, Science Alberta Foundation (o/a MindFuel)

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. She is the CEO of MindFuel (Science Al- berta Foundation), a registered charity and non-profit, which develops award winning STEM resources for K-12. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 An Evaluation of a Digital Learning Management System in High School Physics Classrooms 1 Meera Singh, 1Qiao Sun, and 2Cassy Weber meera.singh@ucalgary.ca; qsun@ucalgary.ca; CWeber@MindFuel.ca 1 Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, The University of Calgary, 40 Research Place N.W., Calgary AB, T2L 1Y6. 2 CEO, MindFuel, Suite

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Innovative Instructional Strategies for Integrating Sustainability

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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William E. Kelly P.E., Retired ; J. P. Mohsen, University of Louisville; Liv Haselbach P.E., Washington State University

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topics such as low impact development and carbon sequestration, and is active in the sustainability education community. Dr. Haselbach is a licensed professional engineer and a LEED AP (BD+C). Prior to her academic career she founded an engineering consulting company in the New York – Connecticut area. Her degrees include a BS in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Cornell, an MS in Chemical Engineering from UC Berkeley, and a PhD in Environmental Engineering from the Uni- versity of Connecticut. She is currently an Associate Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Washington State University, an Associate Director of the USDOT Tier 1 UTC: Center for Environ- mentally Sustainable Transportation

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International Division Technical Session 2

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ivan E. Esparragoza, Pennsylvania State University; Uladzislau Ivashyn, Pennsylvania State University

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students who have international studyexperience are more likely to be hired and prepared for the global market place”1. Althoughstudents may realize that international relations within their respective field is beneficial, a moreexplicit list of highly desirable traits can be summed up such that the “engineer must understandand accept diversity; be creative in the solution of problems impacting a wider and more diversepopulation; be able to communicate and socialize with people from different cultures; beknowledgeable of other languages; be able to use the technology to exchange ideas, solveproblems and present solutions; be a leader; a team member and an ambassador”1.It is evident that engineering students must “globalize” their educational

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Engineering Technology Division Poster Session

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Wes Stone, Western Carolina University; Michael Sean June, Western Carolina University

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regional comprehensive university, making the link with industry very natural. Forseveral years, the ET program has enjoyed a strong relationship with regional industry in theform of industry-sponsored capstone projects with many of those focusing on new productdevelopment.1 In recent years there have been an increasing number of these capstone projectswith an emphasis on quality and process improvement, which are at the heart of Lean Six Sigma.With ABET (ETAC Commission) accreditation, the ET program meets regularly with itsindustrial advisory committee. Seven years ago that committee brought a recommendation to thefaculty of the ET program: add a Lean Six Sigma course to follow the Quality Systems coursealready in the curriculum. That course has

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NSF Grantees Poster Session II

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Juan C Morales, Universidad del Turabo; Kenneth A Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Yacob Astatke, Morgan State University; Michael J. Prince, Bucknell University; Idalides Vergara-Laurens, Universidad del Turabo; Miguel A. Goenaga-Jimenez, Universidad del Turabo

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workshops in PuertoRico serve as the primary means for diffusing the innovation. The first workshop was conductedat Universidad del Turabo in February 2015. The workshop introduced the board and parts kit to16 participating faculty members from four of the five engineering schools in Puerto Rico. Theworkshop also provided pedagogical materials that have already been developed for somecourses, including videos that can be used in a flipped classroom environment. The workshopwas rated as “excellent” with an average score of 4.9 on a scale of 1 to 5. By the end of the firstworkshop, each faculty participant was ready to immediately start exploring mobile hands-onlearning in their classrooms. Twenty Analog Discovery boards and parts kits were handed

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Engineering Physics Technical Session 4

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rodrigo Cutri P.E., Instituto Mauá de Tecnologia; Paulo Alexandre Martin, Instituto Mauá de Tecnologia; Nair Stem, Instituto Mauá de Tecnologia; Keiti Pereira Vidal Souza, Instituto Mauá de Tecnologia

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actions (student activities to improve learning without any evaluation grades,namely, 1.Student support; 2.Technical Staff; 3.Video classes, and 4. Teaching service) anddirect learning actions (student activities to improve learning with evaluation grade, namely, 5.Online exercises; 6. Pre-Exam; 7. Laboratory reports; 8. Active Learning Projects; 9. LaboratorySeminars, and 10. Preparatory Discussion Laboratory Questions).Keywords: Physics, Engineering Education, Active LearningIntroductionLearning is a process. The assessment of learning is a powerful diagnosis that allows teachers toredirect their efforts towards assisting the weaknesses of the learning process as presented bystudents. This paper discusses 10 ways to improve learning Physics as

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NSF Grantees Poster Session I

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ziqian (Cecilia) Dong, New York Institute of Technology; Huanying Gu, New York Institute of Technology; Marta A Panero, New York Institute of Technology

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promoting partnerships for applied research and joint industry and academic projects. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016REU Site Program to Engage Undergraduate Students in Cybersecurity ResearchAbstractThis paper presents the establishment of a research experience for undergraduates (REU) site atNew York Institute of Technology (NYIT). The objective of the REU site is to trainundergraduates to conduct research and also provide participants with professional developmentopportunities from academia, industry, and government agencies. The major goals of the projectare the following: 1) to introduce security research on smartphones and mobile networks toundergraduate students and prepare them for

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NSF Grantees Poster Session II

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University; Michelle Kay Bothwell, Oregon State University; Susan Bobbitt Nolen, University of Washington; Devlin Montfort, Oregon State University; James D. Sweeney, Oregon State University

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of inclusion and a shift in our learning environments fromsequestered activities to realistic, consequential work. This requires a fundamental change in thenature of department culture (values, norms and structure).Project activities include: (1) curricular redesign of 9 core sophomore- and junior-level studioclasses to include more realistic, consequential work leveraging research-based pedagogies likeproblem-based learning and model-eliciting activities; (2) growing faculty and students’capacity to engage issues of inclusivity by shifting their cognitive and affective knowledge ofpower and privilege; (3) planning and implementing student professional development pods,longitudinally mixed student teams where students help one another

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Research Methods I: Developing Research Tools and Methods

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rosa Cabedo, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid; Tovar Caro Edmundo, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid; Manuel Castro, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia

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1982, is a type ofArtificial Neural Network (ANN) model, called Kohonen Neural Network, and is inspired bya kind of biological neural network23. From a philosophical perspective, it could behighlighted that ANNs might seem the brain, and imitate its innate ability to build topologicalmaps from external information.SOM is performed to identify, classify and extract features of high-dimensional data24. Thisnetwork architecture (Figure 1) considers on the one hand a neurons’ learning network and onthe other the training vectors (input layer) of dimension n. The elements of these two layersare fully connected and the training set is mapped into a two-dimensional lattice. SOM isimplemented iteratively so that different areas of the lattice have

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Construction Session 2: PM, BIM, and Collaboration

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carla Lopez Del Puerto, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez; Luis G. Costa Agosto, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez; Douglas D. Gransberg PhD, PE, Iowa State UIniversity

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required curriculum in Construction Engineering and Management programs.IntroductionFrom an owner’s perspective, Preconstruction services (PCS) consist of all the work completedon the project from the conception through the contract award. It includes activities such asconceptual design, feasibility studies, preliminary engineering, and many other activities until theconstruction contract is awarded. Capstone courses are offered at most Construction Engineeringand Management programs in order to integrate and apply the knowledge gained during astudent’s academic degree. According to Gehrig et al., capstone courses “are usually structuredin a manner that requires student teams to design construction operational plans for realisticprojects” [1

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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 4B: Assessing Student Motivation and Student Success

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anne Dudek Ronan P.E., New York University; Jack Bringardner, New York University

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analysis. The poolof students was also expanded to include students in other majors; this increased the sample sizeand also offered the opportunity to evaluate differences between majors.A comparison of the motivations stated in the essays with the motivations frequently cited in theliterature helped to generate the list of motivations. This list was included in the Likert scalesurvey constructed for this research. The process of developing the list of motivations to includein the survey is indicated at the top of Figure 1. Unlike the essay prompt which did not provide alist of motivations to choose from, nor instructions to quantify the relative importance of eachmotivation, the survey needed to list a selection of possible student motivations

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Technology-Related Educational Research

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Krishna Madhavan, Purdue University - West Lafayette; Michael Richey, The Boeing Company; Barry McPherson, The Boeing Company

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engineers thatcan lead to cost reductions and expediting product development in extremely complexengineering environments. The present study, pioneered by a large US aerospace companyworking with educators at 5 major engineering schools in the US, engineering educationresearchers, and practicing engineers, is a first step towards achieving this overall vision. In thispaper, we characterize how engineering students enrolled in a senior capstone course interact andperform on complex engineering tasks commonly seen in the aerospace industry. We describeour instrumentation methodology and the data architecture for an associated analytics platform.We use course clickstreams, social networking and collaborations as the basis for ourobservations.1

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Women in Engineering Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joanna Wolfe, Carnegie Mellon University; Jaime Allen Fawcett, Carnegie Mellon University; Elizabeth A. Powell, Tennessee Technological University

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Page 26.841.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Help Seeking Among Undergraduate Men and Women in Engineering Joanna Wolfe Jaime Fawcett Elizabeth Powell Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University Tennessee Tech University1. IntroductionIn many ways, asking for help with a problem or new challenge runs contrary to an engineeringethos that values competence and independence. For instance, Leonardi and colleagues foundthat nearly every one of the 128 engineering students they interviewed expressed the sentimentthat in order to learn fundamental engineering concepts and skills one had to work alone [1].As one representative

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Building Pathways that Promote Pursuit/Persistence in Engineering

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Corey E. Baker, University of Florida, Gainesville; Justin Dunnavant, University of Florida, Gainesville; Janise McNair, University of Florida

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and impactdiversity in all areas of employment.1 IntroductionThe United States is known to be at the forefront of technical innovation and science, contributing Page 26.862.2significant advances in the areas of communications, defense, health, infrastructure, andmanufacturing, among other areas 1 . Success in technology has been due to the tech industry’sability to develop products which serve the ever-changing requirements of today’s world.Considering changes on a global scale, the world’s population is growing at an enormous rate andis expected to reach 8 billion by the year 2020. Much of the anticipated growth is expected tooccur in

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Civil Engineering Division Technical Session 8

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John V. Tocco J.D., Lawrence Technological University

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, the team members shared their engineering knowledge, along with theircollege experiences, in the mentoring of at-risk girls.Capstone Execution The major design and project management experience for the Civil Engineering Program(Program) at Lawrence Technological University is a fall/spring sequence of two, two-creditcourses, CE Design Project 1 (Project 1) and CE Design Project 2 (Project 2). In execution, thesequence is somewhat akin to an independent study course. Students are responsible for formingfive-person teams, identifying a project, and generating conceptual designs and project Page 26.38.2management plans. Each team member is

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Measuring the Impact of Community Engagement on Students

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jo-Ann Panzardi P.E., Cabrillo College; Kate A. Disney, Mission College & Cabrillo College; Natalia Cordoba-Velasquez, Cabrillo College; Brandon Faria, Cabrillo College; Sarah E. Kalman, Cabrillo College; Patrick Mojica, Cabrillo College; Jose Horacio Jimenez, Cabrillo College

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using practices by Purdue University’s EPICS Program.The instrument had 26 statements from which students gave themselves a rank using a scale of 1(low) to 10 (high). The areas of growth included industry skills, the value of civic engagement,awareness of engineering as a global profession, global and cultural skills. The results from thestudents’ self-assessments showed an average increase of 32% or 2 mean points before vs. afterthe Engineering Abroad program. Students experienced change and noticed their skills andabilities were enhanced after the abroad experience.Cabrillo CollegeCabrillo College was established in 1958 and is an accredited community college located on theCalifornia central coast serving all of Santa Cruz County, the

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First-year Programs Division Technical Session 6: Hands-on Projects and Spatial Skills

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jacob L. Segil, University of Colorado Boulder; Beth A Myers, University of Colorado Boulder; Jacquelyn F. Sullivan Ph.D., University of Colorado, Boulder; Derek T Reamon, University of Colorado, Boulder

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at the beginning and end of each implementation forthose students who did not originally pass. Our implementation approaches to improve students’SV skills included: Page 26.590.2  Intervention 0: No special training in SV outside of regular design coursework (that is, hope for the best); pre- and post-test data available as baseline  Intervention 1: In-course SV curriculum and homework assignments, with the potential to earn extra credit  Intervention 2: Voluntary out-of-class SV workshops with homework assignments  Intervention 3: A mandatory out-of-class, four-part SV workshop series for students who did not

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Capstone Design

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Trevelyan, University of Western Australia

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capstone design courses starting withspecified learning outcomes and assessment requirements (appendix 1) mostly because of mybackground. 40 years of mechanical and mechatronic design experience, current daily designpractice with a small innovation start-up company creating novel air conditioning technology,and several years researching engineering practice provide a rich store of experiences fromwhich to construct authentic learning experiences and assessments for students. Engineeringeducation experiences have also provided insights into effective instruction techniques.The learning outcomes and assessment specification emerged from earlier faculty-wideconsultation including faculty and industry representatives in all engineering disciplines

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Materials Division Technical Session 3

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Isabelle Dutil, University of Toronto; Varuna Prakash, University of Toronto; Jun Nogami, University of Toronto; Scott Ramsay, University of Toronto

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fracture toughness and stressconcentration. The RLOs included: 1. Online “Khan Academy Style videos (KSV)”, 2. Exampleproblem videos by graduate students, 3. Cornell notes, note-taking framework handouts, 4.Tempered glass lecture demonstration, 5. Online homework problems, and 6. New in-class slidesfor lectures. At the end of the first semester following the introduction of these newinterventions, students were asked to participate in a survey to gauge the rate of interventionuptake as well as general perceived usefulness (n=118). The KSVs had the greatest uptake rate,with 63% of respondents reporting that they used the intervention. The Cornell notes had thelowest uptake rate (4%). When asked about perceived usefulness of interventions, 84

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Student Motivation and Faculty Development

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ulan Dakeev, University of Michigan, Flint; Quamrul H. Mazumder, University of Michigan, Flint; Faruk Yildiz, Sam Houston State University; Kenan Baltaci, University of Wisconsin, Stout; Bedelbai Mamadiev, International Ataturk-Alatoo University

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0.93 for different scales, validating the instrumentshigher level of reliability.HypothesisThere are three hypotheses we examined in this paper. 1. There is no significant difference between freshmen/sophomore and junior/senior students in public and private universities in Kyrgyzstan. 2. There is no significant difference between male and female students in public and private universities in Kyrgyzstan. 3. There is no significant difference between public and private universities in Kyrgyzstan.Literature Review The MSLQ tool was designed by P. R. Pintrich and T. Garracia4 and it is designed to measurestudents’ motivational orientations and their use of learning strategies5. The MSLQ is based on

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Focus on the Classroom: Novel Approaches to Course Delivery

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gary J. Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College

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“graying” of the incumbent biomedical workforce andpending retirements was also considered. Some of the committee, including this author, felt thatthis proposed initiative presented an opportunity for the faculty to develop a new technicalprogram that would provide new graduates with the needed skill sets for the biomedical/healthcare industry that would be relevant well into the next decade. The unanswered questionswere, “who would take on this task” and “where would the necessary funding come from?”Interestingly and also unexpectedly, during these prolonged deliberations about the pros andcons of the Beacon Alliance requests, the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC)5, a quasi-public organization charged with administering the ten year $1

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New Engineering Educators Division Technical Session 5

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ralph Ocon, Purdue University, Calumet

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forms of humor10.Table 1: Summary of Mark Nichol’s Research on Types and Forms of Humor (HumorousTechniques)10.Anecdotal Refers to comic personal stories that may be true or partly true but embellished.Blue A type of broad humor that is unrestrained, unsubtle humor often marked by coarse jokes and sexual situations.Burlesque Ridicules by imitating with caricature or exaggerated characterization.Dark/Morbid Grim or depressing humor dealing with misfortune and/or death and with a pessimistic outlook.Deadpan/Dry Humor delivered with an impassive, expressionless, matter-of

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Women in Engineering Division: Faculty and Gender Issues

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Coleen Carrigan, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo; Eve A. Riskin, University of Washington; Kathleen O'Leary, University of Washington; Joyce Yen, University of Washington; Priti N. Mody-Pan, University of Washington; Matthew O'Donnell, University of Washington

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was represented by one or two On-Ramps participants: Chemical Engineering, Materials Science and Figure 1: Academic fields of On-Ramps Participants. Other includes Materials Science and Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Atmospheric Engineering, Atmospheric Sciences, Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering, Environmental Sciences, Mathematics, Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Human-Computer Interaction, Mechanical Engineering, Geochemistry, Fish Ecology

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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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 for  the  non-­‐traditional  students  who  now  form  the  new  majority  in  higher  education  [4].    At  the  University  of  Southern  Maine  (USM),  NT  students  comprise  of  a  large  proportion  of  the  undergraduate  population  [1].  The  National  Center  for  Education  Statistics  (NCES)  acknowledges  there  is  no  precise  definition  for  non-­‐traditional  student,  but  suggests  that  part-­‐time  status  and  age  are  common  elements  [8].    Other  common  characteristics  of  the  NT  student  include:  full-­‐time  employment,  single  parent,  and  eligibility  for  financial  aid.  Any  and  all  of  these  variables  can  accumulate  into  external  obstacles  toward  the  NT’s  degree  completion.  Internally

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Research on Design Learning

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Farshid Marbouti, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica E Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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120 students were asked to provide feedback on sample studentteam’s design work on four different milestones: Problem Scoping (Milestone 1), ConceptGeneration (Milestone 2), Concept Reduction (Milestone 3), and Concept Detailing (Milestone4). Each milestone was a 2-4 page long document describing the team’s progress on a particularaspect of the design project. The feedback from 15 students with at least one year of previousdesign experience (typically from high school) and 15 students without any previous designexperience was selected for this study.Instructors and graduate teaching assistants (referred to as educators in this paper) of the samefirst-year engineering course were invited to participate in this study as part of their

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Design and Entrepreneurship

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bryan O'Neil Boulanger, Ohio Northern University; Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University

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NSF Pathways to Innovation Faculty Fellow. When not working Joe enjoys improvisational dance and music, running trail marathons, backpacking, brewing Belgian beers and most of all enjoying time with his children and wife. Page 26.287.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Blending Entrepreneurship and Design in an Immersive Environment  1​ 2  Bryan Boulanger​ and Joseph Tranquillo​1​  ​ Department of Civil Engineering, Ohio Northern University, 525 S. Main St, Ada, OH 45810

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K-12 & Pre- College Engineering Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hamid R. Parsaei, Texas A&M University at Qatar; Brady Creel, Texas A&M University at Qatar; John S Small, Texas A&M University at Qatar

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-­‐rich  countries,  since  the  1990s.    The  State  of  Qatar  is  one  of  the  countries  in  the  region  that  has  made  one  of  the  greatest  investments  in  building  human  capacity  to  meet  its  development  strategy,  which  is  described  in  the  Qatar  National  Vision  2030  (QNV).  The  QNV,  which  is  the  touchstone  for  all  governmental  spending  priorities,  highlights  goals  for  Qatar’s  economy,  in  human  and  social  development,  and  for  environmental  stewardship  (1).      Qatar  is  a  small  peninsula  located  on  the  northeastern  coast  of  Arabian  Peninsula.    The  south  of  Qatar  shares  a  land  border  with  the  Kingdom  of  Saudi  Arabia;  otherwise  the  country  is  surrounded  by  the

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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joseph Jinlee Kim P.E., California State University, Long Beach

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in a built environment, BIM is amainstream, emerging tool in the AEC industry used for design and documentation. BIM is acomprehensive, integrated graphic and alphanumeric database, through which the collaborationamong the stakeholders can be effectively achieved.1 However, the lack of personnel with BIMskills is a significant constraint retarding use of the technology in the AEC industry.2 Thedemand for specialists in these two emerging fields, which are BIM and green building practices,is increasing tremendously due to the fact that green buildings education, research, and practiceissues are becoming driving forces in academia and industry

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Innovative Use of Technology II

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shuang Wei, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Yingjie Chen, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Tim McGraw, Purdue University; April Ginther, Purdue University

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provide valid mouth-shape-movement comparisonand real-time visual feedback.Computer-Vision-Aided Lip-Movement Correction SystemWe hypothesized that by using computer-vision technology to show the difference of the mouth-shape movements of the user and the standard mouth-shape movements, learners could discernthe differences, and work to improve their pronunciation. To approve the hypothesis, a prototypesystem was developed to test different ways of training and evaluate the effectiveness of themethod. Figure 1: The main interface of the systemThe system (Fig. 1) keeps a repository of practice words and their pronunciation videos. Sincethis system is a prototype to evaluate the proposed pronunciation training method, we

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Design Throughout the Mechanical Engineering Curriculum II

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dustyn Roberts P.E., University of Delaware; Jenni Buckley, University of Delaware

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, and national levels. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 The Role of a Design Studio in a Mechanical Engineering Department1 IntroductionAcademic maker spaces, design centers, innovation institutes, and creativity labs of differentkinds are becoming popular hubs of activity on many campuses – particularly within engineeringcolleges and departments. Some of these centers, such as Stanford’s d-school and Penn State’sLearning Factory [1], [2], have existed for over a decade. Others, such as Boston University’sEngineering Product Innovation Center, are relatively recent developments [3], [4]. These spacesgenerally offer a physical location with