Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Capstone Design

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Thomas Emison, Taylor University; Kate Yoshino, Taylor University; Stephen Edward Straits, Taylor University; Hank D. Voss, Taylor University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

Computer Science also participate voluntarily in the seniorengineering project under the leadership of the faculty and engineering students. For example, anundergraduate mathematician developed and calibrated Monte Carlo simulations of free-molecular aerodynamics to determine drag effects in ELEO orbits. An example of non-technicalinvolvement is business students who organized events to promote campus awareness of ELEO-Sat. Moreover, the senior capstone course involves local high school students considering STEMcareers through outreach programming including participation in high altitude balloon projects.Similarly, the project provides outreach opportunities to local elementary schools, using spacescience curriculums developed by Taylor University

Conference Session

Pedagogy and Learning 1

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

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Educational Research and Methods

outcomes than any other factorexamined, including the curriculum content factors. The paper focuses on implementation ofproblem–based learning (PBL) in an engineering program, examines different variations of PBLdiscussed in the literature, selects suitable versions for potential adoption at the start, andidentifies and illustrates faculty role in implementing PBL. It also includes a brief history ofPBL, selected strategies to infuse PBL in an engineering program, and suggestions forredesigning courses to catalyze change in the classroom environment through studentengagement. The paper, also, addresses the potential difficulties that could arise duringimplementation of PBL, particularly when instructors are new to this instructional method

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2014 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Kyle V. Moses; W. Michael Petullo

- cision reduces accidental complexity, as it transforms the task The routine art in the field of computer software construc- of verifying the use of buffers in a number of applicationstion does not yet produce software which preserves confiden- written in an unsafe language to the task of verifying a type-tiality, integrity, and availability when exposed to the Internet. safe programming language’s implementation. This is signifi-This is evident as researchers continually find exploitable flaws

Conference Session

ME Laboratories and Undergraduate Research

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brock Philip Ring, University of Central Oklahoma; Evan C. Lemley, University of Central Oklahoma

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

 curriculum.  Three of the  researchprojects have been part of senior capstone projects used in the University of  _____ courses ENGR4882/4892 that focus on a design­related engineering problem for an ongoing undergraduate researchproject. The classroom project (in a heat transfer class) used the PIV output velocity field to determinethe Nusselt (defined in heat transfer as the ratio of convective heat transfer to conductive heat transfer)number of fluid flowing through an isothermal circular tube.14 This project employed numericaltechniques15 to determine a value for Nusselt number and it was determined to be 3.58. This varies by2.2% difference from the accepted analytical value of 3.66. As described above there is also an ongoingproject using the

Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 2

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

M. Austin Creasy, Purdue University (Statewide Technology); Joseph P. Fuehne, Purdue University at Columbus

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College Industry Partnerships

80.9 percent to86.5 percent.1The EcO15 initiative also created a program called the Seamless Pathway that endeavored tocreate certain pathways from high school to college to employment in one of the three main localindustries (manufacturing, healthcare, and hospitality/tourism). As part of that program, PurdueUniversity faculty members are engaged with teachers and students at two of the local highschools with an emphasis on assisting students entering the manufacturing fields. A facultymember is team-teaching a PLTW course called Computer-Integrated Manufacturing (CIM).Teachers and students spend a part of the year on the local campus utilizing computer numericalcontrol (CNC) and measurement tools not available on the high school campus

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chad M. Laux, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

faculty members in good-faith discussions regardingcurricula and the transfer of credit; and creating campus communities that embrace transfer students aspart of the intellectual life of academe”[18]. To streamline the articulation and joint curriculum development process, the team utilizes thestudent-centered Wiggins and McTighe curriculum development model [19]. The Wiggins and McTighemodel employs a “backwards design” that bases curriculum development on desired learning, or learningoutcomes. It is an appropriate model, since course articulation is being based on common learningoutcomes. Students transferring from Ivy Tech to Purdue are granted credit for articulated courses basedon shared learning outcomes. This model focuses on

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2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Jeff Ashworth; Will Quinn

ofthe boundary conditions or required assumptions, the student will not fully comprehend or be able toapply the technique to real world problems after graduation. Many of the major university engineeringprograms familiar to the authors have reduced the student design experience from an entire vehicle toonly designing a small component of the overall product. The students may then use one solutionroutine for the component without having knowledge of the “best” solution for the entire product.Without being exposed to a variety of solution techniques and product integration, the student may notchoose an appropriate solution. Instructors in these programs are giving the students the how, withoutinstilling the knowledge of what or why.To connect the

Conference Session

K-12 Computer Science and Computational Thinking Initiatives

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy Eguchi, Bloomfield College

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

potential to significantly impact the nature of engineering andscience education at all levels, from K-12 to graduate school” [3, para 1]. In higher education,most of the courses that utilize robotics are for computer science/engineering related areas Page 24.852.2especially with introductory level courses [2, 4]. Drew, Esposito, and Perakslis point out thatLEGO Mindstorms, an educational robotics kit widely available around the world, has beenintegrated into curriculums at many higher education institutions across the world includingMIT, Brown University, University of Maryland, Tufts University, University of Aarhus atDenmark, University of Utrecht

Conference Session

Engineering Management Division Technical Session 1

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Don Bowie P.E., Aurasen Limited; Xuping Xu, California Baptist University; Anthony L. Donaldson, California Baptist University

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Engineering Management

is preparing the units for ClinicalTesting. Integration of the Engineering College’s multidisciplinary electronic, software andmechanical design disciplines developed the design. The engineering corporation sponsored aninternship for project feasibility. Subsequently the corporation sponsored three Capstone Teams,in the 2011/2011academic year, which built and designed a proof-of-concept operational unit. Asubsequent sponsorship of two Capstone Teams in 2012/2013 produced an engineeringprototype. Presently a single five-student-member Capstone Team is preparing two functionalunits for Clinical Testing. An audiologist from a local medical clinic has provided directmentoring and patient testing support. The paper also describes the

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Division Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Crystal Jean DeJaegher, University of Virginia; Jennifer L. Chiu, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

an ordinal sequence. Typically, students jumpedfrom step to step within a single design process (e.g. sub-steps within DevelopKnowledge) as well as across design processes (e.g. from Develop Knowledge toSpecifications and Constraints) which led to the higher average of steps visited. Overall, Page 24.820.8results suggest that using scaffolded engineering design approaches in WISEngineeringcan help students focus on important conceptual understanding, which is extremelyimportant if engineering is to be well integrated into in precollege settings. Furtheranalysis of log data is necessary to determine if there are any definitive patterns thatindicate

Conference Session

Teaching Dynamics

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew West, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Geoffrey L. Herman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

very limited applied examples. The course suffered from low engagementand enthusiasm on the part of both students and instructors. Students routinely reported thatIntroductory Dynamics was their least-favorite course in the curriculum, and the department faceda constant struggle to persuade faculty to teach the course. Instructors reported that the coursewas a higher-than-normal teaching workload.The instructional reforms undertaken in Introductory Dynamics involved the following keychanges: (1) an active learning discussion section format, including group work activities and afocus on “real-world” applications of the course material; (2) active learning in lectures usingclassroom response systems (using the i>clicker system); (3) online

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2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

John Murray; Erin Elder; Ryan Bingham; Glen Longhurst; Desmond Penny

InteractionsThe Integrated Engineering (IE) Program at SUU has, since its origin in 2005, included project-based, cross disciplinary, experiential learning combing elements of Electrical Engineering,Mechanical Engineering, and Civil Engineering in the integrated curriculum. All IE students arerequired to complete two one-semester design courses during their junior year, plus two,advanced, one-semester courses focused on the design and implementation of a capstone projectduring their senior year. Students often develop capstone projects for regional private and publicsector organizations as well as within the university. Southern Utah University has recentlyincreased its emphasis on experiential learning on a university-wide basis. According to

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach and Out-of-School Time Engineering Programming and Research

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benjamin Reed Campbell, Robert Morris University; Sarah Marie Riordan, Robert Morris University; Stephanie Abbott; Sarah Mukui Mutunga, Robert Morris University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Paper ID #8977Impact of a 5-Week Collegiate Level Residential STEM Summer Program onSecondary School Students (research to practice)Dr. Benjamin Reed Campbell, Robert Morris University Ben Campbell holds a BS in physics and MS in electrical engineering from Penn State and a PhD in en- gineering from Robert Morris University. For the first decade of his career, he worked as a laser engineer at the Penn State Electro-Optics Center. In 2011 he joined Robert Morris University as an Assistant Pro- fessor of Engineering. Since 2005, Dr. Campbell has served as faculty for the Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Sciences (a

Conference Session

Robotics and Automation

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas B. Stout, Tidewater Community College; Steve C. Hsiung, Old Dominion University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

cost and is easily adaptable to fit their curriculum needs; the autonomousvehicle can fill those needs. With this basic platform, the robotic vehicles can be developed instages. First, it can be driven by an umbilical system, so students learn the basics of its motionand how it should be driven by the controller. Then, the platform can be adapted to thecontroller’s electronics, expanding the system to include the line following, wireless-remote, andautonomous capabilities. Page 24.27.5 Instructors at all levels in the educational process are trying to inspire the next generationof engineers and technologists and may not have the time, or

Conference Session

Construction Materials and Technologies

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rui Liu, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Yilmaz Hatipkarasulu, University of Texas at San Antonio

Tagged Divisions

Construction

: Industry requirements, state of the art, and gap analysis." Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 139(11). 2. Sabongi, F. J. (2009). "The Integration of BIM in the Undergraduate Curriculum: an analysis of undergraduate courses." Proc., 45th Annual Conference of ASC, Gainsville, FL. 3. Becerik-Gerber, B., Gerber, D. J., and Ku, K. (2011). "The pace of technological innovation in architecture, engineering, and construction education: integrating recent trends into the curricula." Electronic Journal of Information Technology in Construction, 16, 412-431. 4. Wu, W., and Issa, R. R. (2013). "BIM Education and Recruiting: Survey-Based Comparative Analysis of Issues, Perceptions, and

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Rasha Gaffer M. Helali

and Reiner Dumke. Software Measurement: Establish, [32] T. Khoshgoftaar, “An Application of Zero-Inflated Poisson Regression Extract, Evaluate, Execute. Springer Verlag, 2007 for Software Fault Prediction,” Proc. 12th Int’l Symp. Software[8] Norman E. Fenton and Shari Lawrence Pfleeger. Software Metrics: A Reliability Eng., pp. 66-73, Nov. 2001. Rigorous and Practical Approach. PWS Publishing Company, 1997. [33] W. Tang and T.M. Khoshgoftaar, “Noise Identification with the KMeans[9] G. Eason, B. Noble, and I. N. Sneddon, “On certain integrals of Lips Algorithm,” Proc. Int’l Conf. Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), Software Metrics SEI Curriculum

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brianna L. Dorie, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica E Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Gina Navoa Svarovsky, Science Museum of Minnesota

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

engage in what was labeled as“precursors to engineering behavior”.1-3 These precursors include asking questions/stating goals,explanations, construction, problem solving and evaluating design.4 However, as “children” growup and enter undergraduate engineering courses, many of these behaviors are now absent, untildeveloped again through the undergraduate engineering curriculum and professional workexperience.5Recently, several design process models have been developed for younger children, includingthose put forth by the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)6, the PBS television showDesign Squad 7 and the Museum of Science in Boston’s Engineering is Elementary curriculum8 (toname a few). Within NGSS, engineering design is integrated throughout

Collection

2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Orla Smyth LoPiccolo

the student if they have to buy the supplies,and storage of multiple years of physical models may In a prior study9 , funded by a Title III Students Firstbe an issue for the institution. grant, the author tested the spatial reasoning ability of students also in 2 non-design engineering technologyWhile there is a variety of literature on spatial courses. A model building project was integratedreasoning and physical models, few studies have into each freshman course to encourage activecompared the effect of integrating student-built learning and to improve spatial reasoning. One groupphysical models or student-prepared

Conference Session

Impact of Community Engagement on Students

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew T. Siniawski, Loyola Marymount University; Victoria Louise Graf; Shawna Leigh Draxton, WISH Charter

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Community Engagement Division

Paper ID #8657Student Perceptions of Design Projects That Involve Developing Assistive De-vices for Elementary School Children with DisabilitiesDr. Matthew T. Siniawski, Loyola Marymount University Dr. Matthew T. Siniawski is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, CA. He teaches the senior capstone design project courses and has recently begun mentoring students on the design of assistive devices for children with disabilities. One of his research interests lies in understanding how these Learning Through Service projects impact participating engineering students

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Thomas Dodson; Nicholas Mattei; Joshua T. Guerin; Judy Goldsmith; Joan M. Mazur

pedagogical goals into the advising Several large public universities in the US license softwareprocess and providing practical directives for practitioners [1], from College Source, specifically their u.achieve product. This[2]. The availability of high-quality advising services has been course requirement checking tool is integrated with theidentified as an area of great importance in higher education. universities course signup system to provide customizedFrequent, high-quality academic advising has been shown to degree audits for students. Concepts from algorithmshave a positive effect on GPA, satisfaction in the advising developed for recommender systems have been integrated intoprocess, perceived value of

Conference Session

Future Career and Professional Success for Graduate Students

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachel Louis Kajfez, Ohio State University; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

fell in the middle of education and engineering students in all ofthe lifelong learner comparisons. Low reliability of the lifelong learner items (see Table 2)mitigates the impact of these findings, and further analysis is needed. Also, as a role “lifelonglearner” may be complicated in that it is an integrated role in professional careers while moreexplicit and separable as “student” in graduate school.Current and Future Role AlignmentThe analysis of the alignment questions also produced interesting results. First, we see that thereis no statistical difference between any of the groups in terms of (a) what they want to do andwhat they are actually doing now (p = 0.260) with an overall mean of 5.220, (b) what theybelieve is expected of them and

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 2

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Audra N. Morse, Texas Tech University

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International

petroleum engineering and industrial engineer may take these courses abroad. However, thecourses will not be approved for mechanical engineering students to take abroad. Facultymembers have been very supportive of accepting the international courses as electives and onedepartment is looking to revise the curriculum to create an ideal semester for the students to goabroad, should they choose to use the semester long exchange as their method of accomplishingthe international requirement. The WCOE will be working with the other engineeringdepartments and degree programs to rework their 4-year curriculum plan to identify the idealsemester(s) students should participate in a semester-long study abroad experience.6. Finding ways to make programs as cost

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Melody Baglione

following is a discussion of the plan to measure student learning by measuring and comparing what TABLE I students know and can do at a minimum of two points in time. FEEDBACK CONTROL SYSTEMS STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES For this project, baseline surveys are implemented at the 1 Students will be able to characterize the proportional, integral, and beginning of the ESC161 course, an interim survey at the end derivative terms in a controller and tune controller parameters to of the ESC161 course, and a final survey at the end of ME151. improve the performance or stability of systems. 2 Students will be able to

Conference Session

Laboratory Experiences with Signal Processing and Controls

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University (Tech.); Yalcin Ertekin, Drexel University (Tech.); Radian G. Belu, Drexel University (Tech.)

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

product or project. This course is an excellent capstone experience, which requires bothteamwork and individual skills in solving a modern industrial problem. Senior design projectsseminars in fall and spring quarters bring the students, faculty, and industrial partners together tosee the student’s results and to give them the additional experience of public presentation of theirwork.The importance of project work in the curriculum of our undergraduate engineering programs iswell understood. Students want and need to know the best industrial practices also. An engineershould be a designer, thinker, innovator and systems integrator. Hence, the educational systemshould inculcate into its students various aspects such as engineering principles

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Girma Tewolde

that integrates the academic curriculum with professionalof regional and national robotic competitions. This paper experience in the industry. So students see the directpresents a pre-college summer program in robotics and applications of their education in the practical world. TheySmartphone programming that is developed for high school also bring back their rich co-op experience to the classroomstudents with the goal of attracting them to the field of that further enhances their theoretical understandings.engineering. The program offers great opportunities for the To offer opportunities and attract highly motivated andparticipants

Conference Session

BOK2 - Influencing Changes to the ABET Civil Engineering Program Criteria and Civil Engineering Curricula

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Allen C. Estes, California Polytechnic State University; Thomas A. Lenox , Dist.M.ASCE, F.ASEE, American Society of Civil Engineers

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Civil Engineering

and reports, the committee engaged in an all-encompassing and exhaustive discussion of all possible changes to the CEPC. The final product was an initial draft of the proposed Civil Engineering Program Criteria. The road to consensus started with a question: To what extent does the typical baccalaureate-level civil engineering program have room for more accreditation requirements given the credit-hour constraints on civil engineering programs around the country? Committee member opinions ranged from the current curriculum being full already to there is still room for seven to eight additional substantive accreditation requirements. The most common response was there is still room for three to

Conference Session

SD Technical Session: Tricks of the Trade

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer A. Turns, University of Washington; Brook Sattler, University of Washington; Kathryn Ann Mobrand, University of Washington; Drew Paine, Human Centered Design & Engineering, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Student

significant, dissatisfaction with the rate atwhich research drives action, as well as the belief that research can be more effectively leveragedto support action, has motivated increased activity around this topic. For example, the funding oflarge-scale centers on “translational science” and conference themes such as “knowing is notenough” are powerful indicators of the significance of the issue. Understanding and being able toengage in translational work is thus an important issue for emerging scholars.Consider, as a public manifestation of translational work, formal research publications. Journalarticles and conference papers often contain statements identifying implications for action. Whilethere exists a large body of literature that focuses on

Conference Session

The Nature of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Session 4

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William A. Kline, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; William D. Schindel, ICTT System Sciences

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

to explore and define engineering innovativeness and the innovationcompetencies4,6. The Innovation Competencies4 for working in a technical environment aresuggested to including three components - Discipline Competencies, Discovery Competencies,and Systems Competencies, in an integrated framework. Arranging these competencies in a 3-D“Innovation Competency Space”, shown in Figure 1, is useful for understanding the activities ofinnovators and visualizing the day-to-day combinations that arise from all three areas.The Discipline Competencies of Figure 1 are those specific to individual technical degreeprograms, such as EE, ME, ChE, CE, etc. This includes competency in the phenomena andtechnologies specific to a discipline.The Systems

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tolga Kaya, Central Michigan University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

. Page 24.714.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Improvements through the Second Year Research Experiences for Teachers ProgramAbstractWe have successfully finished our second summer in our National Science Foundation (NSF)supported Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) Site entitled “Multidisciplinary EngineeringResearch for Rural Michigan's Future.” The summer program was 6 weeks long and hosted 7 in-service teachers (high school science) and 5 pre-service teachers (integrated science majors).Participants were split into 6 groups and teamed up with an engineering faculty and anengineering undergraduate student each. During their 40 hours/week work

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Margaret Scheiner, Florida State University; Micah McCrary-Dennis; David O Olawale, Dept of Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering; Okenwa I Okoli, Florida A&M University/Florida State University

an entrepreneurial twist to refocus senior studentspursuing careers and graduate programs in STEM fields.The field of advanced materials is very broad; however, the REU curriculum focused the studentat several key, real world application-based endeavors. Several projects involving the processingand applications of nanomaterials and multiscale-multifunctional composite materials werechosen to be student research project initiatives. These were selected to equip the students withknowledge in the synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials and their utilization inmanufacturing processes. Students learned the fundamental synthesis mechanisms ofnanomaterials critical to controllable and consistent production. The students also learned