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New Faculty Development

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cheryl B. Schrader, Boise State University; Seung Youn Chyung, Boise State University; William L. Hughes, Boise State University; Kotaro Sasaki, Boise State University; Teresa Cole, Boise State University, Computer Science Department; John N. Chiasson, Boise State University

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New Engineering Educators

expectations explicitly stated starting in year one, using annualevaluations and frequent feedback to help them develop desirable track records.Ongoing institutional support: As described in Section 5, the common comments that the COENfaculty members made about environmental or administrative support that they need from thedepartment, college and university for effective teaching and successful scholarly activities canbe categorized into 5Ps: personnel, place, policy, procedure and professional development. TheCOEN has initiated several action plans that would make improvements on providing support tofaculty on the areas of policy, procedure and professional development.  The COEN‟s TLC is developing more comprehensive guidelines for documenting

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James E. Lewis, University of Louisville; Patricia A. Ralston, University of Louisville; Norb Delatte, Cleveland State University; David Wheatley, University of Louisville

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NSF Grantees

narrowed to two to allow for more in-depthwork on each one as well as a concentrated focus on critical thinking, part of the QualityEnhancement Plan required by University of Louisville’s SACS accreditation.Of importance to the committee was the inclusion of cases that did not always result in death anddestruction. Just as young people are motivated to study medicine by seeing the opportunities tosave lives, not read about the many ways they might cause loss of life; the committee felt youngengineering students might be turned off by studying only failures that result in loss of life orenvironmental destruction. As previously mentioned, a huge part of engineering is learning frommistakes and successes, and not all mistakes result in catastrophe

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Professional Development from a Distance

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Deborah L. Helman, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Ryan J. Kershner, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Diana Wheeler, MA-LIS, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Amy L. Kindschi, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Steven M. Cramer, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Sandra Shaw Courter, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Moira Lafayette, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Continuing Professional Development

EBB task force, and theengineering student leadership group were consulted, and there was general consensus that thiswas a positive direction in which to move. The partners then began to engage in the planningprocess, fine-tuning the guiding principles and developing near and long-term plans for thisnew support-model. It was at this point that two challenges were encountered: 1) lack of clarityabout leadership and accountability; and 2) key personnel changes at the Engineering LearningCenter and Engineering Media Services. The latter caused a slight shift in course and resultedin the decision in February of 2010 to consolidate the Engineering Learning Center, EngineeringMedia Services and the Library into what is now Wendt Commons under the

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Global Engineering Models: Curriculum Development, Improvements, and Partnerships

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jian Yu, Auburn University and Tsinghua University, China; Chetan S. Sankar, Auburn University

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International

AC 2011-2010: IMPROVING ENGINEERING EDUCATION IN DEVEL-OPING COUNTRIES: A STUDYJian Yu, Auburn University, USA; Tsinghua University, P.R.China Researcher, Tsinghua Center for Leadership Development and Research; Postdoctor, School of Eco- nomics & Management,Tsinghua Univ, Beijing P.R.China,100084 Visiting scholar, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama US 36849 Research Areas: Resources Integration, Strategy & Planning of Regional Economy, Chinese Type Enterprise Management Science.Chetan S Sankar, Auburn University Chetan S. Sankar is a Professor of Management at Auburn University. He has received more than two million dollars from ten National Science Foundation grants to develop exceptional instructional

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Best Zone Paper Competition

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donna M. Rizzo, University of Vermont

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Council of Sections

about sustainability than their male counterparts.BibliographyASCE (2006), The Vision for Civil Engineering in 2025, prepared by the ASCE Steering Committee to Plan a Summit on the Future of the Civil Engineering Profession in 2025.ASCE (2008), Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge for the 21st Century Preparing the Civil Engineer for the Future, prepared by the Body of Knowledge Committee of the Committee on Academic Prerequisites for Professional Practice, American Society of Civil Engineers, Second Edition. From http://www.asce.org/professional/educ/bok2.cfmAshford, N. A. (2004), “Major challenges to engineering education for sustainable development: what has to change to make it creative, effective, and acceptable to

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FPD XI: Assessing First-Year Programs, Experiences, and Communities

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jacqueline Q. Hodge, Texas A&M University; Magdalini Z. Lagoudas, Texas A&M University; Angie M. Harris, Texas A&M University; Jefferey E. Froyd, Texas A&M University; Margaret Hobson, Texas A&M University; Jasmine Alysse Pope

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First-Year Programs

priority admission as space permits. The ELLCincludes a scholarly support system of upper class students, faculty and staff. Upper classResident Advisors (RA), Peer Mentors (PM) and other successful returning students providesupport. All RAs and PMs are upper class engineering majors selected jointly by DRL and COEstaff. RAs & PMs plan and coordinate community building activities, organizational officehours, and tutoring for freshman courses at no cost to students. PMs hold help sessions for 4hours per day Sunday thru Thursday. In addition, about 30 upper-class engineering students,known as Veterans, live also at the ELLC and serve as mentors and lead focus groups to assessthe freshman students’ satisfaction with staff, programming and support

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Recruitment, Retention, and First-Year Programs in ECE

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Qing Zheng, Gannon University; Ramakrishnan Sundaram, Gannon University

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Electrical and Computer

students engaged in the hour-long sessionto assemble and test the PCB-based circuit. This project activity has demonstrated that(a) the K-12 student is more actively engaged in the integrated project, (b) gains thesystem level appreciation of the design problem, and (c) has the confidence to completethe project. Page 22.895.2The ECE department plans to host ECE day events with STEM-based integrated projectactivities in ECE to (a) encourage K-12 students to consider careers in ECE, (b)strengthen the undergraduate enrollment in ECE, and (c) link the undergraduate ECEprogram with the K-12 STEM curriculum.This paper is organized as follows. Section 2

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Accreditation and Assessment in SE Programs

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Janet E. Burge, Miami University; Paul V. Anderson, Miami University, Ohio; Michael Carter, North Carolina State University; Gerald C. Gannod, Miami University; Mladen A. Vouk, North Carolina State University

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

Participate in team meetings– includingFind bugs in specifications making a technical argument in themRead someone else’s code Participate in a scrumRead training manuals Structure a plan for a small groupRead with a purpose (different purposes Collaborate with team members (rather than appropriate for different situations) competing as can happen in academe)Foraging for information Make the team’s goals your goalsRead e-mails Communicate across cultures— work with team members from cultures that doWriting

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Communication: From Pecha Kucha to Bullets

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Micah Hale, University of Arkansas; Richard A. Coffman, University of Arkansas

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

forwhich they were responsible for reviewing.PresentationsThe student presentations were similar to many conference presentations I have witnessed. Eventhough the class discussed presentation etiquette prior to the presentations, the majority of thestudents exceeded the 20 minute time limit, and there were presenters who also read every slide.RecommendationsThere are Universities that require a technical writing course in their graduate engineeringcurriculum. From conversations will fellow faculty at peer institutions, the course content canvary significantly. However, a course dedicated to technical writing best addresses writing thana graduate subject matter course. Future plans include gathering faculty input regarding thetopics of such a

Conference Session

Design Education I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Fredrick A. Nitterright, Pennsylvania State Erie, The Behrend College; Robert Michael P.E., Penn State Erie, The Behrend College; Christopher Murosky; Michael A. Ragen

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Manufacturing

students to employ teamwork and communication skills not usuallyemployed during normal coursework. They had to work with other students because their toolwas ultimately going to be used during researchFuture WorkThe students plan to optimize the design once they have completed the Advanced Strength ofMaterials and Finite Element Analysis courses. Page 22.1564.5Bibliography1. Tool and Manufacturing Engineers Handbook, Desk Edition, William H. Cubberly, Ramon Bakerjian, CMfgT, SME.2. Friction stir welding and processing, R.S. Mishraa and Z.Y. Mab, Materials Science and Engineering, Volume 50, Issues 1-2, 31 August 20053. Engineering

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Attracting Young Minds: Part II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carl White, Morgan State University; Clifton Sean Martin, Innovative STEM Foundation (ISF); Maisha Drew, Innovative STEM Foundation (ISF); Givon Forbes, Innovative STEM Foundation (ISF)

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Minorities in Engineering

NASA-JPL Page 22.1437.4using Adobe Connect technology provided by the School of Engineering at Morgan StateUniversity where students were given an introduction to the projects they would be working onover the summer. At this video conference with the NASA engineers, the CASH students weregiven their project parameters. The CASH students were also introduced to the Juno mission thatthe engineers were working on, and their future planned trip to Jupiter. The CASH participantswere able to interview and ask the engineers questions via the video conference. This feature ofthe program was particularly important because the students were given the

Conference Session

New Faculty Development

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Craig J. Gunn, Michigan State University

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New Engineering Educators

amount of text productioncan increase along with their knowledge. Professors can talk about the similar kinds of writing thatthey do and the ways in which they handle the writing tasks. Students should also be required tobegin the process of oral presentation early in their academic careers. Professors should give theirstudents every chance available to speak of the technical knowledge that they are learning. Asinterest grows, planned seminars and workshops can be provided that will emphasize the importanceof the engineering faculty as the catalyst for improvement. Page 22.1263.4The structure of unified technical knowledge and communication

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Tricks of the Trade in Teaching II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Clark Hochgraf, Rochester Institute of Technology

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New Engineering Educators

number of discussion messages and success of teams for the test class.Revision is an essential part of the process.  Plan for and provide fast overnight feedback on the drafts.  Schedule time for this in the week before the due date, to prevent faculty overload.  Be brief and fix only a few things in each draft, not everything. Students will also fix what they find when they re-read it.  Avoid giving feedback 30 minutes before the final deadline. It will be too late.  Avoid rewriting student’s documents even if they are nonsensical jargon gibberish. Give a little feedback, edit one sentence, and trust that it will improve in the next draft.The goal of the revision process is to get students hooked on rewriting.It is

Conference Session

Two Year-to-Four Year Transfer Topics Part I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael T. Gibbons, American Society for Engineering Education; Elizabeth T. Cady, National Academy of Engineering; Catherine Didion, National Academy of Engineering; Norman L. Fortenberry, National Academy of Engineering (Washington)

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Two Year College Division

target institutions, those facultymembers were asked to engage their academic deans in the project and ensure the participationof either a provost or the dean in the June 2011 debriefing meeting. In addition, faculty anddeans at the target 4-year institutions were asked about their ability to examine the transferpopulation of their undergraduates as well as the types of data they would need from communitycolleges to help students plan their transfer. Faculty and deans from all institutions were alsoasked for input on the draft surveys.The survey of the identified institutions is underway. Survey questions for the community Page 22.1158.3colleges

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Two-Year College Special Topics Potpourri

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Angela Minichiello, Utah State University; Tracy D Blake, Utah State University; Wade H. Goodridge, Utah State University; David Dwight Sam PhD, Utah State University

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Two Year College Division

Teaching as PedagogyTeam teaching originated as pedagogy in 1963 when William Alexander, “Father of theAmerican middle school”, proposed a concept of grouping teachers into teams to educatestudents groups as a means for junior high school reform. The perceived benefits of teamteaching, namely the creation of a supportive, inclusive environment for students and thenecessity for teaming teachers to formally engage one another in planning, integration,evaluation, and reflection, have helped promote its use across K-12 and into higher education 7.Team teaching is collaborative teaching. For all of its many benefits, teaching collaborativelyrequires much above and beyond what is required if one is teaching solo. A true co-taught courseis integration

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yongpeng Zhang, Prairie View A&M University; Lin Li, Prairie View A&M University; Xuemin Chen, Texas Southern University

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NSF Grantees

trying to expand the benefit for a broader community nation-wide. Page 22.1663.63. Evaluation: 5 The following is the survey analysis based on the student survey in ELET 3451 Robotics Labin 2010 Fall. The student feedback indicate that the remote lab helped them in the study, andenhanced their confidence in the Engineering Technology program.4. Future Plan: This paper reviewed the first year activities for a collaborative NSF sponsored researchproject to develop remote and virtual undergraduate laboratories for Engineering Technologyprogram. In

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kathleen L. Kitto, Western Washington University; Debra S. Jusak, Western Washington University

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NSF Grantees

from primarily deductive practiceto an Information Communication Technology (ICT) enabled inductive teaching and learningenvironment. In addition to the multi-faceted inductive transformation plan, the specificinnovations that were proposed are to develop MSE education applications for the iPod Touchthat are designed to facilitate and support collaborative learning modules which target specificstudent learning objectives which are known to be challenging for many students in MSEcourses. It is hoped that the combination of specific learning objective targets within thosemodules, completed in collaborative groups, and supported by conceptually contained data,visuals, audio, and information from the iPod Touch, will lead to improvements in

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2011 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Melissa Miller; Randall Reynolds

. Foreman, J., July/August 2003, Next Generation Educational Technology Versus the Lecture. EDUCAUSEReview [On-line], http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/erm0340.pdf , 29 June 2011.2. Starr, Paul, July-August 1996, Computing Our Way to Educational Reform, The American Prospect no. 27: 50-60[On-line], http://www.princeton.edu/~starr/articles/27star.html. 30 June 2011.3. Turner, Wayne C., et al, Introduction to Industrial and Systems Engineering, Prentice-Hall, 1993.4. Geuting, Manfred: Planning Game and Social Simulation With-in the Education Range, Peter Lang, Frankfurt a.M., 1989.5. Plataforma SINC. "Educational Video Games Effective In Classroom If Certain Criteria Are Met." ScienceDaily,20 Feb. 2009. Web. 30 Jun. 20116. Roberts, D., Foehr, U

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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David Hergert

applications6. However at present this has not been the case.Communication problems (including noise and ground plan interference7) are the primary reasontheir use has leveled off. Still, RFID tags are increasing being used as a method of inventorytracking and identification.Feedback from the departmental Industrial Advisory Council on the bottling process labs hasbeen very positive.Bibliography 1. Tiwari, R., Singh, Khilawan. “Virtualisation of Engineering Discipline ExperimentsFor an Internet-Based Remote Laboratory”, Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, pp 671-692 2. Otieno, A. “Development of SCADA Experimental Systems Through Student Projects To Enhance the Automation Curriculum in a Manufacturing Engineering Technology

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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DAVID B. SAINT JOHN; ERIC M. FURJANIC; Richard Doyle; Richard Devon

their own faces. With the involvement student robotics club, we arecurrently planning to help build parts for either a bipedal robot or a quadracopter. Mostambitious yet most developed of all is our prototype of an alternative toolhead and print-bed which, like an “app,” would allow a standard Mendel to preform automated polymerasechain reactions in order to amplify DNA for low-cost testing. Summary 409 Thanks to all of these contributions to the public domain, hands-on experience withcomputerized materialization is now an affordable possibility in the classroom; the CADmodels created by students are no longer simply useful for generating schematics, but canbecome something tangible and

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Ravi Shankar; Don Ploger; Oren Masory; Francis X McAfee

power near-neighbor communication links, with optical/ sonar /IR/RFtransceivers. These will allow the robots to self-organize in response to a chess move conveyed from aphone. Simple cameras will be used for robotic localization and navigation on & off the board. The highschool students will be able to program the robots with different behaviors and plan/play different typesof games/activities. This will increase their interest in the STEM curriculum and enhance their soft skills(team building, project management, communication, systems thinking, abstract thinking, and problemsolving); this will also bring to the fore innovation and entrepreneurship, two hallmark qualities of theUS economy, since these applications can be marketed, with

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2011 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Robert Marlor

been significant.Several obstacles have been overcome in the first few years of NMU SAE club’s existence andthe club has been developing into both a successful student organization and a good setting forproblem-based learning.Description of Baja SAE ProjectThe Baja SAE project is described by SAE [1] as follows. “Baja SAE consists of three regionalcompetitions that simulate real-world engineering design projects and their related challenges.Engineering students are tasked to design and build an off-road vehicle that will survive thesevere punishment of rough terrain and sometimes even water.The object of the competition is to provide SAE student members with a challenging project thatinvolves the planning and manufacturing tasks found when

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2011 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Orla Smyth LoPiccolo

thelecture topic that prompts students to fill in key concepts in blank spaces designed into the noteswhile the professor is teaching. This form of note taking prompts the student to be engaged inthe topic during a lecture rather than trying to expedite their transcription of what the instructoris saying, passively holding a completed instructor provided handout,14 or planning to downloadthe full lecture notes prior to the exam. Research has shown repeatedly that students learn morewhen they are actively involved in the teaching-learning process.1516Per Davis, ―Researchersreport that students who receive partial notes perform better on exams and earn higher coursegrades than students who receive a full set of notes.‖17 In addition, students

Conference Session

Myths About Gender and Race

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carroll Suzanne Seron, University of California, Irvine; Erin A. Cech, University of California, San Diego; Susan S. Silbey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Brian Rubineau, Cornell University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Minorities in Engineering, Women in Engineering

about essentialism, meritocracy, individualism,and exceptionalism trump the opportunity to take a feminist critique to its logical conclusion.We end by exploring the irony of their simultaneous adherence to and rejection of feministcritiques of engineering.IntroductionAt each career stage, engineering is persistently white and male.1 Whether in the classroom2,3 orthe workplace,4,5 research continues to show that women confront a “chilly climate”6,7 wherethey experience token status.8 At the stage of credential acquisition, where engineers encounterprofessional socialization for the first time and earn their degree, research has also shown thatthis climate has consequences for women‟s career plans, whether measured by the likelihood oftheir

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FPD VI: Presenting "All the Best" of the First-Year Programs Division

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kerry Meyers, University of Notre Dame; Benjamin Mertz, University of Notre Dame

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First-Year Programs

)”  type of engineering) Prepare for  Studying engineering in preparation for  “Engineering will prepare me to be a patent  Page 22.52.6Other Career  another field upon graduation  lawyer” or “I plan to go into the air force” Family  Immediate or extended family member is  “My father is an electrical engineer”  an engineer or in a closely related field Broad  Wide range of career paths available   “I can do all kinds of things with an engineering  degree” Groups  Desire to

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Female Faculty, Learning, NSF, and ABET Issues at Two-Year Colleges

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dan G. Dimitriu, San Antonio College; Jerry O'Connor, San Antonio College

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Two Year College Division

and requirements provided. The teams were required to follow and documentthe entire design process, culminating with team presentations of their products to the“customer” and a formal product test with real children was conducted at the museum. Theproject was concluded with a team report and class discussion that provided a forum toexchange ideas and lessons learned during the project. The planning, implementation, andthe results of five semesters of this service learning project are reviewed and analyzed inview of ABET accreditation criteria. Conclusions and suggestions are presented to helpmore schools start using a service learning component in their Introduction to Engineeringcourses.Project GoalsThe primary goal of this project was to

Conference Session

Design Communications & Cognition II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brian Bielenberg, Petroleum Institute

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Design in Engineering Education

skills set as primary outcomes. Human values, socialaspects of engineering design, and engineering ethics are also discussed within the context of thecourse projects. STEPS is a student’s first exposure to engineering design, occurring in theSophomore year for most. The specific course of this study, STEPS 251 PGEG, is a project-based design course for sophomore level students studying Petroleum Engineering andPetroleum Geosciences. Its purpose is to provide students with an experiential overview of thepetroleum industry through the planning of exploration and development of a local concessionarea. The course is team taught, with 1 Geosciences, 1 Petroleum Engineering, and 1Communication faculty all serving as facilitators and providing input at

Conference Session

Computer Science Applications

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeffrey A. Jalkio, University of Saint Thomas; Dan R. Schupp

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Computers in Education

ishappening. Page 22.136.5The professor teaching the education students found that it was advisable to run the simulationtwice with different input values. On the first pass, the students focus on learning the conceptsbeing presented and on the second pass they focus on how they could incorporate the game intotheir own syllabi. The education students found the simulation confusing during the first pass,but were more comfortable with it on the second.Based on the results so far, we plan to continue to use this game in course for both majors andnon-majors. It is an activity that students enjoy and that achieves its educational goals.AcknowledgementsThe

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Focus on Capstone Experiences in the Chemical Engineering Curriculum

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel Lepek, The Cooper Union; Richard J. Stock, Cooper Union

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Chemical Engineering

statement of its significance, that is, what problem or opportunity the action would address) 3. Background (summarizes what has been done to date that has led to the proposed course of action) 4. Solution or Plan (what would be done? how? where?, methods and procedures, expected outcomes) 5. Qualifications (brief bios of the primary team, establishing their competence to carry out the proposed action) 6. Conclusion or SummaryAppendices: i) Budget (realistic, as complete and detailed as possible, including overhead costs, but also economical, bearing in mind that a proposal may be in competition for funds from other proposals) ii) Schedule (anticipated dates for each stage of the process and its

Conference Session

Innovations in Power Engineering Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dale S.L. Dolan, California Polytechnic State University; Taufik Taufik, California Polytechnic State University

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Electrical and Computer

just a simple connection of capacitor or inductor-capacitor combination.Future assessment activity is planned the next time the lab course is offered to assess and henceverify whether the lab experiment meets the objective of increasing students’ understanding ofpower factor correction circuits, along with their advantages and drawbacks.References1. M.H.L. Chow and C.K. Tse, “Theoretical study of performance of continuous-mode boost converters for power-factor-correction applications,” Proc. 1997 International Conference Power Electronics and Drive Systems, Vol. 2, pp. 590 – 595, 26-29 May 1997.2. C.S. Lin, T.M. Chen, and C.L. Chen, “Analysis of low frequency