Conference Session

Learning about Power Systems and Power Consumption

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joshua Baumgartner, LeTourneau University; Timothy Hewitt, LeTourneau University; Edgar Licea, LeTourneau University; Nolan Willis, LeTourneau University; Matthew Green, LeTourneau University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

aspirations.1 Introduction and BackgroundMany engineering schools are now employing a service-learning approach to globally-basedhumanitarian projects3,4,5. The importance of integrating both globalization and social needs intothe engineering curriculum is acknowledged by the ABET criteria6, and human need is a clearpriority of the engineering profession, as indicated in the NSPE creed*,7. However, the majorityof North American engineering students are not familiar with the contexts in which vast needsexist, such as those among the physically disabled or the estimated 4 billion people living on lessthan $2 a day (PPP)8. These conditions represent a formidable “frontier design environment”, orenvironments outside the experience and expertise of most

Conference Session

Engaging Students

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Leslie Hadaway, Norwood High School; Megan Urbaitis, Norwood High School; Regina Lamendella, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Daniel Oerther, University of Cincinnati; Andrea Burrows, The University of Cincinnati; Mike Borowczak, The University of Cincinnati; Anant Kukreti, The University of Cincinnati

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Environmental Engineering

-cultural theory as the framework of this research. We look to the process oflearning, not the product constructed as evidence of authentic practice. There is an emphasis onthe interaction between learners and learning tasks. Since STEM education is currently in thespotlight, gaining insights into Project STEP’s sustainability, using a socio-cultural perspective isimportant. Working with the urban youth in Cincinnati, Roth and Lee’s [1] statement that “aresearcher… does not separate the poverty or culture of urban students’ home lives fromconditions of schooling, consideration of the curriculum, problems of learning, or learning toteach under difficult settings” (p. 218) becomes vitally important. Wertsch [2] also shows therelationship between all

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Steve Warren, Kansas State University; Jianchu Yao, East Carolina University

Page 15.956.8includes software written in Visual Basic that allows students to communicate with the board viathe left and right channels of the Line-In port on a computer sound card. The resources on such aboard are restricted when one considers broad use in an EE curriculum. The basic design,however, is consistent with several research and commercial products that use a sound card orUSB-DAQ interface to turn a PC into an oscilloscope.30-34 Other portable data acquisitiondevices exist,35-38 but like the oscilloscope emulators, they do not by themselves meet therequirements for in-home laboratory kits. Two academic collections39, 40 also come close inspirit, but these are not commercially available and do not have the level of integration

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Technological Literacy and K-12 Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Steven Essinger, Drexel University; Ryan Coote, Drexel University; Pete Konstantopoulos, CAPA High School; Jason Silverman, Drexel University; Gail Rosen, Drexel University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

pedagogy, but that may be better suited to a student’s cognitive profile1. In thisproject, we developed and tested inquiry-based multimedia lab activities to appeal to severaldifferent intelligences. A variety of research programs have called for reform in the teaching ofmathematics and science to bridge mathematical methods to interests 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. RiceUniversity’s INFINITY project 8, 9, 10 is a pioneering collaboration between schools and industryleaders to establish an engineering curriculum at the high school level that can motivate andattract students. Also previously, multimedia inquiry-labs have been developed 11, 12, 13, 14, butmost have not been designed and administered by university students, and none have beenquantitatively

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2010 Northeast Section Meeting

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XingYing Cheng; Daren Wilcox

Introductory Digital Logic Design and Bluespec XingYing Cheng1, Daren Wilcox2AbstractMost digital logic courses in engineering curriculums introduce hardware design using VHDL.The three primary levels of abstraction in VHDL taught in the introductory course follow closelyto the traditional steps of Boolean logic, namely structure, data flow, and behavior. However,presenting the introductory material at a higher level of abstraction might just be as beneficial.Recently, a new electronic design automation tool, Bluespec, has emerged that promises a highlevel of abstraction for digital hardware design. In this paper, Bluespec will be introduced inrelation to current VHDL design concepts

Conference Session

Leadership and Strategic Planning

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Monica Cardella, Purdue University; Robert Davis, Purdue University; Shripad Revankar, Purdue University; Loring Nies, Purdue University; Carolyn Percifield, Purdue University; Leah Jamieson, Purdue University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

–PolarityManagement2and Creative Problem Solving3 – have been adopted in combination with BlueOcean Strategy.In the remainder of the paper, we describe each of the three tools (Blue Ocean Strategy, PolarityManagement and Creative Problem Solving) in more detail. Additionally, we describe theprocess that our College used to combine the tools in an integrated strategic planning process andthe approach that our College used to implement this strategic planning process through thecareful formation of teams and the support provided to these teams.2. The Tools: Blue Ocean Strategy, Polarity Management and Creative Problem SolvingBlue Ocean Strategy1A primary goal of the Blue Ocean Strategy is to identify and createuncontested market spaces—industries and offerings

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Education: Underclass Years

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Silverstein, University of Kentucky; Margot Vigeant, Bucknell University; Donald Visco, Tennessee Technological University; Donald Woods, McMaster University

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Chemical Engineering

and detailed design; team structure and teamwork; project planning; written, oral, graphical, and interpersonal communications; use of software tools; discussion of societal and business issues. It also offers three required general engineering courses on applied mathematics and engineering analysis (31). - University of Western Ontario has an 8 credit Introductory Engineering Design and Innovation Studio and a 4 credit Programming Fundamentals for Engineers (48).Option 3This category features a common first-year curriculum, common engineering courses without ChEcontent, and a ChE course. The ChE courses include surveys of the profession, design courses, anda course in material and energy balances. - Southern

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Larry Shuman, University of Pittsburgh; Mary Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Tuba Pinar Yildirim, University of Pittsburgh; Nora Sieworiek, University of Pittsburgh

usable MEAs to differentengineering disciplines; and extending the MEA approach to identifying and repairingmisconceptions, using laboratory experiments as an integrated component, and introducing anethical decision-making dimension [1].Our overall research goal is to enhance problem solving and modeling skills and conceptuallearning of engineering students through the use of model eliciting activities. In order toaccomplish this goal at the University of Pittsburgh, we are pursuing two main research routes:MEAs as teaching tools and MEA as learning assessment tools. Under the first – using MEAs asa teaching tool – we are focused on three main activities: 1. Development of effective model eliciting activities: The creation of MEAs for upper

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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James C. Peyton Jones; Connor McArthur; Tyler Young

code is actually running on thetarget. This development cycle is both practical and educational and is widely used in industry.Specifically, these tools include MicroSoft Robotics Studio (MSRS), LabView from NationalInstruments, and Matlab / Simulink from the Mathworks. The Matlab / Simulink environmentwhich is arguably the most pervasive in the STEM community, is already tightly integrated intothe research activities and educational curriculum at Villanova and other institutions. Simulinkwas therefore chosen as the design environment for the project.The advantages of Matlab for developing educational robotics applications has not goneunrecognized. Dr. Behrens, from the Institute of Imaging and Computer Vision, in Aachen,Germany developed the

Conference Session

Information and Network Security

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hetal Jasani, Northern Kentucky University

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Information Systems

] Rosenberg C., Koo, S. G. M. (2002). Innovative and easy-to-deploy communication networking laboratory experiments for electrical and computer engineering students, Proceedings of 32nd Annual conference on Frontiers in Education, Como, Italy.[20] Yuan, D., Zhong, J., (2009). An Instructional Design of Open Source Networking Lab and Curriculum, Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGITE conference on Information technology education, pp37-42. Page 15.875.13

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Robert Simoneau; Diane Dostie

. Regardless we are, as a team, extremely confident that we will developa working model. When the VIP faculty team leaves a PolyCom meeting they still think in terms of theirtraditional classroom routine and prioritize their approach accordingly. In this scenario the VIP isstill considered an interesting add-on/supplement. The overarching hope, of everyone involvedwith the VIP model, is to encourage a fundamental shift away from the traditional thinking modesof curriculum delivery to one that is more holistic and replicates a “system perspective”. The aim isto have educators routinely including web based collaboration identical to the digital globalizationof today's workplace. Work done under the VIP will enable students to assimilate a

Conference Session

Teaching Technological Literacy - Engaging Students

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Thomas Howell, San Jose State University; Patricia Backer, San Jose State University; Belle Wei, San Jose State University

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Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

-7.10 Bogue, B., & Litzinger, M. E. (2004). Wellness strategies for women engineers: An interdisciplinary course designed to help women engineers succeed. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition.11 Chaturvedi, S., Crossman, G., Swart. W., & Betit, J. (2001). Global engineering in an interconnected world: An upper division general education cluster at Old Dominion University. Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition.12 Herkert, J. R. (1997). STS for engineers: Integrating engineering, humanities, and social sciences. Proceedings of the 1997 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

Conference Session

Enhancing Environmental Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

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Environmental Engineering

called for anew standard of quality, one based on the quality of student development. Pascarella andTerenzini have also concluded that there is an urgent need for a shift in the decision-makingorientation of administrators toward learner-centered management. The main objective of theinstructional module generated by instructors must be to ensure that the subject matter content iseffectively integrated with the presentation format (Grasha, 1990, 1996). In other words, thetask in front of the instructor would be to blend the content and presentation in theory as well aspractice (Gagne, 1992; Briggs, 1991). Here, the instructor assumes the role of a facilitator andeffectively utilizes modern technology to experiment on innovative ideas that can

Conference Session

Educational Methods and Technologies

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Marshall, University of Southern Maine; William Marshall, Alief Independent School District

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Manufacturing

bodily-kinesthetic intelligence”3 to name a few. Gardener views intelligence as an individual’s abilityto solve problems or create products that are valued by society. The implication for teachingand learning is that instructors need to vary the inputs and have a repertoire of strategies forfacilitating learning. The more ways we find to process material, the stronger learningbecomes. We need to recognize there’s no “one best way.”Learning is enhanced in an enriched environment. The physical environment of the classroomis certainly important (aesthetics, climate, etc.), but so too is the learning environment that wecreate to get students to use their minds well. An enriched learning environment is a settingwhere students are actively engaged in

Conference Session

Launching Successful Academic Careers

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Engelken, Arkansas State University

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New Engineering Educators

possible, try to include senior faculty when the praise and rewards are distributed. Some NEE may have an independent streak and want to “go it alone”, as though they have to prove that they don’t need anyone else. A better approach is to include appropriate senior faculty in their research and scholarship activities, and certainly in program and curriculum development. This will serve as a lubricant in bringing things to fruition, particularly a well respected and accepted fruition.11. Although needing to be aware of departmental, college, and campus politics, NEE should do their best to stay clear of political drama, at least, until they are tenured. They should rarely-to-never criticize a senior professor, particularly

Conference Session

Teacher and Counselor Professional Development

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Beth Spencer, Georgia Institute of Technology; Donna Llewellyn, Georgia Institute of Technology; Marion Usselman, Georgia Institute of Technology

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

pathway has always been open to Georgia Tech students, andanecdotally it is very clear that many Georgia Tech students have found their own way intoteaching over the years. However because this career goal was not previously recognized byGeorgia Tech as one worthy of tracking, there is no data available about how many GeorgiaTech alumni have historically entered the teaching workforce.Beginning in 2009, the National Science Foundation awarded Georgia Tech an Innovationthrough Institutional Integration (I 3) grant, entitled Tech to Teaching, to specifically foster careerpaths in K-12 STEM education and to promote teaching skills for graduate students entering theprofessoriate. This program includes various initiatives to draw more science and

Conference Session

Manufacturing Processes Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joel Dillon, United States Military Academy; Harold Henderson, United States Miliary Academy; Jeffrey Butler, United States Military Academy

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Manufacturing

. The results of this assessment should be useful toany program that incorporates metal part fabrication techniques into an engineering course. Page 15.954.2 “Just as one cannot learn to drive without getting behind the wheel; or to swim without getting wet; entry into the profession of engineering, particularly in the area of design, requires far more than sitting in a lecture hall.”1IntroductionManufacturing processes are an important part of the curriculum for mechanical engineeringmajors. Industrial employers have long called for newly-graduated engineers to have bothknowledge and proficiency in manufacturing, and they

Conference Session

Launching Successful Academic Careers

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Adrienne Minerick, Mississippi State University

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New Engineering Educators

Proceedings of the 2010 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2010, American Society for Engineering Educationkey change needs to occur that allows you to view the proposal writing process as an iterativegame which in most cases yields stronger, better conceived, more scientifically solid researchideas. The whole process is a fun challenge that you sometimes win and when you lose, there isso much to learn from it – and after all, isn’t continual learning one of the attributes that drew usinto academia?Now, why do I feel qualified to write this paper 6 ½ years later? To be honest, I still battle thatimposter syndrome17. However, I earned tenure / promotion to Associate

Conference Session

Potpourri of First-Year Issues

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John K. Estell, Ohio Northern University; Kenneth Reid, Ohio Northern University; Laurie Laird, Ohio Northern University

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First-Year Programs

University Ken Reid is the Director of Freshman Engineering and an Associate Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science at Ohio Northern University. He was the seventh person in the U.S. to receive a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University. He is active in engineering within K-12, serving on the JETS Board of Directors and 10 years on the IEEE-USA Precollege Education Committee. He co-developed “The Tsunami Model Eliciting Activity” which was awarded Best Middle School Curriculum by the Engineering Education Service Center in 2009. His research interests include success in first-year engineering and engineering in K-12.Laurie Laird, Ohio Northern

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2010 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

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explore the mechanicalintricacies of assembling the robot. Several teams were required to improvise and troubleshootas an error was made in assembly or different pieces than advertised were included in their kits. Following assembly, the students were asked to use the NXT brick, the „brain‟ of the robot, tocreate a simple program. The NXT brick‟s have object-oriented programming capability thatallows five commands to be programmed and executed. After familiarization with theprogramming language of the Mindstorm, the students were asked to investigate some of thesensors included in the kit by following instructions on connecting the sensors properly andverifying their correct operation. The integration of the sensors into their projects

Conference Session

Educational Research & Methods Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ming-Chien Hsu, Purdue University; Monica Cardella, Purdue University; Senay Purzer, Purdue University; Noemi Mendoza Diaz, Purdue University

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Educational Research and Methods

stereotypical images about engineers compared to the Arizonasample. The differences found between the two studies may be attributed to the fact that theparticipants of our study were voluntary attendees of an engineering workshop, whichshowed their interest and initiative in integrating DET into elementary classrooms. Thissuggests that teachers with motivation to learn about engineering are more likely to projectengineering as a profession involving multi-faceted skills.We found significant differences based on teachers’ teaching experience, which were notevident in the Arizona sample. Teachers with more full time teaching and science teachingexperience were more likely to think that DET is important than teachers with limited ormoderate experience

Conference Session

Outstanding Contributions - Mechanical Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew Green, LeTourneau University; Carolyn Conner Seepersad, University of Texas, Austin; Katja Holtta-Otto, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

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Mechanical Engineering

AC 2010-822: EXTREME EXPERIENCE INTERVIEWS FOR INNOVATIVEDESIGNS: CLASSROOM ASSESSMENT OF A NEW NEEDS-GATHERINGMETHODMatthew Green, LeTourneau University Dr. Matthew G. Green is an assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering at LeTourneau University, Longview. His objective is to practice and promote engineering as a serving profession, with special interest in improving the quality of life in developing countries. Focus areas include remote power generation, design methods for frontier environments, and assistive devices for persons with disabilities. Contact: MatthewGreen@letu.edu.Carolyn Conner Seepersad, University of Texas, Austin Dr. Carolyn C. Seepersad is an assisstant professor of

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michelle Baker, Rowan University; Brian Lefebvre, Rowan University; Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University

AC 2010-179: ILLUSTRATING BIOSEPARATIONS WITH THE PRODUCTION,PURIFICATION AND SEPARATION OF COLORFUL PROTEINSMichelle Baker, Rowan University Michelle Baker obtained her Master's degree in Engineering from Rowan University in August, 2010. She is currently a candidate for a PhD from Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA.Brian Lefebvre, Rowan University Brian Lefebvre was an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rowan University from September 2004 through December 2008. His teaching interests include the development of hands-on learning tools in biochemical engineering and bioseparations. He is the recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from the DELOS division of ASEE (2007

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Laboratories

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chiu Choi, University of North Florida

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

implement proportional, integral, and derivative controllers as Cprograms running on microcontrollers. Applications to position and speed controls areemphasized. The microcontrollers adopted at the present time are the Freescale MC9S12C32microcontrollers. The integrated development system adopted is CodeWarrior DevelopmentStudio for HCS12. The embedded microcontroller courseware is effective for equipping studentswith embedded control skills. This is indicated by the successful embedded control designprojects completed within this course and excellent student evaluations.I. IntroductionThe linear control systems course is one of the most demanding courses in our undergraduateelectrical engineering curriculum. The prerequisites for this course are

Conference Session

Student Learning

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dianne Raubenheimer, North Carolina State University; Eric Wiebe, North Carolina State University; Chia-Lin Ho, North Carolina State University

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Educational Research and Methods

and testing a Computational Capabilities Theoretical Framework.It was our intention that the emerging theoretical framework and the research results from thisproject be used for further research, curriculum decision making and classroom change. This isreflected in the schematic diagram below, where research results have informed both classroominterventions, as well as the design of subsequent stages of the research process.Figure 1: Schematic showing the overall approach to data collection and analysis. Page 15.302.42.1 Initial Industry Panel and Computational Capabilities Instructional ModelWith the goal of defining an initial set of

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xuemin Chen, Texas Southern University; Yongpeng Zhang, Prairie View A&M University; Lawrence Kehinde, Texas Southern University; David Olowokere, Texas Southern University

up of an Internet-based laboratory forinteractive learning. Faculties from two Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU)collaborate on this project, with the aim of revamping some existing laboratories with virtual andremote functionalities. The objectives of this effort are to improve the learning of under-represented student population in the ET program; provide a platform to publish the VR-Labcourseware developed in senior projects; promote inter-institutional collaboration by developingand sharing VR-Lab courseware; develop faculty expertise through research and teachinginitiatives; and disseminate results and findings of the project to other universities and colleges.In this paper, the authors intend to demonstrate their

Conference Session

Potpourri of First-Year Issues

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rod Paton, University of Auckland; Chris Smaill, University of Auckland; Gerard Rowe, University of Auckland

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First-Year Programs

AC 2010-1079: FIRST-YEAR ENGINEERING FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF AHIGH-SCHOOL TEACHER.Rod Paton, University of Auckland Rod Paton holds BSc and MSc degrees in physics from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has been teaching high-school science and physics since the start of 1994. For the past 12 years he has been Head of Physics at Westlake Boys’ High School, Auckland, New Zealand. Rod has integrated ICT into the school’s physics programs and developed problem-solving books and practical manuals to enhance the skills and abilities of all students. His main research interests are centred on implementing steps to improve the problem-solving and academic-writing abilities of high-school

Conference Session

Administering First-Year Programs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Russell Korte, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; David Goldberg, University of Illinois, Urbana

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First-Year Programs

conceptual rigor. It is calledphilosophy and early efforts in iFoundry were devoted to (and continue in) better connecting Page 15.1130.3philosophy and engineering in ways that help change engineering faculty minds through themaking of better arguments.Together, the need for appropriate organizational and conceptual change efforts have played arole in iFoundry’s development from the beginning. However, the coming of the first freshmenin Fall 2009 necessitated more focused thinking about students, their engagement, and how tocreate an experience that would be maximally impactful with modest resources and a relativelysmall footprint in the curriculum

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2010 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Marilyn A. Dyrud

DowChemical, Standard Oil, DuPont, and Alcoa in the United States. Wall Street financiers, such asPaul Warburg, one of the founders of the Federal Reserve System, helped to fund Farben initiallyand were integral to its success. Antony Sutton, author of Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler,suggests that ―without the capital supplied by Wall Street, there would have been no I. G. Farbenin the first place.‖16The companies affiliated with Farben produced an amazing array of products. Initially, the focuswas on dyestuffs and chemical agents, but as the war progressed and Farben became moreintimately entangled with the politics of the Third Reich, it branched out into materials requiredfor waging aggressive war: rocket fuel and synthetics, such as oil

Conference Session

Materials Selection & Design

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yaomin Dong, Kettering University; Jacqueline El-Sayed, Kettering University; Henry Kowalski, Kettering University

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Materials

and lighter products using fiber- Page 15.655.3reinforced composite materials. Through the pedagogical integration of the course project withtheoretical concepts, the course learning objectives are attained. Following is a discussion usingan example of a case study project involving an automotive windshield wiper system. This topicis ideal because, consistent with the concept of Project-based Learning (PjBL) [2], it is a familiarmechanism for most students, although they may not have previously thought about it in depth.This provides a framework upon which new knowledge can be constructed. Because studentsmust work collaboratively in groups