Conference Session

Simulation

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kyle Joe Branch, University of Utah; Anthony Edward Butterfield, University of Utah

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Computers in Education

likely to do their homework in the morning, and lower percentile students tend to stay up later into the night working on them. Anecdotally, these trends are not surprising, but now we can clearly measure them. In our future work, we plan to automate many of the reasonable instructor responses to such data. We may, for example, offer an automated reminder to calibrate if they have not in previous attempts, or we may have the site advise students to do their homework earlier if they’re waiting until the night before it’s due. We are also adding capabilities to detect unit conversion errors, and to notify the instructor when a particular student is having an abnormal level of difficulty so that

Conference Session

Software and Programming

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Clinton Andrew Staley, California Polytechnic State University; Corey Ford, California Polytechnic State University

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Diversity

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Computers in Education

research is to improve online IDEs of this sort by adding means ofdetecting student difficulties, improving compile and runtime error reporting, and identifyingsuccessful patterns of code development.Prior WorkThe behavior of student programmers has been the subject of substantial research. An earlyinstance of such work7 compared successive program submissions in a batch-processingenvironment, finding that most changes affected only one or two lines of the source. A laterstudy9 observed and tracked high-level behaviors of high school students in a Pascalprogramming class, and noted that the students spent most of their time editing and running theirprogram rather than planning or reformulating code.Most recent work extracts detailed data directly

Conference Session

Engineering Management Division Technical Session 1

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Diversity

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Engineering Management

student internsrather than using capstone project teams. An arrangement was agreed to: The non-facultyportion of the professional team would provide “hands on” technical direction andsupport; with the Engineering College faculty having controlling oversight – the studentsare still ultimately answerable to the professors.ObservationThe following items highlight pertinent observations by the involved engineering facultyand the supporting sponsor.Murphy’s Law: “If it can go wrong, it will.” And almost every project has somethingembedded that can go wrong (“The best laid schemes (plans) of mice and men / often goawry.” – Robert Burns). The students seem not to be aware of Murphy’s Law. Some ofthis comes from the optimism and enthusiasm of youth. But

Conference Session

K-12 & Pre- College Engineering Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Nowak Jr., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Daniel A Kaczmarek, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Elizabeth S. Herkenham, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Johnson Samuel, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Diversity

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

planning techniques and finally, the students get to operate the machine themselves tomanufacture the part that they conceived. This tangible final product “rewards” the students fortheir efforts and reinforces their creativity. Fig. 5: Art-to-part demonstration accomplished by the module3.3 Quantifying 3D Space (middle-school students)The machine tool moves in three dimensional space to remove material in a designated location.This requires students to be able to relate the movement of the machine tool to each axis of themachine. Students learn to apply the concepts learned in geometry to be able to move themachine to the location and orientationthey desire (Fig. 6).3.4 Cutting Tool Selection Principles (middle-school

Conference Session

Design and Assessment of Graduate Curriculum

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Homero Gregorio Murzi, Virginia Tech; Prateek Shekhar, University of Texas, Austin; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech

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Graduate Studies

have.This paper is a work in progress; we attempt to identify the relevant engineering education PhDprograms in the country and compare them to understand if there is a consensus on how the fieldis perceived. This initial work will build up into a bigger plan of constructing a full evaluation ofPhD’s programs in ENGE and to measure the impact that the field has had in the engineeringdiscipline. More specifically, in this paper we will answer the following research questions: 1. Do all the PhD programs in engineering education have the same purpose? 2. Are there similitudes between the programs learning outcomes? 3. Are there similitudes between the milestones required to promote the learning outcomes

Conference Session

Engineering Physics & Physics Division Technical Session 1

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barbara Masi, University of Rochester; Dan M. Watson, University of Rochester; Arie Bodek, University of Rochester; Dev Ashish Khaitan; Erik Garcell

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Diversity

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Engineering Physics & Physics

students. The student would repeat this process of studying andtesting until they scored 100%. This meant that in some cases not all students completed allunits. Unlike Bloom’s LFM, mastery of each unit was considered a sufficient measure of mastery(Keller 1974, 1981).III. Course Set-Up and StructureThe undergraduate physics course in mechanics was a typical first semester course of a two-course sequence for students planning to major in engineering. Topics addressed include motionin one and two dimensions, Newton's laws, work and energy, conservation of energy andmomentum, systems of particles, rotations and oscillations and periodic systems. The coursedrew on student knowledge of geometry, algebra, trigonometry, vectors and calculus. IIIA

Conference Session

Teaching the Business Side of Construction

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Suat Gunhan, University of Texas, San Antonio

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Construction

businessdevelopment concepts. Marketing is the component of business development function.In order to understand students’ perception towards business development topic, they areasked what business development in construction is8. It is generally not clear and it isinterpreted as the same with marketing. Is it brochure, marketing, advertisement, sales,business planning, client maintenance? The definition given as business development is theprocess of acquiring business for a construction company. This means retaining those clientsthe company wishes to retain as well as acquiring new clients with whom the companydesires to do business. 2) Is business development performed during construction project process

Conference Session

Curriculum in Engineering Leadership Development

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammadreza Ostadali Makhmalbaf, Virginia Tech; Denise Rutledge Simmons P.E., Virginia Tech

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Engineering Leadership Development Division

).23Research has supported that capstone courses help students develop teamwork skills and increasecommunication skills and technical competencies. A nationwide survey conducted in 2011 among57 members of the ASCE Department Heads Council demonstrates that when the participants wereasked, ―Where does your department include/plan to include management, business, public policy,and leadership into the curriculum?‖, 68% of respondents chose ―Capstone/senior design,‖ whichmeans that the majority of leadership skills are obtained through capstone courses and designproject activities.26 In order to develop nontechnical skills such as leadership, the objectives of acapstone course should encompass many items, including improvement of team formation, skillsfor

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division: Retention of Undergraduate Students

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Whitney Winders; Cariana Cornel; Caralea Cornel, Brigham Young University; Allie Larson; Sarah A. Cunha; Samuel Moses, Brigham Young University; Dale C. Rowe, Brigham Young University; Laura Wilkinson, Brigham Young University

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

in multiple Collegiate Cyber Defense Competitions and Capture the Flag events and currently is employed as a Re- search Assistant in the BYU Cyber Security Research Laboratory. Sarah is an active member of the BYU Red Team which has participated in several penetration tests for departments on campus, and businesses in the local area. Sarah has come to love both offensive and defensive cyber security and is currently planning on pursuing a Masters degree emphasizing Cyber Security.Samuel Moses, Brigham Young UniversityDr. Dale C Rowe, Brigham Young University Dr. Rowe has worked for nearly two decades in security and network architecture with a variety of industries in international companies. He has provided

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2015 ASEE Workshop on K-12 Engineering Education

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Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University; Elizabeth Anne Parry, North Carolina State University

avehicle for teaching the curriculum. Liz is the chairperson of an ASEE Board Committeelooking at making strategic plans for ASEE’s involvement in K-12 Engineering. WORKSHOP INFORMATIONProposed Title:Teaching Sound in Elementary, Middle and High School Physical ScienceAbstract: Please provide a concise description that includes the workshop’s learning objectives(maximum 750 characters). The abstract is used on the ASEE website, program materials, andotherK-12 Workshop promotional activities.This workshop uses an engineering design challenge to teach about the aspects of sound,including its wave nature, how it transfers energy, how it has frequency and intensity and howhumans make use of the nature of sound for our

Conference Session

Concurrent Paper Tracks - Session I

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2015 ASEE International Forum

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Mark Kennedy, University of Portland; Sharon A. Jones P.E., University of Portland

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International Forum

contexts.Because of the wide disparity of experience that can be achieved from various globalprograms, the UP faculty completed a process to define the outcomes for our students withrespect to global engineering. Over the last year, a School committee reviewed the relevantliterature, evaluated existing and planned programs, and met with various stakeholdersincluding several of our alumni who have significant global experience, as well as ourinternational partners (China and Austria). Faculty then reviewed the proposed outcomes andapproved them in Spring 2015. There are three major sets of outcomes. The first two addressgeneral global literacy for the entire university and represent the ongoing work of a University-wide committee. The third outcome

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Pritpal Singh; Amanda Kelly; Kathy Nazar

have beenthree subsequent cohorts of graduates from the program.In addition to the curricular activities to teach undergraduate engineering students aboutentrepreneurship, we have also organized a number of entrepreneurially-minded extra-curricularevents on campus. These include short activities which last only a few minutes (elevator pitch-type events) through to multi-month long, business plan competitions. These activities mayinvolve individual students or teams of students presenting ideas to submitting fully developedbusiness plans and are open to students from all over campus, including engineering students.Of course, every student comes to campus with a range of already developed entrepreneurialskills and mindset. So while the

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Wenli Guo; Weier Ye

problem solving skills. Barber, Pearson, & Cervetti8, from a different perspective,have also noted the importance of summarizing in the physics classroom by saying writingsummaries reveals gaps in learning and misconceptions. That is, instructors can use summarywriting assignments as an assessment tool to diagnose learning difficulties and assess studentmastery of physics concepts. However, our recent literature review indicates that little researchhas been conducted on summary writing in physics, especially in the field of collaborationsbetween physics and English instructors who share responsibility for planning, instruction, andevaluation for a classroom of students. One relevant article that catches our attention is a studycarried out at

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Somer Chipperfield; Kelly Yoder; Sadan Kulturel-Konak; Abdullah Konak

effectiveness of the proposed interest assessment framework.Keywords– assessment, global awareness, interestI. IntroductionEngineering educators and practitioners have recognized the necessity of educating globallycompetent engineering graduates, who will be capable of working globally in collaborative andcross-cultural contexts. According to a National Science Foundation (NSF) article1 titled,“Investing in America’s Future: Strategic Plan”, it is reported that the new challenges for scienceand engineering are becoming global, and these members of the workforce are being asked tocollaborate across national boundaries and with different cultural backgrounds.1 However,limited research has been conducted on the interest of global awareness among the

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2015 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

Authors

Iulian Gherasoiu; Mohammed Abdallah; Digendra Das; Daniel K. Jones; Harry Efstathiadis

thetechnology trends. Summer seed grants are planned to stimulate the collaboration betweenfaculty members from the two sites. The research activity associated with these grants will beperformed in Albany and will allow the development of preliminary project data that couldconstitute the foundation of joint state or federal grant applications. Such collaboration, foundedon common research interests has been started already and has produced preliminary commonresearch proposals. Activity to generate experimental data in support of these proposals has beenplanned for the summer of 2015. If successful, this activity can constitute a proof for the conceptviability, despite the geographical distance between the Utica and Albany sites.ConclusionsThe

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2015 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

Authors

Katie Knowles; Nick Bovee; Duc Le; Keith Martin; Mollie Pressman; Jonathan Zimmermann; Rick Lux; Raymond Ptucha

multidisciplinarysenior design teams will enable the cart to drive autonomously in controlled and naturalconditions respectively throughout the campus. The cart will include advanced sensing andvision technologies for navigation, and use advanced audio and vision technologies tocommunicate with passengers. This paper will describe several factors to consider when formingcapstone engineering student design teams in academia, and then discuss specific issues whendesigning a large autonomous vehicle. Detailed design considerations and safety issues alongwith the actual steps and parts necessary to convert a golf cart into a remote controlled vehicleare covered. The paper will conclude with year two and three plans to convert the golf cart into afully autonomous

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2015 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

John E. Patterson

Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Northeast Section ConferenceSystem VariationIn examining available online plans, several plans utilize differing materials. This research isbased on the premise of using low cost materials and incorporating repurposed recyclablematerials. Jose Alano and his family have constructed a system using PolyethyleneTerephthalate (PET) bottles (soft drink bottles) and used black painted tetra pack cartons (milkcartons). The basic system has a CPVC pipe inside a PET bottle (which functions as the glazing)with the tetra pack carton cut in a manner in which the carton makes contact with the pipe as acollector plate (Figures 1 and 2)3. Both the pipe and the tetra pack cartons are painted matteblack to

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2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Kamran Abedini

appropriatelyengineering education can be planned and how the requirements suggested by the Engineer of2020 can be implemented in a “First Year Experience” type courses. An example of theapplication is provided to properly show the process of learning through re-engineering a productby showing the correlated possible scientific and engineering learning matters affiliated with theproduct design, testing , manufacturing and evaluations.IntroductionEngineering education traditionally has been much segmented consisting of many courses beingtaught as independent subjects. It is typically divided into core, electives, support courses andGeneral Education categories. In many instances a student spends the first two years takingsupport and general education courses and

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2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Tania Martinez; Amado Flores-Renteria; Jasmine Flores; Jolani Chun; Cheng Chen; Hezareigh Ryan; Wenshen Pong; Nilgun Ozer; Hamid Shahnasser; Hamid Mahmoodi; Amelito G. Enriquez; Albert Cheng; Kwok-Siong Teh; Xiaorong Zhang

plan 4.69 Working as a part of a team 4.56 Writing a technical report 4.50 Creating a poster presentation 4.63 Making an oral presentation 4.50Question: Tell us how much you agree with each of the following statements. Activity 2014 The internship program was useful. 4.56 I believe that I have the academic background and skills needed

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2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Rita Melgar; Anthony Nash; Mou Sun; Carmen Tepeu Yoc; Maral Amir; Cheng Chen; Amelito G. Enriquez; Hao Jiang; Hamid Mahmoodi; Wenshen Pong; Hamid Shanasser; Kwok-Siong Teh; Xiaorong Zhang

undergraduate students in a team perform the task of designing a braininspired neural network for edge detection and test their design using a real live camera feed totheir system and producing a live video display showing the detected edges. The design involvesmodeling and implementation of simple and complex neural cells for edge detection along fourorientations of 0, 45, 90, and 135 degrees. The simple cells are modeled by Gabor filters andcomplex cells by a max pooling approach. The models are implemented in Matlab environmentand a webcam is used to obtain a live visual input for testing. The internship is planned over 10weeks and the intern students are assigned a graduate student mentor. This paper presents thedetails of the project, research and

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2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Elaine Gilbert

RFI process and to offer possible strategies to reducing the cycle time.The RFI process must first be defined and analysed in order to find areas whereimprovements could be pursued. One method of analysis is to apply the principles of leanconstruction, presented by Lauri Koskela, such as building continuous improvement into theprocess, reducing the amount of steps, parts, and linkages, and increasing processtransparency4. Once the lean construction principles are established, a plan can be devised inorder to apply these principles to the RFI process in an effort to increase the processefficiency.One method of applying the lean construction principles to the RFI process is to create adiscussion forum format for RFI submittals. Having the

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2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Norman Ettedgui; Joe Cooney; Brian LaBar; Ernest Frimpong; Gilbert Szeto; Amelito G. Enriquez; Kwok-Siong Teh; Cheng Chen; Hamid Mahmoodi; Wenshen Pong; Hamid Shanasser; Xiaorong Zhang

each arm), this command starts the car when the car isoff, and stops the car when the car is on. When the car is on and the user pulses their right armthis increases the speed of the car, when the left arm is pulsed it decreases the speed of the car.When the car is on and the right arm is held, the car turns right for the duration of the hold, andvice versa when a left hold is performed. Finally we plan on implementing a double pulsecommand for when the car is not moving forward that will cause the car to go in reverse. Figure 2. A representative EMG signal showing the difference between a hold and a pulse, as well as the threshold value.B. Implementation of the Motor Control ModuleThe motor control module is

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2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Estelle M. Eke

is executed via the NXT. Occasionally a situation arisesthat demands that both the instructor and the group of students work as a team to resolve theproblem. This allows the instructor to be included in the student’s plan and refrain frominterjecting a sophisticated solution that may be above the student’s level of comprehension.These situations benefit both the student and the instructor and can only be obtained fromexperience.IntroductionSince the Fall 2009 semester, the approach used in teaching the course Introduction to TechnicalProblem Solving (ME 105) has been based on the model discussed in the paper ComputerApplications in Mechanical Engineering2. The mode of delivery is two 50-minute lectures and Proceedings of the 2015

Conference Session

Diffusion and Adoption of Teaching Practices

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa K Davids, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach; James J. Pembridge, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach; Yosef S. Allam, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach

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Educational Research and Methods

Process: Prescribe new environmental Change Process: Empower/support stakeholders to features that require/encourage new teaching collectively develop new environmental features conceptions and/or practices. that encourage new teaching conceptions and/or practices. Examples: policy change, strategic planning Examples: institutional

Conference Session

Community Engagement in Engineering Education Projects

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Orner, University of South Florida; Christine Prouty, University of South Florida; Colleen Claire Naughton, University of South Florida; Nathan Daniel Manser, University of South Florida; Matthew E. Verbyla, University of South Florida; Maya A. Trotz, University of South Florida; James R. Mihelcic, University of South Florida

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Community Engagement Division

integrates varying levels of partnership withthe community, sharpening their teamwork and cross-cultural global competencies. Furthermore,a reinforcing loop has emerged over the years of the course’s evolution, as former students havebecome instructors for the course, grafting their global field experience (through participation inthe Master’s International program12) into lectures and community partnership development.This affords instructors opportunities to improve skills in lesson planning, teaching, andclassroom management.MethodsThis research employed a mixed methods approach to address the paper’s three objectives:1) to understand the evolution of the Sustainable Development Engineering course,2) to compare its outcomes to existing

Conference Session

Fundamental: Tools and Content for K-12 Engineering Education

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Moorhead, NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering; Jennifer B Listman, NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering; Vikram Kapila, NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering

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Diversity

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

, larger-scale, quantitative scientific studies. Brown4points out that criteria against which to measure success of interventions or guide iterations ineducational DBR should consist of development of traits which the school system is chargedwith teaching, e.g., problem solving, critical thinking, and reflective learning.In this paper, we test the hypothesis that the flexibility and hands-on nature of a roboticsplatform will support different audio, visual, verbal (read/write), and kinesthetic learningstyles,5,6 offering teachers more versatility within lesson plans while effectively teaching STEMconcepts to students. Despite a lack of agreement7 within the education research communityregarding categories or, in some cases, the existence of

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International Division Technical Session 4

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathleen Meehan, University of Glasgow

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International

indicate the relative similarity of each of the terms. English spellings of words are usedwhen issues concerning the University of Glasgow are described while American spellings areused in the discussions about the UESTC educational system. American terms for terminologyused at the University of Glasgow are placed in parenthesis immediately after the UoG term. II. Programme Specification = Curriculum = Educational Plan (a) University of GlasgowThe Electronics and Electrical Engineering, abbreviated as EEE, undergraduate engineeringdegree offered by UoG, as is typical for Scottish universities, is four-year programme of studywhereas similar degrees offered in England are usually three-year courses of study. However, thelength of study for

Conference Session

Studying Engineering Education Research & Institutions

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Xiaofeng Tang, Penn State University

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

because of its size Denmark provides us with a kind of social laboratorywithin which to map out some of the responses that have been unfolding under Bologna. Thisbeing said, the institutional responses in Denmark are complicated enough to provide quiteinteresting things to report.The National Responses of DenmarkThe unique response of Denmark, along with the other Scandinavian countries, is partly due totheir social democratic traditions. While shortly after our visit there were student protests aroundthe planned reductions in government subsidy for students, historically Denmark has spent alarge percentage of its wealth on public education.9 Based on 2009 World Bank data, Denmarkspent 8.7% of its GDP on public education, as contrasted against

Conference Session

Innovation in Engineering Leadership Education

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Engineering Leadership Development Division

students to build on their strengths andovercome their weaknesses as they navigate their education.13A guiding principle for the IRE model is that students own the responsibility for their learning.At the beginning of each project cycle, students identify which outcomes will be addressedduring the project. Working with faculty, they determine which learning modes will be appliedand determine what types of evidence they will need to acquire in order to demonstrate outcomeattainment by the end of the project cycle. Learning activities include planning, resourceidentification, self-directed knowledge acquisition, peer conversation, help-seeking, reflection,and evaluation.15 Each project cycle concludes with the presentation of two reports: a

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Technical Session 2

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2015 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; Richard O. Anderson P.E., Somat Engineering, Inc.

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Civil Engineering

accreditation. There will naturally be a gap between those two standards andthis paper will help define the size and extent of that gap.Future work of the committee. Once the Commentary is revised and approved, the CEPCTCwill be dissolved and the implementation of the program criteria will be the responsibility of theASCE Committee on Accreditation. Such work will not be complete by the submission date ofthis paper, so the remaining tasks will be described. The committee’s work is part of a longerrange plan to continuously update both the BOK and CEPC in a systematic manner.Composition of the CommitteeThe CEPCTC is comprised of a mix of distinguished civil engineering practitioners andexperienced academics with considerable experience in the