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Contemporary Issues in Engineering Ethics

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George Catalano, State University of New York, Binghamton; Caroline Baillie, Western Australia

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

implementation strategies: “Promote broad understanding of political, economic, social and technical issues and processes as related to sustainable development. Advance the skills, knowledge and information to facilitate a sustainable future; including habitats, natural systems, system flows, and the effects of all phases of the life cycle of projects on the ecosystem. Advocate economic approaches that recognize natural Page 15.479.4 resources and our environment as capital assets. Promote multidisciplinary, whole system, integrated and multi-objective goals in all phases of project planning, design

Conference Session

Innovations in Civil Engineering Education II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Ledlie Klosky, United States Military Academy; Stephen Ressler, United States Military Academy; Mark DeRocchi

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

betweeninformation about our programs, the profession, members of the profession and students bycreating a significant presence for the department on a popular social networking site. Thispaper presents the outreach goals of the initiative, the nuts-and-bolts of how it was executed, theeffect on recruiting and student excitement and, lastly, the author’s observations andrecommendations for similar efforts.IntroductionIn the summer and early fall of 2009, recognizing the growth of social networking within thedaily lives of our students, we initiated a project to improve the visibility and profile of the WestPoint civil and mechanical engineering programs through the use of a Facebook fan site. Thisproject aligns with earlier efforts by the authors to reach

Conference Session

Design in the ECE Curriculum

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Natalia Litchinitser, SUNY at Buffalo; Albert H. Titus, SUNY at Buffalo; Alexander N. Cartwright, SUNY at Buffalo; Vladimir V. Mitin, SUNY at Buffalo

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

diodes, lasers, and display systems. Inaddition, it has been essential in the development of new imaging techniques for biomedicalresearch, as well as in the development of new fabrication methodologies for electronics. Todate, these remarkable contributions to engineering have largely been ignored in theundergraduate curriculum in electrical engineering.Here, we present our efforts to develop educational modules for nanophotonics with an emphasison how the resulting technologies apply to sustainability and quality of life via devices based onnanostructures: e.g., solar cells, high efficiency lighting, environmental sensing, and other lowerpower optoelectronic devices. Specifically, in this project, we are developing nanophotonicsKnowledge

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching and Assessment Tools

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cheryl Willis, University of Houston; Susan Miertschin, University of Houston

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Educational Research and Methods

more they resonate, the more their CRAnetworks are similar” [9. p. 189]. CRA can also compare all individual word networks bygenerating resonance clusters.The capabilities of CRA inspired three research questions for the initial limited study reportedhere. The research questions addressed are as follows. ≠ Research Question 1: What are the top influential words among word networks of student project reports? ≠ Research Question 2: How do student reports compare across application domain solutions? ≠ Research Question 3: How to student reports compare across report grade levels?MethodThe reports used in this study were created by students to describe results for an individualdatabase application

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

William J. Kelly

students are graded in these courses based upon their performanceon homeworks (weekly), exams (three per course) and projects (that require reports and oralpresentation). Although most examples pertain to biopharmaceutical processes, there is someemphasis on other bioprocesses including biofuels.The MSc programme at IT Sligo (Ireland)The pharmaceutical science programme has been jointly developed in 2007 by the School ofPharmacy at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and the School of Science at the Instituteof Technology, Sligo. The degree is an MSc of the National University of Ireland (NUI). It is of Fall 2010 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, October 15-16, 2010, Villanova Universityinterest to those working in the pharmaceutical

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Andrea L. Welker; Leslie McCarthy; John Komlos; Alfred Fry

engineering geology Junior Soil Mechanics Laboratory Case study of a civil engineering Spring (CEE 3901) failure Senior Foundation Design Evaluation of the resources available Fall (CEE 4801) on a geotechnical engineering project Solid and Hazardous Waste Term paper on a contemporary Fall (CEE 4331) solid/hazardous waste issue Advanced Transportation Design solution for a highway Fall Engineering (also open to juniors) focusing on highway safety (CEE 3235)Activities and outcomes

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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James C. Peyton Jones; Connor McArthur; Tyler Young

From Design to Implementation with Simulink and LEGO NXT James C. Peyton Jones, Connor McArthur, Tyler Young Center for Nonlinear Dynamics & Control Villanova University, PA 19085The use of mobile robotics in teaching has the potential to be revolutionized by a) advances inlow-cost, computationally powerful target hardware, and b) automatic code generation or ‘rapidprototyping’ tools which allow these devices to be programmed directly from high-level Matlab /Simulink-based designs. This paper describes progress on a National Science Foundation andMathWorks sponsored project aimed at bringing all these elements together for practical use andbenefit in the

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Dean C. Millar

students to “hit the groundrunning” when they enter employment or graduate school.Co-op or internship experience- is strongly recommended for undergraduate engineers in orderto gain career related, on-the-job experience enabling application of theoretical knowledge toachieve tangible project results.Fall 2010 Mid Atlantic ASEE Conference, October 15-16, 2010, Villanova University Paper What does it take for a student to become an ideal engineering employmentcandidate now and during the next decade? That is a question that all forward-thinkingstudents and educators should be asking themselves. An engineering education has to beoutcome-oriented; that is, both students and institutions should have

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Chiara Silvestri; Adriana Hera; Malcolm H. Ray; Siamak Najafi

%(over 1000 students) of currently enrolled students (approx. 4500) attended an average of 5 hoursof training. As a result of this program and other similar activities, most of WPI studentsincorporate numerical solutions and simulations in their projects and HW assignments. Finiteelement and computational fluid dynamics analyses are included in undergraduate students majorqualifying projects (MQP) and more realistic solutions are developed.Scientific and Engineering Software Applications (SESA) Training at WPI The SESA training program started with training sessions and technical support on softwareapplications such as Matlab, ANSYS, and Fluent. At the request of students and facultymembers, over the last three years, the offer was expanded to

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Joanne Tuck

free democratic constitution to obtain the participation of technology in governmenton the basis of the number of our members.” (Jarausch 34) Engineers were underrepresented inthe Reischstag and generally were not good at organizing themselves within the political frame.Lacking leadership and influence as a group was unfortunate as the profession found itself at theindulgence and initiative of whatever government was in power. The Weimar Republic (1919-1933) was fraught with problems of all kinds- economic,social, political and image. By the mid twenties, the government had stabilized somewhat andthe economy was improving. Engineers were not committed to the Republic with great loyaltyor passion but were focused on obtaining projects and

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Ali Alshubbak; Saeid Moslehpour; Eugenio Pellicer; Joaquín Catalá

employees, for that; a survey was carried out to assess how can theindustry-university-government enhance the engineering education to initiate acontinuing and evolving process to provide curriculum designers with importantinformation from industry. Schott et al [1] debate the problem of the Australianengineering education system which depends the traditional mode and the “chalk andtalk” pedagogy, they argue the importance of the development of a new mixed systemwhich considers the industry’s needs. May be there no perfect method or procedure tobe followed while designing an engineering curriculum, Dym et al [6] study the project-based learning, but they emphasize the importance of the involvement of the interest ofthe industry in the engineering

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Andrzej Zarzycki

BIM as Design Exploration Tool in Architecture Andrzej Zarzycki New Jersey Institute of TechnologySession 6 : Teaching project based courses and design courses, including senior design course.Recent developments in contemporary architecture have been significantly influenced by theemergence of digital technologies as a primary production tool allowing for new ways ofthinking. These new developments, combined with research into new materials and fabricationtechnologies, make possible to purse imaginative designs that were not possible in the past. While often criticized for its overemphasis on formal expressions and its pursuit of thespectacular

Conference Session

Thinking, Reasoning & Engineering in Elementary School

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Louis Nadelson, Boise State University; Anne Hay, Boise State University; Pat Pyke, Boise State University; Janet Callahan, Boise State University; Cheryl Schrader, Boise State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

physics from The Evergreen State University, a Secondary Teaching Certificate from University of Puget Sound, an M. Ed. in Instructional Technology Leadership from Western Washington University and a Ph.D. (research-based, not theoretical) in Educational Psychology from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.Anne Hay, Boise State University Anne Hay is the Coordinator of the Idaho SySTEMic Solution, a K-12 research project at Boise State University funded by the U.S. Department of Education. Ms. Hay has more than 25 years of teaching experience in K-12 through college programs, teaching German, English as a foreign language, biology, general science, life science, ecology and music. She

Conference Session

Knowing our Students, Faculty, and Profession

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Samantha Brunhaver, Stanford University; Russell Korte, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Micah Lande, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

AC 2010-118: SUPPORTS AND BARRIERS THAT RECENT ENGINEERINGGRADUATES EXPERIENCE IN THE WORKPLACESamantha Brunhaver, Stanford University Samantha Brunhaver is a second year graduate student at Stanford University. She is currently working on her Masters in Mechanical Engineering. Her research interests include engineering education and design for manufacturing. She earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering at Northeastern University in 2008.Russell Korte, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Russell Korte is an Assistant Professor of Human Resource Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is currently a Fellow with the iFoundry project in the College of Engineering at

Conference Session

Student Attitudes and Perceptions

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Justin Micomonaco, Michigan State University; Jon Sticklen, Michigan State University

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Educational Research and Methods

in their studies. Introduced in Tinto’s work, academic integration results from experiences both in and out Page 15.1267.3of the classroom that relate to a student’s academic life and encourage a stronger associationwith the academic community. Academic integration includes a range of academic experiencessuch as informal contact with faculty, success in the classroom, and participation in disciplinaryresearch projects outside of class. Similarly social integration represents a deepening associationto a social community. Social integration results from participation in opportunities that fosterconnections within the community such as

Conference Session

Outreach and Beyond: New Roles for Librarians

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donna Beck, Carnegie Mellon University; G. Berard, Carnegie Mellon University; Bo Baker, University of Tennessee Chattanooga; Nancy George, University of Pittsburgh

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Engineering Libraries

, 9, 10 Similar representational studies regard theeffect of the gender of the instructional agent in generating response from girls. Aninteresting and recent study from Plant, Baylor, Doerr, and Rosenberg-Kima uses acomputer-based learning environment and argues that female agents help generateinterest and encourage girls to participate in engineering-related projects.11Literature advocating pedagogical strategies that encourage girls to participate in STEMdisciplines tends to cover three broad groups: general advocacy and classroomenvironment strategies, reports on large-scale curriculum initiatives with an emphasis onstudents under-represented in STEM professions, and reports of science and engineeringprograms designed specifically for

Conference Session

Fulfilling the CE BOK2 - Case Studies

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Fridley, University of Alabama

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Civil Engineering

curriculum and holds HU core designation. The importance of the humanities to the practice of civil engineering is discussed in several courses, including the concept of form and function – that is consideration of civil works as both art and engineering – within the context of design. The program outcome, however, requires students to “explain” versus “demonstrate.” How one “demonstrates the importance” was a concern of the faculty, but “explaining the importance” seemed more assessable. While many students may be able to “demonstrate” the importance through, for example, integration with certain design projects, most may not be exposed to such a broad experience

Conference Session

Women in K-12 Engineeering & Outreach Programs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ari Epstein, MIT; Beverly Mire, Cambridge Youth Programs; Trent Ramsey, Cambridge Youth Programs; Karen Gareis, Goodman Research Group; Emily Davidson, MIT; Elizabeth Jones, MIT; Michelle Slosberg, MIT; Rafael Bras, MIT

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2010-963: TERRASCOPE YOUTH RADIO: ENGAGING URBAN TEENS IN AUNIQUE UNIVERSITY-COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPAri Epstein, MIT ARI W. EPSTEIN is a lecturer in the MIT Terrascope program, and also in the MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He is the lead developer and instructor of Terrascope Radio and serves as the director of Terrascope Youth Radio. He is particularly interested in team-oriented, project-based learning, and in bridging the gap between learning in formal academic settings and learning in "free-choice" or "informal" settings, such as museums, media and clubs.Beverly Mire, Cambridge Youth Programs BEVERLY MIRE is assistant director for education at Terrascope

Conference Session

Normative Commitments and Public Engagement in Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary Downey, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

do the normative commitments of international engineeringeducators fit or overlap with the emergent image of economic competitiveness?Personal geographies to map differences I and three co-organizers (Kacey Beddoes [Virginia Tech], Brent Jesiek [Purdue University],Juan Lucena [Colorado School of Mines]) invited sixteen international engineering educators toparticipate in a multi-step process to produce personal geographies of their careers. Since a goalof this project is to examine how practitioners understand their commitments to internationalengineering education, we worked with a flexible image of international education as learningactivities that direct students’ attention beyond the boundaries of the home country.Mapping trajectories

Conference Session

The New ABET CE Criteria - Program Development

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald Welch, University of Texas, Tyler

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

students learn best anything that they experiencethemselves as well as normally do repetitively. Many engineering educators havehomework, design projects, and mid-term exams, and many times topics are tested againon a final exam. This process allows the student to first wrestle with the concept at theirown pace in a homework assignment where they can collaborate with others before beingasked to test their skills within a timed event such as an exam. Learning by doing is theprimary basis behind the growth of project-based learning (PBL) opportunities.4 Someprograms have been completely sold on the concept to the point of desiring PBL for alllearning activities within the program.5,6 These collaborative, team design experiencesallow even deeper

Conference Session

Classroom Engagement

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joanna DeFranco, Pennsylvania State University; Colin Neill, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

increasedcollaboration resulted in a convergent mental model of the project in which they were working.We used concept maps to qualitatively and quantitatively measure the convergence of the mentalmodels. While there are many techniques for eliciting and analyzing tacit mental models few Page 15.701.5offer the advantages of concept mapping. Concept maps are intuitive and therefore do not requiresubstantial training and only brief instructions, and they support multiple analysis techniques,many of which are automated, thus allowing larger numbers of participants in studies and lessopportunity for investigator biases. The complete concept map evaluation is

Conference Session

Measurement Tools

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia Ralston, University of Louisville; Cathy Bays, University of Louisville

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Educational Research and Methods

Dr. Cathy L. Bays is the assessment specialist for the university’s regional reaccreditation Quality Enhancement Plan. In this role she provides leadership across the 8 undergraduate units by demonstrating a broad knowledge of assessment, facilitating unit-specific assessment projects and outcomes, providing faculty development on assessment topics, and supporting the scholarship of assessment. For 15 years she was a faculty member in the School of Nursing at the University of Louisville, serving as Director of the Undergraduate Nursing Program for 5 of those years. Page 15.1022.1© American Society

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Aerospace Technical Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kerri Phillips, West Virginia University; Giampiero Campa, The MathWorks, Inc.; Srikanth Gururajan, West Virginia University; Marcello Napolitano, West Virginia University

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

Aeronautical Engineering from Oklahoma University (1989). In 1990 he joined the Department of Aerospace Engineering, West Virginia University, where is currently a Full Professor. His current research interests include Flight Control Systems, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Fault Tolerance, and Neural Networks. Page 15.507.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Enhancing Aerospace Engineering Education through Flight Testing ResearchAbstractThis paper describes the typical workflow of projects conducted within the flight control group atWest Virginia University (WVU) over the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Schneider, Cornell University; Maria Terrell, Cornell University Math Dept.

William Smith Colleges from 1997-1999, and then served for three years as Senior Director of Research and Evaluation at PowerUP, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to expanding technology access and providing youth development resources for underserved youth.Maria Terrell, Cornell University Math Dept. Page 15.185.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Applications and Confidence Inventories for Assessing Curricular Change in Introductory Engineering Mathematics InstructionAbstractThis project stems from a collaborative effort by engineering and mathematics faculty at aresearch

Conference Session

Developing Young MINDS in Engineering - Part I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Massi, University of Central Florida; Michael Georgiopoulos, University of Central Florida; Cynthia Young, University of Central Florida; Alfred Ducharme, University of Central Florida; Cameron Ford, University of Central Florida; Kim Small, University of Central Florida; Patrice Lancey, University of Central Florida; Divya Bhati, University of Central Florida

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

of Central Florida Cynthia Young is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics in the UCF College of Sciences and a Co-PI of the NSF-funded S-STEM program at UCF entitled the "Young Entrepreneur and Scholar(YES) Scholarship Program" as well as the NSF-funded STEP program entitled "EXCEL:UCF-STEP Pathways to STEM: From Promise to Prominence." Dr. Young's research interests are in the mathematical modeling of atmospheric effects on laser beams. She currently has projects with the Office of Naval Research and the Naval Research Laboratory investigating atmospheric propagation in the marine environment.Alfred Ducharme, University of Central Florida Alfred Ducharme is Assistant

Conference Session

Implementing the CE BOK into Courses and Curricula

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Doran, University of WIsconsin-Madison; Charlie Quagliana, University of WIsconsin-Madison; Norman Doll, University of WIsconsin-Madison; Jeffrey Russell, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Greg Harrington, University of WIsconsin-Madison

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

members having extensive professional practice experience can broaden theknowledge base of the entire faculty for the better advancement of the above goals in a numberof ways, including:1. Stimulating students by increasing identification with and relevance to professional practice in learning areas.2. Help students learn how to identify and understand challenges and how to conceive, evaluate and design appropriate engineering solution.3. Help students learn how to prepare effective plans, specifications and construction contract documents for design projects.4. Contributing to research by increasing the understanding of future societal challenges and implementation factors for potential solutions.5. Contributing to curricula and course

Conference Session

Fulfilling the CE BOK2 - Case Studies

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George List, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

.”  These terms describe the relative degree to which a given course contributes to an outcome  based  upon  the  breadth  and  depth  of  relevant  subjects  covered  in  the  course.    The following guidelines are used in determining the ratings.∀ ≠  minor:  The topic  is  introduced  in  course  lectures,  laboratories,  homework  assignments,  Page 15.653.4 projects,  etc.   Lecture time  devoted to the topic  is  on the  order of  one  week  during  the 3  semester.  The topic is covered on tests and exams, but

Conference Session

Fulfilling the CE BOK2 - Case Studies

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth McManis, University of Louisiana

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

concepts are initially introduced in CIVE 101, Introduction to Civil Engineering, and covered as a course objective in the CIVE 444, Civil Engineering Seminar. However, courses involving design and especially the CIVE 442, Senior Design Project, will probably offer the best opportunity for assessment of the student’s ability to organize, formulate, and solve engineering within a global context. Outcome 20 – Leadership: Expectations for this outcome is for civil engineering graduates to “apply leadership principles to direct the efforts of a small, homogenous group.” The attributes of a good leader are introduced in CIVE 101, Introduction to Civil Engineering. The surveying laboratory, CIVE 225L, requires small survey crews with

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

received a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Kansas State University in 2005. Dr. Yao joined East Carolina University as an Assistant Professor in August, 2005. His research interests include wearable medical devices, telehealthcare, bioinstrumentation, control systems, and biosignal processing. His educational research interests are laboratory/project-driven learning and integration of research into undergraduate education. Dr. Yao is a member of the American Society of Engineering Education and a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). Page

Conference Session

Engineering Design: Implementation and Evaluation

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Cole, Northwestern University; Robert Linsenmeier, Northwestern University; Ann McKenna, Northwestern University; Matthew Glucksberg, Northwestern University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

the workplace, answering the question “Whatdoes adult mathematical modeling look like?” Her study involved observing structural engineersat different levels of experience at an engineering firm solving a problem on supports andcompression forces, and drew insight mainly from one extended and detailed observation of theinteraction between a junior and a senior engineer. This paper follows Gainsburg’s six steps forthe creation and use of mathematical models, and focuses on the way that these are employed inan educational setting.Research MethodThis project investigates students’ abilities at generating models that they can use in thedevelopment of their design solutions. We seek to understand how students approach thecreation, solution, and