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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gordon D. Hoople, University of San Diego; Joel Alejandro Mejia, University of San Diego; Diana A. Chen, University of San Diego; Susan M. Lord, University of San Diego

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

focuses on policy and regulatory issues related to developing efficient and low-carbon energy sources [21]–[24].Future WorkAs we move into Year 2 of the project, we plan to develop the learning objectives and coursematerials for the energy course to be offered in Spring 2020. We will explore opportunities forhands-on student engagement with data analysis techniques, innovative homework problems, andlab activities. We will conduct assessment and evaluation to determine the impact of CSPs andmake improvements for the next offering of the course in Spring 2021.References[1] G. D. Hoople, J. A. Mejia, D. A. Chen, and S. M. Lord, “Reimagining Energy: Deconstructing Traditional Engineering Silos Using Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David W. Jackson, Boston College, Lasell College, and Waltham (MA) Public Schools; Helen Zhang, Boston College; Mike Barnett, Boston College

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

planning our second iteration, we are using conjecture mapping [17] toconnect embodiment of educational design with mediating processes towards interventionoutcomes. In terms of embodiment, we believe that formative assessment, metacognitivescaffolds, and team-based learning are key considerations towards promoting the affective,motivational, and cognitive processes in students. Formative assessment will help practitioners,researchers, and students identify prior knowledge, skills, and practices, which could act ingenerative or inhibitory ways [18]. Metacognitive scaffolds can improve transfer of learning[16], which could have averted Clara’s mishap with hashtag-style commenting. Team-basedlearning can improve attitude and motivation [14], as

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brock J. LaMeres, Montana State University; Jessi L. Smith, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

traitendorsements leave ECE before their senior year? Or, does the ECE curriculum somehowchange these students’ perceptions about the prosocial affordance of the profession, andeven worse, diminish their empathy? These questions can only be answered by conductingthe longitudinal study of a neutral classroom condition as is planned in future work.4. Procedure – Video Production Intervention In order to force the students to make a connection between the course material and itsprosocial value, students were assigned a video production assignment. The students weregiven access to a screen recording tool (Camtasia Relay) that is provided to all students bythe university. This tool allows students to record their computer screen and associatedaudio and then

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Biomedical Engineering Division Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marcia Pool, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Marina Marjanovic, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Biomedical Engineering

with the departmental leadership to manage the undergraduate program including: developing course offering plan, chairing the undergrad- uate curriculum committee, reviewing and approving course articulations for study abroad, serving as Chief Advisor, and representing the department at the college level meetings. She is also engaged with college recruiting and outreach; she coordinates three summer experiences for high school students visit- ing Bioengineering and co-coordinates a weeklong Bioengineering summer camp. She has worked with the Cancer Scholars Program since its inception and has supported events for researcHStart. Most re- cently, she was selected to be an Education Innovation Fellow (EIF) for the

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elise Barrella P.E., Wake Forest University ; Mary Katherine Watson, The Citadel; Robin Anderson, James Madison University; Charles McDonald Cowan II, Wake Forest University; Justyn Daniel Girdner, James Madison University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Research Group (IRG). In addition to the Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, Dr. Barrella holds a Master of City and Regional Planning (Transportation) from Georgia Institute of Technology and a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Bucknell University. Dr. Barrella has investigated best practices in engineering education since 2003 (at Bucknell University) and began collaborating on sus- tainable engineering design research while at Georgia Tech. Prior to joining the WFU faculty, she led the junior capstone design sequence at James Madison University, was the inaugural director of the NAE Grand Challenges Program at JMU, and developed first-year coursework.Dr. Mary Katherine Watson, The Citadel Dr. Mary Katherine Watson is currently

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carmen Maria Lilley, University of Illinois, Chicago

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

A leader who is unable to read social cues from a group. A person that is off Inept putting to the team or group. This person can be offensive unintentionally because of lack of social awareness and cultural norms. Managing A leader who only looks at deadlines and tasks assignment. This person focuses on meeting tasks without considering team needs, establishing higher goals, foreseeing problems before they arise, planning ahead, lacking vision, etc. This leader dictates work assignments without input of team or knowing/understanding the skills within a team. Quitting A leader who gives up on a goal when faced with

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division Technical Session 5

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Catherine Anne Hubka, University of New Mexico; Eva Chi, University of New Mexico; Yan Chen, University of New Mexico; Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico; Jamie Gomez, University of New Mexico; Abhaya K. Datye, University of New Mexico; Tracy Lee Mallette, University of New Mexico

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

a commonpain point for faculty: despite providing copious feedback, student writing was not improving.Students complete four 1-credit laboratory courses in their junior and senior years. In this study,we report on changes to three of these courses. Each course included three complex experiments.To make our changes, we reduced this to two complex experiments, carefully considering whichexperiment to omit based on student feedback and outcomes. We then introduced variants offeedback and revision related to two short technical reports. Each lab includes a prelab with a jobsafety analysis (JSA) and experiment planning, as required by ABET. Students complete theexperiment as a team and turn in a draft of their methods during the experiment

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division Technical Session 2

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Debarati Basu, Virginia Tech; Vinod K. Lohani, Virginia Tech; Kang Xia, Virginia Tech

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

and communication technologies have led to the development ofpowerful technological resources for teaching and learning. The 2017 Nation EducationTechnology Plan (NETP) of the U.S. Department of Education recommends that for every levelof education, institutions should utilize learning technologies to facilitate education anywhereand at any time [1]. Specifically, for the success of American postsecondary students includingstudents from diverse socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds, genders, age-groups, and learningneeds, the supplement of the NETP report includes recommendations for using thesetechnologies to leverage student-centered approaches of teaching and learning [2]. Theseapproaches are beneficial to promote personalized learning

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ERM Technical Session 19: Thinking about the Engineering Curriculum

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eunhye Kim, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Nathan M. Hicks, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Matilde Luz Sanchez-Pena, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Educational Research and Methods

relates to the expandingemployment opportunities related to data analysis skills. Further, these results may help toinform potential programmatic evaluations and changes.BackgroundDuring the last three decades, there has been controversy about what data analysis knowledge isrequired by engineers in order to make sound decisions. An important precedent to the modernABET criteria asserted that engineers should appreciate five aspects of statistics [1]: • the omnipresence of variability, • the use of graphical tools such as histograms, scatterplots and control charts, • the concepts related to statistical inference, • the importance and elements of well-planned experimental designs, and • philosophies of data quality derived from

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joel Alejandro Mejia, University of San Diego; Damian Ruiz, University of San Diego/San Diego State University; Vitaliy Popov, University of San Diego; Alberto Esquinca, San Diego State University; Danielle Gadbois

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

“there is a research consensus on themain features of professional development that have been associated with changes in knowledge,practice, and, to a lesser extent, student achievement” (p. 183). These features include: (1) afocus on subject matter content and how students learn that content; (2) opportunities forteachers to engage in active learning; (3) coherence, which includes consistency with bothteacher knowledge and beliefs, and school, district, and state policies; (4) sufficient duration, interms of number of hours and span of time; and (5) collective participation. The APRENDEProject professional development plan will address each of these five features using a researchdesign that privileges problem solving through iterative stages of

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jill M. D. Motschenbacher, North Dakota State University; Melissa Vosen Callens; James Nyachwaya, North Dakota State University; Emily A. Berg, North Dakota State University; Jared Ladbury, Minnesota State University Moorhead; Paul Kelter, North Dakota State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

-year increase (M = 5.2%, S.D. = 9.4% vs. M =16.1%, SD = 21.6% percent of coding intervals) in the amount of time instructors use groupwork in the classroom [t(27) = 2.52, p =.02].Discussion. Gateways-ND will continue formally for one more year (through August 2020). At thistime, roughly 175 instructional faculty and staff will have completed the two-year program,which will, in turn, would have directly impacted the educational experiences of more than30,000 students during the five-year period. The ultimate goal of Gateways-ND is to maximizeinstructional effectiveness and student success in STEM disciplines.References.[1] Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development, “Advancing diversity and inclusion in higher education

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebekah J. Hammack, Montana State University; Tina Vo, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education

Frequency Problem Scoping – Teacher Teacher provides the context of the problem 9.9% Problem Scoping – Student Students define and/or identify problem context 1.4% Solution Formulation Students develop plans 12.7% Student Production and Students build their prototype 19.7% Performance Students test their prototype 8.5% Communication and Students evaluate their testing results 4.2% Documentation of Results Students communicate results with others 0% Optimization Students identify ways to improve their design 4.2% Engineering

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joni M. Lakin, Auburn University; Mary Lou Ewald, Auburn University; Nancy Nowlin Blanco, Project Lead the Way; Jessica A. Gilpin, Auburn University

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Pre-College Engineering Education

componentsof the training before the first day of in-person professional development. The three primaryobjectives of the PLTW Launch Classroom Teacher Training are as follows: “Teachers will… 1) Develop an understanding of the activity-, project-, problem-based (APB) instructional approach, core to all 24 PLTW Launch modules. 2) Embrace their role as a facilitator of learning. 3) Gain familiarity with grade-level modules and experience how to plan and implement PLTW Launch modules in the classroom.”Teachers attain these objectives during by participating in collaborative discussions,experiencing hands-on activities from PLTW Launch Modules, and by answering reflectiveassignment questions, which are graded by the

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Track: Special Topic - Computing & Technology Technical Session I

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2019 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity

Authors

Mihaela Sabin, University of New Hampshire; Wendy DuBow, University of Colorado; Adrienne Ann Smith, Cynosure Consulting; Rosabel Deloge, Educational Consultant-Independent

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Diversity, Special Topic: Computing & Technology

with a summer camp for students, which interwove observations and discussion of studentengagement activities, followed by professional learning activities targeted at teachers' specificneeds. The last two days of the summer institute were fully dedicated to drafting lesson plans andstudent outcomes for the Creative Computing Challenge learning units designed to integrateproject-based app development with each teacher's course subject.A curricular aim of our project was for each participating teacher to include app development(using App Inventor) in one learning unit of one or more of their courses. They could choosehow long that unit would be, and at what point in the school year it occurred. Most of theteachers integrated the unit in both

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Track: Collegiate - Technical Session 4

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2019 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity

Authors

Kristina Rigden, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Nicole Gutzke, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

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Collegiate, Diversity

CPP WE Coordinator is apaid part-time student assistant job. The job duties include writing the quarterly newsletter,planning the ambassador meetings and assisting with CPP WE duties.Table 1Total Female Students Served Through CPP WE Events Year Number 2011-12 1,851 2012-13 1,293 2013-14 703 2014-15 522 2015-16 738 2016-17 841 2017-18 1,779 Total

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Track: Learning Spaces, Pedagogy, and Curriculum Design Technical Session 5

Collection

2019 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity

Authors

Chanel Beebe, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Diversity, Learning Spaces, Pedagogy & Curriculum Design

would add? You as a Person• Would you push any of these areas together? PHASE 2: ONE ON ONE PROTOCOLSelf-Concept• What type of affect do you think your experiences within your college have had on the way you understand yourself? (Encouraging, Critical, Negative, etc)• The way you relate to your cultural background?• How you see yourself as an engineer?Sentiments toward Engineering• How have your experiences in your department shaped or grown your feelings/understanding of engineering?• Do you feel engineering is something you plan to do in the future?• What concerns do you have about the engineering field?• What

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PSW Section Meeting Papers - Disregard start and end time - for online paper access only

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2019 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Shant Aram Danielian, University of California, Irvine; Natascha Trellinger Buswell, University of California, Irvine

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Pacific Southwest Section Meeting Paper Submissions

include a literature review of the research done on student created supportsheets. Next, we describe our research methods, and then describe and present our findings asthey relate to prior work and conclude with our planned future work.1.1 Literature ReviewThe earliest article found by the authors investigating students using support sheets duringexaminations was by Dorsel and Cundiff5. These researchers concluded that the making of asupport sheet is beneficial if the student does not become dependent on it, that is, if the studentknows they will not use it during the exam, they perform just as well, if not better than if thesupport sheet was not made. This suggests that the act of making a support sheet is beneficial toexam performance. During

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DISTINGUISHED LECTURE: 2018 Best PIC and Zone Paper Presentations

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amelito G. Enriquez, Canada College

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ASEE Board of Directors

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2019 ASEE Zone I Conference & Workshop

Authors

Praneetha Kuppili; Shrutika Ambade; Raj Tailor; M. Ali Montazer

. We are trying to implement thiswith the help of programming languages like Python. This will take a little while as it involvescoding, testing and various other things.This structure is as shown in Figure 7. 8Figure 6: Book ordering process without the Blockchain technology Figure 7: Book ordering system with the Blockchain technology 91.8 DiscussionIn an overall picture we saw that 2.78% of students were interested in taking up projects inBlockchain as a team. And this percentage had more female responses relatively. Now usingthese number of freshmen, we plan at forming groups

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2019 ASEE Zone I Conference & Workshop

Authors

Tobias Ferl; Stephen Hills

(NEO-6m) with Arduino. Retrievedcross-disciplinary nature contributes to self- from Arduino Project Hub:paced student work, study, and discovery. https://create.arduino.cc/projecthub/ruchiMost programs can put forward the modest r1674/how-to-interface-gps-module-neo-budget needed for the project. To date our 6m-with-arduino-8f90ad. Accessed 04power and control system components have December 2018.totaled less than $1000. The “MaxiMOOP” 7. B.P. Lathi and Roger Green. Linearhull our Naval Architecture Department is Systems and Signals. Oxford Universityconstructing for the ASV was designed to be Press (2018).a cost affordable platform and plans are 8

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First-Year Programs: Mathematics in the First Year

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leroy L. Long III, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Claudia Morello, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

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First-Year Programs, Mathematics

% Unknown… 7% International 13% 0% 20% 40% 60% Figure 2: Race/Ethnicity of the Institution’s Students 4Data Collection and Analysis. The primary method for data collection consisted of open-endedsurvey items via the EGR_Math course management system. Survey items were developed in theform of one-minute papers, exam wrappers and midterm feedback (Angelo & Cross, 1993;Eberly Center, 2019a). Students were encouraged to complete electronic one-minute papersduring the final few minutes of each class and lab to help instructors plan for the following

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Military and Veterans Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alyson Grace Eggleston, The Citadel; Robert J. Rabb P.E., The Citadel

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Diversity

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Military and Veterans

final product was evaluated by peer teams at The Citadel. • Getting Started: Provides learner content and primers in how to use site resources, creating a profile, and registering student teams. Example successful project proposals are detailed, and students are asked to complete a resource checklist and then send all proposals to iFixit. • Milestone 1: Provides resources for the creation of a troubleshooting wiki for each device, with planned repair guides linked under appropriate sections. Troubleshooting wikis provide general device information, and require students to research known common repairs as well as anticipate repairs that are likely to be needed due to the normal wear of moving

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Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Louis Reis, Louisiana Tech University; Samira Fazel Anvaryazdi, Louisiana Tech University

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Mechanical Engineering

Entrepreneurial Mindset (ICE) - KEEN ICE Award and joined a KEEN Innovative Teaching (KIT) faculty member and become part of a unique cohort of faculty who are commit- ted to improving engineering education. The overall goal of her Ph.D. research is to improve healthcare operations through systems engineering and optimization while focusing on operations and health out- come metrics. Going forward, she plans to continue and broaden this research in support of two overall goals: maximizing the long-run average daily net profit of a medical system from business perspective as well as quality of life from human being aspect. She believes teaching is a very challenging and promising effort. At the end of each class, instructors

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Experiences

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael A. Gennert, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Nima Lotfi, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; James A. Mynderse, Lawrence Technological University; Monique Jethwani; Vikram Kapila, NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

bydesigning smart systems and processes that will improve human welfare. One’s ability tomeaningfully contribute to this field requires her/him to acquire an interdisciplinary knowledgeof mechanical, electrical, computer, software, and systems engineering to oversee the entiredesign and development process of emerging MRE systems. There have been many educationalefforts around MRE, including courses, minors, and degree programs, but they have not beenwell integrated or widely adopted. Now is the time for MRE to coalesce as a distinct andidentifiable engineering discipline. To this end, and with support from the National ScienceFoundation, the authors have planned three workshops, the first of which has concluded, on thefuture of MRE education at the

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M3B: Learning in Context 2

Collection

2019 FYEE Conference

Authors

Haolin Zhu, Arizona State University; Alicia Baumann, Arizona State University; Gary Lichtenstein, Arizona State University

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FYEE Conference - Paper Submission

outcomes into a framework that provides teachable content in a first-yearengineering design course, a rubric was devised to help faculty plan modules that incorporateEM goals by categorizing the 17 behaviors into eight Topic Areas. This rubric is designed for afirst-year, project-based design course only and may not be suitable for upper level technicalcourses. The eight topic areas include; Opportunity Identification, Customer Discovery,Evaluating Solutions, Ideation, Rapid Prototyping, Design Iteration, Potential Value Evaluation,and Market Factors. Table 2: EM Topic Area to Behavioral Outcome Correlation EM Topic Area EM Behavioral Outcome Problem Identification

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Graduate Student Writing and Communication

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Jane Bork, University of Michigan; Joi-lynn Mondisa, University of Michigan

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Graduate Studies

/W1siZiIsIjIwMTQvMDgvMDEvMTJf MzBfNTRfNDI0X0hNU19Db2RlYm9vay5wZGYiXV0/HMS_Codebook.pdf.[21] K. Kroenke, R. Spitzer, & J. Williams, “The PHQ‐9: validity of a brief depression severity measurem,” Journal of general internal medicine, 16(9), pp. 606-613, 2001.[22] T. Henderson, “Exploring the Post-graduation Benefits of High-Impact Practices in Engineering: Implications for Retention and Advancement in Industry,” in ASEE: Proceedings of the 124th Annual Conference and Exposition 2017, Columbus, OH, USA, June 25-28, 2017.[23] T. Henderson, K. Shoemaker and L. Lattuca, “Early-career Plans in Engineering: Insights from the Theory of Planned Behavior,” in ASEE: Proceedings of the 125th Annual Conference and Exposition 2018

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SED Technical Session: Applications

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angran Xiao, New York City College of Technology; Rafaela Alba, New York City College of Technology; Ozlem Yasar, City University of New York, New York City College of Technology; Andy Zhang, New York City College of Technology; Gaffar Barakat Gailani, New York City College of Technology

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Systems Engineering

methodology. The comparison shows that although methodology designers spent moretime at the beginning stage when they engaged in a design project, they tend to handlecomplexity well and reach optimal design results faster. Daalhuizen et al. [4] comparedsystematic and heuristic design methods, and claimed that systematic methods prompt a designerto reach “optimal rather than satisfactory results” while heuristic methods prompt a designer toreach “satisfactory rather than optimal results”. Atman et al. [5] compared the design behaviorsof expert practitioners and students, and provided some suggestions for students who plan toadopt system design methodology, such as scoping a design problem before diving into a detaileddesign, gathering large amounts of

Conference Session

Technical Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edris Ebrahimzadeh P.E., Des Moines Area Community College; Nick M. Safai, Salt Lake Community College

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International

. Performed various consulting tasks from USA for several oil companies (Jawaby Oil Service Co., WAHA Oil and Oasis Co., London, England). The responsibilities included production planning, forecasting and reservoir maintenance. This production planning and forecasting consisted of history matching and c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Paper ID #24749prediction based on selected drilling. The reservoir maintenance included: water/gas injection and gas liftfor selected wells to optimize reservoir production plateau and prolonging well’s economic life.Terra Tek, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT, 1985-1987; Director

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Multidisciplinary Endeavors: Engineering and Liberal Arts

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alyson Grace Eggleston, The Citadel; Robert J. Rabb P.E., The Citadel

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

to know and be able to do by the time of graduation.”One of the Student Outcomes for the 2019-2020 cycle is “(5) an ability to function effectively ona team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusiveenvironment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives ” [7]. These strategic documentsguide all engineering programs and are more than aspirational. They are meant to affect change,so implementing action to produce students with habitually effective leadership skills starts withthe faculty.BackgroundToday's students are usually very comfortable with technology, have shorter attention spans, alower threshold for boredom, resist memorization and homework and favor action to observation[8]. Learning

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Embedded Systems & Cybersecurity for ECE

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shiny Abraham, Seattle University; Mehmet Vurkaç, Seattle University; Agnieszka Miguel, Seattle University; Nhan K. Nguyen, Seattle University; Olsen John Salgado Ong, Seattle University

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Electrical and Computer

course at Seattle University, for two consecutive years. Laboratorycomponents in the course utilize the MRK+Line robotics kit, based on the DIGILENT chipKITPro MX4 development board, which uses a Microchip PIC32MX microcontroller, based on theMIPS architecture. Hardware and Software platforms used exclusively for the IoT projects willbe introduced in the following section.ImplementationIoT-based activities for the Embedded Systems course were planned and implemented for twoquarters; fall 2017 and fall 2018. This course is required for students pursuing a BS in ElectricalEngineering with a Computer Engineering Specialization at Seattle University, and an electivefor students in the Electrical Engineering program. The course is open to both