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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies: Bring-Your-Own-Experiments 1

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Harry Courtney Powell, University of Virginia; Joanne Bechta Dugan, University of Virginia

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

one-semester capstone class. These half-courses allow students to exploreembedded system interfacing or higher-level embedded concepts while planning andinvestigating ideas for their capstone project.Our objective in this presentation is to give other educators working with courses in EmbeddedComputing a description of our laboratory experiments that have been shown to provide studentswith a contextual basis for the relevance of the in-lab experience1. We will describe theseexperiments in a high level way and show how they build on earlier BYOE presentation materialfrom the University of Virginia. In showing how we structured these experimental courses, alongwith the actual experiments, we provide insight on how individual institutions may

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University; John L. Falconer, University of Colorado, Boulder; David L. Silverstein P.E., University of Kentucky; Bill Jay Brooks, Oregon State University; Debra May Friedrichsen; Christina Smith, Oregon State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Curriculum – Year 4Overview and ObjectivesWe report on the progress of the fourth year of a CCLI Type 2 project. The goal of this project isto create a community of learning within the discipline of chemical engineering (ChE) focusedon concept-based instruction. The project plan is to develop and promote the use of a cyber-enabled infrastructure for conceptual questions, the AIChE Concept Warehouse, whichultimately could be used throughout the core ChE curriculum (Material and Energy Balances,Thermodynamics, Transport Phenomena, Kinetics and Reactor Design, and Materials Science).Conceptual questions, both as Concept Inventories and ConcepTests, are available through aninteractive website maintained through the Education Division of the American

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Mechanical Engineering Capstone Design

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jared David Berezin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Jane Kokernak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Mechanical Engineering

-stakes meeting may have reducedsocial loafing and contributed overall to students’ verbal participation.I. IntroductionIn the workplace and the academy, professional engineers, researchers, and students typicallyfunction in teams. Even if individual team members have diverse technical backgrounds andexpertise, the effectiveness of their work together depends on more than engineering ‘chops’. Inorder to negotiate, plan, motivate, and integrate tasks at the team and even department level,engineers must practice and become skilled at interpersonal tasks like “communication,collaboration, networking, feedback provision and reception, teamwork, lifelong learning, andcultural understanding”1. As a collective rather than individual endeavor, the

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2015 ASEE Workshop on K-12 Engineering Education

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Julie Lucier, Frenchtown School District; Julian Fallon Collins, Montana State University

in the time allotted, we will discuss anddemonstrate a car with a 3:1 gear ratio and explain that they will need more torque to climb theincline. Once participants have a prototype to test, they will sketch their model on a design sheetand proceed to the ramp for testing. At the ramp, torque will be measured prior to the hill climb.Throughout our presentation, numerous scientific concepts will be discussed including force,friction, torque, simple machines, and gears. Participants will also utilize several math standardsincluding the concept of ratio, ratio language and proportional relationships.Participants will receive a ten-day unit plan with all resources and necessary information indetail. They will also receive all student worksheets

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2015 ASEE Workshop on K-12 Engineering Education

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Thomas Haas, University of Cincinnati

theengineering design process to find a solution to the challenge. The goal is to time the stuntperfectly so that the free falling object nearly misses the CO2 car. Videos of students’ success andfailure will be shown at the end as well as student testimonials of the project. The testimonialswill show a higher level of student engagement and a deeper understanding of quadraticfunctions as a result of the challenge. The engineering design process is stressed during thechallenge to show students a proven method that is used by professionals to tackle challenges orsocietal issues. Students are encouraged at the end of the project to use the process to solve otherreal life problems. Hard copies of lesson plans will be provided to attendees.Authentic

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2015 ASEE Workshop on K-12 Engineering Education

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Cheryl Farmer, University of Texas, Austin

will graduate from The University of Texas at Austin with a Master of Arts inSTEM Education with a special focus on Engineering. WORKSHOP INFORMATIONProposed Title:Hands-On Standards: Using an Engineering Mini-Challenge to “Bundle” StandardsAbstract: 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, andother K-12 Workshop promotional activities.Participants of this workshop will engage in activities from a project-based engineeringcurriculum by discussing how a class can plan and carry out an experiment to identify optimalsolutions to a stated engineering problem, analyzing a provided data set

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2015 ASEE Workshop on K-12 Engineering Education

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James Holly Jr., Purdue University; Aran W Glancy, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Tamara J Moore, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Page 18.24.6learn to share and listen to ideas in a respectful way. Furthermore, the development ofcommunication skills is essential to effective collaboration and group planning.2015-ASEE-K12Workshop-Proposal-RehashYour Trash Page 5 of 7 WORKSHOP PROPOSAL FORM 2015 Annual ASEE K-12 Workshop on Engineering Education “Authentic Engineering: Representing & Emphasizing the E in STEM” Presented by Dassault Systems Saturday, June 13, 2015 8:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M. Sheraton Seattle | Seattle | WA Finally, ethical

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2015 ASEE Workshop on K-12 Engineering Education

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Beau Vezino, University of Arizona; Scott A Weiler, Amphi MIddle School

Scratch programming as a central tools, this workshop promotes the use of technology, electrical circuits and programming to develop a sense of creativity and design thinking in kids. In a collaborative effort between the University of Arizona’s Colleges of Education and Engineering and local school districts, a middle school workshop with accompanying lesson plans were designed to help teachers develop the skills and ability Page 18.6.3 necessary to teach innovative engineering and programming inside or outside the classroom. Through hands-on activities, this workshop aims to improve teacher’s abilityCreative

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2015 ASEE Workshop on K-12 Engineering Education

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Veronika Zhiteneva, Colorado School of Mines; Barbara M. Moskal, Colorado School of Mines

thinking, creativity, optimism, collaboration, communication, and attention to ethicalconsiderations. This demonstration addresses systems thinking through the need to pre-plan a Page 18.31.5house design based on aesthetic appeal, critical in structural engineering, as well as waterinfrastructure efficiency, critical in civil and environmental engineering, to ensure that the twodo not impede, but rather enhance each other. This demonstration addresses creativity because2015-ASEE-K12-Proposal-Form Page 4 of 7 WORKSHOP PROPOSAL FORM 2015 Annual ASEE K-12 Workshop on Engineering Education

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Rachel A. Brennan

beneficial byproducts from within the treatmentsystem; and 3) educate the local community on the importance of treating wastewater andprotecting their environment.After completing a Site Investigation and evaluating potential technologies, the studentsformalized their strategies through a comprehensive Design Plan. Both Roatán teams convergedon similar engineering solutions for treating the wastewater, including the construction of aseptic tank, horizontal subsurface flow (HSSF) wetland, free water surface (FWS) wetland, and astormwater channel. The two teams differed, however, in their development of value addedprojects for the community. The leading team proposed a variety of features for the site,including a bridge made out of locally recycled

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Jessica L. Isaacs; Anthony Bellezza; Vicki Brown

2 0 1 0 1 2 6 0 0 0 4+ 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 5 4 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 4 0 0 + 6 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 7+ 4 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 2 0 2Teams were asked to effectively communicate their product/service concept in the form of a 90second video. Students were offered assistance from the university’s TV Club and access to theClub Advisor, an adjunct film professor. The TV Club was allowed to help students in bothfilming and planning of

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Doug Kim

can be used while 802.11a or 802.11n should be used for 5.7 GHz band. Figure 1 andFigure 2 illustrate band plans for 2.4 and 5.7 GHz bands. A care must be given to use thechannels that are non-overlapping and experiencing the least amount of external interference.We also need to configure the access point so that it would not use Dynamic Frequency Selection(DFS) that automatically changes the channels based upon interference.B. Receive Power MeasurementsA spectrum analyzer is used to measure receive power. Some PC software may report thereceive power levels. However, since it is virtually impossible to avoid interference in Wi-Fibands in the presence of widely available campus-wide Wi-Fi as well as individual wirelessrouters, before receive

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2015 Northeast Section Meeting

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Frank Caserta; James McCusker; Bo Tao; Gloria Ma

is needed to determine if a larger statistical sample of students will yield a greaterdifference in the ability of students to do 3-dimensional vector calculations. That is to say, alarger statistical sample of students might yield significance at the standard P=0.05 level. AcknowledgementThe authors would like to acknowledge the significant help in planning this research studyrendered by Ray Nagem of Boston University, Robert Lind and Michael Werner of ourUniversity. References[1] Ma, G., personal communication, 2013[2] Lind, R., personal communication, 2012[3] McCusker, J., personal communication, 2012[4] Caserta, Frank, R. Lind, L.G.Chedid, Why do students at

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2015 Northeast Section Meeting

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Kathryn Schulte Grahame; Diane Schilder; Christos Zahopoulos

ge clean energy energyAs depicted in Figuree 2, a total of o 21 students who particcipated in thee 2014-20155 cohort ofstudents reported increased know wledge of eng gineering, annd confidencce in their abbility to succceedin collegee-level engin neering courrses, interestt and confideence in studyying STEM, and interestt andconfidence in studyin ng about cleaan energy . Interview daata collectedd from studennts alsocorroboraated the survvey findings. For example, participatting studentss stated: “I “ planned to o major in ph

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

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Luis Rodriguez; Gail Coover; Dalelia Davis; George Johnson; Oumar Kaba; Angela Frey; Andrew Pham; Amihan Huesmann

their academic plans for declared and alternative majors, making athoughtful response to selected readings, conducting an informational interview with aprofessional in their intended field, reporting on best practices, and participating in a juriedposter presentation of a small research project.Overall, the curriculum is designed so that the task difficulty is slightly greater than students’current ability as established by their transcripts and pre-assessment results. Students areexposed to vicarious successes and role models, with opportunities to present successes andcorrect errors. Each student’s performance gets honest feedback, with specific information abouthow to improve their skills and performance. Instructors and staff meet regularly

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

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R. Joe Stanley; Stuart W. Baur

choices.Future DirectionsThere is an ongoing study of S&T student degree audits for PLTW and non-PLTW students atS&T for academic performance comparison. We have completed a preliminary study ofsurveying PLTW high school teachers for teacher backgrounds and student assessments. Thissurvey has been extended to a second year for a longitudinal study. We are planning to continuethe S&T student survey to evaluate student backgrounds, degree programs pursued, and careerchoices. These studies are of particular interest with the significant increase in offering ofPLTW programs and courses throughout Missouri and the U.S.AcknowledgmentsReferences[1] https://www.pltw.org/about-pltw[2] https://pltw.mst.edu[3] Gene Bottoms and John Uhn. Project Lead

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

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Puteri Megat Hamari

tools. The majority had apositive experience and enjoyed learning how touse the Synopsys EDA. They all stated that theylearned a lot from the work performed for theCAD sessions and the group project. They alsowished that they had more time to perform theassigned work.The instructor plans changes to the course basedon the students’ experience. The course will bechanged to a 4 credit hour course from thecurrent 3 credit hour course and there will bededicated lab sessions that will be compulsory.This will provide more time for the students towork on the assigned work as well as their teamproject. In the longer time frame, the instructorplans to move the course to the Fall semester.This will allow for the students’ projects to be Figure 5

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

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Stuart W. Baur; R. Joe Stanley

projects and team oriented activities topromote student engagement. PLTW courses provide useful college preparatory experiences forstudents and foster exposure to STEM related areas.Future DirectionsThere is an ongoing study of S&T student degree audits for PLTW and non-PLTW students atS&T for academic performance comparison. We have completed a preliminary study ofsurveying PLTW high school teachers for teacher backgrounds and student assessments. Thissurvey has been extended to a second year for a longitudinal study. We are planning to continuethe S&T student survey to evaluate student backgrounds, degree programs pursued, and careerchoices. These studies are of particular interest with the significant increase in offering ofPLTW

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

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Heather McCain

weighting indicate the required content and the focus. The levels of performance and theassociated descriptors provide further detail of what is required to meet and exceed expectations.Making the rubric available early to students in the assessment process allows time for them toconsider and reflect upon what is required based on factors such as time given, resources andtheir aptitude. The weighting of criteria and the levels of achievement allow students to plan theirworkload appropriately.Rubrics assist accountability by providing a measure to which works are compared. By creatingan object that serves as an example of quality and using a scale from poor to excellent, all thestakeholders are able to make decisions based on a standard.14 According

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2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Craig V. Baltimore; James Mwangi

instrumental in planning the hands-on curriculum and providing theresources. All issues and possible problems in creating the hands-on experience were able to beidentified and addressed by the industry partner. For faculty who are not intimate with industry,the partner was able to eliminate any guess work on the part of the instructor. In addition, theindustry partner coordinated the delivery of materials and the availability of a professionalmasons.Four student hands-on experiences were created to enhance and underscore construction qualityon masonry properties and behavior. The four experiences were as follows:Student Hands-On Experience 1: A tour of a concrete block manufacturing plant to reinforce theindustry terminology. The tour gave the

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2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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M. Zoghi; L. Crask; B. Hyatt; V. Luo; W. Wu

-Village Project is anenvironmentally sustainable community that provides a holistic safe haven that “gives themental, emotional and physical tools necessary to escape the endless cycle of homelessness15.” Amulti-disciplinary project, CM students have taken the lead in the past to collaboratively designand build the Eco-Village sustainable modular units. Other members of the team representinterior design, real estate, anthropology, planning, and engineering. Our vision is to scale up theEco-Village project to the global level for emergency shelter applications.Global PerspectiveThe NAE states that the global dimension component of the GCSP should develop and deepen“students’ social consciousness and their motivation to bring their technical

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2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Taufik Taufik; Dale Dolan

that students will be better prepared once they enter thework force. It is interesting to note that even at the first phase of the project, students wereobserved to have the difficulties in finding the right controller chip for their project. This furtheremphasizes the importance of this project since knowledge on various switching regulatorcontroller chips is a practical skill generally sought by companies when they are looking to hirenew graduates with power electronic background. From the instructor’s point of view, assigningsuch a project requires significant amount of time throughout the quarter. Students’ assessmenton the project is currently being planned to evaluate how effective the project is in helping toachieve the learning

Conference Session

First-year Programs Division Technical Session 5: Using Video, Games, and More in the First Year

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gregory Warren Bucks, University of Cincinnati; Kathleen A. Ossman, University of Cincinnati

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First-Year Programs

exam and the D-F-W rate dropped. Thebiggest continuing challenge is getting instructors that are supportive of active learning activitiesduring lecture.To prepare for lecture, students currently have a choice of watching a video or reading through aset of PowerPoint slides. For those students who prefer a hands-on approach to learning, analternative is being developed. It is an interactive MATLAB GUI with lessons on the topics Page 26.1698.11covered in the videos. The GUI is modeled on the interactive lessons offered by Codeacademy12for various programming languages. The plan is to make this GUI available to students inEngineering Models I

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Visualization Within Engineering Design Graphics Education Session 2

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Adrian Hadipriono Tan, The Ohio State University; Shilun Hao, The Ohio State University; Jiyuan Li, The Ohio State University Civil Engineering Department; Lei Zhao; Fabian Hadipriono Tan P.E., The Ohio State University

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Engineering Design Graphics

sequence of the raised floor platform of the Hall of Central Harmony (ca.24-m by 24-m): (I) Compact earth for floor base; (II) Erect floor-base perimeter and stairs/stepsfrom stone blocks: (III) Install column-base blocks inside this perimeter; (IV) Place strip masonryfoundations (grade beams) between column bases; (V) Place and compact soil in layers up to floorelevation level; and (VI) Place marble floor slabs. Page 26.1708.9 Fig. 6. Top view of temple floor plan of the Hall of Central Harmony (ca. 24-m by 24-m)III. Walls and Columns Walls and columns are central to the establishment of a Chinese temple. Despite thenumerous variations of the construction materials, in general

Conference Session

Community Engagement in Engineering Education Projects

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Thomas Pitcher, The University of Texas, El Paso; Pedro Arturo Espinoza, University of Texas, El Paso; Hugo Gomez, University of Texas, El Paso; Herminia Hemmitt, University of Texas, El Paso; Oscar Antonio Perez, University of Texas, El Paso; Hector Erick Lugo Nevarez, University of Texas, El Paso; Randy Hazael Anaya, University of Texas, El Paso; Peter Golding, University of Texas, El Paso

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

hour rule”. There was no significant difference in these findings whenlooking at subsets such as engineering only vs. non-engineering students or female vs. malestudents with a slight exception in regards to what seems to be a polarization of computer sciencestudents’ involvement. From the service-learning and student outcome questions we can clearly see that skills utilizedextend beyond just what we would consider normal classroom/course objectives. There are a largenumber of students who indicated that they used a professional skill such as time management,process planning, task delegation, construction, power tools, and/or developed a new skill and/orexpanded upon a current skill. Again, based on the findings, this was neither major

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General Technical Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mihaela Radu, SUNY Farmingdale State College; Clint S. Cole, Digilent, Inc.; Mircea Alexandru Dabacan, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca; Monica Ignat Bot, Digilent; Alex Wong, Digilent, Inc.; Joe Harris, Digilent, Inc.

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Diversity

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Computers in Education

with better features.”“I have learned a great deal of things from the contest: technical, mathematical, and theexperience of the contest itself, the presentation of our work in front of such an exclusiveaudience”.“I learned a lot about complex system’s planning and verification”.Several students’ comments refer to the job offers or scholarships that they received afterparticipating in this competition and meeting industry representatives:“It helped me get a job in the embedded design”.“For me, the 4th edition of the Diligent Design Contest was a career-changer... literally... At theend of my 3rd year at TUCN, I was looking for a job... and I found it thanks to the DesignContest”.“The fact that I won a prestigious European contest contributed

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First Year Programs Division Poster Session: The Best Place to Really Talk about First-Year Education

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jessica E S Swenson, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach; Marya H Schnedeker, Center for Engineering Education and Outreach, Tufts University; Sarah Marie Coppola, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach; Leonardo Andres Madariaga, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach / Federico Santa Maria Technical University

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First-Year Programs

   5) A user evaluation plan  a) Test for effectiveness  b) Test for efficiency  c) Test for satisfaction  Data Collection  Six groups of students consented to participate in this study. Students were required to post all  14​deliverables on Interactive Learning and Collaboration Environment (InterLACE).​  For the purposes of this study, only two deliverables were examined: list of user needs and list of product specifications (including materials).    Page 26.705.5

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Visualization Within Engineering Design Graphics Education Session 2

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Johnson, Texas A&M University; So Yoon Yoon, Texas A&M University

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Engineering Design Graphics

tocreate the NC-code required to create an artifact using computer numerically controlledmachining centers. This requires students to create the component in the FeatureCAM programas well as the associated process plan. The process plan requires the student to identify whichtools are necessary to machine the component. Two examples are shown in Figures 4 and 5.Overall lab grades for the CAM Course are reported as out of 100 possible points. a. b. Figure 5. CAM Course Laboratory Exercise Requiring the Generation of Complex Curves Showing the Expected Geometry (a.) and Necessary Lofted Surfaces (b.).This work assesses the following research questions with respect to the effects

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College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 1

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Timothy J. Jacobs, Texas A&M University; Charles E. Baukal Jr. P.E., John Zink Co. LLC

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College Industry Partnerships

combustion, and learned about the future needs of combustion development.The following were identified strengths of the program:  Early exposure to combustion concepts helped students gain more from the laboratories and guest instruction.  Teacher attendance and participation at the Combustion Institute meetings helped provide material for instructional instruments and laboratories.  Students enjoyed using the high-tech equipment purchased with the grant money.  Guest instruction by Dr. Belovich was an excellent capstone to the year’s emphasis on combustion.The following are lessons-learned:  Some experiments planned will require more time to design and engineer for in-class use.Mr. McLinden intends to continue

Conference Session

Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Digital Systems Education 2

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic University; Juan D. Ramirez, Florida Atlantic University

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Electrical and Computer

Paper ID #11608Experience-Based Approach for Teaching and Learning Concepts in DigitalSignal ProcessingDr. Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic UniversityJuan D. Ramirez, Florida Atlantic University Juan Ramirez is pursuing his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering at Florida Atlantic University and expects to graduate in December of 2014. Some of his research interests lie in the areas of power electronics, control systems, and engineering education. He has held leadership positions in organizations such as Tau Beta Pi, IEEE, and SHPE. Upon graduation he plans to start working with General Electric. His long-term goals