Conference Session

Track 3 - Session II - Faculty Development

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Phillip Albert Sanger, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Julia Ziyatdinova, Kazan National Research Technological University; Vasiliy Grigoryevich Ivanov, KAZAN NATIONAL RESEARCH TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY; Svetlana Vasilievna Barabanova, Kazan National Research Technological University

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Faculty Development

achievement test at the end of the academic year includedgrammar, writing, and an oral lecture presentation in English. Out of the 50 faculty, 37persevered through the whole program and showed significant improvement in Englishproficiency. Information about this program spread around the university by word of mouth,and many more faculty members showed interest for the academic year 2012-13 with anenrollment of 170 faculty (out of 150 planned) and 15 study groups. After one semester, theprogram has achieved 100% retention with all members still attending the courses.This paper describes the program created at Kazan National Research TechnologicalUniversity to improve the English language skills of their faculty and will focus on analyzingthe academic

Conference Session

Engineering Leadership Development Division Technical Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chris Carlson-Dakes, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Gregory W Harrington, Dept of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Univ of Wisconsin - Madison

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Engineering Leadership Development Division

earlier in their college career – ideally their first year.In response to this feedback, with the support of the Pieper Foundation(srpieperfamilyfoundation.com), and under the leadership of an endowed professorship forServant Leadership, we created and launched a pilot course in Fall 2011 for 25 incomingfirst year students. One course enrollment slot was open during each summer orientationsession until the course filled. Quickly we had a waiting list of additional students wantingto enroll, so in Spring and Fall 2012, the enrollment cap expanded to 35. Each time thecourse filled to capacity. As we write this paper, we are considering feasible models to

Conference Session

Experiences in Engineering Community Engagement

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Cardenas, Harvey Mudd College

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Community Engagement Division

Berkes9 write, “Co-management of specific areas and resources is carried out withthe participation of different actors that typically try to find ways to learn from their actions andadapt the behavior to the consequences of their own, and others’, actions, otherwise they cannotform any collaborative arrangement.” Interestingly, they further state that the ecological area orresource itself can be seen as an actor, reacting unpredictably and non-linearly to its own“management,” and that the adaptive quality of co-management is well-suited to handling thisuncertainty.In particular, co-management scenarios can be viewed “…as a means to create the political spacewithin which communities and other groups can develop the knowledge and skills to solve

Conference Session

Activities and Assessment for “Awkward ABET Outcomes”

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Norb Delatte P.E., Cleveland State University

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Civil Engineering

investigate the development of technology in civil, mechanical,chemical, and electrical engineering in the context of historical case studies. As part of thecourse, students working in groups prepare and present an engineering history case study. Thestudents, working in groups of 3 to 5, write technical papers and present their results on the lastday of class. This allows the student groups to develop and demonstrate their communicationskills as well as their mastery of the course concepts. The student projects provide otherbenefits. Projects that are done well can be incorporated into future offerings of the course. Anexample is how the development and eventual decline of the Ohio canal system influenced thegrowth of the state’s economy, and how the

Conference Session

Real and Virtual - "New" Approaches to Teaching "Old" Courses

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James P Abulencia, Manhattan College; Margot A Vigeant, Bucknell University; David L. Silverstein, University of Kentucky

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Chemical Engineering

the teaching of concepts in an introductory thermodynamics coursethrough video. This generation of students is technology savvy, and regularly communicates bymeans other than face-to-face interactions (e.g. texting). Additionally, the popularity of sites suchas Khan Academy makes the idea of teaching with video difficult to ignore. Thus, we assert thatthere is value in using this media for instruction, and that this media can be leveraged for use in achemical engineering course. During this study, students will be asked to 1) take a conceptdiscussed during class, and articulate it in video media using everyday examples that otherstudents can relate to (autodidactic learning) 2) watch peer-made videos that teach these concepts(peer-to-peer

Collection

2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Kiran George

fields. Similarly, the out migration fromthe College of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS) at California State University,Fullerton (CSUF) has been profound. In 2010 with funding availed from the NSF, ECS at CSUFestablished the ECS Academic Catalyst for Excellence (ACE) Scholarship Program designed toreverse its historical legacy of high student attrition. This program awards scholarships to ECSstudents over the 5-year period of the project and leverages a well-established network of ECSand University student services to support cohorts of ACE scholars (recipients of the ACEscholarship) majoring in ECS majors. The ECS ACE scholarship program provides tuitionscholarships and a myriad of support services ranging from peer mentoring to

Conference Session

Undergraduate Student Issues: Culture

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas E. Pinelli, NASA Langley Research Center; Cathy W. Hall, East Carolina University; Kimberly Marie Brush, NASA Langley Research Center; Jeannine B. Perry, Continental Research Associates, Inc.

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Women in Engineering

study. Jeannine works closely with the research team to ensure that each step is performed to exact specifications. She conducts the interviewer briefing session at the beginning of each study and electronically monitors a portion of the fieldwork. After the completion of the data collection, she receives an anecdotal report from the Field Director (choosing results to highlight in the final report). Jeannine oversees the statistical analyses, writes the text portion of most reports, supervises the report preparation, and is in regular contact with her clients. Jeannine attended Old Dominion University where she completed a Bachelors degree in Business Man- agement. Prior to joining Continental Research, she was

Conference Session

Grasping the "Concept"

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adrienne R Minerick, Michigan Technological University

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Chemical Engineering

concepts in a clear visual and verbal fashion to readers of the manuscript.A few graduate programs have implemented formal training of students in the research process.Most notable is David F. Ollis’ efforts described in his 1995 article2 in Chemical EngineeringEducation on “The Research Proposition.” Additional U.S. graduate programs include requiredcourses in the curriculum on writing research proposals (University of Oklahoma3) and researchmethods (Michigan Technological University4 and Arizona State University5). Structuredtraining in research methods is also endorsed in international communities such as in ErstaSköndal University College in Stockholm, Sweden6 and National University of Singapore7.However, to the author’s best knowledge, no

Conference Session

Implementing Active Learning in Mechanical Engineering Technology

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael W Martin, Northern Michigan University

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Engineering Technology

. This was done bygenerating information to present to their peers on the new topic being covered. They passivelyreceived information in a 10 minute mini-lecture put on by one of their fellow students. Thestudents worked cooperativley in class on homework problems that the class struggled with.They also worked collabortively in class on example problems presented by the instructor, andthey worked on their own again, outside of class, to do the homework problems. Details of theimplementation of these approaches is discussed in the next section.Class FormatThis method was implemented in the MET420 Fluid Mechanics class, which is a 3 credit classwith no lab component associated with it. The class was scheduled to meet twice a week for 1hour and 15

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bugrahan Yalvac, Texas A&M University; Mehmet Ayar, TUBITAK; Dennie L. Smith, Texas A&M University; Christine Ehlig-Economides, Texas A&M University

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Educational Research and Methods

’ experiences with e-bookpublishing was helpful for the group in proceeding with the project. In his interview, Richardadded: …In my experience …the publishing companies…sometimes might have some input, while other faculty did not have exactly the same experience when they were trying…to publish more traditional books…I had some explanation to for this…they tried either to talk to some publishers and the orders of the textbooks…the chapters and things like that…basically at different doors…so in that sense I had delivered more experience than some others had.The professors could easily write the assigned chapters within their content expertise but e-bookpublishing presented unfamiliar technical, economic, and social

Conference Session

Computers in Education (CoED) Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Neelam Soundarajan, Ohio State University

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Computers in Education

Page 23.1391.2additional work that would be needed to develop materials and activities that would be relevantfor their courses and be approrpriate for the medium; students, despite their reliance, almost to thepoint of addiction, on interactive social media in other walks of life, have been even more resistantto on-line collaboration in their STEM courses, preferring even to having their grades penalizedrather than participating in such collaboration. There have been some reports of successful wiki-usage in engineering courses. But, as we will see later in the paper, the activities involved in thesereports tend to be primarily non-technical, e.g., engineering writing, etc.Peer-instruction 3 (PI) is a classroom technique that helps students

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University; Tobias Ortega-Knight, University of the Virgin Islands; Charles Huang Chen, Michigan State University; Danny Lynch, University of the Virgin Islands; Kathleen Anne Fitzsimons, Michigan State University; Crystal D Alton; Juan L. Mena Lapaix, Michigan State University; Joshua Drost, Michigan State University; Garrett Kohler

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Student

Paper ID #5986Exploring the Experience of Undergraduate Research: A Case Study UsingfacebookDr. Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University Katy Luchini-Colbry is the Director for Graduate Recruiting at the College of Engineering at Michigan State University, where she completed degrees in political theory and computer science. A recipient of a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, she received her Ph.D. and M.S.E. in computer science and engineering from the University of Michigan. She has published nearly two dozen peer-reviewed works related to her interests in educational technology and enhancing undergraduate education

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Murray Teitell, DeVry University, Long Beach; William S. Sullivan, DeVry University, Long Beach

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Mathematics

Mission (M)Senior Society (So)Project Public Need (P)Figure 2: Metrics and Nomenclature for Successful Senior Project As shown in Table 2, sources of measurements can be team members, professors, peers andexternal sources. Each source employs the fixed metrics according to a template and follows theprotocol to estimate the score. Page 23.1108.5Table 2: Multiple Sources of MeasurementsMeasure Source Method TypeFixed Metrics Team Members Scoring Template EstimateFixed Metrics Professor(s) Scoring Template

Conference Session

Software and Web-based Learning in ECE

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dileepan Joseph P.Eng., University of Alberta

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Electrical and Computer

administrators, he succeeded via a transition fromprocedural C++, with a virtual robot called Karel, to MATLAB, with a video game calledGorillas. These two versions of the course are compared and contrasted, with a focus on theauthor’s own contributions. Furthermore, the pedagogical approach is compared and contrastedwith that of relevant literature. As with the state of the art, the work argues in favour of teachingintroductory programming using MATLAB. Unlike the state of the art, the proposed approachexploits video game design and iterative and incremental development. Effectiveness of thecontributions are demonstrated through student, peer, and self assessments.1. IntroductionAt the University of Alberta, all 1st year engineers take a 12-week course

Conference Session

Accreditation, Program Evaluation, and Education Resource's Impact in Latin America

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zenaida Otero Gephardt, Rowan University; Maria M. Larrondo-Petrie, Florida Atlantic University; Mariana Archibold, CONEAUPA

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International

) Par Amigo InitiativeEngineering programs throughout the world have accepted the challenge of educating the globalengineer. The required standards in technical, communication and social skills for globalengineers must be integrated into the cultural context of engineering programs in differentcountries. Internationally recognized accreditation is an important way for programs to not onlyguarantee quality, and contribute to regional capacity building and economic development, butalso to develop the continuous improvement and assessment tools that strengthen engineeringprograms. These tools are essential in the development of engineering programs that can educatethe global engineer of the future. The Par Amigo (Peer Mentor) Initiative developed

Collection

2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Alex Dekhtyar; Anya L. Goodman; Aldrin Montana

acquiring the technical knowledge and skills taught in the courses (learning objectives 1-4 for CSC 448 and 1-3 for BIO 441). 2. Are life sciences students acquiring computational skills? The key computational skill presented in BIO 441 was the ability to convert a biological problem into a set of software requirements (learning objective 4 for BIO 441). 3. Are students learning to work effectively with their peers within and outside of their discipline? In particular, is there evidence that cross-disciplinary collaboration within the in-concert teaching framework is beneficial for the students? (learning objective 5 for both courses). 4. How did students perceive in-concert

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessica A Kuczenski, College of San Mateo / San Francisco State University

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Engineering Ethics

asked for individual work Page 23.1097.4Receiving unpermitted help on an assignment 26 46Turning in work done by someone else 5 11In a course requiring computer work, copying a 10 9friend’s program rather than doing your ownUsing false or forged excuse to obtain extension on 16 25due date or to delay writing an exam Plagiarism on PapersCopying a few sentences of material from a written 36 49source

Conference Session

Engineering in K-12 Science and Mathematics Standards

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

are alreadyunderrepresented in STEM careers. Since engineering in North Carolina schools has appearedonly in a career-linked capacity, thinking of engineering, not as a discipline but as an integratorand bringer of relevance to any class, represents a true paradigm shift.This paper describes a recent effort to write educational standards for the state of North Carolinathat define engineering in the K-12 space. The intent is for engineering to be integratedthroughout K-12 education, not as stand-alone classes, but as a part of any class. The effort todevelop a description of what all students should know and be able to do with respect toengineering began with the various standards in use in other states and incorporated informationfrom NAE

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emmanuelle Reynaud, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Linda Barrington, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Ella Willard-Schmoe, University of Massachusetts Lowell

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

scale.Regarding the impact of S-L on their learning, the mean answers of the students were positive (atthe 5% statistical level); in particular the students valued the team work experience that S-Lprovides, and agree that service should be an expected part of the engineering profession.The final analysis focuses on the quality of the learning mechanisms as expressed by thestudents. We build the analysis on the students’ optional comments, classifying them as positive,neutral or negative. We relate the comments’ tone to learning mechanisms, e.g. in-classdiscussions, presentations, journal writing, report writing, and other type of writing. Studentsengaged in no formal assessment exercises report no positive comments. The exercises whichlead to more

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education II

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jorge Crichigno, Northern New Mexico College; Gregory L. Heileman, University of New Mexico; Ivan Lopez Hurtado, Northern New Mexico College; Alfredo J. Perez, Northern New Mexico College; Ramiro Jordan P.E., University of New Mexico; Timothy L Schroeder; José Marcio Luna, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico

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Electrical and Computer

education courses, this project addresses the need for standardization of lower division courses in engineering. With this project, engineering students at different institutions receive the same lectures, lab experiences, and examinations thereby ensuring that student learning outcomes are the same at different institutions. Thus the project not only helps in the assessment of student learning outcomes but also facilitates the transfer of credits as students decide to enroll in other institutions. This fact is particularly useful in New Mexico where a great percentage of students take credits from peer institutions other than their home institutions. 3. Local students who currently have non-engineering

Conference Session

Biological and Agricultural Engineering Education Technical Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chehra Aboukinane; Daniel N. Moriasi, USDA-ARS; Ann L. Kenimer, Texas A&M University; Kim Dooley, Texas A&M University; James DUPE Linder, Texas A&M University

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Biological & Agricultural

, meaning that the greater number of ideas, the greater the likelihood ofsuccessful ideas, and (d) combination and improvement are sought, meaning thatindividuals are encouraged to suggest how ideas from other peers can be turned intobetter ones. The third step is also referred to as the idea finding stage in the Osborn andParnes model. The fourth step involves evaluating ideas. Evaluating ideas generallyoccurs based on several factors such as cost; time required, usefulness, practicality, socialacceptance, and other considerations (Torrance and Safter, 1999). Osborn (1963) referredto the fourth step as the solution finding stage. The last step in Osborn and Parnescreative problem solving process is translating ideas into problem solutions

Conference Session

Novel Pedagogies 2

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Megan F. Campanile, Illinois Institute of Technology; Frederick Doe, Illinois Institute of Technology; Elana Rose Jacobs, Illinois Institute of Technology; Norman G Lederman, Illinois Institute of Technology; Eric M Brey, Illinois Institute of Technology

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Educational Research and Methods

obtaining a bachelor’s degree and beginning her graduate studies. Her most significant obstacles in her post secondary education were financing hereducation, taking math courses, and maintaining the drive to complete academically rigorousclasses. She described herself as being a very social person and planned on keeping in touch withher peers from the undergraduate research program. Her determination and drive was evident inher overcoming her math phobia by studying statistics in depth and her spending days takingfeedback from her professor and improving her final research Powerpoint presentation. Estelle’sundergraduate research project focused on a cell adhesion assay and teaching module.Data Collection and Analysis A pre- and post

Conference Session

CEED - Technical Session 1

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Manuel D. Rossetti, University of Arkansas; Edgar C Clausen, University of Arkansas; Carol Schubert Gattis, University of Arkansas; Micah Hale, University of Arkansas; Kim LaScola Needy, University of Arkansas

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

twice a month twice a month once per week once per week Peer As needed, at least As needed, at least As needed, at As needed, at As needed, at least Mentoring once per semester once per semester least once per least once per once per semester semester semesterStudents have specific training on time management, resume writing, job searching, andtransitioning from student life to employee life. In addition, since graduate research requiresstrong written and oral communication skills the students have specific skill developmentworkshops/seminars on oral communications, writing, presenting engineering work as a

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Geoffrey L Herman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Kyle F Trenshaw, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Michael C. Loui, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Kerri Ann Green, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; David E. Goldberg, ThreeJoy Associates, Inc. and the University of Illinois

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

was used to help students makeprogress in their projects. These weekly consultation meetings gave the students more time withthe course staff and their peers, increasing their sense of relatedness, and allowed them to receivemore personalized and faster feedback than the previous model of grading, increasing their senseof competence. By trading grading hours for weekly consultation hours, we also did not increasethe TAs’ time commitment in teaching the course. To further support students’ autonomy, we also developed a formal petition process Page 23.347.8through which students could petition to change any component of the course. A few

Conference Session

Capstone and Senior Design Projects Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aleksandr Sergeyev, Michigan Technological University; Nasser Alaraje, Michigan Technological University; Seth William Adams

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Engineering Technology

participating in undergraduate research, in the middle of the secondsemester the team led by the faculty prepares the paper to be further submitted in one of theengineering journals or conference proceedings. In the author's opinion, this experience shouldbecome an integral part of any capstone project since it derives an additional benefits previouslynot included in the capstone environment. First, this requirement makes the students to fill themproud to be engaged in undergraduate research, which in-turn derives more responsibility andteamwork. Second, it provides the students with the opportunity to learn different styles oftechnical writing following required formats associated with various journals and conferenceproceedings. The last but not the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jianyu Dong, California State University, Los Angeles; Huiping Guo, California State University, Los Angeles

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

of minority students [8]. Different from typical PBLsetting, CPBL is more focused on the creation of a friendly learning environment that is lessintimidating to minority students. The key features of CPBL include: 1) A series of small in-classprojects that are simple enough for students with limited background knowledge but collectivelyserve as a ladder to build up the students’ design skills progressively; 2) Fostered peer-collaboration to help build up students’ confidence to complete the projects; 3) Timely help andimmediate feedback from the instructors. Since the peer collaboration and student-professorinteraction are key to the success of CPBL, the projects are typically conducted in the class

Conference Session

Secondary (6-12) Outreach

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Crystal Jean DeJaegher, University of Virginia

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

sketchpad drawing tool. Students can manipulate and illustrate their own designs within the system. WISEngineering records all student data, so these initial ideas can be referenced at a later time. TheFigure  2.  Engineering  design  cycle  aligns  with  project  steps  for  explicit  navigation. design portfolio allows students to collect any of their work from the project unit and compile it into anelectronic portfolio that can be shared with both peers and instructors. This feature

Collection

2013 GSW

Authors

Melanie Sattler

are something I can use to prepare for future presentations and meetings. By working with peers, professionals, and the community, this was an opportunity to improve my public speaking skills, management and organization, and writing techniques. Oral and written skills can be improved by practicing; it was a great chance to focus on these skills through our project and practice regularly…. For oral and written communication skills, I learned from my writing to be simple and clear in my ideas, know my audience and write on basis of how much they know, and write sentences that are related to the main point that I want to

Conference Session

INT. Engineering Education: Developments, Innovations, Partnerships, and Implementations

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Saeed D. Foroudastan, Middle Tennessee State University; Courtney Thompson, Middle Tennessee State University

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International

. Page 23.574.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Experimental Vehicles Program Creates Lasting Partnerships with National and International IndustriesAbstractThe Experimental Vehicles Program (EVP) was created in 2004 as an umbrella program for fivedifferent undergraduate experimental vehicle design teams. These projects consist of the SolarVehicle, Moonbuggy, Baja SAE, Formula SAE, and Solar Boat. The goal of the EVP is to fosterundergraduate student development through the construction of experimental vehicles with theguidance of faculty mentors as well as partnerships with both national and international industryleaders.Students work in peer-led teams to annually

Conference Session

Programs in Entrepreneurship

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James V Green, University of Maryland, College Park; Alyssa E. Cohen Sherman, University of Maryland

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

module. Thedeliverables included a (1) product pitch, (2) marketing plan, (3) visual prototype, test plan,customer feedback analysis, and functional prototype, (4) final presentation, (5) fundingproposal, and (6) peer evaluation. See Tables 1 and 2. Page 23.386.3Table 1. Schedule (Part 1 of 2)Topic Deliverable Description Grade %Module 1: Product PitchCourse overview Product Pitch Individually, or as a group of 2, develop a 2- 8%Strategic market page paper