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Workshops in Engineering Calculus Course on Applied Mathematical Problem-solving Skills and Self-efficacy PerceptionsAbstractThis project stems from a collaborative effort by engineering and mathematics faculty at aresearch university to enhance engineering students’ abilities to transfer and apply mathematicsto solve problems in engineering contexts. A recent curriculum innovation resulting from theseefforts involves the integration of collaborative, applied, problem-solving workshops into thefirst-semester engineering mathematics course. In the first year of the assessment project, theproject team developed two instruments - one to gauge students’ abilities in using mathematics inengineering contexts, the Mathematics

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Nasser Alaraje, Michigan Technological University; Aleksandr Sergeyev, Michigan Technological University; Fred Scheu, College of Lake County

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US academic institutions currently have a curriculum component inhardware description language and programmable logic design [3]. To effectively meet the nextgeneration’s workforce needs, the electrical and computer engineering technology curriculummust be current, relevant, and teach technology that is widely used in industry. To meet this goal, Page 22.504.2we propose a curriculum development project for university- and community college-basedprograms that will develop new courses in logic design and hardware modeling using VHDL andField Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Logic Design to teach students current marketable logicdesign skills.One

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Ingrid St. Omer, University of Kentucky

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not meet the academic criteria to be accepted directly into theUniversity of Kentucky (UK).1 The Engineering Veterans Pathways project began during thefall of 2010 with support from the National Science Foundation in an effort to counter thissituation. UK is working closely with its neighbor Bluegrass Community and Technical College Page 22.607.2(BCTC) in order to attract and groom veteran students for success at UK. One initiative alreadyin action is the BCTCblue+ agreement that is a partnership that allows BCTC students to transferto UK into 1 of 50 Bachelor degree programs.Since the dominant service represented in Kentucky is the Army (4th

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Margot A. Vigeant, Bucknell University; Michael J. Prince, Bucknell University; Katharyn E. K. Nottis, Bucknell University; Ronald L. Miller, Colorado School of Mines

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education, approached from the perspective of Human Constructivism. She has been involved in collabo- rative research projects focused on conceptual learning in chemistry, seismology, and chemical engineer- ing.Ronald L. Miller, Colorado School of Mines Dr. Ronald L. Miller is professor of chemical engineering and Director of the Center for Engineering Ed- ucation at the Colorado School of Mines where he has taught chemical engineering and interdisciplinary courses and conducted engineering education research for the past 25 years. Dr. Miller has received three university-wide teaching awards and has held a Jenni teaching fellowship at CSM. He has received grant awards for education research from the National Science

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David Jones, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Carmen R. Zafft, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; John Sutton, RMC Research Corporation; Lance C. Pérez, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

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engineers. According to the National Science Foundation (NSF), “growth inscience and engineering jobs will outpace job growth in other fields, with projected increases by2012 of 26% and 15%, respectively”2. Fulfilling this need remains at the hands of institutions ofhigher education. Their challenge is to recruit and educate a population whose interest in theSTEM disciplines has steadily declined over the years. There are two ways institutions of higher education can keep up with the demand formore engineers. One solution lies in the recruitment and retention of women and students ofcolor; populations that have been largely underrepresented in science and engineering relatedfields 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. In the year 2000 minorities

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Ying Tang, Rowan University; Sachin Shetty, Tennessee State University; Xiufang Chen, Rowan University

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technology, games have come a long way to be much more thanvisualization. They are interactions within immersive digital worlds that promote learningthrough authentic and engaging play. Since many of today’s students have grown up with gamesof ever increasing sophistication, infusing out-of-school literacy into a classroom settingbecomes extremely important.Motivated by these remarks, this project, as part of an NSF-IEECI grant, investigates a non-intrusive approach that infuses metacognitive strategies into fully packed ECE curricula atRowan and Tennessee State University (TSU). In particular, the pilot study designs theme-basedgames that feature metacognitive strategies and ECE fundamentals in real engineering problem-solving to replace the

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Shawn Wagoner, Binghamton University; David Klotzkin, Binghamton University; E. White, Jr., Binghamton University

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microfluidic module willdemonstrate routing of fluidics on the micrometer channel scale – this is a common applicationin biomedical fields. Every student will be exposed to all of these fields, leading to a broad, Page 22.683.2deep, and detailed educational experience. An example of the transistor fabrication project isillustrated in Figure 1.Transistor Fabrication Experimental Module In this module the students fabricate a thin film transistor (TFT). A TFT is a type offield–effect transistor made by depositing thin layers of a semiconductor, a dielectric andmetallic contacts. This differs from traditional transistors that use the substrate as

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Claudio Olmi, University of Houston; Bo Cao, Smart Materials and Structures Laboratory; Han Wang, University of Houston; Xuemin Chen, Texas Southern University; Gangbing Song, University of Houston

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AC 2011-1070: A UNIFIED FRAMEWORK FOR REMOTE LABORATORYEXPERIMENTSClaudio Olmi, University of Houston Claudio Olmi is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Houston. He received his B.S. and M.S. degree in Computer and Systems Engineering from the University of Houston. He specializes in System Integration of hybrid Mechanical and Electrical systems with focus on Software Programming, Analog and Digital Hardware Design, Internet Technologies for Remote Operations, Dig- ital Controls, and NI LabVIEW Programming. Olmi worked in projects using Smart Materials applied to Civil and Mechanical Structures for in laboratory and remote operations from where he published 2 journal papers

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Marissa Jablonski, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; John R. Reisel, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Hossein Hosseini, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Ethan V Munson, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Leah Rineck

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industries. She trained at the National Environ- mental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) in Nagpur, India where she worked on biodegradation of azo dye intermediates. Marissa served as Co-chair of UWM’s student chapter of Engineers Without Borders for 2 years since its inception in 2007 and continues to help design and implement water distri- bution projects in Guatemala. Marissa Jablonski was a 2008 recipient of the NSF Graduate Fellowship Honorable Mention, the 2008 Wisconsin Water Association Scholarship, and the 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011 UWM Chancellor’s Graduate Student Awards. Marissa is a member of ASEE and EWB. She received her BS degree in Natural Resources and Spanish from the University of

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Tzu-Liang Bill Tseng, University of Texas, El Paso; Rong Pan, Arizona State University; Jun Zheng, University of Texas, El Paso; Carolyn Joy Awalt, University of Texas, El Paso, College of Education; Maria Veronica Gonzalez, University of Texas, El Paso; Francisco Medina

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Science, OMEGA and others (over 100 refereed publications). He has been serving as a principle investigator of several research projects funded by NSF, NASA, DoEd, and KSEF. He is currently serving as an editor of Journal of Computer Standards & Interfaces.Rong Pan, Arizona State University Dr. Rong Pan is Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering at Arizona State University. He received his PhD in Industrial Engineering from Penn State University in 2002. His research interests include failure time data analysis, design of experiments, multivariate statistical quality control, time series analysis and control. He is a senior member of ASQ and a member of SRE, IIE and INFORMS.Jun Zheng, The University of Texas at

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Amelito G. Enriquez, Canada College

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university, and has resulted in declining enrollments in community collegeengineering programs.7 The erosion of the core lower-division curriculum, coupled with recentbudget crises in California, is threatening the viability of community college engineeringprograms all over the state. In response to this pressing need to strengthen community collegeengineering programs, Cañada College, submitted a successful grant proposal to the NationalScience Foundation. This paper is a description of this NSF-funded project that attempts toimprove community college engineering education using technology, and establishcollaborations and partnerships among institutions in order to increase the viability ofcommunity college engineering programs in the State.2

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Sushil K. Chaturvedi, Old Dominion University; Kaustubh A. Dharwadkar

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Implementation of Virtual Experiments in a Laboratory CourseKeywords: Virtual labs, simulation, visualization, assessmentAbstractThis paper presents results from a National Science Foundation grant titled “Simulation andVisualization Enhanced Engineering Education”, funded by the EEC division. Although thescope of the project is quite broad, embracing a wide range of courses in three engineeringdisciplines, the present work describes the results obtained from application of simulation andvisualization for development and implementation of web-based virtual engineering laboratories.The present work leverages the advancement in hardware and software technologies to mapphysical experiments into web-based virtual experiments

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Reid Bailey, University of Virginia; Alexandra Emelina Coso, Georgia Institute of Technology; Heather T. Rowan-Kenyon, Boston College; Michael J Cabral, Virginia Commonwealth University; Joanne Bechta Dugan, University of Virginia; Marie F. Creager, University of Virginia

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year, students continue to concentrate onintegration while completing capstone projects designed specifically for TLP teams.Purpose/need and critical reflection are incorporated into the TLP curricula through theTLP Learning Community. The TLP Learning Community meets every two weeks forone hour with goals of developing a sense of belonging among the students, educatingstudents about the engineering field, strengthening leadership skills among students, andhelping students learn skills for getting jobs and internships. All students in the program– sophomores through seniors – participate in the learning community together. Page 22.1177.3An overview of

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Holli Burgon, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Bruce Elliott-Litchfield, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; David E. Goldberg, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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AC 2011-1291: THE FIRST-TO-FOURTH FLATLINE: ASSESSING UN-DERGRADUATE STUDENTS’ CREATIVE CAPACITYHolli Burgon, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignJ. Bruce Elliott-Litchfield, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign J. Bruce Elliott-Litchfield is assistant dean in Undergraduate Programs in Engineering. He advises stu- dents and directs the Academy for Excellence in Engineering Education, the iFoundry Illinois Engineering First-year Experience, the Learning in Community program, and the Creativity, Innovation, and Vision course suite. He is faculty advisor for Engineers Without Borders and conducts research on what students learn via international service projects and how students learn to enhance creativity. An

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Rebecca K. Toghiani, Mississippi State University; Adrienne R. Minerick, Michigan Technological University; Keisha B. Walters, Mississippi State University; Priscilla J. Hill, Mississippi State University; Carlen Henington, Mississippi State University

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several ofthese benefits. Improving processes by process intensification requires engineers to integratemany fundamental concepts and go beyond traditional unit operations. Currently, most chemicalengineers are trained in fundamentals using a unit operations approach where the material issubdivided between courses. Engineers are often taught how to synthesize a process by linkingtogether standard unit operations, but are frequently not trained to combine/exploit fundamentalconcepts in new ways for novel and efficient process designs. This project seeks to correct thisdeficiency through the development of process intensification instructional modules for use inexisting courses.Four core chemical engineering courses are targeted: fluid flow

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Stephen J. Krause, Arizona State University; Jacquelyn E. Kelly, Arizona State University; Andrea Marta Eller, Arizona State University; Dale R. Baker, Arizona State University; Jessica Triplett, Arizona State University

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research with NSF sponsored projects in the areas of: Modules to Promote Conceptual Change in an Introductory Materials Course, Tracking Student Learning Trajectories of Atomic Structure and Macroscopic Property Relationships, and Assessing the Effect of Learning Modes on Conceptual Change.Jacquelyn E. Kelly, Arizona State University Jacquelyn Kelly is doctoral student in Science Education at Arizona State University. Her Master’s de- gree is in Materials Science and Engineering and her undergraduate degree is in Physics and Chemistry. Her principle research interests are situated in engineering education and include conceptual develop- ment, engineering academic language acquisition, and the role of motivation and

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Larry J. Shuman, University of Pittsburgh; Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Tuba Pinar Yildirim, University of Pittsburgh; Karen M. Bursic, University of Pittsburgh; Natasa Vidic, University of Pittsburgh

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department she worked as a Senior Consultant for Ernst and Young and as an Industrial Engineer for General Motors Corporation. She teaches undergraduate courses in engineering economics, engineering management, and probability and statistics in Industrial Engineering as well as engineering computing in the freshman engineering program. Dr. Bursic has done research and published work in the areas of Engineering and Project Management and Engineering Education. She is a member of IIE and ASEE and is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Pennsylvania.Natasa Vidic, University of Pittsburgh Assistant Professor Industrial Engineering Department Swanson School of Engineering University of Pittsburgh

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Gene Liao, Wayne State University

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energy and alternative automotive propulsion fields; and developing and delivering aseries of workshops and seminars for K-12 science teachers, corporate partners, and energy andautomotive professionals. The course materials and laboratory specifications developed areposted online for dissemination, allowing the short course is made available for distancelearning. This enables energy storage engineers and technicians across the country to receive thetraining courses on-site through the Internet. Experience gained from this curricula developmentcan also prepare the collaborative team for the future projects on advanced energy storagetechnology.This paper describes a funded project that addresses the critical need for energy storage trained

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Xuemin Chen, Texas Southern University; Lawrence O Kehinde P.E., Texas Southern University; Yuhong Zhang, Texas Southern University; Shahryar Darayan, Texas Southern University; David O. Olowokere, Texas Southern University; Daniel Osakue, Texas Southern University

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Civil Engineering Technology Page 22.1654.2(CIVT). Over 200 students are currently enrolled in the department. The student population iscomprised of about 76% African-Americans, and about 21% Hispanics. Female studentsconstitute 31% of the overall student population in the department.In order to strengthen the retention of recruited students, and in order to enhance the quality ofour instructional effort, we successfully secured the NSF HBCU-UP Targeted Infusion Grant.This grant has facilitated the conduct of a proposed project to be entitled “Development ofVirtual and Remote Laboratory for Engineering Technology Undergraduate Students”. A

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Patrick A. Tebbe, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Nicholas Saucedo, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Jeffrey Richard Pribyl, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Stewart L. Ross, Minnesota State University, Mankato

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Learning at Minnesota State University Mankato. He has been a professor at this institution for 34 years and deals with numerous programs that aid teaching and leaning. He is also the senior associate with Dee Fink & Associates, a small company that delivers course design and other workshops across the country and internationally at colleges and universities. Page 22.569.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Engaged in Thermodynamics – Addressing the Student to Learning Material InterfaceI. Introduction and Project BackgroundThis paper will

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Douglas H. Timmer, University of Texas, Pan American; Miguel Gonzalez, University of Texas, Pan American; Connie M. Borror, Arizona State University West

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Advanced Manufacturing and Research Initiative (NAAMREI). Dr. Gonzalez is a founding leader of the initiative which seeks to develop the infrastructure for an integrated PK through practice educational system for the Rio South Texas Region. This endeavor involves a strong relationship with the Economic Development community, South Texas College and Region One Education Service Center which facilitates the activities of the proposed project. Because of his experience and role as a regional leader in a wide variety of endeavors, Dr. Gonzalez has served and continues to serve in leadership positions in technology based economic development in the Rio South Texas Region.Connie M Borror, Arizona State University West

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Zenaida Otero Gephardt, Rowan University; Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Mariano Javier Savelski, Rowan University; Stewart Slater, Rowan University; Maryfaith Rodgers, Rowan University; Pavlo Kostetskyy, Rowan University; Keith McIver; Haddy Diallo; Kaitlyn Jean Zienowicz; Jason J. Giacomelli, Rowan University; Vladimir de Delva

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Center in2008 to provide outreach and training components to support the educational mission of theCenter. During the first year of the project, Rowan University worked with various constituencygroups to implement certain projects that directly impact the Center’s goals. This work has beenexpanded during the subsequent two years and additional modules and course materials havebeen developed.This paper describes the progress to date. Our long term goals are to:• train students who will be effective engineers and leaders in the manufacturing andresearch operations of the pharmaceutical and allied industries of the center.• train students for roles in education and in the agencies involved in regulating foodand drug manufacturing operations

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Patricia A. Carlson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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on loan to the Air Force Human Resources Laboratory from 1989 to 1995, managing a project to transition advanced instructional technologies to ten different middle schools located in five states. She is on the editorial board of three professional publications and has served as National Research Council Senior Fellow assigned to the Air Force Human Resources Laboratory. In her spare time, Pat enjoys reading and gardening. Page 22.1102.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Nine Years of Calibrated Peer Review™ in Rhetoric

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22 where students perhaps did not take the timeto read the question carefully. To ensure students do not rush through the Post-Exam, we intendto give the exam a week earlier in the future and impress on students the need to take their timeand carefully read each question. Page 22.245.7Post Course Informal Survey ResultsIn consultation with an external evaluator, we designed a survey that we gave to students afterthe last class which asked the following questions: • What was the most interesting part of the course? Students found the most interesting part of the course to be Labs (2 students), Projects (2 students), and

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Mary R. Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University; Armando A. Rodriguez, Arizona State University; John H. Bailey, Eastern Arizona College; Anita Grierson, Arizona State University; Rakesh Pangasa, Arizona Western College; Clark Vangilder, Central Arizona College; Phil Blake McBride, Eastern Arizona College; Richard A. Hall Jr., Cochise College

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describe the challenges, lessons learned, and results of the program for its firstyear and a half of existence. The primary challenge was known before the project began: onlyone school is within an hour’s drive of the four-year institution. The other four schools are threeto four hours distant. In spite of this, strong collaborations and interactions are occurringbetween the schools. The paper will describe participation in high school recruitment,presentations in classrooms, student feedback from class room visits, and the advantages ofbeing available at a table in the student union so that students can come by and ask questions.The paper will also discuss the changes that have taken place in the community colleges to bettersupport their programs

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Mrinal C. Saha, University of Oklahoma; Zahed Siddique, University of Oklahoma; Firas Akasheh, Tuskegee University; Bipul Barua, University of Oklahoma; Christof Heisser, MAGMA Foundry Technologies, Inc.; Shaiful M. Arif, University of Oklahoma

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graduates ill-prepared forthe professional career [8]. An instructional media that is more effective and engaging must needfor students’ learning complex engineering concepts. It has been proven that learning through amedium that combines course materials with interactive visualization can be powerful tool forengineering education.It has been found through NSF funded projects that students learn the best when (i) presentedwith organized information that relates in some way to their own experiences, and (ii) they aregiven the opportunity to test themselves on their own understanding and to work to develop theirunderstanding with other students [9]. High school or undergraduate students in the 21st centurygrow up in an era where interactive role

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Mary Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Nur Ozge Ozaltin, University of Pittsburgh; Angela Shartrand, National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance (NCIIA); Larry J. Shuman, University of Pittsburgh; Phil Weilerstein, VentureWell

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U.S.economy.The purpose of this Phase 2 CCLI research project is to understand how institutional, instruc-tional and student variables influence student learning of technology-focused entrepreneurship.In order to enhance future engineers‟ abilities to incorporate entrepreneurship in their work, weneed to better understand: (1) how entrepreneurship is taught within engineering schools, and (2)how the different pedagogical environments increase students‟ learning of entrepreneurship.This paper addresses the first overarching objective. Specifically, we have conducted a nation-wide study to determine the status of entrepreneurship education in engineering schools acrossthe U.S., and using this information, map and identify similar types of approaches and

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James Boerio, University of Cincinnati; Dionysios D. Dionysiou, University of Cincinnati; Ian Papautsky, University of Cincinnati; Miguel Pelaez, University of Cincinnati; Mark Schulz; Christopher Huth; Vesselin N. Shanov, University of Cincinnati; Donglu Shi, University of Cincinnati

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to Nanoscale Science and Technology and Experimental NanoscaleScience and Technology and provide students at UC with an outstanding educational experiencein nanoscale science and engineering. The new and existing courses support UC studentsparticipating in the Engineering Research Center (ERC) for Revolutionizing MetallicBiomaterials in which UC partners with lead institution North Carolina Agricultural andTechnical State University and the University of Pittsburgh. They also address the need for atechnologically advanced workforce in the areas of nanomaterials and nanotechnology asexpressed by Ohio's Third Frontier Project 1 and Deloitte Study 2 and by employers in UC’sinternationally acclaimed mandatory co-op engineering program. All four

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Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College; Richard Gilbert, University of South Florida; Marie A. Boyette, FLATE

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involved in all pre-camp activities. This is particularly the case for camp advertising,marketing, and diverse camper recruiting. Although FLATE camps have an upper participantlimit, there is a critical mass of campers required to foster the camaraderie characteristic of a funexperience. Actions to guarantee that minimal enrollment are an important pre-camp activity.There are several approaches to securing the camp’s targeted enrollment. These include placingads in local newspapers or online with local news stations. FLATE useswww.myfoxtampabay.com, for example. There are also lists of summer camps that areadvertised on “camp” websites. FLATE uses www.summercamps.com and its own website,www.fl-ate.org/projects/camps.html.) Other more traditional

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Muhsin Menekse, Arizona State University; Glenda Stump, Arizona State University; Stephen J. Krause, Arizona State University; Michelene T.H. Chi, Arizona State University

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, capstone design, and introductory materials engineering. His research interests are evaluating conceptual knowledge, miscon- ceptions and their repair, and conceptual change. He has co-developed a Materials Concept Inventory for assessing conceptual knowledge of students in introductory materials engineering classes. He is cur- rently conducting research with NSF sponsored projects in the areas of: Modules to Promote Conceptual Change in an Introductory Materials Course, Tracking Student Learning Trajectories of Atomic Structure and Macroscopic Property Relationships, and Assessing the Effect of Learning Modes on Conceptual Change.Michelene T.H. Chi, Arizona State University Micki Chi is a Professor in the