Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Techniques in the Classroom

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jayne Marks, University of Pittsburgh; Kevin J. Ketchman, University of Pittsburgh; David R. Riley II, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Lisa Riley Brown, Penn State University; Melissa M. Bilec, University of Pittsburgh

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

method known as the flipped classroom is gaining consideration andimplementation in engineering classes as well as in classrooms of many levels and disciplines.In a flipped classroom, live class lectures are moved out of classroom and replaced with on-linevideos, and active, project-based learning activities are done in their place. At the University ofPittsburgh and Pennsylvania State University two sustainable engineering courses focused onresidential energy efficiency were flipped, and the impact this method had on the students wasinvestigated.For this study, data was collected using pre- and post-confidence tests, a final course reflectionsurvey, and the College and University Classroom Environment Inventory (CUCEI). This datawas then

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

James Accuosti

curriculum [7] secondary education settings, students are ready to use thewhich puts more stress on curriculum administrators to technology at their disposal [14]. We will look at four broadintegrate technology into lesson plan requirements. Owen and factors, all of which are independent from each other butDemb have found there is much pressure to use technology in possess a connection to our goal of educaitonal technologythe classroom as well as other education environments, implementation (See Fig. 1).including those at the college-level [8]. With the variety andaccess at our disposal, funding for integration projects havesprouted left and right [9] which exacerbates the

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Zachary Boorman; Richard Freitas; Kristie Kordana; Adam Stanley

, have adjustable settings to ac- stones and deliverables as well as when focus groups would becommodate a wide age range of riders, and be both visually and conducted for testing the product. A carrying case was de-ergonomically appealing for the rider and user. When collapsed, signed and manufactured using the chosen colors of blue andthe device should fit in a backpack style carrying case. Therefore, yellow.the ultimate goal of this multidisciplinary capstone engineering The product called “Collapsible Kid Cruiser™,” con-project is to acquire a patent for a device that meets the afore- sists of five different subsystems. The subsystems include thementioned requirements and develop a fully functional proto

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Katherine Aho; Kavitha Chandra; Ed Roberts

fields in the United States and STEM jobs are projected at Haverhill High School in Haverhill, MA. The decision toto increase by 17% by 2018 [1]. Because of this, it is now introduce programming to the students was a result of theeven more important to expose students to writing computer partnership between the University of Massachusetts Lowellprograms. Not only does it prepare the students for the new job and Haverhill High School through the National Sciencemarket, it also teaches the students critical thinking skills that Foundation (NSF) GK-12 Fellowship program. The role of thethey otherwise may not learn through traditional high school graduate fellow assigned to the aforementioned classes was

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2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Jared Tuberty; Thalia Anagnos; Emily Allen

opportunities to our scholar cohorts, including CareerCenter workshops and presentations, often taking place shortly before job and internship fairs.Another popular activity has been various field trips to local sites. In the past two years scholarshave visited multiple construction sites, including that of our own campus’ Student Unionexpansion, the new span of the Bay Bridge, the new Levi’s Stadium (the future home of the SanFrancisco 49ers football team), and the BART extension project into Milpitas and San Jose.Students see how engineers from multiple fields interact on major construction projects, and gainaccess to areas and information not open to the general public. We are working on extending thefield trip program to local industry offices and

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2014 ERC

Authors

Alma Wickenden

projects often yield unpredictable, innovative results  Multi-disciplinary collaborative projects are best accomplished with co- located teams  Physical design of buildings & campuses encourages physical interaction  Formal & informal interactions among scientists advance knowledge and promote research breakthroughs ARL OPEN CAMPUS IS ADOPTING THESE BEST PRACTICES TO STIMULATE RESEARCH, INNOVATION, AND TECHNOLOGY INFUSIONUNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED Shared Modern Research Facilities Specialty Electronic Materials & Sensors Cleanroom (SEMASC) State-of-the-art semiconductor processing

Conference Session

Laboratory Experiences with Mechanical, Materials and Fluid Systems

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bijan Sepahpour, The College of New Jersey

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

, weight, and other physicalcharacteristics of the experiment were not defined at the inception of the project. Initially, thislack of constraints may have been a blessing (for the students) since it did free the design processto vary these factors. However, later, it became clear that the price for such a freedom is dealingwith the lack of starting points/values in the process. Table (1) provides a synopsis of the stepsand the parameters involved in the implementation of the project. Page 24.90.4 Table 1. Steps and the Parameters involved in the successful implementation of the project. # TYPE OF

Conference Session

Engineering Leadership Development Constituent Committee Division Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Taylor Robert Smith, Brigham Young University; Rollin H. Hotchkiss P.E.,D.WRE, F.ASCE, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Leadership Development Division

Team-Member EvaluationsIntroductionFrom experience it seems that most students (and people) see the great value of open and honestconstructive criticism, but have rarely had opportunities in which they felt safe to provide it. Inthe procedure which was carried out for this study, students were instructed on how to provideeffective feedback, as well as given opportunities to give and receive feedback to theirteammates on a group project. This provided them with experiences which increased their self-awareness, as well as taught them how to communicate more effectively. Ideally, this will helpthem to be more prepared for working on teams in their future careers.The purpose of this inquiry was to investigate the effects of non-anonymity upon

Conference Session

New Course Development Concepts in ET I

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Dunning, University of Maine

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

implementation tips.Introduction One of the challenges facing higher education is the need to maximize tuition revenuewhile minimizing instructional costs. This is leading to growth in class size. An introductorycircuit course was examined for this project. The course traditionally had enrollment of 25-35students but due to course consolidation the enrollment for Fall 2013 swelled to 105. Thiscaused a review of teaching pedagogy for the material. With a larger enrollment the typicalinteraction between the faculty member and individual students would be limited. The standardapproach of posing questions and surveying individuals is far less effective since a smallerpercentage of students are actively engaged. Large classroom lectures can be

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

M.D. B. Sarder, University of Southern Mississippi

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

delivery that offers students a variety oflearning styles and preferences in interactive ways. In this research project, we implemented atleast two techniques of increasing faculty-student interactivity in alternate educationalenvironments. It engaged students in the online class discussion by interjecting frequentquestions from the covered contents and providing audio/video repository of answered questions.Online students appear to be successful when provided ample opportunities to interact with theinstructor, other students, and the course content. In this project we designed interactive coursecontent for online students and codify them. We then use this as a basis for an “EducatingEducators” program to help online faculty become more effective

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy J. Hinds, Michigan State University; S. Patrick Walton, Michigan State University; Mark Urban-Lurain, Michigan State University; Daina Briedis, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

longitudinal view of student success in the CoRe Experience program and to identifyfactors that both attract students to the program and enhance their persistence in our college.CoRe Experience StructureThe first‐year engineering course, EGR 100, Introduction to Engineering Design, a team-baseddesign project course, was piloted in Spring, 2008, offered full‐scale in Fall, 2008, and has beenoffered each semester since. This course is required of all incoming engineering students. EGR102, Introduction to Engineering Modeling, an engineering problem-solving and computationcourse, follows in sequence and is required of all engineering majors other than computerscience and computer engineering. Students in those two majors instead take CSE 231

Conference Session

Integration of Engineering and Other Disciplines (Including Liberal Arts)

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine Hennessey Wikoff, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Cynthia Wise Barnicki, Milwaukee School of Engineering; James R. Kieselburg II, Grohmann Museum at Milwaukee School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

into freshman-level humanities course and a junior-level technical course allowed students to make connections with what they learned earlier in their college careers. • Not insignificant is the fact that this interdisciplinary project brought together three people from very different academic areas to exchange ideas.The Museum - Contributions to the Synthesis of Art and EngineeringWhile the seeds may have been planted much earlier, the synthesis of art and engineering atMilwaukee School of Engineering formally began in 2001 with the gift of the Eckhart G. Page 24.784.2Grohmann Man at Work collection to the University

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 4

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven J Henderson, U.S. Military Academy; Kenneth McDonald P.E., Dept of Systems Engineering, United States Military Academy, West Point

Tagged Divisions

Systems Engineering

Engineering (Missouri School of Mines – MS&T). He is a registered Civil Engineer in the states of Virginia and Wyoming; he is a Certified Planner by the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP); and a registered Project Management Professional (PMP) with the Project Management Institute (PMI). Dr. McDonald is also a member of Gamma Theta Upsilon and Phi Kappa Phi. His research and consulting interests are in capacity development analysis and decision analysis as applied to infrastructure and other complex enterprises especially in the arena of nation reconstruction and capacity development. He teaches classes in systems engineering, engineer- ing economics, and project management. He has worked in Iraq

Conference Session

Track 3 - Session 2

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2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Cheryl Matherly, The University of Tulsa; Sarah R. Phillips, Rice University ; Junichiro Kono, Rice University; Shane M Curtis, University of Tulsa

Tagged Topics

Student Development

selected the NanoJapan: International Research Experiences for Undergraduates (NanoJapanIREU) and the RQI Research Experiences for Undergraduates (RQI REU) programs for comparisonbecause both programs are funded by the NSF, headquartered at Rice University, recruit participantsfrom universities nationwide via a competitive selection process, enable students to participate incutting-edge research in fields related to nanoscale and atomic-scale systems, phenomena, anddevices, and require participants to present topical research posters on their summer projects at asummer research colloquium as a capstone experience. Page 20.42.4The NanoJapan

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 4

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eva Andrijcic, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; William D. Schindel, ICTT System Sciences; Craig G Downing, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Systems Engineering

due to the time it took them to teachpatients how to use the device, and patients refused to use the device for fear that it resembled adevice used for inhaling narcotics. As a result of poor sales, in 2007 Pfizer withdrew Exuberafrom the market, and instead of reaching the initially projected yearly revenues of $2 billion, thecompany suffered a $2.8 billion loss11.In the 1930s Douglas Aircraft introduced the DC-3 aircraft, which has been called by many themost successful airplane ever built. It had an incredibly long life and was very successfully usedfor many, originally unintended, commercial purposes in the US and abroad12. Consequently,Douglas Aircraft experienced great success, primarily because it was able to satisfy

Conference Session

Discipline Specific Topics and Techniques

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tasha Zephirin, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Catherine G.P. Berdanier, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica Farmer Cox, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Suely M. Black, Norfolk State University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

engineering students and to leadership, policy, and change in STEM education. Primary research projects explore the preparation of graduate students for diverse careers and the development of reliable and valid engineering education assessment tools. She is a NSF Faculty Early Career (CAREER) and Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) recipient.Dr. Suely M. Black, Norfolk State University Page 24.1087.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Snapshot of an Interdisciplinary Graduate Engineering

Conference Session

WIED: Faculty and Gender Issues

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cristina Poleacovschi, University of Colorado, Boulder; Amy Javernick-Will, University of Colorado, Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

Paper ID #9839The Use and Misuse of ”Gender” and ”Sex” Terminologies in Civil Engineer-ing LiteratureCristina Poleacovschi, University of Colorado-Boulder I am a PhD student at the University of Colorado-Boulder studying Construction Engineering in Man- agement. My two areas of research interest are in construction global projects and gender issues in engineering. Prior to coming to Boulder I have received my MS in Civil Engineering from University of Alabama in Huntsville.Dr. Amy Javernick-Will, University of Colorado, Boulder Dr. Amy Javernick-Will is an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder in the

Conference Session

ECE Distance Education

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dale N. Buechler, University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Phil J. Sealy Jr., University of Wisconsin, Platteville; John Goomey, University of Wisconsin, Platteville

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

review material, readingassignments, and lab equipment training. Another looks at the use of flipping the classroom tomake room for in-class problem solving. A third project uses pre-homework assignments andonline quizzing with incremental feedback to promote student self-directed learning and improvestudent confidence. Student survey data, relative student performance, and faculty workload willall be discussed.BackgroundIn the fall of 2008 the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville began a collaborative distance education program where place-bound students couldcomplete their entire four-year electrical engineering (EE) degree from any of the universitysystem’s two-year college sites located throughout

Conference Session

Computer Hardware

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ying Yu, University of Hartford; Krista M Hill, University of Hartford

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

verification, and teaching with new educational methods, including peer instruction, personal response systems, video games, and state- of-the-art CAD tools.Dr. Krista M Hill, University of Hartford Dr. Krista M. Hill is an associate professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Hartford in Connecticut. PhD and MSEE from Worcester Polytechnic Inst. in Worcester MA, and previ- ously a project engineer at Digital Equipment Corp. She instructs graduate and undergraduate computer engineering computer courses, directs graduate research, and performs research involving embedded mi- croprocessor based systems. Her current projects involve small system design, signal processing, and intelligent

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Yuan You; V.N. Lakshmi; Saion Sinha; D. Dutta; C.K. Sarkar; S. Basu Mail

growing MLG. In this project we characterized current project is to characterize the MLG samples with regardThermal-CVD grown MLG films with the Atomic Force Microscope to the growth parameters with the primary focus on its(AFM) to determine the optimal growth condition by measuring Hydrogen sensing ability..surface roughness and thickness. The results were verified by bothcontact and close-contact mode of imaging. It was also determinedthat increased surface roughness creates additional sites for Hydrogen II. EXPERIMENTALadsorption. The results agree with other Hydrogen sensor data. MLG was synthesized by performing CVD at atmospheric Keywords—AFM, CVD, Graphene

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Abdulrahman Alkhodairy; Sarosh Patel

be the master. Themovement of the robot will be based on the command string The working methodology of this robotic system issent by the remote controller using the robot’s built-in implemented in the below three modules :controller’s language. 1) Image capture Art is a universal language and has been essential to human 2) Image processinglife for centuries. In this project we apply a typical industrialrobot to produce picture portrait. This Table-Top robot is a 3) Dynamic control of the robotCartesian coordinate robot [1]. It has three prismatic jointswhose axes are mutually orthogonal, as shown in Figure 1.This Table-Top robot is IAI made with a

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Bryan Slater; Thy Dinh; Branden Frazier; Farshid Zabihian

-powered bike. Using the knowledge gainedfrom previous engineering courses, the team members hadsufficient knowledge and skill to complete the project. The resultsof analysis determined which version of the bike is best for theenvironment and for the economy. The team used the data whichwas provided by last year’s engineering students who havecompleted the conversion of the Kawasaki Ninja gas bike toelectric motorcycle. I. INTRODUCTION This analysis consists of three main sections. First, theefficiency of the motorcycle was analyzed by comparing theoutput power with the input power. Then, the analysis of thecost and environmental impacts were performed. Theseanalyses were completed for the existing converted

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Ye Zhou; Amir Esmailpour

project [4]. At birth, Hadoop was a giant development for database, and since SQL database is still used in major dealing with the new and unexpected amount of data database required systems, this issue presents a problem for generated by several industries such as health sciences, Hadoop. security, and social media. Hadoop includes MapReduce Figure 2 illustrates MapReduce functionality within engine using Java implementation and uses specific Hadoop. Before Mapper function works, one file input is database file system called Hadoop Distributed File System loaded into HDFS, and the file is partitioned into multiple (HDFS). MapReduce engine includes two functions

Conference Session

Engineering Student Experiences

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deborah Tihanyi, University of Toronto; Penny Kinnear, University of Toronto

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

, longitudinal study. As a result, we are not yet in aposition to extrapolate, responsibly draw firm conclusions or identify trends, nor can we identifyspecific curricular or pedagogical implications. What we can do at this stage is highlight some ofour initial findings that will inform the analysis of the rest of the data. In this paper, we focus onTéa,1 one of eleven participants, based on the artifacts collected to date, although reference willbe made to comments and work of other participants. We hope to show through this preliminaryanalysis how one student uses the experiences and opportunities provided both by the curriculumand this research project to develop a sense of professionalism and how to practice it as achemical engineer as she tries on

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Kim, Bucknell University; Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

Stanford d.school (dschool.stanford.edu), MIT Media Lab (www.media.mit.edu), anddesign firms such as IDEO (www.ideo.com), Innocentive (www.innocentive.com) and Synapse(www.synapse.com).Project ManagerThe project manager is concerned with how to organize resources to their maximum effect sothat tasks can be achieved. These tasks may span from simple to complex and from individual toteam-based. Every project will have limited resources and a good project manager will be ableto fluidly allocate people, time, money, equipment, space and other resources of a group. A goodproject manager will also be able to break down and clearly communicate the tasks to be done bothglobally and for individuals 36 .MakerThe maker creates prototypes to think, prove

Conference Session

FPD 4: Peers and Perceptions

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeff Johnson, LeTourneau University; Alan D. Niemi, LeTourneau University; Matthew G. Green, LeTourneau University; Lauren Elise Gentry, LeTourneau University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

Paper ID #9195Management and Assessment of a Successful Peer Mentor Program for In-creasing Freshmen RetentionMr. Jeff Johnson, LeTourneau University Jeff Johnson is an Instructor at LeTourneau University. He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering Technology from LeTourneau in 1994 then proceeded to spend 16 years in industry focusing on machine and civil design as well as project management. In 2010 he began his teaching career at his alma mater to share his experiences with engineering and technology students. He is currently a co-PI on the schools NSF-STEP retention grant.Prof. Alan D. Niemi, LeTourneau University

Conference Session

Principles of K-12 Engineering Education and Practice

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pamela S. Lottero-Perdue, Towson University; Elizabeth A Parry, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

project director of a National Science Foundation GK-12 grant, Liz developed a highly effective tiered mentoring model for graduate and undergraduate engineering and education teams as well as a popu- lar Family STEM event offering for both elementary and middle school communities. Current projects include providing comprehensive professional development, coaching and program consulting for K-8 integrated STEM using engineering schools in several states and serving as a Professional Development partner for the Engineering is Elementary program. She is also a Co-PI on two NSF DR-K-12 grants focused on practice and research in K-8 engineering education and the chair of the ASEE Long Range Planning Committee on K-12

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2014 EDI

Authors

Stephen M. Phillips P.E.

does not International embargoes International export controlFULTON schools of engineering electrical, computer and energy engineering ABET and online programs Disclaimer: I do not represent ABET (but interact with ABET often). From the ABET web page http://www.abet.org/online-programs/What is an Online Program?Many academic programs in higher education have at least some contentoffered online, including individual courses, homework assignments, and classresearch projects. What constitutes an "online" program is not always well-defined. In addition, the percentage of online content for any

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-college Engineering: Research on Teachers' Perceptions, Attitudes and Impacts of Teacher PD

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anastasia Marie Rynearson, Purdue University; Kerrie A Douglas, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

the introductory lessons, they wereasked to teach one Engineering is Elementary (EiE)14 unit. The EiE units were mapped to the Page 24.9.3science standards for each grade level. Each unit was comprised of four individual lessons: 1) Astory contextualizing the engineering field and design project, 2) A hands-on lesson introducingthe engineering field involved in the unit, 3) An inquiry-based science lesson to teach and/orreinforce the underlying scientific principles needed, and 4) An engineering design project usingthe principles learned in the prior three lessons. Teachers were encouraged to implementadditional design experiences if possible

Conference Session

Flipping ECE Courses

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rafic Bachnak, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg; Sofía Carolina Maldonado, Texas A&M International University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

TAMIU. In addition, Sof´ıa was a Research Assistant for the project ”Topography of an Object: Detection and Display (Software and Hardware)” and was Project Manager of the Engineering Senior Project De- sign entitled ”New Classroom Propulsion Demonstrator.” She is presently a Special Program Aid at the Department of Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics at TAMIU. Page 24.50.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 A Flipped Classroom Experience: Approach and Lessons LearnedAbstractWhile a number of issues affect student success, an area of great concern is student