Conference Session

Experiences in Engineering Community Engagement

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marybeth Lima, Louisiana State University

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Community Engagement Division

isover, the faculty member in charge of the Playground Project works with a committed studentteam and the school community to consolidate the designs developed for each school into one,and to procure funds to build the playground, usually through a volunteer build process.Approximately 33% of students enrolled in the course volunteer to build the playground that theydesigned on paper. These efforts have resulted in 28 local playgrounds being constructed thatserve approximately 10,000 children every school day. In this paper, the author will (1) presentthe service-learning model used to develop this course, including how this model evolved overtime to better meet both student and community needs, (2) share pertinent data, includingcommunity

Conference Session

Minority Student Success

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Annita Alting, Grove School of Engineering, The City College of the City University of New York; Feridun Delale, City College of the City University of New York; Joseph Barba, City College of the City University of New York

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Minorities in Engineering

Bridges to Engineering: Success for TransfersAbstractThe Grove School of Engineering (GSOE) of the City College of New York partnered with twocommunity colleges to improve the transfer and success of students moving into a bachelor’sprogram in engineering. A broader goal of the project was to increase the success of all studentsenrolling in the Grove School of Engineering.The project took place from fall 2005 through spring 2012. Its three main components were: 1)Introducing lower level undergraduate students to research, 2) A summer research course forcommunity college students considering the GSOE, and 3) Harmonization of science, math andsome entry level engineering science courses across the participating schools. We trackedenrollment

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Erin M Fitzgerald, Museum of Science; Christine M Cunningham, Museum of Science

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

attitudes towards teachingengineering and technology have changed as a result of participating in the BEST project, as wellas the remaining barriers that continue to impede implementation of these topics into theircourses.The second area has been assessed through a pre- and post-survey that measures students’ levelof agreement with a series of statements about engineering (presented item-by-item in Table 1below).Table 1 # Engineering Statements Q1 An engineer should test materials before creating a design that uses those materials. Q2 Analysis of data helps engineers make informed design decisions. Q6 Engineering design is an iterative process. Q7 Engineering failures are an

Conference Session

Two-Year College Division Transfer Topics Part I

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

MD B. Sarder, University of Southern Mississippi

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Two Year College Division

. Ofthese, 34% students were transferred from local CCs. A significant portion of these ET studentsare part-time and/or nontraditional, and may take longer than the traditional four years tograduate. Approximately, 20% of these ET students fail to graduate as financial, motivational,and family or job related problems. The following table 1 shows our recent three yearenrollment, retention, and graduation statistics by gender, ethnicity, type of enrollment (full- vspart-time), and college year.Proposed visionSTEP’s overarching objective is to increase our ET graduates to meet the growing regionalindustrial need. We have three student focus areas: (1) Recruitment, (2) Retention, and (3

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kirsten A Davis, Boise State University; Ross A. Perkins, Boise State University; R. Casey Cline, Boise State University; Sondra M Miller, Boise State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

nationwide need to better translate engineering education research into the classroomsetting. Moving engineering education research into practice is a more complicated task than itmight initially seem. There are many significant barriers to hinder the transition from research toimplementation. These barriers can be categorized into two groups: (1) individual barriers, suchas personality characteristics that contribute to a lack of willingness to implement innovations, aswell as a lack of knowledge about engineering education research; and (2) environmentalperceptions, such as perceptions of the tenure and promotion process that suggest a lack ofsupport for innovations.The project discussed in this paper investigates the characteristics of faculty

Conference Session

Activities and Assessment for “Awkward ABET Outcomes”

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Clifton B. Farnsworth, Brigham Young University; Ronald W. Welch, The Citadel; Michael J McGinnis, University of Texas at Tyler; Geoff Wright, Brigham Young University

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Civil Engineering

ASCE ExCEEd teaching awardee in 2011, and has been awarded the ASCE Student Chapter Advisor of the year in Region six multiple years.Dr. Geoff Wright, Brigham Young University Page 23.253.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Bringing Creativity into the Lab EnvironmentIntroductionIn a day and age where much of our nation’s infrastructure continues to erode and degrade atrates much faster than we are able to maintain and rebuild,1 civil engineers need to be creativeproblem solvers more than ever before. This means that both the civil engineer of today

Conference Session

It's Elementary

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eduardo Alfonso Suescun-Florez, Polytechnic Institute of New York University; Ryan Francis Cain, PS 3 The Bedford Village School; Vikram Kapila, Polytechnic Institute of New York University; Magued G. Iskander P.E., Polytechnic Institute of New York University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

describe several soil mechanics-related activitiesconducted with elementary school students. The activities were designed and conducted by agraduate student (Fellow) and his partner teacher under a National Science Foundation (NSF)funded GK-12 Fellows grant. The Fellow exposed second, third, and fourth grade students tofundamental concepts of soil mechanics within the geotechnical engineering context asexperienced by students in their own surroundings and environment. Applications of soilmechanics in construction were also presented. The activities presented in this paper include: (1)a soil permeability study where students learn that the flow rate of water in soils depends on soilcomposition and grain size; (2) shallow and deep foundations

Conference Session

Retaining and Developing Women Faculty in STEM

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Katherine Fu, MIT; Tahira N Reid, Purdue University; Janis P. Terpenny, Iowa State University; Deborah L. Thurston, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Judy M. Vance, Iowa State University; Susan Finger, Carnegie Mellon University; Gloria J. Wiens, University of Florida; Kazem Kazerounian, University of Connecticut; Janet Katherine Allen, University of Oklahoma; Kathy Jacobson

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Women in Engineering

disadvantages that women and minorities face in society, and specifically in thefields of science and engineering, may be largely imperceptible to those more privilegedmembers of well-represented groups [1], it is evident there remain significant disadvantages forthese underrepresented groups. In this paper, we focus on the status of underrepresented groupsin academia, though the impact of these disadvantages reaches far beyond. While there havebeen significant increases in the participation of women and minorities in science andengineering, degree attainment and careers in academia in the last 40 years [2, 3], it remains farfrom equitable among all groups. The 2011 Engineering by the Numbers report [4] in the ASEEProfiles of Engineering and

Conference Session

Integrating Art, Humanities, and Engineering

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adeel Khalid, Southern Polytechnic State University (ENG); Craig A Chin, Southern Polytechnic State University; Mir M. Atiqullah, Southern Polytechnic State University; John F. Sweigart P.E., Southern Polytechnic State University; Beth Stutzmann, Southern Polytechnic State University; Wei Zhou

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

and innovation, which is reallyfundamental in how many other countries are looking at success."5 In the U.S., how we want tomeasure success is in terms of how to be creative, how to be innovative - the arts bring thatspecifically into the learning experience. Merging arts with science and engineering will helpbuild a better engineer.Improving Engineering EducationExperts in the industry believe that the rigor of the engineering education should not be reducedbut at the same time communication skills need to be polished. The technical challenges of thefuture will require highly skilled engineers, and our educational system needs to train anddevelop people who can deliver. The changes needed to improve engineering education include6: 1

Conference Session

Institutional Transformations

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenna P. Carpenter, Louisiana Tech University; D. Patrick O'Neal, Louisiana Tech University

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Women in Engineering

environment be focused on 1) reducing role conflicts imposed by multipleenvironments, 2) providing continuity of training efforts, 3) creating a positive andrewarding mentoring culture, 4) and incorporating and evaluating efforts to increase one’sresearch self-efficacy beliefs.  Not only must one be interested in a career pathway and provided with the optimalconditions to pursue a career pathway, they must be supported in their work environments toachieve and maintain a satisfying work life. Lent and Brown13 initially proposed a model forwork satisfaction that extends their scholarship on Social Cognitive Career Theory11. In thisprocess model, the authors posit that work satisfaction is influenced by 1) one’s affectivetraits, 2) participation in goal

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Palmyra Catravas, Union College; Michael E Hagerman, Union College; Brian D. Cohen, Department of Biological Sciences, Union College; Samuel Amanuel, Union College; Rebecca Cortez, Union College; Kevin Bubriski, Green Mountain College; Amin Meyghani; Seyfollah Maleki, Union College

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

ofinorganic/organic self-assembled nanosystems. Specific nanomaterials featured included:Au and CdSe nanoparticles, dendritic organic polymers, ferrofluids, electrospunpolymers, polymer nanocomposites, carbon nanotubes, and hybrid bilayer and bulk solarheterojunctions. The primary texts for the course were: Self Assembly: The Science ofThings That Put Themselves Together, by John A. Pelesko1, and Atomic ForceMicroscopy, by Peter Eaton and Paul West2. The students also read several reviewarticles from the primary literature focused on course themes including the pioneeringwork of George Whitesides, Samuel Stupp, Chad Mirkin, and David Ginger3-8. The learning objectives for the course included: 1) to expand student technicalexpertise with

Conference Session

Novel Methods of Construction Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca N Macdonald, East Carolina University; Erich Connell, East Carolina University

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Construction

its unique setting and unchartered territory. With an absence ofestablished structures or any previous student involvement, it provides a baseline for theexperience of all students and a blank canvas to see if how their knowledge or experiencestransfer to an unfamiliar site. The authors were aware of a similar project that engaged architectsand wanted to try a similar problem within their discipline.7 BOTM was developed as an openedended problem statement that would allow the instructors to engage and assess students. Theinstructions for the assignment are provided in Figure 1. The intention of allowing students todraw upon their construction experiences was for the purpose of engaging them in the learningprocess as well as their ability to

Conference Session

Best of DEED

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Denny C. Davis, Washington State University; Ronald R Ulseth P. E., Iron Range Engineering

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Design in Engineering Education

plan is presented forintegrating teamwork development into an engineering program to prepare graduates forsubsequent development of high performing teams in the professional workplace. A case isdiscussed to illustrate how team development is achieved in a project-based curriculum setting.IntroductionThe great engineering challenges of the twenty-first century are complex and multidisciplinary innature [1]. Engineers engaged in addressing problems of societal concern that have economicimpact will necessarily be members of multidisciplinary teams that bring diverse expertise andperspectives to the problem solving process. In general, a team is “a small number of people withcomplementary skills who are committed to a common purpose, set of

Conference Session

Tablets, Mobile and Technology

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wanda Eugene, University of North Carolina - Charlotte; Shaundra Bryant Daily, Clemson University; Tiffany Barnes, NC State University; Richard Burns, West Chester University

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Computers in Education

communities to be agents of change. Forexample, various communities in countries such as Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya are harnessing thepower of mobile technology and leveraging social media to maintain a voice in the midst ofpolitical oppression. Social media have been cited as the driving force of the uprising orrevolution of 2011, better known as the Arab Spring,1, 2, 3 in which many used blogs, Twitter, andFacebook to facilitate social activism, defuse disinformation, and effect change. Similarly, amore casual example is the use of mobile technology by fishermen, which decreased pricedispersion, eliminated waste, and enabled new modes of cooperation, through the sharing ofinformation regarding promising fishing grounds and rescue at sea.4, 5

Conference Session

FPD 5: Transitions and Student Success, Part I

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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S. Patrick Walton, Michigan State University; Daina Briedis, Michigan State University; Mark Urban-Lurain, Michigan State University; Timothy J Hinds, Michigan State University; Carmellia Davis-King, Michigan State University; Thomas F. Wolff P.E., Michigan State University

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First-Year Programs

, advisors, and corporate representatives • Cultivate students' skills that encourage lifelong learning • Demonstrate to the students the critical roles of engineers in contributing to societyOur activities and events are organized around the principles of our mission. In this paper, wewill highlight some of the specific activities we undertake in our academic and co-curricularprograms that encourage development across the student skill sets we have defined (summarizedin Figure 1). The activities are described to assist others who may have interest in adapting theseactivities for their own programs.Figure 1: Summary of CoRe Experience Activities and Events. Events are noted according to theprogram that organizes them (length of line) and what

Conference Session

Instrumentation Technical Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammad Rafiq Muqri, DeVry University, Pomona; Robert Alfaro

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Instrumentation

.” Theoretically, the ZigBee-enabled refrigerator, washingmachine, coffee maker, toaster, toys and other kitchen/home appliances can freely communicatewith each other. ZigBee applications include but are not limited to home and office automation,industrial automation, medical monitoring, HVAC control, security, and seismologic monitoring.ZigBee targets the application domain of low power, low duty cycle and low data rate requirementdevices. Figure 1 shown below is a block diagram of a ZigBee network with five nodes. Figure 1 ZigBee Based Sensor NetworkTypically a wireless communication system comprises of transmitters, receivers, antennas, and thepath between the transmitter and the receiver. In summary, the transmitter feeds a

Conference Session

FPD 7: First-Year Engineering Courses, Part II: Perceptions and Paradigms

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammad Esmaeili, University of Dayton; Ali Eydgahi, Eastern Michigan University

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First-Year Programs

and the wholeclass. Moreover, this paper will attempt to compare the outcome of previous methodologies thathad been used in “ET100, introduction to Engineering technology”, with the outcome of the newintroduced methodology in the same class.IntroductionThe traditional lecture methods in which professors talk and students listen have dominatedcollege and university classrooms [1]. Although these methodologies have been widely used toteach college students, they are not adequate for new generation of college students who areintelligent, talented and energetic [2-3].Today’s students need to do more than just “sit and listen” to the tedious lectures. They need toactively be involved in instructional activities; continuously be challenged by

Conference Session

Laboratory Experiences in Signal Processing and Controls

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bonnie H. Ferri, Georgia Institute of Technology; Aldo A. Ferri, Georgia Institute of Technology; Kenneth A Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

implementedusing the Mobile Studio IOBoard and the NI myDAQ data acquisition boards, both of whichhave analog input and audio output channels.Simple Guitar String PlatformTo demonstrate how an electric guitar works, a stripped down, single-string electric guitar wasconstructed with a metal guitar string, base, tuner, angle bracket, and home-made guitar pick-up.The platform, which is 38 cm long x 5 cm wide x 7.6 cm tall, is shown in Figure 1. The metalguitar string is pulled taut and connected to a lexan base through a fixed bracket on one end anda tuning peg on the other. The tuner is used to adjust the tension in the string. The transducer inthis platform is made by winding a fine (high gauge) wire around a cylindrical Alnico postpermanent magnet. This

Conference Session

Culture, Race, and Gender Issues

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Educational Research and Methods

interventionprogramming has gone into understanding this underrepresentation, and why it persists despitenational and institutional focus and funding. However, this paper argue that most previousstudies and interventions have been hampered by three challenges: 1) they tend to depend onstatistical methods of generalization to understand the experiences of underrepresented people,despite the fact that the number of such people are usually too low to make analysis of themstatistically significant; 2) they often result in interventions not in the structure of institutions butin the behavior of students themselves, and in their adaptation to their institutions; and 3) theyusually examine women and people of color at predominantly white educational institutions

Conference Session

Faculty and Course Evolution: Teaching With Technology, Online Delivery, and Addressing Emerging Student & Industry Needs

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eric Paul Pearson, Northrop Grumman, Electronic Systems; Timothy Boyd, Northrop Grumman Corporation; Noah Miller, Northrop Grumman, Electronic Systems

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Continuing Professional Development

journey their efforts led toencouraging their peers to volunteer as well. A small group of developing leaders becamethe inspiration for others to follow. They were challenged to "think out of the box" andhave carried the journey down the road and across the country.LTP DevelopmentEric Pearson was faced with a difficult task; how to identify 3 out of every 100 volunteerleadership participants who would stand above the rest from within a program that wasalready designed to be highly selective in its participants. After examining currentlyexisting Leadership Programs in highly respected Fortune 500 companies, an Offsiteweekend on the Catoctin Mountain was planned for April 2003. The weekend wouldconsist of 2 nights, 1 full and 2 half-day

Conference Session

Difference, Disability, and (De)Politicization: The Invisible Axes of Diversity

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie L Taylor, University of Utah

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 “What can you Teach me?”: (Re)thinking Responses to Difference for Multidisciplinary TeamworkAbstractSkillful multidisciplinary collaboration will be paramount for engineers working in a globalsociety.1 Much of their industry work will require that they partner with people from variousbackgrounds, areas of expertise, gender, ethnicity, etc. Despite the importance of learning aboutdifferent perspectives relevant to problem solving, it seems that engineers accept differenceconditionally.2 That is, individuals who exhibit ways of thinking, doing, and being that are“outside the norms” of engineering are marginalized within engineering culture.2 This attitudetoward

Conference Session

State of Manufacturing

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hugh Jack, Grand Valley State University

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Manufacturing

the 2013 results of an annual survey of manufacturing educators and professionals.The survey results are compared to results from previous years, and the trends discussed. The data in thesurveys include general attitudes about manufacturing education, underserved topics, and generalcomments from the educators. This paper will also include a limited set of observations andrecommendations.1. IntroductionMany recent reports have examined manufacturing education and its relationship tomanufacturing practice. Two notable examples include the Curricula 20151, and the SMEWorkforce Imperative: A Manufacturing Education Strategy2. The key point in a majority ofthese reports is that the demand for manufacturing skills and knowledge exceeds the

Conference Session

Challenges in Engineering, Models in Professional Programs, Capstone Design and Function Generator for Educational Environment

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mani Dargahi Fadaei, Azad University

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International

and signal recording are available in this system. The abilityto generate arbitrary waveforms makes this instrument more versatile than an ordinary functiongenerator that can produce only three or four different waveforms. This design offers two significant advantages to educators: (1) it provides a low-costinstrument that can be used in undergraduate laboratories where more expensive commercialarbitrary function generators are not available; and (2) it is suitable for use as a student project.One interesting application for this system is the synthesis of sound. If the equation for aparticular sound wave is known, that sound can be produced when this function generator isconnected to an audio amplifier and speaker

Conference Session

Engagement in Formal and Informal Learning Environments

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary R. Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University

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Minorities in Engineering

study as a method to better understand aretention program.In order to understand the sudden swell in students in the course, surveys were given to all of thestudents in the class. Our primary questions were: “What is the main reason why you enrolled inFSE 394 for Fall 2012?” and “What are all of the reasons why you enrolled in FSE 394 for Fall2012?” Several reasons were suggested. The results of the survey showed that the most commonreasons for enrolling in the course were: 1) required by scholarship, 2) offer of a $300scholarship for completing the course, 3) advised to take the class by someone who had taken thecourse, 4) advised to take the course in place of ASU 101 Introduction to ASU, and 5) neededhelp with academics. Another factor in

Conference Session

Software Applications in ET Programs

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

jai p agrawal, Purdue University, Calumet (Tech); Omer Farook, Purdue University Calumet (College of Technology)

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Engineering Technology

to program. Python is highly readable. It is a high-level programming language that can be used for a wide variety of programming tasks that anelectrical/computer graduate will encounter in their professional carriers for at least fiveyears.In modern computer industry, Python is used extensively for system administration and main- Page 23.22.2tenance tasks. “As of October 2012, Python ranks at position 8 in the TIOBE ProgrammingCommunity Index.[1] Large organizations that make use of Python include Google, Yahoo,CERN, NASA, ILM and ITA.”[2]. Google has developed a language GO for its website whichis very similar to the Python itself.Python is

Conference Session

Novel Pedagogies 2

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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

-survey and an exit semi-structured interview gathered data to examinethe research question, “What do community college students’ gain from an undergraduateresearch experience?”. Items in the surveys asked the students for demographic information (i.e.race/ethnicity, family income status), educational background and plans, and career plans. Thesemi-structured interview items were: 1) Describe your overall experience with your graduatestudent; 2) Describe the learning experiences you had with your graduate student; 3) Describerelationship-building experiences you had with your graduate student; and 4) Describe personaldevelopment experiences you had with your graduate student. In order to maintain consistencyacross the interviews, the first author

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

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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

historically represents a minority serving institution. The two othercampuses host well-respected programs in petroleum engineering and in earth and mineralsciences. In the fourth campus location, the professor has considerable experience in authoringtextbooks in energy sustainability and he is the author of the mostly used textbook in the field.The leading professors invited the other four professors to work together for the present projectand they launched the project activities in 2010. The learning scientists in the leading campushave met with the other engineering professors online and face-to-face only a few times duringthe conference attendances. Table 1 summarizes the characteristics of the five engineeringprofessors.Table 1. The five

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 4

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Narayanan M. Komerath, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Aerospace

  any   given   institution.   The aerospace engineering curriculum in the school where the high speed aerodynamics course is studied, has the mission of preparing engineers as follows1: “At the Bachelors level, our graduates will have the necessary understanding of Figure 1

Conference Session

The D/M/A of CE

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Libby Osgood P.Eng., University of Prince Edward Island and Dalhousie University; Clifton R Johnston, Dalhousie University; Andrew Trivett, University of Prince Edward Island

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Community Engagement Division

Society for Engineering Education, 2013   A Community Partner’s Role During a First-Year Service Learning ProjectAbstractThere are 3 primary roles in a service learning (SL) project: student, teacher, and communityorganization representative (COR). It has been established that students enjoy and benefit fromSL experiences.1-5 Teachers benefit as well, in their ability to meet educational objectives.1 Forthe community organizations, the advantage appears to be obvious; their problem is resolved.However, the benefits for the COR must be more fully explored. This paper will examine theadvantages as well as the inconveniences experienced by one of the authors while participatingin a SL project.In the 2011

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

experiencesfor the area residents. In June of 2012, AFC and the Crescenta Valley community preserved 7.75acres of wilderness land, called the Rosemont Preserve. The preservation of this land effectivelydoubled the amount of “open space” available to the La Crescenta community.The Rosemont Preserve is at the mouth of Goss Canyon. Goss Canyon is a 300-acre wildernessarea mostly maintained as wilderness by private landowners. Directly south and west ofRosemont Preserve are residential areas of La Crescenta (Figure 1.) In 2009, the Station Fireburned 650 km2 of the Angeles National Forest, including Goss Canyon. Due to the increasedthreat of mudslides from the fire-denuded hillsides, LA County Public Works (hereafter referredto as “the County”) installed