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Chemical Engineering Education: Underclass Years

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lisa Bullard, North Carolina State University; Donald Visco, Tennessee Technological University; David Silverstein, University of Kentucky; Jason Keith, Michigan Technological University

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Chemical Engineering

satisfaction in smallerdepartments would be greater than larger departments because of an increased level ofattention, this was not the case. In particular, the quality and extent (re: type) of theseinteractions were key features in determining student satisfaction. Accordingly, thedevelopment and nurturing of a specific type of departmental culture is a crucial elementof student retention, among other goals of a department. Note that all departmental goals Page 15.1096.3are not directly related to student retention. Departments can create a culture which, forexample, supports undergraduate research or emphasizes service learning projects,depending on the

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BME Course and Curriculum Development

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Aston, East Tennessee State University; William H. Blanton, East Tennessee State University

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Biomedical

passages crucial? 9. Is immediate access to Web sites with more information a decisive feature of the e-book? 10. Do you find it useful to project the text on a screen before the class for presentation purposes? 11. Please make any other comments you wish. Page 15.233.3 The text was used in the classroom in several different colleges offering biomedicalengineering and biomedical engineering technology in four successive semesters, as noted above. 10 of 200 Teachers and Researchers who received the e-book answered most of thequestions in the survey, as did 17 of the 19 Students in one class at ETSU who

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2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Beth Richards; Karen Walsh

the same way that they are required to outline the different steps of anengineering project while explaining why it was successful, they were also required to usetextual evidence from the readings and explain how they proved the overall thesis. Thiscommonality between the two types of writings were useful in giving engineering students bothvalue in other non-engineering courses as well as showing them how a composition course canbe useful for their major.Throughout the course, students were asked to write response papers linking ideas from thevarious readings. Although prompt questions were included, students were also given the optionof exploring any ideas in the readings about which they wanted to write. These assignments wereintended to

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2010 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Beth Richards; Karen Walsh

the same way that they are required to outline the different steps of anengineering project while explaining why it was successful, they were also required to usetextual evidence from the readings and explain how they proved the overall thesis. Thiscommonality between the two types of writings were useful in giving engineering students bothvalue in other non-engineering courses as well as showing them how a composition course canbe useful for their major.Throughout the course, students were asked to write response papers linking ideas from thevarious readings. Although prompt questions were included, students were also given the optionof exploring any ideas in the readings about which they wanted to write. These assignments wereintended to

Conference Session

New Research & Trends for Minorities in Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maria M. Larrondo Petrie, Florida Atlantic University; Ivan Esparragoza, Pennsylvania State University

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Minorities in Engineering

University - Brandywine Campus. He is on the Board of the ASEE Minorities in Engineering Division (MIND), and ASEE International Division. He is Vice President of Research of the Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions (LACCEI). Page 15.874.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 MIND Links 2010: Resources to Motivate Minorities to Study and Stay In EngineeringAbstractThe Minorities in Engineering Division (MIND) of the American Society of EngineeringEducation (ASEE) created the MIND Links project in 2004, recognizing that, although there aremany

Conference Session

New Research & Trends for Minorities in Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Willie Ofosu, Pennsylvania State University, Wilkes-Barre; Francois Sekyere, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology; James Oppong, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

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Minorities in Engineering

someharmonics falling outside of the specified range. This provides ample opportunity for studentresearch. As stated above Ghanaian students are already involved in this research. USstudents will be linked to their Ghanaian counterparts to participate in the project and as thework progresses, US students will be taken to Ghana to complement their Ghanaiancounterparts in setting up, testing and analyzing further the results from tests performed. Thiswill also present research opportunities to minority engineering students to relate their collegework to applications in the field.Analytical MethodThe need for analysis is identified in the assertion above that as data is transmitted along thepower line, radiation from the power line can cause interference

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Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Bellinger, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Clark Hochgraf, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

AC 2010-1308: USING NATIONAL COMPETITIONS TO FOCUS STUDENT CLUBSScott Bellinger, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE) Scott Bellinger is an assistant professor in the Automation Technologies program at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID). Scott served as the Director of Manufacturing Technologies at RIT's Center for Integrated Manufacturing Studies (CIMS) before joining NTID. He has more than twenty years of experience in developing manufacturing systems with a specialty in factory automation. He served as Applications Engineer, Proposals Engineer, Project Manager and Application Engineering Manager at Hansford Assembly & Test Systems (NY); Director of

Conference Session

Engaging Students in Learning

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ronald Rockland, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Howard Kimmel, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Linda Hirsch, New Jersey Institute of Technology; John Carpinelli, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Levelle Burr-Alexander, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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Engineering Technology

Teacher’s committee. Dr. Rockland has over 25 years of industrial experience in research, engineering, marketing and sales management with several high technology corporations.Howard Kimmel, New Jersey Institute of Technology HOWARD KIMMEL is Professor of Chemical Engineering and Executive Director of the Center for Pre-College Programs at New Jersey Institute of Technology. He has spent the past thirty years designing and implementing professional development programs and curricula for K-12 teachers in science and technology. At the college level, he collaborates on projects exploring teaching methodologies and assessment strategies in first-year college courses in the sciences,engineering

Conference Session

ADVANCE Grants and Institutional Transformation

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Suzanne Zurn-Birkhimer, Purdue University; Barbara Clark, Purdue University; Susan Geier, Purdue University; Christie Sahley, Purdue University

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Women in Engineering

. Page 15.130.5A new faculty attendee summed up the experience of many: “I certainly benefited from theopportunity to meet new people from other departments / schools…these sorts of events canprovide a catalyst for unexpected / serendipitous opportunities.”ConclusionIn its first year of existence, the PCFS offered many exciting programs to enhance the success ofthe Purdue faculty. Program design, formative assessment and evaluation are central to achievethe objectives of this complex project. The information collected from all the PCFS initiativesworks synergistically to inform the development, implementation and redesign of the activitiesoffered to enhance opportunities for faculty members at Purdue University. Each program hasbeen designed to

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Special Session: Innovation through Improv

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Peter Ludovice, Georgia Institute of Technology; Lew Lefton, Georgia Institute of Technology; Richard Catrambone, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Educational Research and Methods

still remains.The technical advisor on the Humor Room project was Lindsey Collier, now the owner ofCreative Edge Associates in West Henrietta, New York. Despite the success of this project,Collier points out that many Kodak managers believed this approach was inappropriate andresisted promoting it in the companynewsletter and secretly hoped it woulddisappear, despite its very positivepublicity in external print and TV. Thisattitude among some Kodak managers isconsistent with the perception that peoplegenerally associate true creativity withpeople in the arts as opposed toengineering.31 A study comparing thecreativity of music and engineeringstudents concluded that, while musicstudents were statistically more artistically

Conference Session

A Systems Thinking Approach to Solving Problems

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Renee Stepler, Pennsylvania State University; Steve Garguilo, Johnson & Johnson Inc.; Khanjan Mehta, Pennsylvania State University; Sven Bilen, Pennsylvania State University

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Systems Engineering Constituent Committee

envisioned atthe outset of the projects. To addresses these shortcomings, at The Pennsylvania State Universitywe are applying three key tenets of systems thinking to our humanitarian engineering and socialentrepreneurial ventures: 1) employing regulation via feedback to ensure that the system isactually working; 2) defining systems by their interactions and their parts; and 3) understandingthat systems exhibit multi-finality. The concept of multi-finality refers to (designing) a systemwhere the individual actors (inputs), the subsystems, and their interactions, all meet their owngoals while the system as a whole also meets its goals. In this paper, we lay the framework forthe application of specific systems thinking concepts to increase the

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer-Part I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Mativo, The University of Georgia; Arif Sirinterlikci, Robert Morris University

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Mechanical Engineering

349894.0Overall difference 245838.0DiscussionRecent advances in thermoelectric elements have been largely on materials in seeking to enhancethe figure of merit ZT5,6. The mechanical design done on this project provides a high potentialtowards higher enhanced TEs. As seen from the results, the TE leg size in particular makes adifference in heat flux distribution. Upon excitation by heat, the N-type material produced anabundance of “carrier” electrons in the material which are depicted by the flux in this project andas in equations 3 and 4 below. When energy balance is made between the two TE legs, overallgain is clearly shown in Figures 5 and 6. This is also supported by equation 5

Conference Session

Normative Commitments and Public Engagement in Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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George Catalano, State University of New York, Binghamton; Caroline Baillie, Western Australia; Donna Riley, Smith College; Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Chris Byrne, Cascadia Community College; Margaret Bailey, Rochester Institute of Technology; Katy Haralampides, University of New Brunswick

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Liberal Education

Packel and Stan Wagon, Rocky Mountain Mathematica, http://rmm.lfc.edu/ 3. Gini, C. "Variabilitá e mutabilita." 1912. Reprinted in Memorie di metodologia statistica (Ed. E. Pizetti and T. Salvemini.) Rome: Libreria Eredi Virgilio Veschi, 1955. 4. Seth Chandler, "Lorenz Curves and the Gini Coefficient" from The Wolfram Demonstrations Project, http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/LorenzCurvesAndTheGiniCoefficient/ 5. NSPE Code of Ethics, http://www.nspe.org/ethics/index.html 6. Environmental Quality Index, http://ceq.hss.doe.gov/nepa/reports/statistics/ 7. Seth Chandler, "Health-Wealth Tradeoffs" from The Wolfram Demonstrations Project http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/HealthWealthTradeoffs

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Think Outside the Box! K-12 Engineering Curriculum

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kristen Wendell, Tufts University; Kathleen Connolly, Tufts University; Christopher Wright, Tufts University; Linda Jarvin, Tufts University; Mike Barnett, Boston College; Chris Rogers, Tufts University; Ismail Marulcu, Boston College

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

improved understanding of the science they use in the service of designcompletion.6 In this paper, we describe a curriculum research and development project devotedto exploring this hypothesis. We consider the theoretical background that supports this endeavor,the initial set of four engineering design-based science curriculum units that have been created,and the preliminary findings on the science content learning that occurs during unit enactment.The purpose of our project is to explore an overarching research question: what are theconsequences of using engineering-design-based activities as contexts for specific sciencecontent instruction in the upper elementary grades? To investigate this question, we havecollaborated with local teachers to

Conference Session

Engineering Management Program Design

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Douglas Timmer, University of Texas, Pan American; Miguel Gonzalez, University of Texas, Pan American; Connie Borror, Arizona State Universtiy; Douglas Montgomery, Arizona State University; Carmen Pena, University of Texas, Pan American

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Engineering Management

. Most reported it increased their understanding and confidence in their ability to use SPCtools, develop benchmarks and formulate a quality improvement plan. Students also indicated Page 15.1185.10that the laboratory should be used for future classes.Future ResearchThis laboratory has been taught the most and is closest to be completed. The most pressing needis to improve the project description regarding benchmarks for production and defect rate. Thecurrent implementation is well suited for kinesthetic/tactile and visual learners due to thegraphical nature of the websites and the opportunity to “mouse around” the websites. Howeverthere is

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experience

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Monica Cox, Purdue University; Jeeyeon Hahn, Purdue University; Nathan McNeill, Purdue University; Asawaree Kulkarni, Purdue University

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Graduate Studies

AC 2010-904: DEVELOPING A GLOBAL REAL-TIME ASSESSMENT TOOL FORTHE TEACHING ENHANCEMENT OF ENGINEERING GRADUATE TEACHINGASSISTANTSMonica Cox, Purdue University Monica F. Cox, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She obtained a B.S. in mathematics from Spelman College, a M.S. in industrial engineering from the University of Alabama, and a Ph.D. in Leadership and Policy Studies from Peabody College of Vanderbilt University. Teaching interests relate to the professional development of graduate engineering students and to leadership, policy, and change in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education. Primary research projects

Conference Session

Technological Literacy for K-12 and for Community College Students: Concepts, Assessment, and Courses

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Moshe Barak, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

participants to reflect on their learning.In compliance with these principles, we consider extending the course in the future toalso include additional technological subjects as well as project-based learning in thecourse.Bibliography1. Barlex, D. (Ed.) (2009). Design and technology for the next generation, Whitchurch, UK: Cliffeco Communications.2. Hacker, M. & Burghardt, D. (2008). Technology education: Learning by design, Boston, MA: Pearson Prentice Hall.3. Mitcham, C. (1994). Thinking through technology, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.4. De Vries, M.J. (2005). Teaching about technology: An introduction to the philosophy of technology for non-philosophers, Dordrecht: Springer.5. Bertalanffy, L.V. (1968). General system theory

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International Study Abroad Programs & Student Engagements

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kimberly Talley, Datum Engineers, Inc.; Catherine Hovell, University of Texas, Austin; Jason Stith, University of Texas, Austin

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International

AC 2010-388: STUDY ABROAD TO SEE THE WORLD AND BECOME A BETTERENGINEERKimberly Talley, Datum Engineers, Inc. KIMBERLY G. TALLEY, Ph.D. is a Graduate Engineer at Datum Engineers, Inc. where she works on new building design and historic preservation projects. She earned her Ph.D. in 2009 from the University of Texas at Austin where her research focus was on the assessment and rehabilitation of deteriorated concrete. She received two B.S. degrees from North Carolina State University and her M.S. from the University of Texas at Austin. Contact: kimt@datumengineers.comCatherine Hovell, University of Texas, Austin CATHERINE G. HOVELL is a PhD student at the University of Texas at Austin. Her

Conference Session

Engineering in the Middle Grades

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Morgan Hynes, Tufts University; David Crismond, The City College of New York; Ethan Danahy, Tufts University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

introduceengineering and the engineering design process (EDP) to K-12 students and that have aimed tocontextualize and motivate STEM subject learning through design tasks (e.g., the InfinityProject, Project Lead The Way, Learning By Design, LEGOengineering.com). State standards inMassachusetts and New York include engineering design among the basic process skills studentsmust learn. New materials are needed that scaffold students with as-needed content-basedtutorials, support team-based design work, and help student avoid common pitfalls whendesigning. Common pitfalls include students: doing “idea fixation”6, where design ideasremainunchanged over multiple iterations; not doing meaningful research, which could lead to betterdesign plans7; creating “design

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Bowman, Clemson University; Lisa Benson, Clemson University

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Educational Research and Methods

engineering, research methods, and graduate engineering education courses. Her research interests include student-centered active learning in undergraduate engineering, assessment of motivation, and how motivation affects student learning. She is also involved in projects that utilize Tablet PCs to enhance student learning. Her education includes a B.S. in Bioengineering from the University of Vermont, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Bioengineering from Clemson University. Page 15.898.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 MuseInk: Seeing and Hearing a Freshman Engineering Student Ink

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2010 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Christopher C. Ibeh

Literature: Current State of the Nanotechnology IndustryIn 2007, there were more than 370 nanotechnology companies23. Of these, 78 werenanoparticles’ companies; the complete demographics include: fabrication equipment (50),inspection/analysis (49), carbon nanotubes (46), semiconductors (21), sensors (21), coatings(17), batteries (12), solar cells (12), displays (12), and others (85). Figure 4 shows the marketshare of the projected $1085 Billion nanotechnology industry by segments; materials,electronics and pharmaceuticals are ranked numbers 1, 2 and 3 at 31%, 28% and 17%respectively. It is important to note that nanotechnology is also slated to play a role insustainability. Figure 5 indicates that the projected growth of nanotechnology depicted

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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M. Nazrul Islam

5 Figure 3: Survey statistics on lecture materials and informationAssessment of LearningAssessment of learning can be done through a number of activities, like tests and assignments. Astandard practice is to give a couple of quizzes and one or two tests throughout the semester.However, in a technology course, every topic is based on previous topics, which means that thestudents must learn the current topic in order to follow the next topic. In that case, we needregular assessment of their learning to ensure that they maintain the speed and move along withthe class. Students might not like the practice, but a teacher should give quiz and homeworkassignment every week.A technology class should also give a project assignment to

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

B. Samanta

well as engineering education are discussed. The experiences of presenting CI as acourse and summer projects are also presented. The importance of introducing the CI techniquesand their multidisciplinary applications as a senior level interdisciplinary engineering electivecourse and integrating these in research experiences for undergraduates (REU) and STEMeducation (GK-12) is discussed.I. IntroductionIn the digital generation, large volumes of data are collected in various forms in differentendeavors related to business, science, engineering and biomedicine, among others. There is aneed to make sense of the voluminous data for assessing the current status of the system anddetecting an early indication of any possible deterioration of the

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Anne Y. Boisvert; Bahaa E. Saleh; S. Hamid Nawab

basicconcepts. It would also be useful to students in later courses by providing them clearinterconnections between the new concepts and techniques they are currently acquiring and themore basic concepts they might have (or were supposed to have) acquired in earlier courses. An1 This project is funded in part by the National Science Foundation through its Division of Undergraduate Education(Award No. 0736827).2 Bahaa E. Saleh is now with The College of Optics and Photonics at the University of Central Florida. 1example of the LIVE tool’s display of convergence knowledge is shown in the “concept map” ofFigure 1 where each node represents a

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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David Potter

- defined radioFor software experimentation, a minimum of a compiler is required. To do more than simpleprograms, some sort of debugging environment is necessary. The open source movement hascreated several excellent tools to do just that. Table 5 has a brief list.The Arduino project is worth particular mention since it combines a variety of very inexpensivehardware platforms with a software environment that is exceptionally easy to use. It is alsostraightforward to develop software of significant complexity and program it into the platforms. Table 5 Language compilers and software development environmentsDescription Source URL CostC/C++ compiler

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2010 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Craig Johnson

, the use and effectiveness of video in a modified „traditional‟ introductory castingcourse is explored. First, specific video equipment is listed, and the creation and editingprocesses described. Then the videos were used in casting classes, and the students wereallowed access outside of class.A positive educational impact due to the videos was evidenced by instructor and studentfeedback. A casting operations metric was presented, with measures including time-on-taskanalysis. A more rigorous pedagogical use and assessment of educational impact is planned for aclass in the spring of 2010.IntroductionMotivation for this project was to improve both the education experience and the speed at whichstudents would acquire necessary skills and concepts

Conference Session

Teaching Technological Literacy - College Courses and Minors

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Krupczak, Hope College; Mani Mina, Iowa State University; Robert J. Gustafson, Ohio State University; James Young, Rice University

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Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

results achieved in the Minor in EngineeringStudies Program at Iowa State. The project goal is to develop the concepts and resources tosupport model minors which can be adopted efficiently and widely within American highereducation. To facilitate adoption by other institutions, flexibility is a key objective of theintended guidelines. Since the appropriateness of using the name engineering in the context of aminor is subject to debate, the specific name of minor should be part of that flexibility. Thesedegrees do not focus on teaching specific engineering technical content but on teaching studentshow to think like an engineer. The minor aims to develop the broad understanding and practicaltechnological competence outlined by the National Academy

Conference Session

Engineering Education in India, the Far East, and Central Asia

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Olaleye, University of Lagos, Nigeria; Emmanuel Abiodun, University of Lagos, Nigeria; Joseph Olusina, University of Lagos, Nigeria; Francis Derby, where

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International

Pennsylvania State University. He teaches traditional surveying and mapping courses as well as introductory and advanced courses in Geographic Information Systems, Photogrammtetry , and Remote Sensing His previous work experiences include surveying activities in Africa, England, South America and the Caribbean. He has also worked for the Commonwealth Secretariat of Great Britain, where he served as technical advisor to the government of the Commonwealth of Dominica on infrastructure development. He also consulted for the World Bank on various projects in Peru and Tanzania. Dr. Derby is an active member of the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping, and since 2005 he has served on the

Conference Session

Enhancing Recruitment and Retention in Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Quamrul Mazumder, University of Michigan - Flint; Olanrewaju Aluko, University of Michigan-Flint

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

innovation increases at a phenomenal pace,more so than it was in the past few decades.Innovation and creativity in development of future technological breakthrough requires themotivation of current high school students to focus more towards science and technology. Anumber of pre-engineering programs have been developed across the nation during the past fewdecades to encourage students to consider engineering and science as career choices. Althoughthe programs showed an increased level of interest towards STEM disciplines, those initiativesare less than adequate as we are still seeing declines in enrollment in STEM disciplines. Toaddress the projected critical shortage of future scientists and engineers in the USA, a pre-engineering program was

Conference Session

Clearing up Student Misconceptions in Materials

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Heckler, Ohio State University; Rebecca Rosenblatt, Ohio State University

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Materials

project to identify and address student difficulties in learning materials science.Rebecca Rosenblatt, Ohio State University Rebecca Rosenblatt is a graduate research associate in the physics department working towards a PhD in physics education at The Ohio State University. She is currently investigating the evolution of student understanding of force, velocity, and acceleration, and she is working on this project to identify and address student difficulties in learning materials science. Page 15.1124.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Student Understanding