Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Laboratories II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John M Mativo, University of Georgia; Natasha Smith, University of Southern Indiana

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Mechanical Engineering

views ofthe rigor of the course and its impact on their learning experience. Results indicate theyperceived to have a superior grasp of concepts after designing and implementing their ownexperiments.IntroductionThe ultimate objective of any academic program is for students to gain the ability to transferclassroom learning to practice, for which they will be required to construct and apply knowledgetowards problem solving. For example, the consensus outcome for engineering graduates is theability to apply principles of engineering, science, and math to design and analyze real systemsor processes2 . Much debate however exists on the best learning practices to build these skills.Proponents of problem-based learning (or project-based learning

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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NSF Grantees

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

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Courses and Outcomes I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ken Vickers, University of Arkansas; Carol Reeves, University of Arkansas

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

all students in the graduate program. The students’ self-assessment of lack of any interest instarting their own business as an entrepreneur was met with continuous class discussions that themethods and approaches being taught not only applied to an entrepreneurial startup, but also tointrapreneurial activities in large organizations. These intrapreneurial activities (productdevelopment, project management, research and development, etc.) are all career paths that areconsidered preferable career paths for STEM graduate students, which increased the students’expectations of reasonable personal ROI for the time spent in the class activities.It is also emphasized to potential students that they will be required to take more hours thantypical

Conference Session

Assessment Methods and Learning Pedagogy II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jyhwen Wang, Texas A&M University; Alex Fang, Texas A&M University; Michael Ryan Golla, Texas A&M University

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Engineering Technology

and engineering to prospective students and to encourage earlystage engineering students to continue with the upper level courses, freshman levellaboratories were developed for students to operate equipment and conductexperiements.1-3 In manufacturing courses, at both undergraduate and graduate levels,hands-on practical manufacturing projects were implemented to promote active learning.The labs involved include rapid prototyping, laser machining, book-making, and welding,etc.4-6 Material testing was conducted in labs to provide the fundamental material scienceknowledge necessary to perform engineering design and material selection. 7,8 A numberof innovative experiments on thermodynamics, heat transfer, and fluid mechanics weredeveloped to

Conference Session

Introducing Sustainability into Engineering Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan Wiggins, University of Colorado, Boulder; Mary E. McCormick, Tufts University; Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Christopher W. Swan, Tufts University; Kurt Paterson, Michigan Technological University

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Environmental Engineering

reuse, and service-based educational efforts in the engineering curriculum. Specific efforts involving engineering education concern project-based learning and service-based pedagogies their potential impacts on student learning and how these impacts may be evaluated and assessed.Kurt Paterson, Michigan Technological University Kurt Paterson is on the environmental engineering faculty, where he currently serves as Director of Michi- gan Tech’s D80 Center (www.d80.mtu.edu), a consortium of 20 research, education, and service programs dedicated to creating appropriate solutions with the poorest 80% of humanity. His research, teaching and service interests focus on appropriate technology solutions that improve public

Conference Session

Curricular Issues in Computer-Oriented Programs

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xiannong Meng, Bucknell University; Song Xing, California State University, Los Angeles

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Computing & Information Technology

and computer hardware in their datacenters which result in environmental concerns), health care, and inequality in search amongdifferent segments of the society (see a list of reference papers used in the seminar from thecourse website2).While a course project in a typical web search engine course for computer science majors wouldbe a team programming project to build a simple search engine, the main student wok in thisfoundation seminar consists of various reading and writing assignments. The writingassignments helped students reflect on what they learn in the seminar. The assignments also areused to meet the writing goal for the foundation seminar. Two types of writing assignment areused in the seminar. One is the weekly reading journal

Conference Session

Descriptions of Outreach Programs

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ranji K. Vaidyanathan, Oklahoma State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

of them to pursue STEM careers so that they cancreate those future innovations by entering engineering professions.1Possible strategies to address the engineer shortage for the future are being developed by severalgroups.4 These include development of high school-level engineering courses to high schoolstudents to engineering-based First Robotics competitions.5 Clearly, there is evidence that theseprograms serve to increase student interest in engineering as a career. However, they may notprovide students an opportunity to experience the university setting or exposure to the breadthand variety of engineering projects.4 Various universities instead may provide summer camps asa means to introduce students to STEM disciplines and create a

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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NSF Grantees

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

Conference Session

IE Technical Session I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth A. Cudney, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Steven Michael Corns, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Jennifer A. Farris, Texas Tech University; Stephen Gent, South Dakota State University; Scott E. Grasman, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Ivan G. Guardiola, Missouri University of Science & Technology

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Industrial Engineering

area ofcompetence for many engineering undergraduate, as well as graduate, disciplines is theapplication of structured problem solving methods, e.g., lean, to improve the performance oforganizational processes.This virtual learning environment will enhance undergraduate engineering education by utilizingtechnology as a learning tool in lean, by fostering student development through active learning inthe classroom, and through projects based on current real-world challenges, thus improvingstudent learning, motivation, and retention. The paper highlights the learning modules to bedeveloped in the virtual learning environment. The long-term goal is to evaluate the impact ofthe curriculum changes on student learning, outreach, and industrial

Conference Session

Design Tools & Methodology II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bradley Adam Camburn, University of Texas, Austin; Kristin L. Wood, University of Texas, Austin; Daniel D. Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy

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Design in Engineering Education

consistencyin describing the five primary functions for that project. Since one of the teams shows a vastlylower value than the others, it may be of interest to comparatively examine their design problem.The MAV team has a problem which consists of many performance stages when compared to theothers. The device is required to deploy on site, travel to location, perform surveillance, reorientif needed, take-off and return to base having performed each operation stealthily. In comparisonthe other teams may only have two or three objectives. The project directives also each comefrom different sponsors. The MAV project comes from a sponsor interested in proofs of concept.Finally the MAV project is an older project, thus previous semesters insights may

Conference Session

Digital Technologies and Learning

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Hergenrader, University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute; Joanna Drummond, University of Pittsburgh; Jihie Kim, University of Southern California

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Educational Research and Methods

. Kim received a Ph.D. from the USC, and a master’s and a bachelor’s degrees from the Seoul National University. Her current interests include pedagogical discourse analysis, human-computer interaction, social network assistance, and assessment of student collaborative online activities. She leads synergistic work among machine learning experts, educational psychologists, NLP researchers, and STEM instructors. She is the PI of five NSF projects including the CCLI/PedDiscourse, CCLI/PedWiki and NSDL/SocRecomm projects under the EHR Directorate and CreativeIT/PedGames and IIS/PedWorkflow projects under the CISE Directorate. Under the retired PedDiscourse effort, her team designed, deployed and evaluated software

Conference Session

Assessing, Developing, and Enhancing the Engineering Experiential Education Experience

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

"resource acquisition" as a top priority. The Senior Design Project Class, which isa two-semester long course, with a total of four credit hours, can be viewed as a servicelearning class, depending upon the project chosen by the select student group. It doescontain a substantial amount of education about ethics, ergonomics, economics, sociologyand liberal education principles, in addition to rigorous engineering subject matter. Thestudent groups are encouraged to appreciate the realities of socio-economic impact oftheir chosen project. In many cases, the project will have to be addressed with a strongwill to succeed and necessarily require coalitions of volunteerism, industry sponsoredfunding and donated resources. The author has utilized

Conference Session

Post Graduate Experiential Programs and Insights

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Monica Farmer Cox, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jiabin Zhu, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Benjamin Ahn, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jeremi S. London, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Shree Frazier; Ana T. Torres-Ayala, University of South Florida; Rocio C. Chavela Guerra, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

for Engineering Education (ASEE).Benjamin Ahn, Purdue University, West Lafayette Benjamin Ahn, is a Ph.D student in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. He re- ceived a M.S. degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics Engineering from Purdue University and a B.E degree in Aerospace Engineering from University of New South Wales, Australia. His research interests are re-examining the professional engineering practice in U.S. universities and industries and, the role of the Graduate Teaching Assistants in engineering classes.Jeremi S London, Purdue University, West Lafayette Jeremi London was the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) student working on the NSF EEP Research Project during the

Conference Session

Teaching Circuit Theory and Electronics

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patrick Kane, University of New Hampshire and Cypress Semiconductor; Thadeus Paul Kochanski, Vital Electronics Institute; Andrzej Rucinski, University of New Hampshire

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Electrical and Computer

theuniversity before returning to their remote home area.ECE994 multidisciplinary courseTaught in the evenings with the Far View distant learning option. Some of the course sessions weretaught with the instructor as far away as Poland and Singapore and with students on the US East andWest Coasts and as far away as Beijing China. ECE students focused on the development of a vitalelectronics design methodology (integrating sensing, processing, communicating and controlling)whereas non-ECE students concentrated on in situ hardware development of Cypress PSoC®-basedVital Embedded Computers (exploring innovation and entrepreneurship), and practical applications.There were four mandatory laboratories associated with the course. Two projects came out of

Conference Session

FPD I: Attacking the Problems of Retention in the First Year

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Arturo A Fuentes, University of Texas, Pan American; Horacio Vasquez, University of Texas, Pan American; Robert A. Freeman, University of Texas, Pan American

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First-Year Programs

the VaNTH NSF ERC forBioengineering Educational Technologies. The CBI instruction was developed and implementedin the areas of reverse engineering, statics, dynamics, energy (including renewable energy), andforward engineering. Additionally, the paper describes the initial impact of the CBI curriculumon the students, including initial assessment results, and the impact on the faculty and the course.A controlled experiment was performed with a control group following a more traditionallaboratory setup. From the initial positive results obtained in this project, it is argued that theVaNTH principles are effective in motivating and engaging freshman engineering students inmechanical and civil engineering majors and that the CBI materials and

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kimberly Lau, University of California, Berkeley; Mary Kathryn Thompson, KAIST; Alice Merner Agogino, University of California, Berkeley

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Design in Engineering Education

Department of Engineering-Economic Systems at Stanford University (1984). She has authored over 200 scholarly publications; has won teaching, best paper and research awards; and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). At NAE worked on the Technologically Speaking, Engineer and Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering projects. She has supervised 81 MS projects/theses, 33 doctoral dissertations and numerous undergraduate researchers. Page 22.31.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 A Cross-National

Conference Session

Embedded System Design

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeanne Christman, Rochester Institute of Technology; Eric J. Alley, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Engineering Technology

engineering technology classes, president of a major student organization, and taking part in the Imagine RIT Innovation Festival with a peer developed project. Page 22.47.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 A Hands-on Approach to Demonstrating Hardware/Software Tradeoffs in an Embedded System DesignAbstractThis paper describes a Computer Engineering Technology lab activity in an Embedded SystemsDesign course used to provide students with an opportunity to substantiate the theory beingpresented in the classroom. The objective of the lab is to quantitatively

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Education in Engineering Technology

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University; Michael G Mauk P.E., Drexel University; Radian G. Belu, Drexel University; Eric Carr, Drexel University

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Engineering Technology

University (Tech.) Dr. Radian Belu is Assistant Professor within the Engineering Technology (ET) program - Drexel Uni- versity, Philadelphia, USA. Before joining to the Drexel University Dr. Belu hold faculty and research positions at universities and research institutes in Romania, Canada and United States. He also worked for several years in industry as a project manager and senior consultant. He has taught and developed undergraduate and graduate courses in electronics, power systems, communication, control and power electronics, electric machines, instrumentation, radar and remote sensing, numerical methods and data analysis, space and atmosphere physics, and physics. His research interests included power system

Conference Session

What Else do Environmental Engineers Need to Know

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sirjana Dahal, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Richard H. Hall, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Glenn Morrison, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Seth Paul Lamble, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Ronaldo Luna, Missouri University of Science & Technology

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Environmental Engineering

retrieval4) The ability to integrate data from different sources, perhaps at different scales and using more than one mode of representationIn addition, Black et al. 1998 have identified five generic types of questions that can beaddressed by GIS technology like location (what is at..?), condition (where is..?), trend (whathas changed since..?), pattern (what is the spatial distribution of..?) and projection or model(what if..?)3. Location determines the attributes of a given place or region. Condition seekslocations fulfilling certain conditions. Trend determines changes in place attributes over time.Pattern investigates the spatial distribution of some phenomena. Projection or model explorespotential patterns based on past data3.GIS is one of

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Keith M. Gardiner

Engineering Education OR Just Education Keith M. Gardiner Lehigh UniversityCenter for Manufacturing Systems Engineering200 West Packer Avenue, Bethlehem, PA 18015 kg03@lehigh.edu 1-610-758-5070 298 Engineering Education OR Just Education KEITH M. GARDINER Lehigh University Center for Manufacturing Systems Engineering 200 West Packer Avenue, Bethlehem, PA 18015 kg03@lehigh.edu 1-610-758-5070Abstract“Engineering Education for the Next Decade,” but let’s stretch and think farther out.Various national and international projections address

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2011 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Angela Beck; Jim Helbling

 Education Zone IV Conference  Copyright © 2011, American Society for Engineering Education  4   status report to the team, focusing on the tasks accomplished last week, the tasks to be completedin the coming week, and any problems or issues they are having and need help with. Becausedesign teams can be rather large and because students tend to become highly focused on theirown set of tasks, these status reports serve to keep the team connected and to ensure that anyproblems with the project are publicly voiced and publicly resolved. Both

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Laboratories II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Dickrell, University of Florida

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Mechanical Engineering

comments) were also very positive with the mostcommon comment pertaining to the enjoyment of the hands-on experiences which from aninstructive standpoint is correlated back to simple, profound, individually-based activities. Whileit is recognized that group projects are not favored by students, the sharp contrast in studentfeedback data suggests a positive result above simply removing the group project requirement.ConclusionThe introduction of the individual experiment model in the MoM lab was positively perceivedfrom both a student and instructor perspective. Students were more intellectually stimulated andas a group were provided more hands-on experiences than in previous incarnations of the course.The individual experiment model requires a

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amelito G. Enriquez, Canada College

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NSF Grantees

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

Conference Session

Computer Science and Information Technology in K-12 Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Meltem Alemdar, Georgia Institute of Technology; Tony Docal, Georgia Institute of Technology

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

students and parents, participate in professional development, as well as engagestudents in the design and production of projects that can be shared through portabletechnologies such as mp3 players and mobile phones. Podcasts can be downloaded from anumber of sources including websites such as iTunes. In addition to downloading podcasts,instructors with a small degree of technological savvy can create their own podcasts using avariety of software. In some cases, students are even creating their own podcasts to demonstratelearning. Podcasts can deliver content in audio and/or video formats at anytime and anyplace Page 22.572.2without requiring the

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sandra Shaw Courter, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Lauren Seabury, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Benjamin Lee; Gregory Alan Payne; John A. Hoopes, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Civil Engineering

AC 2011-1476: CONNECTING STUDENT EXPERIENCES WITH CON-CEPTS AND PRINCIPLES OF FLUID MECHANICSSandra Shaw Courter, University of Wisconsin, Madison Sandra Shaw Courter is PI for the ”Aligning Educational Experiences with Ways of Knowing Engineering (AWAKEN): How People Learn” project. She is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Engineering Professional Development and Wendt Commons: Teaching and Learning Services. Her area of research is engineering education including assessment of student learning. She taught technical communication courses to undergraduate engineering students and currently consults with faculty and teaching assistants. She earned her Ph.D. in educational administration at UW-Madison.Lauren

Conference Session

Preparing Engineering Students for the Global Workplace, Competency, and a Successful Career

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stacy S. Klein-Gardner, Vanderbilt University; Alanna Walker, Clemson University

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International

civil engineering studentswork with civil engineering students from Mexico to design and implement an engineeringproject where it is needed in Mexico.5 In this service learning project, they hope to achieve thefollowing learning outcomes for the study abroad students: 1) understanding and appreciation forthe way engineering is practiced in Mexico, 2) broader appreciation of how engineers can make adifference in their professional lives, 3) better understanding of how to apply engineering skills,4) more confidence in sharing engineering with others, 5) make contributions to multi-lingualand multi-cultural teams, 6) become familiar with the Spanish language in the context of the civilengineering profession, 7) prepare reports and presentations

Conference Session

Developing Systems Engineering Curriculum, Part II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael C Smith, University of Virginia; Reid Bailey, University of Virginia

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Systems Engineering

given simultaneously to multiple classrooms (aswell as to a live classroom) by a full-time systems engineering faculty member; in other cases,courses are taught by experienced adjunct faculty who live and work in the areas where coursesare taught. Other programs use Internet-based technologies to deliver either live streamedcontent or on-demand archived content to students or use Internet-based courseware to delivercourse content and to interact with students using web-based instructional technologies.Content and curricula vary but most practice-oriented master’s degree programs require 30 to 36hours of coursework, including an individual or team project. Most do not require a thesis. Thedegree granted may be a Master of Science in Systems

Conference Session

Design Communications & Cognition II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn W. Jablokow, Pennsylvania State University ; Philip Samuel, BMGI

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Design in Engineering Education

: Classification of Techniques by Process Stage and Primary Cognitive Operation Process Stage Primary Cognitive Operation Technique Define Divergent Thinking Jobs To Be Done Ethnography Nine Windows Convergent Thinking Heuristic Redefinition Value Analysis Project

Conference Session

Issues and Answers in Mathematics Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter J. Sherman, Iowa State University

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Mathematics

in the NSF 2010 FIRE(Fostering Interdisciplinary Research in Education) program, it would appear that a major reasonis that students are not sufficiently motivated by STEM topics. The five funded proposals includethe following:(FP-1): “Applying Embodied Learning” Award #1042995 . “This project brings cognitivescientists together with physicists. The goal is to improve high school and college students'physics proficiency through specific types of lab experiences that allow the student to becomepart of the physical system being studied. Lab experiences where students have direct experiencewith physics quantities (e.g., feeling forces--as opposed to reading about force, seeing forcesbeing exerted on someone else, or even measuring forces with

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2011 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Louis Manzione; Akram Abu-aisheh

- Problem-Based LearningIn order to prepare students for the global sourcing environment, it is important toincorporate Problem-Based Learning (PBL) as part of the teaching of technical courses.There are many benefits of using PBL including the development of critical thinking,improving students’ analytical abilities, and helping students understand the practicalapplications of the material presented in class.The traditional method of teaching engineering students follows a plan that is based onthe following steps: 1. Begin with a product or design challenge. 2. Explore possible technical approaches 3. Select one or more for a design project 4. Produce prototypes and test the design 5. Develop a manufacturing solutionUniversities