Conference Session

The Civil Engineering Technologist and the Civil Engineer – What’s the Difference?

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas A. Lenox, Dist.M.ASCE, American Society of Civil Engineers; James J O'Brien Jr., American Society of Civil Engineers

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Civil Engineering

, 1998, Dr. Lenox joined the staff of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). In his position as educational staff leader of ASCE, he led several new educa- tional initiatives – collectively labeled as Project ExCEEd (Excellence in Civil Engineering Education). A notable example is the ExCEEd Teaching Workshop, a nationally recognized workshop that develops inexperienced faculty into effective teachers and role models for the civil engineering profession. He continues to be very active in ASEE and other associations which foster teaching excellence – and has written numerous papers, made presentations, and run workshops dedicated to engineering educational reform. Currently, as ASCE’s Executive Vice President

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Innovative IE Course Content

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Connie Gomez, Galveston College; Heidi A. Taboada, University of Texas, El Paso; Jose F. Espiritu, University of Texas, El Paso

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

Page 23.1251.3Therefore, students are first exposed to issues that are critical to Sustainable Engineering andwhat that would imply to society and the infrastructure that supports and maintains our currentsociety. The course expounds on the interconnections between natural resources, energy, supplychains, and consumer demand and our current limitations. In this way, students can connect theirengineering training and skills to the challenges of creating a sustainable infrastructure fortomorrow.During the second portion of the course, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), students learn the theoryof LCA as well as obtain some hands on experience by applying this approach to compare twosimilar products using Gabi software. Within the project, students

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Novel Methods of Construction Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kimberly Grau Talley P.E., Texas State University - San Marcos

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Construction

focus is in active learning and project based learning in engineering and technology education. Contact: kgt5@txstate.edu Page 23.1286.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Unrealized Potential: Course Outcomes and Student LearningAbstractDo you recall those course-level student learning outcomes on your syllabus? Ones that wereargued over in some curriculum planning meeting long ago when they were developed to satisfyan accreditation agency. You know, those outcomes that students rate at the end of the semesteras to how well they agree that they learned various things in

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Biomedical Engineering Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cheryl A Bodnar, University of Pittsburgh; Joan Frances Schanck, Pittsburgh Tissue Engineering Initiative, Inc.; Kalyani Raghavan, LRDC, University of Pittsburgh; Nathan Grant Smith, OpenArc LLC; Kurt Hess, Kurt Hess Illustration & Information Design; Brian Michael Buirge; Robert Melvin; Brian Hackett

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Biomedical

(FIPSE); Adventures in Biotechnology for HS Students (PADCED); Summer Page 23.1385.1 High School Research Program, K-12 TE and Biotech education and curricula development; 2+2+2 Life Sciences Pipeline (FIPSE and PADCED); Middle and High School Summer Camps for disadvantaged students; SEPAand a host of other formal and informal educational activities including a Phase I and Phase II SEPA project featuring a permanent science center exhibit, travel component (7 sites across US, c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013

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2013 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Toure Cort; Adityen Sudhakaran; Shankar Krishnan

prosthetic mitral valve, the feasibilityof the approach was shown. In the future, it is hoped to explore the development of anenhanced mitral valve using flexible material. It is also hoped to develop a mitral valvesuitable for a minimally invasive method for implantation, such as a transcathetertechnique.In conclusion, with a collaborative team of biomedical and mechanical engineeringstudents, a prosthetic mitral valve was designed using 3D CAD tools. Design reviews,iterative improvements, and corresponding 3D rapid prototypes were made. Thefeasibility of the design and fabrication approach illustrated the achievements of learningoutcomes through this research project, supporting the idea of increasing collaborationand research at undergraduate

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Muhammet Ceylan; Aybala Usta; Fatma Barut; Ramazan Asmatulu

career counseling. It is also imperative to have a means of tracking studentsthrough school and of monitoring a program’s success so that the institution may identify whichmethods are effective and those that need improvement [2].Proceedings of the 2013 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering EducationIn this project, we tried to address some of the factors affecting freshmen student retention andsuccess rates, and also provide a laboratory option to increase these rates while utilizing thenewly developed Nanotechnology Teaching Laboratory (Nanolab) in the College of Engineering(CoE) at WSU. Students in this laboratory mainly engaged in goal-setting activities and learnedabout techniques that allow successful students

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Fritzpatrick Roque; Aidan Murphy; Bijan Bayat Mokhtari; Joseph Kim; Alex Barbaran; Andy S. Zhang; Farrukh Zia

changes in resistances that are ultimately read as changes in voltage by the microcontroller. Utilizing a stretch sensing material, the onset of a loop during an endoscopic procedure was accurately determined. The effectiveness of each configuration in detecting the formation of a loop is studied. This loop detecting device was designed in a way that it can be attached to an endoscope without significantly increasing the diameter of the endoscopic tubing. Once a loop is formed, the device will send a warning signal so the doctor who performs the endoscopic procedure can adjust his or her operation to avoid harming the patient. Keywords: Endoscopic loop detection, medical device design, undergraduate research projects. 1. Introduction Endoscopy is

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2013 Public Policy Colloquium

Authors

Mike Molnar

 NNMI Characteristics  Next Steps Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office 2013 Engineering Deans Council Public Policy ColloquiumThe Missing Middle - Valley of Death Not about government spend in TRL 4-7 projects! Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office Credit: Jack Hu 2013 Engineering Deans Council Public Policy ColloquiumFocus on Scale Up – The Missing Middle Basic science Commercialization Largely government funded

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Two-Year College Division Transfer Topics Part I

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Catherine Mobley, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Clemson University; Catherine E. Brawner, Research Triangle Educational Consultants

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Two Year College Division

-based), conducting in-depth interviews, and moderating focus groups. In 2004, Dr. Mobley joined the NSF-funded MIDFIELD interdisciplinary research team which is examining the educational pathways of engineering students at eleven universities. She is currently serving as Co-PI and is co-leading the qualitative component of a project on transfer students in engineering.Dr. Catherine E. Brawner, Research Triangle Educational Consultants Catherine E. Brawner is President of Research Triangle Educational Consultants. She received her Ph.D. in Educational Research and Policy Analysis from NC State University in 1996. She also has an MBA from Indiana University (Bloomington) and a bachelor’s degree from Duke University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society (LEES) Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig J. Gunn, Michigan State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

ME 391 – Mechanical Engineering Analysis ME 412 – Heat Transfer Reading, thinking, and teamwork Design Project Documentation: Formal Report (1 @ 10 pp. + App., Individual) Memo Reports (X @ 2 - 5 pages App.Individual)Senior ME 451 – Controls ME 461 – VibrationsYear Laboratory and Project Reports: Laboratory and Project Reports: Laboratory Experiment Written Reports ( 2

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Mathematics Division Technical Session 1

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia Salinas, ITESM; Eliud Quintero, ITESM

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Mathematics

with the 2011 Sim´on Bolivar Award for Doctoral Thesis in Mathematics Education and with the National ANUIES Award for Doctoral Research related with Education at College in 2011. At present she is Member Level 1 of the National Researches System from CONACYT M´exico. She has been addressing several projects promoting the use of technology in the teaching of Calculus and the implications of such innovation on the learning of the fundamental ideas that this scientific discipline encourages. She has also been participating in the development of the Educational Model that Tecnol´ogico de Monterrey promotes through the design of the syllabi of the Mathematics Courses for Engineering and its distribution with the use of

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Mechanical Engineering Laboratory Innovations

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Nagurka, Marquette University; Fernando Rodriguez Anton, Marquette University

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Mechanical Engineering

.□ Collaborative learning refers to an instructional method in which students work together in small groups toward a common goal. As such, collaborative learning encompasses all group- based instructional methods, including cooperative learning. The core element of collabora- tive learning is the emphasis on student interactions, rather than on learning as a solitary activity.□ In inductive learning students are presented with challenges (questions or problems) and then allowed to learn the course material in the context of addressing the challenges. Inductive methods include inquiry-based learning, case-based instruction, problem-based learning, project-based learning, discovery learning, and just-in-time teaching. In problem-based learning

Conference Session

Practical Teaching

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lam F. Wong, Cuyahoga Community College, Metropolitan; Henry Griffith, Wright State University

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Manufacturing

the basic characteristics of each phase of the process.It should be noted that the Sustainable Product Development Engineering Process (SPDEP)presented above is a specific instance of the well-known concurrent engineering framework.Concurrent Engineering is a concept that promotes cross-functional participation from all projectstakeholders at the beginning of product development, as well as overlapping projects and tasksthroughout the development process. Ideally, concurrent engineering based processes allow forthe completion of a systems design in the shortest time possible.As with any product development process, implementation of the SPDEP requires thepreliminary establishment of the requirements of the target product. These attributes may

Conference Session

Assessment

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

approach aims to provideappropriate guidance and relevant training, not only to the instructor, but also the student learner.These ideas lead us to the design and development of innovative instructional techniques asdescribed below.Assessment Implementation & Methodology Assessment was carried out by utilizing sample quizzes, homework assignments,examinations, written essays, laboratory reports and project binders. All these documents weregraded on a holistic basis using likert scale principles. Later the data collected were recorded ina tabular form using an excel spreadsheet. A matrix was generated to document grading andanalysis. A sample excel table for one student’s single homework assignment report is shown inAppendix E

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Basic Concepts in Entrepreneurship

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barbara A. Karanian Ph.D., Stanford University; Mona Eskandari, Stanford University; Jackie Liao, Stanford University; Zubair Ahmed

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

—what engages and captivates the audience?This paper explores motivational, attitudinal, and influential aspects of storytelling with anentrepreneurial streak and specific focus on the vulnerable introductory phase of studentresponses during classroom design challenges. What motivates students and the way they begintheir projects or start-ups are considered during the opening phases of each class, duringclassroom dynamics and during the introduction of an entrepreneuring story. Stories areexamined and informed by previous work. Storytelling is defined and measured by fourconcepts: self-motivated, ambiguity readiness level, passionate social connections, and empathy.A series of planned prompts alongside classroom work geared towards student

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Track 3 - Session I - Faculty Development

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2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Dirk Schaefer P.E., Georgia Institute of Technology

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Invited - Faculty Development

is valuable and important  Preferred consideration/eligibility regarding grant applications (funds for learning and in any branch of engineering. teaching related research and development projects) for certified institutions/departments.  High-level associations, such as National Academy of Engineering, ABET, ASEE,  Better education for students taught by formally qualified and

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K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Ann Holden, University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Kristina M Fields, University of Wisconsin, Platteville

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

teach a variety of physical concepts through the use of a two-part hands-on ropescourse activity: the first is a physical high ropes course and the second is an in-classroom physicsdiscussion which uses data collected during the physical ropes course. The physics projects anddata collected are different for different age groups, so girls can go through the program inmultiple, consecutive years and never repeat an activity.On the ropes course, students collect altitude and acceleration data by wearing a VernierWireless Data Sensor System (WDSS, shown in Figure 1) as they swing from a giant pendulum(called the Giant Swing) and climb rope ladders. Students are also digitally videotaped and thisvideo is uploaded along with the Vernier data to

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iSTEM

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stacy S Klein-Gardner, Harpeth Hall School and Vanderbilt University; Crystal Tricia Chukwurah, Duke University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

selective university admissions practices, particularly in the STEM fields. Tours were held on the Vanderbilt campus and in their STEM laboratories. Attendees were encouraged to return to their classrooms with stories of how their subject areas are used in real research.3) Strategic Technical Experiences and Mentoring with University Partners Attendees learned about successful partnerships as well as brainstorm projects and programs on which to build a long-term partnership between their school and near-by higher education and professional entities. They also developed strategies for working with scientists and

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Innovations in Teaching and Research in Physics or Engineering Physics I

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Frank V. Kowalski, Colorado School of Mines; Susan E. Kowalski, Colorado School of Mines; Patrick B. Kohl, Department of Physics, Colorado School of Mines; Hsia-Po Vincent Kuo, Colorado School of Mines

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Engineering Physics & Physics

innovatively apply them in more advanced(and less academic) settings, such as senior capstone projects and on-the-job challenges in thefuture workplace. Application of techniques for generating and evaluating ideas are described.To enhance the benefits of group creativity and facilitate real-time electronic brainstorming inthe classroom, we use InkSurvey with pen-enabled mobile computing devices (iPads, tablet PCs,Android devices, etc.). This free, web-based software was developed for collecting real-timeformative assessment of learning, but using it in this setting effectively mitigates many of thesocial issues that typically plague brainstorming in a group setting. The focus, instead, is onpaying attention to the ideas of others while encouraging

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2013 GSW

Authors

Lana Rings

., Egypt, Canada, Spain, Singapore,France, Finland, Denmark, Japan, China, Sweden, Italy, Australia, Taiwan, Lebanon, S. Korea,Belgium, Germany, Austria, Ireland, and Kuwait 5. According to Devex, “[r]ecent decades have seen a growing involvement of major engineering firms in international development projects.The world’s developing communities have become clients under a corporate portfolio that includes both mega-infrastructure undertakings and small projects that provide basic services toimpoverished villages”6.Second, paradoxically, the international nature of the workplace may be found in one’s own “cultural backyard.” There is a better understanding that multicultural diversity occurs both within societies, as well as between them7,8. For

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Issues in Engineering Technology Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher R Conty, Editor On Behalf of You

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Engineering Technology

drop resulted from the usual high attrition rate typical in Associate degree programs. 25Rising prices initially didn't affect upper division ET title availability at 4-year colleges either(weren’t many anyway), but the publishing philosophy resulting in fewer small market titles suredid! Annual enrollments were 3,000 to 6,000 in N. America at most for almost all upper divisionET courses – including proprietary school (DeVry) & Canadian technical college students. 26 Sowhen publishers stopped approving proposals projecting first year sales of fewer than 4-5,000copies – even though (i) technology title sales continued to hold up well in Years 2-5 (unlikemost disciplines), & (ii) short black & white titles were cheap to produce &

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K-12 Robotics

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mehmet Ayar, TUBITAK; Bugrahan Yalvac, Texas A&M University; Fatih Ugurdag, Ozyegin University; Alpaslan Sahin, Texas A&M University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

worked for the Live Energy Project during his PhD studies at Texas A&M University. Prior to his PhD studies, he worked for three years as a science teacher at a private school in Turkey.Dr. Bugrahan Yalvac, Texas A&M University Bugrahan Yalvac is an associate professor of science education in the Department of Teaching, Learning, and Culture at Texas A&M University, College Station. He received his Ph.D. in science education at the Pennsylvania State University in 2005. Prior to his current position, he worked as a learning scientist for the VaNTH Engineering Research Center at Northwestern University for three years. Yalvac’s research is in STEM education, 21st century skills, and design and evaluation of

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NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ashland O. Brown, University of the Pacific; Richard H. Crawford, University of Texas, Austin; Daniel D. Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy; Joseph J. Rencis P.E., Tennessee Technological University; Jiancheng Liu, University of the Pacific; Kyle A. Watson, University of the Pacific; Kathy Schmidt Jackson, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Rachelle Kisst Hackett, University of the Pacific; Paul Henry Schimpf, Eastern Washington University; Chuan-Chiang Chen, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Ismail I Orabi, University of New Haven; Firas Akasheh, Tuskegee University; John J Wood, U.S. Air Force Academy; Brock U Dunlap, University of Texas, Austin; Ella R. Sargent, University of the Pacific

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

entitled Improving Learning for Undergraduate Engineering Programs using Finite Element Learning Modules. This is a joint collaboration award with the University of Texas, in Austin. He has authored approxi- mately 50 papers with over 20 using finite element learning modules in undergraduate engineering. He was the PI for the initial four year, NSF CCI grant entitled The Finite Element Method Exercises for Use in Undergraduate Engineering Programs.Dr. Richard H. Crawford, University of Texas, Austin Dr. Richard H. Crawford is a professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin and is the Temple Foundation Endowed Faculty Fellow No. 3. He is also Director of the Design Projects program in

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Retaining and Developing Women Faculty in STEM

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

teams; impacts of project choice and context; and the retention and success of under- represented students). She has 9 years of industry work experience with the General Electric Company (GE), including the completion of a 2-year corporate management program. Throughout her career, she has managed over $8 million of sponsored research and is the author of 150 peer-reviewed publications. She is a member and Fellow of IIE, a member and Fellow of ASME, and a member of ASEE, INFORMS, Alpha Pi Mu, and Tau Beta Pi. She serves as an associate editor for the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design and for the Engineering Economist. She has received numerous awards for excellence in teaching, in research, and for service.Dr

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Raman Unnikrishnan; Victor H. Delgado; Hye Sun Moon; Edward Sullivan

make up 38% and31% of the population respectively. Projections show that Hispanic students will represent 20%of U.S. high school seniors by 2013, yet they make up only 13% of community collegegraduates, 10% of university graduates, and 6% of STEM graduates (U.S. Census Bureau, 2012;U.S. Department of Education, 2010c; U.S. Department of Education, 2010d; Taningco et al.,2008). Similarly, low-income students are also seriously underrepresented in higher educationand, by extension, STEM majors. For every 100 low-income students who make it to high Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2013, American Society for Engineering Education

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2013 GSW

Authors

Oscar N. Garcia; Garima Bajwa; Cynthia L. Claiborne; Shanti R. Thiyagaraja; Mohamed Fazeen; Eric H. Pruett

obvious. While thehistorical documentation is abundant, there is much which is shielded from the public forproprietary and national security reasons. The publication and selection of standards as done bythe NIST in the US and other international organizations through open competitions anddisclosures has assisted in the development of specific projects and indirectly providedfundamental experiences. In what follows we develop the subject with the same unifying intentthat we introduced in the course. A Conceptual MapWe offer in Figure 1 the conceptual structure that guided us in our educational journey. Ofnecessity it starts with the concept of information measures with a probabilistic

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2013 GSW

Authors

Amit Oza; Gary Coleman; Lex Gonzalez; Bernd Chudoba; Paul Czsyz

sizing process applied to a fast turnaround project by using a dedicated knowledge-harvesting approach coupled with a unique sizing methodology to represent the first step in the conceptual design phase. Identify and visualize the solution space available for a hypersonic endurance (20 to 30 min) demonstrator that employs an air-breathing propulsion system. Propose prospective baseline vehicle(s) based on (1) available industry capability and (2) high-priority research (technology) required. Demonstrate a best-practice product development and technology forecasting environment that integrates the key team members, including (1) manager (decision maker), (2) synthesis specialist (integrator), and (3) technologist (disciplinary

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Justin L Hess, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Engineering Ethics

Paper ID #6396Global Portrayals of Engineering Ethics Education: A Systematic LiteratureReviewJustin L Hess, Purdue University, West Lafayette Justin L Hess is a Ph.D. student at Purdue University’s School of Engineering Education. His research focuses on the role of individual values in engineering decision making, such as the role of empathy in stakeholder perspective taking, motivating student interest in sustainability, and deconstructing dominant worldviews within engineering. He currently is a research and teaching assistant for an NSF-funded project which uses reflexive principlism as an ethical framework for

Conference Session

K-5 Teacher Transformation

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

K. Anna Douglas, Purdue University; Daphne Duncan Wiles, Purdue University, West Lafayette; So Yoon Yoon, INSPIRE, School of Engineering Education, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

2006. In addition to trainings located on Universitycampus, INSPIRE with support from the National Science Foundation, has provided five yearsof TPD for engineering in one school district located in the Southern United States. Throughoutthe course of working with multiple schools in that school district, some teachers communicatedthat they would no longer participate in engineering. The district adopted new testing standardsthe second year of our project and many teachers reported stress related to the new associatedcurriculum and amount of time spent testing. As is the case for all teachers, especially in gradeswith high-stakes testing, instructional time is quite valuable; doing anything above and beyondwhat directly maps to the standards

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society (LEES) Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine Haas, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Lynn S. McElholm, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Sonya M Renfro, University of Connecticut; Elizabeth S. Herkenham, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ; Melissa Marshall, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

morning and provide age and subject appropriate presentations and activities that are integrated with the science and math curriculum. Because the Ambassadors present in pairs, they present in up to three parallel classrooms at a time during the school day. The Ambassadors show how engineering is relevant to these subjects such as highlighting an engineering project such as developing a spinal implant. In addition, the Ambassadors start or conclude the day with a presentation about Engineering Careers in the school auditorium. The audience for this presentation usually ranges from 100 to 300 students. On campus recruiting of prospective students and community STEM events. The Engineering Ambassadors are active