Conference Session

Computer Programming and Simulation

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gili Rusak, Siena College

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Computers in Education

, each of which focused on particular computational thinking concepts likeproblem solving and abstraction. They showed that their activities could successfully introduce theseconcepts to middle school females. Intricate projects constructed with such tools required weeks oflearning. Some projects took up to several months of work [7]. Yardi & Buckman [12] created anafterschool program for high school students to promote their computational thinking. Page 24.950.2We propose to teach even younger students, elementary school children, these computational thinkingconcepts.In this paper we first describe our motivation behind creating an

Conference Session

Preparing Future Educators

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephanie Marie Kusano, Virginia Tech; Homero Gregorio Murzi, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Prateek Shekhar, Virginia Tech; Timothy Kinoshita, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Christina Seimetz Wade, Virginia Tech; Richard M. Goff, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education; Debarati Basu, Virginia Tech

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Graduate Studies

Evaluation Implications 10 Mid semester Slump and nap 11 “Old School” vs “New School” Teaching 12 Technology & Online Learning +Social Networking 3 Research to Practice for Innovative Teaching 14 Projects + Workshop Design 15 Wrap Up Other Threshold Concepts possible Intrinsic Motivation topics Engineering & Engineering EducationIII. Suggested assignments a. Development of a Teaching philosophy Page 24.1000.7 b. Construction of an E-portfolio documenting teaching experiences and the student online

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Nuclear and Radiological Division Technical Session 1

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Trevor D. McLaughlin, U.S. Military Academy

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Nuclear and Radiological

, this meant that no single discipline could arrive at a viable solution independent of the othersrepresented in the team. The majority of the group (60 percent) had backgrounds in the humanities; thegroup dynamic was predisposed for interdisciplinary, versus multidisciplinary, collaboration as definedbelow. The academic demographics put the nuclear engineers (25 percent of the group) as a minority, butthey did maintain the largest contingent of a single discipline.According to Borrego & Newswander, participants on a multidisciplinary team “leave [a] project withouthaving learned much about the other disciplines” with whom they were involved. For multidisciplinary

Conference Session

Engineering Physics & Physics Division Technical Session 1

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Wenli Guo, Queensborough Community College

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Engineering Physics & Physics

, for many students, Conceptual Physics will be the final science coursethey take for the rest of their lives. The quality of their physics education may therefore have alasting impact on their scientific literacy and their attitudes toward science. “Learners are awareof and control their learning by actively participating in reflective thinking – assessing what theyknow, what they need to know, and how they bridge that gap – during learning situations”.(MacDonald, 2009) In this grant-funded research project, students were asked to performreflections through journal writing after each class. They needed to include date, list of activitiesdone in class, what they have learned from today’s activities and questions/comments they stillhave

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Richard Millham

tutorials in mathematics, English, and physics of English, physics, and mathematics. By selectingfor secondary school students are another option three students from each school, it was felt thatwhich was embraced by a professional body. This they would be able to provide a fair representationbody funded these tutorials for six hours every of each school within the network while not over-Saturday during term times at a university of burdening the resources of the program.technology. This group consisted of Grade 11students from schools in disadvantaged areas; A pilot project for this program began withteachers at each of the schools in these area, in

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Varun Pande; Jayanta Paul; Manuel Curillo; Jani Macari Pallis

@bridgeport.edu jpallis@bridgeport.eduvpande@bridgeport.edu Abstract—The CubeSat A.K.A DiscoSat Satellite is an This educational mission will also engage and educate in K- educational satellite scheduled to be launch in late 2015. Its 8 science curriculum for 460 students, 70% of whom are main focus is to be a research unit for researchers as well as a from urban and underrepresented populations, at Discovery learning model for young school graders. It will enable one to learn the in and out of running a real time satellite operations Magnet School; educational partner institution to Discovery and communication. The primary goal of the project

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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M. Ali-ud-din Khan; Muhammad Fahim Uddin; Navarun Gupta

appear in J. MIS, Loyola Univ. Maryland, 2013 M. Ali-ud-din khan is a recent graduate from University of Peshawar, Pakistan. He has over 15 years of experience in Pharmaceutical companies holding various technical and managerial positions. He also holds MBA degree. XI. CONCLUSION He is currently pursuing a project HRP-ADH (Health Recovery Program-Big data has raw ingredients for tomorrow invincible

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Gad J. Selig

planning) and that the business will be an instant success. Long range financial projections are at best works of Some definitions are appropriate. An entrepreneur is using the WAG concept (wild ass guess) and thus, are heavilya person who perceives an opportunity and creates an discounted by investors. It is not an efficient use of time andorganization to pursue that opportunity. A business incubator energy to prepare elaborate pro-formas on untested concepts.is a facility that assists new ventures in growing a business. A new business concept is at best a set of unprovenThere are many types of incubators (e.g. general purpose [any

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Alessandro DiMarco; France Marquez; Wilson Tsz-Hon Kowk; ShuaiXiang Zhang; Sunil Dehipawala; Andrew Nguyen; Tak Cheung

-experimental evolution report on suggested that the laboratory investigation of the thermo-elongation factor EF-Tu structural stability results using the stability of elongation factor EF-Tu protein by circularancestral protein sequence reconstruction modeling has been dichroism data would provide an opportunity to rewind theused in teaching community college pre-engineering students to tape of life using ancestral protein reconstruction modelingdo research. A project analyzing free energy and Shannon approach [1]. Furthermore they reported that the insertion ofentropy of the engineered DNA sequences would benefit students an ancient version of EF-Tu in Escherichia coli (E. coli

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Xi Kang; Chengxin Zhang; Xingguo Xiong; Sk Hasan Hafizul Haque

frequency drops sharply as the length of the beam is increased. In this project, we set the length of the cantilever beam as 250µm.The integral in equation (4) can be solved for the voltage[10] Based on above analysis, a set of optimized design parametersto obtain: of the proposed electrostatic mixer are obtained, as show in Table 1. Design parameters valuesTherefore, the driving voltage for any tip displacement can be

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

A.M. Annan; C. M. McLain; M. E. Perham; D. N. Robear; D. J. McLaughlin

button individual understanding of key lab concepts even if they 4didn’t get a chance to be heavily involved with the group request of student teams, but they will be encouraged to becompletion of the project. creative, especially with the mechanical aspects of the design, Battery drain was a constant issue during the first run of when approaching the realization of their car chassis. Thethe course. Students used combinations of AAA batteries, AA revised experiment kit will include the items listed in Table 2.batteries, and 9

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Breno Fabricio Lira Melo Sousa; Raimundo Pereira da Cunha Neto

year, the CyberCop company interaction honeypots and high-interaction honeypots, whereproduced the first product, Sting, which was later acquired by the low-interaction will provide fake services, and interactionNAI, in the end year the same year. In 1998, Martin Rash occurs with the attacker, giving you false information [3].created a honeypot for the U.S. government. In 1999, Lance Differing from low-interaction, high-interactionSpitzner created the Honeynet Project, along with a team of honeypots, will provide a real environment for the attacker,about fifty security experts [1]. where it can interact with both the operating system itself

Conference Session

Student Learning, Problem Solving, & Critical Thinking 3

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peggy C. Boylan-Ashraf, Stanford University; Steven A. Freeman, Iowa State University; Mack Shelley, Iowa State University

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Educational Research and Methods

instruction primarily focuses onverbal and printed words, rote memorization, and is instruction driven 38. Students who aretaught traditionally are told what they are expected to know and concepts are presenteddeductively 10,16, where the instructor conducts lessons by introducing and explaining concepts tostudents, and then expecting students to complete tasks to practice the concepts. Moderninterpretations of student-centered learning include project-based learning, case-based learning,discovery learning, and just-in-time teaching with 3 instructional approaches of active learning,cooperative learning, and problem-based learning 30.This quantitative study was designed to explore variables affecting student academic success,with the hope of

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ning Gong, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Temple University ; Brian P. Butz, Temple University; Li Bai, Temple University; Saroj Biswas, Temple University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

. He can be contacted at: ning.gong@temple.edu.Dr. Brian P. Butz, Temple University Dr. Brian P. Butz is a Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. In 1987, Professor Butz founded the Intelligent Systems Application Center (ISAC). This Center provided a focal point within Temple University concentrating on research in intelligent systems. Professor Butz’s research efforts focused on expert/knowledge-based systems and intelligent tutoring systems. He has been the Principal Investigator for projects that immerse users into a particular virtual environment in which they are able to learn both theory and application within a specific subject area. From 1989

Conference Session

Attracting, Developing and Retaining Talented ME Students

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Mechanical Engineering

and is the Temple Foundation Endowed Faculty Fellow No. 3. He is also Director of the Design Projects program in Mechanical Engineering. He received his BSME from Louisiana State University, and his MSME and Ph.D. from Purdue University. He teaches mechanical engineering design and geometry modeling for design. Dr. Crawford’s research interests span topics in computer-aided mechanical design and design theory and methodology. Dr. Crawford is co-founder of the DTEACh program, a ”Design Page 24.133.1 Technology” program for K-12, and is active on the faculty of the UTeachEngineering program that seeks to

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chad M. Laux, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

(Excel, spreadsheet), knowledge of industry standards, willingness to relocate / commute to rural area, willingness to get dirty, accept non-office jobs, knowledge of basic calculus (mean, standard deviation), ability to handle biologically active products, workplace safety knowledge; and bulk processing knowledge.• Advanced Technical Skills - knowledge of: biologics, Lean manufacturing, bioprocessing, microbiology, CFR 21, process controls, regulations, operating systems and standards (GFSI, ISO, OSHA, EPA, IDEM), project analysis, risk mitigation, hygienic design, project management, biosecurity and traceability, and industry case assessment also an ability to work with advanced technology and electronics

Conference Session

New Teaching Methods in Mechanics

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah L. Billington, Stanford University; Sheri D. Sheppard, Stanford University; Robert C Calfee, Graduate School of Education, Stanford University; Peggy C. Boylan-Ashraf, Stanford University

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Mechanics

Paper ID #10411Evaluation of Impact of Web-based Activities on Mechanics Achievement andSelf-EfficacyProf. Sarah L. Billington, Stanford University Sarah Billington is Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineer- ing at Stanford University. Her research group focuses on sustainable, durable construction materials and their application to structures and construction. She teaches an undergraduate class on introductory solid mechanics as well as graduate courses in structural concrete behavior and design. Most recently she has initiated a engineering education research project on

Conference Session

K-12 Engineering Resources: Best Practices in Curriculum Design, Part 2 of 2

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aran W Glancy, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Tamara J Moore, Purdue University; Siddika Selcen Guzey, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Corey A Mathis, Purdue University; Kristina Maruyama Tank, Iowa State University; Emilie A. Siverling, Purdue University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

curricula.MethodologyThis study examines the engineering content of 10 integrated STEM units developed by teams ofmiddle school science teachers for use their classrooms. The analysis is qualitative in nature,seeking to provide a rich description of the ways in which different units address the importantaspects of engineering.EngrTEAMS Project. The 10 integrated units analyzed in the paper were developed as part ofthe EngrTEAMS: Engineering to Transform the Education of Analysis, Measurement, andScience in a Team-Based Targeted Mathematics-Science Partnership project16. The purpose ofthis project is to support middle school science teachers through professional develop andcognitive coaching in developing and implementing effective integrated STEM curricula.During

Conference Session

Choice and Persistence in Engineering Education and Careers

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Beth A. Myers, University of Colorado Boulder; Jacquelyn F. Sullivan, University of Colorado Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

typicallyunderrepresented in engineering has not increased significantly in the last decade. Former NAEPresident Bill Wulf noted that “...for the United States to remain competitive in a globaltechnological society, the country as a whole must take serious steps to ensure that we have adiverse, well trained, multicultural workforce.”1Even during weaker economic times, high demand for U.S. engineers continues; and, the numberof U.S. engineering jobs are projected to increase in all engineering diciplines during the nextdecade. Most engineering disciplines are projected to grow faster than most other labor sectors.4The number of undergraduate engineering degrees awarded in the U.S. fell dramatically from77,572 in 1985 to a low of 59,214 in 2001, but has been on the

Conference Session

Future Career and Professional Success for Graduate Students

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Renetta G. Tull, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Miguel Alfonso Nino, Virginia Polytechnic and State University; Kimberly Monique Holmes, George Mason University

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Graduate Studies

Paper ID #10524Building a Community of Practice Among STEM Graduate Students to Fos-ter Academic and Professional SuccessDr. Renetta G. Tull, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Renetta Garrison Tull is Associate Vice Provost for Graduate Student Development & Postdoctoral Affairs at UMBC and Director of the National Science Foundation’s PROMISE AGEP: Maryland Transforma- tion, a new AGEP-T project for the University System of Maryland. She presents across the U.S. and Puerto Rico on topics ranging from graduate school recruitment, retention, and dissertation completion, to faculty development. She serves as a

Conference Session

Topics Related to Civil Engineering Curriculum

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles E. Riley, Oregon Institute of Technology; Roger V. Lindgren, Oregon Institute of Technology; Sean St. Clair, Oregon Institute of Technology; David K. Thaemert P.E., Oregon Institute of Technology; Matthew Sleep, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Civil Engineering

in Geotechnical Engineering with and emphasis on dam and levee projects. He is currently an assistant professor of Civil Engineering at Oregon Institute of Technology. Page 24.336.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Creation of a Co-Terminal BS/MS Civil Engineering Degree ProgramAbstractA civil engineering department at a small teaching-focused polytechnic university recentlyoverhauled its undergraduate program to develop a practice-focused, co-terminal,bachelor’s/master’s degree program. The department, staffed with five faculty

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Education Session 3

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tammy VanDeGrift, University of Portland; Jon Down, University of Portland

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

skills to compete in the globalbusiness environment when they meet with international business leaders on their travels abroad.They interact with America’s best entrepreneurs to learn business strategies. They design,implement, and lead a business project that aims to be the best of its kind in the world. They aretreated to guest lectures in the classroom and a year-long series of business workshops held bysome of the Northwest’s most successful business leaders. See Appendix 2 for descriptions ofthe three courses in the E-Scholars program.E-Scholars travel both domestically and abroad to meet business leaders across the globe. Allstudents travel to New York, where they meet with companies, consultants, non-profits andgovernment agencies, to

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 9

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Svetlana Levonisova, University of Southern California; Shaobo Huang, University of Southern California; Scott C Streiner, University of Pittsburgh; Sydnie Cunningham Cunningham, The University of Tulsa; Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California; Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Larry J. Shuman, University of Pittsburgh; Cheryl Matherly

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International

University, University of Illinois, University of Michigan, University of Pittsburg). 3. International Internships, International Co-Op (e.g. Georgia Tech, MIT, University of Rhode Island, University of Cincinnati, Worcester Polytechnic University). 4. International Projects (e.g. Worcester Polytechnic Institute). 5. Study Abroad and Academic Exchange (e.g. University of Minnesota, Rensselaer, Global E3). 6. Collaborative Research Projects and Global Teaming with partners abroad (Purdue University, Harvey Mudd). 7. Service Learning Projects Abroad (University of South Florida, Worcester Polytechnic University, University of Dayton, Duke University). 8. Graduate-Level International Programs, including research

Conference Session

Choice and Persistence in Engineering Education and Careers

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brianna L. Dorie, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Tamecia R. Jones, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Meagan C. Pollock, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica E. Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Educational Research and Methods

study of K-12 engineering-oriented studentcompetitions, Wankat (2007) concluded that students with supportive parents had higherperformance at the competition, and parent involvement was effective in focusing students and Page 24.968.3increasing enthusiasm for the project.23 Retrospective studies have also revealed that parents area significant motivator, especially for low socio-economic students to enter into engineering andthat parents’ influence on children depended on the parents’ motivational beliefs in helping thechild succeed in school.24 In summary, research indicates that parental involvement andexpectations are important for

Conference Session

Computer Programming and Simulation

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin James Gucwa, University of California, Davis; Harry H. Cheng, University of California, Davis

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Computers in Education

. Page 24.1058.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 RoboSim for Integrated Computing and STEM EducationAbstractThis paper describes the design, implementation, and application of RoboSim, a robotvirtual environment, for integrated computing and STEM education in K-12 schools.Robots are being increasingly used in schools for hands-on project-based learning andmotivating students to pursue careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, andMathematics (STEM). However high costs and hardware issues are often prohibitive forusing robotics as often as desired in mathematics and science classroom teaching. Due tothe tight schedule for teaching math and science subjects, hardware mishap and failure,such as

Conference Session

Measuring Impact: Libraries, Librarians, Instruction, and Institutions

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William H. Mischo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Ivan Favila, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Dana Michelle Tempel, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Elisandro Cabada, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Engineering Libraries

, and 14,550square feet of open study space to establish CARE. The space includes 14 group study rooms, 2instructional classrooms, 2 storage rooms, and 1 office utilized by the CARE ProgramCoordinator -- who is funded by the COE. CARE was initially funded by a combination ofLibrary Student/IT Fee money, COE Student Fee funds, and COE foundation moneys. Thesefunds were used for high-end engineering workstation equipment, projection equipment,furniture, digital signage, glass and whiteboard equipment, collaboration furniture, andcomputing equipment.The total seating capacity for the CARE area in the Grainger Library is 472 with an additional154 seats available for overflow. CARE provides academic learning support that primarilytargets the needs

Conference Session

Graduate Ethics Education & Professional Codes

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Craig Hanks, Texas State University, San Marcos; Dominick Esperanza Fazarro, The University of Texas at Tyler; Jitendra S. Tate, Texas State University, San Marcos; Walt Trybula, Texas State University & Trybula Foundation, Inc.; Robert J.C. McLean, Texas State University

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Engineering Ethics

students to deal responsibly with technological change inconditions of uncertainty.4) Our ProjectUnder a grant from NSF, we are developing, implementing, and assessing two modular coursesthat include societal, ethical, environmental, health, and safety issues related to nanotechnologyfor undergraduates in engineering and engineering technology. The work is being conducted by ahighly interdisciplinary team of faculty who bring to the project expertise from mechanicalengineering, manufacturing engineering, civil engineering, electrical engineering, industrialeducation and technology, physics, biology, philosophy, and ethics. The team also has hands-onexperience in industrial research management. Not only is our project multidisciplinary, it ismulti

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kimberly Warren, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Chuang Wang, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

constantcommunication and interaction with the instructor. The purpose of this National Science Foundation funded project was to 1) developeffective, innovative desk-top tools (GCT) that would promote a student-centered, interactivelearning environment in the classroom, 2) implement the GCT to target multiple learning styleswhile identifying the challenges, 3) conduct an extensive evaluation of the impact of this effort,and 4) formalize a new model for use in engineering courses and programs. Warren and Wangprovide a more detailed discussion of this project 19 and the baseline results18. The purpose ofthis paper is to present a preliminary analysis of the final results comparing the Treatment Groupto the baseline results collected from the Control Group

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tamara J. Moore, Purdue University; Kristina Maruyama Tank, Iowa State University; Aran W. Glancy, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Emilie A. Siverling, Purdue University; Corey A. Mathis, Purdue University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Engineering to Enhance STEM Integration EffortsAbstractCurrently, there is a movement in K-12 education to include engineering academic standards inthe science curriculum. The Next Generation Science Standards, which include engineeringdesign learning ideas, are starting to be adopted by states. This research project builds on theSTEM Integration research paradigm, defined as the merging of the disciplines of STEM. Thereare two main types of STEM integration: content integration and context integration. Contentintegration focuses on the merging of the content fields into a single curriculum in order tohighlight "big ideas" from multiple content areas, whereas context

Conference Session

Teaching Communication I

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca R Essig, Purdue University; Cary David Troy, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Brent K Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Josh Boyd, Purdue University; Natascha Trellinger Buswell, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

the best of their ability. One of the allures of incidental writing isits ability to encourage students to be open about their opinions, and typical assessment methodsused in quantitative assignments could potentially discourage students from fully sharing theirviews and beliefs. On the other hand, not giving an assessment can potentially lead students tonot fully complete assignments and thus not benefit from these learning opportunities. Thisresults in the challenge of balancing completion versus encouraging free and open thought.9 Page 24.141.5One challenge that this project strives to investigate is the proper pairing of the types of