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NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tamara J Moore, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Aran W Glancy, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Kristina Maruyama Tank, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Jennifer Anna Kersten, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Micah S Stohlmann, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Forster D. Ntow, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Karl A Smith, University of Minnesota & Purdue University, West Lafayette

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

, Contributions, and Future Directionsof Discipline-Based Education Research that produced the National Research Council Report, Discipline-Based Education Research: Understanding and Improving Learning in Undergraduate Science and Engi-neering. He has written eight books including How to Model It: Problem solving for the computer age;Cooperative learning: Increasing college faculty instructional productivity; Strategies for energizing largeclasses: From small groups to learning communities; and Teamwork and project management, 4th Ed. Page 23.46.2 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 A

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CAD Assessments, Trends and Applications

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Whalen, Northeastern University; Chirag Patel; David Joseph Tortoriello; Justin Baldacci, ASME Northeastern chapter; Jeffrey Speroni

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Engineering Design Graphics

Integrated Defense Systems, where Speroni worked as a radar systems analyst. This work experience was heavy on MATLAB and data analysis. His second co-op was at Instron, where he worked on several different projects. Speroni worked on testing a new hardness engineering software, as well as designing custom test fixtures. These designs were made using SolidWorks. His current co-op is at Resolute Marine Energy, where he is again using SolidWorks to design hydraulic systems. Page 23.233.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013Augmenting a First-year Design Course with an

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

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amy E. Slaton, Drexel University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

efficaciouslyreplaced by an audio or tactile one; or that hands-on and observational exercises might beequivalent to one another; or that different persons might justifiably use different instruments toundertake the same technical learning or labor. In short, this paper sketches a politics ofengineering epistemologies around issues of disability.This is part of a larger project regarding the meanings of identity in STEM education moregenerally, a body of work by scholars loosely grouped under the emergent Engineering Studies(ES) rubric.* This scholarship is not extensive but in the last few years it has carefully ∗considered the social instrumentality of categories including race, class, gender, LGBT identities,and age as enacted in

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Laboratory Experiences in Electronics and Circuits

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth A Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Bonnie H. Ferri, Georgia Institute of Technology; Kathleen Meehan, Virginia Tech

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Figure 13. Theexam consisted of questions on basic concepts, all of which were written to be of equaldifficulty. One of the questions was on the concept demonstrated by the in-class lab. Figure 1 is ascatter plot of student scores on that question versus the other questions on the exam, with thesolid line shown to indicate equal performance on the two types of questions. Most of thestudents in the class are above the solid line indicating that they performed better on the conceptquestion related to the experiment than questions on other topics. Another class had three hands-on activities (two in-class experiments and one take-home project). For this class, a conceptsinventory pre- and post-test were taken as well as student surveys of their self

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Research Initiatives

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Helena Isabel Scutt, Stanford University; Shannon Katherine Gilmartin, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University; Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Stanford University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

enroll in calculus.Taken together, this knowledge provides compelling evidence of the importance ofcommunication skills in engineering, and suggests that emphasis on the integration of math andcommunication skills in engineering would benefit women students in particular.4. Demonstrate and Encourage ResilienceThis practice is about helping students learn to embrace challenges and setbacks by teachingthem that their academic skills are malleable. In addition to combatting the negative stereotypesof their technical abilities that girls and women face, this practice is an important life lesson forall students.Using spatial skills as an example of a broader phenomenon, the Assessing Women inEngineering project suggests that “score differences

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Undergraduate Student Issues: Persistence

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer A. Skaggs, American University in Cairo

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Women in Engineering

Page 23.1164.3femininities breaking down the “binary opposition between male and female”10 and allowing for“creative interrogation of the ways in which people ‘do’ gender”.15Engineering as MasculineAfter World War I, engineering was, according to Ruth Oldenziel, a “project inmasculinization”. 16 The word “engineer” was originally given to the military troops who created,built, and operated machinery [engines] of war.17 This link between military and engineering hasled to construction of a hegemonic masculinity that pervades the professional and educationalenvironments of engineering. The term hegemonic refers to the cultural ideal of masculinity thatis dominant and is associated with men who are in power.18Not only is this masculine image of

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Issues in Advising and Mentoring

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gillian M. Nicholls, University of Alabama in Huntsville

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Educational Research and Methods

, faculty time, and support staff labor. With tuition costs risingfaster than inflation, the trends have undesirable results for both universities and students.This paper reviews the relevant literature in order to begin developing a study design to modelstudent progression through engineering degree acquisition as a complex system. Elements areexpected to include transition probabilities, identifying critical factors, predicting time tograduation, estimating costs and benefits of potential interventions, and projected throughput ofengineers earning bachelors’ degrees. The main goal of the research is to achieve an actionable,applicable, and accurate decision modeling method for a student’s progress to an engineeringdegree and a university’s

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Materials Science Education for the Future

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lindsay M. Corneal, Grand Valley State University

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Materials

five questions (questions 6-10) assessed specific course components. For question 6,which assessed whether the lectures improved their understanding of the course material, themajority of the respondents indicated that they “extremely” agreed with the statement in thisquestion. Questions 7, 8, and 9 assessed the classroom discussions, group work, and Page 23.699.5assignments, projects, tests, and/or papers, respectively. For these questions, the majority of therespondents indicated that they “mostly” agreed with the statements in these questions. Forquestion 10, which assessed the course textbooks and readings, the greatest number

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Defining and Refining Technological and Engineering Literacy

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Osvaldo Clua, University of Buenos Aires; Maria Feldgen, University of Buenos Aires

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

. Received several awards for the actuation in education including INTERTECH, ICECE and IGIP. Director of a project in Digital preservation of heritage and member of projects in Automation. Member of a program for enhancement of computer literacy at the University of Buenos AiresProf. Maria Feldgen, University of Buenos Aires Maria Feldgen is an associate professor and researcher in computer science at the University of Buenos Aires (School of Engineering). Her research interests include Engineering Education, Distributed Sys- tems, and Ubiquitous Computing. Her main research interests are around classroom assessment tech- niques for design capstone courses, heritage digital libraries and sensor networks. She was the

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Involving Undergraduates in Research

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Randel L. Dymond, Virginia Tech; Vinod K Lohani, Virginia Tech; Daniel S Brogan, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Manuel Alejandro Martinez, Virginia Tech

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Civil Engineering

a sec- ond place award in the 2009 NCEES Engineering Competition for Connecting Professional Practice and Education. His latest award is the 2010 National James M. Robbins Excellence in Teaching Award from Chi Epsilon.Dr. Vinod K Lohani, Virginia Tech Dr. Vinod K Lohani is a professor in the Engineering Education Department and an adjunct faculty in the Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech. His research interests are in the areas of sustainability, computer-supported research and learning systems, hydrology, and water resources. In a major ($1M+, NSF) curriculum reform and engineering education research project from 2004 to 2009, he led a team of engineering and education faculty to reform

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CIP Division Technical Session 1

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lori Glover J.D., Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Todd S. Keiller, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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College Industry Partnerships

marketing experience. He has worked for sixteen years in the industrial sector in a variety of sales, marketing, and business development roles, ten of which were with Corning Glass Works in their Science and Medical Products Divisions. He has over 20 years of academic licensing experience and is the former vice president of Ventures of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and formed the technology commercialization office at the University of Vermont. While at UVM, he formed UVM Ventures, an internal gap fund intended to create a ”valley of birth” by funding projects that had commercial promise but were too early for initial outside investment. He is in the process of doing the same at WPI. Keiller has founded or

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Bringing Industrial Applications into the Classroom

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zenaida Otero Gephardt, Rowan University; C. Stewart Slater, Rowan University; Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Mariano Javier Savelski, Rowan University

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Chemical Engineering

Quality by Design (QbD)methodologies in ways that engage and enhance learning. This work is the basis for a workshoppresented at the 2012 ASEE – Chemical Engineering Division (CHED) Summer School. Theinteractive and self-contained workshop modules are highlighted. These modules can be easilyintegrated into the traditional undergraduate chemical engineering curriculum throughlaboratories/demonstrations. This project is part of the educational/outreach activities of theNSF-ERC on Structured Organic Particulate Systems.introductionOver the past several years, X University faculty members have been engaged as EducationalOutreach Partners with the NSF-sponsored ERC on Structured Organic Particulate Systemshosted by Rutgers University (with member

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"How Do We Compare?" - Students, Case Studies, and Learning Approaches

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Allison Godwin, Clemson University; Geoff Potvin, Clemson University

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Chemical Engineering

requiredintroductory English courses to capture a sample representative of both STEM and non- STEMmajors. The survey instrument focused on student backgrounds, pedagogical factors in physicalscience classrooms, classroom achievement, and student attitudes toward STEM andsustainability. In this project, sustainability is defined broadly as meeting the “needs of thepresent without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”13 Theintent of the study was to focus on factors that increased enrollment in engineering majors and toexplore the connections between engineering and sustainability-related topics in students’experiences. The survey included 47 Likert, Likert-type, multiple choice, and categorical questions aboutstudent career

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Global Engineering Education Cross-Cultural Awareness and Social Impacts

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer DeBoer, MIT; Glenda S Stump, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Frances Carter-Johnson, MIT, Teaching and Learning Laboratory; Gayle Allen Ed.D., BrightBytes; Lori Breslow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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International

National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the U.S. Department of Education, she is also repeatedly invited to provide funding, proposal, and application preparation training for undergraduate and graduate students.Gayle Allen Ed.D., BrightBytesDr. Lori Breslow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lori Breslow is the founding Director of the Teaching & Learning Laboratory (TLL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. An internationally recognized expert in teaching and learning in higher edu- cation, she conducts research on the development, diffusion, and assessment of educational innovation, particularly in science and engineering. She is currently leading a joint MIT-Harvard research project to analyze data

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Engineering and Public Policy II

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mickey R. Wilhelm P.E., University of Louisville

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Engineering and Public Policy

activity with members of the High TechEducation working group of the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, led byIntel and GE. The objective of this initiative is to stimulate comprehensive action atuniversities and colleges to help increase the annual number of new B.S. graduates inengineering and computer science by 10,000. The “Graduate 10K” initiative especiallyencourages projects designed to increase retention among women and other groups oftraditionally underrepresented student groups that pursue engineering and computerscience degrees.11 Page 23.506.12  11 There have also been recent reports in the

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Micro-Technology and Nanotechnology

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harold T. Evensen, University of Wisconsin, Platteville

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

NanomaterialsWe have recently developed a one-credit course designed for first-year students considering thenew major in Microsystems and Nanomaterials Engineering. It is based on a successful“Engineering Projects” course offered through our General Engineering department, which hassubsequently been made into a popular summer program for prospective students. The goal ofthis new course, which meets two laboratory hours per week, is to expose students to several ofthe important ideas and concepts in microsystems and nanotechnology, and to give them hands-on projects that will help them learn these multidisciplinary ideas. Further, the “ulterior motive”of this course is to inspire students to stay in engineering, and to give them a flavor of

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Mechanical Engineering Laboratory Innovations

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicholas Langhoff, San Francisco State University; Sergey Dusheyko, San Francisco State University; McKenzie Suzanne Campagna, San Francisco State University; Ozkan Celik, San Francisco State University

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Mechanical Engineering

, and sound synthesis and electronics for musical applications.Mr. Sergey Dusheyko, San Francisco State University I received my BS in mechanical engineering from San Francisco State University in the Summer of 2013. During my time there I worked on two projects as a member of the Biomechatronics Research Laboratory. On these projects I was responsible, in part, for mechanical design and three dimensional model rendering. Since graduating I have worked as a mechanical engineer for a hydrogeological technology start up.McKenzie Suzanne Campagna, San Francisco State UniversityDr. Ozkan Celik, San Francisco State University Ozkan Celik joined San Francisco State University (SFSU) in August 2011 as an Assistant Professor of

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James J. Pembridge, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach; Stephanie Cutler, Virginia Tech

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Student

Paper ID #5730Assembling the Ideal Doctoral Dissertation Committee in Engineering Edu-cationDr. James J. Pembridge, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach James J. Pembridge is an Assistant Professor in the Freshman Engineering Department at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. He earned a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, M.A. Education in Curriculum and Instruction, and Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech. His research has focused on mentoring as pedagogy for project-based courses and understanding the adult learning characteristics of undergraduate students.Dr. Stephanie Cutler, Virginia Tech Dr

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Integrating Art, Humanities, and Engineering

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Haungs, California Polytechnic State University; David Gillette, California Polytechnic State University; Debra L. Valencia-Laver, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Elizabeth Ann Lowham, California Polytechnic State University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

students for a wide range of careers in professional fields thatcombine skills and interests in engineering, the arts, technology, and culture. As part of a quartersystem, the LAES program requires 52 quarter units (hereafter referred to as simply “units”) ofgeneral education, 40 units of Science and Mathematics, 34 units of Engineering, 24 units ofLiberal Arts, and 8 units of study abroad coursework. LAES students also take 16 units ofservice-based learning combined with their senior project work. Our graduates have successfulcareers as game designers, media developers, sound engineers, and technical writers, to namejust a few. For more information on advising and Engineering/Liberal Arts course selection,please refer to the following web page

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Track 2 - Session I - Curriculum Development

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Lynette Frances Johns-Boast, Australian National University

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Invited - Curriculum Development

acquisition” 3, what impact might a highereducation academic’s understanding of the term ‘curriculum’ have upon the process and activitiesthey undertake when designing and developing courses and programs of study?This paper reports on the initial findings of an on-going study whose aim is to tease apart thefactors that affect an individual academic’s engagement with curriculum design and development.So far, data has been collected from 22 academics involved in teaching computer science,software engineering, engineering, and information systems courses at three Australianuniversities. The constructivist grounded theory methodology proposed by Charmaz 4 wasselected for this project. Accordingly, data collection and analysis are being

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Computers in Education (CoED) Engineering Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Priya T Goeser, Armstrong Atlantic State University; Wayne Johnson, Armstrong Atlantic State University; Shonda L Bernadin, Georgia Southern University; Delana A. Gajdosik-Nivens, Armstrong Atlantic State University

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Computers in Education

develop and debug programs by performingthe class exercises along with individual and group programming projects. Outcomes areassessed using completed class exercises and projects along with quizzes and exams. Feedbackfrom class exercises is immediate. Projects are assigned approximately every week and a half Page 23.1395.3and ideally returned within a week. This type of instruction requires students to be prepared forclass, hence encouraging student ownership and participation in their learning outcomes (a ASEE 2013 Annual Conferencemetacognitive approach 10). In addition, with the incorporation of

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Recruitment, Retention and First-year Programs in ECE

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John W Pritchard, Iowa State University; Mani Mina, Iowa State University

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Electrical and Computer

, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USAI. Introduction Students and hobbyists today are met with a plethora of electronics projects that can be easilycompleted with the wide variety of online resources and extensive documentation. Many of theseprojects include the use of high level embedded systems that serve as a “black box” for electroniccontrol of sensors, actuators, motors, wireless communication, and other complex systems [1-6].Recently, a trend has emerged in which these development platforms have become smaller, easier to use,open source, and affordable. This trend has enabled interesting projects that aim to introduce newtechnologies, inspire technological direction, provide capabilities to the underprivileged, and also

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Mentoring Minority Students

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carlotta A Berry, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Deborah Walter, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Minorities in Engineering

Research Center for 8 years. She worked on several technology development projects in the area of X-ray CT for medical and industrial imaging. She is a named inventor on 9 patents. She has been active in the recruitment and retention of women and minorities in engineering and currently PI for an NSF-STEM grant to improve diversity at Rose-Hulman. Page 23.1051.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 ROSE-BUD (Rose Building Undergraduate Diversity) MAPS (Mentoring and Professional Skills)AbstractThis paper will discuss a program developed in

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Trends in Engineering Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hanjun Xian, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Krishna Madhavan, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Educational Research and Methods

Paper ID #7562Studying Factors that Influence Scholar Retention in Engineering EducationResearchHanjun Xian, Purdue University, West Lafayette Hanjun Xian is a PhD candidate in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. He holds master’s and bachelor’s degrees in Computer Science and started to pursue his doctoral degree in engi- neering education in 2009. He is currently working as the student team leader with Dr. Madhavan on the Deep Insights Anytime, Anywhere (DIA2) project, where he develops data mining algorithms and visual- izations to allow interactive navigation of large-scale bibliographic data in

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Environmental engineering pedagogy and innovation

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder

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Environmental Engineering

-selected groups of two to three to solve a series of example problems. Thegraded activities for students remained the same as in previous semesters: homeworkassignments that were primarily quantitative; a team project related to remediation that requiredtwo written reports and two oral presentations based on a site risk assessment and a remedialdesign feasibility evaluation; and a midterm and final exam. Assessment methods used todetermine the effectiveness of the revised course model included: student logs showing videoresource use from the Blackboard software; student feedback on an informal in-class survey andthe final course evaluations; a comparison of student knowledge from the traditional class modeland inverted model based on performance

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FPD 4: First-Year Engineering Courses, Part I: Multimedia, Large Classes, and TAs

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian M Frank, Queen's University

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First-Year Programs

and is currently coordinating the Engineering Graduate Attribute Development Project, working with National Council of Deans of Engineering and Applied Science and the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board, to develop national guidelines and resources for outcomes assessment in engineering education. Page 23.1364.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Web-based audience response system for quality feedback in first year engineeringAbstractThe paper will describe the pilot of a commercial web-based audience response system toenhance

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Foaad Khosmood; Phillip Nico

system implementation offers a good balance between a project that canrealistically be done in a fraction of a college term, but also involve a wide variety of OSconcepts and algorithms. Common file system principles overlap with those of OS and evenbroader computing systems3. Of the five major topics in OS courses (Processes, Scheduling,Memory management, Synchronization and I/O systems) all are present to some degree in filesystem implementation. Two popular undergraduate textbooks, Tanenbaum & Woodhull4 andSilberschatz, et al.5, each dedicate several chapters to file systems. Recent OS courses at StanfordUniversity6 and University of California Berkeley7, dedicate, two weeks and one week to filesystems respectively.Perhaps the most

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Nadia Benakli; Satyanand Singh; Ashwin Satyanarayana; Arnavaz Taraporevala

discussions with some of the New York City College of Technologydepartment’s faculty, who were or are currently teaching programming courses, revealed manyproblems facing the faculty in teaching concepts of programming. One of the majorshortcomings of programming environments is the lack of visualization mechanisms [6]. Using3D animations for program visualization offers computer science instructors an approach tointroduce fundamental concepts to novice programmers [7].In this example we use a tool called Alice, which is a 3D Interactive Graphics ProgrammingEnvironment built by the Stage 3 Research Group at Carnegie Mellon University under thedirection of Randy Pausch. A goal of the Alice project is to make it easy for novices to developinteresting

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2013 EDI

Authors

Irving Pressley McPhail, NACME

between the AOEs and NACME Partner Institutions by increasing awareness about engineering careers and ensuring that AOE programs incorporate learning standards and content consistent with industry-recognized skills. Examples of opportunities for participation include:• Serve on Advisory Boards of the Academies of Engineering• Conduct presentations about engineering opportunities• Support a research or an engineering design project by giving advice and guidance to a team of students enrolled in an AOE• Provide an opportunity for students to shadow an engineer for a day• Provide summer internship and full-time job opportunities for NACME Scholars 19NACME STEM Integration

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2013 ERC

Authors

Lynn Preston

Projects & Gen-3 Partners Translational ResearchResources Existing Challenge Research Resources Basin Innovation Infrastructure Research at New Products Sold by Companies Universities Level of Development Genesis of chart from Deborah Jackson, ERC Program Director ERC Strategic Framework: Proposal #, PI Name, ERC