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International Division Technical Session 4

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Qunqun Liu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Jiabin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Bo Yang

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International

undergraduate students from an international joint program in China. Preliminaryresults suggest that diverse factors as related with the international teaching and learningenvironment are closely associated with students’ epistemic thinking. Future studies areproposed to explore other potential factors within international collaborative programs thatare associated with engineering students’ epistemic thinking.IntroductionInternational collaboration has become a global trend. To facilitate global education andresearch collaboration, Chinese universities have launched multiple internationalcollaborative initiatives in the higher education system, especially in the realm of engineeringeducation [1, 2, 3].International collaboration in engineering

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Communication as Performance

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John W. Brocato, Mississippi State University; Amy Barton, Mississippi State University; Kelly Agee, Mississippi State University; Ed Dechert, Mississippi State University; Greg Carlisle, Morehead State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

cause of this engagement problem is not complicated; public speaking has been a top fear ofpeople in the United States for years, often anecdotally but also in a more documented sense,most recently in Chapman University’s “Survey on American Fears,” where public speakingplaced fifth (9.1%) just behind “Being [a] victim of mass/random shooting” (also 9.1%)1.Another persistent problem is lack of experience. As much as any other ability, effective publicspeaking requires repeated practice at delivering talks before audiences and, more importantly,reflection after a talk on what went poorly and the willingness to do it again, better. Assessingthe presentation experiences of, e.g., the general public or U.S. college students is beyond thescope of

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Enviromental Engineering Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephanie Butler Velegol, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Environmental Engineering

value in the course material.During the first week of an Introduction to Environmental Engineering class, students are askedto imagine themselves in one of three real-life engineering scenarios: 1. As an engineer in thePeace Corp who is asked to provide a treatment process for “turbid water that is making peoplesick” in the developing world. 2. As an engineer asked to design a process to removecontaminants from groundwater in Toms River, NJ. 3. As an engineer designing a statementbefore a board to defend a switch from coal to natural gas as a fuel source. First students areasked individually to write down all the questions they would need to ask before they designtheir process (and to whom they would ask them). Then they are asked to share

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Division Experimentation & Lab-oriented Studies: Electrical and Computer Engineering Labs

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ning Wang, University of Houston; Siu Chun Michael Ho, University of Houston; Qianlong Lan, Texas Southern University; Xuemin Chen, Texas Southern University; Gangbing Song, University of Houston (CoE); Hamid R. Parsaei, Texas A&M University at Qatar

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

chenxm@tsu.edu Gangbing Song Dept. of Mechanical Engineering University of Houston Houston, TX 77004 gsong@uh.edu Hamid Parsaei Department of Mechanical Engineering Texas A&M University at Qatar Doha, Qatar hamid.parsaei@qatar.tamu.edu Page 26.487.2 Proceedings of the 2015 ASEE North Central Section Conference 1 Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering EducationABSTRACTIn

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Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 4

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Benneyan, Northeastern University; Corey Balint, Healthcare Systems Engineering Institute at Northeastern University

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Systems Engineering

Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) in Healthcare Although ISyE was lauded in the 2014 PCAST report, engineers worked for many decades to improve the healthcare system and establish a long term partnership with healthcare providers. In the 1980’s Donald Berwick, former President and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), espoused that continuous improvement is a necessary solution to the ongoing problems in healthcare 2. During that decade, healthcare professionals observed an increasing amount of inefficiencies in the system which reinforced complexity and contributed to increasing costs. Two methods of improvement dominated the healthcare industry: 1) inspection and correction of problems and 2) continuous improvement

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Computer-Based Tests, Problems, and Other Instructional Materials

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kurt C. Gramoll, University of Oklahoma

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Diversity

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Computers in Education

access to standard apps like email, app stores, social networks, and evenbrowsers. The apps were developed using Abobe AIR development framework due to itsrelatively easy development of web and mobile apps when compared to native programming orHTML5 with JavaScript. AIR also avoids programming the same app three times (web browsers,Android and iOS). The successful results (and lessons learned) using tablets for in-class testingfor multiple engineering courses are presented.1. Introduction and PurposeWhile class size for core engineering classes at many universities and colleges may not be ashigh as the infamous freshman physics or chemistry of 300 or more students, they are generallyless than optimal and continue to increase as the demand for

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Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 3

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bungo Shiotani, University of Florida; Dante Augustus Buckley, University of Florida; Amy Elizabeth Bumbaco, University of Florida; Norman G. Fitz-Coy, University of Florida

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Systems Engineering

careers. Dante is a consultant (former research assistant) for the Space Systems Group (SSG), a graduate research team advised by Professor Norman Fitz-Coy in the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering. SSG designed and developed a cube satellite mission known as SwampSat, which launched in 2013. SwampSat is a CubeSat for on-orbit demonstration of a compact three-axis attitude control system de- veloped at UF geared to affect rapid retargeting and precision pointing (R2P2) of pico-class (1 kg) and nano-class (<10 kg) spacecraft. Through Dante’s leadership, SSDC won the Annual Florida University Nano-SATellite (FUNSAT) design competition sponsored by the Florida Space Grant Consortium and Space

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Measuring the Impact of Community Engagement on Students

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gregory Warren Bucks, University of Cincinnati; Kathleen A. Ossman, University of Cincinnati; Tony James Bailey; Leigh Anna Folger, University of Cincinnati; Rachel Schwind, Mechanical Engineering, University of Cincinnati; Gabrielle Anne Notorgiacomo, University of Cincinnati Honors Program; Jacob Daniel Wells

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

past several decades has been therecruitment and retention of students, particularly minority and female students 1-3. As a result,many programs have been developed over the years to attract female and minority students toSTEM disciplines. These programs range from programs at the college level to provideacademic and social support, often associated with the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) andthe National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), to high school, middle school, and elementaryschool initiatives designed to excite women and minorities about engineering when they are firstforming their ideas about their futures.However, once students from these populations have been recruited, efforts must be made toretain them within engineering. One

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Program Development & Desired Outcomes

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Pritpal Singh, Villanova University; Maria Virginia Moncada

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Sustainable Vision grant from the NationalCollegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA, now Venture Well) to develop andimplement a tele-health system in the region around Waslala to improve access to quality healthcare for the members of the communities in that region. A system was developed andimplemented and details of the project can be found in references [1] and [2]. One of thebyproducts of this project was the development of a partnership with the National EngineeringUniversity (Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria – UNI) in Managua, Nicaragua, the largest andmost prominent engineering school in Nicaragua.It was recognized that there are many needs in the rural communities in Nicaragua and aproposal was written to NCIIA (Venture Well) for

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Topics in Computing and Information Technologies I

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeffrey Erin Cole, Acute Systems, LLC; Walter E Thain, Southern Polytechnic College of Engr and Engr Tech; Thomas Fallon, Southern Polytechnic College of Engr and Engr Tech

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Computing & Information Technology

finding lower-cost routers with the capability of running it can bechallenging. Cisco’s integrated services or multiservice routers are designed for branch officeapplications and some support IOS images with MPLS capability.Generally, MPLS first became available for certain 3600- and 2800- series branch routersstarting with IOS version 12.4(1). These routers are now obsolete though the 2800 is stillsupported into 2016. Presently Cisco’s branch router product line has moved to 3900-, and 2900-series. Determining an appropriate combination of platform and IOS feature set can be done bycontacting Cisco representatives or by using the online Cisco Feature Navigator8. The navigatorpermits searching by combinations of router platform, image release

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Mathematics Division Technical Session 3

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eliud Quintero, Tecnologico de Monterrey (ITESM); Patricia Salinas, Tecnologico de Monterrey (ITESM)

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Diversity

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Mathematics

de Monterrey. Edu- cational researcher with interest in the integration of technology for the learning of Mathematics. With a Bachelors Degree in Mathematics and 2 Masters Degrees, in Education with Mathematics Specializa- tion. PhD in Mathematics Education since 2011. Member of the National System of Researchers SNI 1, CONACYT, M´exico. Co-author of several textbooks for the teaching and learning of Calculus. Page 26.1556.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 The linear motion as a scenario for addressing relations between a function

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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Jennifer Vernengo, Rowan University; Thomas L. Merrill, Rowan University; Mary Staehle, Rowan University; Jennifer Kadlowec, Rowan University; Johannes Strobel, Texas A&M University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015Organ-izing the Curriculum: enhancing knowledge, attitudes and interests in engineering with biomedical course modules Page 26.1210.2INTRODUCTIONThe relatively new discipline of biomedical engineering emerged from informal collaborationsbetween engineers, physicians and life scientists, and is the fastest growing engineering disci-pline at most universities.[1] As a result of the aging population and a growing focus on healthissues which increases the demand for better medical equipment, devices, and pharmaceuticalproducts, the biomedical engineering industry has demonstrated explosive growth in recentyears

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Materials Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig Johnson P.E., Central Washington University; Charles Pringle, Central Washington University

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Materials

. Surveys were directed at student motivation and participation.Introduction:Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) typically refers to the analysis of the life cycle of a material, orsometimes a product. One definition found in Wikipedia is “a technique to assess environmentalimpacts associated with all the stages of a product's life from cradle to grave (i.e., from rawmaterial extraction through materials processing, manufacture, distribution, use, repair andmaintenance, and disposal or recycling)1.” Another definition from the EnvironmentalProtection Agency is quite similar, “…a ‘cradle to grave’ approach for assessing industrialsystems2.” But what about issues that pertaining to entire systems, and their associated failure,due to the lack of relevant scope

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Research & Evaluation on K-12 Teachers and Teaching.

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sarah Marie Coppola, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach; Leonardo Andres Madariaga, Tufts University Center for Engineering Education and Outreach / Federico Santa Maria Technical University; Marya H. Schnedeker, Center for Engineering Education and Outreach, Tufts University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Engineering Education, 2015 The Assessing Teachers’ Experiences with STEM and Perceived Barriers to Teaching Engineering (RTP-1)AbstractThe next generation science standards (NGSS) call for all K-12 students to participate inengineering experiences. This will be a new subject area for many schools in the U.S. Teachersreceive training to teach science and math, but most elementary and middle school teachers havenot received engineering or technology education training. As the push for incorporating moreSTEM into K-12 increases, it is important to understand teachers’ attitudes and experiencesrelated to engineering and STEM at the K-12 level. The Novel Engineering Project (formerlyIntegrating Engineering and Literacy Project

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Technical Session: Pedagogical Strategies and Classroom Techniques for Teaching Assistants

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jaclyn K. Murray, University of Georgia; Barbara Ann Crawford

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Student

1 illustrates the investigation embeddedwithin the conceptual framework. Developing a community of practice can be an effectivemeans for helping new teachers learn to teach. “Communities of practice are groups of peoplewho share a concern, a set of problems, or a passion about a topic, and who deepen theirknowledge and expertise in the area by interacting on an ongoing basis” (p. 5).2 The biomedicalengineering fellows were interested in learning about and educating students with reform-basedinstructional practices. It is anticipated that fellows work together with faculty and mentorteachers as a community to develop a shared knowledge about the practice of teaching science inpreparation for future careers as tenured faculty members at the

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Research on Design Learning

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Wegner, University of Michigan College of Engineering; Stefan M Turcic II, University of Michigan; Gail Hohner, University of Michigan

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

, Page 26.1066.2and underrepresented minority status. The results are being utilized to strengthen how we teachengineering design and enhance engineering pedagogy for others.IntroductionContextThe Multidisciplinary Design Program (MDP) provides students from across the University ofMichigan an opportunity to develop and refine their engineering skills by working on significant,open ended, team-based engineering design. The program’s educational goals are to producestudents (1) possessing deep technical skills and the ability to be systems thinkers; (2) capableand skilled in bringing creativity and innovation to design and problem-solving; (3) who areindependent learners, able to reinvest themselves throughout their careers; and (4) who

Conference Session

Faculty Development I

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martha Cleveland-Innes, Athabasca University; Stefan Stenbom, KTH Royal Institute of Technology; Stefan Hrastinski, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

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Educational Research and Methods

. Page 26.764.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Faculty change in engineering education:A case study of teaching faculty about blended and online learning Page 26.764.2AbstractThis paper reports results from a case study of teaching development in engineering education atKTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, in answer to the research question“what impact, if any, does participation in a blended course about teaching in blended face-to-face and online formats have on faculty views about teaching in engineering education?” Earlyresults indicate that 1) faculty can assess the value of online and blended

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Engineering Management Division Technical Session 5

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Samuel A. Malachowsky, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Engineering Management

practical and pedagogical benefits.1. IntroductionProcess is a major focus of software engineering and its curriculum;13, 18 because of this, projectmanagement has been included as a required topic of study in many of these programs.24 Whileproject management principles and practices are frequently a part of these classes,6, 11, 14, 21 manydo not include the opportunity to participate as a project manager (PM) or as a member of a PM-led team.12 It is important to include the hands-on leadership and planning elements that makeproject management a discipline rather than simply conveying a collection of relatedmethodologies.8 In many cases, the disciplines involved in project management itself has fallento the instructors; this is often carried out

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First-year Programs Division Technical Session 10: Paying Attention to Retention

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeff Johnson, LeTourneau University; Alan D. Niemi, LeTourneau University

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First-Year Programs

-Year Attrition Survey: Why Do They Say They Are Still Leaving?1.0 AbstractMany retention programs measure success through the basic metrics of 1-, 2- and 3- yearretention rates and/or 6 year graduation rates. When these numbers are increasing we can inferthat the retention initiatives are successful. Further study of this retained population throughsurveys and focus groups can yield additional insight into the reasons behind student persistence.But, what if we changed our perspective and instead examined the inverse population? Whatvaluable insight can be gained by looking at the reasons behind why some still leave STEMprograms? More specifically, are there predominant factors still underlying the loss of studentsfrom an engineering program

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Engineering Management Division Technical Session 2

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul J. Kauffmann P.E., East Carolina University; John Vail Farr P.E., West Point; Elizabeth W Schott, USMA, Department of Systems Engineering; David A. Wyrick PE, PEM, American Society for Engineering Management

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Diversity

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Engineering Management

the courses within the department, in general wereable to claim higher ET hours than those where the less technical topics were taught outside thedepartment.IntroductionBased on a range of influences such as the globalization of the manufacturing base, outsourcing ofmany technical services, efficiencies derived from advances in information technology (and thesubsequent decrease in mid-management positions), and the shifting of the economy to a service-based orientation, technical organizations and engineering in general are experiencing a significantchange in overall career characteristics and expectations. The nature of this change can be seen inthis description of what a 21st century technical organization must be concerned with:1 (1

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Research to Practice: STRAND 2- Engineering Across the Curriculum: Integration with the Arts, Social Studies, Science, and the Common Core

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Glenn W Ellis, Smith College; Al Rudnitsky, Smith College; Beth McGinnis-Cavanaugh, Springfield Technical Community College; Isabel Huff, Springfield Technical Community College; Sonia K Ellis, Smith College

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Diversity

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

adventure; and pathways for integrating the online and offline curricula. Figure 1: The Through My Window homepage (left) shows options for reading the Talk to Me novel, engaging in learning adventures and other options. The Team Through My Window homepage (right) shows options for learning about the project and accessing educator resources.III. Imaginative Education Engaging the imagination is not a sugar-coated adjunct to learning; it is the very heart of learning. It is what brings meaning and sense and context and understanding to the knowledge we wish to teach. --Kieran Egan, An Imaginative Approach to Teaching4The learning sciences place great emphasis on developing

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Entrepreneurship Education in New Contexts

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald S Harichandran P.E., University of New Haven; Maria-Isabel Carnasciali, University of New Haven; Nadiye O. Erdil, University of New Haven; Cheryl Q Li, University of New Haven; Jean Nocito-Gobel, University of New Haven; Samuel D. Daniels, University of New Haven

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

the 18 modules; some will complete all 18modules.Introduction Engineering graduates who will be leaders in today’s rapidly changing environment mustpossess an entrepreneurial mindset and a variety of professional skills in addition to technicalknowledge and skills. Efforts at developing technical communication, project management, andteamwork skills have been underway at many institutions over the last decade. A newer initiativeis the development of entrepreneurial thinking skills.1-3 At its core, entrepreneurial thinkingrequires: (1) insatiable curiosity to investigate a rapidly changing world; (2) the ability toinnovate by make connections between different streams of information; and (3) to create valuefor others. Entrepreneurial

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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Robin Adams, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Molly H Goldstein, Purdue University, West Lafayette; K. Anna Douglas, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

used in classrooms should (1) allow and emphasize trade-offanalysis and include time and resources for experimenting and data gathering; (2) provideinstructional scaffolding and formative feedback to guide student design.IntroductionOur understanding of what K-12 students learn from engineering design is limited (Katehi,Pearson, & Feder, 2009). Many K-12 engineering education projects lack data that can providereliable evidence of student learning process or inform learning progressions (Svihla &Petrosino, 2008; NRC, 2010). One challenge is that engineering design is a complex cognitiveprocess in which students learn and apply science concepts to solve open-ended problems withconstraints to meet specified criteria.The complexity, open

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Design and Research in BME

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Breanne Przestrzelski, Clemson University; John D. DesJardins, Clemson University

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Biomedical

: (1) a clinical needs-finding immersion rotation to enhance studentengagement with clinical mentors and to develop in-depth clinical needs assessments for futuredesign teams in collaboration with GHS and (2) a technology transfer office internship to enablestudents to critically evaluate key business elements of these clinical needs and to accelerate theunderstanding of technology-transfer processes in the marketplace in collaboration with theClemson University Research Foundation (CURF).This program was directed by the author (JD), a mechanical/biomedical engineer and associateprofessor who directs the university’s Bioengineering Senior Design Program. Additional

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ECCD International Outreach

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rim Razzouk, Arizona State University; Anshuman Razdan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Ambika Prasad Adhikari, Arizona State University

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Diversity

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

, selected from different institutions, attended the trainingworkshops. They engaged in a 10 day long program that comprised an array of training moduleson basic and advanced technical topics (e.g., installation of solar PV system), hands-on exercises,non-technical (e.g., gender inclusion), and educational games to reinforce specific conceptstaught in the training. The process of curriculum development was based on specific set oflearning objectives, which motivated the development of the assessments. A framework based onKirkpatrick’s evaluation model was used for the assessment and evaluation of the trainingintervention. This framework consists of four different focus areas: 1) reaction assessment:measures the participants’ perception of and

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Innovation in Engineering Leadership Education

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jay B. Brockman, University of Notre Dame; Victoria E. Goodrich, University of Notre Dame; Gary Allen Gilot P.E., University of Notre Dame

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Engineering Leadership Development Division

toward a master skill level of leadership. Offered as fee-based two-day workshops held on campus, these programs include networking with students in the undergraduate executive leadership program, and also help financially support the undergraduate offerings.Outcomes over the first two years of this program include enhancements to existing coursesreaching over 500 students, undergraduate executive education programs with over 50 students,and continuing education for alumni and others with over 15 students.IntroductionThe National Academy of Engineering identified solving “complex social issues” that areunsolvable with technology alone as a grand challenge for the 21st century.[1] The changing roleof the modern engineering

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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chelsea Mann, Arizona State University; Kristen Parrish, Arizona State University; Mikhail Chester, Arizona State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Vertical IntegrationSustainability has been proven to be a significant need for the civil and construction engineeringand management (CCEM) industries. The concept of sustainability, however, is not commonlytaught in the undergraduate curriculum; it is generally covered and taught in graduate-levelcourses. Though undergraduate students may have an interest in sustainability, their exposure toit comes later in their educational curriculum. In this Transforming Undergraduate Education inSTEM (TUES) project, the researchers develop a problem-based learning framework that (1)introduces sustainability earlier in the undergraduate curriculum, and (2) provides an opportunityfor vertical integration across courses within CCEM curriculum. The goal of

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Communication in the Chemical Engineering Curriculum

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adrienne Minerick, Michigan Technological University

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Chemical Engineering

negatively impacts the finalproficiency of all students in the course. However, facilitating content and study environmentsthat enable students to practice formulating the equations to represent the physics and to relearnmath techniques outside of class has increased (anecdotal observation from a sample size of 15-20 students per year for >3 years) the proficiency and success of weaker students. The prevalence of cheating has been found to be as high as 80% with a higher percentageof students who cheat on assignments [1, 2]. After assigning and grading homework in the firstyear of this Advanced Transport Phenomena course, it became apparent that most students couldonly complete homework with the solutions manual open as a guide. Education

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Manufacturing Materials and Processes

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ergin Erdem, Robert Morris University; Arif Sirinterlikci, Robert Morris University

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Manufacturing

been chosen as the teaching medium. Three main aspects of theteaching methods include: 1) In-class teaching of lecture material (i.e., casting processes) 2)Hands-on sand casting laboratory where students are engaged in conducting and assisting invarious steps of sand casting process (i.e., premixing, mold preparation, actual casting process,trimming sprues, runners, gates etc.) 3) Numerical and graphical analysis of the casting processthrough simulation. The integrated methodology would be comprised of classroom and labactivities, in which two sessions are conducted in the classroom environment, and one session isconducted in the casting lab. The first classroom lecture incorporates describing the variousaspects of the casting processes such

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Computers in Education Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amber Shanice Solomon, Clemson University; Sekou L Remy, Clemson University

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Computers in Education

to itspotential to support learning. In this work we present cases that highlight how the CloudComputing framework, including PaaS, IaaS, and web technologies were used to directly supportlearning objectives in five courses.1. IntroductionAccording to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Cloud Computing is,“a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurablecomputing resources.” These resources are designed to be managed quickly and easily withminimal effort by either the provider or by the user. Such an approach to computing is broadly ofinterest, but while the potential application in education is exciting, it does provide some causefor concern. If change is implemented