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Research to Practice: STRAND 4 K-12 Engineering Resources: Best Practices in Curriculum Design (Part 2)

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Siddika Selcen Guzey, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Tamara J Moore, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

year of the project, twenty STEMintegration units were developed and implemented by the project teachers. Each unit focused onone of the three science concepts (i.e. ecosystems, plate tectonics and erosion, and heat transferand particle theory), integrated data analysis and measurement for mathematics, included anengineering design challenge, and allowed students to develop technologies through completingthe engineering challenge or use technologies to solve the engineering challenge. Among those20 units, seven focused on life science (ecosystems), seven addressed earth science topics (platetectonics or erosion), and six focused on physical science (heat transfer or particle theory). Eachunit included 5-10 lesson plans. Table 1 shows an

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Instrumentation Division Technical Session 3

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mustafa G. Guvench, University of Southern Maine; Mao Ye, University of Southern Maine

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Instrumentation

trying the new LabView GUIbased version they did not use the older version, at all.Responses to a question asking whether they prefer to use the new “CIE-Bode” or not, 19 out of23 responded with 4 points out of 4, 2 responded with 3 points out of 4 and 2 did not return thequestionnaire. The new GUI based “CIE-Bode” will be the default automated test tool in allElectronics labs from now on. It will also be available to support Controls, Vibrations, andAcoustics courses and their laboratory experiments in the Engineering Department.After the publication of this paper the authors plan to make copies of the run time versionavailable to the public upon request

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Industrial Engineering Division Technical Session 1

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jane M. Fraser, Colorado State University, Pueblo

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Industrial Engineering

96% 85 96%Work methods, human factors, or 87 95% 80 90%ergonomicsSimulation 80 87% 79 89%Quality 79 86% 77 87%Senior design project 70 86% 83 93%Production planning and control 68 74% 67 75%Manufacturing processes 65 71% 51 57%Facilities, layout, material handling 60 65% 50 56%Introduction to industrial engineering 43

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies: Bring-Your-Own-Experiments 2

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jun Nogami, University of Toronto; Scott Ramsay, University of Toronto; Scott D Ramsay, University of Toronto

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

materials engineering classes with therefinements discussed above.Finally, the research group has begun evaluating long term retention. A small group of upperyear students volunteered to complete the Concept Inventory. Students currently in their fourthyear of engineering would not have completed this particular laboratory experiment; rather theywould have learned the concept of crystal structures with 2D materials from lecture slides andtextbooks, etc. Those in third and second year engineering would have completed thisexperiment. The research group plans to continue delivering the MCI to these students annuallyto gather whether completing this lab in first year engineering leads to increased conceptretention. As of now, the sample size is too

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Ocean and Marine Division Technical Session 1

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel Villalobos; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Madhumi Mitra Ph.D., University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Abbas H. Diab, University Of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Xavier Shastri Domnique Henry, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore

Tagged Divisions

Ocean and Marine

waypoints to collect data close to thecoordinates specified in the mission plan. The recorded total depth data was plotted over a GoogleEarth map of the pond using GPSvisualizer6 – a free online utility that creates maps and profilesfrom geographic data. The individual dots represent the data points recorded at each waypoint withthe legend indicating the corresponding depth. The lines connecting the data points have been leftto more easily distinguish the different data point colors. As this project is a work in progress,items such as the aforementioned pH sensor readings and PID controller settings are currentlybeing investigated. Page 26.334.87

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Two-year College Division: Authors Address Transfer Matters-Part I

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carl Whitesel, Mesa Community College; Adam R. Carberry, Arizona State University

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Two Year College Division

regard toconceptual knowledge of DC circuit analysis and this unique population of community collegestudents. This is a major gap that has been addressed by the present study, which confirms thesame relationship in this population.Bibliography1 Streveler, R., Litzinger, T. A., Miller, R. L., & Steif, P. S. (2008). Learning Conceptual Knowledge in the Engineering Sciences: Overview and Future Research Directions. Journal of Engineering Education, 97(3), 279-294.2 Jones, B. D., Paretti, M. C., Hein, S. F., & Knott, T. W. (2010). An Analysis of Motivation Constructs with First- Year Engineering Students: Relationships Among Expectancies, Values, Achievement, and Career Plans. Journal of

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Statics Online

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jamie Douglas, University of Wisconsin Colleges Online

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Mechanics

,” Journal of Interactive Online Learning, vol. 11:1, 2012. Page 26.373.86. Kolowich, S. “Exactly How Many Students Take Online Courses?” Chronicle of Higher Education Blogs, January 2014.7. Means, B., Toyama, Y., Murphy, R., Bakia, M., and Jones, K., Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning: A Meta-Analysis and Review of Online Learning Studies, U.S. Department of Education, Office of Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development, 2009. Page 26.373.9

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International Division Technical Session 2

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Inna Mikhailovna Gorodetskaya, Kazan National Research Technological University; Farida Tagirovna Shageeva, Kazan National Research Technological University; Elvira Valeeva, Kazan National Research Technological University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

International

impossiblewithout introspection and the ability to conceive of and to apply behavioral strategies thatsolve challenging issues. Thus added language communicative competence is not the solekey factor of a student’s academic mobility, but is instead an important determinant of cross-cultural interaction, during which time they will face a plurality of other demands. Academic mobility provides students with the freedom to plan independently aneducational trajectory that takes into account the contemporary professional demands that areplaced upon an engineer. This includes developing a set of personal characteristics, such asbeing hard-working, enthusiastic, devoted to the profession, self-actualized, relatable, honest,articulate, creative, capable of

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Civil Engineering Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James L. Hanson, California Polytechnic State University; Amro El Badawy; Katherine C. Chen, California Polytechnic State University; Nazli Yesiller

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Civil Engineering

, efficient, and abundant in pedagogical benefits. An aspect that can be improved infuture implementation of similar activities is to plan for an extra session in which students fromboth classes are provided time for a post-experience discussion with the guest instructor. Such a Page 26.426.9meeting would allow the instructor to provide comments and feedback on the overall experience    and answer any questions raised by the students. In addition, a portion of this extra session couldbe devoted to facilitating (through a third party) an assessment focus group. A second aspect forimprovement would be

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Continuing Professional Development Division Technical Session 4

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mitchell L Springer PMP, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Mark T Schuver, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Thomas J Brumm, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

movements.Implications of FairnessTo combat the many ills of being an adjunct faculty member, unionization has made a resurgencein institutions of higher education. Numerous articles of recent have focused on massunionization efforts of adjuncts, no more proliferate than in the northeast portion of the UnitedStates.In a recent article6, Sydni Dunn states: “…George Washington University’s part-time faculty union has made some real gains since it was formed in 2006: It negotiated a minimum payment of $3,500 per three-credit-hour course, secured a supplemental retirement plan and a medical leave of absence, and designated a small pool of money for adjuncts to pursue professional development… But what is “the top,” or the mark of a successful union? At

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2015 ASEE Workshop on K-12 Engineering Education

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Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno; David T Crowther, University of Nevada, Reno; Melissa Ann Jurkiewicz, University of Nevada

before. The presentation team will conclude the water wheel activity witha discussion of potential variations to the lesson. For example, a teacher could attach nominalcosts to each material and require each team to build a water wheel within a specific budget.The participants will receive a hard copy of the water wheel lesson plan aligned to the NextGeneration Science Standards and participants will be able to keep their own water wheel design.The practical application for teachers and outreach staff is that they will learn to implementengineering design in the classroom using effective science teaching pedagogies that align withthe Next Generation Science Standards. In addition, the workshop will provide teachers with ameans to foster the

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2015 ASEE Workshop on K-12 Engineering Education

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Larry G. Richards, University of Virginia

Generation Science Standards: Engineering Design (3 - 5 and Middle School) 3-5- Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success andETS1-1. constraints on materials, time, or cost. 3-5- Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meetETS1-2. the criteria and constraints of the problem. 3-5- Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identifyETS1-3. aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved. Define the criteria and constraints of a design problem with sufficient precision to ensure a successful MS- solution, taking into account

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2015 ASEE Workshop on K-12 Engineering Education

Authors

William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette

developed using common materials including duct tape, Post-It notes, paper, cardboard and other materials from the classroom. The power of using everyday materials and interactions with real people as design tools will be experienced by the participants who will be guided through activities that they would lead in their own classroom. Instructions, lesson plan and support materials will be given to the teacher participants as well as on-line access to the full EPICS K12 curriculum. Connecting engineering design and interacting with people to meet the needs of others can be an important tool in our arsenal to engage a more diverse student population into engineering. The HCD approach explicitly

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2015 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Sergey Gerasimov; Yury P Pokholkov

functions, to demonstrate skillsand competencies necessary to meet the requirements of potential consumers [7]. Theeducational program audit involves meetings of the evaluation team with academic institutionand faculty leaders, the faculty involved in the accredited program implementation,supporting staff, students, graduates, and potential employers. Interviews with students,graduates and potential employers seem to be of highest importance by evaluating theachieved program goals and learning outcomes including the ability to engage in continuousprofessional development. Evaluation team member can ask students and graduates thefollowing typical interview questions: - What do you mean in life-long learning? - What are your plans concerning

Conference Session

Concurrent Paper Tracks - Session I

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2015 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Zaida M Gracia, Texas Tech University; Allison Wright, Texas Tech University

Tagged Topics

International Forum

institutions. Part of their responsibilitiesinclude the program academic design, courses selection, overseeing and advising the students intheir research projects, selecting the research advisors and designing the assessment plan for theacademic aspects of the program.Staff teams from both universities will be responsible for all program logistics. Team memberswill be involved in the student selection, the coordination of all activities related to the program’scomponents, student travel, etc. The TTU team will coordinate the housing and meals for theUninorte students and faculty and will coordinate cultural activities or events together with theOffice of International Affairs staff at TTU. Airport pick-up and drop off will also be provided.Students

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Concurrent Paper Tracks - Session I

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2015 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Monica Gray P.E., The Lincoln University - College of Science & Technology; Constance Loretta Lundy

Tagged Topics

Diversity, International Forum

actually going abroad requires settingand achieving a set of goals. From planning when to study to applying for a passport, each stepprovides opportunities for students to set goals and get feedback on how well they are doing. Inself-efficacy theory, goal setting is an intervening or moderating process towards achieving self-directed learning.36 Students who perceive themselves as having low self-efficacy in engineering,will avoid engineering-related activities, employ minimal effort and will not persisit.34,37However, the process of leaving one’s country and surviving cultural differences in another,especially, if the student is the first in the family to do so, creates a deepened sense of belief inhis or her abilities. Goals therefore mediate an

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Concurrent Paper Tracks - Session I

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2015 ASEE International Forum

Authors

S. Zahra Atiq, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Xin Chen, Purdue University, West Lafayette; David Daniel Cox, Harvard University; Jennifer Deboer, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Topics

Diversity, International Forum

Page 19.23.7for the course in order to better understand these highly varied and sometimes counterintuitivebehaviors and performance. In addition, we will interview selected students to gather deeperinsights into student intentions, behaviors, and learning.The regularity with which students viewed DIY lab videos was approximately every 7 days,which is less frequent and more regular than the sporadic course access patterns that have beenobserved in other MOOCs. This may suggest that using the at-home kits requires greaterplanning or energy than solely online activities. For example, students may need to plan theirschedules around limited time they have at home with access to appropriate tools, or they mightbe spending time and effort to find

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Kenneth E. Dudeck; Joseph A. Ranalli

achieving planned student outcomes.The faculty of each course then prepares a Course Assessment Review report that usesMEGE data (both current and previous years) to critically reflect upon the results of anyprevious corrective actions or propose new changes to the instruction of the course for the Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova Universitynext offering. This is a small course specific CQI loop that is completed every semester,for every course offered in the GE program.The individual MEGE data for each course are then mapped into the entire program gridto see how the all the course specific student performance indicators meet the entireprogram outcomes. This is done at each campus/option location, and also

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Nisha Kondrath; Mark A. Jupina

projects instituted in this manner motivated the students to consider the big picture while designing the individual circuits, collaborating with their team members, and effectively contributing to peer-to-peer learning.III. Faculty Experiences & Challenges We believe that the active-learning approach implemented using the flipped-lab format shows promise in enabling the students to become better “self-starters,” so as to better motivate themselves and their fellow classmates to take a more active role in their education. Oddly enough, that is also the most challenging part of this experience. The lab modules had to be well planned and organized with clear expectations of individual responsibilities. Getting the students to

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Linda Laird; Ye Yang

ofintegrating creative thinking skills with cutting-edge technology.”12 Recent liberal arts graduatesalso have a higher unemployment and underemployment rate (60%) versus engineering (25%)or math and computing (35%)13 and as such, are a significant pool of potential talent. In this paper, we present the design, organization, and plans for an 18-month SwE-LAMaster’s Degree program, for academically talented domestic Liberal Arts graduates to increasethe number of highly skilled and talented software engineers in the workplace, especiallywomen. It is built on our existing MS in SwE and support services, with extensions andadaptations of various critical components including a mini-course (for recruiting), a summerbridge program, an on-going seminar

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Peter Mark Jansson; Amal Kabalan

experience was made by the department after Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova Universityreview by a faculty-led sub-committee (ECE Design Working group) of the department. Thisteam shared its findings and made recommendations to the entire faculty at one of its ABETcontinuous improvement planning retreats in 2014 to convert our written/oral communicationscourse into a class that still focused on these aspects of engineering communication but in thecontext of multiple, small design projects and assignments. The charge given to the coursedesigners was to assure that the students experienced: • Immersion in the design process, including iteration. • Introduction to functional decomposition (using real

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Stephen N. Kuchnicki

examination. This was intended as a benefit for the students in the course, reducing theknowledge base over which they needed to study. Even so, there is also a benefit to the instructor– with less material on each examination, the questions themselves can be more targeted to aspecific course outcome. Thus, mapping student responses to exam problems over to learningoutcomes for the course becomes an easier task. Further, the instructor is more able to respond togaps in knowledge exposed by early examinations and may plan to test outcomes with a weakerperformance more frequently. The instructor is also able to reallocate class time, if necessary, inresponse to weaker performances seen on course outcomes.ConclusionsThis paper has discussed three

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Colin Neill; Joanna DeFranco; Amanda Neill

”. Various lesson plans [be] made available [to] that tutor…(so he) could best choosefrom that ….. tailored toward the course material…”Based on a qualitative analysis of these student interviews the following changes were made to thepeer tutoring model for the summer section of the same course: 1. Changed name of “peer tutor” to “keystone” in all course documentation. 2. Added more explicit instructions for the Keystone in the syllabus to describe the role, benefits, and activities of the keystone as well as describe the guidance that is available from the instructor. 3. Created “learning (or technical) notes” that will be shared by the instructor with the keystone at the beginning of each week. 4. Created an additional

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2015 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Michael Geselowitz; John Vardalas

different historical contexts.Rather than require students to write the standard history term paper, we assigned a term projectto study the relationship of design to performance in ancient naval vessels in the Aegean. Thestudents were challenged to make connections between their hands-on experiences and the largerhistorical and geographic contexts. In other words, interdisciplinary, experiential learning wasapplied not to the technical component of engineering education, but to the societal contextcomponent. The preliminary results were encouraging. Plans are underway to adjust and re-offer the course, and to disseminate it more broadly.KeywordsHistory, society, laboratory, engineering, educationBackgroundAs the authors have discussed previously1

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2015 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Matthew Stein

that can benefit students significantly when introduced in the sophomore year. Allof the conjectural results described in the first section were confirmed by direct survey. The authorconcludes that the inclusion of SolidWorks not only improves the teaching of Dynamics, butstrengthens the entire engineering program by equipping students with the tools for lifelonglearning early in their career. 8 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conference We plan on continuing this use of SolidWorks in the Dynamics course and may expand itsapplication to other

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

Authors

Cory Mettler; Nathan Ziegler

implement will reduce the amount of material that can be covered.A study was performed to investigate the effects of implementing three easy to perform, easy toprepare active teaching methods. Initially, four outcomes were analyzed in this study, including: 1. Time spent on lesson planning will not increase by a significant amount. 2. The amount of course material covered will not decrease. 3. Student mastery of the course material will increase. 4. Student enthusiasm for course material will be greater during Active Teaching classes.The first part of this study, performed in Spring 2014, demonstrated that no significant increasein effort was required to prepare lectures that included these methods5; this included preparinglectures

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

Authors

Daniel Bullock; Edward Carl Greco; Jim D. Reasoner

student operation, robust, portable, and economically viable. In thispaper we describe the details of integration of our system into an existing introductory DCElectric circuits course and additionally, details of the planned study including implementationand assessment are discussed.KeywordsActive learning, DC Circuit Analysis, Portable Lab, Kinesthetic LearningIntroductionAt Arkansas Tech University (ATU) Electric Circuits 1 is an introductory engineering coursethat teaches students electrical concepts utilizing direct-current (DC) circuit analysis and basicelectrical devices. This course is designed to provide a foundation for a sequence of courses inalternating current (AC) circuits, electronics, electrical machines, and engineering design

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

Authors

Arash Jahandideh; Samaeh Aminikhangahi; Ali Salehnia; Kasiviswanathan Muthukumarappan

dynamic programming wasdeveloped and implemented to assess the sustainability of a project and possible pathway toreach certain product. The generalized algorithm proposed in the present study enables allindustries to model and carry out LCA analysis of their products in both economic andenvironmental aspect. The authors plan to add social analysis part to current model and alsovalidate the model using real world data.References[1] G. Finnveden, M. Z. Hauschild, T. Ekvall, J. Guinée, R. Heijungs, S. Hellweg, A. Koehler, D. Pennington, and S. Suh, “Recent developments in Life Cycle Assessment.,” J. Environ. Manage., vol. 91, no. 1, pp. 1–21, Oct. 2009.[2] W. Kloepffer, “Life cycle sustainability assessment of products,” Int. J

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

Authors

Sara E. Wilson

defense. The Bioengineering PhD program at the University of Kansasthe qualifying exam requires a student to examine a peer-reviewed publication and present thatresearch and its limitations both written and orally. The comprehensive exam requires thestudent to prepare their research plan as a proposal (following the model of an NIH grantproposal) and defend that proposal in an oral presentation to their dissertation committee.Additional stages of assessment are during entrance to the program (measuring preparation), atregular (annual) student progress reviews, and after graduation from the program. Measures thatare assessed through this process include:Entrance – Assessing preparation for graduate research Undergraduate GPA

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

Authors

Steve E. Watkins

Science and Technology includes two sessions on professional ethics. The firstsession is a formal overview of ethics as related to engineering work and it is focused on appliedethics as part of a profession. Example case studies related to electrical and computerengineering and general profession life are included. Selected slides from the introduction andsummary of the “Engineering Ethics” presentation is given in Appendix B in Figure 2. Thesecond session is a presentation of case studies for teams of students to analyze. This assignmentis tracked as part the department’s ABET assessment plan that is related to student outcome (f)“an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility [1].”The objectives of the ethics seminar presentation