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Two-Year College Special Topics Potpourri

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jianping Yue, Essex County College

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Two Year College Division

place inthe Center for Technology in the Summer I term of 2008, which lasted from April 30 to June 18.Participants in the SBP included 35 students, 5 faculty, and 2 tutors (Figure 2). Every studenttook two developmental courses: one math course (either MTH092 Elementary Algebra orMTH100 Introductory College Mathematics depending on his/her placement or prerequisite) andone technology course (either CSC100 Fundamentals of Computer Science or ENR100Introduction to Engineering Technologies and Science depending on his/her discipline).Engineering related majors were placed into ENR100, and other STEM majors were assigned toCSC100. In both CSC100 and ENR100 classes, students learned about career opportunities, hadhands-on laboratory projects, and

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Incorporating Innovative Technologies into the Curriculum

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joseph Chen, Iowa State University; Ye Li, Bradley University

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Manufacturing

. For example in Figure 3, sub-prioritized target forknowledge’s was done as (5*7+4*3+4*7+4*5+4*7+3*7+2*7) and the final prioritizedtarget value 116 was obtained as (50%*158+25%*115+25%*33)The top 7 prioritized targets for external customers are:  Modifying curriculum with lean and six-sigma concepts.  More case studies and projects related to real-world.  Having more team projects in the class.  More real world experience for faculty.  More hands on lab work with increased utilization of equipment in course work.  Course related seminars by specialists.  Using consistent softwares between courses.House of quality for Internal Customers:Similarly the same procedure is applied to construct the HOQ for internal

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Communication: From Pecha Kucha to Bullets

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

period, theshape of the mark is less important than its size or characteristic position in the text. Bullets areunderstood as a device to attract the attention of readers and as a complement to white space inmaking text easier for readers to understand.A Confluence of Forces 1984-1986: The ―Birth‖ of Presentation SoftwareThe proposals of Robert Gaskins (1984 and 1986), as described above, provide a rich account ofthe context in which and the confluence of factors that gave rise to PowerPoint.xi,xii The first ofthese, dated August 14, 1984, printed on a dot matrix printer, and titled ―Sample ProductProposal: Presentation Graphics for Overhead Projection,‖ is a two page document that begins asa hierarchical topic outline but also consists of two

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Attracting Young Minds: Part II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Velda V. Morris, School District of Philadelphia; Rebecca A. Stein, University of Pennsylvania; James F. Keller, University of Pennsylvania; Vijay Kumar, University of Pennsylvania

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Minorities in Engineering

engaging, hands-on educational opportunities proven to enhance learning in STEM. Velda was appointed as the nation’s first African American Boosting Engineering Science and Technology (BEST) Hub Director. She was elected onto the BEST Robotics Board of Directors, in recognition of her expertise and sincere interest in the objectives of the organization; she is the District 6 representative for east coast Hubs now in Connecticut and Pennsylvania. She’s the Co-Director of the Philadelphia FIRST LEGO League (FLL) Championship, on the leadership team of the Pennsylvania Girls Collaborative Project, Pennsylvania STEM Compact, and became one of the first African American elected officers of the Society Manufacturing

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Tricks of the Trade in Teaching I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brock E. Barry, U.S. Military Academy; Maj Jonathan Bodenhamer, U.S. Military Academy, Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering; James J O'Brien Jr., American Society of Civil Engineers

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New Engineering Educators

, 2005a, 2005b; Zoricet al., 2007). Some nonverbal behaviors are learned (Zoric et al., 2007), such as a wink; whileothers are innate, such as a blush. As an educator, looking for a student’s nonverbal cues, it isimportant to realize that unconscious actions and reactions are often the manifestation of astatement that a student feels uncomfortable otherwise expressing.A discussion of nonverbal cues must include recognition of the influence of culture and genderon both the sender and the recipient. These variables are embedded in both the bias used ininterpretations made by an instructor in the classroom and in the outward projection of thestudent. That is, as an instructor, our perspective on the interpretation of observed bodylanguage could be

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Female Faculty, Learning, NSF, and ABET Issues at Two-Year Colleges

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David A. Koonce, Ohio University; Cynthia D. Anderson, Ohio University; Valerie Martin Conley, Ohio University; Christine Mattley, Ohio University

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Two Year College Division

AC 2011-788: SATISFACTION OF FEMALE FACULTY AT TWO-YEARSCHOOLSDavid A. Koonce, Ohio UniversityCynthia D. Anderson, Ohio University Cynthia Anderson is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Graduate Studies at Ohio Uni- versity. In addition to research on community college faculty, Dr. Anderson has published research on inequality, labor markets, rural communities, and gender.Valerie Martin Conley, Ohio University Valerie Martin Conley is director of the Center for Higher Education, associate professor, and coordinator of the Higher Education and Student Affairs program at Ohio University. She is the PI for the NSF funded research project: Academic Career Success in Science and Engineering-Related

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Recruitment & Retention of Women II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary R. Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University; Armando A. Rodriguez, Arizona State University; Anita Grierson, Arizona State University

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Women in Engineering

tomake contact with a community college student. For these non- metropolitan communitycolleges, representatives from a university had not visited their campus previously. Although thetravel time to four of the five schools is over three hours each way, the PI, co-PI, and ProgramDirector on the METSTEP project feel that the time is well spent. We learned early that justhaving a meeting and expecting students or students and their parents to come, does not workwell. The most effective and efficient use of time is to talk to the captive audience in aclassroom.There are two aspects of these visits. First, administrators at the community college need to getthe permission of instructors to give up class time and to make a schedule that is efficient

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Learning Outside the Classroom

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brian A. Burt, University of Michigan; Donald D. Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University; Cynthia J. Finelli, University of Michigan; Trevor Scott Harding, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Janel A. Sutkus, Carnegie Mellon University; Matthew Holsapple, University of Michigan; Robert M. Bielby, University of Michigan; Eunjong Ra, University of Michigan

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Educational Research and Methods

the Center of Teaching & Learning at Lawrence Tech where he was responsible for conducting faculty development programs. In addition, Dr. Carpenter actively conducts educational and pedagogical research on teamwork, leadership, and ethical development and is Kern Fellow for En- trepreneurial Education.Cynthia J. Finelli, University of Michigan Dr. Cynthia Finelli, Ph.D., is Director of the Center for Research and Learning in Engineering and re- search associate professor in the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan. In addition, she actively pursues research in engineering education and assists other faculty in their scholarly projects. She is past Chair of the Educational Research and Methods

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IE Technical Session II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Phillip R. Rosenkrantz, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

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Industrial Engineering

project preparation course, and a capstone course in quality. The results also havemajor implications for lifelong learning for engineers and are compatible with the teachings ofothers such as Taylor, Deming, Senge, and a study by Ernst & Young.The objectives of this paper are to:1. Share executive survey results and findings2. Demonstrate that the spectrum of leadership can be modeled by Hayes’ ―Six Stages of Quality System Implementation‖ and parallel versions of it3. Demonstrate how the Six Stages of Quality System Implementation were used to redesign courses in the industrial and manufacturing engineering curriculum to strategically integrate lean, six sigma, statistical quality control, and quality tools.4. Show that there is

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Design Education II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ronald J. Bennett, Univeristy of Saint Thomas; Elaine R. Millam, Univeristy of Saint Thomas

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Manufacturing

traditionalmanufacturing people when they entered the graduate program. As they learned about theimportance of people in the manufacturing organization, they have grown into leaders who arechanging the way manufacturing is viewed. Several examples stand out. [Note: interviews weredone under a research project covered by the University of St. Thomas Institutional ReviewBoard. In accordance with the agreement, anonymity has been maintained by using pseudonymsfor alumni. The industries represented and stories are factual.]As a student in our Master of Manufacturing Systems Engineering program, Alumnus NateKeyes was then an engineer at a company that manufactured ammunition. He is now Presidentof a company that manufactures high end machine tools and is changing the

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Information Literacy Programs for First-Year Engineering Students

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Melissa Bowles-Terry, University of Wyoming; Larry Schmidt, University of Wyoming

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Engineering Libraries

, conduct a search on literature . . .present a written evaluation of your sources’ validity . . . , prepare a written report on yourfindings.”8 For the past five years we have held sessions for engineering freshmen taking the ES1000 class. Library instruction sessions began as simple introductions to the library resourcesand initially were presentation-oriented. As the ES 1000 class developed and the researchquestions and projects became more involved, we began to develop more “hands-on” classsessions. The library classroom also had technology upgrades, making it easier to conduct thesesessions. For the past two years we (the engineering librarian and the instruction coordinator)have worked together to create more meaningful library exercises and

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Expanding the Borders of Engineering Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paige Davis, Louisiana State University; Summer Dann Johnson, Louisiana State University; Emma M. Allain, Louisiana State University; Harald Thomas Leder, Louisiana State University; Warren N. Waggenspack Jr., Louisiana State University

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

AC 2011-694: ENCOUNTER ENGINEERING IN EUROPE, EQUIPPINGSTUDENTS TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THE GLOBAL MARKET PLACEPaige Davis, Louisiana State University Paige Davis has 20 years experience as an Instructor in the College of Engineering at Louisiana State University. In addition to teaching she assists with the STEP program. She received her baccalaureate degree in Engineering Technology and her master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Louisiana State University.Summer Dann Johnson, Louisiana State University Ms Dann is the Project Manager for the College of Engineering’s STEP program. She has her Master’s of Science in Mechanical Engineering and worked for industry for 9 years prior to returning to academia.Emma M

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Issues Affecting Engineering Program Development

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Miguel Angel Ramos, University of Houston; Lauren Chapman, Boston College; Mac Cannady, Boston College; Enrique Barbieri, University of Houston

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Engineering Technology

engineering profession to lead a fulfilling and rewarding career.In terms of evaluating the impact of the forum, the motivating factors raise several relevantquestions including:  Did proposed curricular models present a viable option for addressing any of the concerns raised by the forum participants?  If the models were considered viable, was there any indication that participants would be willing to pilot test the ideas?  Was there any indication of the long-term impact of the forum as described by forum participants?These factors and questions provide the framework for the evaluation activities and interpretationof results.Forum Evaluation ResultsPost-forum surveyThe external evaluators for the project

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FPD IV: Improving Student Success: Mentoring, Intervening, and Supplementing

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Frederick L. Smyth, University of Virginia; William H Guilford, University of Virginia; Brian A. Nosek, University of Virginia

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First-Year Programs

Page 22.718.2along with them performance and retention, through high-impact educational activities. Forexample, if a young woman’s affinity for engineering is boosted as a result of feeling engaged,connected and successful working on a design/build project, we would expect that any stereotypeshe might hold about women as engineers would be attenuated and her implicit self-concept asan engineer strengthened. Nosek and colleagues 10 found precisely this pattern for the implicitmath attitudes, gender stereotypes, and self-concepts of Yale undergraduates and for a morediverse sample of Internet volunteers 10,11.To better understand the biases inherent to freshman engineering students and whether they canbe changed in a classroom setting, we used

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Engaging Families and Exciting Girls with Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lynn Albers, North Carolina State University; Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University; Elizabeth A. Parry, North Carolina State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

has over twenty five years of experience in industry and STEM education. Prior to her current position, Ms. Parry was the project director of RAMP-UP, an NSF and GE funded project focused on increasing math achievement in K-12 through the use of collaboration between undergraduate and graduate STEM students and classroom teachers. She is an active member of ASEE, NCTM, NSTA and ITEEA. Ms. Parry is currently the chair elect of the ASEE K-12 and Precollege Division and a member of the Triangle Coalition Board of Directors. Page 22.246.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011

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Preparing Engineering Students for the Global Workplace, Competency, and a Successful Career

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Melany M. Ciampi, Safety, Health and Environment Research Organization; Claudio da Rocha Brito, Science and Education Research Council

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International

this “brave new world” and it is in fact crucialfor the development of science and technology and more important it is responsible for thedelivery of such technologies on the service of the betterment of humanity. This aspect may leadto the notion that engineers should be aware of the responsibility to society as they contribute toits development. It is to be aware of the impacts not only environmental but also social of theoutcomes of projects. Looking closer to the formation of engineers, there is still a prevalence ofgood technical formation without thinking of a broader knowledge achievement. This broaderachievement is not a recent idea; the French School of Engineering implemented under Napoleongovernance formed the “Mr. Engineer” that

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To Boldly Go... Engineering Librarians Explore New Connections with Users

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Mark Chrimes, Institution of Civil Engineers

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Engineering Libraries

Civil Engineers as Audio-Visual Librarian. In 1978, following the retirement of H C Richardson, the Librarian, Mike became Deputy Librarian and for the best part of a decade worked with Doreen Bayley, the Librarian, in improving services, notably retrospectively converting the Library Catalogues to one online catalogue (the first unified catalogue since 1895). This project was continued after Doreen’s retirement in 1987 with a single computerised index of all ICE publications, and the digitisation of all ICE journals the first engineering institution in the world to carry out such a project. When the ICE building was refurbished c.1990 he planned the Library accommodation. Early in his career at ICE Mike became

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Teams and Teamwork in Design

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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(Ruth) Jill Urbanic, University of Windsor; Susan S. Sawyer-Beaulieu, University of Windsor

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Design in Engineering Education

Industrial Engineering Students1 Introduction1.1 Introduction to capstone design project workshopsThe classical senior capstone design course consists of establishing an environment wherestudents are given the experience in solving a substantial problem while working in a teamenvironment. The engineering design problems to which Canadian engineering students areexposed must be open-ended, and require the integration of curriculum elements1. In theIndustrial Engineering (IE) program at the University of Windsor, industrial sponsors from avariety of sectors (automotive, food, recycling, hospitals, and so forth) are engaged to providereal open ended projects to the industrial engineering students over a two term period. Withrealistic ill defined opened

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Design Across Disciplines

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Besser, University of Saint Thomas; AnnMarie Thomas, University of Saint Thomas

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Design in Engineering Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, MA, and the University ofAuckland in Auckland, New Zealand. Northwestern infuses mechanical engineering andindustrial design by having professional designers visit their first-year student design classes14.The design professionals share their personal experiences from the industry with students, butthey also work on and critique industry projects in the class 14. MIT is similar to Northwesternin that they offer classes within the mechanical engineering curriculum that are focused onteaching industrial design methodologies, such as “Toy Product Design”, “The ProductEngineering Process”, “D-Lab: Design”, “Invention” and “Product Design and Development”,through the use of open-ended design projects

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Computational Tools

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joel Esposito, U.S. Naval Academy; Carl E. Wick, U.S. Naval Academy; Kenneth A. Knowles, U.S. Naval Academy

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Computers in Education

, but requires a proprietary softwareenvironment (ScorBase) to control the robot.This paper describes the development and use of a MATLAB Toolbox for the Intelitek Scorbot(MTIS). This Toolbox provides a series of seamless, high level MATLAB functions that can beused to control the Scorbot-ER 4u directly.The remainder of the paper is organized as follows. Section 2 details our detective work forreverse engineering the required DLL files. Section 3 provides an over view of the MATLABfunctions in the toolbox. Section 4 provides example code and projects from our undergraduaterobotics laboratory at the U.S. Naval Academy. Section 5 presents some benchmark tests, toconfirm the performance superiority of the USB interface to our previous RS232

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Student Entrepreneurial Skills and Mindset I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeremy Brett Ross, East Tennessee State University; Keith V. Johnson, East Tennessee State University; Kevin Wade Varney, East Tennessee State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

AC 2011-1359: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO STUDY ABROADJeremy Brett Ross, East Tennessee State University Jeremy B. Ross is a Associate Vice President of University Advancement and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Technology, Surveying and Digital Media. He holds a degree in Architecture from the University of Tennessee and a Master of Science in Technology from East Tennessee State University. He has experience in design and development of numerous architecture projects in academic and commercial applications in the Southeast.Dr. Keith V. Johnson, East Tennessee State University Keith V. Johnson is a Tenured Professor in the Department of Engineering Technology, Surveying and Digital

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BME Courses and Learning Activities

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer Vernengo, Rowan University

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Biomedical

 fiber‐reinforced or laminar ceramic‐polymer composites for bone replacement (Figure 1) and characterize the mechanical properties.    In this activity, the materials typically used for bone replacement were substituted with cost‐effect equivalents.  For instance, the ceramic phase employed in this activity is calcium sulfate hemihydrate (plaster of Paris), which substitutes for the more commonly used hydroxyapatite cements.  In the fiber‐reinforced composites, nylon and polyester string of varying diameters was used instead of sutures (9) or silk fibers (10).  For layered composites, a sheet of flexible nylon mesh fabric can substitute for the costly resorbable meshes that have been studied (11, 12).  The project, spanning two

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Technological Literacy for Undergraduate Students

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Krupczak, Hope College; Kate A. Disney, Mission College

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

artifacts is alsoconsidered part of technology.Other parallel efforts have also developed educational standards and benchmarks to define whatK-12 students need to know and be able to do regarding engineering and technology. In 1993,the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) published, Project 2061:Benchmarks for Science Literacy6 and in 1996 the National Science Education Standards werepublished by the National Academies Press7, both of these documents included sections devotedto technology. In 2000 the International Technology Education Association (ITEA) publishedStandards for Technological Literacy: Content for the Study of Technology8 of the goal ofwhich was to encourage educational curricula that would provide technological

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Pawan Tyagi; Christine Newman

Fundamentals by Four Weeks Long EngineeringInnovation Summer ProgramAbstract: Preparing high school students for engineering disciplines is crucial for the sustainablescientific and technological developments in the USA. This paper discusses a precollege program, whichnot only exposes students to various engineering disciplines but also enables them to considerengineering as their profession. The four-week long “Engineering Innovation (EI)” course is offeredevery year to high school students by the Center for Educational Outreach, Whiting School ofEngineering, Johns Hopkins University. The EI program is designed to develop problem-solving skillsthrough extensive hands on engineering experiments and projects. A team consisting of an instructor

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2011 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Amelito Enriquez

programs.7,8In 2008, Cañada College, a Hispanic-Serving community college in Redwood City, CA, wasawarded a Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program (MSEIP) grant by the USDepartment of Education. The project, entitled Student On-ramp Leading to Engineering andSciences (SOLES), aims to increase the participation, retention, and success of underrepresentedand educationally disadvantaged students interested in pursuing careers in STEM fields. Amongthe strategies developed for this project is the Summer Math Jam – a two-week intensivemathematics program designed to improve students’ preparation for college-level math courses.This paper summarizes the results of the implementation of the Math Jam and its one-weekversion, the Mini-Math Jam

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New Research & Trends for Minorities in Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Maria M. Larrondo-Petrie, Florida Atlantic University; Ivan E. Esparragoza, Pennsylvania State University, Media

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Minorities in Engineering

Engineering Education, 2011 MIND Links 2011: Resources to Motivate Minorities to Study and Stay In EngineeringAbstractThe Minorities in Engineering Division (MIND) of the American Society of EngineeringEducation (ASEE) created the MIND Links project in 2004, recognizing that, although there aremany resources available to inform, motivate, fund, mentor, promote, and support minorities andwomen to pursue a career in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, but finding theseresources is not easy. MIND Links gathers and updates each year links to resources in anorganized manner that is useful for parents, students, professionals, academics andadministrators. Special attention is paid to provide useful resources

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Global Engineering Models: Curriculum Development, Improvements, and Partnerships

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jian Yu, Auburn University and Tsinghua University, China; Chetan S. Sankar, Auburn University

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International

materials that bring real-world issues into classrooms. He has won awards for research and teaching excellence from the Society for Information Management, NEEDS, Decision Sciences Institute, American Society for Engineering Education, American Society for Mechanical Engineering, International Network for Engineering Education & Research, and the Project Management Institute. He is the editor-in-chief of the Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education and the managing editor of the Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research. He can be contacted at sankacs@auburn.edu. Page 22.833.1

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Embedded System Design

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joseph A. Morgan, Texas A&M University; Jay R. Porter, Texas A&M University; Wei Zhan P.E., Texas A&M University

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Engineering Technology

Project - First and foremost, the new tool should have a requirement for actually building and delivering a complete robotic system. The feeling of accomplishment that comes from actually producing a working device using technology Page 22.991.3 is essential in a recruiting tool. Low-Cost - It was determined that since this was a recruiting tool, the EET/TET program (or their sponsors) should be responsible for associated costs. Thus, while the robotic platforms for competitions such as FIRST and BEST can easily cost in excess of $1000, this tool needed to have a per platform cost of less than $100. Emphasis on

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Persistence and Retention II: Curricular Issues

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alison A. Dingwall, Howard University; Lorraine N. Fleming, Howard University; Robin Adams, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Junaid A. Siddiqui, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Educational Research and Methods

engineering education. Page 22.1004.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Learning in Context: Recognizing Challenges and Rewards of Engineering Curriculum ReformAbstractThis paper examines the learning experiences of engineering faculty from four institutions asthey engaged in the first stages of a yearlong curriculum reform project. Focus group discussionsprovided insights of the personal and institutional challenges and rewards of curriculumdevelopment, the implications of which are described in detail.BackgroundOver the past few decades there has been a renewal in engineering

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Why Industry Says that our Engineering Students Cannot Write

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kathryn Mobrand, University of Washington; Jennifer A Turns, University of Washington

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Mechanical Engineering

. Thisportfolio series was a research project and was not associated with a course. As such, theparticipants were paid, and the facilitator made no judgments or assessments of the participants’work. We refer readers wanting more details about this intervention to several articles describingprevious work that we have done using this methodology.5-8ParticipantsThe five participants whose portfolio content and survey responses we analyzed in this studychose to make preparedness portfolios that focused entirely on communication. This was thelargest number of participants choosing any one particular competency, a statistic that supportsthe idea that students know communication to be an important competency for their futures aspracticing engineers. All five of