Conference Session

Women in Biomedical Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Naomi Chesler, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Rice University; Sangeeta Bhatia, MIT; Gilda Barabino, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Biomedical

problem solvers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2004. 101(46): p. 16385-16389.5 Gurin, P., E. Dey, S. Hurtado, and G. Gurin, Diversity in higher education: Theory and impact on educational outcomes. Harvard Educational Reviews, 2002. 72(3): p. 330-366.6 Orfield, G. and D. Whitla, Diversity and legal education: Student experiences in leading law schools, in Diversity challenged: Evidence on the impact of affirmative action, G. Orfield and M. Kurlaender, Editors. 2001, Harvard Publishing Group and The Civil Rights Project, Harvard University: Cambridge, MA.7 Banaji, M., K. Lemm, and S. Carpenter, The social unconscious, in Blackwell handbook of social psychology: Intraindividual

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade in Teaching II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Reisel, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

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New Engineering Educators

questions by the student.Another factor to consider is your needed availability may vary during the semester. When thedue date for a project is approaching, or when a test is near, students will often be seeking moreassistance. In those cases, you should try to increase your availability, and let the students knowthat you will be available at additional times.2. Be Organized in Your Lectures and Course MaterialsWhen a teacher is not devoting adequate time to a course, often the first thing to suffer is theorganization of the lecture material. This is something that can show up in many ways. Ateacher who is teaching a course for the first or second time and is working on developing lecturenotes may run out of time and find that he or she is heading

Conference Session

Web-based Learning in ECE

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yuejin Xu, Murray State University; Lili Dong, Cleveland State University; Theresa Nawalaniec, Cleveland State University

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Electrical and Computer

’ knowledge of information literacy and ethics was evaluated by the analysisof pretest and post test scores.Introduction Information literacy and ethics is a set of abilities requiring individuals to findinformation effectively, and use information ethically. The abilities to locate and use informationproperly are crucial for engineering students to complete their coursework, to perform their jobsin engineering, and to become successful lifelong learners. First of all, engineering students needthe information literacy skills to conduct literature review for course projects, senior designs, andtheses. Second, it is impossible for engineering students to get all solutions to engineeringproblems from their coursework. Instead, students must be

Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martin Morris, Bradley University; Scott Post, Bradley University

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Aerospace

tunnel velocity in the range of Reynoldsnumbers where the coefficients should be fairly constant.ConclusionsThe drawings and pictures presented in this paper will allow other engineering educators to copyand build this relatively low-cost design that gives good accuracy and repeatable results for usein student projects. The costs could be further reduced by using cheaper load cells with smallerforce ratings.Bibliography1. Barlow, J. B., Rae, Jr., W. H. and Pope, A., Low Speed Wind Tunnel Testing, John Wiley & Sons, 1999.2. Anderson, J.D., Introduction to Flight, 4th Ed., McGraw-Hill, 20003. Post, S. 2010, Applied and Computational Fluid Dynamics, Jones and Bartlett Publishers.4. Houghton, E., and Carpenter, P., 2001, Aerodynamics for

Conference Session

Innovations in Power Education in ECE

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ruben Otero, Student at University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez; Apurva Somani, University of Minnesota; Krushna Mohapatra, University of Minnesota; Ned Mohan, University of Minnesota

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Electrical and Computer

Simulink and dSPACE control platform. Two 200W DC machines rated at 40VDC and4000 rpm were used. The DC machines were controlled using a pulse width modulated (PWM)power converter. This project was part of an undergraduate research supported by NSF and theUniversity of Minnesota Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program.I. IntroductionThe objective is to develop a system that emulates a wind turbine. Previous efforts in thisdirection have employed separately excited DC machines1,2 with power ratings in the multiplehorsepower range. The intended application of the system described in this paper is forundergraduate laboratory courses. Thus, a system that works at lower voltages is desired.Existing laboratory equipment such as DC

Conference Session

Teacher and Counselor Professional Development

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Reeves, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Julia Ross, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Taryn Bayles, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

engineering education, outreach and curriculum development. Page 15.68.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 A Novel Approach to Professional DevelopmentAbstract The INSPIRES project (INcreasing Student Participation, Interest, and Recruitment inEngineering and Science) stemmed from an NSF-IMD grant and focuses on developingengineering curriculum to introduce high school students to the engineering design process.Curriculum features include professionally produced video segments, a large culminating open-ended engineering design challenge, online content with interactive animations, an

Conference Session

Best Practices in Existing College-Industry Partnerships

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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G. Marshall Molen, Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems at Mississippi State University; Matthew Doude, Mississippi State University

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College-Industry Partnerships

the dSPACE software, including ControlDesk and MotionDesk,and were given a demonstration model to practice on. Page 15.1301.3Students have also been trained through a Model Based Systems Design class offered atMississippi State University. In this class, the students were trained using tools offered by TheMathWorks, such as Matlab and Simulink. These programs are the basis for the dSPACEsoftware suite. In this class, students were given projects which required them to developcomponent models and integrate them into an HIL simulation. For example, one group modeledan electric traction motor by setting up and instrumenting the motor on a

Conference Session

Energy Education and Industry Needs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Darrell Wallace, Youngstown State University; Brian Vuksanovich, Youngstown State University; Michael Costarell, Youngstown State University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

production automation in the existing facilitywas minimal and management sought the help of YSU faculty to augment their technicalabilities. As the scope of the project grew, so did the ambitiousness of the project. What beganas a small plant expansion grew into a vision for an environmentally friendly world-classmanufacturing facility. The new plant was to be the first privately owned building in the countyto comply with the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and EnvironmentalDesign (LEED) certification criteria. The plant was to serve as the centerpiece of the company'senvironmentally responsible public image. To that end, the design team was challenged to pushthe boundaries of what is currently considered state-of-the-art within

Conference Session

Women in K-12 Engineeering & Outreach Programs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carolyn Vallas, University of Virginia; Wraegen Williams PhD, University of Virginia; Ping Guan, University of Virginia

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

this paper are the ExxonMobilBernard Harris Summer Science Camp (EMBHSSC) for rising sixth, seventh, and eighth graders,Introduction to Engineering (ITE) for rising high school juniors and seniors, and the Leadership,Education, and Development Summer Engineering Institute (LEAD-SEI) which is also gearedtowards rising high school juniors and seniors.Each of these curriculums consists of hands on activities, lectures and presentations given byUniversity professors and graduate students, team building exercises, field excursions and toursof both faculty laboratories and the campus. In addition to these traditional enrichment activities,the LEAD-SEI program initiated a group research project strategy, which was highly praised byvisiting sponsors

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vladimir De Delva, Rowan University; Muhammed Iftikhar, Rowan University; Keith McIver, Rowan University; Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Katherine Whitaker, Rowan University; Mariano J. Savelski, Rowan University; C. Stewart Slater, Rowan University

Particulate Systems (ERC-SOPS) led byRutgers University. The Center conducts research related to pharmaceutical technology andcoordinates educational outreach programs with member schools. Rowan University’s role is toproduce educational materials related to the pharmaceutical industry to be used by the ERC ineducation and outreach programs.At Rowan University, student teams take a 2-credit course during each academic term in whichthey work on various projects under the direction of faculty members. Professors Savelski,Farrell, and Slater are the local contacts for the ERC and have overseen student teams workingon ERC projects for several terms. The purposes of the projects to date have been the creation ofin-class and homework (textbook) problems

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Dennis Silage

, synchronization, source coding, and multiplexing for the undergraduate student2.Employing a computational script in MATLAB, as some texts do, merely verifies the analyticalequation. Even a short inclusion of simulation techniques with a block diagram interface as ademonstration does not seem to imbue the undergraduate student with the same level ofconfidence that PSD, Pb and BER measurements and audio .wav file verification madethroughout the course and laboratory can provide.The digital communication system laboratory or projects using MATLAB/Simulink thataccompany the lecture course allows the exploration of topics in simulation which are not in thetext and whose results are more experiential1,4. The incalculable value for the undergraduatestudent

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Gautham Das; Sameer Shaik

Summary:Dr. Gautham P. DasWentworth Institute of Technology550 Huntington AvenueBoston, MA 02115Email: dasg@wit.eduTel: 617.989.4418Dr. Gautham P. Das is an Assistant Professor at Wentworth Institute of Technology. Hisrecent projects include secondary mineral formation in coal combustion by-products, lowcost methods of treating wastewater effluents in developing countries, and geotechnicalimplications of constructing over retired ash basins. His teaching interests include, waterresources, water and waste water treatment, soil mechanics and applied fluid mechanics.He was a senior engineer at S&ME, Inc and at Parsons Corporation. His professionalactivities include membership and participation in the New England Water EnvironmentAssociation and the

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Janet Baldwin

homework assignments,a project, three exams, and a final exam.The online course is delivered as a hybrid: the lessons are conducted asynchronously, butoffice hours and exams are synchronous. I have offered the online course during twosemesters so far: I taught one section online in the winter intersession which ran for 6weeks, starting right after final exams. I also taught the online course during the regular14 week semester. This is important to note because the success of the online course hadmuch to do with when the students took it, as noted below.Overall, the online course was organized exactly like the face-to-face sections. Themajor difference was that instead of dividing the course into 28 lessons as in the twotimes per week offering, I

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2010 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

J. S. Shelley P.E.

on a tablet computer. When magnifiedfor broadcast, the results are a “stylized” writing that is a blurry low resolution image projectedat the main campus classroom. When the Elluminate whiteboard is viewed on its nativecomputer screen, the pixilation is not as noticeable. Writing with a stylus is still “stylized”, but itis legible and not blurry. After Fall 2006, the standard broadcast projects a native digital imagefrom the tablet computer in high resolution at the main campus. The difference in resolution ofthe projected image alone accounts for the improvement of perceived broadcast quality from 43to 16% dissatisfaction.) PowerPoint or other native digital text methods were not employed bythe instructor. Broadcasting Elluminate sessions

Conference Session

Computer Education Innovations I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marcial Lapp, University of Michigan; Jeffrey Ringenberg, University of Michigan; T. Jeff Fleszar, University of Michigan

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Computers in Education

, who attempted to predict performance inintroductory computer science courses through a detailed factor analysis. The researchers usedhigh-school grade point averages, ACT/SAT scores, as well as tests such as the IBMProgrammer Aptitude Test as predictors.The work performed by Campell5, Cantwell-Wilson6 and Evans7 suggest that using predictorssuch as mathematical ability and the number and level of previously completed math and sciencecourses indicates computer programming success.A different set of research projects relate a student’s success in a computer programming courseto previous exposure to computer programming and logic courses. Hagan8 and Holden9 illustratea positive correlation between the performance in a computer programming course

Conference Session

Faculty Development for Distance Learning

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Donohue, The College of New Jersey; Christine Schnittka, University of Kentucky; Larry Richards, University of Virginia

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Continuing Professional Development

theyseemed to be the most logical candidates for recruitment. However, many students were notacademically prepared to enroll in college STEM courses without remediation, often becauseprevious curriculum choices resulted in limited exposure to math and science in these students’programs of study. Other obstacles include students’ lack of awareness of engineering as apossible career because of unfamiliarity with the profession.1 One natural extension, then, wasto focus projects at the middle school level, where timely interventions would ideally lead toenrollment in classes that would better prepare students for the rigors of college STEM studies.Research, however, is increasingly indicating that that intervention efforts must begin as early

Conference Session

New Learning Paradigms II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ming-Chien Hsu, Purdue University; Monica Cardella, Purdue University; Senay Purzer, Purdue University

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Educational Research and Methods

up a summary describing the project Figure 1. The design process the teachers were asked to comment onAs a part of the validation process, we pilot tested the instrument with elementary teachersvoluntarily participating in a summer five-day professional development workshop that focusedon integrating engineering content into mathematics and science curriculum. Among variousactivities that the teachers took part in, such as demonstration of what different types ofengineers do, they were introduced to the engineering process model from the “Engineering isElementary” units developed by the Boston Museum of Science 9. The teachers participated indesign activities and discussions based on the model throughout the workshop

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade in Teaching I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Gehringer, North Carolina State University

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New Engineering Educators

changes in how the class was run based on the results ofthe surveys. The question that provoked the most useful responses was, “Name one thingthat is still not clear from today's class.” In the undergraduate class, feedback caused me tospend more time describing—and answering questions on—a programming project, and toexplain Java interfaces a second time, I also discovered that an active-learning exercise thathad worked well the semester before did not work at all in this year’s class; though Icouldn’t revisit it this semester, I will be sure to modify the exercise before using it again.In the graduate class, I learned that I needed to provide further explanation on why we weredeveloping a rubric in class to use for evaluating student

Conference Session

Computer Education Innovations I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Gehringer, North Carolina State University

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Computers in Education

, unusual facts about themselves, and theirWeb pages. They can create the roster by filling out a Google form, as shown in Figure 18. Page 15.1177.13Proceedings of the 2010 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition 12Copyright  2010, American Society for Engineering Education Figure 18. Class rosterOther administrative uses include registering (self-selected) partnerships for doing particularhomework assignments, and registering for specific project topics when students are asked tochoose from a list of topics for their project. Forms are helpful, but not ideal, for

Conference Session

Technology-Enhanced Learning

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diarmuid McCarthy, University of Limerick; Niall Seery, University of Limerick; Seamus Gordon, University of Limerick

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Continuing Professional Development

a decline in the uptake of technologicalbased subjects at second level.Over the past 4 years, in an attempt to stimulate technological education, theDepartment of Education and Science has modernised the entire suite of traditionalcraft based syllabi to foster a design and creative culture. This brought with it anunprecedented amount of new material, the need for philosophical change and adynamic learning approach.The challenges facing contemporary teaching and learning centres on interpreting,realising and delivering the philosophical changes that accompanies educationalreform. The focus of traditional subjects centred on prescribed project based outcomesthat enabled practitioners form the role of a didactic director, the

Conference Session

Experiences in Teaching Energy Courses

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dale Litwhiler, Pennsylvania State University, Berks; Thomas Gavigan, Penn State Berks; Brittany Farrell, Penn State Berks

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

. One unit was for disassembly with nointentions of it ever being returned to its original state. The essential parts of the disassembledunits were, however, still functional. In this way, the efficiency of the key system elementscould be determined.In parallel with the work being performed by the first-year students, a similar but separateindependent investigation was being performed by a fourth-year engineering technology student.This investigation involved the conversion of mechanical energy stored in a spinning flywheel to Page 15.462.3electrical energy stored on a capacitor. The work on this project also started by disassembling ahuman

Conference Session

Energy Education and Industry Needs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Frank Falcone, Argonne National Laboratory; Terrence Davidovits, A123 Systems; Eric Schacht, The Ohio State Univeristy; Michael Wahlstrom, Argonne National Laboratory

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

senior year or one ortwo semesters or quarters to complete such a design might miss learning an entire part of theproject. For example the mechanical packaging must be done before final wiring design can bedone, therefore a student that leaves after only the conclusion of the packaging would never learnhow to integrate the wiring properly. In addition, this early completion of projects for studentsleaves them without experience on servicing or assembling the system. The serviceability andtherefore, assembly of an ESS is very critical to safety and reliability, therefore, if the student isnot forced to do assembly or service on the system they do not understand the designshortcomings. Students should be started in academia on projects and design

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer-Part I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Israel Urieli, Ohio University-Athens

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Mechanical Engineering

AC 2010-47: ENGINEERING THERMODYNAMICS - A GRAPHICAL APPROACHIsrael Urieli, Ohio University-Athens Joined the Mechanical Engineering Dept. at Ohio University in 1984, following 22 years of experience in research and development in Israel and the US. Has been teaching Thermodynamics continuously since 1990. Page 15.498.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Engineering Thermodynamics – a Graphical ApproachAbstractThis paper presents the first open-source web-based thermodynamic learning resource. Thecompletely self-contained project is found at http://www.ent.ohiou.edu/~thermo. This

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Autar Kaw, University of South Florida; Ali Yalcin, USF

teaching assistants assignedto a Numerical Methods course that the first author teaches. The common practice is theassignment of a 10hr/week TA in the spring semester and none in the summer semester. Withanywhere from 40-70 students taking the class, the first author had to critically think about thebest use of the assigned TA. Should the TA spend time to maintain generous office hours, gradecomputer projects, assist in programming and experimental laboratories, or grade homeworkassignments? The question we are trying to answer in this paper is whether grading thehomework problems improve the student performance. We are not questioning the importanceof assigning the homework problems but if they help the students if picked for a grade.Cartledge3

Conference Session

Issues and Directions in ET Education & Administration: Part III

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Hundley, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Terri Talbert-Hatch, Indiana University; Adrie Koehler, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Damon Hathaway, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis; Kelly Keelen, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

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Engineering Technology

transitioning process.” Many universitiesinvolve students in capstone projects and courses as a chance for seniors to showcase all of theskills and knowledge they have acquired over their educational careers1,2,3.Bulger, Lindauer, and Jacobsen4 found that participants benefited from the incorporation ofprofessional development curriculum in a series of courses, and the participants felt suchcurricular pieces not only readied them but also brought “closure” on their college experience. A2008 employer survey reveals, “At least three in ten employers give college graduates low scoresfor their preparedness in global knowledge, self-direction, writing, critical thinking, andadaptability” (p. 20)2. After analyzing the survey results and assessing many senior

Conference Session

Advances in Engineering Economy Pedagogy

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emily Evans, University of Arkansas; Heather Nachtmann, University of Arkansas; Kim Needy, University of Arkansas

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Engineering Economy

more than 30 students, ≠ Respondents provide a positive assessment of the state-of engineering economics as a body of knowledge, ≠ On average, industrial engineering (IE) faculty teach more engineering economy sessions per year than non-IE faculty, ≠ In calculating final grades, exams are weighted most heavily (non-IE faculty weight homework, projects and case studies more heavily), ≠ Non-IE faculty use groups and projects almost twice as much as IE faculty, and Page 15.50.2 ≠ The vast majority of faculty is incorporating “new” teaching methods into their engineering economy classes.We are motivated to

Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Punch, Michigan State University; Richard Enbody, Michigan State University; Colleen McDonough, Michigan State University; Jon Sticklen, Michigan State University

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Computers in Education

processing, especially the application of parallel processing to computational science problems. In 1998 Richard pioneered a CS1 course (first course in Computer Science) over the World Wide Web using RealVideo synchronized with PowerPoint. Together with Bill Punch he recently published a textbook using Python in CS1: The Practice of Computing Using Python (Addison-Wesley, 2010).Colleen McDonough, Michigan State University Colleen A. McDonough is a graduate assistant at the College of Engineering at Michigan State University. She is the coordinator of two component projects of a National Science Foundation grant focusing on retention issues and engaging early engineering students, and also

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students, Diversity, and Assessment

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carla Purdy, University of Cincinnati

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Graduate Studies

formal assessmentis in order. Thus we have embarked on a project to survey past participants (there arewell over 100 "graduates" since the program began in 1999) to see what changes will bemost beneficial for future participants. We are also setting up a website for current andpast participants to encourage mentoring of newer participants by PFF in Engineeringgraduates. The survey of past participants is still ongoing, since contact information forsome past participants has been difficult to obtain. But we do have data for recentparticipants and some anecdotal evidence to present at this time.Survey Results—Recent ParticipantsSurvey questions are shown in Figure 1 below. Complete survey results from the pastyear are available. Ten students, from

Conference Session

Innovative Instructional Strategies and Curricula

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kingsley Reeves, University of South Florida; Bill Blank, University of South Florida; Victor Hernandez-Gantes, University of South Florida; Maniphone Dickerson, University of South Florida

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Mathematics

AC 2010-1675: USING CONSTRUCTIVIST TEACHING STRATEGIES INPROBABILITY AND STATISTICSKingsley Reeves, University of South FloridaBill Blank, University of South FloridaVictor Hernandez-Gantes, University of South FloridaManiphone Dickerson, University of South Florida Page 15.1322.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Using Constructivist Teaching Strategies in Probability and StatisticsAbstractThis paper discusses the early results of an NSF EEC project that focuses on the impact of usingconstructivist approaches to teaching probability and statistics for engineers. Twelve exerciseswere developed and used in a modified version of the course to promote student

Conference Session

IE and Manufacturing

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Bouamor, University of Oklahoma; Chen Ling, University of Oklahoma; Binil Starly, University of Oklahoma; Randa Shehab, University of Oklahoma

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Industrial Engineering

to better fathom the students’ levels of understanding of theconcepts.The satisfactory evaluation results and feedback from the students were encouraging to furtherenhance the learning of engineering statics and mechanics concepts by improving the design andcontent of the interface. Adding other parameters and more complex statics problems to theexisting interface can be done as a future project. The interface could be tested on a largersample of engineering students who are taking the relevant courses and who are more motivatedto participate in the study. Another possible relevant research project that can be conducted inthis field is comparing the effectiveness of the multimodal lab to physical labs in engineeringcourses. Indeed, labs in