Conference Session

New Approaches and Applications to Enhance Technological Literacy - Part II

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University; Dirk Colbry, Michigan State University

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

new gadgets andapplications as these technologies continue to evolve. The course has been offered three times todifferent groups of adults, and has proven to be an effective and popular outreach effort forMichigan State University, with “sold out” classes and requests for additional offerings. Thecurriculum described here, and the discussion of lessons learned, should prove valuable forinstitutions and instructors desiring to adapt the materials for their own community outreachefforts.AcknowledgementsFunding and administrative support for the courses described here were provided by theMichigan State University Alumni Association and by the MSU Women’s Resource Center.References1. Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project

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Communication, Professional Development, and the Engineering Ambassador Network

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shannon Marie Aippersbach, Pennsylvania State University; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Joanna K. Garner, Old Dominion University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

the editor of the web-site ”Rethinking the Design of Presentation Slides,” the first Google listing for the search term ”presentation slides.”Dr. Joanna K. Garner, Old Dominion University Page 23.671.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 How Slide Design Affects a Student Presenter’s Understanding of the ContentIntroduction Engineering faculty often have their students create presentations about projects as ameans to have the students learn the content. For example, many design courses, such asPurdue’s EPICS,1 have student teams

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FPD 9: First-Year Engineering Courses, Part III: Research, Sustainability, and Professionalism

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leonardo Bedoya-Valencia, Colorado State University, Pueblo; Ding Yuan, Colorado State University - Pueblo; Jane M. Fraser, Colorado State University, Pueblo

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First-Year Programs

projects through various sources such as NASA, the Department of Homeland Security, NSF, and the Colombian Research Institute. He also have several years of experience working as a consultant for pharmaceutical and energy companies in the U.S. and Latin America.Dr. Ding Yuan, Colorado State University - Pueblo Ding Yuan received a Bachelor of Engineering degree in industrial automation from Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, Liaoning, China, in 1998 and a Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering from New Jer- sey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, in 2006. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Engineering at Colorado State University-Pueblo.Dr. Jane M. Fraser, Colorado State University, Pueblo Jane M

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Tricks of the Trade II

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Walter W Schilling Jr., Milwaukee School of Engineering

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New Engineering Educators

. There is obviously a need for formalprograms for future training. However, with the ever shortening relevancy of technical skills, tobe successful in the workplace, students also must be strongly motivated self-learners.4,5 Page 23.764.2Many techniques have been tried to improve the ability of students to be self-directed learners.Mandatory attendance at professional society meetings, service functions, free-form labactivities, and project based learning all aid in this process6. For these activities to be successful,however, students need to learn how to differentiate the quality of sources by being exposed todifferent forms of media. The

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 3

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeremiah J. Neubert, University of North Dakota; Deborah Worley, University of North Dakota; Naima Kaabouch, University of North Dakota; Mohammad Khavanin, Professor of Mathematics at University of North Dakota

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Mathematics

note that the questions not only help the students find themathematical solution to the problem, but also often ask them to think more deeply about thesolution. For example, students may find that a structure is not designed correctly and are thenasked how it could be changed to meet the desired design specifications. This process requiresthem to not only solve the equation, but they must also understand its meaning and know how tomanipulate it. An example problem from one of the modules is provided in Fig. 1; the moduleproblem sets can be obtained via the project website12. Page 23.275.3 Search and Rescue

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CEED - Technical Session 1

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig J. Gunn, Michigan State University

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

___ Demonstrations ___ Essays ___ Projects ___ Formal Reports ___ Lab Reports ___ Other (memos, progress reports, feasibility studies, correspondence) Please specify__________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________Please list below communication problem areas for yourself and possibly other students as well(please use 1 for major problem area and 2 for minor problem area). ___Grammatical, spelling, and punctuation ___Organization of paper or presentation ___Expression of ideas ___Logic ___Support of ideas ___Lack of technical comprehension ___Introduction or conclusion ___Transitions ___Proper

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POTPOURRI

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Duke Mejia Bulanon, Northwest Nazarene University; Stephen A. Parke P.E., Northwest Nazarene University

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Computing & Information Technology

interned with the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, then spent the first several years of his career with IBM Microelectronics in Essex Junction, VT, where he worked in semiconductor R&D on five generations of IBM’s memory chip technologies. In 1989, he was awarded an IBM PhD Fellowship and began full-time study at the Uni- versity of California at Berkeley. He fabricated and studied nano-scale silicon-on-insulator transistors, and received the PhD degree from UC Berkeley in 1993. He transferred to the IBM Semiconductor R&D Center in Fishkill, NY where he became a team leader in the IBM/Toshiba/Siemens TRIAD multi- cultural technology development project. In 1996, he left IBM for an entrepreneurial academic start

Conference Session

Robotics and Automation I

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Sarkis Babikian, Vaughn College of Aeronautics & Technology; Shouling He, Vaughn College of Aeronautics & Technology; Hossein Rahemi, Vaughn College of Aeronautics & Technology

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Engineering Technology

period of studyingrobotic kinematics, students will derive the angular values of joints and test their designs usingthe platform so that they can visually understand how a robotic manipulator works. In thejunior-level course, Mechatronics I – Industrial Automation, students will see the demonstrationof how a robotic manipulator is explored in the industrial manufacturing assembly line with theplatform. Moreover, students are encouraged to integrate similar designs, i.e. a robotic arm withthe universal jamming gripper, in their future course projects to demonstrate how a roboticmanipulator works in the manufacturing industry.In order to discuss the built educational kit in detail, we will describe our work in the followingsteps: In the next

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Best of Computer in Education Division

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Smitesh Bakrania, Rowan University; Sean Banger

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Computers in Education

available shortlyfor download from iTunes App Store for the iPad. We expect to receive critical feedback fromeducators to inform future development and direction for evaluA+. Currently in its first iteration,evaluA+ promises to become an important instructional technology as more features are added.Background and InceptionThe inspiration for the app came while grading technical reports prepared by students for theirterm projects at the end of Fall 2011 term. The students were provided grading rubrics prior tothe assignment submission date and asked to submit a PDF version of their final report via email- all in the effort to eliminate hard copies for assessment purposes. During the evaluation stage ofsuch an assignment, an instructor would

Conference Session

Computers in Education Division - General Technical Session 2

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Oscar Antonio Perez, University of Texas at El Paso; Mike Thomas Pitcher, University of Texas, El Paso; Pedro Arturo Espinoza, University of Texas, El Paso; Hugo Gomez, University of Texas, El Paso; Virgilio Gonzalez, University of Texas, El Paso; Herminia Hemmitt, University of Texas at El Paso; Randy Hazael Anaya, University of Texas, El Paso; Peter Golding, University of Texas, El Paso

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Computers in Education

the impact of student learning on the following classareas: class assignments, homework, quizzes and exams. Variances between the cohorts wereassessed as part of the second and third semester exams. Three years of results enablinglongitudinal comparison are now possible. This research project has yielded data in a field that hasnot been previously explored within the associated demographic environment. The data gatheredon the comprehension and student perceived value of iPad use in the classroom has been analyzedand very interesting results are presented within this paper. Continuous quality improvement of theinstruments and use is included

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Teaching with Technology

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Caleb H Farny, Boston University; Sean B Andersson, Boston University

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Educational Research and Methods

. Typically 5-7instructors are involved with the course throughout the academic year. Student assessment Page 23.134.2includes weekly problem sets and quizzes, a semester-long truss design project, two midtermexams, and a common final exam. Weekly tutoring assistance is provided by graduate teachingfellows (GTFs) across multiple sections.The vision for restructuring the course arose from several key deficiencies. As a service coursethat introduces all students in the College of Engineering to the basics of engineering analysis, itis vital that the material taught to the students be delivered in a coherent fashion and on auniform level. Section-to

Conference Session

Best Methods for NEEs

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert A. Chin, East Carolina University; Michael Behm, East Carolina University

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New Engineering Educators

conversations, draftsof manuscripts circulated among friends and colleagues, discussions at meetings and seminars,and private correspondence. Reports on the current status of projects or other works in progress,dissemination of ideas through formal outlets such as a series in a journal that reports on worksin progress, copies of speeches delivered at conferences, or summaries of studies are examples ofsemiformal means of disseminating findings. Works offered for general circulation throughmediums such as journals and other periodicals and books complete the formal process.Redmond, Sinclair, and Brown’s (1972) rationalization curve (see Figure 1) illustrates theresearch process and the manner in which new knowledge is disseminated and archived.3

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Track 4 - Session II - Student and Curriculum Development II

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Abdel F. Isakovic, Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research; Szu Szu F Ling, Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research; Selwa Mokhtar Boularaoui, Khalifa University of Science, Technology & Research; Sara Bashir Timraz; Mualla Kara

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Student and Curriculum Development

to particle therapy and performance analysis of current biological treatment planning approach. After my internship I did an independent study on control of radiation damage to proteins. I was awarded by Sheikh Hamdan bin rashid al maktoum for my educational excellence- distinguished university student award. I tutored science and basic engineering courses at my university and I was a teaching assistant for physics. In 2013 I started my senior design project in which we study the neurocycle enzyme reactions and consequences for Alzheimer and Parkinson diseases.Miss Sara Bashir TimrazMrs. Mualla Kara Page

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Division Technical Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert C. Creese, West Virginia University

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Engineering Economy

1345.00 282.45 Page 23.981.6 10 0.00 10000.00 6274.54 1479.50 147.95 Totals 10000.00 6274.54The Present Value Approach to Loan Analysis During the teaching of the advanced engineering graduate students and a project wasassigned which has the class making their own cash flow model which involved loans,depreciation, as well as the traditional revenues, expenses, taxes, and etc. The students haddifficulty in determining the interest and principal amounts for the loans over the variousperiods and it was suggested they review their basic engineering textbook, but

Conference Session

Using Communication and Writing Techniques to Improve Student Learning

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mariajose Castellanos, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Joshua A Enszer, University of Maryland Baltimore County

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Chemical Engineering

solving problems based on thestudents’ feedback. In terms of assignments, in the past a student would complete 7-10homework problems per week, and over the course of the semester, one additional writtenassignment and one project. This semester, students did three homework problems and onereflection paragraph per week, frequent discussion-board posting, and one project.The class met twice a week for a period of 75 minutes with a weekly two hour discussionsession; class and discussion session attendance was not mandatory. Homework, reflectionparagraph and discussion board postings were submitted individually, while the project was donein predetermined groups.A typical class this Fall consisted of the following: students were asked to sit within

Conference Session

Engineering Leadership Development Division Technical Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amadin Osagiede, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica Farmer Cox, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Benjamin Ahn, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Engineering Leadership Development Division

obtained a B.S. in Mathematics from Spelman College, a M.S. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Alabama, and a Ph.D. in Leadership and Policy Studies from Peabody College of Vanderbilt University. Teaching interests relate to the professional development of graduate engineering students and to leadership, policy, and change in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education. Primary research projects explore the preparation of engineering doctoral students for careers in academia and industry and the development of engineering education assessment tools. She is a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career (CA- REER) award winner and is a recipient of a Presidential Early Career Award for

Conference Session

K-12 Robotics

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

JoAnn M. Marshall, Cyber Innovation Center/National Integrated Cyber Education Research Center; Krystal S Corbett, Cyber Innovation Center; Geoffrey "G.B." Cazes, Cyber Innovation Center/National Integrated Cyber Education Research Center

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

thestudents. Page 23.1030.5The guidelines for the challenges are released 4-6 weeks prior to each competition to allowteams time to prepare. Teachers can integrate these project-driven challenges into theirclassroom curriculum, or they can use the challenges as curriculum for their afterschool clubsand programs. The majority (62%) of students on competition teams are members of roboticsclubs that meet after school. Twenty-one percent of the remaining students volunteer or competeto participate on a team while 13% are required to participate in the competitions as part of aSTEM class. A small percentage of students participate in the competitions as

Conference Session

FPD 2: Retention

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lizzie Santiago, West Virginia University

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First-Year Programs

the toughest courses faced by our students. Wealso found that classroom experiences appeared to be important to maintain student interest inengineering and their retention. For instance, in the reflective essays, students indicated that“Teamwork increased my desire in pursuing a degree in engineering”, “The competition is afactor that I enjoyed much more than I had predicted. It helps to drive me much more than abasic problem with a single solution”, and “This semester I have learned that I like being incharge of projects (project management)”.Some students experienced homesickness, while others had a hard time trying to adjust to a newsystem of note taking, lectures, and exams.ConclusionsStudents face a multitude of challenges during the

Conference Session

K-12 and STEM Programs in Engineering Technology

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Tillman, The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP)

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Engineering Technology

. • Assessment of teachers’ beliefs, attitudes and ability to build DIY interactive digital whiteboard and teachers’ interests and motivation to develop novel ways to teach using innovative educational technologies.Phase 1: In the first phase of the project (Spring 2013) the research team will design,develop, and test a set of prototype activities that support teachers in the effort to build aDIY interactive digital whiteboard. Validated and well established instruments measuringteachers’ attitudes toward and interest in educational technology (Survey of Teacher’sAttitudes Toward Information Technology and the Survey of Teacher’s Attitudes TowardComputers) will be administered at the onset of the intervention and then again at the endof the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

. As stated in Tech Tally: “This plug and- play approach would also providedata about technological literacy relatively quickly.”2 The approach of the workshop reportedhere pursued the path of modification existing assessments.Overview of Workshop MethodsThis work seeks to develop assessment tools based on existing course assessments already usedby faculty. The approach taken is based on the assumption that suitable assessments oftechnological and engineering literacy might be developed through modification or adaptation ofexisting course assessments. The starting points for broadly applicable assessment tools mayalready exist in the assignments, tests, quizzes, and projects that faculty have already developed.Faculty members who are already

Conference Session

Curriculum Development

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lindsey G. Groark, Southern Methodist University; Delores M. Etter, Southern Methodist University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

inorder to develop critical thinking skills. National and state standards have begun to embrace thisbelief and suggest that students spend a significant amount of time in the classroom learning themethodology of scientific investigations and apply what they learn through projects andexperiments2,3. In particular, the Texas state standards for middle school science explicitly statethat 40% of student time should be spent conducting experiments4. This paradigm shift providesan exciting opportunity for educators and students through the use of innovative and engagingscience curriculum that further evolve students’ understanding of and curiosity about the worldaround them5.Outside of conventional classrooms, there is a need to provide students with

Conference Session

FPD 2: Retention

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marisa K. Orr, Louisiana Tech University; Catherine E. Brawner, Research Triangle Educational Consultants; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Richard A. Layton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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First-Year Programs

for the National Center for Women in Information Technology (NCWIT) and, in that role, advises computer science departments on diversifying their un- dergraduate student population. She currently serves as the principal evaluator for the Teachers Attracting Girls to Computer Science project which aims to increase and diversify the student population studying computer science in high school. Dr. Brawner previously served as principal evaluator of the NSF- sponsored SUCCEED Coalition. She remains an active researcher with MIDFIELD, studying gender issues, transfers, and matriculation models in engineering.Dr. Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University, West Lafayette Matthew W. Ohland is Professor of engineering education

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Engineering Leadership Development Division Technical Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Toby Egan, Purdue School of Engineering & Technology

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Engineering Leadership Development Division

andemployee reactions. Along with the growth of coaching as a leadership development competencythere is a miniscule amount of empirical research on leader/manager coaching behavior. There isa need for more research on leader/manager coaching. 4Employee VoiceEngineering literature has long emphasized employee voice related constructs as a rationale forteamwork, quality circles, and feedback loops in design, development, and implementation ofengineering projects. 7 Constructive voice behavior is similar to helping behavior and should bevalued by leaders because work-related problem identification and up-close solutions to suchproblems are the hallmarks of employee voice. It is “promotive behavior that emphasizesexpression of constructive challenge

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Environmental engineering pedagogy and innovation

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alison M Cupples, Michigan State University; Susan J. Masten P.E., Michigan State University; Weimin Sun, Rutgers,The State University of New Jersey

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Environmental Engineering

for developing countries, and is looking at improving the ceramic water purifiers for pathogen removal. Dr. Masten, along with several other faculty members, holds a patent on a hybrid ceramic membrane filtration system. She has conducted extensive research on the use of this technology for the control of disinfection by-products, nanoparticles, bromate, and phar- maceuticals in drinking water. In addition to her classroom efforts, Professor Masten guides numerous student research projects. She has graduated over 50 M.S. students and 12 Ph.D students. Dr. Masten is co-author of the textbook, Principles of Environmental Engineering and Science, which is published by Mc-Graw-Hill and is in its 3rd edition.Dr. Weimin

Conference Session

Engineering Leadership Development Division Technical Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Bayless, Ohio University

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Engineering Leadership Development Division

Paper ID #6035Using Leadership Education Practices to Enhance Freshmen EngineeringStudent Interviewing SkillsDr. David Bayless, Ohio University Dr. Bayless is the Loehr professor of Mechanical Engineering and the director of Ohio University’s Center of Excellence in Energy and the Environment. He is also the director of the Robe Leadership Institute, director of the Center for Algal Engineering Research and Commercialization (an Ohio Third Frontier Wright Project), and director of the Ohio Coal Research Center at Ohio University, where he is engaged in the development of energy and environmental technology, such as

Conference Session

Outreach Along the K-12 Pathways to Engineering

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan A. Pruet, Mobile Area Education Foundation; James Van Haneghan, University of South Alabama; Melissa Divonne Dean, Engaging Youth through Engineering

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Alabama. She received her bachelor of science from Louisiana State University in Shreveport. While in the informal education field, Dean designed and implemented staff development and education programs, developed STEM programs for students K-12, and most recently was project leader for an Engineering Learning Lab at the Gulf Coast Exploreum Science Center. Currently, Dean serves as the EYE Assistant Director at the Mobile Area Education Foundation in Mobile, Alabama. Page 23.1342.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Using the E in STEM as a Catalyst for Science

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Interactive Approaches to Teaching Materials Fundamentals

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anastasia D Micheals, San Jose State University; Emily L. Allen, San Jose State University

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Materials

operation, experimental techniques and resulting data. Generalexperimental factors include systematic errors, and the correct interpretation of the role of errorsdue to instrumentation. Concepts specific to the characterization techniques themselves must alsobe mastered. For example, in SEM, the beam interaction volume affects the size of the sampledregion. For accurate EBSD results, the surface must be carefully prepared and free ofdeformation to avoid artifacts.The -Brass SystemThe present work derives from experiments performed as part of a graduate research project, Page 23.1345.4with the objective of characterizing alpha-brass (-brass), a

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Marie Brown, Northeastern University; Mario Alan Hulett, Honda of America Manufacturing, Inc.

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Community Engagement Division

within an area of the city identified as a priority by Northeasternadministration and as such the university’s center of community service has also providedsupport for the project: one time through a grant for materials purchase, and annually to includeAWE as a part of the university-wide fall day of service. This provides additional volunteers forthe effort and gives the volunteers the benefits from the broader effort: breakfast and t-shirts.The Syracuse University chapter struggled to establish a program in the 2011-2012 academicyear. The chapter successfully hosted AWFE in the target community, but was unable to buildupon that initial step. The key challenge identified by chapter leadership was in promotingprogramming in the community, in

Collection

2013 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Ashwin Satyanarayana

. Government announced a “Big Data Research and Development Initaitve” -- a $200 milliondollar commitment to improve our ability to “extract knowledge and insights from large andcomplex collections of digital data.” Government agencies such as NSF, NIH, and DoD areinvesting hundreds of millions of dollars toward the development of systems that can help themextract knowledge from their data.The career potential for our graduates continue to blossom in this field. A recent study releasedby Gartner projects that in 2013, “big data is forecast to drive $34 billion of IT spending,” with atotal of $232 billion to be spent through 2016 [1].Over the last 10 years, a number of commercial and open source tools have been developed toexamine and transform data

Collection

2013 GSW

Authors

John Sibert; Matthew Goeckner; Dave Galley; Kory Goldammer

address the STEM workforce problem and to increase significantly the number of studentsearning undergraduate STEM degrees, the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), Collin CountyCommunity College, and Richland College of the Dallas County Community College Districthave formed the Dallas STEM Gateways Collaborative (referred to as the “Collaborative” in this document), a cooperative project providing a comprehensive and coordinated set of activitiesfocusing on the gateway experiences during the first two years of the students’ undergraduate experience. The activities include recruitment and retention efforts aimed at STEM studentscombined with a series of curricular and faculty development activities that are designed toproduce significant cultural