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Engineering Technology Curriculum Innovations

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Reynaldo M. Pablo Jr., Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne

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Engineering Technology

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Preparing Engineering Students for the Global Workplace

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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International

Education), and RCI (Cartagena Network of Engineering). She was the first American woman who has received the title International Engineering Educator of IGIP. Page 25.542.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Engineering Education for the Improvement of Practice: Preparing for Labour Market Claudio da Rocha Brito1, Melany M. Ciampi2, Luis Amaral3, Rosa Vasconcelos4 1 President of Science and Education Research Council 2 President of Safety, Health and Environment Research Organization

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Engineering Education and Comparative Studies at Universities throughout Asia, Far East

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Peter Jay Kutnick, University of Hong Kong; Yuen-Yan Chan, University of Hong Kong; Pok Yee Lee, University of Hong Kong

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International

’ orientation that is bothrepresentative of particular societies and rigorous. The need for these changes has only just beenidentified2.Engineering Education and Situations in Hong KongUnderstanding why only a limited number of students choose engineering for study/career posesa problem for HK. From the limited information available, we note that engineering cannot bestudied in secondary schools until students enter Form 4 (age 15+) although students accesstechnology, science and mathematics from the start of secondary schooling (Table 1). Access toan early understanding of engineering is, thus, likely to be derived through: home contacts,limited exposure in science/mathematics/technology curricula (mainly taught by non-engineers),or extra-curricular

Conference Session

Ethical Issues I: Sustainability and Environmental Ethics

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Roger Painter P.E., Tennessee State University

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Engineering Ethics

impact of engineering solutions in a global and societal context."And, Criterion 4 requires that program graduates have design experience…that includes most ofthe following considerations: economic, environmental, sustainability, manufacturability, ethical,health and safety, social, and political" 1, 2. Notwithstanding ABET requirements, a recentsurvey indicates that 80% of engineering graduates attend schools that have no ethics-relatedcourse requirements. Even at schools that have courses with ethics-related content, the coursesare usually in philosophy or religion and have no specific engineering ethics component 3.Notwithstanding these deficiencies, the American Society for Engineering Education’s (ASEE)Statement on Engineering Ethics

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emmanuelle Reynaud, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; John J. Duffy, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Linda Barrington, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Julianne Lee Rhoads; David O. Kazmer, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Bowa George Tucker, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

engineeringfaculty population, a level of response consistent with surveys from prior years. The survey isgiven in Appendix A.Table 1 summarizes the overall answers of the engineering faculty respondents regarding theirattitudes toward S-L. On average, respondents, whether they have practiced S-L or not, agreethat it can be a benefit to their academic practice and can enhance the student experiencethroughout their studies. Respondents are neutral on the ability of S-L to attract and retainminority students in engineering fields, however. They also are neutral regarding whether S-Ldemands additional student time and effort. One of the goals of the SLICE project lies in offeringan S-L experience to every student each semester of their curriculum; respondents

Conference Session

Stakeholder Perspectives on Community Engagement in Engineering Education

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Kurt Paterson P.E., Michigan Technological University; Chris Swan, Tufts University; John J. Duffy, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University; Nathan E. Canney, University of Colorado Boulder

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Community Engagement Division

practices, benefits, andchallenges of engaging in Learning Through Service (LTS) activities, with a focus on theengineering faculty perspective. LTS in engineering typically takes two forms: (1) course-basedservice-learning (SL) projects for real communities or individuals (such as assistive technologydevices), and (2) service projects conducted via extracurricular activities such as EngineersWithout Borders (EWB). Studying both of these distinct but related activities was of interestsince extracurricular service activities such as EWB projects have sometimes moved intoengineering courses such as capstone design. The group of engineering faculty and LTSresearchers first described what excited them about LTS. Then the group shared ideas on

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NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca K. Toghiani, Mississippi State University; Adrienne Robyn Minerick, Michigan Technological University; Keisha B. Walters, Mississippi State University; Priscilla J. Hill, Mississippi State University; Carlen Henington, Mississippi State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

/operations to achieve enhancements in energy efficiency, improved safety,utilization of resources and reduction of capital costs, waste generation, and energy consumption.Process intensification involves thinking about chemical processing in new ways such that (1)recognition of inherent limitations imposed by using sequential unit operations to accomplishchemical and/or physical transformations is achieved; and (2) methods of concurrentlyperforming more than one unit operation are considered. This requires undergraduates to thinkin different ways about the processes they have learned about in their traditional unit operationscourses. Process intensification is essential to industrial competitiveness as it can enhancesafety, increase operating

Conference Session

Spatial Visualization

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Theodore J. Branoff, North Carolina State University; Modris Dobelis, Riga Technical University, Riga, Latvia

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Engineering Design Graphics

c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Engineering Graphics Literacy: Spatial Visualization Ability and Students’ Ability to Model Objects from Assembly Drawing InformationIntroductionEngineering drawings are still one of the main pieces of legal documentation for productdevelopment. Interpreting these drawings is a skill needed by engineers and technicians sincethese documents are the primary way design information is communicated to manufacturing andquality control. Post-secondary engineering programs, however, have reduced the amount ofinstructional time related to engineering graphics for various reasons 1-3. More emphasis has beenplaced on basic modeling strategies in CAD

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The Role of Engineering in Integrated STEM--uh STEAM--uh Education!

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary McCormick, Tufts University; Morgan M. Hynes, Tufts University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

theactivities in which they spontaneously engaged during their design process, such asnarrowing and framing the problem, discussing and iterating on their design, and thinkingabout feasibility and functionality in literary and classroom contexts. In the following,we highlight four episodes that capture the nature of the engineering task and illustrateHarvey and Matthew’s strategies for finding a solution.Findings1. Episode 1: Identifying the Problem and Framing the Task After Ms. J asked the students to form groups of two, she tasked each pair withdiscussing and selecting a problem to solve using engineering. As shown in the transcriptbelow, Harvey and Matthew, like many other students in the class, choose and rankproblems based on solution

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Curriculum Exchange II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Thomas Shepard, University of Saint Thomas; Colton Thomas Altobell, Camp Olson YMCA

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

daily news briefings of high schools, middleschools, and even elementary schools adopting and developing STEM curricula and hostingSTEM events. In addition to the focus on introducing students to STEM during the school yearthe number of STEM summer camps is also increasing. This is evident based on the numberASEE conference proceedings on “STEM Summer Camps” one finds when doing a search basedon year as displayed in Fig. 1.Figure 1. Yearly growth in the number of STEM Summer Camp papers presented at ASEE AnnualConferences (based on searches at www.asee.org/search/proceedings) Page 25.550.2STEM summer camps may also be seen as a measure in

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Student Entrepreneurial and Innovative Mindset

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel Michael Ferguson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; James Edwin Cawthorne Jr., Purdue University, West Lafayette; Benjamin Ahn, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

oneculture may be interpreted differently in another culture." 2 In all cultures innovativeness isdefined as an ability where an individual utilizes their skills or competencies and produces Page 25.551.3something new or novel that has value in that culture and is adopted, purchased or used.References to relevant literature are included along with the assertion statements as opposed to aseparate literature section as the most logical place to include information which strengthens theassertions of the interviewees in this exploratory study.Figures 1 is provided as a conceptual representation of the innovation space, a metaphoricalplace where

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NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lin Li, Prairie View A&M University; Yongpeng Zhang, Prairie View A&M University; Lei Huang, Prairie View A&M University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

conduction. Based on LabVIEWremote engine, their courseware uses an in-house developed scheduler web server (SWS) tobridge physical laboratory experiments with the Internet end users. The courseware is integratedwith account management and scheduling functions through which users can reserve labequipment and time slots. After that, a remote experiment doer can manipulate lab instrumentsand focus on class contents, with guaranteed time and resources. This system is independent oflab equipment and experimental technology.Practical lab deployment of the courseware showed that it was efficient in improving theresource utilization4, 7, 8. Meanwhile, we also noticed some potential issues. As shown in Figure 1,in this remote engineering laboratory

Conference Session

Community Engagement in Engineering Education: Program Models

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shoba Krishnan, Santa Clara University; Tonya Lynn Nilsson P.E., Santa Clara University

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Community Engagement Division

reflections, this paper attempts to identify theeffect of community projects on student learning and student perception of their chosen careerpath. As one student reflected, “The engineer must be able to understand much more than the‘engineering’; there is a huge ethical and communal side to engineering.” Another noted, “Thisexperience has a large impact on the team members’ concept of what it means to be anengineer”.IntroductionIn 1997 a major change in engineering education in the United States began with the introductionof ABET’s EC 2000. This new criteria not only focused on what is learned as opposed to what istaught, but it emphasized “soft” skills along with traditional technical abilities.1 These soft skillsintroduced teamwork, communication

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Laboratory Innovations

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Aflaki, Christian Brothers University

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Mechanical Engineering

a strain gage based scale called SqueezoMeter designed to measure theapplied squeezing or pushing force. It is made of an S-shaped sensing element equipped with 4-strain gages, and two rectangular aluminum plates to apply the force.The second experiment, HuggoMeter, consists of two parallel ¼ inch aluminum beams mountedon two 8.5 x 16 x 1 in hard boards that are 1.25 inches apart. Mounted on the constant bendingportion of these beams are 4 strain gages forming a 4-active arm Wheatstone bridge. Studentscan hug the HuggoMeter and apply forces to it. The induced strains are measured through a dinrail mounted signal conditioner and A/D module, converted to the applied force and displayed onthe PC screen.These experiments, while entertaining and

Conference Session

Retention of Women Students II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kerry Meyers, University of Notre Dame; Catherine F. Pieronek, University of Notre Dame; Leo H. McWilliams, University of Notre Dame

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Women in Engineering

personaldevelopment that is necessary for life-long learning” (p. 275).1 Smith and associates agree thatall engineering students throughout their undergraduate education require professional skilldevelopment in terms of talking through and listening to ideas with peers, knowing how to buildtrust in a working relationship, and leadership of group efforts.2 Finally, differences in terms oflearning style, approaches to learning, and intellectual development throughout the entire collegeexperience beyond academics should be recognized as growth factors that develop studentspersonally and professionally through the entire college experience.3Felder and associates reported that although women entered engineering programs withacademic credentials stronger than or

Conference Session

Problem-based and Challenge-based Learning

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fatin Aliah Phang, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia; Khairiyah Mohd-Yusof, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia; Syed Helmi Syed Hassan, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia; Mimi H. Hassim, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

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Educational Research and Methods

through a course that fully utilized CPBL in a whole semester. Themain purpose is to identify students’ perception towards CPBL in two aspects: (1) perception andacceptance/rejection; and (2) the benefits and improvements gained along the learning process.The paper illustrates the extent of acceptance and effectiveness of CPBL for an engineeringcourse taught by a lecturer who had undergone a series of training on cooperative learning andproblem based learning, but is new to implementing CPBL. Through classroom observations,students’ self-reflection notes and interviews with students for one whole semester, the resultsare reported in three stages: (1) beginning of the semester; (2) in the middle the semester; and (3)at the end of the semester

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Stakeholder Perspectives on Community Engagement in Engineering Education

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathan E. Canney, University of Colorado, Boulder; Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Community Engagement Division

Commission of ABET establishesstandards for accrediting engineering programs. ABET requires that graduates from accreditedprograms possess, among other skills, an understanding of professional and ethicalresponsibilities (3.f), and understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global and societalcontext (3.h)1. A well-developed sense of social responsibility, contextualized within theengineering profession, embodies both of these professional skills.Social responsibility can be defined as “acting with concern and sensitivity, aware of the impactof your actions on others, particularly the disadvantaged”2. In the context of engineering, a well-developed sense of social responsibility would manifest itself through sustainable design,community

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Global Studies, Initiatives, and Study Abroad Programs

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven J. Burian, University of Utah; Pedro Romero, University of Utah

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International

infrastructure components and systems as they relate to sustainability and resiliency  Determine sustainability indices for infrastructure projects  Apply multi-criteria decision making to infrastructure project alternative analysis  Recommend design and technological advances to increase sustainability and resiliency of infrastructure systems  Recommend policy and social change to promote sustainable and resilient infrastructure solutionsOur study abroad program is designed to travel throughout Costa Rica with stays of 1-4 days ineach location for a total duration of 23 days in country and more than 30 contact hours beforedeparture and after returning. The program will include classroom time at least five days eachweek

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Training and Mentoring of Graduate Teaching Assistants

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Faizal Karim; Saloome Motavas, University of British Columbia; Deborah Esther Feduik, University of British Columbia

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Graduate Studies

into marking rubrics, the following iClicker question was asked: “Have you, as astudent, ever appealed a grade to a TA?” The question, choices and results are shown in Figure 1, Page 25.560.5where the majority of trainees have appealed or felt the need to appeal their grades. Based onthese results, we pointed out the high possibility of receiving complaints as a TA and highlightedthe significance of having a marking plan in order to reduce the number of complaints and/ordeal with them effectively. We follow this clicker question by defining a rubric and discussingthe difference between a rubric and a marking scheme. We explained to the class

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-college Engineering Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Caridad Cruz, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla; Lourdes Gazca, American University in Puebla, Mexico; Aurelio Lopez-Malo, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla; Enrique Palou, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

salt,sand, grave, beans, and/or rice to achieve required buoyancy. Teacher teams competed againsteach other. Thus the ETKs approach involved hands-on and minds-on, inquiry-based, team-oriented projects.Information to report workshop outcomes was obtained from observational and interview fieldnotes from the formal sessions, participant workshop evaluations3-4 and a 13-item workshopsurvey (adapted from the Evaluation Survey designed by Schnittka8-9), which has ten closed-ended questions for participants to rate (in a scale from 1 to 10) workshop aspects such asexcitement, teamwork, learning, success, and challenge; and three opened-ended questions todiscover participants’ likes and dislikes regarding the workshop. Furthermore an exit survey

Conference Session

ETD Design II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John L. Irwin, Michigan Technological University; David Wanless, Michigan Technological University; Paul Sanders, Michigan Technological University; Scott W. Wagner, Michigan Technological University

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Engineering Technology

Figure 1: Kolb model of experiential learningUniversity Community NeedsThe leading factor in the development of a capstone project for ET students is to satisfy the goalsstated in the University strategic plan, where at Michigan Technological University the goalstates that the education experience will enrich lives and improve our world throughinterdisciplinary endeavors that span engineering, sciences and arts, technology, forestry, andbusiness.5 Not unlike many University missions, visions, strategic plans, and goals this planconveys good intentions, but lacks in direction or means to achieve those goals. The action planto achieve the goals becomes a task of the departments or program areas while planningcurriculum reform and revision through

Conference Session

Active and Project-based Learning

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joakim Sigurd Wren, Linköping University

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Mechanical Engineering

, its relevance in engineering and engineeringeducation cannot be underestimated, especially when having today´s energy andenvironmental concerns in mind.Despite the importance of the subject, it has been considered as “dry and abstract” bystudents 1. One reason might be that the subject has become more and more difficult to relateto its applications –the fundamentals principles are the same as for 150 years ago, but theapplications become more and more refined due to technological developments andinnovations. If so, it is altogether not surprising that students find engineeringthermodynamics abstract, being separated from its applications – this might be devastating forthe students’ interest and possibility to learn.An increase in student

Conference Session

FPD VIII: Crossing Bridges and Easing Transitions into the First Year

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Jones, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Carmen R. Zafft, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Evan T. Curtis, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

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First-Year Programs

the seminar evaluation resulting in a 93% response rate. Almost half (48%) of thestudents transferred from a two-year, traditional community college and 33.8% transferred froma four-year institution. The remaining students identified themselves as international students orsecond career students. See Table 1 for the transfer status of the students. Page 25.564.4 Table 1. Transfer Status of Seminar Students Frequency Percent Not identified 2 2.6 Four year transfer 26 33.8 Two year transfer 37

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Service as an Element of Education

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Rippon, Arizona State University; James Collofello, Arizona State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

: Bringing Math and Science to Life in the K-8 ClassroomAbstractMany sources note the rapid erosion in the United States’ competitiveness in science,technology, and engineering. They caution that the U.S. position as a global leader may beabruptly lost without a greatly expanded commitment to achieving success in advancededucation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The 2007 seminalreport regarding STEM education and careers, “Rising Above the Gathering Storm”1, makesnumerous recommendations in long-term approaches to remedying this quandary. Primary tothese recommendations is the need to increase America’s talent pool by vastly improving PreK-12 STEM education.The Mary Lou Fulton Teachers

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Projects in ECE

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph P. Hoffbeck, University of Portland

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Electrical and Computer

density of a recording of a person saying yes is compared to that of no, usuallythe spectrum of yes has more energy in the high frequencies because of the “s” sound in yes (seeFigure 1). Power Spectral Density -20 -40 Yes Power Spectrum Magnitude (dB) No -60 -80

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Tricks of the Trade

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephan A. Durham, University of Georgia; Wesley E. Marshall, University of Colorado, Denver

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Student

. A notable increase was observed in theaverage GPA between general male students and member male students. Femalestudents consistently produced higher GPA for all study groups.Organizational Structure and ActivitiesAcross the engineering disciplines are many organizations for student participation.These organizations range from honor societies in which students must be invited toparticipate or more general discipline specific organizations that are open to all students.Figure 1 is an abbreviated list of student organizations (Engineering StudentOrganizations, 2012): The organizational structure of many of these student run organizations is similar.Generally, the structure follows the format shown in Figure 2. Typically

Conference Session

Study Abroad, International Exchange Programs, and Student Engagements

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wilhelm Alex Friess, Rochester Institute of Technology, Dubai; Ivan E. Esparragoza, Pennsylvania State University, Brandywine; Dylan Connole

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International

Page 25.568.2by eight prestigious universities around the world5. The study resulted in fourrecommendations: (1) A key qualification of engineering graduates must be globalcompetence; (2) transnational mobility for engineering students, researchers, andprofessionals needs to become a priority; (3) global engineering excellence critically dependson a partnerships, especially those that link engineering education to professional practice;and (4) research is urgently needed on engineering in a global context.The challenges of educating world class engineers with global competencies have generatedchanges in the paradigm of engineering education that explore great variety ofteaching/learning approaches with the aim of forming the future engineers

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NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Elizabeth August, Loyola Marymount University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

software engineering.OverviewThe Teaching Artificial Intelligence as a Laboratory Science †1 (TAILS) project is designed todevelop a new paradigm for teaching introductory artificial intelligence (AI) concepts byimplementing an experiment-based approach modeled after the lab sciences. It explores whetherstructured labs with exercises that are completed in teams before students leave the classroomcan build a sense of accomplishment, confidence, community, and collaboration among students,characteristics which have been shown to be critical to retain women and non-traditionalcomputer science students in the field.TAILS presents to students an array of fundamental AI algorithms as a set of hands-on activitiesmade available through a database of lab

Conference Session

Graduate Education and Undergraduate Research-related Issues

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vladimir Genis, Drexel University; Jay J. Bhatt, Drexel University; Shawn A. Woodson, Drexel University

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Engineering Technology

campus. The information skills learned during the processcontribute to life-long learning among the students in this new online program. Assessmentsmechanisms are envisioned to measure students acquired information skills.IntroductionThe Master of Science in Engineering Technology (MSET) program started in the fall quarter ofthe 2010-2011 academic year (AY)1. The primary goal of the MSET is to develop advanced levelpractitioners in industry who are interested in:• developing marketable skills to meet evolving workforce demands• seeking professional development• expanding opportunities for professional advancement• pursuing a managerial positionThe MSET program provides a graduate level educational opportunity on a full- or part-time basis to

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason Yao, East Carolina University; Loren Limberis, East Carolina University; Steve Warren, Kansas State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

individual paces. Meanwhile, results from these generalengineering courses remind that one must be cautious when considering employing to studentswho do not have sufficient background in electric circuits. A. IntroductionAs part of a two year CCLI (TUES) project, this paper describes the continuing work of using aPortable Electronic Experiment Kit (PEEK, see references [1-4]) in two courses (ENGR 3014—CircuitAnalysis and ENGR 3050—Instrumentation and Controls) in a General Engineering program. In theproject, each student was given a set of PEEK, with which they were asked to prepare laboratoryassignments before lab times and complete unfinished hands-on work afterwards. The first year’sexperience has been reported in [1, 5], where the toolset was