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Retention Strategies in Action Part I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Two Year College Division

understandingthat the university wanted to help the CCs with their recruitment and retention of pre-engineeringand computer science students and to assist their students with transfer only after they could gono further in their engineering studies at the CC.Representatives from ASU and MCCCD worked together for several months writing a grant forthe National Science Foundation. The primary objective of the project was to work together on aprogram to encourage more potential and actual CC students to consider engineering. The firstauthor had discovered through her research that of the engineering transfer students in Fulton,many of them had gone to a CC with no particular major in mind and had decided on engineeringor computer science after they had

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Roemer, University of Utah; Stacy Bamberg, University of Utah; April Kedrowicz, University of Utah; Debra Mascaro, University of Utah

,” Journal of Engineering Education, 94 (1), Jan. 2005, p.147-164.4. Felder RM and Brent R, “The ABCs of Engineering Education: ABET, Bloom’s Taxonomy, Cooperative Learning, and so on,” Proceedings ASEE Conference, 2004, Session 1375.5. Bransford JD et al, How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School, National Academy Press, Washington DC, 2003.6. Lohmann JR, Editor, Journal of Engineering Education Special Issue: The Art and Science of Engineering Education Research, Jan. 2005.7. Bloom BS, Taxonomy of Educational Objectives 1. Cognitive Domain, Longman Press, NY, 1984.8. Dym CI and Little P, Engineering Design: A Project-Based Introduction, J. Wiley and Sons, Hoboken, NJ, 2nd Edition, 2004.9

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Engineering Design: Implementation and Evaluation

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shanna Daly, University of Michigan; Seda Yilmaz, University of Michigan; Colleen Seifert, University of Michigan; Richard Gonzalez, University of Michigan

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Educational Research and Methods

most of his concepts, he first suggested a food that could need to becooked with his product. He seemed to go through a list in his mind of the foods, and diversifiedhis designs by suggesting different foods he had not previously considered. For example, he saidbefore generating concept 9, “Other things to eat. We’ve got shish-kabobs, jerked meat, the driedherbs, the soups and things, um, let’s see.” For one of his concepts, he utilized the processheuristic of synthesizing by combining two previous concepts (concepts 3 and 4) into one new,superior concept (concept 5). Engineer 1 also emphasized different constraints from the problemas he worked. For example, in concept 2, he focused on "maximizing the intensity of thesunlight," while in the

Conference Session

Enhancing Recruitment and Retention in Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Beth McGinnis-Cavanaugh, Springfield Technical Community College; Glenn Ellis, Smith College; Diana Fiumefreddo, Smith College

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2010-1579: DRAFTING A BLUEPRINT FOR EDUCATING TOMORROW'SENGINEERS TODAYBeth McGinnis-Cavanaugh, Springfield Technical Community CollegeGlenn Ellis, Smith CollegeDiana Fiumefreddo, Smith College Page 15.430.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Drafting a Blueprint for Educating Tomorrow’s Engineers TodayIntroductionWith the establishment of a STEM middle school and other initiatives, the Springfield,Massachusetts Public School System (SPS) has made a commitment to excellence inTechnology/Engineering instruction for all of its 5700 students. To support this commitment, apartnership between the Springfield Middle Schools, Springfield Technical Community

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Steve Warren, Kansas State University; Jianchu Yao, East Carolina University

AC 2010-2156: PORTABLE CYBER-LABORATORIES FOR ELECTRICALENGINEERING EDUCATIONSteve Warren, Kansas State University Steve Warren received a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Kansas State University in 1989 and 1991, respectively, followed by a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin in 1994. Dr. Warren is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Kansas State University. Prior to joining KSU in August 1999, Dr. Warren was a Principal Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM. He directs the KSU Medical Component Design Laboratory, a facility supported by the National

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer-Part I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Chasnov

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Mechanical Engineering

Energy: Properties and Policy IssuesAbstractStudents following a curriculum designed to provide a degree in mechanical engineering (ME)inevitably take one or more courses in Thermodynamics along the way. One of the many keysbeing addressed in such courses is the Principle of Conservation of Energy, otherwise known asthe First Law of Thermodynamics. Whereas one of the program accreditation requirementsspecifically addresses the need to incorporate design of components or processes of thermalsystems1 into the curriculum, does this necessarily include all (or any) of the following: fossilfuel combustion, greenhouse gas production, alternative energy sources, energy conservation, orenergy policy?It is our contention

Conference Session

Novel Methods in Engineering Ethics

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Craig Titus, Purdue University; Carla Zoltowski, Purdue University; William Oakes, Purdue University

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Engineering Ethics

AC 2010-1428: INTEGRATING ETHICS CURRICULUM WITHIN ASERVICE-LEARNING DESIGN CONTEXTCraig Titus, Purdue University Craig Titus is a Ph.D. candidate in Philosophy at Purdue University and a graduate assistant for the EPICS Program, participating in the curriculum development and the research teams.Carla Zoltowski, Purdue University CARLA B. ZOLTOWSKI is Education Administrator of the EPICS Program at Purdue University. She received her BSEE and MSEE from Purdue University, and is a PhD Candidate in Engineering Education at Purdue. She has served as a lecturer in Purdue’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.William Oakes, Purdue University William Oakes is the Director of the

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mathew Hagge, Iowa State University; Gloria Starns, Iowa State University

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Mechanical Engineering

AC 2010-1510: CONCEPT BASED LEARNING: DEMONSTRATING ITSEFFECTIVENESS IN THERMODYNAMICSMathew Hagge, Iowa State UniversityGloria Starns, Iowa State University Page 15.307.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Concept Based Learning: Demonstrating its Effectiveness in Thermodynamics1. Project OverviewFeatures:This project examines the coupling of concept based learning and findings from the fields ofneurology and cognitive science to empower students to solve problems of increasingcomplexity. The central question the authors seek to answer is: does concept based learningoffer an advantage to students in terms of their ability

Conference Session

Contemporary Issues in Chemical Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Zollars, Washington State University; Christopher Hundhausen, Washington State University; Pawan agrawal, Washington State University

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Chemical Engineering

, HI.: ASEE.2 L. S. Vygotsky. 1978. Mind in society. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.3 C. Quintana, B. Reiser, E. Davis, J. Krajcik, E. Fretz, R.G. Duncan, E. Kyza, D. Edelson, and E. Soloway. 2004. Journal of the Learning Sciences 13, no. 3: 337-386.4 R.M. Felder and L.K. Silverman. 1988. Learning and Teaching Styles in Engineering Education. Engineering Education, 78 no. 7: 674-681.5 D. Norman and S. Draper, User-centered system design, Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc., Mahwah, NJ, Page 15.564.8 (1986).

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Engineering Management Program Design

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anoop Desai, Georgia Southern University; Jean-Claude Thomassian, State University of New York, Maritime College

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Engineering Management

AC 2010-382: CREATION OF A GRADUATE PROGRAM IN ENGINEERINGMANAGEMENT: APPLICATION OF BASIC SIX SIGMA PRINCIPLES TOCURRICULUM DESIGNAnoop Desai, Georgia Southern University Dr. Anoop Desai received his BS degree in Production Engineering from the University of Bombay in 1999, and MS and Ph.D. degrees in Industrial Engineering from The University of Cincinnati in 2002 and 2006. His main research interests are in Product Lifecycle Management, Design for the Environment, Total Quality Management including tools for Six Sigma and Ergonomics.Jean-Claude Thomassian, State University of New York, Maritime College Dr. Jean-Claude Thomassian received his BS degrees in Electrical Engineering and Mechanical

Conference Session

Industry Sponsored Research and Project Initiatives in Industrial Technology & Industrial Engineering Technology

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jorge Rodriguez, Western Michigan University; Alamgir Choudhury, Western Michigan University; Luis Rodriguez, University of Wisconsin - Waukesha

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Engineering Technology

redesigned electric nailfile.MethodologyThe project followed typical steps in engineering design process: 1. Research the existing devices in the market and identify issues that users might have. A survey was used in this phase. 2. Brainstorm to determine alternatives to address the issues with the initial goals in mind. 3. Evaluate concepts and implement in parametric CAD the top ideas in order to have better visualization and ability to make modification for improvement. 4. Fully develop the selected alternative. All components were modeled using Pro/E (most common software in shops in the area). Models of parts and assemblies, STL files for rapid prototyping, and production drawings for manufacturing were generated

Conference Session

Engaging Students

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Leslie Hadaway, Norwood High School; Megan Urbaitis, Norwood High School; Regina Lamendella, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Daniel Oerther, University of Cincinnati; Andrea Burrows, The University of Cincinnati; Mike Borowczak, The University of Cincinnati; Anant Kukreti, The University of Cincinnati

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Environmental Engineering

AC 2010-2129: ENGINEERING EDUCATION COLLABORATION: INNOVATIVEPEDAGOGICAL METHODS FOR HIGH SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITYENVIRONMENTALISTSLeslie Hadaway, Norwood High SchoolMegan Urbaitis, Norwood High SchoolRegina Lamendella, Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryDaniel Oerther, University of CincinnatiAndrea Burrows, The University of CincinnatiMike Borowczak, The University of CincinnatiAnant Kukreti, The University of Cincinnati Page 15.483.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Engineering Education Collaboration: Innovative Pedagogical Methods for High School and University EnvironmentalistsAbstractThis

Conference Session

Assessment & Continuous Improvement in ET: Part III

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ali Mehrabian, University of Central Florida; Walter Buchanan, Texas A&M University; Alireza Rahrooh, University of Central Florida; Tarig Ali, University of Central Florida; Saeid Moslehpour, University of Hartford

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Engineering Technology

Page 15.578.2is a crucial issue to the faculty. This process can be quite challenging at times particularly forthe faculty that do not have any prior experience with teaching online courses. Psychologicalsetbacks and barriers among undergraduate engineering students add another concern for thefaculty, i.e., students may have fears of losing partial credit in an online multiple-choiceassessment. The asynchronous and economical advantages of distance education and learningthat make offering and taking them very popular force the engineering education profession tore-examine, re-organize, and re-engineer some of the assessment-related issues that otherwisedon’t exist.The use of online-based, “honest, open book, open mind” approach is being

Conference Session

Contemporary Issues in Chemical Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University

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Chemical Engineering

. Page 15.90.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 A Sophomore Level Data Analysis Course Based on Best Practices from the Engineering Education LiteratureIntroductionAs educators are well aware, the customary educational setting in which students developproblem solving skills is one where the numerical values presented are specific and absolute. Thedeterministic nature of the end-of-chapter type problems is imbedded in their minds well beforestudents even matriculate.1,2 However, as practicing engineers, they will confront the variationassociated with measured data in the real world. Ideally, it is beneficial to prompt students toattend to the concept of variation early in their undergraduate studies. This

Conference Session

Engineering Management Program Design

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kathryn Abel, Stevens Institute of Technology; Anirban Ganguly, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Engineering Management

AC 2010-92: A COMPARATIVE INVENTORY OF CORE COURSES IN SELECTGRADUATE EM PROGRAMSKathryn Abel, Stevens Institute of TechnologyAnirban Ganguly, Stevens Institute of Technology Page 15.16.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010A Comparative Inventory of Core Courses in Select Graduate EM ProgramsAbstract:All educational programs should grow and change with the times. To be stagnant and acceptingof the status quo will not move an educational program forward, and may end up leaving it waybehind the leaders. With this in mind, an investigation into the current state of EngineeringManagement (EM) graduate education was undertaken. The study was intended to answerquestions

Conference Session

Capstone and Senior Design in Engineering Technology: Part II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Marshall, University of Southern Maine

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Engineering Technology

AC 2010-1540: A LABORATORY/DESIGN BASED, PROBLEM SOLVINGCAPSTONE HELPS ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGISTS HIT THE JOB MARKET!John Marshall, University of Southern Maine John Marshall received his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University and is the Internship Coordinator for the Department at the University of Southern Maine. His areas of specialization include Power and Energy Processing, Applied Process Control Engineering, Applied Automation Engineering, Fluid Power, and Facility Planning. Page 15.44.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 A Laboratory/Design Based, Problem Solving Capstone

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New Collaborations

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary Strife, West Virginia University

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Engineering Libraries

tutorials.However, we do not have the kind of technical support or the amount of time needed to doanything like that. We needed to use a product that we had easy access to and required littlesupport from our systems people. The Evansdale Library Instruction Coordinator worked to Page 15.839.3come up with some alternate ideas that would work for the project we had in mind. She viewedthe Penn State video and decided we could use Adobe Captivate to do a tutorial for our students.The libraries have access to and experience with Captivate but not Camtasia. This was a newlearning opportunity for the engineering librarian since there had never been a reason for her

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Enhancing Environmental Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

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Environmental Engineering

AC 2010-2378: ASSESSMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATIONMysore Narayanan, Miami University DR. MYSORE NARAYANAN obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Liverpool, England in the area of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He joined Miami University in 1980 and teaches a wide variety of electrical, electronic and mechanical engineering courses. He has been invited to contribute articles to several encyclopedias and has published and presented dozens of papers at local, regional, national and international conferences. He has also designed, developed, organized and chaired several conferences for Miami University and conference sessions for a variety of organizations. He is a senior member of

Conference Session

Contemporary Issues in Engineering Ethics

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Seamus Freyne, Manhattan College; J.Patrick Abulencia, Manhattan College; Powell Draper, Manhattan College

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Engineering Ethics

AC 2010-1257: FIRST YEAR ENGINEERING STUDENTS' PERCEPTIONS OFCONTEMPORARY ETHICAL ISSUESSeamus Freyne, Manhattan College A member of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) since 2003, Seamus Freyne is an assistant professor of civil engineering at Manhattan College in New York City. His research interests include concrete materials, infrastructure reliability, and ethics. He is also active with the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).J.Patrick Abulencia, Manhattan College James Patrick Abulencia is an assistant professor at Manhattan College. He received his B.S. degree in chemical engineering from Manhattan College, and his Ph.D. in chemical and biomolecular

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Implementing the CE BOK into Courses and Curricula

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Doran, University of WIsconsin-Madison; Charlie Quagliana, University of WIsconsin-Madison; Norman Doll, University of WIsconsin-Madison; Jeffrey Russell, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Greg Harrington, University of WIsconsin-Madison

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Civil Engineering

taken by our department, therefore, is to enhance the breadth anddepth of knowledge within the collective faculty in both theoretical and practice areas byincorporating adjunct faculty having extensive knowledge and experience in contemporaryprofessional practice including project selection, design, construction, and commissioning, aswell as in related areas of teaming and communications.Adjunct Faculty CharterWith the above goals and benefits in mind, The University of Wisconsin-Madison Department ofCivil and Environmental Engineering has developed a charter to help define the purpose ofadjunct faculty and their integration to department functions. A copy of the charter is outlined inAppendix B. The charter was formally adopted by the

Conference Session

Understanding and Measuring the Impact of Multidisciplinarity

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

AC 2010-2388: ASSESSMENT OF INSTRUCTIONAL SYSTEMS DESIGNMysore Narayanan, Miami University DR. MYSORE NARAYANAN obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Liverpool, England in the area of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He joined Miami University in 1980 and teaches a wide variety of electrical, electronic and mechanical engineering courses. He has been invited to contribute articles to several encyclopedias and has published and presented dozens of papers at local, regional, national and international conferences. He has also designed, developed, organized and chaired several conferences for Miami University and conference sessions for a variety of organizations. He is a senior

Conference Session

Teaching Mechanical Systems: What's New

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joseph Walchko, United States Military Academy

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Mechanical Engineering

demonstrations exist to aid in thisunderstanding of motion and rigid body kinetics, however, the military tank is one of the bestexamples for many aspects of rigid body kinematics covered in an undergraduate dynamicscourse. Nearly every student can picture, in his or her mind, a military tank and the motion ofthe chassis and the independent motion of the turret atop this chassis. It is this easy vision whichallows the military tank to become such a powerful model for student understanding of rigidbody kinematics in an undergraduate engineering course. The military tank is useful to showkinematic concepts of relative velocity, rotating reference frames, relative motion, andinstantaneous centers of rotations. The military tank is a single example that an

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Issues and Directions in ET Education & Administration: Part III

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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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

an undergraduate student in the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at IUPUI.Kelly Keelen, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Kelly Keelen is Administrative Coordinator of Academic Programs in the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at IUPUI. Page 15.632.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 GREAT Environments for Student SuccessAbstractGREAT is an acronym that stands for Graduate, Retain, Engage, Admit, and Tell. It is anorganizing framework that reverse-engineers the process of how students interact with ourschool. By beginning with the end in mind

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Newly Developed Engineering Courses

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Thomas Dobrowski, Purdue University-North Central

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Engineering Technology

AC 2010-1462: PROPOSED FRESHMEN EXPERIENCE COURSEThomas Dobrowski, Purdue University-North Central Page 15.1006.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Proposed Freshmen Experience CourseAbstractThere are many college campus’s moving towards Freshmen Experience courses as part of aGeneral Education. While at first glance this may appear appropriate “on paper”, a one size fits allapproach does not seem logical for such varied plans of study. Each college places academicemphasis in different areas. This makes a “one size fits all” approach to a freshman experiencecourse weak as the expectations that the faculty will have of their students will vary with

Conference Session

Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lily Laiho, California Polytechnic State University; Richard Savage, California Polytechnic State University; James Widmann, California Polytechnic State University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

AC 2010-1735: A NEW FULL YEAR MULTIDISCIPLINARY ENGINEERINGSENIOR DESIGN PROJECT COURSE: STRUCTURE, CONTENT AND LESSONSLEARNEDLily Laiho, California Polytechnic State UniversityRichard Savage, California Polytechnic State UniversityJames Widmann, California Polytechnic State University Page 15.65.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 A New Full Year Multidisciplinary Engineering Senior Design Project Course: Structure, Content and Lessons LearnedAbstract A new full-year multidisciplinary senior design project course has been implemented atCalifornia Polytechnic State University. This course series utilizes externally sponsoredcomprehensive

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Implementing the CE BOK into Courses and Curricula

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Wilfrid Nixon, University of Iowa

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Civil Engineering

AC 2010-895: USING HISTORY TO REINFORCE ETHICS AND EQUILIBRIUMWilfrid Nixon, University of Iowa Wilfrid Nixon is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Iowa, and has been on the faculty there since 1987. In addition to his research on winter highway maintenance, he has also conducted research into student learning, and ways in which faculty can enhance such learning. He has been involved both with the Civil Engineering Division of ASEE and with the ASCE Committee on Faculty Development, and has also both attended and served as a mentor at ExCEEd Teaching Workshops. He plays bad golf, and also dances the Argentine Tango

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Sustainability, Service Learning, and Entreprenuership

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anouk Desjardins, École Polytechnique de Montréal; Louise Millette, École Polytechnique de Montréal; Erik Bélanger, École Polytechnique de Montréal

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

such changes, the civil engineering professorscompared the competencies achieved in each program course with the desired competenciesusing a matrix, as suggested in Civil Engineering, Body of Knowledge for the 21st Century3.This examination showed that the civil engineering program should better integrateenvironmental management and sustainable development into its courses to ensure that studentsdevelop the desired competencies.The idea of “contaminating” the civil engineering program with sustainable developmentcrystallized in the mind of Professor Louise Millette (Associate Professor and Director of theDepartment of Civil, Geological and Mining Engineering) following an analysis of the

Conference Session

Assessment & Continuous Improvement in ECET: Part I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kathleen Ossman, University of Cincinnati

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Engineering Technology

AC 2010-473: AN ASSESSMENT AND DATA COLLECTION PROCESS FOREVALUATING STUDENT PROGRESS ON "A-K" ABET EDUCATIONALOUTCOMESKathleen Ossman, University of Cincinnati Dr. Kathleen Ossman is an associate professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology Department at the University of Cincinnati. She earned a BSEE and MSEE from Georgia Tech in 1982 and a Ph.D. from the University of Florida in 1986. Her interests include digital signal processing and feedback control. Page 15.141.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 An Assessment and Data Collection Process for Evaluating

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Industry Sponsored Research and Project Initiatives in Industrial Technology & Industrial Engineering Technology

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth Cook, Lawrence Tech University; Donald Reimer, Lawrence Technological University; Sabah Abro, Lawrence Tech University

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Engineering Technology

AC 2010-971: ENTREPRENEURIAL EXPERIENCES AND INTELLECTUALPROPERTY: A STUDENT PERSPECTIVEKenneth Cook, Lawrence Tech University Ken Cook is the chair of the Department of Engineering Technology in the College of Engineering. Mr. Cook is a registered professional engineer, a certified clinical engineer, and holds some 28 patents of his own. He holds degrees from or attended DeVry Technical Institute, Lawrence Technological University, Wayne State University, and Oakland University. Cook has many years of experience in engineering management and sales. His was most recently executive vice president and chief engineer for Vultron/Trans Industries. His earlier positions included General Manager

Conference Session

Alternate Energy

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Luces Faulkenberry, University of Houston; Wajiha Shireen, University of Houston

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Engineering Technology

a plug-in hybrid SUV. TheElectrical Power Engineering Technology (EPET) faculty was very interested in such projects.The Electrical Power Engineering Technology major has a long relationship with the distributionarea of the CenterPoint Energy, but had no knowledge of their interest in PHEVs. TheCenterPoint Energy representative said the company wished to have a joint effort withUniversity of Houston to provide good advertising for both the company and the university, andto strengthen the linkage between the company and the university. The project would be to putyoung minds to work on PHEVs and PHEV implementation problems to see what might bediscovered. The electrical power technology faculty members were very interested in projectsthat