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Biological & Agricultural Division Technical Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tammara Ramírez Apud L., Universidad de las Americas Puebla; Judith Virginia Gutierrez Cuba; Nelly Ramirez-Corona, Universidad de las Americas Puebla; Aurelio Lopez-Malo, Universidad de las Americas Puebla; Enrique Palou, Universidad de las Americas Puebla

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Diversity

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Biological & Agricultural

Américas Puebla (UDLAP).Problems vary in different ways, so different kinds of problems call on different conceptions andskills 2-4. Based on those differences among problems, different kinds of food engineeringproblems were developed such as decision-making, troubleshooting/diagnosis, and designproblems. For seven PSLEs' assignments an Argumentation Rubric (adapted from Jonassen2),was utilized to assess students' (n=81) argumentation skills, particularly adequacy of premises,credibility of premises, organization of arguments, quality of conclusions (claims), and writing(content/ideas). Four evaluators assessed student papers and videos. Furthermore, the mostcommon method for assessing argumentation, protocol analysis of student essays or

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2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Mehdi Khazaeli; Camilla Saviz

, financial evaluation, benefit cost analysis,resource allocation, time/cost tradeoffs, team-building, progress monitoring and risk assessment.Future professional challenges involve real problems faced by real people living in realcommunities and contain both technical and non-technical elements. Integrated and collaborativeeducational experiences can help students to meet these challenges successfully. This project gavestudents an opportunity to overcome obstacles and step out of their comfort zones. Students learnedthe value of a committed team and gained confidence to lead and take risks, realizing that nothingworthwhile comes easily. Assignments, progress reports, a final report, and peer evaluations wereused to assess student learning outcomes

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Materials Division Technical Session 2

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Isaac L. Howard P.E., Mississippi State University; Braden T. Smith, Mississippi State University

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Materials

LaboratoryAbstractThis paper describes a construction materials laboratory that interfaces what are often lessdesirable activities for engineering students (i.e., writing, presenting) with physical experimentsand calculations. The paper’s primary objective is to present the recent incorporation of panelevaluations to expose students to presenting and to emphasize competition. Writing exerciseshave been part of the laboratory for years, and are described in some detail. Emphasis is on oralcommunication. As might be expected, student responses to these panels have varied widely,though overall assessments to date seem to indicate value added to the laboratory experience.1.0 Introduction and BackgroundTechnical communication (oral and written) is a formidable

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Civil Engineering Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Douglas G Schmucker, University of Utah; Steven J. Burian, University of Utah

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Civil Engineering

.) • Writing Consultant (CLEAR) 4910 15 to 30 3 • Oral Presentation Consultant (CLEAR)Original Instructor Team Model within the Professional Skills SpineAs initially conceived, each of the three courses utilized an instructional team to organize,facilitate and delivery instruction, and provide feedback to the students. Table 2 shows typicalclass sizes, the number of times that the class has been offered in an academic year, and theinstructor team in each of the courses. The instructor teams and the courses were specificallydesigned to integrate with the Communications, Leadership, Ethics, and Research (CLEAR)Program in the College of Engineering at University of Utah.In the original model, the lead instructor was a

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Enviromental Engineering Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephanie Butler Velegol, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Environmental Engineering

their responseswith their peers in a group setting and write down their responses.The instructor then shows the students a framework using an additional scenario (odorsemanating from a sewer). The instructor explains how the solution would involve not only atechnical solution but also a consideration of the 4 Ps. The students are then asked to re-writetheir questions with the 4 Ps in mind. After the activity the students were asked to write downwhat they learned and what surprised them about this activity. These three scenarios are thenrevisited by the students at the end of the semester after they have learned the technicalsolutions.In this presentation, I will discuss the students’ responses before and after the framework wasdiscussed and at

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Teaching Problem Solving in a Multidisciplinary Context

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Luciana C. El Debs, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Rich Dionne, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Marisa Exter, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Mark Shaurette, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

. Observations were made duringclass time, in the last months of the students’ first semester in the program. Using Jonassen’s9seven steps of ill-defined problem solutions to classify the observations and analyze howsuccessfully peer contributions are made by each student, researchers are able to follow howstudents collaborate, organize themselves, and share experiences to conduct their design tasks.Also, one of the authors of this study, who was one of the course instructors, shares his thoughtson the experience of teaching this course for students with varying backgrounds and interests.This paper approaches multidisciplinary problem solving through the lens of socialconstructivism. In this sense researchers assumed that students learn from sharing

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 2

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Madhumitha Ramachandran, University of Oklahoma; Diana Bairaktarova, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; Anna Woodcock, California State University San Marcos; Othman Mohammed Bawareth, University of Oklahoma

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics

engineering ethics, peer-to-peer learning in the design process has helped her identify the effective approaches to educate engineering students, in order to meet the demands of their profession. She will be starting her PhD in the fall of 2015 at The University of Oklahoma.Dr. Diana Bairaktarova, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK Dr. Diana Bairaktarova is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Practice in the College of Engineering at University of Oklahoma. Through real-world engineering applications, Dr. Bairaktarova’s experiential learning research spans from engineering to psychology to learning sciences, as she uncovers how indi- vidual performance is influenced by aptitudes, spatial skills, personal interests and

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Multidisciplinary Capstone and Collaborative Projects

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jessica Macklin, University of Maryland, College Park; Kylie Goodell King, University of Maryland, College Park

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

and others that are not as successful. Projects thatincorporate small wins throughout the semester typically have better outcomes as students aremore engaged in the project from the start and build momentum as they progress toward the finalproject deliverables. An example of a project that works well in this regard is using data toidentify relevant metrics and using these metrics to create a tool. A Fall 2014 project involvedanalyzing the elements of customer payment tendencies that ultimately impact cash-on-hand.This required distinct phases that helped keep the team engaged in the project.Conversely, projects that require teams to conduct research among industry peers or competitorsare typically not successful. QUEST students do not have

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Cultivating Engineering Scholarship and Research Mindsets Among URM Students

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David M. Ford, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Paula Rees, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Kathleen G. Rubin, University of Massachusetts Amherst

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering

, subject to areview of academic progress and financial eligibility. Some students were offered less than twoyears of support due to limited availability of project funds near the end of a grant period, and asmall number of students left the program.Activities. All S-STEM program activities were run or coordinated through the CoE’s EventsOffice with assistance from the Diversity Programs Office (DPO). The mission of the DPO is toprovide academic and non-academic support to increase enrollment, retention, and graduationamong under-represented minorities and women, but DPO services are available to all CoEstudents. The DPO collaborates with the university’s Learning Resource Center (LRC) toprovide academic support services and essay writing support

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Concurrent Paper Tracks - Session I

Collection

2015 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Jacqueline Gartner Ph.D., Washington State University; Bernard J. Van Wie, Washington State University

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International Forum

enhancing the understanding ofbiomass conversion technology and meeting the challenges of implementation in a developingnation. This project focuses on a global problem, energy demand, and utilizes an existingcollaboration to develop a miniaturized hands-on learning module for implementation in theclassroom and train future engineers from both sites while exposing them to internationalcollaborations to develop their problem-solving skills. The module is being designed toovercome process implementation barriers in resource limited environments like Nigeria.Discussions for writing and submitting the USAID-PEER proposal that supports this work wereinitiated by Washington State University (WSU) with Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) in Zaria,Nigeria, and

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Women in Engineering Division: Student Issues as Related to Culture

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Julie Rojewski, Michigan State University; Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

Paper ID #11658Graduate Women ”Lean In”: Building Community and Broadening Under-standingJulie RojewskiDr. Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University Katy Luchini-Colbry is the Director for Graduate Initiatives at the College of Engineering at Michigan State University, where she completed degrees in political theory and computer science. A recipient of a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, she earned Ph.D. and M.S.E. in computer science and engineering from the University of Michigan. She has published more than two dozen peer-reviewed works related to her interests in educational technology and enhancing undergraduate

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First-year Programs Division Technical Session 8: Project-based Learning and Cornerstone Courses

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kyle G. Gipson, James Madison University; Justin J Henriques; Sancho Sequeira

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First-Year Programs

. 3) Professionalism and Ethics - Helping students understand the role of the engineer in our department and our profession.  Learning Communities    To facilitate the creation community, the class is divided into “families” of approximatelyten to thirteen first year students per family. Each of these teams is led by a pair of peer-mentors (students in the Madison Engineering Leadership Program).    Learning Activities    Students are instructed to share and document their process, sources of inspiration, andprototypes through sending tweets to the class Twitter account. The use of Twitter helpsus:   1) Create community within and across the department 2) Encourage students to think about their professional online

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 1

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bill D Carroll P.E., University of Texas, Arlington; Bob P. Weems, University of Texas, Arlington; Bahram Khalili, University of Texas, Arlington

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Engineering Ethics

personal commercial or sales pitch.  Term Essay – Students write a 500-word essay on a contemporary issue related to computing technology or a 500-word proposal for funding of a start-up company.Students are given letter grades in the course (A, B, C, D, F) rather than being graded Pass/Fail.There are two reasons for this. First, the College of Engineering policy requires it, and, second,it emphasizes the importance of the course. Currently, grades are based on student performanceon four assignments (10-points each) and three examinations (20-points each). The assignmentsare discussed in more detail below. Examinations are primarily objective (true/false, multiplechoice, and fill-in-the blanks) and given at the one-third and two-third

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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sushil Acharya, Robert Morris University; Priya Manohar, Robert Morris University; Peter Y Wu, Robert Morris University; Ali A. Ansari, Virginia State University; Walter W Schilling Jr., Milwaukee School of Engineering

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Ph. D. in Materials Engineering (1998) and Graduate Diploma in Computer Science (1999) from Uni- versity of Wollongong, Australia and holds Bachelor of Engineering (Metallurgical Engineering) degree from Pune University, India (1985). He has worked as a post-doctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon Uni- versity, Pittsburgh (2001 – 2003) and BHP Institute for Steel Processing and Products, Australia (1998 – 2001). Dr. Manohar held the position of Chief Materials Scientist at Modern Industries, Pittsburgh (2003 – 2004) and Assistant Manager (Metallurgy Group), Engineering Research Center, Telco, India (1985 – 1993). He has published over 55 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences including a 2007 Best Paper Award

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Problem-based and Active Learning

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dick Blandford, University of Evansville; Mark Earl Randall, University of Evansville

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Electrical and Computer

to one week. The typicaldivision of work for four students is: a) develop an algorithm and write the software; b) design Page 26.59.3and implement the circuit; c) design the power supply and the project packaging; and d) monitorprogress, write all reports, verify design, and provide a testing procedure. All team membersconsider safety and reliability.High Altitude Balloon Sensor Package: Students design and build a sensor package to go into ahigh altitude balloon that will soar to about 100,000 feet and parachute down to be recovered viaGPS signal. The sensor package monitors temperature which can be as low as -70o F. Thetypical division of

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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keith A. Schimmel, North Carolina A&T State University; Ghasem Shahbazi, North Carolina A&T State University; Shamsuddin Ilias, North Carolina A&T State University; Lijun Wang, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Center significantly “improves” technical writing andpresentation skills. Suggestions students provided for improving their research experiencesincluded increasing their access to instruments and equipment, ensuring more opportunities topresent at conferences, emphasizing the need for students obtaining work or teaching experience,and providing more mentoring by faculty.Mentoring was recognized by both faculty and students as a critical way to develop graduatestudents' research knowledge and skills. Benefits noted by students and faculty on meetingwithin and across thrust areas include "cross-pollination" of ideas, general awareness of research,feedback and group discussion, and peer pressure to produce work, as well as an opportunity forthem to

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First-year Programs Division Technical Session 4: The Best of the All: FPD Best Papers

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christina H Paguyo, Colorado State University; Rebecca A Atadero, Colorado State University; Karen E Rambo-Hernandez, West Virginia University; Jennifer Francis, West Virginia University

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First-Year Programs

Paper ID #12401Creating Inclusive Environments in First-Year Engineering Classes to Sup-port Student Retention and LearningDr. Christina H Paguyo, Colorado State University Christina H. Paguyo, PhD, is a postdoctoral fellow in the College of Engineering at Colorado State Uni- versity. Her research interests focus on mixed methods approaches for designing and examining educa- tional environments grounded in research, theory, and equity. She has co-authored peer-reviewed articles published in the Peabody Journal of Education and the Encyclopedia of Diversity in Education.Dr. Rebecca A Atadero, Colorado State University

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Self-efficacy and Emotion: ERM Roundtable

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ellen L Usher, University of Kentucky; Natasha Aniceto Mamaril, University of Illinois ; Caihong Li, University of Kentucky; David Ross Economy, Clemson University Department of Materials Science and Engineering; Marian S. Kennedy, Clemson University

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Educational Research and Methods

engineeringstudents. Some evidence suggests that social messages affect women more than men. Womenwho pursued careers in mathematics, sciences, and technology consistently reported that themessages sent to them about capabilities in these male-dominated fields served as crucial sourcesof their self-efficacy21, a finding echoed in interviews conducted by Hutchison et al.15 withsecond-year engineering students. Other researchers have shown more generally that beingencouraged by peers and faculty makes students more likely to put forth effort and persevere intheir majors4, 11, 15.Fewer studies have focused on examining the influential role of emotional and physiologicalstates on the students’ sense of efficacy in engineering. Hutchison et al.20 found that

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Research to Practice: STRAND 3 – Principles of K-12 Engineering Education and Practice

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan R Zubarriain, Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology; Nicholas Kumia, Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology; Shouling He, Vaughn College of Aeronautics & Technology

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

their robot, their first assignment was to write a program to allow therobot to move forward for one meter, turn 180 degrees and then move forward for another meter.By gradually introducing new programming techniques, the level of programming difficulty wasincreased. During the 3rd week of the course, the students were introduced to functions whichmade repetitive code more efficient and programmer-friendly. By this time, the moreexperienced programmers were actively helping the less experienced. Peer work always workshand-in-hand with teacher instruction. In the 4th week, before students would begin their finalprojects, the final objective was to program the remote controller. The course was designed thisway to ensure that students would not

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Nuclear and Radiological Division Technical Session 1

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Masoud Naghedolfeizi, Fort Valley State University; Sanjeev Arora, Fort Valley State University

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Nuclear and Radiological

and Online Teaching (MERLOT) is perhapsthe most centralized source of obtaining web-based learning and teaching resources for variousscience and engineering disciplines4. These resources include tutorials, simulations, lecturenotes, demonstrations, and/or online classes/labs. MERLOT also includes a peer-review ratingsystem to evaluate web-based resources based on content, quality, technical presentation, andease of use. Page 26.682.2The MERLOT site includes relatively rich amount of resources for engineering disciplines.However, the resources available for nuclear engineering are limited and only include onlineclasses from major universities

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Idea Generation and Creativity in Design

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emily Ann Marasco, University of Calgary; Laleh Behjat P.Eng.; William Daniel Rosehart P.Eng., University of Calgary

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

component. A group specializing inengineering teamwork psychology also provided material for the students to appropriate handleteam conflict resolution. Teaching assistants were also engaged in ensuring that students werecontributing during lab time. Students reported that while it was difficult for four people to workon the code, peer-programming techniques allowed multiple team members to write code,alongside the work needed to complete the testing, documentation, and presentation deliverables.Students were also graded by their peers. Each team rotated around the room and attempted eachgame in their lab section, giving each other team an anonymously reported grade. The gameprototypes were graded on three main aspects: does the game satisfy the

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Curriculum Design and Evaluation

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Benjamin Crilly, U.S. Coast Guard Academy; Richard J. Hartnett P.E., U.S. Coast Guard Academy

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Electrical and Computer

document that describes the essential contentof the course (i.e. syllabus, learning objectives, outcomes, projects, sample exams, sample notes,etc.), assessment data and rubrics, and recommended changes. This EOCR package can then beused to (a) give the next instructor a suitable starting point for when they teach the course, (b)provide assessment information for program reviews and curriculum revisions, (c) provideassessment data to serve as a reference point for when the next time the outcomes are assessed,and (d) provide necessary and objective information to the person writing the accreditation self-study document. This latter point is especially important since in the case of ABET accreditedprograms, the EOCR contributes to a well-documented

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2015 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Paul B. Crilly; Richard J. Hartnett

reference point for when the next time the outcomes are assessed, and (d)provide necessary and objective information to the person writing the accreditation self-studydocument. This latter point is especially important since in the case of ABET accreditedprograms, the EOCR contributes to a well-documented story on how a program is meeting itsassigned student outcomes and to what degree there is continuous improvement. The EOCR isespecially valuable for curriculum reviews since changes to the particulars of a program arebased on hard evidence as stated in the EOCR and not simply anecdotal stories.Key aspects of the EOCR process include: the instructor and interested faculty that generate theEOCR document, and the assessment tools and corresponding

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Reimagining Engineering Information Literacy: Novel Perspectives on Integration, Assessment, Competencies & Information Use

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Farshid Zabihian, West Virginia University Institute of Technology; Mary L. Strife, West Virginia University; Marian G. Armour-Gemmen, West Virginia University

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Engineering Libraries

Paper ID #12574Integration of Information Literacy Skills to Mechanical Engineering Cap-stone ProjectsDr. Farshid Zabihian, West Virginia University Institute of Technology Farshid Zabihian, Ph.D., P.Eng. Assistant Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering West Virginia University Institute of Technology Education: Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering,Ryerson University, 2011 M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, 1998 B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Amir Kabir University of Technology, 1996 Authored or coauthored more than 70 papers in Journals and peer-reviewed conferences.Ms. Mary L

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Entrepreneurship Education in New Contexts

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark M. Budnik, Valparaiso University

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Diversity

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

there is no consensus at this stage, it is agreed that innovation isthe key and engineering is essential to this task….”Of the identified soft skills, engineering students are often most challenged to develop and honetheir skills in creativity and innovation. For engineers, creativity may be defined as developingnovel and original ideas with emphasis on their applicability to solving problems2, 3. This Page 26.748.2definition of creativity is more specific for engineering students than for students in other majors(i.e. art, music, creative writing, theater, etc.). For engineers to exercise creativity within theirdiscipline, they must emphasize

Conference Session

Software and Programming

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Priya Manohar, Robert Morris University; Sushil Acharya, Robert Morris University; Peter Y. Wu, Robert Morris University; Ali A. Ansari, Virginia State University; Walter W. Schilling Jr., Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Diversity

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Computers in Education

at Carnegie Mellon Uni- versity, Pittsburgh (2001 – 2003) and BHP Institute for Steel Processing and Products, Australia (1998 – 2001). Dr. Manohar held the position of Chief Materials Scientist at Modern Industries, Pittsburgh (2003 – 2004) and Assistant Manager (Metallurgy Group), Engineering Research Center, Telco, India (1985 – 1993). He has published over 55 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences including a 2007 Best Paper Award by the Manufacturing Division of American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), three review papers and three book chapters. He has participated in numerous national and inter- national conferences. He is a member of ASM International, TMS, ACerS, AIST, ASEE, and a

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First-year Programs Division Technical Session 3: Diversity and Multicultural Influences in the First Year

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth A Adams, Chandler Gilbert Community College; Claire Louise Antaya Dancz, Arizona State University; Amy E. Landis, Arizona State University

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First-Year Programs

sustainable systems with over 60 peer-reviewed publications. Dr. Landis is dedicated to sustainability engineering education and outreach; she works with local high schools, after school pro- grams, local nonprofit organizations, and museums to integrate sustainability and engineering into K-12 and undergraduate curricula. Page 26.915.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Improving engineering student persistence and diversity through conative understandingAbstractEngineering teaching strategies that engage students are desperately needed to recruit

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Ralph C. Tillinghast; Amelia W. Wright; Leslie A. Stevens

OptimizationThe concern over quality of education is a logical one for MOOCs. Areas such as the loss ofgroup work, in class discussions, individual student tailoring based on student ability, studentlearning through instructor feedback, and motivation are all areas that MOOC courses will needto heavily focus on. Some MOOCs have begun to address some of these concerns by integratingself generating study groups to take advantage of the cooperative learning philosophy11 that hasbeen steadily growing as a teaching method at all grade levels. Utilizing the cooperative learningapproach fits well with the MOOCs as it allows the teacher to reduce their role as lecturer andassessor of materials, pushing more of the learning to the student and peer to peer

Conference Session

Concurrent Paper Tracks - Session II

Collection

2015 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Sigrid -- Berka, University of Rhode Island; Emily Ann Serman, University of Rhode Island; Megan Mercedes Echevarria, University of Rhode Island; Lars O. Erickson, University of Rhode Island; Silke A. Scholz; Anette Geithner

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International Forum

planned. During the year the students also perform different fundraisingactivities and assist their faculty advisor with grant writing to support the trip expenses includingsupplies and maintenance of equipment. Since their formation the faculty-ESW-students haveraised more than $80K from federal and private foundations as well as support from individuals.Selection criteria for the team that will be going to Guatemala, are based on contributions to thestudents’ organizations, participation, as well as professional and personal skills. Spanish IEPstudents are highly valued amongst their ESW peers, because their language skills are essentialfor the educational activities that are simultaneously performed alongside the engineering work,and because

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Qualitative Methodologies

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy E. Slaton, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.); Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

Paper ID #12048The Power and Politics of STEM Research Design: Saving the ”Small N”Prof. Amy E. Slaton, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.) Amy E. Slaton is a Professor of History at Drexel University. She write on issues of identity in STEM education and labor, and is the author of Race, Rigor and Selectivity in U.S. Engineering: The History of an Occupational Color Line .Prof. Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette Alice Pawley is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering Education and an affiliate faculty member in the Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies Program and the Division of