Conference Session

Developments in BME Pedagogy and Assessment

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alyssa Catherine Taylor, University of Washington; Kelli Jayn Nichols, University of Washington, Seattle, Department of Bioengineering; Laura Wright, University of Washington; Christopher Neils, University of Washington

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Biomedical

indicated that they were overall well-satisfied withthe bioengineering program (3.8 ± 0.4, on a 5 point scale), 71% of the group session reports citedthe desire for track-based elective options based on a thrust area, in order to increase thespecificity of their knowledge. The desire for specialized track-based elective options wasrecapitulated in student alumni surveys as well. Based on this feedback, we plan to implement arequirement for focus area specialization in the new curriculum.Based on both the quality of students admitted and graduated and on the placement of ourgraduates in top graduate schools, medical schools, and local industry, we were alreadyproviding a strong and successful program. Nonetheless, the ongoing assessment

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Methods and Learning Models

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Douglas Sugg, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Corona Division; John V Fishell, Science and Technology Education Partnership (STEP) ; Arman Hovakemian, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Corona Division

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

assisting with and judging science fairs and competitions, mentoring and tutoring localstudents, hosting DoD scholarship and fellowship recipients, providing laboratory tours toschools, and partnering with science and mathematics teachers in the classroom. However, DoDhas come to recognize that although these many individual efforts at STEM outreach areimportant, they will not be sufficient in themselves to meet the domestic and global STEMeducation challenges that weaken the security of the United States. DoD has, therefore,developed and issued the first DoD STEM Education and Outreach Strategic Plan that iscollaborative, integrative, and focused across all of DoD. The strategic plan establishes a DoDSTEM Development Office to lead STEM education

Conference Session

Materials Experiments, Labs, Demos, and Hands-On Activities

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David S. Cottrell, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Chung-Suk Cho, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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Materials

in 1987 and a Ph.D. in 1995. He is a reg- istered Professional Engineer with the Commonwealth of Virginia. With more than 13 years professorial experience, he has taught a large variety of courses including statics, dynamics, mechanics of materials, graphic communications, engineering economy, and construction planning, scheduling, estimating, and management.Chung-Suk Cho, University of North Carolina, Charlotte Dr. Chung-Suk Cho is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Department of Engineering Technology. His teaching and research focus on project scope definition, pre-project planning, sustainable construction, project administration, construction safety, construction

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J. Neubert, University of North Dakota; Deborah Worley, University of North Dakota; Naima Kaabouch, Electrical Engineering Department, University of North Dakota

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NSF Grantees

real world engineering problems. Moreover, theprogram aims to strengthen students’ commitment to their chosen academic department and helpthem to feel as if they belong to a community. The presented program uses a novel method todeliver the engineering content without the need for significant institutional change. This willallow it to be easily adopted by other institutions.This paper describes a plan to use modules and mentors as a vehicle to deliver engineeringcontent to engineering students in calculus. The modules will be composed of a series of selfcontained engineering problems that highlight important calculus concepts. Students will meetin small groups to discuss the modules. The group discussion will be facilitated by upper

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pratibha Varma-Nelson, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis; Stephen Hundley, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis; Terri Tarr, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis

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NSF Grantees

principal goals of the workshop were:1. To outline strategies for leveraging resources and expertise at existing CTLs to enhance undergraduate engineering education;2. To identify programs, support and resources from CTLs appropriate for engineering faculty to enhance lifelong development as educators;3. To identify ways of utilizing faculty insight into student learning issues and difficulties with content to inform the planning of professional development programs; and4. To prepare recommendations for how engineering administrators could support and recognize educational innovation and professional development through a partnership with CTLs

Conference Session

The Best of Design in Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zeshan Hyder, Virginia Tech & UET Lahore; Zulfiqar Ali, Virginia Polytechnic State University; Janis P. Terpenny, Virginia Tech; Richard M. Goff, Virginia Tech

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Design in Engineering Education

learning outcomes in the form of competence andabilities desired, development of course content to achieve these outcomes [1], proper utilizationof available data and resources, development of assessment criteria and student feedback. “It is acontinuous process that starts with course planning, continues with lesson design and delivery,moves through student assessment and grading to conclude with course evaluation andrevision”[2]. Several aspects of course design process are available in literature [3-5]. The processof course designing and update is a non-trivial task. It requires effective organization of differenttasks, coordination of efforts and involves extensive decision making about the way course willbe taught[5] to achieve desired

Conference Session

Capstone Design I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregory K Watkins, California State University, Chico

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Design in Engineering Education

estimating, budgets, documentation, and formalreports. Each project group is required to give three oral presentations during the semester. Thepresentation topics are Project Proposal, Midterm Review, and Final Design. The semesterconcludes with submission of a comprehensive design report.The spring semester includes less time in the classroom and more time spent building and testingthe designs. Students are required to develop a comprehensive test plan to prove thespecifications developed in the fall semester. They then fabricate and test the design, and inmost cases, proceed directly to redesign activities. The semester concludes with a final oral

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie Martin Trenor, Clemson University

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NSF Grantees

interactions that influence under-represented students’ decisions to enter and persist in engineering.Research and Education GoalsThe specific goals of this NSF CAREER-funded project are to (1) build a conceptual model forunderstanding how engineering undergraduates develop, access and activate social capital inmaking academic and career decisions, (2) identify and characterize the potentially distinctmechanisms by which under-represented students utilize social ties that link them to resourcesrelated to engineering studies and (3) implement an education plan that provides research-to-practice training for university engineering outreach, recruitment, and retention practitionersusing webinars and workshops as learning forums.Theoretical FrameworkThe

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Cherif Megri, University of Wyoming

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

elements of other engineering disciplines,including mechanical, electrical, fire protection, and others. The architectural engineers areresponsible for the different systems within a building, structure, or complex.Architectural engineers focus several areas, including: the structural integrity of buildings; thedesign and analysis of heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems; efficiency and design ofplumbing, safety and fire protection and electrical systems; acoustic and lighting planning, andenergy conservation.In this paper, our objective is to introduce the new curriculum at University of Wyoming thatfocuses on several disciplines: HVAC systems design, energy, plumbing, fire protection andbuilding electricity. This multidisciplinary

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Fani Zlatarova; Pavel Azalov

at different academic institutions, a recommendation is proposed toinclude the Systems Analysis and Design course belonging to the Software Engineering computing area.This course should be a required course or at least an elective course not only for students majoring inComputer Engineering but also in all Engineering curricula. The content of the course includes basictopics from the Computing theory and practice and provides students with a rich variety of InformationTechnology tools needed for the planning, analysis, design, implementation, operation, and support ofengineering activities.1. IntroductionAlong with the traditional knowledge and skills, the engineering practice requires a great degree ofcreativity when developing

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2011 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Daniel Schmalzel

period of time, after which thesystem will be transferred to the University. The project is structured using the EngineeringClinic program, which places students in interdisciplinary, creative teams. Students are expectedto individually own portions of the final product, while collaborating in a team environment.Progress through the milestones is monitored through weekly status meetings with a graduatestudent manager and with supervising faculty. Another important dimension of the project is therequirement for frequent interaction with external vendors in order to develop the most accuratecost model for the project design. One industry connection is to a manufacturer of a novelinverter technology, which we plan to incorporate into the design to

Collection

2011 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Christian Bach; Salvatore Belardo; Hassan Bajwa; Pushpa Kantharaju; Praveen Prasanth

systems steadily increase in scope and complexity, it is imperiousthat academia and practice develop the means to evaluate the successfulness or effectiveness of asystem and understand the factors and circumstances to build and maintain a successful system.The objective of conducting empirical research on systems success is to gain insight into thedetails of the complex systems processes and features which can be translated into prescriptiveaction plans for implementation. A focus of this article is to discuss how potential “userperceptions” influence on the information system effectiveness. The DeLone model is used as abase model for the systematic study of the features, factors and delivered benefits. The articleemploys the survey as an

Conference Session

Issues and Answers in Mathematics Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amelito G. Enriquez, Canada College

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Mathematics

Field Trip Why an Ed Plan Ed Plan2-2:20 pm Counseling OR Counseling OR Education Plan? Learning Styles Math Anxiety Time2:20-2:30 Signups for Workshop Managementpm Work Sessions2:30-3:30 Individual Ed Individual Ed Individual Edpm Plan Counseling Plan Counseling Plan Counseling[Optional] Skills Counseling Skills Counseling Skills Counseling Week 2 June 15 June 16 June 17 June 18

Conference Session

Issues and Answers in Mathematics Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Chanley, North Essex Community College; Michael E. Pelletier, Northern Essex Community College; Linda A. Desjardins, Northern Essex Community College; Lori Heymans, Northern Essex Community College

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Mathematics

. Many students come to the College directly afterhigh school, while others bring a variety of living and work experiences to their studies. The Page 22.1377.2average age ranges from 25 years old in the day classes to approximately 31 years old in theevening courses. Some students take conventional college programs, planning to transfer to afour-year institution after graduation, while other students sign up for associate degree orcertificate programs leading directly to employment in specialized career fields. Also,significant numbers of students at NECC enroll in developmental and second language coursesto upgrade their skill sets before pursuing

Conference Session

Design Communications & Cognition I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leema Kuhn Berland, University of Texas, Austin; William F. McKenna, University of Texas, Austin; Stephanie Baker Peacock, University of Texas, Austin

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Design in Engineering Education

useful if he had started with a better understandingof the parts they would be using and how they fit together. This comment points out apossible challenge facing these students when using their notebooks to facilitate ideageneration: the students did not know enough to draw detailed sketches. However, oncethey had enough familiarity with the VEX robotics kits to create useful sketches of theirdesign plans, they were no longer making frequent notebook entries.The students’ notebook entries align with the interviews by revealing the challenge withmaking detailed drawings as well as the emphasis on the early part of the design process.First, we see that the entries were rather sparse both in content and count. Donald’snotebook exemplifies this

Conference Session

Descriptions of Outreach Programs

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig J. Gunn, Michigan State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

influenced early by the thrill of engineering, which can last well into their college years.Over the past three years 320 grandparents and elementary students have specifically taken partin the Department of Mechanical Engineering’s efforts in bringing engineering to the young. Thebelief in creating a program that is both educational and fun was critical when planning anactivity for 8-12 year olds and their grandparents. The participants are engaged in learning aboutmechanical engineering, teamwork, and tower building. Details concerning the planning of theactivity, the educational value, the work that is accomplished by the participants; impressions ofthe faculty, staff, and graduate students; and plans for the future will be presented

Conference Session

CANCELLED: This session has been replaced by session W269 in room 223: Panel: Building Effective Pathways and Programs for Women and Minoritities

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hyun Kyoung Ro, Pennsylvania State University; Rose M. Marra, University of Missouri, Columbia; Patrick T. Terenzini, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Ardie D. Walser, City College of the City University of New York, Grove School of Engineering; Lois Calian Trautvetter, Northwestern University; Susan M. Lord, University of San Diego

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Minorities in Engineering

and grouptutoring sessions as well as personal, professional and academic mentoring. Four of our six casestudy institutions also offered “living and learning” communities that used an all-inclusiveapproach to support student retention. For this panel session, we also examined if engineering seniors’ plans to work in oroutside of an engineering profession differed by gender and race/ethnicity. The P2P surveycontains three measures for this analysis, tapping students’ expectations that after graduationthey will: 1) be a practicing engineer in industry, government, or non-profit organization; 2)work in engineering management or sales; and 3) work outside engineering. We found thatwomen students were less likely than men to plan to be a

Conference Session

Panel on Recruiting and Retaining Women and Underrepresented Minority Students

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hyun Kyoung Ro, Pennsylvania State University; Rose M. Marra, University of Missouri, Columbia; Ardie D. Walser, City College of the City University of New York, Grove School of Engineering; Patrick T. Terenzini, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Lois Calian Trautvetter, Northwestern University; Susan M. Lord, University of San Diego

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Minorities in Engineering, Women in Engineering

and grouptutoring sessions as well as personal, professional and academic mentoring. Four of our six casestudy institutions also offered “living and learning” communities that used an all-inclusiveapproach to support student retention. For this panel session, we also examined if engineering seniors’ plans to work in oroutside of an engineering profession differed by gender and race/ethnicity. The P2P surveycontains three measures for this analysis, tapping students’ expectations that after graduationthey will: 1) be a practicing engineer in industry, government, or non-profit organization; 2)work in engineering management or sales; and 3) work outside engineering. We found thatwomen students were less likely than men to plan to be a

Conference Session

Post Graduate Experiential Programs and Insights

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anne Marie Coolen, Dalhousie University

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

of narrative and evidence.Students complete the assignments in section one, plus one of the two other portfoliocomponents.Portfolio Components: 1. Assignments: i. Graduate Attributes Self-Assessment ii. Work Term Goal Setting and Action Plan Exercise iii. Monthly EIT records iv. Daily Logbook v. Supervisors Performance Appraisal vi. Career Planning Exercise 2. Narrative: Students will answer a series of questions related to each learning outcome. Or, 3. Technical Report combined with an annotated work sample demonstrating significant advancement with one attribute, can be in lieu of the narrative questions for one work

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carol Shields, Stevens Institute of Technology

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

improvement in skills targeted in the students’ Individualized Page 22.1.2Education Plans (IEPs) – two of which are skills of written and oral communication andcollaboration.It is important to know that, in New Jersey, special needs teachers are expected to follow thestate core curriculum content standards through the general education curriculum, and thatspecial needs students take the same tests as the regular population. The state has a goal ofincreasing teachers’ awareness of the growing emphasis on 21st century skills in teaching andlearning and on providing strategies to facilitate student achievement of these skills in classroomsettings.NJ Core

Conference Session

Reports from ADVANCE Institutions

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Suzanne Zurn-Birkhimer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Susan Ruth Geier, Purdue University; Chris Sahley, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Women in Engineering

femalefaculty, through career coaching. The first coaching cohort of female post-tenure STEM facultybegan in the spring of 2010. Initial reaction was positive and the cohort decided to continue in2010 - 11. Due to popular demand, a second cohort was also established in fall 2010. This paperwill discuss the motivation, implementation, initial assessment, and future plans of the CareerCoaching Cohorts. Evaluation data and participant demographics will be presented.IntroductionWomen have been present in the academy for years, but their numbers remain stunningly low.Much work has been done to increase the number of female professors, especially in the STEMdisciplines where their numbers are the lowest, but the increases have been steady but slow.3Also

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sydney Rogers, Alignment Nashville; Sandra Harris, Alignment Nashville and PENCIL Foundation; Ismail Fidan, Tennessee Technological University; David McNeel, Education Consultant

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

Implementation Team meetings and correctiveactions are produced and implemented in the key deliverables of the project. The currentsituation of Art2STEM and the recent results of the project’s progress and evaluation arehighlighted in this paper.2. BackgroundStarting in 2006 MNPS began plans to restructure its comprehensive high schools into wall-to-wall academies. As planning and implementation proceeded those who were leading the effortdiscovered an extremely low level of interest among middle school students to participate inSTEM-related career academies in high school, while interest in other career academies like artsand entertainment was extremely high, especially among girls. In general concept, the MNPSacademies are small schools within a larger

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2011 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Robert I. Egbert

all declared engineeringmajors who planned to spend four years on the MSU campus and obtain and engineering degreethrough the cooperative engineering program. Now the class has a mixture of at least three orpossibly four different groups of students.One group is made up of students who plan to stay in Springfield and complete their engineeringdegree through the MSU/Missouri S&T cooperative engineering program similar, to thosestudents who initially enrolled in the course when it was offered for the first time.A second group of students are those who plan to major in engineering and plan to start at MSUbut then transfer to Missouri S&T or another engineering program. This typically because theyeither do not reside in the nine county

Conference Session

Innovative Methods to Teach Engineering to URMs

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth A. Eschenbach, Humboldt State University; Mary E. Virnoche, Humboldt State University; Tyler J. Evans, Humboldt State University

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Minorities in Engineering

S-STEM funding has influenced educational practices in the ERE department.The lessons learned from SLS program have informed the ERE department Diversity andRetention Plan required by the new university accreditation process, whose purpose is to increaseretention of diverse students in all majors. One part of the plan that was informed by the SLSproject is the implementation of a peer mentoring program for first year engineering (ERE)students. The peer mentoring program was started due to the SLS project outcomes thatindicated the importance of peer mentoring. Assessment of the new peer mentoring program isnot yet complete. In addition, based on outcomes from the SLS project, the ERE department isencouraging the university to implement

Conference Session

Educating Students for the 21st Century: History, Reflection, and Outcomes

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Swaminathan Balachandran, University of Wisconsin, Platteville

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

AC 2011-275: STUDENT REFLECTION IN EXPERIENTIAL LEARNINGPROJECTSSwaminathan Balachandran, University of Wisconsin - Platteville Bala has more than 35 years of teaching, five years of industrial and about 10,000 hours of consulting experience. He is a fellow of IIE and senior member of SME, ASQ, APICS, HFES, INFORMS, INFOMS, ASEE, and IIE. He is a life member of Phi Kappa Phi, Alpha Pi Mu, and SME. He was the chair of the Department of Industrial Engineering at UW Platteville from 1986 to 1995, established the IE laboratory facilities and secured the accreditation of the program by EAC of ABET in 1987 and 1993. He serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Production Planning and control. He is a

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies for Solid Modeling

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Derek M. Yip-Hoi, Western Washington University

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Engineering Design Graphics

expose students to CAD/CAM technology in thecurriculum. All ET students with the exception of the Electronics program are required to take anintroductory CAD class (ETEC 113) and a manufacturing processes course (ETEC 246). Theseare new additions to the curriculum (246 will be taught for the first time in Fall 2011) replacingthree other courses in an effort to consolidate instruction and reduce resource requirements.Students are introduced to feature-based parametric modeling and generative drafting usingCATIA in ETEC 113. They will receive additional exposure in ETEC 246 where they arerequired to use CATIA in their project to model and generate tool paths to water-jet cut a sheetmetal component. There are also plans in the near future to

Conference Session

Research on Engineering Design Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lora Oehlberg, University of California, Berkeley; Alice Merner Agogino, University of California, Berkeley

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Educational Research and Methods

Page 22.1563.4students who listed a given skill as “Least Important” before and after the course. Of all the  skills, only “Brainstorming” (before= 0%; after= 16%) had a statistically significant difference inpercentages (p=0.0033). Communicating Understanding Problem Brainstorming Prototyping Goal Setting Iterating Creativity Understanding POV Synthesizing Visualizing SeekingInfo Testing TradeOffs Planning Evaluating Identifying Constraints Decisions

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research in K-12

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen A. High, Oklahoma State University; Melanie C. Page, Oklahoma State University; Julie Thomas, Oklahoma State University

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Educational Research and Methods, K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

implement reflects themany ways engineer take designs from ideas to reality. Many engineers do build designs using abroad array of techniques. Perhaps one of the biggest differences between engineeringdisciplines is the specialized methods and technologies they use to implement designs. Howeversome engineers implement ideas through manipulation of information, such as designingcomputer software or producing plans. Here the real value is the information in the blueprint orcode, not the medium (paper or magnetic disk) that contains the information. Another option forimplementing a design is to contract another company to build it. In this case the engineer workswith the company to ensure the work is done properly.The fourth step of the engineering

Conference Session

Integration of the Humanities and Social Sciences into Civil Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven J. Burian, University of Utah; Edward Morris Barbanell, University of Utah; Maria Dawn Blevins, University of Utah

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Civil Engineering

addressed with severaltactics that are described and assessed in this paper.Course DescriptionHistorically, civil engineers have planned and designed water infrastructure to prevent floods,supply water, collect stormwater and wastewater, generate hydropower, and manage waterways.Recently, challenges facing water resources projects have intensified and diversified becausegrowing metropolitan populations, aging infrastructure, changing climate, improved awarenessof environmental impacts, and policy have become much more nuanced and complex. Nowhereis this more evident than in the western United States, particularly in that region served by theColorado River. In essence, even if the skills, technologies, and solutions available to waterresources

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Courses and Outcomes II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anthony Marchese, Colorado State University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

technical research related to the GSSE project.2. Planning the STESE Course and ProgramIn its initial planning stages, the new program relied heavily on other existing strengths at CSUin international development, global sustainability, and an established record of transforminglaboratory research into innovative startup endeavors to benefit the human condition on a globalscale. Specifically, these areas include:  A burgeoning undergraduate entrepreneurship curriculum within the College of Business,  The newly developed School of Global Environmental Sustainability and  The Global Innovation Center (GIC) for Energy, Environment and Health.Each of these resources is discussed briefly below.Entrepreneurship Curriculum within the College of