Conference Session

A Systems-Thinking Approach to Solving Problems

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adeel Khalid, Southern Polytechnic State University; Isaiah Waindi, SPSU Systems Engineering Graduate

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Systems Engineering

TechnologyEach region faces different challenges with managing and developing plans for energy security.For example, while there might be some similarity, China does not face the same challenges asthe United States. Similarly, the East African region has very different challenges from thosecountries. These technologies are being developed to solve problems for the regions whichidentified the need. Wind energy is a great source of electricity in the United States however itmay not work as well in East Africa1. Alternatively, solar power would be well suited for thetropical region which gets great amounts of sunlight.Technology maturity is another challenge. With increasing demand for oil from China, India,Brazil and other emerging nations, renewable

Conference Session

Project-Based, Inquiry Guided, and High Performance Learning Environments: Effective Approaches

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Khairiyah Mohd-Yusof, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia; Syed Helmi Syed Hassan, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia; Mohammad Zamry Jamaludin, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia; Nor Farida Harun, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

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Chemical Engineering

Submission of individual PR&PI at the beginning Feedback on C1, C2, C3, C4 discussion & of class. Students discuss in teams, starting from PR&PI consensus individual PR&PI to find consensus for team discussed PR&PI, and draw up action plan and assign learning issues to each member to prepare for peer teaching, within a given time in the class. May request presentation of team PR&PI. Overall Class In-class discussion of each team PR&PI, where Feedback on C1, C2, C3, PR&PI students may be randomly called to provide team

Conference Session

Enhancing Instructional Effectiveness in Civil Engineering: Case Studies

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald W. Welch, University of Texas, Tyler; Clifton B. Farnsworth, University of Texas, Tyler

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Civil Engineering

Conference Session

Fostering Student Learning

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexandra Emelina Coso, Georgia Institute of Technology; Reid Bailey, University of Virginia

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Educational Research and Methods

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Louis Reifschneider, Illinois State University

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Engineering Economy

Conference Session

Sustainability and Humanitarian Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Engineering Ethics

Page 22.1359.15 of the semester, but would add to it. It would be good to include that civil engineering is the completion of said tasks through ethical, sustainable, efficient, environmentally conscious, and worldly means. I would attempt now to define Civil Engineering as the collaborative process of designing, planning, and effectively implementing a project that solves a problem in an ethical, cost- effective, and sustainable way. Now, I think about civil engineering as an engineering profession that fulfills projects that benefit society through a variety of sub disciplines that include structures, construction, geotechnical, water resources, transportation and environmental. Each sub discipline then consists of

Conference Session

Student Entrepreneurial Skills and Mindset II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Calvin C. Jen, Calvin College; Tyler Scott Helmus, Calvin College; Steven H. VanderLeest, Calvin College

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

(application ortest to prove idea has value, validation)." 16 In contrast, the steps in the innovation process are:"Analytical planning (to identify product design, market strategy, financial need), Organizingresources (to obtain materials, technology, human resources, capital), Implementation (toaccomplish organization, product design, manufacturing, services), and Commercial application(to provide value to customers, rewards for employees, revenues for investors, satisfaction forfounders)." 173.2 Virtues as bridgeThe stereotype of the entrepreneur is an individual who is hard driving, to the point of runningover anyone in their way (thus lacking in compassion) and one who sees opportunities, but maybe so narrowly focused that they miss issues of

Conference Session

ELOS Best Paper Nominations

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Loren Limberis, East Carolina University; Jason Yao, East Carolina University

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

, was 3.28 with 75% of the students scoring a 3 or 4. As withall our assessment in the engineering department, our standard for reporting that the students areachieving the outcomes of the project is 75%. These results indicate the students are achievingthis particular outcome. We are pleased with these results, but despite stressing the importanceof clearly organized and thoroughly-commented MATLAB scripts, we would like to have ahigher percentage of outcome achievement. We plan to increase the emphasis in the laboratoryreport requirements with additional exercises the students must perform using their MATLABcode and additional engineering design analysis from the increased use.Based on the self-reporting of students on the project survey

Conference Session

FPD 3: Research on First-year Programs and Students, Part I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Tech; Brett D. Jones, Virginia Tech; Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Tech; Jacob Preston Moore, Virginia Tech; Deirdre-Annaliese Nicole Hunter, Virginia Tech

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First-Year Programs

Conference Session

Robot Mania!

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eli M. Silk, University of Pittsburgh; Ross Higashi, Carnegie Mellon University; Christian D. Schunn, University of Pittsburgh

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

and reliably. Thus, Team M2’s use ofmathematics extended beyond programming into the planning process itself, and appears to havebeen an integral part of their competition success. Table 3: Points Breakdown Analysis for Maximum Possible Score and Team M2’s Winning Round (bold values are summed to indicate the max possible points) Max Possible Team M2 Description Value Number Points Number PointsPing Pong Balls Gutter 5 18 90 9 45 End Zone 4 18 72 9 36 Loose 1

Conference Session

Innovative Program and Curricular Development

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Liesl Hotaling, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg; Rustam Stolkin, University of Birmingham, UK; Susan Lowes, Columbia University, Institute for Learning Technologies, Teachers College; James S. Bonner, Clarkson University; William David Kirkey, Clarkson University; Temitope Ojo, Clarkson University; Peiyi Lin, Columbia University, Teachers College

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

program withstudents.SENSE IT teachers will eventually complete 120 hours of professional development byparticipating in two summer institutes (two week institutes during the summers of 2009 and2010) and four professional development days (two during the 2009 – 2010 school year and twoduring the 2010 – 2011 school year).The summer institutes are two week experiences. The first week teachers attend to learn themodules’ content for implementation during the upcoming school year. They are given time towork through all of the lessons themselves to firmly grasp the material and begin to deviseimplementation plans for their own classrooms. During the second week of the summer institute,teachers are invited to bring two students to accompany the

Conference Session

Certifying Teachers in Engineering or Integrated STEM

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yvonne Ng, St. Catherine University; Lori R. Maxfield, Saint Catherine University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Conference Session

WIED Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Natalie Fabert, Arizona State University; Marilyn Cabay, Ph.D., Argosy University, Phoenix; Melissa B Rivers, Arizona State University; Mary Lee Smith, Arizona State University; Bianca L. Bernstein, Arizona State University

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Women in Engineering

Page 22.660.2of their dropping out or dropping down is vital for planning ways of promoting retention andsuccessful degree completion.The background characteristics of students (such as grades and grade point average) have notproven to be helpful in predicting student persistence in graduate school.10 Claims that womendo not persist in STEM because of innate or inferior abilities are unfounded. [6, 11 for review]Researchers have turned attention to the role of the department and academic environment in thehigh attrition rates of doctoral students.[e.g. 12, 13]Isolation in graduate schoolThe limited literature on the graduate student experience depicts an academic and social climatethat is at best contradictory to female socialization, and at

Conference Session

Ethics in different disciplines

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marilyn A. Dyrud, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Engineering Ethics

level; whenfull of water for the hot summers, their weight doubled. To accommodate the extra weight, 10-inch concrete floor slabs were added. When area residents complained about excessive noisefrom the units, Lee simply had them pushed to the opposite side of the roof, causing large cracksthat indicated a degree of structural damage.36, 38 Altogether, these alterations to the fifth floorresulted in the building’s dead load being 35% more than the designed load.37, 39The loading problem was exacerbated by other building elements, as revealed by post-disasterinvestigations: the concrete for the flat-slab construction, while weak, was not substandard, but itwas missing about half of the rebar required by building codes; columns ed in design plans

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Potpourri I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Raghavi Merugureddy, Purdue University ; Amani Salim, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica E. Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Educational Research and Methods

professional experience2,3. The level of comfort and skill with which instructorscan engage in teaching through open-ended problems will greatly affect the potential for studentlearning4-6.Due to large course enrollments, finances, and retention concerns, first-year programs often useundergraduate teaching assistants (UGTAs) (also known as peer teachers or peer learningassistants) to support classroom instruction, where their duties include providing classroom aid,functioning as liaison between students and faculty, preparing lesson plans, grading andtutoring7,8. Undergraduates have served as TAs at undergraduate institutions, where there is nograduate student pool to draw from, and in large entry-level courses9,10. At these undergraduateinstitutions

Conference Session

Making Students Aware of Their World: Five Perspectives

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cherrice Traver, Union College; Douglass Klein, Union College; Borjana Mikic, Smith College; Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Steven B. Shooter, Bucknell University; Ari W. Epstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; David Gillette, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

with real-world impact in partnership with local community organizations. Union College (Hal Fried, Ron Bucinell): Engineering and liberal arts student form design teams based on engineering senior projects. Teams explore the potential for commercialization and social entrepreneurship, and participate in business plan competitions.18The integrated approach to capstone and extracurricular projects requires students to understanddifferent perspectives and apply them to solve complex problems. Students should alsodemonstrate interpersonal, leadership, and cross-disciplinary communication skills when theyinteract on diverse teams. Projects that focus on entrepreneurship require that studentsunderstand what it means to be an entrepreneur and

Conference Session

Topics Related to Telecommunications

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steve Hsiung, Old Dominion University; Walter F. Deal III, Old Dominion University; Lacides Agustin Osorio, Norfolk Ship Support Activity; Mathew Henderson, Tidewater Community College

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Engineering Technology

Graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School in 1983, enlisted in the United States Navy, and in 1984 reported to basic training in San Diego, California. I had plans of completing my four-year enlistment and separating from the navy, but things did not work out that way, and I retired from the United States Navy in 2009 after more than twenty-five years of active service, and achieving the rank of Senior Chief Petty Officer. Throughout my naval career I continued taking college courses with hopes of, one day, graduating with a bachelor’s degree. On my last tour of active duty, I was assigned to Mid Atlantic Regional Center, which was a shore duty for me, and I was able to complete my educational requirements for my

Conference Session

Design Communications & Cognition I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dirk Schaefer, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jitesh Panchal, Washington State University; Sammy Haroon, The RBR Group; Farrokh Mistree, University of Oklahoma

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Design in Engineering Education

degree to which you attained the identified competencies and learning objectives. 15. Analyze what you have written in Steps 10 through 14. Then, critically evaluate your performance (in terms of competencies and learning objectives) throughout the semester; be sure to use action words from Bloom’s taxonomy. Comment on the level of attainment in Step 14, what you would do differently if you had to do it over, and plans for the future.Grade for A0 End of Semester 16. Reflect on your performance in this class throughout the semester. In tabular form, please suggest a grade for yourself in the following categories and justify2: a. Contribution to the collective Question for the Semester. Justify

Conference Session

Understanding Students and Faculty

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Linda Vanasupa, California Polytechnic State University; Qiong Zhang, University of South Florida; James R. Mihelcic, University of South Florida; Julie Zimmerman, Yale University; Nina J. Truch, California Polytechnic State University

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Educational Research and Methods

Conference Session

Use of Technology in Civil Engineering Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Taylor Halverson, Brigham Young University; Rollin H. Hotchkiss, Brigham Young University

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Civil Engineering

information was to accomplish thefollowing things. First, we wanted to verify that the project-based learning, at least from astudent perception perspective, met the purposes for why we implemented it in the first place.Can team-based, project-based learning assignments that require learners to plan and design howto teach others the course concepts increase subject matter mastery, interest in the subject, andthe ability to see applications of the content in the everyday world? The survey data helped us toanswer these questions. Momentarily, we’ll share that data as evidence that according to thestudents the project assignment had the intended effect.Second, from an instructional design standpoint for the course, we wanted to learn what workedfor

Conference Session

Professional Identity

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Tech; Brock E. Barry, U.S. Military Academy; Kerry Meyers, University of Notre Dame; Rachel Louis, Virginia Tech

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Educational Research and Methods

Conference Session

Expanding the Borders of Engineering Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sandra Ingram, University of Manitoba; Anita H. Ens, University of Manitoba; Marcia R. Friesen, University of Manitoba

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

which long, informalconversations about issues not directly related to work would be considered appropriate, andwhere the initiative in the conversation would rest with the senior individual. His narrativeillustrates that in a short period of time, he had made the shift to planning for a focussed,efficient meeting in which he showed appropriate initiative in the North American low powerdistance, low context environment.Similarly, participants reported the PPEM course offered a head start on the networking process.A single class was devoted to the topic, and guest speakers including professors and othersexternal to the university came in and allowed IEEQ students to interact and exchangeinformation. Subsequently, a provincial engineering

Conference Session

Capstone Design I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter L Schmidt, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Daniel Hoch, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Nabila A. Bousaba, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; William F. Heybruck, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Deborah L Sharer, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Valentina Cecchi, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Gary Teng, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Elizabeth Sharer, Francis Marion University

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Design in Engineering Education

large. These projects provide students with the experience ofworking with established engineers. They also provide a marketing opportunity for the Collegeof Engineering (COE), as well as the capstone design program. In the last four years, coursepopulation has increased from 60 to 265. The solution described herein for the studentassignment problem allows projects to be staffed with students using a weighted coefficient foreach student/project combination. This course begins with an event where projectrepresentatives are present to answer student queries regarding project specifics andexpectations. The course timetable is such that project assignments need to be made quickly, sothat an initial planning meeting with student teams, faculty

Conference Session

K-12 Students and Teachers

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tirupalavanam G. Ganesh, Arizona State University

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Educational Research and Methods

Conference Session

Globalizing Engineering Education II: Best Practices

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregg M. Warnick, Brigham Young University

Tagged Topics

ASEE Global Programs

Mastery and the Stanford Advanced Project Management course Managing Without Authority for numer- ous fortune 500 companies throughout the world. He is a Certified Manufacturing Technologist (Society of Manufacturing Engineers) and is also certified in Planning and Managing Projects (BD University); Ethical Fitness (BD University); Lean Manufacturing (BD University); High Impact Facilitation (Lore International Institute); and Project Management (Saddle Island Institute). Page 22.748.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 GLOBAL COMPETENCE: ITS IMPORTANCE FOR

Conference Session

New Research & Trends for Minorities in Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maria M. Larrondo-Petrie, Florida Atlantic University; Ivan E. Esparragoza, Pennsylvania State University, Media

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Minorities in Engineering

Conference Session

Myths About Gender and Race

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jordana Hoegh, Purdue University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Minorities in Engineering, Women in Engineering