Conference Session

Computational/CS Initiatives

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nikunja Swain P.E., South Carolina State University; Wanda Moses, South Carolina State University; James Allen Anderson, South Carolina State University; Cynthia T Davis, SC State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Alliance. We are thankful to theSTARS Alliance for providing us with this help. References1. DuBow, W. (2011). NCWIT Scorecard: A report on the status of women in information technology.Boulder: NCWIT.2. Simard, C., (2009). Obstacles and Solutions for Underrepresented Minorities in Technologywww.anitaborg.org/news/research.3. Gürer, D., Camp, T., (2010). Investigating the Incredible Shrinking Pipeline for Women in ComputerScience (Final Report – NSF Project 9812016)http://women.acm.org/archives/documents/finalreport.pdf.4. Swain, N. K., Korrapati, R., Anderson, J. A. (1999) “Revitalizing Undergraduate Engineering,Technology, and Science Education Through Virtual Instrumentation”, NI Week Conference

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CEIII Wrapup

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sandra Hull Seale, UCSB; Thalia Anagnos, San Jose State University; Lelli Van Den Einde, University of California, San Diego

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Paper ID #6564Curriculum Exchange: ”Make Your Own Earthquake”Dr. Sandra Hull Seale, UCSB Dr. Seale earned the B.S.E. in Civil Engineering from Princeton University in 1981, the S.M. in Civil En- gineering from MIT in 1983, and the Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from MIT in 1985. Dr. Seale is currently working as the Project Scientist and Outreach Coordinator for the Seismology Research Laboratory at UC Santa Barbara.Dr. Thalia Anagnos, San Jose State University Dr. Thalia Anagnos is a professor in the General Engineering Department at San Jose State University, where she has taught since 1984. She also serves as the co

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Liping Guo, Northern Illinois University; Jingbo Han, Northern Illinois University; Andrew Wasonga Otieno, Associate Professor

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

. Page 23.373.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Design and Simulation of a Sun Tracking Solar Power SystemAbstractGlobal energy consumption is dramatically increasing due to higher standard of living and theincreasing world population. The world has limited fossil and oil resources. As a consequence,the need for renewable energy sources becomes more urgent. With the fast development ofrenewable energy technology, it proposes increasing demand for the higher education. Thisproject is funded by the National Science Foundation Transforming Undergraduate Education inSTEM (TUES) program from May 2012 to April 2015. As part of the objectives of the project, asun tracking solar power

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Natalya A. Koehler, Iowa State University; Charles T. Jahren P.E., Iowa State University

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Civil Engineering

bridge construction project en- gineer for a construction contractor and as a research engineer for the Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory in Port Hueneme, Calif. His teaching interests include construction equipment, cost estimating and con- struction process design. His research interests include highway and heavy construction methods, road maintenance methods and innovations in construction process administration. Page 23.415.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013Development of a Framework for the Online Portion of a Hybrid Engineering

Conference Session

Innovative IE Curricula

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan L. Murray, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Terri M. Lynch-Caris, Kettering University

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

Paper ID #6598Educating the Professional Engineer of 2020:Dr. Susan L. Murray, Missouri University of Science & Technology Susan L. Murray is a professor of engineering management and systems engineering at Missouri Univer- sity of Science and Technology. Dr. Murray received her B.S. and Ph.D. in industrial engineering from Texas A&M University. Her M.S. is also in industrial engineering from the University of Texas-Arlington. She is a professional engineer in Texas. Her research and teaching interests include human systems in- tegration, productivity improvement, human performance, safety, project management, and

Conference Session

Perspectives and Approaches to Teaching Simulation and Design-Based Courses

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca K. Toghiani, Mississippi State University; Hossein Toghiani, Mississippi State University; Larry Everett Pearson, Mississippi State University

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Chemical Engineering

necessary flowrate,composition and property profiles. These results are uploaded using the available coursemanagement software. Students also must develop a spreadsheet where column diameter isdetermined at four different points in the column (tray below the condenser, tray above thereboiler, trays adjacent to the feed tray). This spreadsheet, if correct, is then available for themto use when sizing columns for their semester design project. The necessary data (flowrates,surface tension, vapor and liquid density) required for the diameter calculation are obtained fromtheir generated column profiles. Page 23.468.16Comprehensive Design ProjectDuring

Conference Session

Two-Year College Division Transfer Topics Part I

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erin Shealy, Clemson University; Catherine E. Brawner, Research Triangle Educational Consultants; Catherine Mobley, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Clemson University; Richard A. Layton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Two Year College Division

Paper ID #7198A Descriptive Study of Engineering Transfer Students at Four Institutions:Comparing Lateral and Vertical Transfer PathwaysMs. Erin Shealy, Clemson University Erin Shealy is a master’s student studying Applied Sociology at Clemson University. Her bachelor’s degree is in Psychology, also from Clemson University. For the past two years, she has been serving as a graduate research assistant for an NSF-funded research project on engineering transfer students, part of the larger Multi Institution Database for Investigating Engineering Longitudinal Development (MIDFIELD) study.Dr. Catherine E. Brawner, Research

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael J. Prince, Bucknell University; Margot A Vigeant, Bucknell University; Katharyn E. K. Nottis, Bucknell University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

, approached from the perspec- tive of Human Constructivism. She has authored several publications and given numerous presentations on the generation of analogies, misconceptions, and facilitating learning in science and engineering educa- tion. She has been involved in collaborative research projects focused on conceptual learning in chemistry, chemical engineering, seismology, and astronomy. Page 23.221.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013Assessment and Repair of Critical Misconceptions in Engineering Heat Transferand ThermodynamicsAbstractThis final report from our NSF

Conference Session

Integrating Art, Humanities, and Engineering

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adeel Khalid, Southern Polytechnic State University (ENG); Craig A Chin, Southern Polytechnic State University; Mir M. Atiqullah, Southern Polytechnic State University; John F. Sweigart P.E., Southern Polytechnic State University; Beth Stutzmann, Southern Polytechnic State University; Wei Zhou

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

transforming theirstudent bodies from predominantly male to a 50:50 male/female ratio, and have succeeded inattracting and retaining more minority students3. One of the ways to attract and retain goodstudents is by diversifying the engineering curricula.Leading engineering schools have had success with a variety of curricular and non-curricularprograms to attract and retain engineering students3. These include out-of-class experiences, suchas undergraduate research, study-abroad programs, internships, and participation in studentorganizations and professional organizations; assignments to multidisciplinary and evenmultinational project teams; training for diversity of career paths; hands-on engineering andintegrative experiences in first year

Conference Session

New Approaches in Engineering

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Singli Garcia-Otero, Virginia State University; Nasser Ghariban, Virginia State University; Fedra Adnani

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Minorities in Engineering

: Eliminating the Gap in Incoming Academic Preparation”, Journal of STEM Education: Innovations & Research, May/June 2012, Vol. 13 Issue 3, p74-86.5. Adulaal R., Al-Bahi, A., Soliman, A., Iskanderani, F., “Design and Implementation of a Project-Based Active/Cooperative Engineering Design Course for Freshmen”, European Journal of Engineering Education, Aug 2011, Vol. 36 Issue 4, p391-402.6. Malik, Q., Koehler, M., Mishra, P., Buch, N., Shanblatt, M., Pierce, S., “Understanding Student Attitudes in a Freshman Design Sequence”, International Journal of Engineering Education, 2010, Vol. 26 Issue 5, p119-1191. Page 23.11.8

Conference Session

Motivation and Self-Efficacy

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hannah Kolar, Arizona State University; Adam R Carberry, Arizona State University; Ashish Amresh, Arizona State University

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Educational Research and Methods

software problems/errors 7) wire parts of a hardware system together 8) troubleshoot hardware problemsThese questions allowed us to measure mean scores of self-efficacy for individualcomputing tasks as well as an overall mean score for computing self-efficacy of studentsin STEM majors.The instrument was created and validated using both content and criterion-relatedvalidity. Content validity concerns the extent to which a measurement adequatelysamples a specific domain represented in an instrument.16-18 Content validity came byway of two resources. First, we researched past studies on the field of computing andcomputing-related self-efficacy. We used freshman computing and fused computing-engineering project class syllabi to create the

Conference Session

Reception & Poster Session

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2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Alina Yurievna Khramova, Kazan National Research Technological University; Vasil Yurievich Khramov; Vasiliy Grigoryevich Ivanov, KAZAN NATIONAL RESEARCH TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

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ASEE International Forum

the Russian studentssent to study abroad are from these main universities; and they also accept around 50% ofinternational students. University administration is sure that international projects, cooperation, partnershipand mobility programs greatly contribute the increase if graduates’ competiveness: theymaster foreign languages, can work in various companies, continue their education andacquire PhDs in western universities. Academic mobility programs form a growing-point fora university. Such programs change all the university activity and life: infrastructure, library,rules and regulations, etc. Academic mobility programs promote upgrading qualification ofhigher-education teaching personnel and administrative staff, modernization of

Conference Session

Track 2 - Session I - Curriculum Development

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2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Danilo Garbi Zutin P.E., Carinthia University of Applied Sciences

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Invited - Curriculum Development

Zutin is currently a senior Researcher and team member of the Center of Competence in On- line Laboratories and Open Learning (CCOL) at the Carinthia University of Applied Sciences (CUAS), Villach, Austria, where he has been engaged in projects for the development of online laboratories. In January 2010 Danilo Garbi Zutin was appointed Secretary General of the International Association of Online Engineering. Danilo is author or co-author of more than 20 scientific papers published in inter- national journals, magazines and conferences. Most of these papers are in the field of online laboratories and issues associated with their dissemination and usage

Conference Session

Track 2 - Session I - Curriculum Development

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2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

J. P. Mohsen, University of Louisville; Michael Sanio, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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Invited - Curriculum Development

engineering, Mike has a diverse background at local, national and international levels in the areas of environment and sustainable development. He has worked for the World Bank/Global Environment Facility where he was responsible for the development and leadership of the private sector strategy, the organization of international CEO forums and the initiation of innovative projects with the private sector, NGOs, development banks and governments. In addition to other positions, he has served as Executive Director to the World Engineering Partnership for Sustainable Development, Deputy to the President of WFEO-ComTech and as a consultant to the United National Environment Program, the United Nations Development

Conference Session

Delivery Methods in Mechanical Engineering Courses

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David J. Dimas, The University of California, Irvine; Faryar Jabbari, University of California, Irvine; Jia Frydenberg, University of California, Irvine

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Mechanical Engineering

courses with asignificant amount of design and team project work include subsections of the course shell thatprovide access-controlled, group project collaboration and presentation functions.Study DesignIn this study three face-to-face courses in the Department of Mechanical and AerospaceEngineering with varying levels of additional online content were assessed over a three yearperiod beginning in the winter quarter of 2011 and ending in the winter of 2013. Each course is10 weeks in length and each carries 4 units or credit. The courses meet from between 3-4 hoursof lecture per week and each requires students to attend at least one 1-hour discussion per weekusually taught by graduate student teaching assistants. The courses varied in size between

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering (ME) Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Juan C Morales, Universidad del Turabo; Michael J. Prince, Bucknell University

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Mechanical Engineering

authentic engineering projects. Engineering curricula andteaching methods are often not well aligned with these goals”. Also, in a recent article thataddresses the challenges of diffusing engineering education innovations, Borrego3 states that“despite decades of effort focused on improvement of engineering education, many recentadvances have not resulted in systemic change”. In addition, the Research Council of theNational Academies’ report on transforming STEM education4 states that support is required toimplement “innovative SME&T course development that exceeds substantially the normalcourse preparation commitment“. It also states: “The authoring committee recognizes thatimplementing the visions of this report could require new funds or

Conference Session

Software Engineering Pedagogical Approaches

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John C. Georgas, Northern Arizona University

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

example, identifies theimportance of ensuring that the context in which knowledge is gained matches the context inwhich the knowledge will be applied. Problem-based learning19 promotes the adoption of large-scale, open-ended problems, which is of particular importance in the context of softwareengineering education14, as it has helped give rise to the increasingly ubiquitous adoption of real-world, long-term projects in computer science and software engineering curricular programs andmotivates the importance of architectural-style learning as a pathway to better prepare studentsfor the design problems these projects entail.The idea of increasing learner engagement with the material, which our approach pursues, is alsoimportant in the context of

Conference Session

Thermal Sciences

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Georg Pingen, Union University

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Mechanical Engineering

) 1. Lift on a Quonset Hut Design Aerodynamic Design 2. Drag effect on Shotgun BB shot Boundary Layer Flow (Handout) 3. Final Project: Bicycle Potential Flow (Handout) Aerohelmet Design/Construction Flow over a Flat Plate Bicycle Aerodynamics (Handout) IV: External Forced Convection: Flat Plate Design of a Heat Sink Convection Natural Convection V: Internal Flow Laminar/Turbulent Pipe Flow 1. Drain Cleaning Robot Flow and Heat Transfer Pipe Networks and Pumps Analysis Thermal Pipe Flow 2

Conference Session

First Year Engineering

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xingyu Chen, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Russell Andrew Long, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Educational Research and Methods

Conference Session

Information Literacy, Computer Efficacy and Readiness

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy Renee Henson, Mineral Area College

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Two Year College Division

800,000 new engineers will be needed by 2018; however, the U.S.currently graduates only one-fourth of that number. Women and minorities are potentialprospects for meeting this need because they are projected to fill approximately 70 percent of thejob market at that time. However, they currently compose only 20 percent of the existing STEMrelated job market. Consequently, it is critical for the American higher education system to Page 23.1206.3provide sufficient training to fill technical skills gaps in all students, particularly those within thegrowing populations of minority and older workers.6Nontraditional students often lack the most

Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael J Rust, Western New England University; Steven G Northrup, Western New England University

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Biomedical

semester, the studentscompleted a 12 day field experience in Guatemala, which allowed them to investigate healthcarein the region through visits to medical facilities. During these visits, the students completed aneeds assessment for the healthcare facilities, with the eventual goal of developing projects to beimplemented through the engineering senior design curriculum. Upon finishing the fieldexperience, the students completed a post-course survey that was designed to measure theirinterests and attitudes regarding global health issues. When compared with responses on a pre-course survey, the findings showed that the course and field experience resulted in increasedstudent knowledge in global health issues, confidence in developing solutions to

Collection

2013 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Aime V. Mbakop; Ashenafi Lambebo; Lalindra Jayatilleke; Sasan Haghani

. The use of BANs is to provide theusers with logging of patients’ critical vital signs, and also to provide primary healthcare providersa snapshot of the wearer’s health. The goal of this project was to investigate the feasibility of theinexpensive construction, and use of a BAN. A BAN, consisting of two nodes and a base stationwas successfully built and tested using open source and inexpensive hardware to measure pulserate, body temperature, and patient’s location. Each node consisted of a pulse sensor, atemperature sensor, a GPS module and a ZigBee wireless modem packaged together. The nodeswere designed to incorporate other sensors, such as an accelerometer, in the future. The basestation consisted of a receiving ZigBee modem and a Wi-Fi

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

ASM Delowar Hossain; Zory Marantz; Djafar Mynbaev

Proceedings of the Spring 2013 Mid-Atlantic Section Conference of the American Society of Engineering Education 144(TUES) did not award for the last two years any project specifically aimed at closing the gapbetween academic and industrial worlds. This observation just adds strength to our questionslisted above.ConclusionThere is a huge and increasing gap between modern electronics produced by the industry andelectronics taught at academic institutions. However, there are few distinguished efforts from theacademia to change the situation. What’s more, it seems that both sides are satisfied with thisstatus quo

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Ali Daneshmandnia

of the Spring 2013 Mid-Atlantic Section Conference of the American Society of Engineering Education 61instructors will become stimulated when they teach using its User-Centered Design (UCD)approach, which is the common design methodology for programs such as Moodle.Using Moodle should be satisfying and worthwhile in a HCI project because several HCIconcepts can be examined, namely: familiarity of interface, consistency, error recovery, dialogueinitiatives, and task migratability (Hinze-Hoare, HCI and Educational Metrics as Tools for VLEEvaluation, 2008). The following are reasons that author this study gives for

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lynn Albers, North Carolina State University; Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University

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Student

, Minority, and Energy Conversion and Conservation Divisions; presenting all of them with the exception of one paper in 2010 when she was double-booked. Albers most recently held the position of project coordinator for the ARRA funded Student Energy Internship Program in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department at NCSU. She mentored and coordinated 60+ interns with energy professionals in the private and public sectors and recruited interns to volunteer at Family STEM Nights. Prior to this experience, she was a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow in K-12 Education working under the direction of Liz Parry, Dr. Laura Bottomley and Dr. Karen Hollebrands in the RAMP-UP program at NCSU. During this

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education I

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ali Mazloomzadeh, Florida International University; Mustafa Farhadi, Florida International University; Osama A. Mohammed, Florida International University

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Electrical and Computer

Florida International University(FIU) emfarhadi@gmail.comDr. Osama A. Mohammed, Florida International University Dr. Mohammed is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and is the Director of the Energy Systems Re- search Laboratory at Florida International University, Miami, Florida. He received his Master and Doc- toral degrees in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech in 1981 and 1983, respectively. He has per- formed research on various topics in power and energy systems as well as computational electromagnetics and design optimization in electric machines and drive systems. He performed multiple research projects for the Office of Naval Research and the Naval Surface Warfare Centers since 1995 dealing with; power

Conference Session

Research Initiatives

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Tillman, The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP)

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

efficacy in math. Thesample of second grade students and utilization of a randomized control assignment methodhelped fill missing methodological gaps, and several relationships were examined that filled inconstruct related holes. The guiding question for the current study was: Did second gradestudents who participated in a mathematics based PBL unit report higher levels of engagementcompared to students who participated in traditional, teacher directed instruction?MethodsThe current study was an examination of one piece of a two-year, multifaceted grant. Thisresearch project was a Jacob K. Javits initiative funded through the U.S. Department ofEducation that followed one cohort of students during 2nd and 3rd grade as they experienced threePBL

Conference Session

Teaching and Assessing Sustainability and Life Long Learning

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claire L. Antaya, Arizona State University; Melissa M. Bilec, University of Pittsburgh; Piervincenzo Rizzo, University of Pittsburgh; Amy E. Landis, Arizona State University

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Civil Engineering

around the nation areincorporating sustainability into their curriculum.The National Research Council (NRC) notes several challenges to effective undergraduateeducation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. Thesechallenges include providing engaging laboratory, classroom and field experiences; teachinglarge numbers of students from diverse backgrounds; improving assessment of learningoutcomes; and informing science faculty about research on effective teaching3-5. Researchsuggests that team based projects can also enhance student learning in STEM fields since itpromotes active and collaborative learning while simultaneously promotes individualaccountability, personal responsibility, and communication skills2. In

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martin S. High, Oklahoma State University; Scott D Gelfand, Oklahoma State University, Department of Philosophy; Ronald Steve Harrist Ph.D., Oklahoma State University; Shelia M. Kennison, Oklahoma State University

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Engineering Ethics

, andenvironmental surroundings. Fatigue induced by concentrating or focusing on a project for asignificant period of time without a break (e.g. plotting results from a materials study or writing apaper summarizing one’s experimental results), good or elevated mood (induced by watching afunny video), and environment (such as a dirty office with a messy desk) all appear to influenceethical behavior. The class makes use of video clips containing re-enactments of published empiricalstudies that demonstrate why people act unethically. The videos serve as the means to deliverclear moral psychology lessons based on previously published case studies involving real orhypothetical scenarios. For example, one of the videos is a combination lecture and story

Conference Session

Dynamics - Wow! They accelerate

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sudhir Kaul, University of Mount Union; Pattabhi Sitaram, Baker College, Flint, MI

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Mechanics

well as data collection using string Lab 11 potentiometers and accelerometers Experimentation to demonstrate the principles of modal analysis using a modal impact hammer on a Lab 12 beam Table 2. Laboratory content for Statics and Dynamics.This repeated use of the analysis tools prepares students very well for junior and senior levelclasses, where they learn about the theoretical aspects of the analysis. Having an early exposureto analysis software allows students to have a thorough familiarity with tools that can be used forSenior Design projects, and are also extensively used in the industry. The content listed in Table 2 is covered through 120 minutes of laboratory time per