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FPD 9: First-Year Engineering Courses, Part III: Research, Sustainability, and Professionalism

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dirk Colbry, Michigan State University; Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University

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First-Year Programs

second-year undergraduates to research in STEM (Science, Technology,Engineering, Math). This seminar includes numerous hands-on, inquiry- and problem-basedlearning activities, and is rooted in Vygotsky’s theory of social constructivism.1 Open toundergraduates from all majors, this year-long seminar brings together a group of students withfaculty mentors to explore a specific topic or theme and gain familiarity with some of the toolsand processes of STEM research.The seminar has been offered two times (in 2010-11, and 2012-13) and has included a total of 14undergraduates, from majors including Supply Chain Management, Astrophysics, Mathematics,Education, Human Biology, Physiology, Packaging, and several Engineering disciplines. Allstudent

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ERM Potpourri

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Denise Wilson, University of Washington; Cheryl Allendoerfer, University of Washington; Mee Joo Kim, University of Washington- Seattle; Elizabeth Burpee; Rebecca A Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Tamara Floyd Smith P.E., Tuskegee University; Melani Plett, Seattle Pacific University; Nanette M Veilleux, Simmons College

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Educational Research and Methods

inour survey instruments, the examples we attach to extracurricular activities are almost identicalto the examples provided in the National Survey for Student Engagement (NSSE) when referring Page 23.1085.2to co-curricular activities.In their 2005 study, Pascarella and Terrenzini1 wrote, “If there is a single adjective that describesthe body of research on the impact of college conducted during the decade of the 1990s, it is‘expansive’” (2005, Chapter 1). While that expansiveness has continued into the first decade ofthe twenty-first century, increased attention has been placed on student socioeconomic status,race, gender, and ethnicity, as

Conference Session

iSTEM

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stacy S Klein-Gardner, Harpeth Hall School and Vanderbilt University; Crystal Tricia Chukwurah, Duke University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

data comparison of the pre and post-conference surveys. In summary,attendees increased their connections at the TT&C. Teachers thought of ways to utilize their newconnections in their profession (such as teacher-industry and teacher-university collaborations)and use these connections to help enact STEM into their courses. Participants took STEMintegration tools and ideas from the TT&C. Having attended the TT&C the participants weremore confident in enacting STEM into their classrooms and within their schools.IntroductionK-12 students shy away from engineering fields simply because they have a limitedunderstanding of engineering 1. A primary cause and barrier to improvement is that many K-12teachers have just as limited an

Conference Session

New Approaches and Applications to Enhance Technological Literacy - Part I

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Magesh Chandramouli, Purdue University, Calumet (Tech); Gary R. Bertoline, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

, the authors have enabled dynamic interaction capabilities within this frameworkthat facilitates ‘re-arranging’ the way in which the information is presented. The application isbeing built using web-friendly technologies such as VRML/X3D and Java/JavaScript tofacilitate online dissemination.Keywords: Engineering literature, Technological literature, Multidimensional Visualization.1. Introduction This study employs desktop Virtual Reality (dVR) based information visualization toorganize and present engineering and technological literature. The visual nature of theinformation presented not only elicits students’ interest but also facilitates better understandingthe literature. Students in engineering and technology schools across the

Conference Session

Institutional Transformations

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pamela S. Lottero-Perdue Ph.D., Towson University

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Women in Engineering

to femalefaculty such as work-life balance. The strategies were organized into four categories: 1) changingculture (category contains five strategies, including “emphasize data-driven decision making”);2) building networks of support and information (three strategies, including “encourage informalnetworking among female STEM faculty”); 3) supporting work-life balance (three strategies,including “continue, clarify and enhance family-friendly policies”); and 4) other strategies tosupport female STEM faculty (five strategies, including “increase opportunities for femaleSTEM faculty to be officially recognized for their work”). The study has implications not onlyfor how ECU might better support female STEM faculty, but also how other

Conference Session

Building BIM into Construction Curricula

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marcel Maghiar, Georgia Southern University; Sunitha Jain, Hill International ; James G Sullivan, University of Florida

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Construction

presented in their assignments. The tutorialswere created to explain the concepts and software features in a graphical manner. They are self-guided and self-explanatory:  Tutorial 1: Navigating the Project Management module in P6 (excerpt in figure 1)  Tutorial 2: Creating a new Project (create a brand new project, navigate the Projects window, view and modify information on the project details tabs, importing and exporting files, etc.)  Tutorial 3: Creating a work-breakdown structure (WBS), implementations, multiple levels on WBS hierarchy, assigning responsible managers to WBS elements (figure 2)  Tutorial 4: Adding and assigning activities to the project; manipulation of activity dataThe students are

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Information Literacy, Computer Efficacy and Readiness

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Elizabeth Paderi Cheung, Los Angeles Pierce College; Tiffany Reardon

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Two Year College Division

Engineering Teaching Institute designed to assist community college engineeringfaculty in developing a Tablet-PC-enhanced model of instruction, and implementing onlinecourses. The project also involves a partnership among California community collegeengineering programs to design and implement a Joint Engineering Program that is deliveredonline. This paper summarizes the results of the first two years of implementation of the project,and explores its potential to strengthen the community college engineering education pipeline inorder to increase and diversify the engineering workforce.1. IntroductionThe 2012 President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) report, “Engageto Excel: Producing One Million Additional College Graduates

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Materials

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xiaobin Le P.E., Wentworth Institute of Technology ; Zelong Le, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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Mechanical Engineering

curves /tables and equations on key seats will be presented. Thepreliminary stress concentration factors of both profile and sled runner key seats under bending,torsion and axial loading for shaft designs are presented in this paper.1. Introduction The geometric discontinuities on shaft are unavoidable due to some required functions.But geometric discontinuities will cause significant stress concentrations. Step shoulders withfillets, retaining-ring grooves and key seats in shafts are the typical geometric discontinuities. Inlots of mechanical component design textbooks[1,2,3], the stress concentration factors for thestep shoulders with different fillets on shafts are fully explored and presented by sets of stressconcentration factor

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Instructional Innovations and Global Issues in Architectural Engineering Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James P. Mwangi P.E., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Architectural

building material design courses in ARCE are offered over a period of two years asshown in Table 1.Table 1: Mandatory Material Design Courses Year of Quarter Instruction Max. Number of Course Study Units Format Students per Class ARCE 303: Steel Design 3 Lecture 36 ARCE 304: Timber Design 3 Lecture 36 3 ARCE 305: Masonry Design 2 Lecture 36 ARCE 372: Steel Structures Laboratory 3

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Best of Computer in Education Division

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mahnas Jean Mohammadi-Aragh, Virginia Tech; Christopher B. Williams, Virginia Tech

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Computers in Education

Theory12, 13 stipulates that there are nine instructionalevents that must occur for learning to take place, the first of which involves obtaining thelearner’s attention. The instructional events, shown in Figure 1, do not guarantee learning willoccur, but rather they support the learner’s internal mental processes. That is, each event is anecessary condition for learning to take place. Fleming14 put it best: “Quite simply, withoutattention [the first event] there can be no learning” (p. 236). Fleming goes on to propose thatcourse designers have control over attention, and recommend that they “seek both to obtain the Page 23.1093.3learner’s

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Engineering Identity 2

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Malinda Faber, The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at North Carolina State University; Alana Unfried, North Carolina State University; Eric N. Wiebe, North Carolina State University; Jeni Corn, Friday Institute for Educational Innovation, NC State University; Latricia Walker Townsend; Tracey Louise Collins, North Carolina State University

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Educational Research and Methods

funding from two projects. (See Figure 1 for asummary of the survey development process.) The first, supported by the National ScienceFoundation (NSF), works with university-based K-12 STEM education outreach programs bothto support collaboration between the programs and to build program evaluation capacity withinthem.13 The other project, supported by a large, public, state-level foundation, aims to understandthe impact of 14 school-based K-12 STEM education programs.14 The authors conducted aliterature review, searching for instruments measuring student attitudes toward STEM, interest inSTEM careers, and attitudes toward 21st century skills. While the review revealed someinstruments and tools related to the topic, the search did not reveal a

Conference Session

Materials Science Education for the Future

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cindy Waters, North Carolina A&T State University; Stephanie Luster-Teasley, North Carolina A&T State University

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Materials

Baby Bottle”8, see Figure 1 for asample of the student content. This case refers to another article "Baby Alert" which appeared inConsumer Reports (May 1999). The article raised concerns about the safety of polycarbonate babybottles, and recommends that parents dispose of them as a precaution.Additionally, for the current work the authors experience in developing case studies developed thefollowing loose guidelines to give the students: 1. tell a story that has a beginning, background, a middle, and a conclusion. 2. trigger your peers interest. 3. have real characters to identify so that the student can role play one of those characters. It helps bring out the subjectivity of decisions and how credibility of a person

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Distance Learning and Online Teaching Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Julie M Little-Wiles, Purdue School of Engineering and Technology, IUPUI; Patricia Fox, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Charles Feldhaus Ed.D., Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Stephen Hundley, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Brandon Sorge, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis

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Engineering Technology

online tools, it has been suggested that interaction in online environmentscreates additional student centered learning and fosters greater participation from students(Karayan & Crowe, 1997; Smith & Hardaker, 2000). 1, 2 Warschauer (1997) believes ininteraction in online environments for student benefit as well.3 Findings in a study byHaythornthwaite, Kazmer, Robbins and Shoemaker (2000) suggest that students that fail toconnect with others in an online environment “feel isolated and more stressed than those who aremore active” (p. 1).4 Based on earlier work by part of the researchers, perceptions of theinstructors, course effectiveness and course products were essentially similar in results no matterhow they were delivered – traditional

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessica A Kuczenski, College of San Mateo / San Francisco State University

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Engineering Ethics

and Century College were in general similar to those fromnational surveys, there were differences noted in the areas of exam cheating and plagiarism.IntroductionEngineering is an important and learned profession. As members of this profession, engineers arerequired to adhere to the highest principles of ethical conduct as engineering is a profession withpublic purposes, including contributing to public safety and the environment. Thus, engineersmust maintain standards of honest and conscientious practice as is crucial for maintaining humanwelfare.Dishonest (unethical) behavior in the engineering workplace has been found to be linked toacademically dishonest behavior in college.1-3 Unfortunately, academic dishonesty is widespreadin the United

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Community Engagement Division Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ella Willard-Schmoe, University of Massachusetts Lowell; John J. Duffy, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Emmanuelle Reynaud, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Linda Barrington, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

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Community Engagement Division

practice of S-L.According to Astin et al., “providing students with an opportunity to ‘process’ the serviceexperience with each other is a powerful component of both community service and servicelearning.”1 The importance of reflection as part of a S-L experience is supported by many otherpublications2, 4-6. The definition Bringle and Hatcher give of service-learning provides an insightinto this link: “A course-based, credit-bearing educational experience in which studentsparticipate in an organized service activity that meets identified community needs and reflect onthe service activity in such a way as to gain further understanding of course content, a broaderappreciation of the discipline, and an enhanced sense of civic responsibility.”7DeKoven

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Mechanical Engineering (ME) Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steffen Peuker, University of Alaska Anchorage

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Mechanical Engineering

buy-in from the sheet metal company as aresult of the kick-off meeting with the faculty, having the students contact them and figure outhow their design could actually be built was an excellent learning opportunity. Besidesequipment and labor donations, students also benefited from a safety training for variablefrequency drives which are used in the Air Handling Unit and Air Duct Simulators. As shown inTable 1, students had to cooperate with several companies providing them with practice incommunicating on a professional level and management skills. Note that some companies wereinvolved in more than one project, a total of six companies were involved. Table 1 Overview of Projects

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Themes in Renewable Energy and ET

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Chiou, Drexel University; Radian G Belu, Drexel University (Tech.); Michael G Mauk P.E., Drexel University; M. Eric Carr, Drexel University; Tzu-Liang Bill Tseng, University of Texas, El Paso

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Engineering Technology

students, staff, and sponsors all played a role in the projectsuccess. Finally, the paper explores how participation in these interdisciplinary projectsinfluenced students in their subsequent career choices. 1. IntroductionSociety is increasingly calling for professionals across government, industry, business and civilsociety to be able to problem-solve issues related to climate change and sustainable developmentas part of their work1. The Energy Information Administration predicts that U.S. energyconsumption will increase at a rate of 1.1 percent annually, but that U.S. energy production willonly increase at a rate of 0.9 percent annually, from now through 20301-3. These projections arebased in part on current usage of renewable energy sources

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Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexander Ganago, University of Michigan; Hongwei Liao

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Electrical and Computer

, in Lab 2 they build a light-activated control circuit with aphotocell as a light sensor and a MOSFET as electronic switch, which automatically turnsOn/Off the actuator (lamp or motor).Before offering the new course structure in the Fall, many innovations were tested in theSpring 2012 (34 students enrolled). In the Fall 2012 semester, 156 students were enrolled,including 90 juniors and 64 seniors, with the most represented majors listed in Table 1. Table 1. The demographics of students enrolled in Fall 2012 Engineering Major Enrolled Percentage Mechanical 61 39.1 Aerospace 43 27.6

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Issues of Outreach and Interest in Engineering

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susannah Sandrin, Arizona State University; Connie M Borror, Arizona State University West

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Women in Engineering

versus female participation. The pilot phase of the survey (administered to the FYC population) asked students fortheir gender and age, but it did not ask them for their race/ethnicity. During the second phase ofthe survey study (administered to grades 6-12), students were asked to share their race/ethnicityin addition to their gender and grade. In terms of race and ethnicity, the secondary schoolpopulation was representative of the population in this part of the country, but it was not diversecompared to the national population (Table 1). Participation across grade level was spread ratherevenly across the range of grades, but slightly dominated by high school students.Approximately 75% of the students were high school students in grade

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Civil Engineering Division Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ryan N. Fries P.E., Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; Brad Cross, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; Mark P. Rossow, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; Daniel M Woehl, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

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Civil Engineering

researchers in educational psychology andcontained detailed explanations of every step in the solution process. Students were assigned anexample to study and then had to solve an online homework problem which was 1) sufficientlysimilar to the example problem that the student knew the general approach to take, but 2)sufficiently different from the example problem that the student could not rely on thoughtlesspattern matching to obtain an answer. Figure 1 shows a representative worked example andFigure 2 shows the paired online homework problem. Page 23.1103.2 2. The spring balance reads 500 N. Determine the tensions in cords

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Visualization tools and uses in graphics

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kathy Schmidt Jackson, The Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence; Conrad Tucker, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Gül E. Okudan Kremer, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Engineering Design Graphics

solutions is dependent upon their ability to manipulate objects (either physically orvirtually). In this paper, we offer preliminary evidence on the comparison of tactile to virtuallearning as perceived by our students and share instructional issues that students feel either helpor hinder their ability to learn.1 IntroductionGiven that there are numerous ways to define engineering design, it follows that there are manypedagogical approaches to teaching design. While most agree that “design, above all else,defines the difference between an engineering education and a science education” 1, design Page 23.1105.2experiences in the curriculum are

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Activities and Assessment for “Awkward ABET Outcomes”

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Norb Delatte P.E., Cleveland State University

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Civil Engineering

. Places the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context. Prerequisite: none. Class meets twice a week for 1 hour and 50 minutes – see schedule Class meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10 – 11:50 am in SH 268 Office Hours: Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays 1 – 2 pm. Other times by appointment. Generally speaking, the best way to ask me a question is by email if you can’t come by the office.Lesson Day Date Topics Reference1 Tuesday 1/17 Introduction, the ancient engineers Handouts Thurs, Tues 19, 24 No class Handouts2

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Outreach Along the K-12 Pathways to Engineering

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Liesl Hotaling, University of South Florida-St. Petersburg; Susan Lowes, Teachers College/Columbia University; Rustam Stolkin; Peiyi Lin

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

,Technology, Engineering and Mathematics”: (1) Defined outcomes; (2) Sustained commitment;(3) Personalization; (4) Challenging content; and (5) Engaged adults.III. SENSE ITA. Overview of the SENSE IT projectUsing SENSE IT materials, students build, calibrate and test a set of sensors and circuits in orderto measure water quality parameters (temperature, conductivity, turbidity and depth). Whendeciding what kind of sensors the students would build, care was taken to create sensor designsthat were accurate enough for students to make meaningful measurements, but also simpleenough that high school students could understand what they were building and how it worked

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 4

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Murray Teitell, DeVry University, Long Beach; William S. Sullivan, DeVry University, Long Beach

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Mathematics

success,preparedness, and overall achievement of the outcomes of their degree program.Introduction Metrics are used to make measurements about performance in order to evaluate andcompare.1 They are widely used in sports to compare the performance of athletes in a game (e.g.batting averages and slugging average).2 Likewise, Metrics are used to compare the performanceof a task. 3 Software metrics are applied to measure the efficiency of the software/algorithm bymeasuring parameters such as speed and storage use.4, 5 A simple metric can measure how long ittakes to perform a task in actual time or man-hours (quantity), the number of resources required(quantity) and the quality of the outcome. A metric therefore usually measures quantity and

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Engineering Libraries (ELD) Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sara M. Samuel, University of Michigan; Natsuko Hayashi Nicholls, University of Michigan; Leena N Lalwani, University of Michigan; David S. Carter, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor; Paul F. Grochowski, University of Michigan

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Engineering Libraries

between indexes, table of contents, and chapters. Some participantsnoted that “moving through e-books was cumbersome and slow.”1 Noorhidawati & Gibb askedstudents about other features and found that students highly rated the usefulness of doing a full-text search across a collection of e-books, as was the ability to personalize the experience bycreating a “bookshelf.”12 Levine-Clark conducted a survey asking students and faculty abouttheir use of e-books, and they summarized one part of their findings saying that “it is clear thatrespondents value convenience (the convenience of not having to go to the library and theconvenience of not having to wait for a print volume) and the ability to search within the text.”10E-book vendors Springer and

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Trends in Engineering Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hanjun Xian, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Krishna Madhavan, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Educational Research and Methods

the retained group. To the best of our knowledge, the present study is the firstattempt to study scholar retention at large scale and also the first quantitative effort to measurescholar retention based on bibliometric data within engineering education research.1. IntroductionOver the past two decades, Engineering Education Research (EER) has drawn the attention ofscholars from a variety of disciplines. From 1993 to 2002, it has been reported1 that Journal ofEngineering Education (JEE) authors primarily came from engineering disciplines but no singlediscipline dominated. Also, among all JEE authors, 23.9% of them have no engineering orcomputer science background1, 2. A recent study3 describes the opt-in process of how scholars,especially

Conference Session

Minority Student Success

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer O Burrell, Howard University; Afiya C Fredericks, Howard University; Lorraine N. Fleming, Howard University

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Minorities in Engineering

’ matriculation byfocusing on African Americans at PWIs, to a great extent, education and psychological researchexcludes the experiences of African American male students persisting at HBCUs.Although the significant and positive impact of attending HBCUs is well established16, this paperargues that racially homogenous education settings such as HBCUs are not devoid of deficitintellectual stereotyping of African American male students. Further, the nature and function ofwithin-race and gender based ideas about students’ work ethic and skills may operate uniquely inracially homogeneous settings. Therefore, the purposes of the paper are to 1) elucidate thepresence of within-race stereotypes of Black engineering students (African American andinternational

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Issues in Engineering Technology Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher R Conty, Editor On Behalf of You

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Engineering Technology

; Technicians; only in health occupations are "Technologists" listed. 2 b) ET has far fewer programs nationally: 100 4-year colleges & universities in the U.S. offer ET (per ASEE) vs. 350 in engineering, 3 most being ABET-accredited. Of 104 ABET- accredited 2-year ET programs, over a third are at those same 100 4-year colleges. Most original (1950’s) 2-year College ET programs were in Mid-Atlantic & Great Lakes states. c) The average ET program enrolls fewer students than the average Engineering program; also, each Engineering School has more recognized or accredited programs (usually several) than each College with ET programs (often just 1 or 2 accredited ET programs, with few offered anywhere beyond

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Global Competency and What Makes a Successful Engineer

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Holt Zaugg, Brigham Young University; Alan R Parkinson, Brigham Young University; Spencer P. Magleby, Brigham Young University; Randall Davies, Brigham Young Univeristy

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International

collaborate with other cultures in a variety of settings [1]. Preparation for thesecollaborative opportunities occurs as students move through the rigors of engineering universitycourses prior to entering the workforce. Traditionally university programs focus on study abroadand cross-cultural internships to provide students with these global experiences [2]. However,the costs in terms of money and time prevent many students from participating in study abroadactivities. In an effort to provide a cost-effective, meaningful, cross-cultural experience thatmodels the real world trends, many universities are turning to global virtual (GV) teams [3, 4]. However, in using GV teams, students develop a modified set of interaction skills asvirtual

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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

possible solution to a problem identified in therecent research literature: despite decades of efforts dedicated to the improvement of engineeringeducation, and despite the many advances that have been well-researched and are readilyavailable in the literature, the faculty are not readily adopting them because the time required todevelop them exceeds substantially the normal course preparation. There are several positiveindicators that the summer immersion program is working; however, it is still too early todetermine if it has achieved “systemic and sustainable change”, and if there is an effect onretention rates, graduation rates, and employer satisfaction. The study has also uncovered twoprincipal weaknesses that must be resolved: 1