Collection

2015 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Paul B. Crilly; Richard J. Hartnett

completed at least annually for every 2 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conferencecourse. The end result is a document that describes the essential content of the course (i.e.syllabus, learning objectives, outcomes, projects, sample exams, sample notes, etc.), assessmentdata and rubrics, and recommended changes. This EOCR package can then be used to (a) givethe next instructor a suitable starting point for when they teach the course, (b) provideassessment information for program reviews and curriculum revisions, (c) provide assessmentdata to serve as a

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2015 ERC

Authors

Matt Hourihan

[Nondefense R&D] $69 Medicare Social Security $583 $938Source: Budget of the United States Government FY 2016. Projected deficit is $474 billion. © 2015 AAAS Limits  on  Discretionary  Spending  Since  FY  2010 billions  of  constant  2015  dollars $1,200 $1,150 $1,100 $1,050 $1,000 $950 $900

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2015 ERC

Authors

Frank W Gayle

 Ac3vi3es     Tech Integration - Development of innovative methodologies andApplied Research & Demo projects practices for supply chain integration Small/Medium Enterprisesfor • Engagement with small and• reducing cost/risk on medium-sized manufacturing commercializing new tech. enterprises (SMEs).• Solving pre-competitive industrial Institute problems Education, technical skills and Workforce development Education and

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College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy J. Jacobs, Texas A&M University; Charles E. Baukal Jr. P.E., John Zink Co. LLC

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College Industry Partnerships

suggested). Following this Introduction is a descriptionof the process followed to execute the program. The program itself is then described. Finally, theprogram highlights the projects that have thus been funded through the grant program. Thearticle concludes with a summary of the key benefits and challenges of an academic / industrypartnerships in operating a grant program.Description of ProcessThe idea to develop an outreach effort within the CSS started several years before the programbegan to materialize. Casual discussions of implementing an outreach program were generallymet with positive agreement, but serious discussions never succeeded without a specific personbeing tasked with executing the ideas. Professional organizations that comprise

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division: Retaining and Developing Women Faculty in STEM

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cindy Rottmann, University of Toronto; Robin Sacks, University of Toronto; Annie Elisabeth Simpson, Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering; Doug Reeve P.Eng., University of Toronto

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

graduate and undergraduate levels. Robin also serves as the Director of Research for the Engineering Leadership Project at the Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering which aims to identify how engineers lead in the workplace.Ms. Annie Elisabeth Simpson, Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering Annie is the Assistant Director of the Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering at the University of Toronto. Her doctoral work focusses on young women and leadership development. She has her Mas- ters degree in Adult Education and Counselling Psychology. Annie teaches courses, designs experiential curriculum, and contributes to the strategic direction of ILead.Dr. Doug Reeve P.Eng., University of Toronto

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First-year Programs Division Technical Session 16: That Important Decision - Which Engineering Major?

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

M. Jean Mohammadi-Aragh, Mississippi State University; James Warnock, Mississippi State University; Amy Barton, Mississippi State University; Rani Warsi Sullivan, Mississippi State University; Bill B Elmore, Mississippi State University; Jane Nicholson Moorhead, Mississippi State University

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First-Year Programs

significant for threedepartments (ASE, CHE, and ECE). Three departments (ASE, ABE, and CHE) offer a two-course introduction to engineering sequence with the remaining five offering a singleintroduction to engineering course. ECE is the only department that offers their introduction toengineering course both semesters. Though there is a push within the college to move towardsproject-based learning design projects for first-year courses, only the ASE, CHE, and MEdepartments currently use project-based learning in their first-year courses. Our initialassessment of FYE courses within the college demonstrated the wide variability of each course.A significant challenge we faced while developing this course related to addressing differencesbetween existing

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marian S. Kennedy, Clemson University; Lisa Benson, Clemson University; Catherine D. McGough, Clemson University; Michelle Cook

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

University, with a joint appointment in Bioengineering. Her research focuses on the interactions between student moti- vation and their learning experiences. Her projects involve the study of student perceptions, beliefs and attitudes towards becoming engineers and scientists, and their problem solving processes. Other projects in the Benson group include effects of student-centered active learning, self-regulated learning, and incor- porating engineering into secondary science and mathematics classrooms. Her education includes a B.S. in Bioengineering from the University of Vermont, and M.S. and Ph.D. in Bioengineering from Clemson University.Catherine D. McGough, Clemson University Catherine McGough is currently a

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan M Lord, University of San Diego; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University; Richard . Layton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

? Trajectories are measured atmatriculation, four years later, and six-year graduation for matriculants to the disciplines as wellas all students in the major, including first-time-in-college (FTIC) and transfer students. Theimpact of first-year engineering (FYE) programs is also considered. We focus on the mostpopular disciplines of engineering: Chemical, Civil, Electrical, Mechanical, and Industrial. Inaddition, we have considered Aerospace Engineering given its similarity in curriculum toMechanical and Computer Engineering given its similar curriculum to Electrical. We have begunto work on comparisons of the five most popular engineering disciplines.Project goalsThis project focuses on examining the research question “How do the trajectories of

Conference Session

Teaching Problem Solving in a Multidisciplinary Context

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kerrie A Douglas, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Tanya Faltens, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Krishna Madhavan, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

Engineering (Ph.D. UCLA 2002), and she has several years’ experience in hands-on informal science education, including working at the Lawrence Hall of Science at UC Berkeley. While at Cal Poly Pomona, she taught the first year engineering course, mentored student capstone re- search projects, and introduced nanoHUB simulation tools into the undergraduate curriculum in materials science and engineering and electrical engineering courses. Much of her work has focused on introducing STEM concepts to broad audiences and encouraging students, including women and others in traditionally under-represented groups, to consider graduate school. Four of her former research students are currently in, or have completed, Ph.D. programs

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ashland O. Brown, University of the Pacific; Daniel D. Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy; Paul Henry Schimpf, Eastern Washington University; Richard H. Crawford, University of Texas, Austin; Ismail I Orabi, University of New Haven; Kyle A. Watson, University of the Pacific; Jiancheng Liu, University of the Pacific; Kathy Schmidt Jackson, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Chuan-Chiang Chen, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Firas Akasheh, Tuskegee University; Michael Orr, The University of Texas at Austin; Kevin Leigh Webster Jr.; George Turvey, Graduate Research Assistant ; Mouchumi Bhattacharyya

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Department of Computer Science at Eastern Wash- ington University, Cheney, WA, USA. His research interests include numerical methods for forward and inverse solutions to partial differential equations with biomedical applications. Prior to his academic ca- reer, Dr. Schimpf was employed as a Senior Principal Design Engineer in the electronics industry, where he enjoyed 15 years of experience developing parallel embedded signal and image processing systems.Dr. Richard H. Crawford, University of Texas, Austin Dr. Richard H. Crawford is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin and is the Temple Foundation Endowed Faculty Fellow No. 3. He is also Director of the Design Projects program in

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elif Ozturk; Bugrahan Yalvac, Texas A&M University; Michael Johnson, Texas A&M University; Xiaobo Peng, Prairie View A&M University; Ke Liu, Prairie View A&M University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

and contributions to a project.Study PurposeThis study explored students’ and practicing engineers’ AE characteristics as they modelobjects using CAD tools. Student participants that modeled objects that they frequentlyuse in their daily lives characterized their modeling activities as contextualized. Theeffect of the contextualized activities on participants’ AE characteristics has beeninvestigated. Statistical analyses were used to compare practitioners’ and students’manifestations of adaptive expertise.Study MethodsThis project has been funded by the National Science Foundation in 2011. Two engineersand two learning scientists have worked together to implement the project activities andreiterate the research design. In each semester for

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Engineering Management Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shekar Viswanathan, National University; Ben D Radhakrishnan, National University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

course team project will be quantified and demonstrated through a game that theteam will design, create, play, and demonstrate. Teams are given full freedom (empowered) to Page 26.507.7 6create/innovate and even to adopt any existing game to suit the project under study. This SCLhas been successfully implemented in more than one course in the MS SustainabilityManagement program. This particular SCL is perhaps one of the most advanced SCL used in thegraduate classes since real world problems need to be well understood to be able to bring theconcepts down to game objective(s), rules, and winning

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Instrumentation Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Asad Yousuf, Savannah State University; Claire Cynthia Lehman, Bill's Robotic Solution; Mohamad A. Mustafa, Savannah State University; Mir M Hayder, Savannah State University

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

Paper ID #11460Introducing Kinematics with Robot Operating System (ROS)Dr. Asad Yousuf, Savannah State UniversityMr. William Lehman, Bill’s Robotic Solution William Lehman is President of Bill’s Robotic Solutions which he started in July of 2013. He has had over twenty years of experience in software and hardware development. He has worked on numerous projects in digital communication systems, robotics, and aerospace applications. Mr. Lehman received his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering in 1979 from Catholic University of America.Dr. Mohamad A. Mustafa, Savannah State UniversityDr. Mir M Hayder, Savannah

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Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric D Smith, University of Texas, El Paso; Oscar H. Salcedo, University of Texas, El Paso; Aditya Akundi, University of Texas, El Paso

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Systems Engineering

and Computer Engineering Department, Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) track. He earned a Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) in 2012. He has worked on a number of projects in the field of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, Additive Manufacturing and Green Energy Manufacturing. He is the current president of INCOSE UTEP student chapter along with being involved in UTEP Green Fund committee. His research interests are in Systems Engineering & Architecture, Complex systems, Systems testing and Application of Entropy to Complex Systems. Email: sakundi@miners.utep.edu

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Make It!

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher P. Pung, Grand Valley State University; Debbie Morrow MLIS, Grand Valley State University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

and manipulating the 3D files, and for running theequipment. Others may need parts fabricated, and rely on a consultation with him to execute thejob. He troubleshoots the equipment and helps solve design problems from the technical side.Details: For a course project the students are given a set amount of material after which they pay$5 per cubic inch of material.Factors for practical managementBoth departments have several key components in common:  Support staff – students who take on responsibility for becoming sufficiently knowledgeable about the operation and “care and feeding” of the equipment to assist their peers.  Fee for usage – students are required to pay for use of the machines in the form of paying for

Conference Session

Make It!

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emily Ann Marasco, University of Calgary

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Manufacturing

. Create! Official festival photo: http://beakerhead.com/References for tips, tricks, and similar projects:1. Arduino. (2015). Getting started with Arduino. http://arduino.cc/en/Guide/HomePage2. Intel Education. (2015). Tools for student-centered learning. Page 26.1119.6 http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/education/k12/teachers.html3. E2S2. (2015). U of C Engineering Education Students’ Society. https://e2s2ucalgary.wordpress.com/

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Curriculum Exchange

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Philip S. Schmidt P.E., University of Texas, Austin; Christina Soontornvat, iFLY ; Stuart B Wallock

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

latter in 1968. Prior to coming to UT in 1970 he taught for two years at Prairie View A&M as a Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellow. In 1994 he was named Texas Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and in 1995 he was selected as one of the 10 inaugural members of the Academy of Distin- guished Teachers at UT Austin. Dr. Schmidt received ASEE’s Ralph Coats Roe Award in 1992, and the Chester F. Carlson Award in 2010 for his contributions to development of project-based engineering edu- cation and promotion of educational and professional opportunities for women and minorities. During the past 10 years he has worked actively with the Austin Children’s Museum to encourage

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John D. Carpinelli, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Linda S Hirsch, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Raquel Perez-Castillejos, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

, do students get a job inindustry right away? Do they go straight to graduate school? Do they consider returning tograduate school if they work in industry? Additional post-graduation tracking is implemented tosupplement the results of the follow-up survey.IntroductionSince its inception, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has supported undergraduateresearch. Initially, support for undergraduates participating in research projects was provided aspart of a research grant award. In 1959, NSF began offering the Undergraduate ResearchParticipation Program, which provided summer support “for undergraduate students to work withfaculty on specially designed research projects.”1 In some cases, support extended into theacademic year. The program

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Exploring Graduate Student Experiences

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martina V. Svyantek, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech

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Graduate Studies

Engineering Communication Center (VTECC). Her research interests include interdisciplinary collaboration, design education, communication studies, identity theory and re- flective practice. Projects supported by the National Science Foundation include exploring disciplines as cultures, interdisciplinary pedagogy for pervasive computing design; writing across the curriculum in Statics courses; as well as a CAREER award to explore the use of e-portfolios to promote professional identity and reflective practice. Page 26.1608.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Tricks of the

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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathleen Alfano, College of the Canyons

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

. Additional funding from NSF has allowed the Center to include facultydevelopment learning exchanges between renewable energy faculty in Australia and NewZealand (2013) and Germany and Denmark (2014).C. Recent Accomplishments:1. International Efforts: CREATE submitted and was awarded two NSF supplementalgrants in 2012-2013 and in 2013-2014: one for a faculty study tour in March of 2013 forAustralia and New Zealand (NSF 1239631) and one for a faculty study tour in May and Page 26.1194.2June of 2014 for Germany and Denmark (NSF 1345306). Both of these projects fulfilledthe stated intention in the CREATE Center application (NSF 1002653) to pursue acomparison of

Conference Session

Studying Engineering Education Research & Institutions

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lauren A. Sepp, University of Washington; Mania Orand, Human Centered Design and Engineering ; Jennifer A Turns, University of Washington; Lauren D. Thomas, University of Washington; Brook Sattler, University of Washington; Cynthia J. Atman, University of Washington

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Educational Research and Methods, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, and type of reflection: how reflection is being operationalized. As aresult of our findings, it is evident that there has been a significant and recognizable upwardtrend in the explicit attention to reflection across the body of the ASEE conference publications.Understanding the trends of reflection across literature can help us further analyze its prevalenceand importance in the engineering education community.IntroductionIn engineering education, there has been an increase in pedagogical approaches that positionstudents at the center of the teaching practice, like problem-based learning, project-basedcourses, and capstone design courses.1,2,3 Such pedagogical approaches often engender reflectionby engaging students in reflection activities

Conference Session

Concept Inventories and Assessment of Knowledge

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark A Urlacher, Oregon State University; Shane A. Brown P.E., Oregon State University; Paul S. Steif, Carnegie Mellon University; Floraliza Bornilla Bornasal, Oregon State University

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Educational Research and Methods

statics are used and understoodin the professional engineering field.Concept inventories (CI) have been defined as, “Multiple choice instruments designed toevaluate whether a person has an accurate and working knowledge of a concept or concepts” [7].For the purposes of this project, this is the best suited definition because, unlike other definitionsof CIs, it states “person” rather than “student.” Note that this project does not focus on students,but rather on licensed civil engineers.Engineering CIs have been broadly used to assess student conceptual knowledge and evaluatethe effectiveness of educational innovations[8]. Conceptual knowledge goes beyond merelyidentifying a concept and spans into the understanding of interrelationships and

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 7: The Transition from High School to College

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert A. Green, Mississippi State University; M. Jean Mohammadi-Aragh, Mississippi State University; James Warnock, Mississippi State University

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First-Year Programs

an outline of what was expected from the presentation and some instruction on makingpresentations, but they were free to present any material they thought important. Presentationswere required to be submitted beforehand and loaded onto a computer in random order. As aslide listing the team name was projected, each team had to assemble on the stage and begin theirthree-minute presentation. Each slide automatically transitioned to the next slide at a given timeinterval and presentations ended when the next team’s name was projected. This forced thestudents to prepare in advance and focus on those aspects of their design they thought were mostvital. A panel of judges used a rubric in judging the presentations. Figure 1

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Engineering Physics & Physics Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen W. McKnight, Northeastern University; Christos Zahopoulos, Northeastern University

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Engineering Physics & Physics

year of the NationalAcademy of Engineering Gordon Prize for innovation in engineering education, has the goal offostering the development of engineers who have the rare and highly-prized ability to lead anengineering project all the way from concept to a marketable product.Our model for the “Scientific Foundations of Engineering” course seeks to increase theconfidence with which a well-trained engineer can approach an unfamiliar problem and quicklyrecognize the fundamental principles and use them to make “back-of-the-envelope” calculationsabout how large an effect each may have. Even a little bit of this ability to understand the basic Page

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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J. Patrick Abulencia, Manhattan College; Margot A Vigeant, Bucknell University; David L. Silverstein P.E., University of Kentucky

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

)  Reaction  Rate  vs  Reaction  Equilibrium  (Abulencia  –  2013;  Abulencia  -­‐  2014).    The  focus  of  this  paper  is  to  examine  the  effect  of  students  both  creating  and  viewing  peer-­‐generated  videos  (21  total)  of  the  aforementioned  topics.  The  viewing  assignment  coincided  with  the  time  that  particular  topic  was  being  taught  in  lecture  and  was  part  of  regular  homework.      The  video  creation  project  was  assigned  to  teams  of  3-­‐4  students  as  a  significant  assignment  spanning  the  last  4-­‐5  weeks  of  the  course.    Each  video  produced  covers  only  one  concept  in  depth.    Students’  learning  was  assessed  via  the  concept  inventory  for  engineering  thermodynamics

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Innovative Use of Technology I

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carolyn Kusbit Dunn, East Carolina University

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Computers in Education

remainder of the course focuses on writing specific workplacedocuments: a graphics/page design assignment, a business letter, a technical description, aresume and cover letter, a memo with embedded instructions, a proposal and a technical report.The students turn in each of these documents as an assignment. The instructor grades theassignment, gives feedback, and returns the graded assignment with the feedback to the studentwithin a week of submission. At the end of the semester, the student revises the eight workplacedocuments based on the instructor feedback, and compiles the documents into a portfolio, whichis then submitted as the final project. The documents the students write throughout the semesterand the final portfolio constitute all of

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First Year Programs Division Poster Session: The Best Place to Really Talk about First-Year Education

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Farshid Marbouti, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Johannes Strobel, Texas A&M University

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First-Year Programs

the accuracy of the predictions to identify the students who may fail the course. Inaddition, we identified course components that are important for students’ success in the course.These models are used as a proof of concept to showcase and move toward course-specificprediction models rather than the existing generic ones. The research questions are: • To what extend does accuracy of prediction of students’ success in a course change across Page 26.304.3 the weeks during the semester based on available performance information? • What are the most important course components (e.g., homework, quiz, project, exam) that link to student

Collection

2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Susan Wainscott; Julie Longo

literature review as consisting of three levels. The finalworkshop of the academic year is a Technical Writing Intensive, during which the students workon their papers and reports. They are encouraged to bring their dissertations or theses as well, andare provided with one-on-one counseling from the instructors. All workshops include activelearning and lecture as instruction methods.IntroductionEngineering graduate students typically complete a research project and write a thesis ordissertation that includes a literature review. At the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV),engineering graduate students also are encouraged to submit papers to conferences and journalsas well as participate in writing technical reports required by federal or state

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Mechanics Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Somnath Chattopadhyay, University at Buffalo, SUNY

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Mechanics

Paper ID #14225Warping Deformation Caused by Twisting Non-circular ShaftsProf. Somnath Chattopadhyay, University at Buffalo, SUNY Page 26.1712.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 WARPING DEFORMATION CAUSED BY TWISTING NON-CIRCULAR SHAFTSABSTRACTThis project is a combined analytical and experimental activity to study warping deformation inshafts of non-circular cross section subjected to torsion. This is a supplemental activity for thejunior level Mechanics of Materials course. The students see the

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Pipeline and Performance in BME Education

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric M. Brey, Illinois Institute of Technology; Megan F. Campanile, Illinois Institute of Technology; Norman G. Lederman, Illinois Institute of Technology

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

Technology had on theparticipants’ career paths. Over the nine years, there have been 131 undergraduate students whoparticipated. Ninety nine (76%) of these students were supported via funding from the NationalScience Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates program. The other 32 (24%)were supported through institutional funds. More than half of the students (56.5%) were female,26.7% of the students were from underrepresented groups, and 52.7% students without previousresearch experience. The undergraduate research program understudy is a 10-week engineeringresearch project working in research laboratories at the University or a collaborating MedicalSchool. A tiered mentoring structure was developed within the participating laboratories