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Chemical Engineering Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Xuesong Li P.E., Washington State University; Bernard J. Van Wie, Washington State University

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Chemical Engineering

approaches that have been practiced for 50 years are continued [1, 2]. It isnecessary to find an alternative teaching strategy in engineering courses, particularly forconveying scientific principles to real situations. To assess innovative methods for solving theproblems and limitations of the traditional teaching model in chemical engineering andbiomedical engineering, a half interactive hands-on learning experiment, half lecture-teachingmodel is being explored. In this process, having the aim of a better understanding and absorptionof key principles and difficult concepts in fluid mechanics and neuronal membrane physiology,we are combining multimedia technology with whiteboard and hands-on tabletop units.A Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer course

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Women in Engineering Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joanna Wolfe, Carnegie Mellon University; Jaime Allen Fawcett, Carnegie Mellon University; Elizabeth A. Powell, Tennessee Technological University

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

Page 26.841.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Help Seeking Among Undergraduate Men and Women in Engineering Joanna Wolfe Jaime Fawcett Elizabeth Powell Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University Tennessee Tech University1. IntroductionIn many ways, asking for help with a problem or new challenge runs contrary to an engineeringethos that values competence and independence. For instance, Leonardi and colleagues foundthat nearly every one of the 128 engineering students they interviewed expressed the sentimentthat in order to learn fundamental engineering concepts and skills one had to work alone [1].As one representative

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Building Pathways that Promote Pursuit/Persistence in Engineering

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Corey E. Baker, University of Florida, Gainesville; Justin Dunnavant, University of Florida, Gainesville; Janise McNair, University of Florida

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering

and impactdiversity in all areas of employment.1 IntroductionThe United States is known to be at the forefront of technical innovation and science, contributing Page 26.862.2significant advances in the areas of communications, defense, health, infrastructure, andmanufacturing, among other areas 1 . Success in technology has been due to the tech industry’sability to develop products which serve the ever-changing requirements of today’s world.Considering changes on a global scale, the world’s population is growing at an enormous rate andis expected to reach 8 billion by the year 2020. Much of the anticipated growth is expected tooccur in

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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael G Mauk P.E., Drexel University; Richard Chiou, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.)

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

, device operation,defects, variability, and reliability. Laboratory projects using low-cost fluorescent cameras,visible and near-IR cameras, and laser scanning are used to characterize the grain structure,defects, surface roughness, reflectivity, and photovoltaic effects in common solar cell materials(e.g., monocrystalline and multicrystalline silicon wafers, thin film solar cells, commercialsilicon solar cells, and photovoltaic modules. Captured images can be imported into MATLABor other widely-available image processing software for analysis and interpretation. Topicallaboratory modules and projects can teach across engineering disciplines including materialsscience, optics, quality control, semiconductor devices, and renewable energy.1

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Engineering Laboratory Experiences

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cecilia Dianne Richards, Washington State University; Fanhe Shamus Meng; Bernard J. Van Wie, Washington State University; Paul B. Golter, Washington State University; Robert F. Richards, Washington State University

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Mechanical Engineering

. Page 26.909.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Implementation of Very Low-Cost Fluids Experiments to Facilitate Transformation in Undergraduate Engineering ClassesIntroductionEngineering students emerge from many courses with a surprising lack of understanding of coreconcepts. Active learning has been shown by many educational researchers to result in superiorlearning outcomes over traditional methods like lecturing.1-3 Experiments can provide a enrichedplatform for active learning provided they are not too ‘cooked’ or recipe driven so that studentscan explore and play.One possibility is to develop experiments that students can put together themselves at home.Several groups have

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BIM in Architectural Engineering

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christopher Monson, University of Washington; Hoda - Homayouni, University of Washington; Carrie S Dossick, University of Washington; Anne K Anderson, Washington State University

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Architectural

include (1) technology and collaboration strategies for green building design and construction, (2) global virtual teams, (3) applications of BIM and COBie in operations and (4) bringing BIM to the construction site via mobile. She has received funding from the National Science Foundation, U.S. Army, U.S. Department of Education, Mechanical Contractors Association of Western Washington, University of Washington Royalty Research Fund, University of Washington Capital Projects, the College of Built Environments’ BE Lab and was awarded the College of Architecture and Urban Planning 2007 Dean’s Development Fund.Anne K Anderson, Washington State University Anne Anderson is an Assistant Professor in the School of Design

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Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing (MEP) Topics in Construction Education

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ifte Choudhury, Texas A&M University

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Construction

versusgraduate-entry medical students, Dugan et al.1 found that the graduate-entry students didsignificantly better in their senior dissertation assessment.A large number of students suffer from test anxiety that results in poor performance. In one of thevery early studies dealing with this phenomenon, Hembree5 analyzed the performances of 562students ranging from elementary to college levels. He found that test anxiety reduced theperformance of students at every level. However, the study indicated that undergraduates had ahigher level of test anxiety than the graduate students.There are a wide range of articles written about good practices of both undergraduate and graduateeducation. Chickering & Gramson6 offered a framework for institutional

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Civil Engineering Division Technical Session 8

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John V. Tocco J.D., Lawrence Technological University

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Diversity

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Civil Engineering

, the team members shared their engineering knowledge, along with theircollege experiences, in the mentoring of at-risk girls.Capstone Execution The major design and project management experience for the Civil Engineering Program(Program) at Lawrence Technological University is a fall/spring sequence of two, two-creditcourses, CE Design Project 1 (Project 1) and CE Design Project 2 (Project 2). In execution, thesequence is somewhat akin to an independent study course. Students are responsible for formingfive-person teams, identifying a project, and generating conceptual designs and project Page 26.38.2management plans. Each team member is

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Thermodynamics, Fluids and Heat Transfer I

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Soumik Banerjee, Washington State University

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Mechanical Engineering

that deals with energy, is an important and necessary part ofmechanical engineering curriculum globally.1-3 Engineers apply principles of thermodynamics tosolve myriad problems in applications that include air conditioning, refrigeration, powerconversion in power plants and automobiles, energy storage and heating and ventilationsystems.4 While fundamentals of thermodynamics is not mathematically challenging andinvolve very simple mathematical tools, most students find it difficult to grasp the basic conceptssuch as energy balance and definition of entropy associated with the second law ofthermodynamics.5-7 Various methods have been explored to enhance learning of thermodynamicconcepts at the undergraduate level.5,8,9 Since learning is a

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Student Approaches to Problem Solving: ERM Roundtable

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jacob Preston Moore, Pennsylvania State University, Mont Alto; Joseph Ranalli, Pennsylvania State University, Hazleton Campus

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Educational Research and Methods

feedback in a timely fashion during an instructional unit, Page 26.64.2it can serve to help the student identify topics that they do and do not understand and adjust plansaccordingly, and it can serve to help the instructor do the same. When assessment fills this role, itis known as formative assessment [1]. High quality feedback provided through formativeassessment has long been known to be an essential part of the learning experience [1]–[3].Another role that assessment can also fill is to verify that at the end of an instructional unit, thestudent sufficiently understands the content. When assessment fills this role it is known assummative

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First-year Programs Division Technical Session 5: Using Video, Games, and More in the First Year

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Krista M Kecskemety, Ohio State University; Gregory Warren Bucks, University of Cincinnati; Kerry L. Meyers, Youngstown State University

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First-Year Programs

universityEach institution uses an inverted classroom approach with first-year engineering students.University A is a large university with an undergraduate student population of around 32,000.The university is a public institution which draws heavily from the surrounding area.Approximately 79% of the students come from within the state, with 14% of the studentpopulation comprised of ethnic minorities. Overall, there is a 16:1 student to faculty ratio. TheCollege of Engineering and Applied Science currently admits approximately 1000 undergraduatestudents each year with a total undergraduate enrollment of around 4000 and has a similar ethnicprofile to the university as a whole. Students are able to matriculate directly to a major, withapproximately 15

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New Engineering Educators Division Technical Session 4

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rami Jubrail Haddad, Georgia Southern University; Youakim Kalaani, Georgia Southern University

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New Engineering Educators

process. To initiatediscussions, students were asked to post their questions on an online discussion to triggerinteractions among themselves and the faculty outside the classroom. Based on the outcome ofthese discussions, a 15-minute review lecture was prepared by the faculty to address the issuesthat were raised during the student groups’ discussions. Following this brief lecture, the classwas turned into a studio environment in which students were able to put into practice what theyhave learned inside and outside the classroom. Before the end of the lecture session, an onlinequiz was administered to monitor the students' level of preparation and understanding of thetopics being covered. It was shown that the proposed model had succeeded in 1

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Industrial Engineering Division Technical Session 3

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Farnaz Ghazi-Nezami, Kettering University; Mehmet Bayram Yildirim, Wichita State University

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Industrial Engineering

. Page 26.149.3The Lean Enterprise Institute founded by Womack 1 (1997) is aiming at developing educationalmethods and workshops to promote training about lean tools. Nontraditional instructionalmethods such as learning-by-doing methods, active and collaborative learning techniques aregetting more popular in the past few years. This trend is mostly reflected by introducing variousphysical simulation or computer games (gamification) and is growing rapidly due to theirpositive impact on learning process [1, 2]. The literature study illustrates a large pool ofeducational simulation games targeting different lean concepts and principles such as pullproduction, one piece flow, Jidoka, 5S, Poka Yoke and waste elimination. TimeWise simulation,Veebots

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Instrumentation Division Technical Session 4

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mark Jeffrey ZurSchmiede, Federal Screw Works; Jeffrey Ward, Grand Valley State University

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Instrumentation

Ward, Grand Valley State University Page 26.467.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015Design of a Modular Cloud Storage Gaging System for Automotive Fastener Manufacturing Mark ZurSchmiede, Dave Bartell, Dr. Jeffrey Ward April 6, 2015 Page 26.467.2 1 Abstract The proposed research project will involve the electrical and software design of an automated gaging system

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First-year Programs Division Technical Session 8: Project-based Learning and Cornerstone Courses

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kyle G. Gipson, James Madison University; Justin J Henriques; Sancho Sequeira

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First-Year Programs

academic year of 2011-2012. Without the ENGR 101 course, students only have oneengineering course in their first-year.    Engineering Opportunities Course Overview    This paper represents the redesign and relaunch of ENGR 101 as the Engineering Page 26.509.2Opportunities course with a focus on the structure and assessment of the course.    Learning Materials    The course content focuses on:   1) Human Centered Design & Design Thinking - a problem solving approach that enables students to tackle design challenges in teams. 2) Systems Thinking - Helping students understand the world as interconnected systems

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Measuring the Impact of Community Engagement on Students

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jo-Ann Panzardi P.E., Cabrillo College; Kate A. Disney, Mission College & Cabrillo College; Natalia Cordoba-Velasquez, Cabrillo College; Brandon Faria, Cabrillo College; Sarah E. Kalman, Cabrillo College; Patrick Mojica, Cabrillo College; Jose Horacio Jimenez, Cabrillo College

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

using practices by Purdue University’s EPICS Program.The instrument had 26 statements from which students gave themselves a rank using a scale of 1(low) to 10 (high). The areas of growth included industry skills, the value of civic engagement,awareness of engineering as a global profession, global and cultural skills. The results from thestudents’ self-assessments showed an average increase of 32% or 2 mean points before vs. afterthe Engineering Abroad program. Students experienced change and noticed their skills andabilities were enhanced after the abroad experience.Cabrillo CollegeCabrillo College was established in 1958 and is an accredited community college located on theCalifornia central coast serving all of Santa Cruz County, the

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First-year Programs Division Technical Session 6: Hands-on Projects and Spatial Skills

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jacob L. Segil, University of Colorado Boulder; Beth A Myers, University of Colorado Boulder; Jacquelyn F. Sullivan Ph.D., University of Colorado, Boulder; Derek T Reamon, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

at the beginning and end of each implementation forthose students who did not originally pass. Our implementation approaches to improve students’SV skills included: Page 26.590.2  Intervention 0: No special training in SV outside of regular design coursework (that is, hope for the best); pre- and post-test data available as baseline  Intervention 1: In-course SV curriculum and homework assignments, with the potential to earn extra credit  Intervention 2: Voluntary out-of-class SV workshops with homework assignments  Intervention 3: A mandatory out-of-class, four-part SV workshop series for students who did not

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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Narayan Bhattarai, North Carolina A&T State University; Courtney Lambeth, North Carolina A&T State University; Dhananjay Kumar, North Carolina A&T State University; Cindy Waters, North Carolina A&T State University; Devdas M. Pai, North Carolina A&T State University; Matthew B. A. McCullough, North Carolina A&T State University; Caroline S. Booth, North Carolina A & T State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Students' Learning Experiences on Bio-nanoengineeringINTRODUCTIONNanotechnology is a revolutionary 21st century technology, and is starting to impact almost everyaspect of society. Disease diagnosis and treatment is one high-impact area where nanotechnologyhas excellent potential and promise [1, 2]. Nanotechnology is already moving from being used asa passive structure in applications such as cosmetics and sunscreens to active structures inapplications such as pharmaceuticals (targetable “smart drugs”). These new drug therapies havebeen shown to cause fewer side effects and to be more effective than traditional therapies [3].Nanotechnology is also aiding in the formation of molecular systems that are designed to benoticeably similar to living

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Biomedical Engineering Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Bailey, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE)

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Biomedical

allow students to practice their creativityor develop critical thinking skills5,6,7. Inquiry-based learning in a laboratory environmentdevelops creativity and critical thinking skills8,9. Peer-teaching has also been shown to increasestudent learning in a laboratory environment3. This study looks at how inquiry-based learningfollowed by peer-teaching affects student attitudes toward the subject matter and their overalllearning experience.MethodsTable 1. The five different measurement techniques utilized to complete instructor providedobjectives. Technique Instructor Provided Objectives  Collect signal using National Instruments myDAQ and homemade Electromyography amplifiers (EMG

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Capstone Design

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Trevelyan, University of Western Australia

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

capstone design courses starting withspecified learning outcomes and assessment requirements (appendix 1) mostly because of mybackground. 40 years of mechanical and mechatronic design experience, current daily designpractice with a small innovation start-up company creating novel air conditioning technology,and several years researching engineering practice provide a rich store of experiences fromwhich to construct authentic learning experiences and assessments for students. Engineeringeducation experiences have also provided insights into effective instruction techniques.The learning outcomes and assessment specification emerged from earlier faculty-wideconsultation including faculty and industry representatives in all engineering disciplines

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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Q. Peter He, Tuskegee University; Jin Wang, Auburn University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

additional conference proceedings (>40) and presentations (>70). Her re- cent publications mainly focus on biotechnology and bioengineering related modeling and experimental research. Page 26.986.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Integrating biofuels education into chemical engineering curriculum Q. Peter He1 and Jin Wang2 1 Department of Chemical Engineering, Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AL 36088 2 Department of Chemical Engineering

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Mechanical Engineering Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dustin Scott Birch, Weber State University

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Mechanical Engineering

people worldwide.1 Therefore, it is probably one of the mostcommonly available software packages in existence. For this reason, it was chosen as a goodcandidate for the simple engineering model examples presented. Other low-cost or sharewaresoftware does exist that is comparable in power and functionality to MS Excel. An example ofthis would be Google Sheets, which is a free spreadsheet software developed by Google.However, MS Excel does have the largest marketplace exposure and overall usage byeducational institutions as well as in industry. Hence, it was chosen as the software tool ofchoice for various classroom examples.MS Excel is implemented in various course curriculum to introduce students to its flexibility andavailable functionality as

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Teaching and Learning Strategies II

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pradeep Kashinath Waychal, NMIMS University; Gautam Akiwate, University of California, San Diego

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Educational Research and Methods

engineering education Page 26.1022.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Introducing an Approach to Develop Egoless Software EngineersIntroductionA software organization typically operates in three dimensions for increasing productivity – process,technology and people. There is considerable literature on the process and technology dimensions 1, 2 butvery little on the people dimension3. Glass, et al3 have studied 369 papers in 6 leading journals anddiscovered that Software Engineering research is fundamentally about technical and computing issuesand that it is seldom about

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Materials Division Technical Session 3

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Isabelle Dutil, University of Toronto; Varuna Prakash, University of Toronto; Jun Nogami, University of Toronto; Scott Ramsay, University of Toronto

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Diversity

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Materials

fracture toughness and stressconcentration. The RLOs included: 1. Online “Khan Academy Style videos (KSV)”, 2. Exampleproblem videos by graduate students, 3. Cornell notes, note-taking framework handouts, 4.Tempered glass lecture demonstration, 5. Online homework problems, and 6. New in-class slidesfor lectures. At the end of the first semester following the introduction of these newinterventions, students were asked to participate in a survey to gauge the rate of interventionuptake as well as general perceived usefulness (n=118). The KSVs had the greatest uptake rate,with 63% of respondents reporting that they used the intervention. The Cornell notes had thelowest uptake rate (4%). When asked about perceived usefulness of interventions, 84

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Diffusion and Adoption of Teaching Practices

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kari L. Jordan, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach; James J. Pembridge, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach; Sarah Anne Blackowski; Heidi M Steinhauer, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach; Timothy A Wilson, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach; Douglas Holton, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach

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Educational Research and Methods

specificcontent area, and micro-communities of practice as those reflecting collaboration of smallercohorts of STEM faculty, in-person and virtually.This study addresses the following research questions: 1) How do engineering faculty involvedin a community of practice engage in knowledge transfer? 2) How does knowledge transfer ofspecific evidence-based instructional practices occur in an engineering faculty community ofpractice?Conducted within a large research project aimed at exploring stages of pedagogical change, thiswork utilizes a qualitative methodology. Nine faculty in a first-year engineering departmentparticipated in hour-long semi-structured interviews exploring use of EBIPs and collaboration.Interviews were analyzed using thematic coding to

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Makerspaces in the Library: Using 3D printers, Laser Cutters, and Kits to Enhance Learning

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adam Rogers, North Carolina State University Libraries; Ben Leduc-Mills, SparkFun Electronics, Inc.; Brendan C. O'Connell, Smith College Libraries; Brian Huang, Sparkfun Electronics

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Engineering Libraries

kit type and which library the kit was checked out from. From February1, 2013 to December 29, 2014 we recorded 1462 transactions, consisting of 695 check-ins, 697checkouts, and 70 renewals. Presumably the discrepancy from checkouts to check-ins representstwo kits that were on loan at the time the data was collected. Page 26.1081.5 Figure 1: Distribution of Checkouts by Academic DepartmentBoth of our main libraries saw strong usage, although James B. Hunt Jr. Library sawsignificantly more activity than D.H. Hill Library, 1237 to 225. We suspect this is due to thatHunt Library is the main library for the colleges of

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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

DeLean Tolbert Smith, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica E. Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

experiences with engineering. This paper will present findings and discussion based upon the students’ responses in thefollow-up interview. Some emergent themes in the student’s responses are: 1) precollegeengineering experiences are structurally different than college engineering experiences, 2)students fail to recognize the diverse types of mathematical knowledge they are applying to solvethe design task and 3)precollege engineering is more hands-on than college engineeringcoursework. We anticipate that this work will give instructors insight in to the perceptions andexperiences that students have when they enter the college engineering classroom as freshmenand how those ideas may change over time as they work towards completing their degree

Conference Session

Student Motivation and Faculty Development

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ulan Dakeev, University of Michigan, Flint; Quamrul H. Mazumder, University of Michigan, Flint; Faruk Yildiz, Sam Houston State University; Kenan Baltaci, University of Wisconsin, Stout; Bedelbai Mamadiev, International Ataturk-Alatoo University

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

0.93 for different scales, validating the instrumentshigher level of reliability.HypothesisThere are three hypotheses we examined in this paper. 1. There is no significant difference between freshmen/sophomore and junior/senior students in public and private universities in Kyrgyzstan. 2. There is no significant difference between male and female students in public and private universities in Kyrgyzstan. 3. There is no significant difference between public and private universities in Kyrgyzstan.Literature Review The MSLQ tool was designed by P. R. Pintrich and T. Garracia4 and it is designed to measurestudents’ motivational orientations and their use of learning strategies5. The MSLQ is based on

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The Philosophy of Engineering and Technological Literacy

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Heywood, Trinity College, Dublin

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

Teaching, Education, Engineering and Technological LiteracyAbstractIn 2010 James Trevelyan [1] argued on the basis of studies of the work that engineers do thatthe engineering curriculum required to pay more attention to the development of what havecome to be known as “soft skills”, as for example communication and the ability to performeffectively in teams. He noted that engineering courses that taught communication treatedcommunication “only as information transfer” when what was required was a comprehensivedevelopment of social interaction skills. He thought that this could be achieved if studentswere given the opportunity to teach in their courses because “education, like engineeringpractice, relies on special kinds of social interactions

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Research & Evaluation on K-12 Teachers and Teaching.

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Birgit Fahrman, KTH Royal Institute of Technology; Lena B. Gumaelius, KTH Royal Institute of Technology; Per G. Norström, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

26.1497.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015Technology education in primary school in Sweden: A study ofteachers’ views on teaching strategies and subject content.(Fundamental) Page 26.1497.2Technology education in primary school in Sweden: A study ofteachers’ views on teaching strategies and subject content.(Fundamental)IntroductionTechnology education in Sweden has been a mandatory subject in compulsory school sincethe mid-1980s. Its origins are in metal and wood working, but it has developed into aninterdisciplinary subject that includes crafts, engineering science and the history oftechnology. 1 2 The current curriculum, introduced in 2011