Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 13

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nozar Tabrizi, Kettering University

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Electrical and Computer

challenge in teaching VHDL is to decide what to teach. Wehave crafted a 9-chapter manuscript for “Digital Systems”. There are two parts in each ofChapters 3 through 9, and one part in each of Chapters 1 and 2. Students learn digital systems’theory in Chapters 1 and 2 as well as Parts I of the rest of the chapters. This is basically what weused to teach before we added the VHDL portion to the course. VHDL modeling and FPGAsynthesis of digital systems are covered in Parts II of Chapters 3 through 9. Our paperfocusses on the topics and their specific order to teach this portion. (Please note that VHDLmodeling and FPGA synthesis of digital circuits is only one portion of this course. So thatstudents get up to 26% for their lab work, up to 17% for the

Conference Session

Experiences of Diverse Students

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hank Boone, University of Nevada, Reno; Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

the necessary pre-requisites for engineering, which waslinked to a higher percentage of FGS students choosing to major in business, vocational fields,social sciences, and health sciences rather than engineering18. The literature shows FGS haveunique experiences in college and are more likely to be unprepared for the engineering rigorneeded. Despite these claims, many FGS in engineering often succeed to graduation, yet littlework has examined the experiences and attitudes that aided in their success. The researchquestions that are directing this study are the following:RQ 1: How do first generation college students’ experiences within engineering influenceengineering belongingness?RQ 2: How is engineering belongingness and engineering identity

Conference Session

Insights and Practices for Engineering Leadership Development

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Meg Handley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Dena Lang, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Andrew Michael Erdman, The Pennsylvania State University

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Engineering Leadership Development Division

these non-technical skills but should alsoconsider how students are evaluated on leadership characteristics during on-campus interactionswith recruiters to ensure that our students are effectively communicating their abilities during therecruitment process. In a previous study1, the authors used a qualitative approach to explorerecruiters’ perspectives on determining engineering leadership potential during busy career fairinteractions. With employers consistently ranking leadership as an important characteristic todemonstrate during on-campus recruiting activities2, Handley, Lang, and Erdman sought tounderstand how a student could effectively demonstrate leadership during these busy recruitingactivities.1 The Handley, Lang, and Erdman

Conference Session

Manufacturing Curriculum and Course Innovations

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Julia L. Morse, Kansas State University, Polytechnic Campus; Raju S. Dandu, Kansas State University, Polytechnic Campus

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Manufacturing

or university framework, thisterminology can be confusing, since several Tooling U “courses” would be necessary to support a college course.For clarity, we refer to each Tooling U “course” as a module.Table 1. 2015 Tooling U CMfgT Student Subscription Bundle Courses, matched to METcurriculum courses. ToolingU Modules (CMfgT Bundle) MET Program Course Fit Metal Removal Processes 110 Manufacturing Methods Cutting Processes 140 Manufacturing Methods Manufacturing Process Applications Part 1 124 Manufacturing Methods Punch and Die Operations 120 Manufacturing Methods Arc Welding Processes 120 Manufacturing Methods Drill Geometry 247

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Wednesday Potpourri

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Natasha Perova-Mello, Oregon State University; Sean P. Brophy, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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First-Year Programs

framed the design of this study. Table 1 outlines the major dimensions of the framework. Table 1. Collaborative software learning criteria framework from Stahl (2004, p. 81)Collaboration: Facilitating interactions, helping participants to maintain an overview of them, allowingparticipants to negotiate group decisions and building tacit knowing on the group level.Social awareness: Displaying or comparing alternative interpretations of different participants incollaboration and keeping track of who knows or does what, when, whereKnowledge building: Accumulating, storing, organizing, preserving and displaying multimedia artifactsthat arise in interaction.Knowledge management: The ability to collect items from broad discourses and organize them

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Paying More Attention to Retention

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tanya Dugat Wickliff, Texas A&M University; Noemi V. Mendoza Diaz, Texas A&M University; Jacques C. Richard, Texas A&M University; So Yoon Yoon, Texas A&M University

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

been an Electrical Engineering Professor. Dr. Mendoza is interested in Socioeconomi- cally Disadvantaged Engineering Students, Latino Studies in Engineering, Computer Aided/Instructional Technology in Engineering, and Entrepreneurship/Service Learning.Dr. Jacques C. Richard, Texas A&M University Dr. Richard got his Ph. D. at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1989 & a B. S. at Boston University, 1984. He was at NASA Glenn, 1989-1995, taught at Northwestern for Fall 1995, worked at Argonne National Lab, 1996-1997, Chicago State, 1997-2002. Dr. Richard is a Sr. Lecturer & Research Associate in Aerospace Engineering @ Texas A&M since 1/03. His research is focused on computational plasma modeling using

Conference Session

ME Demonstrations and Laboratories

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pamela L Dickrell, University of Florida

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Mechanical Engineering

atraditional engineering second year course. A one-page demonstration design question flow-chart was created and followed in formation of the five-minute demonstrations. These tangiblebrief activities, which students can physically operate during the lecture based course, arestructured for students to develop a better engineering feel for the importance of theoreticalconcepts paralleled in the same lecture. With the need for innovative methods for engagingfuture engineers, these hands-on demonstrations are structured with the goal of realization ofpractical applications of mathematical based engineering course concepts [1]. Students haveopportunity to individually actuate the demonstrations shown by the instructor as they are passedaround the lecture

Conference Session

MET Papers 2

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Orlando M, Ayala, Old Dominion University; Otilia Popescu, Old Dominion University; Vukica M. Jovanovic, Old Dominion University

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Engineering Technology

interactions with the students, and to devote most of theclass time to problem solving and to answering questions germane to the materials studentscovered outside of the classroom 1.The use of flipped classroom method in engineering courses seems to match perfectly the needof learning by solving real-world problems for engineering students 2. “Engineering lends itself”to this new pedagogical approach 3, since traditionally it relies considerably on hands-onexperiments and projects, as higher levels of learning. A study done for a first year digitalcircuits course 4 showed improved effectiveness of the flipped course compared with traditionalcourse, in terms of course content, student performance, and students’ perception of theirlearning experience

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids and Heat Transfer II

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Karim Altaii, James Madison University; Colin J. Reagle, George Mason University; Mary K. Handley, James Madison University

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Mechanical Engineering

physics, chemistry, mathematics, and engineering within the context of energyapplications. Principles governing energy transformations, transport and conversion, includinglaws of thermodynamics and thermal-science are all covered. The course is a junior-level,required course in the Energy Sector (one of six strategic sectors) in the Integrated Science andTechnology (ISAT) program at James Madison University. The course is considered one of thehardest in the curriculum and enrolls about 50 students each year.Course Learning GoalsThe five overarching learning goals are to enable students to: 1. Gain a thorough understanding of the basic definitions, concepts and principles of thermodynamics. 2. Analyze thermodynamic processes and

Conference Session

Curricular Innovations 2

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Laura E. Sullivan-Green, San Jose State University; Ravisha Mathur, San Jose State University; Andrew Hale Feinstein, San Jose State University

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Educational Research and Methods

to HC %Total HC %Total HC %Totalprevent forward progress towards degree AmInd 4 0.1% 16 .4% 17 0.2%completion, and tend to pose challenges for at- Black 111 2.6% 149 3.4% 275 2.9%risk students) at three Minority Serving Asian 1,715 40.3% 828 18.6% 2,428 25.9%Institutions (SJSU, CSULA, and CPP) over a Pac Isl 33 0.1% 7 .1% 21 0.2% Hispanic 837 19.6% 2,526 56.9% 3,261 34.8%four-year period. These institutions are all MSIs, White 901 21.1% 374 8.4% 2,136 22.8%but have very different demographics within that Foreign 309 7.3% 297 6.7% 444 4.7%designation, as shown in Table 1

Conference Session

Novel Pedagogical Techniques I: Online, Electronic, and Apps!

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas E. Marlin, McMaster University

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Chemical Engineering

student control over time, place, path, or pace” (Wikipedia, 2016; MacMillian, 2017)”.The distribution of time between media and distribution of physical location are shown inFigure 1. A typical, lecture-based course is shown as point “A” at the lower left, and a fullydistance learning course is shown as point “B” in the upper right. A blended course balancesfeatures, usually having from 30-70% online content, and always having face-to-face interactionsbetween students and instructor (Knewton, 2016).Figure 1. Schematic of the physical aspects of blended learning. Modified from Knewton (2016)3.2 The Flipped ClassThe blended concept does not define a specific course approach; further features are required fora specific course design. This project

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Wednesday Potpourri

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emily Ann Marasco, University of Calgary; Mohammad Moshirpour, University of Calgary; Mahmood Moussavi, University of Calgary

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First-Year Programs

survey. The results of this survey were used to inform changes for the followingyear. The 2015 and 2016 survey results are presented together later in this paper.Implementation RevisionsFollowing the experiences of the first year, student feedback and perceptions were reviewedregarding the flipped classroom format, blended learning techniques, and project-basedapproaches. Several changes were made for the Fall 2016 offering of ENGG 233.Revision #1: Weekly In-Class TutorialDuring the 2015 semester, no in-class lectures or tutorial sessions were offered and all of thecourse content was delivered via lecture videos. Students relied on the weekly studio sessions forhelp from their instructor or graduate teaching assistant, or they had to seek help

Conference Session

Experiential Learning Initiatives

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Megan Miller, Montana State University; Chung-Hsuan Benjamin Huang, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Montana State University; Tariq Akmal, Washington State University; Ryan Anderson, Montana State University; Phillip Himmer, Montanta State University, ECE Dept., Montana Microfabrication Facility

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

platform using MEMS fabrication techniques, a cross-disciplinaryexperimental engineering platform has been developed that can be further expanded into ateaching module including optics, surface chemistry, heat flow, as well as electrical phenomena.IntroductionMany chemical engineering curricula (including the Chemical and Biological Engineeringcurriculum at Montana State University) focus on courses and developing a knowledge baseprior to students enrolling in lab-based courses. The benefits of laboratory experiences areestablished [1-4], providing authentic examples of engineering tasks [5], thereby engaginglearning further [6]. Active learning that occurs during the laboratory, rather than passivelearning (such as lectures or reading) increases

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lynn L. Peterson, University of Texas, Arlington; J. Carter Tiernan, University of Texas, Arlington; James A. Mendoza Álvarez, University of Texas at Arlington; Ramon E Lopez, The University of Texas at Arlington; Kevin A Schug, The University of Texas at Arlington

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

a demonstrablysuccessful program in the first few years of the grant, focus in the later years was strictly oninitiatives which would be sustainable in our institution. We highlight three initiatives whichgrew out of the STEP grant efforts and are now institutionalized and thriving.Background and goal of our STEP grantThe grant proposal entitled “Arlington Undergraduate Research Achievement in STEM(AURAS)” was selected for STEP funding in fall of 2009. The goal of AURAS is to useresearch-based approaches and best practices to increase the retention of STEM majors,particularly women and minorities. Specific objectives to meet this goal were (1) pedagogicalreform in high-loss courses to provide intensive intervention to target students, (2

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 10

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Salman Siddiqui, Georgia Southern University; Rami Jubrail Haddad, Georgia Southern University; Mohammad Abdul Ahad, Georgia Southern University

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Electrical and Computer

another course eachyear until all three courses are offered as mentioned above. As an example of the implementationprocess mentioned in Table 1, if the college has 7 programs, 5 programs should be part of theQEP process to have 60% programs participating by the end of 5 years. To rollout the QEPprocess, in the first year, one program participates as a WEP converting one of its courses towriting enriched. In the following year, two more programs join, while the first WEP programadds a second course that is writing enriched. During the third year, two more programs will joinwith at least one course as writing enriched. Therefore, by the end of the fifth year, all 5programs should be offering three writing enriched courses at the sophomore- to the

Conference Session

Pre-College: Perceptions and Attitudes on the Pathway to Engineering (2)

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brianna L. Dorie, Gonzaga University

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

precollege engineering education is to promote the viability ofengineering as a potential occupation, and there are myriad of programs, both formal andinformal, that are engaged in this endeavor (e.g. incorporation of engineering into statestandards, marketing campaigns such as Changing the Conversation, engineering outreachevents, etc.). Each program has different foci, but oftentimes the same goal – how do we getmore students to consider engineering? Many programs evaluate engagement, formation ofengineering identity and even persistence. However, the number of students completing degreesin engineering has seen limited growth, despite this national push.1 How then do we broadenparticipation in engineering? While it would be impossible to map all

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 7

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kelsey Morgan Irvin, University of Missouri, Columbia; Elizabeth Hiteshue, Bain & Company; Samantha Laurel Swanson; Caroline Missouri Wochnick, Augsburg College; Hannah Bech, AmeriCorps VISTA; Amanda Marie Kapetanakis, Augsburg College; Mary Yvonne Lanzerotti, Air Force Institute of Technology; Derrick Langley, Space and Missile Center, Enterprise Ground Services Office (SMC/ADZS); Michael Geselowitz, IEEE History Center at Stevens Institute of Technology; MaryAnn C. Hellrigel, IEEE, IEEE History Center; Gregory Alan Good, American Institute of Physics

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

participatingstudents graduated with a STEM degree. Interviews collected in this project are previouslypublished on the IEEE Engineering Technology and History Wiki (ETHW). Following the oralhistory interviews, the students write reflections to answer the following three research questions(RQ). RQ#1 is “What are the key factors that led to the success of the distinguished leaders?.”RQ#2 is “What are the crucial skills that enabled their success?.” RQ#3 is “What is the impacton my career path?”One objective of this paper is for the participating female students, who are majoring in STEMfields, to present their reflections on the three research questions. A second objective is for thestudents to describe the impact, if any, that carrying out interviews of

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Monday Potpourri

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hector Enrique Rodriguez-Simmonds, Purdue University - Engineering Education; Nelson S. Pearson, University of Nevada, Reno; Jacqueline Ann Rohde, Clemson University; Kyle Patrick Vealey, West Chester University of Pennsylvania; Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno; Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

Outstanding Doctoral Research Award. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Forget Diversity, Our Project is DueAbstractThis research paper examines how four first-year engineering students interact with one anotherin teams to answer two research questions: 1) How do students experience working in diverseteams? and 2) Do their perceptions of diversity, affect, and engineering practice change as aresult of working in diverse teams? Despite engineering's emphasis on developing students’teaming skills, little research has been conducted on how students develop sensitivity to studentsfrom different cultures and backgrounds within diverse teams. We interviewed four students in afirst

Conference Session

Investigating Instructional Strategies

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harold R. Underwood, Messiah College

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

learning,leadership, off campus program, or research. While pre-graduation professional preparation maybe new for some liberal arts disciplines, engineering has encouraged an experiential approach forsome time. Since 2007, the Engineering Department at our institution has required students tocomplete a multiyear “practicum” which functions as an on-campus credited internship with ourCollaboratory for Strategic Partnerships and Applied Research. Junior and senior engineeringstudents receive credit for such project work through a four-semester Engineering Project 1-4sequence, coupled with a two-semester Engineering Seminar 1-2 sequence as the reflectivecomponent. What remains is to incorporate the new features of the ELI mandate. While

Conference Session

Action on Diversity - Supporting Students at Multiple Levels

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Beverly Louie, University of Colorado, Boulder; Beth A Myers, University of Colorado Boulder; Janet Y Tsai, University of Colorado Boulder; Tanya D Ennis, University of Colorado Boulder

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ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity

students,and both had been in place for over two to three decades. See Figure 1 for historical enrollmentof first-year students by demographic. 35% 32%32% 30% 28%27% 25% 26% 25%24% 23% 23% 21% 22% 22%22% 21% 20% 20% 20% 20% 19% 20

Conference Session

Merging Disciplines: Practice and Benefits

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ghada M. Gad, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Jinsung Cho, California State Polytechnic University Pomona; Giuseppe Lomiento, Cal Poly Pomona

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

costoverruns. Though this is well-rooted, very minor steps have been taken, if any, to address thesemisperceptions and misunderstandings in our engineering educational institutions or courses.This study, thus, aims at fostering the understanding between design and construction studentsworking on a Design-Build senior project in a civil engineering department. The study usespartnering concepts by creating a senior project environment that fosters collaboration andproblem solving. The study entails a 4-step methodology: (1) forming an interdisciplinary seniorproject team (both civil and construction engineering students), (2) benchmarking perceptions ofeach other’s disciplines through a survey, (3) starting work on the project through activities

Conference Session

Professionalism and Preparations Developed by Graduate Study Programs—Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 7

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Valerie N. Streets, University of Tulsa; Bradley J. Brummel, University of Tulsa; Michael Wade Keller, University of Tulsa; Rami M. Younis, The University of Tulsa

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Graduate Studies

, professional societies, and other organizations have issued numerous callsto strengthen the nation’s engineering workforce [1]. A strong engineering workforce is criticalto U.S. competitiveness and prosperity. However, current graduation and employment rates arenot meeting this demand [2]. The research described in this paper is sponsored by the NationalScience Foundation and works to address these needs through the development and assessmentof a professional development program for engineering graduate students.Graduate education marks a critical point in one’s professional development, as an increasingnumber of jobs require graduate degrees [1]. Unlike undergraduate education, graduate school isconsidered a time to hone human capital skills outside

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship and Innovation Beyond the Classroom

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Antonie J. Jetter, Portland State University; Gerald W. Recktenwald, Portland State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

selection is as follows. 1. The Innovation Council makes a Call for Proposals. 2. Student teams submit short proposals using the template in Appendix A. 3. The Innovation Council reviews the written proposals and selects teams with strong proposals for oral presentations. 4. The student teams selected in step 3 make a private, 5 minute presentations to the Innovation Council, followed by 5 minutes of questions from the Council. 5. The Innovation Council uses a simple majority vote to decide which teams to offer support.Except for the time between the Call for Proposals and the deadline for proposals, theentire process occurs in the span of one week. After the release of the Call for Proposals,we hold information sessions where

Conference Session

Professional Development and Lifelong Learning

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Greg Rulifson P.E., Colorado School of Mines; Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

responsibility (SR) attitudesas measured by the average score on 50 Likert-type items (item scale 1 to 7; resulting in averagescores from 4.68 to 6.55). The universities attended by the students were a large public research-intensive university (LPU, n=5), a technically-focused medium-sized public university (TU,n=7), a medium-sized public university (MPU, n=2), a medium-sized private research intensiveuniversity (PrU, n=5), and another medium sized public university (MPU2, n=1) to which onestudent transferred. See Table 1 below for the student demographics. Interviewees included 11female and 9 male students, with a majority majoring in mechanical engineering (n=7) and civilengineering (n=7) in year 4. Initial average scores on the social responsibility

Conference Session

New Tools for Teaching Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Jamison IV, Villanova University

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Diversity

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

behaviors. Increases in EML skilllevel and behavior before versus after completing the ideation project werestatistically significant (p < 0.05) in some cases; moreover, all but one area(“persisting and learning through failure”) had a higher post-project scorecompared to the corresponding pre-project score. The results indicate that theframework was successful in integrating EML in a senior-level elective anddeveloping an entrepreneurial minded skillset.IntroductionEngineering Entrepreneurship has become an integral part of many engineering colleges in theUnited States. The aim is to build a complementary skillset so that engineering students aresuccessful in innovative, multidisciplinary teams in the workplace [1]. Many universities

Conference Session

Assessment & Grading in Mechanics

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen N. Kuchnicki, York College of Pennsylvania; Scott F. Kiefer, York College of Pennsylvania

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Mechanics

students who did not pass the course, and that the data are typically gatheredfrom multiple assessment events (e.g., exam problems). As such, a student may perform poorlyon one or two of these assessment events, yet perform well enough on others to still pass the course.The learning outcomes for the Strength of Materials course are available in Table 1; the MachineDesign course outcomes are present in Table 2. These outcomes are left broad by design; eachoutcome is intended to encompass several topics within the course. For example, outcome 1 inTable 1, since it deals with axial stress and strain, covers such areas as stress due to forces, Hooke’slaw, pressure vessels, and stress due to bending. Therefore, each outcome may be assessed severaltimes

Conference Session

First- and Second-year Design and Professional Development in BME

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emma K. Frow, Arizona State University; Barbara S. Smith, Arizona State University; Casey Jane Ankeny, Arizona State University

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

, providing real-time feedback ontheir research and design practices (Chickering & Gamson 1987). After a short lecture (sometimesaccompanied by an in-class activity, see Table 1), student teams use the lab session to work ontheir weekly design task. These assignments, as shown in Table 1, provide a step-wise path for thestudents to develop skills in problem discovery, concept generation, design iteration, Solidworks1 Curiosity is identified by the KEEN Network as central to the development of an ‘entrepreneurial mindset’ amongengineering students (http://engineeringunleashed.com/keen/).modeling, and final product presentation. The course instructor, together with trained graduate andundergraduate teaching assistants are on hand during the lab

Conference Session

ETD Freshmen Students

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Omer Farook, Purdue University Northwest (College of Technology); Jai P. Agrawal, Purdue University Northwest; Athula Kulatunga, Purdue University Northwest; Ashfaq Ahmed P.E., Purdue University Northwest (College of Technology); Wangling Yu, Purdue University Northwest; Yoonill Lee, Purdue University Northwest; Hassan Abdullah Alibrahim, Purdue University Northwest

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Engineering Technology

. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017Freshman Experience Course in Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology Emphasizing Computation, Simulation, Mathematical Modeling and MeasurementsAbstractThe paper expounds the challenges and rewards of revamping the freshman engineering /Engineering Technology curriculum with the notion of introducing computational analysis withthe help of Matlab1. The paper discusses in details the five areas of 1) Network theory, 2)Simulation by the help of Multisim2, 3) Computation and mathematical modelling by utilizationof Matlab, 4) Physical implementations of the circuits and 5) A gentle introduction tomicrocontrollers by utilizing Arduino4 Open source

Conference Session

Technical Session 2: Improving Information Literacy Programs

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marian G. Armour-Gemmen, West Virginia University

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Engineering Libraries

Resource Center Association. She holds a M.L.I.S. from the University of South Carolina, a M.A. from the University of Michigan, and a B.A. from Calvin College. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 From Creativity to Classification: A Logical Approach to Patent SearchingEngineering students and professors need to understand and search intellectual property. In thepast, librarians have instructed them on using the United States Patent Classification (USPC). In2015, after a period of transition, the United States Patent and Trademark Office phased out theUSPC and began exclusively classifying in the Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC).1

Conference Session

Student Division Development of Professional Skills Technical Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Juan David Ortega, Purdue University, West Lafayette / Universidad EAFIT, Medellin, Colombia; Ruth A. Streveler, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Audeen W. Fentiman, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Harsh Wardhan Aggarwal, Purdue University; Sayan Biswas, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Purdue University; Brandon S Coventry, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University; Institute for Integrative Neuroscience, Purdue University; Abdel-Rahman Hassan, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Margaret L McNamara, Purdue University; Smirti Nandan Paul, Purdue University

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Student

evidence of the stress andstruggles they face to cope with the multiple demands of the academic, professional setting1 . Thesedifficulties become more pronounced if personal expectations and interests deviate from the traditionalrequirements of a tenure-track position2 . Recurring themes among these difficulties include: 1) balancingthe competing demands of research, teaching, and other professional and personal duties; 2) lack of timeto cope with all responsibilities; and 3) setting realistic expectations, particularly regarding research andpublication accomplishments1,3,4 . Emphasizing the first theme, Felder and Brent point out that aremarkably difficult challenge is finding out a way to “balance the competing time demands of teaching,research