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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

RUBA A. AMARIN; Issa Batarseh

of different majors from thePrinciple in Electrical Engineering (EGN 3373) class at the University of Central Florida, and resultswere analyzed to measure the students’ feedback about the Tutor-Me Module. 77.8% of the studentsbelieve that the eTutor is a good tool for improving the understanding of the concepts in the class,while 18.5% think that the eTutor tool was not the only reason behind the understanding of theconcepts but the Module is good and user friendly, and 3.7% reported that the tool was not effectivefor them. Fig. 7 reports the survey results. Most answers came positive, and the students expressedtheir willingness to use this tool for all their courses. VI. Conclusion The MeLearning project will take a major leap in

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Alison N. Garbash; Jed E. Marquart; Hui Shen

79.9 10 132 20 263 40 525 60 787 80 1049 100 1311 Glass 3.08 17.1 2904. ConclusionsThe objective of this project is to compare glass and alternating polymeric optical lenses’responses to various thermal loadings. Two thermal loadings were applied on glass andalternating layer polymeric lenses to simulate the heat produced by

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Tyler J. Perlenfein; Jason B. Baxter

-6.0 -8.0 -10.0 VFigure I. Light and dark curves showing optimized cell performance.The best-performing cells produced after optimization showed a Jsc of 8.2 mA/cm2, Voc of 535 mV, FFof 43.5%, and PCE of 1.91%.Though OPV solar cells are markedly less efficient than others in the industry, notably mono- andpolycrystalline silicon, this type of cell shows great promise in its potential to significantly lower themanufacturing and materials cost of the solar industry, and to provide a more flexible product toconsumers.Acknowledgements: 524Funding for this project was provided

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2011 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Orla Smyth LoPiccolo

Implementing Guided Note Taking to Improve Student Learning of Energy Saving Construction Techniques Orla Smyth LoPiccolo, Farmingdale State College, SUNYAbstractUnderstanding energy saving construction techniques is a critical component of ConstructionDesign —a technology -based, sophomore level course in which students prepare constructiondrawings for an individually prepared residential project and a team-prepared commercialproject. This course is a requirement for one of the two programs in our department,Architectural Engineering Technology, and an elective for the second program, ConstructionManagement Engineering Technology. Construction Design, like many other lecture laboratorycourses, is

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2011 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Kiran George

connected to the PC with a projection system.Single-tablet models can be used in classrooms along with interactive educational software orwith freeware such as ScreenPen alone that allows you to highlight, write and save slides withannotations using digital ink for future reference. Wireless tablets (Fig.3) are an ideal choice forthe single-tablet model classrooms. Using this model, any traditional classroom can beseamlessly converted to a digital learning environment in a cost-effective manner as only a singletablet is required. However, the single-tablet model lacks the ability to gather instant studentfeedback using digital ink.In the multi-tablet model, both the instructor and students have USB-Tablets. This model can beadopted in classrooms

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering in Silico

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Nippert, Widener University; Byung-Hwan Um, Widener University

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Chemical Engineering

studies.References 1 Lara M. Triona and David Klahr, "Point and Click or Grab and Heft: Comparing the Influence of Physical Page 22.27.6and Virtual Instruction Materials on Elementary School Students’ Ability to Design Experiments”, Cognition andInstruction, 21(2) 149-173. 2 David Klahr, Lara M. Triona, Cameron Williams, “Hands on What? The Relative Effectiveness ofPhysical Versus Virtual Materials in an Engineering Design Project by Middle School Children”, Journal ofResearch in Science Teaching, 44:1, 183-203 (2007) 3 Nippert, C.R, "On line Experiments - The Results of The Online Widener

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Computer Science Applications

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey A. Jalkio, University of Saint Thomas; Dan R. Schupp

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Computers in Education

-technical students.To play the game, first students areselected as instruction decoder andprogram counter. While this can bedone at random, it is useful to choosestudents who are known to be able tofollow instructions. The remainingstudents play the roles of registers andmemory locations. Students playingmemory locations are given slips ofpaper with their address, numericalcontents, and the meaning of the Figure 4 - Program Listinginstruction. Registers are given slipswith the name of their register and Page 22.136.4possibly scratch paper and pencils. The instructor projects the instruction decoding rules for theclass and plays the role of the

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Courses and Outcomes II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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William D. Schindel, ICTT System Sciences; Samuel N. Peffers, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; James H. Hanson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Jameel Ahmed, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; William A. Kline, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

innovation is realizedevery year.In the senior design course, student teams use a decision matrix to evaluate options for the mostimportant design decision of their project. The students identify and research options. Todevelop the list of options, they rely on the discovery competencies: associating, questioning,observing, experimenting, and networking. To determine which options are viable, they use Page 22.154.10their Discipline Competencies. Only the viable options are evaluated in the decision matrix.Their client either picks or approves the criteria the students use to evaluate the options, and theclient decides the relative importance of each

Conference Session

Manufacturing Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig T. Evers P.E., Minnesota State University, Mankato

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Manufacturing

-Based Graduate Course in Advanced Quality ToolsAbstractThis paper examines in detail the development of a graduate-level ManufacturingEngineering Technology course in advanced quality tools. All areas of modern industryhave adopted a standardized set of tools and methods used in designing processes andcommunicating their performance. These cover a wide range of individual tools, fromProcess Failure Mode Effect Analysis (PFMEA) and Control Plans through the AdvancedProduct Quality Planning (APQP) and Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) totechniques such as 8 (or 9) Disciplines (8D or 9D) and related tools. These, combinedwith project management elements defined by the Six Sigma methodology such asDefine

Conference Session

Liberal Education Revisited: Five Historical Perspectives

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Larson have come to view professional stature and jurisdictional claimsas part of a “professional project” entered into by all occupations that are in a position to claimsome socially beneficial form of expertise.16 Still, this basic “relational” approach that focuses onthe social relations among the occupations is of little value, in and of itself, for analyzingdifferences among the professions, or for understanding how specific professions operate.From this point of view, Edwin Layton‟s early analysis of engineering professional societiesremains quite useful for thinking in terms of different and distinct “professional configurations.”Extracting from what he and others have written, the two most frequently noted features of theU.S. engineering

Conference Session

Innovative Adult and Technology Enhanced Programs

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gale Tenen Spak, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Peter Schmitt, Schmitt & Associates, LLC; Cesar Bandera, Cell Podium LLC

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Continuing Professional Development

to North Jersey under the Workforce Innovation for Regional Economic Development (WIRED) initiative.Peter Schmitt, Schmitt & Associates, LLC Peter Schmitt has extensive experience in both academia and industry. He started out with a study of physics at the University of Wuerzburg, Germany. He did his Ph.D. at DESY (Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron) in Hamburg and work at CERN (Geneva) as a postdoctoral research assistant for Harvard University. Peter Schmitt went into industry starting as project manager for the development or car phones at AEG in Ulm. In 1995 he moved to the United States to work for BASF in various IT positions, among them Director of Infrastructure in the U.S. and Project Leader for SAP

Conference Session

Structural Education Applications in Architectural Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pyo-Yoon Hong, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Architectural

Page 22.1362.9 semester for future references.Student Evaluation and SurveysCourse evaluations and mid-term surveys over the last 3 years reveal that student stronglysupport this teaching methodology. The term project and small-scale models have received themost favorable feedback. Construction toys and physical demonstrators rank the second, the 3-Dinteractive demonstration tool the third, the real-time simulation sessions the fourth and theconventional mathematical approach sessions the last. Another sign of the students’ support isthat the enrollment for this class, among 4 sections of the same course, becomes full on the veryfirst day of registration while the numbers of enrollment of other sections still remain low. Mostimportantly, an

Conference Session

Program Criteria, Assessment, and Sustainability in Civil Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Melissa M. Bilec, University of Pittsburgh; Chris Hendrickson, Carnegie Mellon University; Amy E. Landis, University of Pittsburgh; Scott Matthews, Carnegie Mellon University

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Civil Engineering

engineersinto student projects as the assistant director of education outreach in the Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation, Pitt’s center for green design.Chris Hendrickson, Carnegie Mellon UniversityAmy E. Landis, University of PittsburghH. Scott Matthews, Carnegie Mellon University H. Scott Matthews is a Professor in the Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering and En- gineering & Public Policy and the Research Director of the Green Design Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. The Green Design Institute is an interdisciplinary research consortium at Carnegie Mellon fo- cused on identifying and assessing the environmental impacts of systems and helping businesses manage their use of resources and toxic

Conference Session

Simulation

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert L. Avanzato, Pennsylvania State University, Abington

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Computers in Education

will be briefly discussed below. The first project to be described is an interactive, 3D virtual exhibit thatdemonstrates and teaches basic mobile robot programming. The exhibit requires users tocreate a list of commands to control the motion of a mobile robot in a maze (see Figures 3and 4). The goal for the user is to create an appropriate sequence of commands whichresult in a successful navigation of the maze. Users can create simple notecards inSecond Life and insert text commands such as “Forward 2.5” which translates into movethe robot forward for 2.5 seconds. Commands allow for motion to be applied for avariable amount of time, and also permit turning. These notecards can be dropped into therobot object, then can be parsed by the

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bruce Eric Davis, Purdue University; David M. Whittinghill, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Computers in Education

“commercial” game can be when itis discreetly filled with educational content. In this project, topics relating to introductorycomputer science will be used as the educational subject matter.IntroductionWe have been developing a modification of an existing commercial video game to investigatethe feasibility of adapting them toward educational objectives. The game we are using is a “first-person shooter”, meaning that the player inhabits a digital avatar character and sees the virtualworld through the eyes of the avatar. We are creating a gauntlet-style series of game levels thatscale up and down in difficulty based on the player’s understanding of basic computerprogramming principles. The player’s goal is to survive the level while also maximizing

Conference Session

Knowing Ourselves: Research on Engineering Education Researchers

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xin (Cindy) Chen, Purdue University; Nikitha Sambamurthy, Purdue University; Corey M. Schimpf, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Hanjun Xian, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Krishna Madhavan, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Educational Research and Methods

what folksonomies looked like10,28.Most of this research used extant social tagging systems such as Flickr and Del.icio.us to collectdata12,20. Now that many of their key properties are better understood, further studies areemploying social tagging as a research tool to investigate research topics beyond socialtagging—often creating their own social tagging system. One well known example is thesteve.museum project where social tagging is being used to collect user descriptions of onlineholdings to enhance access and engagement29,30. Other projects include Jackon’s31 work onknowledge capture using social tagging to establish connections between captured tacit andprofessional knowledge within a large business organization. Another is Yew et al

Conference Session

To Boldly Go... Engineering Librarians Explore New Connections with Users

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Aleteia Greenwood, University of British Columbia; Eugene Barsky, University of British Columbia

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Engineering Libraries

introductoryscience education in physics, astronomy, chemistry, computer science, earth and oceanscience, and biology for individuals who have historically had difficulty accessing auniversity education 5. This is a free four-month, non-credit course offered to residents ofVancouver's Downtown Eastside and other inner-city communities, and no pre-requisiteknowledge is required. Inspired by the success of Humanities 101 6, 7, Science 101 beganin 2000, with an average of 25 students attending per year. Originally “funding for theprogram came from the UBC Alma Mater Society's Innovative Projects Fund, thePresident's Office and the Society for Canadian Women in Science and Technology.” 8How Librarians Got InvolvedOver the course of the past ten years, two UBC

Conference Session

ETD Design V: Classroom Delivery, Course Content, and Assessments

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Scott Dunning, University of Maine; Rosemary A. LaMountain, University of Maine; Linda Liscomb, University of Maine

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Engineering Technology

University of Maine Industrial Assessment Center where he supervised the completion of over 200 in- dustrial assessments for New England manufacturers. In 2002, the center evolved into the University of Maine Advanced Manufacturing Center. As Executive Director of the AMC, he coordinated engineering outreach projects to support economic development in the state as well as supporting research centers on the University of Maine campus. Dr. Dunning is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Maine and previous Chair of the Maine Section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He is a Certified Energy Manager and provides C.E.M. training for the Association of Energy Engineers both nationally and

Conference Session

ETD Design III: Materials and Metallurgy

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mir M. Atiqullah, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Engineering Technology

demonstratedthrough this project. Two minority students and then two honors research students benefittedfrom studying and testing creep behaviors of polymers on this tester. Limited set of results weredeveloped which clearly conformed to notions that both high temperature and higher stressdirectly affect thermal properties8, 9 of creep rate and creep life. A lot was learned about creepfailure and research experimentation for creep testing. The successful design, construction and Page 22.1569.8then testing of the tester triggered high interest in materials science in general and undergraduateresearch in specific. The materials lab at Southern Polytechnic State

Conference Session

Techniques to Enhance Environmental Engineering Courses

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Philip J. Parker, University of Wisconsin, Platteville

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Environmental Engineering

screencasts to present example problems. Screencasts arerecordings of computer screen activity with supporting audio narrative. I have created severalscreencasts using a PC, microphone, and Camtasia software. I have used this software to createa series of screencasts for my Introduction to Environmental Engineering course. Students candownload and view the screencasts outside of class whenever they wish and wherever they haveinternet access.BackgroundScreencasts are recordings of on-screen activity and associated voice instructions. They havemost commonly been used as tutorials to teach computer software1 as they record mousemovements and clicks. For this project, I used Camtasia software and a headset withmicrophone.The screencasts were created in

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students, Diversity, and Assessment

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert M. Brooks, Temple University; Amithraj Amavasai; Jyothsna Kavuturu

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Graduate Studies, Minorities in Engineering

style that is dominant. In traditional lecture classesstudents with the first three styles might find it more difficult to learn since they are not providedwith the experiences they need to master the material. Since it is difficult for them to understand,memorize, recall and meaningfully apply abstract concepts and formulas they will also haveproblems with examinations. In an unbiased population each learning style is equallyrepresented. If we project that 25% of the population fall in each learning style, approximately75% of the class will have problems mastering material that is presented in a lecture format.This becomes obvious when looking at test results. Few students have full mastery of theconcepts and, therefore, few score 100% on the

Conference Session

Methods, Techniques, and New Programs in Graduate Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cyndi Lynch, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jiabin Zhu, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica Farmer Cox, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Graduate Studies

; Project-management skills; Structure and functions CV/Resume preparation; of NSF; Interviewing skills; Business etiquette; The importance of choosing a mentor;Table 2. Major learning outcomes from sessions by invited speakers.DiscussionFrom the findings, students obtained focused information and learned about professionaldevelopment skills over the first two weeks’ sessions. The skills learned include communicationskills, networking skills, and CV/resume preparation skills. They also learned the importance ofdeveloping a professional identity and emphasizing their impact in career statements (either

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ashley Baxter-Baines, Rowan University; Caitlin Nicole Dillard, Rowan University; Jennifer Vernengo, Rowan University; Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University

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NSF Grantees

semesterFreshman Engineering course at Rowan University.AcknowledgementsThis project was funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, ECC 0540855 andDUE-0126902. Page 22.513.8References                                                                                                                       1 Stephanie Farrell, Robert P. Hesketh, Mariano J. Savelski, and C. Stewart Slater. “Drug DeliveryExperiments in the ChE Curriculum.” 2005, American Society for Engineering Education. 2 Mathiowitz, Edith

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Entrepreneurship Faculty Development

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cynthia C. Fry, Baylor University; William M. Jordan, Baylor University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

. Effectively collaborate in a team setting 2. Apply critical and creative thinking to ambiguous problems 3. Construct and effectively communicate a customer-appropriate value proposition 4. Persist through failure to do what is needed to succeed 5. Effectively manage projects and apply the commercialization process 6. Demonstrate voluntary social responsibility 7. Relate personal liberties and free enterprise to entrepreneurshipWe will continue to work with the KEEN this summer and fall on the deployment andassessment of the KEEN Assessment Program, and feel that this is a critically necessary piece intelling the story of the successes in the KEEN programs, including Baylor’s KEEN Innovatorsprogram.The Future of the KEEN

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Potpourri II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert G. Olsen, Washington State University; Ashley Ater Kranov, Washington State University; Kirk A Reinkens, Washington State University

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Educational Research and Methods

-semester senior design capstone sequence. She has served as evaluator on a number of multi-institutional, interdisciplinary NSF sponsored grants. She is principal investigator on a NSF Research and Evaluation on Education in Science and En- gineering project called ”A Direct Method for Teaching and Measuring Engineering Professional Skills: A Validity Study.”Kirk A Reinkens, Washington State University Page 22.677.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Experience with the College-Wide Transition from Paper to On-Line Course EvaluationsAbstractIn

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Structural Education Applications in Architectural Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cole C. McDaniel, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Graham C. Archer, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Blake A. Roskelley, CYS Structural Engineers, Inc.

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Architectural

Engineering Senior Project. California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, 2008.5. (Humar 1990) Humar, J. L. “Dynamics of Structures.” Prentice-Hall, Inc., New Jersey, 1990.6. (MathWorks 2009) MathWorks Inc. “Matlab 7 Getting Started Guide.” The MathWorks Inc. Natick, MA, 2009.7. (McDaniel and Archer 2009) McDaniel, C.C., Archer, G. “Developing a ‘Feel’ for Structural Behavior.” American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference, 2009. Page 22.682.88. (McDaniel and Archer 2010a) McDaniel, C.C., Archer, G. C. “Full-scale, Real-time Building Dynamics Laboratory.” 9th U.S. National and 10th

Conference Session

Focus on Entry Experiences in Chemical Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Suzanne M. Kresta, University of Alberta; Inci Ayranci, University of Alberta

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Chemical Engineering

handled both the degrees of freedom analysis andthe conflicting data.4. Failure number 1 – Project assignment and/or daily problem assignments At several points in the first development steps, the solution called “assign more practiceproblems!” was tried. The first time, 2-3 problems were assigned for each lecture. The secondtime, one of the Felder and Rousseau case studies was done in its entirety over the course of theterm. Mostly, this made the students exhausted, frustrated, and overwhelmed with work. Therewas some improvement in performance on the final exam, but that group of students also cameback years later with vivid memories – not of what they learned –but of how much they sufferedin the course. Recent research shows that deep

Conference Session

Biological & Agricultural Technical Session II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael E. Manoogian, Loyola Marymount University

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Biological & Agricultural

just beginning at the time that the article was submitted.Resources included a large classroom, projection system, laptop and an Internetconnection.Course Goals Assessment Using a scoring rubric consisting of proficiency scores from 1 to 4, the coursegoals were assessed using an assignment from the 2010 class with a score of 3 serving asthe benchmark. Table 1 shows the scoring rubric and corresponding levels ofproficiency.Proficiency DescriptionScore 4 Clear on concept, few minor errors 3 Minor conceptual errors 2 Major conceptual errors, some understanding 1 No conceptual understanding Page

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Technical Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sara A. Atwood, Elizabethtown College; Tomas Estrada, Elizabethtown College

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

of the visit (2, 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, 60 minutes) • individual or group • seated or standing • written work (on a white board or blank piece of paper) or noneAt the end of the semester we also recorded the number of emails exchanged with the student, aswell as any significant time spent with the student doing other activities, such as student clubs,department events, advising, additional projects or research, or sports. The college’s InstitutionalReview Board approved all data collection and protocols for protecting student’s identities. Allstudents gave their informed consent to participate in the study.First we examined the characteristics of all the student-faculty interaction, and compared theinteraction

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sheng-Jen Hsieh, Texas A&M University; Punit Deotale, Texas A&M University

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NSF Grantees

are needed to better prepare new engineers for these challenging tasks.Relatively few instructional technology development efforts have focused on the area ofautomated system design and education. However, there are two related projects related to Page 22.435.2control of automated systems using PLC programming. For example, LogixPro 500(http://www.thelearningpit.com/) employs animated educational simulations of processes, suchas traffic control and batch mixing, to show how a ladder diagram relates to an automatedprocess. Students can start and stop the animations, and study the corresponding ladder diagramfor certain conditions or cases.The