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Student Experiences and Motivation: ERM Roundtable

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Olusola O Adesope, Washington State University-Pullman; Nathaniel Hunsu, Washington State University; Bernard J. Van Wie, Washington State University

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Educational Research and Methods

research, and investigation of instructional princi- ples and assessments in STEM.Mr. Nathaniel HUNSU, Washington State University Nathaniel Hunsu is currently a PhD candidate of Educational Psychology at the Washington State Univer- sity. He received a B.Sc. in Electronics and Computer Engineering from the Lagos State University, Nige- ria and a M.Sc. in Project Management from University of Sunderland. He is interested in the conceptual change research in science learning. His research emphasis at the time is about how students process textual information for conceptual change in STEM education. He can be reached at nat.hunsu@wsu.edu.Prof. Bernard J. Van Wie, Washington State University Prof. Bernard J. Van Wie did

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ECCD Innovative Teaching Methods & Outreach

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lynn Albers, North Carolina State University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

during the execution of each program that will prove helpfulwhen implementing the Model.Need to promote ST(EE)2MThe Wind Powering America initiative has set a goal to power 20% of the country’s energy fromwind by the year 2030 6. In order to accomplish this goal, a workforce needs to be developedwith the necessary skillsets. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) workforcedevelopment analyses studies show that, “The greatest near-term solar and wind workforce needsinclude technicians and tradesmen with hands-on solar- and wind-specific experience,experienced electrical, mechanical and solar engineers, and project managers.” 13 And in orderto create this workforce a “Standardized education and training at all levels – primary

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College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 3

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jerry D. Taylor, East Tennessee State University; Brian Todd Bartlett, East Tennessee State University

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College Industry Partnerships

exposed to the most advanced versions of thosetechnologies that the university has at its disposal. Class projects are designed to requirestudents to use these technologies in a manner that is similar to what can be expected in currentsurveying practice and to deliver a final product that is similar to what is delivered in currentsurveying practice. A major goal for this class is to turn out students who are exposed to enoughmodern surveying technology to be able to work alone as a one man survey crew within a fewmonths of being hired by a surveying firm. This should enable them be a productive addition tothe firm shortly after being hired.Although the students in SURV 4550 have already been exposed to the equipment andtechnology used in this

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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eve A. Riskin, University of Washington; Dawn Wiggin, University of Washington; Jeremy Kingma, Washington State University; John B. Schneider, Washington State University; Sonya Cunningham, University of Washington; Scott Winter, University of Washington

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Schneider, Robert Olsen, Sonya Cunningham, Dawn Wiggin, Kirk Reinkens, and Scott Winter, ”The Washington STate Academic RedShirt (STARS) in Engineering Pro- gram,” Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, June 2014. Synergistic Activities & Projects in Education Co-Principal Investigator, Washington STate Academic RedShirt Program (STARS). Grant increases the retention rate of economically and educationally disadvantaged students in Engineering, (2013-present). Page 26.1579.1 Principal Investigator, Early Engineering Institute. Grant increases the math

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Various Prospectives in Power Systems

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Thomas Richard Walsh, Eastern Washington University

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Engineering Technology

underdevelopment. Students are being encouraged to get involved with this work in the form ofindependent studies or senior capstone projects. Such a project would require the studentor team to develop a significant component in PowerX to include design, development, Page 26.1604.13testing and documentation of their work.ConclusionThis paper presented an overview of a software application called PowerX that initiallystarted out as a research tool and eventually made its way into the classroom to helpstudents get a better understanding of power systems problems and solutions to theseproblems. For the most part, student response has been very positive and assessment

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Engineering Management Division Technical Session 3

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sara Jansen Perry, Baylor University; Emily M Hunter, Baylor University; Steven C. Currall, University of California, Davis; Ed Frauenheim, The Great Place to Work Institute

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Engineering Management

the U.S. President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, Currall was a member of the Nanotechnology Technical Advisory Group. He has been a grantee on $21,533,893 in external funding of which over 78% came from refereed research grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institutes of Health. Currall was lead author of a book on university- business-government collaboration entitled, Organized Innovation: A Blueprint for Renewing America’s Prosperity (Oxford University Press, 2014). Based on a study funded by the NSF, the book is the cul- mination of a 10-year research project on interdisciplinary research involving science, engineering, and medicine. He has served as a member of

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Faculty Development II

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer A Turns, University of Washington; Brook Sattler, University of Washington; Lauren D. Thomas, University of Washington; Cynthia J. Atman, University of Washington; Richard Brown Bankhead III, Highline Community College; Adam R Carberry, Arizona State University; Kristine R. Csavina, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Patrick Cunningham, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Douglas Karl Faust, Seattle Central College; Trevor Scott Harding, California Polytechnic State University; Ken Yasuhara, Center for Engineering Learning & Teaching, University of Washington

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

the journals Advances in Engineering Education and International Journal of Service Learning in Engineering. He serves as program chair for the Community Engagement Division of ASEE. Dr. Harding was invited to deliver a workshop on Ethics in the Engineering Curricula at the 2009 NSF Engineering Awardees Conference and to participate in the NSF Project Based Service Learning c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Paper ID #12382 Summit. He received the 2008 President’s Service Learning Award for innovations in the use of service learning at Cal Poly. In 2004 he was named a Templeton Research

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Entrepreneurship Education in New Contexts

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Federico Garcia Lorca, Saint Louis University, Parks College of Eng.; Daniel M. Ferguson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Sridhar S. Condoor, Saint Louis University, Parks College of Eng.

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Diversity

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

acertain length while withstanding the heaviest weight to catapults that project a baseball asfar as possible while minimizing the weight of the catapult itself. Develop and pitch of ideas challenges focus on selling the ideas. Teams spend theirtime both creating an idea and planning the delivery of it to the judges. Teams can prototypetheir ideas if they think it will help in their presentations. Most teams draw sketches anddiagrams, devoting most of their time developing their solution and preparing the perfectpitch. Examples of pitch challenges are “Pitch for America Challenge”, where teams simulatebeing part of an American trade delegation trying to convince Indian investors to invest inAmerican manufacturing and the “Future of

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Engineering Physics & Physics Division Technical Session 2

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James G. O'Brien, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Gergely Sirokman, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Franz J. Rueckert, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Derek Cascio, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Engineering Physics & Physics

majors,but also including students in computer science or applied math programs. The engineeringprograms at Wentworth Institute of Technology strongly focus on project-based learning.Devices and prototyping are therefore an integral part of many of the courses for which physicsis a prerequisite. Hence, it is essential that students leave with a working knowledge of basiccircuit concepts as well as an appreciation for the complexity that can arise in circuit analysis.Given this population, the main learning outcomes of the new game-based exercise were forstudents to: 1. Demonstrate the ability to add resistors in series. 2. Demonstrate an ability to add resistors in parallel. 3. Decompose a complex circuit into its basic elements. 4

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New Engineering Educators Division Technical Session 4

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Edward F. Gehringer, North Carolina State University

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New Engineering Educators

this form of instruction is becoming commonplace in K-12education. A site with similar resources, but oriented toward higher education is “OLT:Flipped Classroom Project” from the University of Queensland. It has case studies inseveral disciplines, including Engineering Design. It has synopses of various ways to useclass time, including case studies, peer learning, problem-based learning and project-basedlearning. It gives some advice on how to measure learning gains. Flip It! Consulting hasa blog with posts on various aspects of flipping that will be useful to educators in manydisciplines. A notable collection of links and references to other resources is provided byRobert Talbert at Grand Valley State University. His intention is to turn it

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Visualization Within Engineering Design Graphics Education Session 1

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diarmaid Lane, University of Limerick; Sheryl A. Sorby, Ohio State University

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Diversity

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Engineering Design Graphics

of Technology in Dublin, Ireland. She is a professor emerita of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics at Michigan Technological University and the PI or coPI on more than $9M in grant funding, most for educational projects. She is the former As- sociate Dean for Academic Programs in the College of Engineering at Michigan Tech and she served at the National Science Foundataion as a Program Director in the Division of Undrgraduate Education from January 2007 through August 2009. Prior to her appointment as Associate Dean, Dr. Sorby served as chair of the Engineering Fundamentals Department at Michigan Tech. In this capacity, she was responsi- ble for the development and delivery of the newly adopted First

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Design and Entrepreneurship

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bryan O'Neil Boulanger, Ohio Northern University; Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University

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Diversity

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

 individual group innovations.  Each group participating in the experience has a prototype and poster on hand to explain their project.     The programs were initiated to couple design thinking to the entrepreneurial mindset.  The focus of the program is to teach the process, rather than focusing on the outcome of the project.  A student focus on opportunity recognition, customer needs, and field observations of the issue are examples of how the entrepreneurial mindset develops alongside the actual design of the prototype.  While the theory behind this immersive learning program has been detailed elsewhere (Kim and Tranquillo, 2014), t​his paper explores the student perspective on how engineering design and entrepreneurship are linked through

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Two-year College Division: Authors Address Transfer Matters-Part I

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tanya Karam-Zanders, Louisiana State University; Dina Acklin, Louisiana State University; Sarah Cooley Jones, Louisiana State University; Warren N. Waggenspack Jr., Louisiana State University

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Diversity

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Two Year College Division

project. Importantly, thisscholarship program aims to increase the number of engineers in the state and nation, reachingout to those students who have an interest in the field but who are unable to pursue the educationnecessary to acquire a degree.IntroductionIn order to understand the unique needs of the transfer student, an intensive questionnaire wasdeveloped to assess the Pathway to Success program effectiveness. The questionnaire has severalcomponents, including: demographic information, beliefs about self-efficacy in engineering,anticipated and experienced hurdles throughout the program, and scholarship programassessment. Many of the questions posed aimed to better understand the distinctive challengesfaced by transfer students so that the

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Novel Student Experiences in Chemical Engineering

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University; Samuel Alexander Mihelic, Oregon State University; Michael J. Prince, Bucknell University; Margot A. Vigeant, Bucknell University; Katharyn E. K. Nottis, Bucknell University

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Chemical Engineering

focus on what prevents students from being able to integrate and extend the knowledge developed in specific courses in the core curriculum to the more complex, authentic problems and projects they face as professionals. Dr. Koretsky is one of the founding members of the Center for Lifelong STEM Education Research at OSU.Mr. Samuel Alexander Mihelic, Oregon State University Samuel Mihelic is a research asistant in Dr. Yantasee’s lab in the Biomedical Engineering Department at Oregon Health and Science University. He received a B.S. in chemical engineering and a B.S. in mathematics from Oregon State University in 2014. He worked as an engineering education researcher with Dr. Koretsky at Oregon State University in 2013

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Engineering Physics & Physics Division Technical Session 1

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Barbara Masi, University of Rochester; Dan M. Watson, University of Rochester; Arie Bodek, University of Rochester; Dev Ashish Khaitan; Erik Garcell

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Diversity

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Engineering Physics & Physics

appointed as an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (1979-81); NSF-JSPS Fellow, KEK, Japan (1986); and Fellow of the American Physical Society (1985). He served as a project director at the Department of Energy (1990-91), was Associate Chair (1995-98) and then Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy (1998-2007). He is on the editorial board of theEuropean Physics Journal C. Prof. Bodek was awarded the 2004 APS W.KH. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics ”for his broad, sustained, and insightful contributions to elucidating the structure of the nucleon, using a wide variety of probes, tools, and methods at many laboratories.” In 2004, Prof. Bodek received the University of Rochester Award for Excellence in Graduate

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2015 ASEE Workshop on K-12 Engineering Education

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William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette

understand the users of a product and those it may impact as well as the design itself. The kind of lessons and activities to teach human-centered design that will be demonstrated in this workshop can be developed with materials found in most classrooms or craft closets and without expensive equipment. This interactive and fun workshop will guide participants through activities used to develop and teach human centered design skills including interviews and observations and the use of prototypes as communication devices. Participants will engage in a human- centered design activity that is based on authentic projects that have been implemented by students throughout the country. Prototypes will be

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Concurrent Paper Tracks - Session I

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2015 ASEE International Forum

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Monica Gray P.E., The Lincoln University - College of Science & Technology; Constance Loretta Lundy

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Diversity, International Forum

seminars,internships, learning communities, and capstone projects compared to only two anecdotalreferences to study aboard.This paper postulates that ABET’s Student Outcome 3(h) “the broad education necessary tounderstand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, andsocietal context” and Student Outcome 3(i) "a recognition of the need for, and an ability toengage in lifelong learning" are not mutually exclusive but rather interdependent and mutualisticin nature. Outcomes by their very nature describes what students should know or can do by thetime of graduation. The implication is therefore, that lifelong learning and a global perspectivemust originate within the 4-year engineering curriculum/program. The

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Concurrent Paper Tracks - Session II

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2015 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Mudasser Fraz Wyne, National University

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International Forum

can be the increase in library, technology and knowledge resources andmore access to increased expertise. Page 19.21.4 In some cases higher education institutions, from developing countries, may attempt to establishcollaboration with universities of other countries in order to project an image of an institute thatis very well connected with the rest of the world13. It is worth mentioning that such collaborationmay not lead to any financial gains however, it may result in enhanced research exposure andcapabilities as well competitive advantage14.Another form of collaboration is based on teaching method, called Blended Online Learning(BOL) 15

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2015 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

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Iulian Gherasoiu; Mohammed Abdallah; Digendra Das; Daniel K. Jones; Harry Efstathiadis

nanotechnology andallowing the students to develop substantive capstone research projects. The undergraduate andgraduate curricula couples the intellectual and technological resources of CNSE's NanoTech 6 Proceedings of 2015 St. Lawrence Section of the American Society for Engineering EducationComplex. CNSE is pioneering an institutional model that integrates closely the educationalactivity of the students with the academic and industrial research. This concept offers multipleadvantages. Among them it provides access to state-of-the-art technologies, equipment, andprocesses, expanding the range of research that can be undertaken along the educationalinstruction. In return, the industrial

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2015 Northeast Section Meeting

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Corinna Fleischmann; Elizabeth Nakagawa; Tyler Kelley

interactive lesson then the presentation becomes tacit. To ensure guestspeakers are the latter, specific lessons are considered. To ensure a tacit guest speaker, thecourse instructors will only use guest speakers that would be able to give a more interactivelesson, based on the nature of their expertise and personality.Two topics that were considered for interactive guest speakers were the pavement constructionof Portland cement concrete and hot mixed asphalt. Ideally, the instructors will be able to reachout to construction managers of local ongoing pavement projects. The intention would be for thestudents to be able to walk a construction site while the guest speaker was explaining theintricacies of placing pavement. The class may have to start out

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2015 Northeast Section Meeting

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Matthew Stein

% 2% 10 14% 58% 11 53% 16% Strongly Agree Agree Neutral Disagree Strongly DisagreeThis section will consider the questions in order and discuss both the rationale for the question andmy interpretation of the responses.1. My prior coursework prepared me to use SolidWorks in this course. For the majority of respondents, prior coursework is a full semester of Engineering Graphics and Design three semesters prior and a single project in Statics one semester prior. Students indicated agreement by a margin of approximately 4:1, and this is interpreted as

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

Authors

Todd Easton

each student’s progress on learning outcomes.Furthermore, the instructor can provide learning experiences for each student in the class. Bychanging a course from lecture based to lecture based tutoring, the student ratings of theinstructor improved by a statistically significant amount.KeywordsActive Learning, Lecture Based Tutoring, Student Ratings1. IntroductionResearchers publish numerous papers and books on techniques and methods to improve studentlearning. From improved projects [Johnson (1999), Easton and Cassone (2006)] to activelearning techniques [Silberman (1996), Myers et al. (1993), Prince (2004)], the amount ofresearch done in improving learning is extensive. The goal of active learning techniques is tohelp students master the

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2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Lelli Van Den Einde; Nathan Delson; Sean Patno; Jason Hyunjin Cha; Elizabeth Cowan; Jessica Cho

581 Design of a Spatial Visualization App for Increased Student Engagement Lelli Van Den Einde, Nathan Delson, Sean Patno, Jason Hyunjin Cha, Elizabeth Cowan, and Jessica Cho University of California, San Diego, CAAbstractHand sketching of isometrics and orthographic projections is an important skill for conceptgeneration and team brainstorming. In addition, hand sketching skills increase spatial visualizationabilities, which have been correlated with increased GPAs in math and science. In an effort toteach freehand

Conference Session

Non-Canonical Canons of Engineering Ethics

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donna M Riley, Virginia Tech; Amy E. Slaton, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.); Joseph R. Herkert, Arizona State University

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

choose not to undertakean engineering project in that time or place).While we might count it a victory for some of the non-canonical canons to move, in time, intothe accepted professional society codes, that is the not the primary purpose of creating thisalternative stream of ideals in engineering ethics. Rather we hope to illuminate the politicalnature of the process, the ways insider-outsider dynamics play out in professional societies, andthe contestation of what counts and does not count as engineering.IntroductionWhat are the processes by which professional societies develop Codes of Ethics, and how doesinstitutional power shape both processes and outcomes? Who counts as a moral agent? Who issubject to the code? Does the existence of a code

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Explorations in Mechanics Pedagogy

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shawn P. Gross, Villanova University; David W. Dinehart, Villanova University

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Mechanics

the instructor duringthe learning process. These longer periods allowed for the instructor to focus on interdisciplinaryproblems rather than traditional civil and mechanical engineering problems. The authors providea list of supplies and required equipment.18 Hall et al. 19 also outline the design, construction,and fabrication of seven laboratory exercises and a design project for a sophomore levelintegrated statics and mechanics of materials course. Each laboratory and project is detailed, Page 26.780.4including photographs, drawings of the equipment, student work requirements, principles demonstrated, and equipment design and fabrication

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Aerospace Technical Session 2

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Antonette T. Cummings P.E., Purdue University; William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Diversity

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Aerospace

aerodynamics as an applied example.Figure 1. Strategy and toolkit for Backwards Design of courses.The course content emphasizes understanding of pilot controls of the hardware of a rotor,mathematical modeling of theoretical performance models, and design of a rotor to meet adefined mission. The assessment strategies are based on the types of learning in this course,where project-based learning and design thinking employ higher levels of thinking and thereforeneed the matched assessment strategy of a rubric. Pedagogy is primarily based on Perkins’Making Learning Whole, where certain elements for the student are emphasized: distributed,deliberate practice; intrinsic motivation and choice; working on the hard parts with feedback andassessment

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Fundamental: Tools and Content for K-12 Engineering Education

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew Moorhead, NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering; Jennifer B Listman, NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering; Vikram Kapila, NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering

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Diversity

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Mechatronics and Entrepreneurship, a GK-12 Fellows project, and a DR K-12 research project, all funded by NSF. He has held visiting positions with the Air Force Research Laboratories in Dayton, OH. His research interests include K-12 STEM education, mechatronics, robotics, and control system tech- nology. Under Research Experience for Teachers Site and GK-12 Fellows programs, funded by NSF, and the Central Brooklyn STEM Initiative (CBSI), funded by six philanthropic foundations, he has con- ducted significant K-12 education, training, mentoring, and outreach activities to integrate engineering concepts in science classrooms and labs of dozens of New York City public schools. He received NYU- SoE’s 2002, 2008, 2011, and 2014

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Beyond the Classroom

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Denise Rutledge Simmons PE, Virginia Tech; Chosang Tendhar, Virginia Tech; Rongrong Yu, Virginia Tech; Eric A. Vance, Virginia Tech; Catherine T. Amelink, Virginia Tech

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

, she was the director of the Savannah River Environmental Sciences Field Station. Dr. Simmons has nearly fourteen years of engineering and project management experience working with public utility companies, a project management consulting company, and a software company. She is a registered professional engineer, project management professional and LEED accredited professional. Her research interests are in investigating students’ development of leadership skills and other professional competencies and in students’ involvement in curricular, co-curricular and extra-curricular activities. Dr. Simmons is a NSF CAREER award recipient for her research entitled, ”Investigating Co-Curricular Participation of Students

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Manufacturing and Machine Component Design

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Linda E. Craugh Ph.D., United States Naval Academy; Ethan E. Lust, United States Naval Academy

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Diversity

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Mechanical Engineering

operation in a detailed way. It also readily demonstrates the three areas ofmechanical engineering: structures and materials, thermo-fluid sciences, and engineeringdesign.The students (who had no particular technical preparation) were divided into small teams andguided through a discussion of what it means to be an engineer and a qualitative overview ofdesign, solid mechanics, material properties, and thermodynamic principles as applied to theconstruct of a small machine. This paper will describe that project-based learning exercise in Page 26.1055.2detail and propose options for extending and adapting it for use as a module within or as aframework for

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Technical Session 3

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stuart G. Walesh P.E., S. G. Walesh Consulting

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Diversity

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Civil Engineering

Paper ID #11644Creativity and Innovation as Part of the Civil Engineering BOKDr. Stuart G. Walesh P.E., S. G. Walesh Consulting Stuart G. Walesh, Ph.D., P.E., Dist.M.ASCE, D.WRE, and F.NSPE (stuwalesh@comcast.net, www.helpingyouengineeryourfuture.c is an author; teacher; and an independent consultant providing leadership, management, and engineering services. Prior to beginning his consultancy, he worked in the public, private, and academic sectors serving as a project engineer and manager, department head, discipline manager, marketer, legal expert, professor, and dean of an engineering college. Walesh’s technical specialty