Conference Session

Capstone and Collaborations in Civil Engineering

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin G. Sutterer, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; John Aidoo, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Jeremy R. Chapman, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; James H. Hanson P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Kyle Kershaw P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Matthew D. Lovell P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Michelle Marincel Payne, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Jennifer Mueller PE P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Michael Anthony Robinson P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Civil Engineering

practical for senior design as well.Figure 1 shows a typical team of four students surrounded by the three types of mentors, theCourse Instructor (in the industry role of administrator), the Team Coach (in the role of seniorproject engineer) and the Technical Design Mentor (obviously in the role of technical mentor). Figure 1. Team mentoring structure, report products, and timingThe Course Instructor on the top left, leads multiple teams during all three terms, teachingcontent and helping the teams and coaches stay organized. The Course Instructor is also asecondary reviewer of the teams’ work products and determines final grades for CE486, CE488and CE489. The Team Coach on the top right typically only coaches one team through all

Conference Session

The Philosophy of Engineering and Technological Literacy

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer Karlin, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Cheryl Allendoerfer, University of Washington; Rebecca A Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Dan Ewert, North Dakota State University; Ronald R Ulseth P.E., Itasca Community College

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

engineering education has not yet happened at a systemic level.Research to Practice CycleThe research to practice cycles tend to look like that used in the CCLI program description7,Figure 1, or the “Innovation Cycle of Educational Practice and Research” adapted from Booth,Colomb, and Williams8 and proposed by the American Society for Engineering Education9,Figure 2. These cycles share several aspects important to the continued transformation ofengineering education, including:  one of the (often unspoken) goals of research in engineering education is to improve practice in engineering education; and  engineering education practice is a key course of questions to be answered through engineering education research

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Emre Tokgoz, Quinnipiac University

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Mathematics

enrolled or recently completed (i.e. 1 week after thecompletion of the course) a Numerical Methods or Numerical Analysis course at a large Midwestuniversity during a particular semester. The participants completed a questionnaire and eachparticipant is interviewed to explain his/her written responses to the questionnaire questions.Qualitative and quantitative results are displayed in this paper by using the written and videorecorded interview responses to the question stated above. The connection between participants’concept image and concept definition knowledge is evaluated in this work. Next section is devotedto the literature review on triad classification and APOS theory.Relevant Literature By relying on Piaget`s study of functions in 1977

Conference Session

Social Responsibility and Social Justice II: From Classroom to Community

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jessica Mary Smith, Colorado School of Mines; Carrie J. McClelland P.E., Colorado School of Mines; Nicole M. Smith, Colorado School of Mines

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

study CSR,education in CSR, or engineers’ engagement with CSR.1, 12, 14, 19, 26, 27 Finally, the book CitizenEngineer: A Handbook for Socially Responsible Engineering devotes three paragraphs to CSR,understood broadly as increased awareness of the ethical behavior of companies.10Didier and Huet provide the most thorough study of CSR and engineering programs, finding thatits integration into the French system is uneven and responds to differing motivations (civic,pedagogical, organizational, and strategic).9 Despite this unevenness, administrators and facultyassume the necessary courses to engage with CSR “already exist in the curriculum.” Their callfor more clarification on what CSR is and how it should be addressed by engineering

Conference Session

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division: Student-Centered Activities and Maker Spaces in Engineering Education

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Larson, Arizona State University; Micah Lande, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Shawn S. Jordan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

skills anddispositions of engineers are as important to their success as the knowledge that comes withyears of study of math and science, and the frustrations along the way. Stevens describes theengineering educational experience as one of a “meritocracy of difficulty,” 1 the generalperception that the journey needs to be difficult to be worthwhile. A reflection of this on the K-12 student, and primary and secondary education at large, makes one consider where and howthe requisite “grit” 2 is forged.Makers are those who use technology to solve problems and invent solutions. The problems arepersonal in nature to the individual Maker, resulting in passionate, self-directed work towards asolution. With this work, we investigate youth actively

Conference Session

Labs & Hands-on Instruction I

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chad Eric Davis P.E., University of Oklahoma; Diana Bairaktarova, Virginia Tech

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Electrical and Computer

follow on courses (ENGR 2531, 3431) so introducingthem in the first course formed a solid background for the students who would take the latercourses. By including these additional components, we also aimed to make the circuitactivities more interesting. The project is broken up into three parts that correspond to the different topical areascovered in the course. Module 1 covers the basics of DC circuits such as combining resistors,Ohms law, and Kirchhoff’s laws. Module 2 covers advanced DC circuits such as multipleloop circuits, Thevenin equivalent circuits, and superposition solving techniques. Module 3introduces the addition of capacitors and inductors to DC circuits. Students learn to performboth transient and steady state analysis on

Conference Session

Labs & Hands-on Instruction I

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cyrus Habibi P.E., University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Chase Fearing, University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Mesut Muslu P.E., University of Wisconsin, Platteville

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Electrical and Computer

survey.Introduction Laboratories are an essential part of the educational experience for engineering students.Engineering laboratories are places where students can build, experiment, test, and observescientific phenomena. Students are able to witness scientific theories come to life; often helpingthem gain a deeper understanding of the material they are studying [1]. Engineering is a highlypractical discipline, thus it is critical that engineering students receive significant experience tobe successful in their careers. The importance of effective laboratory instruction has generally been recognized by theacademic community and several notable papers have been published. Feisel and Rosa detailedhow the role of engineering instructional

Conference Session

Student-led Research on Engineering Education - Quantitative Methodologies

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Danielle Grimes, Mississippi State University; Tom M Leathem, Mississippi state university

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Diversity

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Student

of female engineers has increased from approximately 1% in the 1970s to 20%today while rates for females entering construction have shown minimal growth. This increaseseems promising, but there has been a decrease in the enrollment of female engineers since 2008in several countries (Beddoes & Borrego, 2011).Low female enrollment in engineering has long been acknowledged as a problem by engineeringeducation researchers. While the problem is well documented through admissions data,researchers are still in the process of identifying motivational factors for females into the field(Johnson & Sheppard, 2004). Architecture and Construction are experiencing similar issues withlower enrollment rates, but the fields have less data on this

Conference Session

Software Applications in ET Programs

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vukica M. Jovanovic, Old Dominion University; Otilia Popescu, Old Dominion University; Orlando M Ayala, Old Dominion University; Mileta Tomovic, Old Dominion University; Alok K. Verma P.E., Old Dominion University

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Engineering Technology

example of such action research (AR) problem solving learningstrategy is given in Figure 1 (McKay & Marshall, 2002). Figure 1: Action research (AR) teaching and learning approach (McKay & Marshall, 2002) One problem which might happen when novices are engaging in problem based learningactivities that they might learn about process of finding a solution, but due to the lack of theircontent knowledge and previous experience, solutions for authentic problems might not beadequate in the real world situation. Furthermore, focusing only on facts replication might increaseperformance on known procedures and examples and might leave students without skills neededto produce a solution when needed if it is out of the scope of what was

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer I

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nihad Dukhan, University of Detroit Mercy

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Mechanical Engineering

thermodynamic concepts and principles; second, students do not seem to recognize relevantconcepts and principles, and combine them in order to solve thermodynamic problems. Thispaper argues that in order to design an edifying approach to improve students’ learning ofthermodynamics, the root causes must be addressed.1. IntroductionThermodynamics is the science that deals with all types of energy- renewable and non-renewable- in terms of availability, conversion, transmission, efficiency and destruction (of freeenergy). Thermodynamics also governs chemical reactions such as combustion of fossil fuels inautomobiles and for steam generation in steam power plants, as well as nuclear reactions innuclear power plants. The field of heating, cooling and air

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session I

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jana Lunt, Southern Utah University; John S. MacLean, Southern Utah University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

. They face manyobstacles that include a lack of knowledge of the campus environment, its academicexpectations, and lack of family support.2In accordance with these difficulties, it is not surprising that first-generation, minority, and low-income students also have lower retention rates. For example, 45 percent of first-generationstudents who began higher education in 1989-1990 had not obtained a degree or certificate andwere no longer enrolled by 1994, compared with 29 percent of non-first-generation students.1 Infact, students from first-generation and low-income backgrounds are among the least likely to beretained and complete a degree.2To increase retention rates of low-income, minority, and first-generation students, institutionsmust

Conference Session

Information and Network Security

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Pickard, East Carolina University; John B. Southworth, East Carolina University

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Computing & Information Technology

theperspective of the Internet, focusing on quantitative analysis of metrics measuring levels ofdeployment, traffic, and performance3,10-13.Our study extends that of Czyz et al. who employed a broad approach to measuring IPv6deployment, assembling a breadth of observations and comparing datasets against each other.Their findings provided a better understanding of the systemic state of IPv6 deployment throughthe use of multiple measured metrics and datasets, each focused on one or more aspects of IPv6adoption3.MethodologySince our goal was to extend the research of Czyz et al. we focus on using the same or similarmetrics and methods as closely as possible. Specific details on each metric is discussed in thesections that follow for each metric. Table 1

Conference Session

Emerging Computing and Information Technologies II

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mahmoud K. Quweider, University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley; Fitratullah Khan, University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley

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Diversity

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Computing & Information Technology

understanding."The approach is even more challenging to implement in the SMT (Science, Mathematics, andTechnology) fields at minority-serving institutions requiring trained faculty.This paper describes in detail our efforts to implement CBI in the Computer Science curriculumin general, and Computer Graphics (CG) and Software Engineering (SWE) in particular. Theeffort is part of an NSF grant awarded to UT Pan Am and UT Brownsville (both are now part ofthe newly merged university of UT Rio Grande Valley). The CG and SWE courses were selectedbecause of the initial high enrollment but the low retention rate. The paper documents the effortsthat have been made in specific areas of the newly implemented courses. These include: 1. The process of identifying

Conference Session

Labs & Hands-on Instruction II

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lei Zhang, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Ibibia K. Dabipi, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Yuanwei Jin, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Payam Matin, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore

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Electrical and Computer

1. Introduction 1.1 Overview The key of successful engineering education is to continuously expose students to the latesttechnology, provide them opportunities to practice, and involve them in innovative projects. TheExperiential Learning Theory (ELT) unveils the central role of experience plays in the learningprocess [1-3], as shown in Kolb’s cycle of experiential learning model in Fig. 1. And manyresearches have shown how students’ active involvement and engagement in practical work cangreatly improve their knowledge acquisition and general cognitive development [4-6]. Concrete Experience doing/having an

Conference Session

Addressing Diversity Issues in Engineering Education

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anna Marbella Camacho, Cañada College; Denise Hum, Cañada College

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Diversity

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Two Year College Division

for academic success.1. IntroductionWith the increasing demand for a skilled and technically savvy workforce in the United States,addressing retention problems in the first two years of college is a promising and cost-effectivestrategy to address this need. A recent Committee on STEM Education National Science andTechnology Council report Federal Science, Technology, Engineering, And Mathematics(STEM) Education 5-Year Strategic Plan indicates that the United States needs make STEMeducation a priority. To achieve that goal, the Department of Education has committed $4.3billion to encourage states to develop “comprehensive strategies to improve achievement andprovide rigorous curricula in STEM subjects; partner with local STEM institutions

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Courses in Emergent Areas

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel Lepek, The Cooper Union; Marc-Olivier Coppens, University College London (UCL)

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Chemical Engineering

Center for Nature Inspired Engineering is focused around three“themes” which correspond to three fundamental mechanisms. These three “themes” are: (T1)hierarchical transport networks, (T2) force balancing, and (T3) dynamic self-organization. Thefollowing diagram (Figure 1) illustrates the nature inspired approach and the three “themes”:Figure 1 - Themes of the Center for Nature Inspired Engineering [1]The core of this research center is based in the Department of Chemical Engineering atUniversity College London and is heavily aligned with the individual research group ofProfessor Marc-Olivier Coppens.Nature-Inspired Chemical EngineeringNature Inspired Chemical Engineering vs. BiomimicryNature Inspired Chemical Engineering is a new emerging

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Strategies Beyond the Classroom to Tackle Gender Issues

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Katherine G Nelson, Arizona State University; Susan Shapcott, University of Bath ; Jenefer Husman, Arizona State University

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

this study represent our participants’ shared experiences thatinfluenced their choice to pursue and remain in engineering.Introduction Policy makers and media have put a spotlight on STEM’s gender inequalities,1 yet,engineering’s public image suggests that the field has become more inclusive. The fact thatFacebook hired Sheryl Sandberg, and support her efforts towards women leadership intechnology is one example of the perceived change. Such high-profile female role-models shouldbe celebrated. However, the expected motivational effects of high-profile female role-models arenot yet translating to grass-roots female participation. In fact, the graduation rate of women fromengineering programs is declining,2 and women only make up 18% of

Conference Session

Assessment of Engineering Leadership Skills

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gary L. Winn, West Virginia University; Jeremy M. Slagley, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

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Engineering Leadership Development Division

worker,the message is that ‘safety is optional.’Schein’s main message is that an organization’s culture is dictated by the values held by itsleadership – the actual values. The culture can’t be bought or copied from a book somewhere;more importantly, to be congruent, the values must show, sound like and represent exactly whatleadership says they are. If the organization is authentically values-based, all actions must bedictated by those same values embraced by its leadership. If, ‘safety of employees comes first,’or, ‘respect for each individual,’ is a core value, then the company’s actions, words and dailywork are always held in the white light of scrutiny. The following are attributed to Schein:2 1. Artifactual values are those that can be

Conference Session

College-Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session I: Students

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Pradeep Kashinath Waychal, NMIMS University; Luiz Fernando Capretz P.E., Western University

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College Industry Partnerships

careers are not the first choices of engineering students?IntroductionMany software disasters – such as Ariane-5 1 and the air traffic control system in LA airport 2– have occurred in software product development. In fact, many others are happening as wewrite. The US-based National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) found, in its2002 study, that the country is losing $59.5 billion each year due to software errors 3.Charette 4 argues that we waste billions of dollars annually on entirely preventable mistakesin software development. Micro Focus 5 report points out that the effects of poor testingstretch beyond the back office; they also affect the boardroom and even the brand name. Assoftware systems are becoming larger, more complex, and

Conference Session

Instrumentation Division Technical Session 2

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Maged Mikhail, Purdue University - Calumet; Gregory P. Neff, Purdue University - Northwest

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Instrumentation

industrial partners neededmore pneumatics and PLC control than local manufacturing employers in the steel, automotive,and rail industries. The principles of pneumatics and control of pneumatic circuits lends itselfparticularly well to productive laboratory experiences in an instrumentation & control ormechatronics context to serve as a first introduction to PLC control.Pneumatic actuators and solenoid valves are relatively inexpensive and can provide fast motionthat catches the eye in lab when incorporated into an appropriate trainer. However commercialpneumatics trainers or PLC trainers are expensive and limited in what they can demonstrate. Fig. 1 Final 80/20 Cart without Components InstalledWe have prototyped a PLC

Conference Session

Using Laboratories for Instruction in Mechanical Engineering

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paul E. Slaboch, St. Martin's University; Floraliza Bornasal, Oregon State University; Rico Picone, Saint Martin's University

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Mechanical Engineering

competent in circuit design, they are not electrical engineers bytraining and so the course loses some of the value of having an EE faculty. As such, theIntroduction to Electrical Circuits course was removed from the curriculum and replaced by anovel set of three courses in the ME department at St. Martin’s University.1 This three coursesequence included a course in Mechatronics, a course in Instrumentation and ExperimentalDesign, and a laboratory course that would benefit both of the lecture courses. These threecourses totaled 7 semester credit hours and were designed to be taken during the fall of the junior(third) year. A full description of the three courses can be found in Ref. 1.The courses were designed to be taken concurrently for a number

Conference Session

Student Success II: Self-Regulatory, Metacognitive, and Professional Skills

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christopher Herring, University of Georgia; Joachim Walther, University of Georgia

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Educational Research and Methods

influencers to the metacognitive action of help-seeking resulting in internal conflict during a recursive HSB decision process. Additionally,results emerge casting HSB as a must-learned skill for engineering students. Gender and ethnicconcerns are discussed.IntroductionHelp-seeking behavior is of particular importance when evaluated against the requirements forABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology). Graduates from ABETaccredited institutions must have: “an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, andengineering; an ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems; an ability tofunction on multi-disciplinary teams; …and an ability to engage in life-long learning”1(p41). Inorder to achieve these objectives

Conference Session

Student Teams, Groups, and Collaborations

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Emily Miller, Ohio State University; Laura Hirshfield, University of Michigan; Debbie Chachra, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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Educational Research and Methods

placingcommunication, ability to work in teams, and interpersonal skills in the top five of a ranking ofseventeen traits by importance to engineering practice.1, 15While the development of teaming skills is useful in its own right, teamwork also promotesactive learning, a process by which students meaningfully engage with the material rather thanpassively “soaking up” knowledge. Active learning enhances student understanding ofmaterial.16 In team-based project work, students apply material taught in class to concrete goalsand learn from, teach, and support one another as their skills grow. ‘Encouraging cooperationamong students’ (collaboration, rather than competition) and ‘encouraging active learning’(internalizing knowledge through interacting with it) are

Conference Session

Best of Computers in Education Division

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Osman Yasar, The College at Brockport - SUNY; Peter Veronesi, The College at Brockport - SUNY; Jose Maliekal, The College at Brockport, SUNY; Leigh J Little, The College at Brockport - SUNY; Sounthone E Vattana, The College at Brockport - SUNY; Ibrahim H. Yeter, Texas Tech University

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Computers in Education

’ packedschedules it would risk compliance with local and state-mandated curriculum. Technology can be used tospeed up this interdisciplinary learning but it needs training of teachers to teach content in pedagogicallyappropriate ways, thereby requiring a close integration of technology, pedagogy, and content as shown inFig. 1. Recently, a theoretical framework, namely technological pedagogical content knowledge(TPACK), has been developed by Mishra & Koehler36 to address challenges of T, P, and C integration.Practicing teachers have been offered professional development (PD) to help them deploy appropriatetechnologies in the classroom, stay up-to-date with emerging technologies, and assess efficacies ofdifferent pedagogical approaches.10, 33 But, due

Conference Session

Pedagogy and Learning Within Engineering Design Graphics II

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shih-Chung Jessy Kang P.E., National Taiwan University; Yifen Li, National Taiwan University; ChingMei Tseng

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Diversity

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Engineering Design Graphics

on their shifts in favorability scores of the environments, such aschanges in their ratings from the soft classroom to the hybrid or hard classroom in the first,second, or third round of the survey. Seven students were interviewed. As shown in Table1, this group was composed of the following: 86% were freshmen from civil engineering,and 14% were seniors from bioenvironmental systems engineering; 57% were male and43% were female; 71% changed the ratings and 29% did not. Questions focused onchanges in students’ preferences and reflections on the learning environment, as well asany effective learning strategies they developed in response to this innovative environment.!!!! Table 1 The backgrounds of students in the focus group

Conference Session

Issues in Engineering Technology Education I

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Aleksandr Sergeyev, Michigan Technological University; Nasser Alaraje, Michigan Technological University

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Diversity

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Engineering Technology

representativesneed to constantly update their knowledge base. Besides all the reasons mentioned above andrelated to the implementation of various teaching methodologies, the current economy affects thecollege students in a way that many undergraduates have to work to secure the funds for theireducation, which in turn requires a more flexible class schedule. In order to accommodate theneeds of both groups: the university enrolled students and industry representatives, theeducational units must adequately adjust their curriculum, providing students with theopportunity to learn via traditional, blended or purely on-line class styles. Figure 1 depicts allthree educational approaches. The first case represents a traditional model, in which the theoryand hands-on

Conference Session

Research on Diversification, Inclusion, and Empathy I

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lauren D. Thomas, University of Washington; Danielle L. Watt, Center for Chemistry at the Space Time Limit (CaSTL Center); Kelly J. Cross, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Jeremy Alexis Magruder, University of Florida; Chanel Renee Easley, Techbridge; Yael-Alexandra Jackie Monereau, University of Tampa; Makita R. Phillips; Arielle M. Benjamin

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

 STEM and the obstacles that must be overcome to achieve desired representation and retention goals.   Understanding Womanism  Womanism, also known as Black feminism, considers the intersectional identities of Black women and accounts for experiences related not only to sex, but to race, class, and the other multiplicative identities that traditional feminist perspectives do not readily take into account. Alice Walker, attributed as one of the mothers of womanist thought, explained that “Womanism is to feminism, as purple is to lavender.[1]” This deeper, more encompassing representation of women’s experiences maintains the central ideal that various forms of inequity are bound together. That is to say, oppressed individual identity dimensions

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 9: Evaluating and Measuring Recruiting and Major Selection Strategies

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bethany B. Smith, Arizona State University; Yong Seok Park, Arizona State University; Lydia Ross, Arizona State University; Stephen J. Krause, Arizona State University; Ying-Chih Chen, Arizona State University; James A Middleton, Arizona State University; Eugene Judson, Arizona State University; Robert J. Culbertson; Casey Jane Ankeny, Arizona State University; Keith D. Hjelmstad, Arizona State University; Claire Y. Yan, University of British Columbia - Okanagan

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

on whostayed in engineering based off of their first math course grade12.ResultsTable 1 below shows the breakdown of the 2007 and 2012 engineering freshman cohorts. 2007 Cohort Total Male Female Number of Students 720 576 144 Number of Leavers 167 146 21 Number of Movers 191 146 45 Number of Stayers 362 284 77 % Leavers 23% 25% 15% % Movers 27% 25% 31

Conference Session

Teaching & Learning Dynamics, Vibration, and Mechanics More Broadly

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Diversity

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Mechanics

past four years. In the Department of Civil and EnvironmentalEngineering alone, the entire five course sequence in mechanics and structures is now offered inthis format as indicated in Table 1. In all five of these courses, students are required to watchtheory-based lecture videos that are designed with the primary intent of preparing students forsolving problems in class. While the format and delivery of the lecture videos is similar, thestrategies for encouraging, ensuring, and rewarding students for watching videos vary among theindividual courses. Some courses give credit for viewing videos, and some courses use shortquizzes based on the lecture video content. The course that is the subject of the study in thispaper, Mechanics I, does not

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session II

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Geoffrey L Herman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Nicole Johnson-Glauch, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

sketches, thisfollowing study sought to answer the following research question: How do students producesketches when designing sequential circuits?3. MethodologyTo further explore the importance of the affordances of different representations in engineeringproblem solving, we are specifically examining how students and faculty differentially solveproblems that explicitly require the use of multiple representation transformations. In this paper,we present initial findings from our investigations into how students and professors transformfinite state machine diagrams into sequential circuits.3.1.Terminology, Concepts, and DiagramsFigure 1: Partial state diagram with parts of the state machine labeledA finite state machine (FSM) consists of a finite