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International STEM Education: International Division Technical Session 6

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Sanjeev Adhikari, Kennesaw State University

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local towns people (students) attend the school where on the weekends he sends trucks into themountains to pick up students who have no or little access to education so they can attend school.The school taught basic subject material but lacked skilled trades training.This was an eye-opening moment for what opportunities will these students have to live and thrivein the year 2030 and beyond. Armed with this information SKY ventured out to make a differencein the training needs of the kids in this community. SKY launched a project that would convertand recycle shipping containers into skilled trades laboratories (Figure 1). Recruiting threeAlabama schools, SKY committed to supplying the community of Belfate, Honduras with fourcontainer classrooms

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Materials Division Technical Session 2

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Reihaneh Jamshidi, University of Hartford; Kamau Wright, University of Hartford; Paul E. Slaboch, University of Hartford

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Materials

significantimprovement in students’ writing skills [21].The primary stage for the effort of improving engineering students’ writing skills can beincorporating writing instruction into laboratory courses which require lab reports. Requiringformal lab reports is an effective tool to integrate substantive learning into a written structure aswell as integrating communication skills into curriculum. It has been suggested that increasingthe number of collaborative writing assignments in the form of lab reports will result insignificant levels of improvement [18].This paper describes a series of teaching strategies to enhance students’ technical writing in thecontext of group-based lab assignments. A description of the methodologies employed, andoutcomes of assessment

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Engineering Design Graphics Division Technical Session 5

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Theodore J. Branoff, Illinois State University; Kevin L. Devine, Illinois State University

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Engineering Design Graphics

the basic terminologyused in GD&T, opportunities to apply GD&T in a design setting for modestly complex parts,activities where students can apply GD&T within a CAD environment, and laboratories wherestudents inspect parts using calipers and coordinate measuring machines (CMM). GeoTol Pro: APractical Guide to Geometric Tolerancing per ASME Y14.5 – 2009 [1] and ASME Standards forDimensioning & Tolerancing [2] are the main resources used in the course.A key learning outcome of this course and of the Engineering Technology program is thatstudents be able to apply appropriate datum reference frames (DRF) to designs. To be successful,DRF concepts need to be introduced and applied in many ways and at different levels ofcomplexity

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2020 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

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Marina Miletic; Vanessa Svihla; Eva Chi; Jamie Gomez; Abhaya Datye; Pil Kang; Yan Chen; Sang Han

in her lab is focused on understandingthe dynamics and structures of macromolecular assemblies including proteins, polymers, and lipidmembranes. Undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral scholars are trained in amultidisciplinary environment, utilizing modern methodologies to address important problems at the Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Copyright © 2020, American Society for Engineering Education 4interface between chemistry, physics, engineering, and biology preparing the trainees for careers inacademe, national laboratories, and

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2016 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

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Victoria Sorg; Lilian Johnson; Alexandra Westbrook; Susan Daniel

day-long program includes hands-on lab modules, college admissioninformation sessions, a talk highlighting STEM career opportunities, and a panel discussion withfemale undergraduate and graduate students. The lab modules teach concepts like DNA extraction,the unique properties of polymers, and process engineering to make cosmetics. An unique aspectof this program is parental involvement. While students engage in labs, their parents are given in-formation on college financial aid and admissions to help them support their daughters through theapplication process. A laboratory module for parents and their daughters allows them to conducthands-on experiments as a team. Our program empowers parents to envision their daughters asengineers. Based

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Multidisciplinary Service and Outreach Projects

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Ahmed Cherif Megri, North Carolina A&T State University; Sameer Hamoush, North Carolina A&T State University

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2Dr. AC. Megri 2020 ASEE Annual ConferenceUniversity as the lead and several universities as the sub-recipients. The activities of thisconsortium are carried out in partnership with four national research laboratories. Theconsortium agreement favors greater coverage of expertise, the inclusion of technical forcesfrom several universities and laboratories, for a much greater impact through the interactionand collaboration as well as a greater coverage of research areas, equipment and labs.Launching and managing a functional consortium with multiple partner universities andlaboratories is often a complex task, because of the difficulties associated to the programs’complexity at a

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Empathy and Human-Centered Design 1

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Alexander Pagano, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Saadeddine Shehab, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Leon Liebenberg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Design in Engineering Education

assumptions and concepts as they aredeveloped, allowing students to make informed judgments. However, these benefits rely on thesuccessful implementation of human-centered design activities in engineering classes. This oftendepends on the graduate teaching assistants (TAs) who lead discussion or laboratory sections. Thiswork-in-progress paper describes the implementation of a human-centered design activity thatintroduces human-centered design to students in a Design for Manufacturability course. It exploresthe TA’s experiences in implementing this activity and the impact of the activity on students’understanding of the role of human-centered design in design for manufacturability in engineering.MethodsDesign This study is part of a design

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2020 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

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Aleksandr Sergeyev; John Irwin; Adrienne Minerick

) for therequired masters-level courses. To accommodate the distance, laboratory components will betaught in a week-long format on campus in a condensed fashion at a time that is most convenientfor the students. This hybrid (online lectures and in-person hands-on training) approach will notonly attract industry representatives but will also provide additional flexibility to the studentscurrently enrolled in the degree.International students and the students from other universities will be able to enroll in the MSdegree of Mechatronics based upon their earned BS degree, admittance by the graduate school,and approval of the graduate advisor. The approval will be based on comparing the individuals’transcripts with the current requirements for

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Biomedical Engineering Curriculum and Design - June 24th

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Steven Higbee, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Sharon Miller, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis

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Biomedical Engineering

without the knowledge, skills, and confidence required forengineering design success. With these shortcomings in mind, we integrated design experiencesacross our BME curriculum and evaluated student design performance throughout.Methods: Four engineering design project assignments were developed and integrated intosophomore- and junior-level BME laboratory courses, establishing a continuous design thread inthe curriculum. Through the sequence of projects, student teams worked to design (1) fracturefixation plates, (2) electromyogram-controlled motor systems, (3) compact spectrophotometers,and (4) drug dosing devices. We also developed a common instructional Design Module andused it in each course to build student understanding of the BME design

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Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 1

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Calvin S. Kalman, Concordia University; Franco La Braca, Concordia University; Mandana Sobhanzadeh, Mount Royal University

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Engineering Physics and Physics

Group’s ’Tutorials in Introductory Physics’ system and ’Physics by Inquiry’ curriculum in comparison to labatorials as well as observed their ongoing physics laboratory reform.Dr. Mandana Sobhanzadeh, Mount Royal University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Comparison of Labatorials and Traditional Physics Labs Franco La Braca1, Calvin S. Kalman1 , Mandana Sobhanzadeh21 Department of Physics, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec H4B 1R6, Canada Phone-1-514-848-2424x32842 Department of General Education, Mount Royal University, Calgary, Alberta T3E 6K6, Canadaintroduction The physics lab has long been a distinctive part

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2-Year College Division: Collaboration Between Institutions

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James K. Nelson Jr. P.E., Texas A&M University System; Karen Buck, M.Ed., The Blinn College District; Nancy Shankle Jordan, RELLIS Academic Alliance in The Texas A&M University System; Mary Hensley, The Blinn College District

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Two-Year College

andworkforce training programs. Students can obtain credentials from multiple institutions in aseamless and transparent manner. The goal is for one university system center to provide newand multiple pathways to an academic degree for students and the opportunity to participate inthe development of new technologies that progress from the laboratory to the marketplacethrough collaborative education and research. A previous paper presented the roadmap fromplanning to implementation of the RELLIS Academic Alliance. Presented in this paper are theoperational issues that had to be addressed and the way in which they were addressed. This papercan serve as a model for other institutions that are pursuing a similar endeavor.IntroductionIn September 2015, the

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Are You Experienced? Approaches and Tools for Experiential Learning

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Hadi Kazemiroodsari, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Austin Hart; Anuja Kamat, Wentworth Institute of Technology; William Jordan Cashel-Cordo, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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Civil Engineering

designing andbuilding a steel sculpture. The structure demonstrates various connections used to join differentsteel shapes at intersections. The structure is displayed in the hallway of the civil engineeringdepartment and used as a teaching aid for courses such as Structural Steel Design, CivilEngineering Material and Introduction to Engineering courses. Figure 1: Steel Frame Sculpture in University of Maine, ME.Design and Construction: A group of three faculty, one student and one laboratory technician were involved in theproject. The design and construction team decided on not using the available frame plans byAISC. A 3-Dimensional drawing of a desired sculpture which was drafted using a Sketchupsoftware is shown in

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2020 PPC

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Frazier Benya; Al Roming

experience it Develop and implement approaches for measuring the campus climate and gauge effect of policies and actions implemented by Evaluation other working groups; identify the most effective ways to measure and monitor the climate within an organization; and identify metrics for measuring progress across higher education Action Collaborative MembershipAmerican University in Cairo Massachusetts Institute of University of CincinnatiArgonne National Laboratory Technology University of Illinois at ChicagoBenedict

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2020 PPC

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Kazem Kazerounian; Jelena Kovacevic; William R. Berkley

workshops and continuing education credit-bearing courses • Counselors: Professional learning seminars • Administrators: Informative workshops• Industry support: ‘ • New facilities: the North Atlantic Engineering Laboratory • Support for high need schools: PSEG and National Grid support participation of high need school students• Aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards. 18 Since the pilot in Fall 2017…• The Engineering Teaching Laboratories have accommodated over 2,000 middle and high school students• More than 90% of participating students have

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Assessing, Expanding, and Innovating Information Literacy

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Elise Anne Basque, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal; Christine Brodeur, Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal; Manon Du Ruisseau, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal; Jimmy Roberge, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal; Arina Soare, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal; Marie Tremblay , Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal

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Research Methods course (given in Frenchonly) began in September 2002 as a collaboration with the two professors in charge of thecourse. The professors were responsible for the lectures, whereas the Library was to conduct sixtwo-hour laboratories as part of the course and to grade 50% of the credit. ING8901 wasmandatory for PhD students, yet Master’s students could also attend the course.The main objectives of the laboratories were: ● to define information needs; ● to build and optimize a search strategy; ● to find information sources relevant to one's research field; ● to respect copyright and to avoid plagiarism; and ● to manage references using bibliographic management software.To help the students produce their literature review, the

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Are You Experienced? Approaches and Tools for Experiential Learning

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J Chris Carroll P.E., Saint Louis University, Parks College of Engineering; Matthew D. Lovell P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Kyle Kershaw P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Shannon M. Sipes, Indiana University; Ronaldo Luna, Saint Louis University, Parks College of Engineering; John Aidoo, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; James H. Hanson P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Engineering Department at Rose-Hulman Institute Technol- ogy. Prior to this appointment, he worked as the Bridge Design Engineer at South Carolina Department of Transportation. He received a B.Sc. from the University of Science & Technology in Ghana in 1997 and a M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina. His research activities include repair and strengthening of buildings and bridges using Advanced Composite Materials, laboratory and field testing of structures and the fatigue behavior of concrete bridges. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Paper ID #31000Prof. James H

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Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Outreach and Retention

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Leigh S. McCue, George Mason University

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Mechanical Engineering

defenseindustry. Particular interest and expertise in structural engineering of truss-built structures such asairframes and ground vehicles.EDUCATION:George Mason University Mechanical Engineering BS 2020 Minor: Entrepreneurship Capstone Design Project: Ergonomic and performance improvements of a hand-powered bicycle utilized competitively by a wounded veteran.PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:Summer 2019 Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program (NREIP) Engineering Intern Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division Conducted experimental research in structures laboratory assessing failure modes of novel alloys.2018-2019

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2020 First-Year Engineering Experience

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Koenraad E Gieskes, State University of New York at Binghamton; Michael Elmore, State University of New York at Binghamton

yourintended engineering major and 2) How certain are you of your intended major. Typically, aboutone-half of first-year students indicate that they are very sure of their intended engineering majorand the other half is only somewhat sure or not at all sure.Along with an introduction to general engineering concepts, one of the primary objectives of theintroduction to engineering course that the students take in their first semester at SUNYBinghamton is to familiarize them with the engineering majors offered at the university:biomedical, computer, electrical, mechanical, and industrial and systems engineering.Throughout the course students are given lectures, assignments, and laboratories that arerepresentative of the engineering majors offered. The

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2020 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

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Ian Gravagne

Poor… and Yourself, Moody Publishers, 2014IAN A. GRAVAGNEDr. Ian Gravagne serves as Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director for the Department of Electrical &Computer Engineering at Baylor University. His research interests include dynamic equations on time scales, and powergrid stabilization via synchrophasor-controlled renewable resources. He and his family lived on campus for five years asfaculty-in-residence at Baylor, and he recently took a one-year sabbatical to work for Sandia National Laboratories. Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Copyright © 2020, American

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2020 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

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Jesus Ortega

related toefficient particle heating, flow control and containment, erosion and attrition, and conveyance.1Based on current knowledge of the three power tower technologies, all three paths have thepotential to achieve the SunShot goals. Further development, modeling, and testing is currentlyundergoing by Universities and National Laboratories throughout the US, along with manyinternational partners. The expectation for this on-going research is to bring the technologies to astage where integrated system tests and pilot demonstrations are possible and realistic. References1. Mehos, M., Turchi, C., Vidal, J., Wagner, M., Ma, Z., Ho, C., Kolb, W., Andraka, C., & Kruizenga, A., — Concentrating

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2020 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

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Savannah Bradley; Mostafa Hassanalian

aircrafts, aircraft optimization, and aircraft efficiency.MOSTAFA HASSANALIANDr. Hassanalian currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at New Mexico Institute of Miningand Technology. Dr. Hassanalian runs the Autonomous Flight and Aquatic System Laboratory at New Mexico Instituteof Mining and Technology. His research interests include biomimetics and bioinspired aerial and aquatic vehicles, designand optimization of aerial vehicles, and new concepts for planetary and space exploration. Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Copyright  2020, American Society for

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2020 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

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Olga Lavrova; Satish Ranade

Engineering 4 cr. instructor (myself in this case) ensures that students are actively EE531: Power System Modeling and Computational Methods. participating in the class, rather that passively listening.B. Online lectures and assignments. instruments, the laboratory has six LabVolt test benches which can be configured using motor-generator sets as generating Successful teaching of interactive classroom and online- sources or loads. Each bench is tied to its substation andspecific classes means that the teacher not only needs interconnected via transmission lines as a complete powercurriculum and

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Zahraa Stuart, Stony Brook University; Angela M Kelly, Stony Brook University; Monica Bugallo, Stony Brook University

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Pre-College Engineering Education

Paper ID #30964University-Designed Middle School Science Experiences Aligned with NGSSMrs. Zahraa Stuart, Stony Brook University Zahraa Stuart received Bachelor of Engineering in electrical engineering from Stony Brook University in 2016.In 2017, she joined the PhD program in Electrical engineering statistical signal processing. Zahraa design, develop and instruct engineering teaching laboratories for both high school and middle school students and teaches since 2016.Dr. Angela M Kelly, Stony Brook University Angela M. Kelly is an Associate Professor of Physics and the Associate Director of the Science Education

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Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE PSW Section Conference, canceled

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Liya Grace Ni, California Baptist University; Larry W. Clement P.E., California Baptist University; Ilyoul Lee, California Baptist University

IoT program between California Baptist University (CBU) andShanghai Aurora Vocational College (SAVC); the Overview of Course section presents thelearning objectives and assessment methods used in teaching this course; the Lab Modulessection lists the lab projects and design projects with descriptions and hardware/softwarespecifications; the Results and Discussions section discusses the effectiveness of the learn-by-doing approach and lessons learned.Background Over the past few years, engineering educators in North America have designed coursesand lab activities involving IoT technologies and integrated these components into existingengineering curricula. An IoT based Innovation Laboratory was created at Seattle University, aspart of

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Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Mechatronics & Simulation

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Reihaneh Jamshidi, University of Hartford; Ivana Milanovic, University of Hartford

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Mechanical Engineering

CourseAbstractThis study reports on addition of a simulation module based on Finite Element Analysis (FEA)to Mechanical Engineering Materials and Laboratory course at University of Hartford. The studyaddresses two topics: (1) mastering different levels of knowledge with the help of simulations,and (2) honing new simulation skills. The course has a weekly lab session where studentsperform various materials testing such as tensile, shear, bending, and impact. The lecture portiondeals with the theories behind materials’ formation, bonding and how those relate to the materialproperties. In the recently added simulation module, students were assigned projects to simulatethe mechanical testing procedures performed in the lab. The simulations were done using

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NSF Grantees: S-STEM 2

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Houshang Darabi, University of Illinois at Chicago; Rezvan Nazempour, University of Illinois at Chicago; Shanon Marie Reckinger, University of Illinois at Chicago; Peter C. Nelson, University of Illinois at Chicago; Renata A. Revelo, University of Illinois at Chicago; Jeremiah Abiade, University of Illinois at Chicago; Didem Ozevin P.E., University of Illinois at Chicago; Anthony E. Felder, University of Illinois at Chicago; Betul Bilgin, University of Illinois at Chicago; Yeow Siow, University of Illinois at Chicago

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

education.Dr. Peter C Nelson, University of Illinois at Chicago Peter Nelson was appointed Dean of the University of Illinois at Chicago’s (UIC) College of Engineering in July of 2008. Prior to assuming his deanship, Professor Nelson was head of the UIC Department of Computer Science. In 1991, Professor Nelson founded UIC’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, which specializes in applied intelligence systems projects in fields such as transportation, mobile health, man- ufacturing, bioinformatics and e-mail spam countermeasures. Professor Nelson has published over 80 scientific peer reviewed papers and has been the principal investigator on over $40 million in research grants and contracts on issues of importance

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Capstone/ET Projects I: Electrical and Computer Focus

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Xiaoxia Li, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Farzin Heidari, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

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Engineering Technology

the classrooms would build competitive advantagesof the programs provided and enhance the training outcomes for the students. After the integrationof multi-media, computer-aided instruction, and internet-based training, virtual reality (VR) isemerging as another efficient training tool in education. Traditionally, training is often done inclassrooms, laboratories, or workshops, which gives the students physical access to the learningmaterials, learning objects, and tactile experience of operation environment with directcommunication with peripheral stimulus. However, VR provides the possibility of perceiving andinteracting with the objects without their physical existence. Therefore, it eliminates the cost ofpurchasing and updating the fixed

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NSF Grantees: S-STEM 2

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Ronald B. Bucinell, Union College; Rebecca Cortez, Union College; Holli M. Frey, Union College; Joanne D. Kehlbeck, Union College; Michael E. Hagerman; David A. Cotter, Union College

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1993, he has taught courses and laboratories in engineering mechanics, design, and entrepreneurship. His other responsibilities include undergraduate academic advising, senior design project supervision, undergraduate research supervision, and graduate research supervision. Dr. Bucinell has advised the SAE Baja, SAE Formula, and projects related to the ASME Human Powered Vehicle project. Dr. Bucinell has directed the International Virtual Design Studio project that ran in collaboration with the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey; Altim University in Ankara, Turkey; and ESIGELEC in Rouen, France. He also founded a chapter of Engineers Without Boarders at Union College and has traveled to Boru Village

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Student Division Technical Session 3

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Jayanta K. Banerjee, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus

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Student

proposal shell’ which describes the problem from my working point of view.”[9].Mentors of the undergraduate students in some research laboratories:Undergraduates in engineering are not just confined in class lectures and teaching labs. They enjoysummer internship in several national research and development (R & D) laboratories, like Sandia,Lawrence Livermore, Lawrence Berkeley, etc. spread out throughout USA. Dr. Jeffrey Estes of PacificNorthwest National Laboratory, notes, “Connecting students to the world of science and technology thatexists beyond the academic classroom holds great potential for helping the students decide on and pursuea career pathway. Whether that path leads to a career in research, teaching, business, or a

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Instrumentation Division Technical Session 2

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Herbert L. Hess, University of Idaho, Moscow

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Objectives DefinedThe five students soon asked: If samples could be taken more often than the utility’s mandatedfifteen minute intervals, would the demand numbers routinely be less that the utility claimed? Ifso, could the university then negotiate the demand piece of its electric power bill to be less?Concurrently, the Facilities Director asked the five students to find out 1) how accurate is thepublic electrical utility’s demand and energy data? and 2) How can gateway metering bestsupport his long-term plan to set up an emergency microgrid for the university? Answering allthese questions required advanced technology that he lacked and had been unable to afford.Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL), the world’s leader in electric power