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ECCD Technical Session 4: Energy and Analysis

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Lisa Bosman, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jennifer Brinker, Northeast Wisconsin Technical College; Kenneth Walz, Madison Area Technical College

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Diversity

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

Education Program (KEEP), delivering professional development courses in energy science for public school teachers. Dr. Walz is an alumnus of the Department of Energy Academies Creating Teacher Scientists (DOE ACTS) Program, and he worked at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) conducting research in renewable fuels and electrochemical materials. He continues his work with NREL, serving as an instructor for the Summer Renewable Energy Institute for middle and high school teachers. Dr. Walz has been recognized as Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, and as the Energy Educator of the Year by the Wisconsin Association for Environmental

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Entrepreneurial Leadership and Non-traditional Ways to Engage Students in Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Karen High, Oklahoma State University; Paul Rossler, Oklahoma State University; Martin High, Oklahoma State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

curriculum.The two engineering entrepreneurship sections each met for 15 hours during thesemester, and extra time was provided for meetings with success coaches and peermentors. The six main areas covered in the sections are detailed below: • Academic Success- study skills, time management, finding help for classroom material, test-taking skills, and college survival skills. • Professional Success – career planning and effective presentations. • Engineering Information – career and advisement information and research presentations/laboratory tours. • Engineering Design and Problem Solving – creativity, effective teams, brainstorming, process design, and product design. • Societal Issues of Engineers – ethics

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Farhad Azadivar, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth; Bradley Kramer, Kansas State University

, faculty, and the general public.Myth #1: If you build it, they will comeMany leaders of the university and the community believe that if the university starts a centerthat has access to the faculty expertise and laboratory and other facilities that the industry couldutilize, the private sector will break the doors to get in and use the services. This, unfortunately,is not true. There are two classes of gaps between the industry and the university environments: Page 12.1247.6Cultural Gaps and Motivational Gaps.Cultural GapsThe list and comparison of some of the cultural differences are given in Table 1. Table 1: Cultural Differences

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How to Effectively Teach Using Teams

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Riddell, Rowan University; Eric Constans, Rowan University; Kevin Dahm, Rowan University; Jennifer Courtney, Rowan University; Roberta Harvey, Rowan University; Peter Mark Jansson, Rowan University; Paris von Lockette, Rowan University

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Civil Engineering

Ludlow, D. K.., Schultz, K. H., “Writing across the chemical engineering curriculum at the University ofNorth Dakota,” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 83, pp. 161, 1994.19 Newell, J. A., Ludlow, D. K., Sternberg, S. P. K., “Progressive development of oral and writtencommunication skills across an integrated laboratory sequence,” Chemical Engineering Education, Vol. 31,pp 116-119, 1997.20 Van Orden, N., “Is writing an effective way to learn chemical concepts?,” Journal of ChemicalEducation, Vol. 67, pp 583, 1990.21 Riddell, W., Jansson, P., Dahm, K., Benavidez, H., Haynes, J., Schowalter, D., “Conservation of Energyfor Campus Buildings: Design, Communication and Environmentalism through Project Based Learning,”Paper 2006-153 in the

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Best of the NEE

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yi-Min Huang, University of Washington; Jessica Yellin, University of Washington; Jennifer Turns, University of Washington

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New Engineering Educators

onespecific example, this participant talked about choosing to teach classes that relate to hisresearch interest and background so that he can optimize both his teaching and researchinterests. “…the courses I tend to choose to teach are courses that are related to my background, related to my interest, either laboratory or hands-on. The senior-level course is a new course that I had developed, the one I teach in spring, and that was based on my interests -- started out as just materials, and gradually evolved toward the role of materials in construction and constructability, and so the senior course I teach is on reinforced concrete construction, and we talk about constructability issues, not just how

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FPD6 -- Early Intervention & Retention Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Pat Pyke; John Gardner; Marcia Belcheir; Janet Callahan; Amy Moll; Cheryl Schrader

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First-Year Programs

(Any 2) Completed (Any 2) Completed (Any 2) Completed (Any 2) (Mechanical) (Materials Science) (Civil) (Electrical) Heat Transfer MSE Laboratory Engr. Properties of Signals & Systems Construction Materials Applied Mechanics Mech. Behavior of Transportation Engr. System Modeling of Materials Materials Fundamentals and Control Kinematics and Thermodynamics of Reinforced Concrete Microelectronic Machine Dynamics Materials Design Circuits

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Advice from the Experts for NEEs at Small Universities

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eric Larson, Seattle University; Agnieszka Miguel, Seattle University

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New Engineering Educators

are chairs who are involved in reviewing tenure cases.Our first piece of advice is to carefully pick a research topic and projects to work on. Forexample, it may be difficult to find undergraduate students with sufficient background toparticipate in a project that is too theoretical. On the other hand, if the research is tooexperimental, the need to obtain funds for adequate equipment and laboratory space may makecertain experiments impossible. You also need to think of the looming tenure review and likelyavoid projects that require significant learning and/or infrastructure development. Tips on Page 12.1151.2selecting a research topic are

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Engineering in Middle Schools

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth Reid, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis; Christine Floyd, Brownsburg East Middle School

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

, working in a laboratory wearing white lab coats. In one study involving thedevelopment and use of a similar Draw an Engineer Test4, many initial misconceptions includedengineers as primarily train drivers or auto mechanics. Most student responses involvedengineers building buildings or fixing car engines, and were nearly all male. This perception ismost likely one factor contributing to a very low percentage of female engineering students.Model Eliciting Activities:Model Eliciting Activities (MEAs) are specifically designed as client driven, open endedproblems. The goal of the activity is to design a model with transferability rather than a singlesolution, a concept not typically found in middle school problems. MEAs lack structure found

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Recruiting, Retention and Diversity in Engineering Technology

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Claude Kansaku, Oregon Institute of Technology; Linda Kehr, Klamath County School District; Catherine Lanier, Oregon NASA Space Grant Consortium

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Engineering Technology

activities associated with Changes in Altitude. All workshop, travel,and room and board fees are covered by the Arizona Space Grant Consortium except for a$65/student participation fee paid prior to the launch. The Changes in Altitude programguarantees four launches over two years with different student teams and follow up to discuss theresults of the launch.The Youth Exploring the Stratosphere! (YES!) from the New Mexico State University PhysicalScience Laboratory provides a BalloonSat launch outreach opportunity to primary and secondaryschool students. The NASA Balloon Program Office (BPO) provides an annual NASAsponsored balloon flight that includes student experiment packages from New Mexico schools oneach flight. YES! is built around the

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Focus on Emerging Topics Around the World

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Arunkumar Pennathur, University of Texas-El Paso; Louis Everett, University of Texas-El Paso; Tzu-Liang Tseng; Noe Vargas Hernandez; Samuel Riccillo, University of Texas at El Paso

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Industrial Engineering

. 1979. Network analysis in organizational settings, Human Relations, 11(32), 923-965.36. Tushman, M. 1978. Technical communications in R & D laboratories: The impact of project work characteristics, Academy of Management Journal, 21, 624-645.37. Valacich, J.S., Schwenk, C. 1995. Devils advocacy and dialectical inquiry effects on face to face and computer mediated group decision making, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Process, 63(2), 158-173.38. Watson, R.T., DeSanctis, G., Poole, M.S. 1988. Using a GDSS to facilitate group consensus: Some intended and unintended consequences, MIS Quarterly, 12(3), 463-477.39. Weeks, G.D., Chapanis, A. 1976. Cooperative versus conflicting problem solving in three

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DELOS Best Paper Nominations

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Johnny Chang, National University; Ayman El Salim, National University; Ronald Uhlig, National University; Michelle Bright

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

technology. Dr. Bright is now a full time faculty for the Wireless Communications Master’s degree program. Michelle’s experience in Matlab/Simulink programming for real-time systems has allowed her to develop new laboratory based curriculum for the wireless program. She brings extensive knowledge of signal processing, device architecture, hardware design, and autonomous controls to her research. She is co-author of a NASA grant for encryption using nonlinear signal processing techniques. She is a recipient of numerous Air Force and DARPA funded research grants for flow control. Prior to joining the National University faculty, Dr. Bright has authored over 30 publications and journal articles

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Professional Skills and the Workplace

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Johannes Strobel, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica Cardella, Purdue Engineering Education

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Educational Research and Methods

Engineering Undergraduate Laboratory,” IEEE Frontiers in Education, 1997, pp. 350-354.[7] Armarego, J., “Advanced Software Design: A Case in Problem-Based Learning,” IEEE Computer Society: Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, 2002, pp. 44-54.[8] Denayer, I., K. Thaels, J. Vander Sloten, and R. Gobin, “Teaching a Structured Approach to Design Process for Undergraduate Engineering Students by Problem-Based Education,” European Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 28, No. 2, 2003, pp. 203-214.[9] Brodeur, D., P. W. Young, and K. B. Blair, “Problem-Based Learning in Aerospace Engineering Education,” Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering

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Service - Learning Projects

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Heather Wright, Michigan Technological University; Linda Phillips, Michigan Technological University; James Mihelcic, Michigan Technological University

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Environmental Engineering

planSite reclamation & · Developed area reclamation and solid waste management plansolid wastemanagementSince ISD’s inception, 13.7% of our civil and environmental engineering undergraduate seniors Page 13.793.4have selected this course over conventional senior design, even though the laboratory fee andtime requirements are much greater. Ownership of the student design projects is so great that18% of ISD alumni have returned for additional ISD in-country experiences as mentors and classassistants. Table 2 provides a comparison of ISD participants and mentors by major and gender.The ISD model also meets all of the U.S. Accreditation Board

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Assessment of Engineering Technology Programs

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carmine Balascio, University of Delaware; LOUISE WEHRLE, NICET; Rudolph Henry, NICET; Chip Hollis, NICET

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Engineering Technology

additionaloutcomes are listed for associate and baccalaureate degree programs. For example, theprogram criteria for “Civil Engineering Technology and Similarly Named Programs” arelisted as follows 3: Outcomes Associate degree programs must demonstrate that graduates are capable of: a. utilizing graphic techniques to produce engineering documents; b. conducting standardized field and laboratory testing on civil engineering materials; c. utilizing modern surveying methods for land measurement and/or construction layout; d. determining forces and stresses in elementary structural systems; e. estimating material quantities for technical projects; and f

Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amy Craig, North Carolina State University; Lisa Bullard, North Carolina State University; Jeff Joines, North Carolina State University; Tom Miller, North Carolina State University; Carolyn Miller, North Carolina State University; Dianne Raubenheimer; George Rouskas, North Carolina State University; Larry Silverberg, North Carolina State University; Eric Wiebe, North Carolina State University

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Computers in Education

Simulation Conference and acts as the technical coordinator for the conference’s management system.Carolyn Miller, North Carolina State University Carolyn S. Miller is a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at NC State University. She received her M.S. in Computer Science and worked as a Member of the Technical Staff at Bell Telephone Laboratories and a Senior Digital Systems Engineer at General Electric before joining NC State University. Ms. Miller teaches introductory computer science classes and focuses on researching and integrating new teaching techniques into the classroom.Tom Miller, North Carolina State University Thomas Kenan Miller, III received the BA degree in Mathematics and

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Teaching Methods for the 21st Century: Part 2

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Savage, California Polytechnic State University

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Materials

, pp. 917-924.7. Muryanto, S., “Concept Mapping: An Interesting and Useful Learning Tool forChemical Engineering Laboratories,” Int. J. Engng. Ed., Vol. 22, No. 5, 2006, pp. 979-985.8. Evans, D. L., McNeill, B. W. and Beakley, G. C., “Design in Engineering Education:Past views and future directions,” Engineering Education, July/August, 1990, pp. 517-522.9. Dym, C. L., Engineering Design: A Synthesis of Views, Cambridge University Press,New York, 1994.10. Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: Handbook I: Cognitive Domain, Longman, NewYork, 1956.11. Safoutin, M. J., Atman, C. J., Adams, R., Rutar, T., Kramlich, J. C. and Fridley, J. L.,“A Design Attribute Framework for Course Planning and Learning Assessment,” IEEETransactions on Education, Vol

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ChE Poster Session

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Krantz, National University of Singapore

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Chemical Engineering

presentations such as a thesis defense,seminar for a job interview, and reports for work being done under contract or for an employer.3j. Acknowledgments SectionThe Acknowledgments should include any agency and grant or contract number that providedfunding for the research. The Acknowledgments should also include anyone who providedsignificant help such as other researchers in your laboratory, faculty members who provideduseful suggestions, and other technical and clerical personnel who provided special help.3k. ‘Thank You’ SlideThe ‘Thank You’ slide is a simple slide thanking the audience for their attention. It is a good ideato include your email address on this slide. This is particularly important if you are looking for apost-doctoral appointment

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Impacts of Public Policy on Engineering Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elizabeth Cady, National Academy of Engineering; Norman Fortenberry, National Academy of Engineering

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Engineering and Public Policy

to research facilities (e.g., library, laboratories, computational facilities, communications facilities) Page 13.891.9 • Rates of Research U library usage (on-line and in-person) by students and faculty at consortia within geographic region or non-research institution • Lab / office space allocation: amount of space allocated by dept. in tenured/ tenure track positions by rank; location, available resources • Undergraduate recruitment, matriculation, retention (also by nationality) • Students transferring schools (research/non-research; average over last five years) • Graduate student recruitment, matriculation, retention

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Experiential and Service Learning

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jim Chamberlain, Clemson University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

aclassroom setting but instead could be in the form of a field trip to a vendor’s installationor to an office or a laboratory. The purpose of the meeting is to tie together conceptualloose ends that the students may have regarding their design and to be able to refine thedesign based on professional “in the field” guidance and experience. The meeting withthe expert may lead to the need to collect different and/or more pieces of data. Thismeeting may also result in a new iteration producing additional design options and,consequently, more than one cost estimate.Cost estimate and design revision. The design module group refines their preliminarydesign based upon the expert’s recommendations and performs cost estimates on one ormore design options

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ERM Poster Session

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carl Lund, State University of New York at Buffalo

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Educational Research and Methods

: Students' reported learning gains. J. Eng. Education, 2001. 90(1): p. 123.19. Beaudoin, D.L. and D.F. Ollis, A product and process engineering laboratory for freshmen. J. Eng. Educa- tion, 1995. 84(3): p. 279.20. Masten, S., K.-C. Chen, J. Graulau, S.L. Kari, and K.-H. Lee, A Web-based and group learning environ- ment for introductory environmental engineering. J. Eng. Education, 2002. 91(1): p. 69.21. Maskell, D.L. and P.J. Grabau, A multidisciplinary cooperative problem-based learning approach to em- bedded systems design. IEEE Trans. Education, 1998. 41(2): p. 101.22. Vandebona, U. and M.M. Attard, A problem-based learning approach in a civil engineering curriculum. World Trans. Eng. Tech. Education, 2002. 1(1): p

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Fostering and Assessing Effective Teaming

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Senay Purzer; Dale Baker, Arizona State University; Chell Roberts, Arizona State University; Stephen Krause, Arizona State University

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Educational Research and Methods

York: Collier/Macmillan4 Johnson, David W., Johnson, Roger T., and Smith, Karl A. (1991). Cooperative learning: Increasing college faculty instructional productivity. ASHE-ERIC Report on Higher Education. Washington, DC: The George Washington University.5 Johnson, D., Johnson, R.& Holubec, E. (1998). Cooperation in the classroom. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.6 Taconis, R., Ferguson-Hessler M.G.M., & Broekkamp, H. (2001). Teaching Science Problem Solving: An Overview of Experimental Work. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 38(4), 442-468.7 She, H. (1999). Students’ knowledge construction in small groups in the seventh grade biology laboratory: Verbal communication and physical engagement. International Journal of

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Design: Content and Context

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Melnyk, United States Military Academy; Daisie Boettner, United States Military Academy

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Educational Research and Methods

standardsexpected in each section of the report. Figure 1: Rubric Example The use of rubrics, as described above is similar to the use described by Powe and Moorheadin their 2006 article on the use of rubrics to grade laboratory reports7. Their combined use ofquantitative and qualitative methods in their rubrics helped standardize the grading of reports byteaching assistants who each had to grade reports for a common course. In the same manner, thefaculty advisors in the senior design course each had to grade the design report for theirindividual team, while submitting that grade for a common course. An additional benefit thatPowe and Moorhead identify is that the use of rubrics in this manner shortened the time to

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Assessing the Efficacy of Non-traditional Programs

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Melani Plett, Seattle Pacific Univ; Donald Peter, Seattle Pacific University; Steven Parsons, Seattle Pacific University; Brad Gjerding, Seattle Pacific University

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Continuing Professional Development

institutionaland departmental issues as we move ahead with this powerful combination of technologies.MethodsVirtual Synchronous Classroom Hardware ConfigurationWe have two physical campus classrooms equipped for use as a VSC. One is a rather large(44’w x 30’d ) engineering laboratory (see appendix A). It contains 18 student workstations (forup to 36 students) equipped with a PC and electrical engineering lab equipment. The other is amore traditional classroom, but the student tables are surrounded by workstations at theperimeter of the room, thus this classroom is also larger than a typical classroom at ouruniversity.The classrooms also contain an instructor Podium station equipped with a PC (connected to avideo projector), a document camera and lab

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stacy Gleixner, San Jose State University; Elliot Douglas, University of Florida; Olivia Graeve, University of Nevada-Reno

, L. Vanasupa, T.T Orling, and L. Christensen, “Travelogue from the Materials World: A First Week Laboratory Activity”, ASEE Annual Conf. Proc., 3664 (2004).7. W. D. Callister, Fundamentals of Materials Science and Engineering: 6th Edition, John Wiley and Sons, (2001).8. PRIME website: http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/sgleixner/PRIME/9. M. Alley, M. Schreiber, and J. Muffo, “Pilot Testing of a New Design for Presentation Slides to Teach Science and Engineering,” 35th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conf., T1A-1 (2005).10. D. Stoeckel, “Nitinol Medical Devices and Implants”, Min. Invas. Ther. & Allied Technol., 9, p. 81 (2000).11. S. Gleixner, O. Graeve, E. Douglas, “Project Based Introductory

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ChE: Assessment

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ronald Terry, Brigham Young University; W. Vincent Wilding, Brigham Young University; Randy Lewis, Brigham Young University; Danny Olsen, Brigham Young University

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Chemical Engineering

asked to evaluate individual student’s abilities in these areas by providinga single composite score ranging from 1 (not proficient) to 4 (proficient). The composite score isbased on direct assessments obtained from rubrics or other quantifiable measures. The rubricused in the senior laboratory course has 39 components from which a written report is graded.Similarly, an oral communication rubric has 27 components. This extensive rubric providesdetailed feedback to each student. These scores are combined across the several classes involvedto provide a composite measure of proficiency for each student.The written and communication “soft” skills are often hard to track unless a grading rubric orsome other comprehensive measure is used. One method

Conference Session

Design Methodolgy

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rudolph Eggert, Boise State University

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Design in Engineering Education

presentations, written reporting, graphics, technicaldrawings, and presentation of engineering mathematics and numerical data. How we teachcommunication is also important such as having the appropriate mixture of lectures, activelearning, homework, projects and laboratories. Similarly, a series of progressive reinforcementsover the four year curriculum is ideal.This paper, however, will primarily focus on efforts to determine which design topics should betaught.2.0 Before ABET 2000In 1991, Dixon2 wrote a seminal article discussing the state of engineering design. He suggestedthat we broaden the scope of engineering design to include the entire product realization process(PRP) to include design and manufacturing processes that convert information

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Project and Model-Based Mathematics

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dennis Berkey, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Bogdan Vernescu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Mathematics

Financial Mathematics graduate program at WPI (www.wpi.edu/+math/Grad/profms.html)has been designed to lead students to the frontlines of the financial revolution of the new century.Coursework on mathematics and finance, computational laboratories, industrial internships, andproject work equip students with the knowledge, skills, and experience necessary for thequantitative positions in investment banks, securities houses, insurance companies, and moneymanagement firms. Mastery of mathematical models for risk and its relationship to returns,trading strategies, structured contracts, and derivative securities requires a strong mathematicalbackground. The program is built on collaborations between our faculty and the financialservices industry

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Capstone Design II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paris von Lockette, Rowan University; Eric Constans, Rowan University; Jennifer Courtney, Rowan University; Kevin Dahm, Rowan University; William Riddell, Rowan University; Roberta Harvey, Rowan University

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Design in Engineering Education

recover from errors – Error messages should be expressed in plain language (no codes), precisely indicate the problem, and constructively suggest a solution.Help and documentation – Even though it is better if the system can be used without documentation, it may be necessary to provide help and documentation. Any such information should be easy to search, focused on the user's task, list concrete steps to be carried out, and not be too large. Page 12.406.16References1 J. A. Newell, D. K. Ludlow, and S. P. K. Sternberg, "Progressive development of oral and written communicationskills across and integrated laboratory

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Computer Tools for Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vinod Lohani, Virginia Tech; Ricky Castles, Virginia Tech; Jenny Lo, Virginia Tech; Odis Griffin, Virginia Tech

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Computers in Education

Engineering Exploration (EngE1024).Jenny Lo, Virginia Tech JENNY L. LO is an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering Education in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech. She received her Ph.D. in chemical engineering at Carnegie Mellon and her B.S. in chemical engineering at Tulane University.Odis Griffin, Virginia Tech HAYDEN GRIFFIN is currently professor and head of the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. He holds BSME and MSME degrees from Texas Tech University and a Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics from VPI&SU. He had 13 years of experience in industry and government laboratories prior to joining Virginia Tech in 1985

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Engineering Professional Development for K-12 Teachers – II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Steve Shumway, Brigham Young University; Jared Berrett, Brigham Young University; Andy Swapp, Milford High School; Ronald Terry, Brigham Young University; Thomas Erekson, Western Illinois University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

while none were currently teaching pre-engineering subjects, each wasinterested in doing so in the future.The program schedule was finalized at the first session with all participants. It was difficult toset the schedule given the array of school responsibilities the teachers had (e.g., coaching Page 12.135.5softball, advising TSA). In addition, the teachers were concerned about being out of theirclassrooms/laboratories for eight days in their spring semester.Each of the eight one-day sessions began with a tour of various engineering research labs atBYU, including the virtual reality theater, friction stir welding research, Iso-Truss research lab