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Track 4 - Session II - Student and Curriculum Development II

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2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Nimir Elbashir, Texas A&M University at Qatar; Hamid R. Parsaei P.E., Texas A&M University at Qatar; Elfatih E Elmalik, Texas A&M University at Qatar

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Student and Curriculum Development

(IRB). This outcome of this survey is expected to give usclear assessment of the usefulness of this research experience in terms of the knowledge studentsgained in specific research topic, the skills they developed during the research course, whetherthis experience positively impact students’ academic performance and help them to identify andfind their future job. Furthermore, this survey will also be distributed to our graduates who arecurrently working in industry or in graduate school for the past five years to see whether thisexperience helped them in their career specifically at the start up. In order to ensure accuratefeedback from3. Industry and Academia Interface: A Case Study from Texas A&M at Qatar’s Fuel Characterization

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Training and Mentoring of Graduate Teaching Assistants

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nikitha Sambamurthy, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jeremi S London, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jeeyeon Hahn, Purdue University; Jiabin Zhu, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica Farmer Cox, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Graduate Studies

Director of the Engineering Leadership Minor. She obtained a B.S. in mathemat- ics from Spelman College, a M.S. in industrial engineering from the University of Alabama, and a Ph.D. in Leadership and Policy Studies from Peabody College of Vanderbilt University. Teaching interests relate to the professional development of graduate engineering students and to leadership, policy, and change in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education. Primary research projects explore the preparation of engineering doctoral students for careers in academia and industry and the development of engineering education assessment tools. She is a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career (CA- REER) award winner and is a

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Binod Tiwari

data, and prepare scientific presentations; which would not have been possibleotherwise. The students obtained excellent information to write in their plan of study whilesubmitting their applications for admission in the universities. In addition, they could contact theauthor anytime in their career, whenever they need a reference for future use. More importantly,the community college and high school students received an exposure to university leveleducation and research, which not only motivated them to pursue higher education but alsohelped them to streamline their academic goal. The cohort group 2 students are presented inFigure 5.Figure 5: Second cohort group: 2 high school students and 3 community college students. Proceedings of

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Assessment of Community Engagement

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nathan E Canney P.E., University of Colorado Boulder; Tess Bowling, University of Colorado at Boulder; Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Community Engagement Division

F 10 4/4/2/0 0/5/5The distribution of interview methods and demographic breakdown of the sample population are Page 23.724.3in Table 1. Three different interview methods were used to encourage conversation with thestudents. The first method was semi-structured interviews, with questions about why thestudents chose engineering as a major, what they hoped their career would look like, how theydefined social responsibility, what experiences in their life had influenced that view, if anyclasses or projects had been particularly formative with respect to their view of socialresponsibility, what it meant to them

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Themes in Renewable Energy and ET

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Immanuel Edinbarough P.E., University of Texas, Brownsville

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Engineering Technology

award to UTB, increased the capacity of theuniversity’s technical curriculum by adding to, and expanding upon, existing courses; and byutilizing existing learning centers to offer a green-focused training curriculum. Students can earna six-month career technical training certificate (co-listed for credit or non-credit) or a one-yearcertificate that can be directly applied to jobs in the growing fields of energy efficiency andrenewable energy. The six-month training certificates may be applied in full towards the one-year certificates. Industry-recognized certifications are included, where possible, as an outcome.The certificate programs also set the foundation for students who wish to build their credentials,by allowing credits to directly

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society (LEES) Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ashlea Noelle Krupa, Pennsylvania State University; Melissa Marshall, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Joanna K. Garner, Old Dominion University; Christine Haas, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Johanna Gretchen Hatzell, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

about their gender, plansafter high school, and intended careers. The questionnaire had students rank, on a scale from 1(strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree), four questions regarding the Engineering Ambassadorpresentation on their opinions of engineering. The questions were as follows: (1) This presentation helped me better understand what engineering is (2) This presentation has made me think about engineering as a career option (3) Engineering is a profession that makes a difference in the world (4) Engineering is important to our health, happiness, and safety.The questionnaire had two open-ended questions asking students how the presentation changedtheir opinion of engineering and what from the presentation

Conference Session

The D/M/A of CE

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joshua M Frey, Elizabethtown College; Sara A. Atwood, Elizabethtown College

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Community Engagement Division

projects.There are a variety of approaches to outreach, but those that involve undergraduate engineeringstudents accomplish two goals: 1) encouraging more K12 students to consider engineering bybreaking stereotypes, and 2) involving the undergraduate engineering students in meaningfulcommunity engagement, which they will hopefully continue throughout their careers. There are several reasons that involving undergraduates in outreach is particularlyeffective, primarily because they can break the stereotypes of engineers that most K12 studentshave in their minds. Obama administration officials have met with business executives andschool deans in order to better understand the barriers to creating more engineers, which wereidentified as scientists

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Supporting Diversity in Engineering

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Douglas Edwards, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jeremy Lingle; Jessica D Gale, CEISMC Georgia Institute of Technology

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Engineering Tools (MINDSET), a high school operations researchcurriculum developed through a partnership between North Carolina State University, Universityof North Carolina Charlotte, and Wayne State University5. Topics of the MIG mathematicscourse include linear programming, critical path method, binomial distribution modeling, qualitycontrol, and queuing theory.The second high school course involved in the project is the Appropriate and Alternative EnergyTechnologies (AAET) Career Technical and Agricultural Education (CTAE) course in the stateof Georgia that is part of the state’s Engineering and Technology pathway. The AAET course isfor junior and senior-level students who have taken requisite engineering and technology coursesthat enable them to

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Aerospace Division Technical Session 5

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dennis K. McLaughlin, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Sven Schmitz, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Irene B Mena, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Aerospace

with interviews in focus groups were used for data collection. The benefits for theundergraduate students related to their future careers are addressed in the paper along with thedifficulties encountered in the group dynamics, communication skills, and uneven timecommitments.IntroductionIntegrating teaching and research in senior-level coursework in Aerospace Engineering hasevolved over the past several years. Research has shown that, regardless of the particular type of Page 23.1038.2research, undergraduate students benefit from these experiences in different ways. Not only are

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NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leyla F Conrad, Georgia Institute of Technology; Gary S. May, Georgia Institute of Technology; JillL L Auerbach, Georgia Institute of Technology

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

fellow of AAAS and the IEEE. Dr. May created the Summer Undergraduate Research in Engineering/Science (SURE) program, for which he has been granted $2.3 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Through SURE, he annually hosts minority students to perform research at Georgia Tech in the hopes that they will pursue a graduate degree. More than 73% of SURE participants enroll in graduate school. Dr. May is also the creator/director of the Facilitating Academic Careers in Engineering and Science (FACES) program, for which he has been granted over $10 million from NSF to double the number of African American Ph.D. recipients produced by Georgia Tech. Over the duration of FACES, 373 minority students have

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Trends in Engineering Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hanjun Xian, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Krishna Madhavan, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Educational Research and Methods

Super- computing Education Program 2006 and was the curriculum director for the Supercomputing Education Program 2005. In January 2008, he was awarded the NSF CAREER award for work on transforming en- gineering education through learner-centric, adaptive cyber-tools and cyber-environments. He was one of 49 faculty members selected as the nation’s top engineering educators and researchers by the US National Academy of Engineering to the Frontiers in Engineering Education symposium. Page 23.1110.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Studying Factors that

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Undergraduate Student Issues II

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nadia M Alhasani, The Petroelum Institute

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Women in Engineering

replaced with numerous pioneering womenmoving through the career ladder at a very rapid speed.A second important document, the Abu Dhabi Economic Vision 20302, focuses on developing aknowledge-based economy. The document received advice and input from developmentconsultants from Norway, Ireland and New Zealand; specifically, studying these countries’experiences in oil production and recovery, diversified knowledge-based economy, and an exportbase industry respectively. The document states that “the expectation was the creation of a long-term roadmap for economic progress for the Emirate through the establishment of a commonframework aligning all policies and plans and fully engaging the private sector in theirimplementation.”The Abu Dhabi Economic

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2013 ERC

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Mary Galvin

and Groups, 134.03 142.54 Fac/Instr Facilities/Instr 55.864 51.06 CAREER CAREER, 20.32 23.79 57% to Individual Investigators

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FPD 2: Retention

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anant R. Kukreti, University of Cincinnati; Kristen Strominger, University of Cincinnati - School of Energy, Environmental, Biological and Medical Engineering; Urmila Ghia, University of Cincinnati

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First-Year Programs

project targetsrecruitment and retention of engineering ethnic minorities, women, and economicallydisadvantaged and/or First Generation college-bound students. The strategies include: cohortbuilding, networking, and pathway to graduate school. Cohort building includes buildingproductive academic relationships among students, between students and faculty, and betweenstudents and the university administration. The networking strategies include building andupholding a professional network with all people the students meet within their education andfuture career field, such as advisors, faculty members from whom they take classes, professors intheir major, internship supervisors, employers or administrators, and throughvolunteer/community activities

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rigoberto Chinchilla, Eastern Illinois University

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Engineering Ethics

committees at EIU and has been awarded several research grants in his career. Page 23.294.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Collaboration between Private Sector and Academia: Are We Compromising Our Engineering Programs?Abstract A central theme in the past ASEE Main Plenary in San Antonio, Texas,was the need to prepare our students for an “effective industrial practice.” Mostpanelists stressed the fact that “nowadays companies do not want to spend toomuch in training.” The direct implication at the end of the plenary was thatacademia was somehow “obligated” to supply

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Methods, Techniques, and New Programs in Graduate Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dominic R. Primé, Arizona State University; Bianca L. Bernstein, Arizona State University; Amy K. Way, Villanova University; Liza Cohen Hita Hita, Arizona State University; T Michael Liddell, CareerWISE, Arizona State University; Arti R. Sarma, Arizona State University; Jennifer M Bekki, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus

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Graduate Studies

visitors to the site with a unique opportunity to engage thematerial for quick answers to vexing questions or to learn essential and advanced skills that maybe used now and throughout the entirety of their careers. Page 23.427.2IntroductionProjects in the interdisciplinary CareerWISE research program, supported by the NationalScience Foundation, have two goals: (1) to better understand and explain the interplay betweenthe person and environmental conditions that affects attrition amongst students enrolled inengineering and sciences graduate programs, and (2) to strengthen personal and interpersonalskills identified as significant in assisting women

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Materials Division Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter R Hondred, Iowa State University; Denise Crawford, Iowa State University; Debbie Ann Victor, Des Moines Independent Schools; Michael R. Kessler, Iowa State University

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Materials

, talking and showing young people what it is thatyour work can mean, and what it means to you […] to thinking about new creative ways to engage youngpeople in science and engineering,” – words from President Obama at the National Academy of Scienceson the 27th of April 2009 as he urged the scientific community to find ways to cultivate the nextgeneration of scientists and engineers. A task that provides some hurdles considering these words came inthe wake of growing concern for the lack of students pursuing degrees and careers in STEM (Science,Technology, Engineering and Math) related fields. According to the National Center for EducationalStatistics, students who perform at or above the proficiency level in 8th grade science is fewer than 1 outof

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NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary R. Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University; Armando A. Rodriguez, Arizona State University; Anita Grierson, Arizona State University; Richard A. Hall Jr., Cochise College; Phil Blake McBride, Eastern Arizona College; John H Bailey, Eastern Arizona College; Rakesh Pangasa, Arizona State University; Clark Vangilder, Central Arizona College; Russell Cox

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

areas of recruitment and retention. A SWE and ASEE Fellow, she is a frequent speaker on career opportunities and diversity in engineering.Dr. Armando A. Rodriguez, Arizona State University Prior to joining the ASU Electrical Engineering faculty in 1990, Dr. Armando A. Rodriguez worked at MIT, IBM, AT&T Bell Laboratories and Raytheon Missile Systems. He has also consulted for Eglin Air Force Base, Boeing Defense and Space Systems, Honeywell and NASA. He has published over 200 technical papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings–over 60 with students. He has authored three engineering texts on classical controls, linear systems, and multi-variable control. Dr. Rodriguez has given over 70 invited

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Training and Workforce Needs in the Energy Sector

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hayrettin B Karayaka, Western Carolina University; Mehrube Mehrubeoglu, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

weighed equally to determine the overall student eligibility ranking. Thecandidates were later contacted with official scholarship offer letters. The selection of fivecandidates out of top nine was realized in three rounds of contacting of two weeks of timeperiods. The recipients included four incoming freshmen and one existing university student.Finally, to implement an evaluation plan with the purpose of measuring this project’s earlyimpact in attracting and retaining students for careers in nuclear power, a first semester intakesurvey of not only award candidates but their peers recruited into the Engineering andEngineering Technology program was conducted. In this paper, we discuss the details of thisprogram as it was implemented in the first

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2013 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Alan Wheatley; David Baglee; Mike Knowles; Alastair Irons

+ required, a skills gap islikely to occur and this is where UK universities can make a difference.Here are some of the recommendations arising from the Engineering UK 2013 study [1, 3]:- • A two-fold increase in the number of engineering graduates. This is vital to meet the demand for future engineering graduates and to meet the shortfall in physics teachers and engineering lecturers needed to inspire future generations of talented engineers. • A doubling of the numbers of young people studying GCSE physics as part of triple sciences and a growth in the numbers of students studying physics A level to match those studying maths. • The provision of (face-to-face) robust and consistent careers information advice

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Capstone and Senior Design Projects Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Byron G. Garry, South Dakota State University

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Engineering Technology

of Previous Experience and Attitudes on Capstone Project AchievementAbstractThis research was undertaken to see if there are any prior experiences or attitudes that studentsbring into the senior Capstone course that correlate with group Capstone project success. Avariety of assessment techniques were used to obtain both quantitative measurements andqualitative indicators in an attempt to find common factors students have coming in to the coursesequence that affect how well the projects succeed. There were several self-assessments by thestudents themselves, including pre-course survey of satisfaction with their achievement of andthe importance to their career of all ABET-ETAC Criterion 3 Student Outcomes, a

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"How Do We Compare?" - Students, Case Studies, and Learning Approaches

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joel J. Versypt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Ashlee N. Ford Versypt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Chemical Engineering

Paper ID #7257Mapping Rural Students’ STEM Involvement: Case Studies of Chemical En-gineering Undergraduate Enrollment in the States of Illinois and KansasMr. Joel J. Versypt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Joel J. Versypt is a recent graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a master’s degree in Higher Education Administration and Leadership. He also holds bachelor’s degrees in Psychol- ogy and Biblical Studies from Judson University. At the University of Illinois, Joel taught two courses, Introduction to Psychology and Career Theory & Practice, and worked in university housing. His

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Computers and Learning

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hoda Baytiyeh, American University of Beirut

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Computers in Education

week of internet use and Assist in preparing exams; 28% student’s exam performanceTo examine the impact of internet use on their learning, engineering students were asked to rate22 items reflecting aspects of academic and non-academic skills that are needed for the pursuit ofan engineering career. The 22 Likert-scaled items revealed a reliability of 0.913. Descriptivestatistics were calculated to obtain the measures of central tendency as well as the measures ofvariability for each of the identified items. An Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) was employedto the data to determine which of the 22 items formed related subsets. EFA was

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Student Enrollment, Attendance, Retention, and Graduation in Engineering Technology Programs

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christina R Scherrer, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Engineering Technology

BRIGE grant. Details about the outreach program, as well asquantitative assessment of the impact on the high school students‟ perceptions of engineering,can be found in Scherrer (2012)12. In this paper we report on the impact performing the outreachhas had on the engineering technology students performing the outreach. Specifically, we studyhow their participation has affected their interest in remaining in an engineering technologymajor and career, their likelihood of going to graduate school, and their interest in K-12 STEMeducation.Ten of the eleven undergraduate students performing the outreach were engineering technologymajors (the eleventh is an engineering major) and all but one were from underrepresented groupsin engineering. The

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FPD 9: First-Year Engineering Courses, Part III: Research, Sustainability, and Professionalism

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leonardo Bedoya-Valencia, Colorado State University, Pueblo; Ding Yuan, Colorado State University - Pueblo; Jane M. Fraser, Colorado State University, Pueblo

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First-Year Programs

disagree disagree Control Group Experiment Group n = 20 n = 21 Figure 1. Students’ answers to attitude question 1 in the pre-survey Page 23.726.5Similarly, for the remaining 4 attitude questions there is no statistical difference between the twogroups. It is important to note that 9 out of 20 students (45%) in the control group disagree orstrongly disagree with the statements “People should be willing to make economic choices for abetter environment” and “My career choices should

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First-Year Programs (FPD) Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Anne Stephan, Clemson University; Edward Randolph Collins Jr. P.E., Clemson University; Chris Porter, Clemson University

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First-Year Programs

28% Mechanical EngineeringAt the beginning of the Friday Tour, all guests report to Holtzendorff Hall for the 12:40 pm start,which is the home to both General Engineering (GE) and OUR. Guests are registered and gatherin a 150-seat auditorium for a presentation by GE; additional lecture halls are used during busytimes of the semester. A packet of CES information is given to all prospective students duringcheck-in. GE faculty conduct a 20-minute presentation to all guests, as all freshmen and transferstudents wishing to pursue a degree in engineering initially begin their collegiate career in GE,about the philosophy, curriculum, teaching methods, advising, and enrichment opportunitiesoffered in GE and the College

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New Approaches in Engineering

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ishbah Cox, Purdue University; Monica Farmer Cox, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Minorities in Engineering

from Spelman College, a M.S. in industrial engineering from the University of Alabama, and a Ph.D. in Leadership and Policy Studies from Peabody College of Vanderbilt University. Teaching interests relate to the professional development of graduate engineering students and to leadership, policy, and change in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education. Primary research projects explore the preparation of engineering doctoral students for careers in academia and industry and the development of engineering education assessment tools. She is a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career (CA- REER) award winner and is a recipient of a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

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Integration of Manufacturing and Society

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jaby Mohammed, Petroleum Institute

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Manufacturing

that they learn in the classroom, to introduce engineeringto students who may not have initially been drawn to engineering. The industry engagement alsoserves as the medium to reinforce models of learning which will be useful for students when theydecide on the career choice and professional workforce. Also in this paper authors would showhow they are able to incorporate social and community issues where the students use class roomknowledge and hands on experience to get to solutions, which may be difficult to show in aclassroom setting for a technical subject.The paper will also address how the engineering focus group at the Kentucky GovernorsScholars programs with the manufacturing industry engagement empowers students to: • Apply

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Sustainability and engineering education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Mueller PE P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; John Aidoo, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Environmental Engineering

how sustainability principles relate totheir intended engineering major. By introducing sustainable design principles early in theiracademic career, students can apply these principles throughout the remainder of their higher-level courses. In a freshman introduction to design course, a more structured strategy to teachingsustainable design was implemented to incorporate sustainability principles early in the civilengineering curriculum. The purpose at this stage in student learning was to increase students’awareness of sustainable design through the introduction to sustainability concepts, such as thetriple bottom line, life-cycle assessment, and carbon footprint, through discussion of concrete asa construction material and case studies of

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Challenges in Engineering, Models in Professional Programs, Capstone Design and Function Generator for Educational Environment

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Aidoo, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Shannon M. Sipes, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; James H. Hanson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Matthew D. Lovell P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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International

-international, 73 domestic; representing a 56% response rate).The goal was tocontact these students after graduation to assess the impact of international design experience ontheir professional career and growth. The conclusions drawn from this study were published byAidoo et al6 and are: • Those that did international design projects are much more likely to undertake international trips to do humanitarian work. • Student satisfaction with senior design is very high and is influenced by completing a site visit. • Satisfactions with international and domestic projects are about the same. • Student interest in humanitarian work is high regardless of the type of project they worked on (i.e. international or domestic