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Track 1: Technical Session 8: Cutting the Curb for Students with Disabilities Transitioning to Higher Education

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2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

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Seth Vuletich, Colorado School of Mines; Brianna B Buljung, Colorado School of Mines; Jamie Marie Regan, Colorado School of Mines

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CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

Brianna is the Teaching and Learning librarian at the Colorado School of Mines. She collaborates with faculty to design and implement information literacy throughout the curriculum. Prior to her work at the School of Mines, she was the Engineering and Computer Science Librarian at the US Naval Academy and a contract Reference Librarian assigned to the National Defense University. She earned her MLIS at the University of Denver in 2011.Ms. Jamie Marie Regan, Colorado School of Mines Jamie Regan is an undergraduate student in Electrical Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines. Her academic journey is intertwined with a personal and passionate dedication to advancing accessibility within STEM fields. Inspired by her

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International Division (INTL) Technical Session: International Programs and Curricula I

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jose Texier, LACCEI; Maria Mercedes Larrondo-Petrie, Florida Atlantic University; Laura Romero, Tecnologico de Monterrey ; Charles Anders Bazile, Florida Atlantic University; Jose Carlos Quadrado, Instituto Superior De Engenharia De Lisboa

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International Division (INTL)

services or plugins to comply with thehighest levels of privacy standards. The online form uses Netlify/NodeJS for the backend,and Firebase as its database to integrate with ENTER's secure current system. The softwaredesign of the simulation uses an object-oriented approach and follows security practices toavoid common vulnerabilities.ConclusionsThe ENTER simulation tool can inform the user whether they would qualify to beregistered as a Professional Engineering Educator in the ENTER registry and estimate thelevel of professional achievement they can document (Educator – 1, Effective Educator – 2,Outcomes-based Educator – 3, Scholarly Educator – 4, Education Researcher – 5, or SeniorEducation Researcher - 6). This simulation tool is in the process

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Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics Instruction

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen McClain, Baylor University; Christopher Smitherman, University of Alabama-Birmingham

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Mechanical Engineering

Thermodynamics, New York: Wiley and Sons, Fifth Edition, 2004.[2] Schmidt, P. S., O. A. Ezekoye, J. R. Howell, and D. K. Baker, Thermodynamics: An integrated Learning System, New York: Wiley and Sons, 2006.[3] “MathCAD,” http://www.mathcad.com/, 2005.[4] “MATLAB 7.0.1: The Language of Technical Computing MatLab,” http://www.mathworks.com/products/ matlab/, 2005.[5] “EES: Engineering Equation Solver,” http://www.fchart.com/ees/ees.shtml, 2004.[6] Hodge, B. K. and W. G. Steele, “Computational Paradigms in Undergraduate Mechanical Engineering Education,” Presented at the 2001 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Albuquerque, NM, June 2001

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2001 Annual Conference

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Robert Anderson; Paul Duesing; Marty Zoerner; Kevin Schmaltz

the past fiveacademic years, nearly 220 multidisciplinary engineering seniors have completed 36projects, controlling budgets totaling approximately $1.1 million.This paper describes our continuing effort to involve industry with engineering education.The projects are proposed, funded and ultimately delivered to industry. An industrycontact person is the leader in determining the goals, the acceptance criteria, and theproject requirements. Communication between faculty, industry contact person andstudents is vital to ensure success. The faculty advisor is a coach, consultant, andevaluator of the students. The students will not graduate until they meet the criteriaspecified by the customer, i.e. the industrial contact, as well as the

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2022 ASEE Illinois-Indiana Section Conference

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Pranav Bhounsule, The University of Illinois at Chicago; Cynthia Lima, University of Texas at San Antonio

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Diversity

middleschool. In Proceedings of the 47th ACM technical symposium on computing science education (pp. 552-557).[4] Chetty, J., & Barlow-Jones, G. (2018). Coding for girls: dismissing the boys club myth. In the 18th InternationalConference on Information, Communication Technologies in Education (ICICTE 2018).[5] Çakır, N. A., Gass, A., Foster, A., & Lee, F. J. (2017). Development of a game-design workshop to promoteyoung girls' interest towards computing through identity exploration. Computers & Education, 108, 115-130.[6] Denner, J. (2007). The Girls Creating Games Program: An innovative approach to integrating technology intomiddle school. Meridian: A Middle School Computer Technologies Journal, 1(10).[7] Denner, J., Werner, L., &

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Software Engineering Division (SWED) Technical Session #1

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Siddhant Sanjay Joshi, School of Engineering Education, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Preeti Mukherjee, Purdue University; Kirsten A. Davis, Purdue University; James C Davis, Purdue University

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Diversity

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Software Engineering Division (SWED)

an assistant professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. Her research explores the intentional design and assessment of global engineering programs, student development through experiential learning, and approaches for teaching and assessing systems thinking skills. Kirsten holds a B.S. in Engineering & Management from Clarkson University and an M.A.Ed. in Higher Education, M.S. in Systems Engineering, and Ph.D. in Engineering Education, all from Virginia Tech.Dr. James C Davis, Purdue University ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Introducing Systems Thinking as a Framework for Teaching and Assessing Threat Modeling

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Poster Sessions for Unit Operations Lab Bazaar and Tenure-Track Faculty

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Laura Coon, Washington State University; Paul B. Golter, Washington State University; Derek Allen Cline, Washington State University; David B. Thiessen, Washington State University; Bernard J. Van Wie, Washington State University

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Chemical Engineering

in Student Skills,” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 93, No. 2, pp. 153-160.2. Colbeck, C.L., Campbell, S.E., Bjorklund, S.A., 2000, “Grouping in the Dark: What College Students Learn from Group Projects,” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 71, No. 1, pp. 60-83.3. Ellis, T., 2004, “Animating to Build Higher Cognitive Understanding: A Model for Studying Multimedia Effectiveness in Education,” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 93, No. 1, pp. 59-64.4. Grimson, J., 2002, “Re-engineering the Curriculum for the 21st Century,” European Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 31-37.5. Olinger, D.J., Hermanson, J.C., 2002, “Integrated Thermal-Fluid Experiments in WPI’s Discovery Classroom,” Journal of

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Special Session Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the MATE International ROV Competition

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jill M. Zande, Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center

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Ocean and Marine

ideas for “next year,” while the older studentssolidify their knowledge and skills as they mentor the younger competitors. In this way, thecompetition again helps to expose middle and high school students to the schools and programswhere they can continue with their ROV projects and, more importantly, STEM education.The competition events consist of underwater missions and an engineering and communicationcomponent. The underwater mission tasks are modeled after real-world situations and howROVs are used to resolve them. For example, the 2010 missions centered on an underseavolcano and how scientists, engineers, and technicians develop and deploy instruments, collectgeological and biological samples, and use sensor technologies to understand the

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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 14: Introductory Programming Assessment, Plagiarism, Motivation, Engagement, and Textbooks

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Laura Alford, University of Michigan; Heather Rypkema, University of Michigan; Ryien Hosseini, University of Michigan; Megan Beemer, University of Michigan; Harsh Jhaveri, University of Michigan

of the baseline fora number of reasons including default masking of grades, inequitable access to technology,disruption of curriculum, and the inherent stress of an emergent pandemic.We analyzed the exam and BWA scores for two things: correlation between the two categoriesand whether the exams could be eliminated in favor of something like more frequent onlineassessments. To simulate “removing the exam component”, we set the percentage of the examscores on the final grade to zero and set the percentage of the BWA scores on the final grade toinclude the percentage of both the original BWA scores and the exam scores. The final studentgrades were then recalculated and analyzed for equity.Our preliminary analysis of the new assessment strategy

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Energy Projects and Laboratory Ideas

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Gerhart; Andrew Gerhart

paper are threefold. First, undergraduate students that have used theRankine Cycler were surveyed to assess the effectiveness of the device as a learning tool. Theresults of the survey can be applied so that the equipment is used in the undergraduatecurriculum in the best possible manner.Inevitably, when a power generation plant is scaled-down and it has few efficiency-enhancingcomponents (e.g. lack of feedwater heaters, etc.), energy losses in components will be magnified,substantially decreasing the cycle efficiency. Although the Rankine Cycler is a useful tool forteaching fundamentals of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and instrumentationsystems in an undergraduate laboratory, a comprehensive analysis of the equipment has not

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Assessment

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joanne Mathews, Illinois Institute of Technology; Daniel Ferguson, Illinois Institute of Technology; Margaret Huyck, Illinois Institute of Technology; Abhinav Pamulaparthy, Illinois Institute of Technology

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Educational Research and Methods

that the training sessions were an effective supplemental methodfor teaching the Learning Objectives knowledge. LO training is recommended to continue to beused and expanded if possible to more, if not all, IPRO teams.Hypothesis about overlapping content have been suggested by several sources and therefore it isbelieved that differentiated test scores will be found. Unfortunately, no evidence exists as shownin Tables 6 or 7, so far, that any major or curriculum covers the full LO content of an IPROcourse. Significant gains in a semester are demonstrated in acquisition of project managementknowledge regardless of year or major at least in this first semester of testing but these gains aredue to a poor test instrument BOS Fall 2005 not actual

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FPD 4: Peers and Perceptions

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeff Johnson, LeTourneau University; Alan D. Niemi, LeTourneau University; Matthew G. Green, LeTourneau University; Lauren Elise Gentry, LeTourneau University

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First-Year Programs

. Page 24.882.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Management and Assessment of a Successful Peer Mentor Program for Increasing Freshman Retention1.0 AbstractThere is no single magic bullet for the retention of freshman engineering students upon entranceinto a rigorous course of study required of today’s engineering curriculum. Rather it is a multi-faceted approach of strategies each designed to aid the transition from an often-times easy highschool experience to one in which a student is overwhelmed with the difficulty andresponsibilities of a full-time student.One such strategy that has been implemented at LeTourneau University is a peer mentoringprogram which pairs

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Wilk; Frank Wicks

Session 2633 Electric Utility Sponsored Energy Related Student Projects Frank Wicks and Richard Wilk Mechanical Engineering Department Union CollegeABSTRACT The industrial world is driven by an uncountable series of energy conversion processes.Engineering curriculums have been developed to provide students with the fundamentals toanalyze these processes in various courses such as physics, chemistry, thermodynamics,transfer, heating ventilation and air conditioning, electric machinery, combustion andthermal energy conversion, but it is also important

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Information and Network Security

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peng Li, East Carolina University; Tijjani Mohammed, East Carolina University; Lee Toderick, East Carolina University; Chengcheng Li, East Carolina University; Philip Lunsford, East Carolina University

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Information Systems

technology.Third, enrollments in our programs have increased significantly, especially in the distanceeducation sections, which has stretched laboratory resources to their limits, making it hard tomeet demands for remote labs. With virtual machine technology, it is possible to deploy adiversified virtual network lab at a minimal cost. The virtual machine technology permits rapidchanges, deployments, and adaptation of curriculum and laboratory experiences in step with the Page 13.80.2advances in technology. The purpose of this paper is to present the design and implementation ofa portable virtual network security lab, as part of our ongoing effort to

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Professional Skills and the Workplace

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Trevelyan, University of Western Australia

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Educational Research and Methods

paper point to the need for fundamental changes in engineeringeducation. The data reveal the importance of understanding human behavior: many of theaspects of engineering practice have evolved to control the incidence of human errors anddifferences in interpretation. Just as students currently gain a rigorous framework of ideas tohelp them think about technical issues and problems, they also need rigorous intellectualtreatment of human behavior. Engineers are human and rely on other people to achieve theirresults: this is fundamental to engineering practice. Relocating the human element to thecentre of engineering practice from its present position at the periphery is an essential pre-requisite to integrate studies of engineering practice in

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Course-Based Approaches to Entrepreneurship

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University; Donald Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

AC 2008-1506: CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING COURSE – STUDENTPERCEPTIONS OF CREATIVITY AND COMPARISONS OF CREATIVEPROBLEM SOLVING METHODOLOGIESAndrew Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University Andrew Gerhart is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Lawrence Technological University. He is actively involved in ASEE, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the Engineering Society of Detroit. He serves as Faculty Advisor for the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Student Chapter at LTU, and serves as chair for the LTU Leadership Curriculum Committee.Donald Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University Donald Carpenter is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Fred Lee; Connie Dillon; Arthur Breipohl

material for the two new key courses and asimulator that will be made available to other universities on the web. The paper consists of: abrief description of the changes that are taking place in the electrical energy industry; their effecton the demand for graduates; the curriculum that we are developing; and a description of the twocourses and the simulator that we are developing. We also briefly describe our experiments withdelivery methods in anticipation of placing material on the web.I. The Changing Electrical Energy IndustryThe introduction of competition is the most significant change that is affecting the sale andproduction of electric energy. On the sales side, energy companies will eventually compete in anation-wide market for

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First Year Programs Division Poster Session: The Best Place to Really Talk about First-Year Education

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary E. Goodwin, University of South Florida; John Pharo Morgan III, University of South Florida; Yan Wang, University of South Florida; Michelle King, University of South Florida College of Engineering; Blake A Burton, University of South Florida

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

orientation course consisting of thefollowing requirements:  Meeting with an advisor early on (first 3 weeks) to establish a relationship and to handle any current or potential problems  Learning about campus resources such as tutoring  Learning about the curriculum requirements and registration for the spring semester  Provide information regarding stress, time management, study skills for engineering  Introduced to student engineering organizations clubs  Introduced to the engineering majors in the college  Required to attend the career fair to help clarify their goals and interests, to help them learn more about engineering, and to prepare them for internships  Write a resume for preparation for applying

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Kurt C. Gramoll

environment.IntroductionThe most promising feature of multimedia and network-based media is its ability to displaycomplex information or concepts in an accessible and easy-to-understand animated graphicalform that is managed by the user. This is obviously well-suited for many educational Page 4.491.1applications, but it is particularly attractive for use in engineering education where abstractmathematical models and fundamental physical principles must be employed to solve verypractical problems. One of the most difficult issues to deal with in the engineering curriculum,especially at the introductory levels, is the process of abstraction of real and practical

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 12

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Xiao Ge, Stanford University; Mark Schar, Stanford University; Helen L. Chen, Stanford University; George Toye; Sheri D. Sheppard, Stanford University

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

innovation, and the tension between design engineering and business management cognitive styles. To encourage these thinking patterns in young engineers, Mark has developed a Scenario Based Learning curriculum that attempts to blend core engineering concepts with selected business ideas. Mark is also researches empathy and mindfulness and its impact on gender participation in engineering education. He is a Lecturer in the School of Engineering at Stanford University and teaches the course ME310x Product Management and ME305 Statistics for Design Researchers. Mark has extensive background in consumer products management, having managed more than 50 consumer driven businesses over a 25-year career with The Procter &

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Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 1

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert A Ross, University of Detroit Mercy

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Engineering Physics and Physics

computation or quantum mechanics requires some knowledge ofDirac notation. Coverage of this is sorely lacking in current modern physics textbooks. We haverevised our modern physics course to include some quantum computing projects. Theseintroductory projects can easily be integrated into the curriculum since our engineering studentshave familiarity with MATLAB. The MATLAB environment is designed to handle vectors andmatrices – the fundamental tools of quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics is introduced bydescribing entanglement from the very beginning. Mermin’s device is used as a platform to delveinto the extremely peculiar nature of quantum mechanics.4This paper is organized as follows: first we describe Mermin’s device, next we explain howDirac

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Mathematics Division Technical Session 1

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emre Tokgoz, Quinnipiac University

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Mathematics

Paper ID #21381Engineering Majors’ Cognitive Function Differentiation AbilityDr. Emre Tokgoz, Quinnipiac University Emre Tokgoz is currently the Director and an Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering at Quinnipiac University. He completed a Ph.D. in Mathematics and another Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineer- ing at the University of Oklahoma. His pedagogical research interest includes technology and calculus education of STEM majors. He worked on several IRB approved pedagogical studies to observe under- graduate and graduate mathematics and engineering students’ calculus and technology knowledge since

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Energy Laboratory Development

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Philip Gerhart, University of Evansville; Andrew Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

major Midwestern coal mining region, on theOhio river, and coal-fired steam power plants are an integral part of the engineering landscape.Some of the UE students have had co-op or internship experience at a power plant. As a result,the UE students, in general, seem to be more “power plant savvy”. Industry in Southfield,Michigan (i.e., Detroit) is dominated, not by the Rankine cycle, but by different types of powercycles; the Otto and Diesel cycles take lead roles in the Southeastern Michigan engineeringlandscape because of the auto industry. LTU students tend to be less interested in coal-firedsteam power generation and more interested in internal combustion engines.As shown in Table 7, the UE students were more comfortable with the Rankine

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TIME 4: Pedagogy

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Odis Griffin

proven to be a significant facility and an integral part of our educationalprograms, and we believe it is unique. Students who participate in the design realization projectshoused in the Ware Lab are highly recruited and have no difficulty in becoming contributors inreal-world hardware projects. In addition to the project experience, the large number of toursthrough the Ware Lab, typically several per week, offers the students numerous opportunities tomake short presentations on their projects, thus developing their speaking and presentation skills. Page 9.660.10 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

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2008 GSW

Authors

Gary Rubendall; Sergio Chacon; Mequanint Moges

Technology Laboratory and the College ofTechnology’s test bed as well as junior and senior level laboratories in the Department of EngineeringTechnology of the University of Houston’s College of Technology. His main research interests areconverged networks, voice over IP, and network security.MEQUANINT MOGESDr. Moges joined the faculty at the University of Houston, College of Technology in august 2005, where heis presently an instructional assistant professor at the Department of Engineering Technology. Dr. Mogeshas taught various courses at various levels such as ones basic circuits, embedded systems, sensornetworks, data communications, computer networks and telecommunications. He is also actively involvedin curriculum development and revision

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ASCE Liasion Committee Presents: All Things ASCE

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rubaya Rahat, Florida International University; Mohamed Elzomor, P.E., Florida International University

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Diversity

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

Constr. Challenges a Flat World, Proc. 2012 Constr. Res. Congr., pp. 2129–2138, 2012, doi: 10.1061/9780784412329.214.[16] K. E. Björnberg, I. B. Skogh, and E. Strömberg, “Integrating social sustainability in engineering education at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology,” Int. J. Sustain. High. Educ., vol. 16, no. 5, pp. 639–649, 2015, doi: 10.1108/IJSHE-01-2014-0010.[17] R. Rahat, V. Ferrer, P. Pradhananga, and M. ElZomor, “Developing an effective front-end planning framework for sustainable infrastructure projects,” Int. J. Constr. Manag., vol. 0, no. 0, pp. 1–18, 2022, doi: 10.1080/15623599.2022.2105282.[18] ISI, “Envision: Sustainable Infrastructure Framework Guidance Manual.” Institute for

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Assessment, Course, and Curricular Development

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Smitesh Bakrania, Rowan University; Austin Carrig, Rowan University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

Paper ID #15425Touching Water: Exploring Thermodynamic Properties with Clausius AppDr. Smitesh Bakrania, Rowan University Dr. Smitesh Bakrania is an associate professor in Mechanical Engineering at Rowan University. He re- ceived his Ph.D. from University of Michigan in 2008 and his B.S. from Union College in 2003. His research interests include combustion synthesis of nanoparticles and combustion catalysis using nanopar- ticles. He is also involved in developing educational apps for instructional and research purposes.Mr. Austin Carrig, Rowan University I am currently a student at Rowan University studying mechanical

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 7

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Rodney Boehm, Texas A&M University College of Engineering; Michael Beyerlein, Texas A&M University; Kiersten Potter, Student Engineers' Council; Jiacheng Lu; Lori L. Moore, Texas A&M University

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Diversity

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Paper ID #33391A Virtual Internship ExperienceMr. Rodney Boehm, Texas A&M University College of Engineering Rodney Boehm is the Director of Engineering Entrepreneurship and an Associate Professor of Practice in the Texas A&M University College of Engineering. He has broad industry experiences, including over 35 years in all aspects of the telecommunications industry (sales, marketing, manufacturing, business de- velopment, and technical design), the creation of a telecommunications standard (SONET - Synchronous Optical Network) for the fiber optics industry that is still in use internationally over 30 years

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Materials Division Technical Session 3

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hui Shen, Ohio Northern University; Vishal R. Mehta, Ohio Northern University

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Materials

Science is a required course for freshmen inMechanical Engineering and an elective for other engineering majors. The course is the firstengineering course for most engineering students in the college and therefore it is challenging toexplain some concepts and discuss the application of course materials in their future study andcareer. It is well known that project based learning activities motivates the students to learn newconcepts faster. To help students engage in the class, a comprehensive term-long project wasdeveloped, which combines material testing, simple design for engineering applications, materialselection for the design, and testing of the failure of the designed structure. In this project,students were required to select materials

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2023 ASEE GSW

Authors

Xishuang Dong; Lijun Qian; Xiangfang Li; Pamela Obiomon; Yujian Fu P.E.; Zhigang Xiao; Shujun Yang; Nelson Barnes Jr

. Programming is an abstract thinking process that involves critical thinking andcomputational design. Without effective programming references, it is challenging for students tolearn programming, as well as for instructors to teach programming.To overcome these challenges, this paper proposed developing on-line personalized adaptive learning(PAL) tools through integrating state-of-the-art pedagogies with deep learning technologies toenhance programming skills of engineering students, especially at HBCUs. PAL is an emergingpedagogical approach enabled by smart learning environments. AI techniques such as machinelearning have been successfully applied to improve the recommendation satisfaction by identifyingPAL patterns in online education and