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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Cheng Chen; John DeAndreis; Peter Moala; Agustin Robles; Jose Valdovinos; Qiming Zeng; Amelito G. Enriquez; Wenshen Pong; Hamid Shanasser; Hao Jiang; Hamid Mahmoodi

-longengineering design experience early in their academic career by participating in capstone designcourses for graduating seniors; (4) to strengthen existing faculty relationship with NASA Ames,and establish new collaborative relationships among two-year and four-year engineering faculty,and NASA Ames Research Center; (5) to increase the number of academically preparedcommunity college students transferring to four-year institutions as engineering majors; (6) toimprove academic success of engineering students from underrepresented groups by providingacademic support and mentoring; and (7) to increase the number of minority students pursuingadvanced degrees in STEM fields.Summer Intern Project DescriptionFor the second year of the project in summer 2012

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CIP Division Technical Session 1

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Charles E. Baukal Jr. P.E., John Zink Co. LLC; Geoffrey L Price, University of Tulsa; Geoffrey D. Silcox, University of Utah; Michael Newton, University of Utah, Chemical Engineering Department; Terry L Phipps

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College Industry Partnerships

side-by-side with engineering professionals to see how theprinciples learned in class are applied in actual practice.13,14 Industry sponsors senior designprojects to produce some type of product of interest to them while simultaneously educatingstudents by allowing them to apply their knowledge and skills to an actual problem.13 Someuniversities have used industry to help teach senior design courses as part of capstone projects,15where these adjunct instructors are sometimes referred to as “Professors of Practice.”16 Industrycan sponsor research projects with faculty that also include student workers and can also providefacilities for students to conduct research if these are not available at the university. Industry canprovide formal mentors

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Community Engagement Division Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bowa George Tucker, UMass Lowell; David O Kazmer, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University; Chris Swan, Tufts University; Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Kurt Paterson P.E., Michigan Technological University; Annie Soisson, Tufts University

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Community Engagement Division

; Architectural Engineering (CEAE). She is currently the associate chair for Undergrad- uate Education in CEAE and has served as the ABET assessment coordinator since 2008. She began incorporating service-learning (SL) projects into the capstone design course for environmental engineer- ing in 2001. This began her journey to determine how to rigorously assess the learning outcomes for students who worked on SL projects as compared to other types of projects in the course. Her engineer- ing education research interests include students’ attitudes and knowledge about sustainable engineering, engineering ethics, and attracting and retaining women in engineering.Prof. Kurt Paterson P.E., Michigan Technological University Kurt

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Instrumentation Technical Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mohammad Rafiq Muqri, DeVry University, Pomona; Robert Alfaro

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Instrumentation

Paper ID #7789Building Wireless Sensor Networks with ZigbeeDr. Mohammad Rafiq Muqri, DeVry University, PomonaRobert Alfaro Page 23.263.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Building Wireless Sensor Networks with ZigbeeThe microprocessor sequence courses are among the important and challenging courses thatstudents take in the electronics, computer, and biomedical engineering curriculum; these coursesalso lay the foundation for capstone senior projects. The practical, but abstract, programmingconcepts in embedded

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Beyond the Classroom: Summer and Scholarship Programs to Engage Minorities

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Wenshen Pong, San Francisco State University; Nilgun Melek Ozer, San Francisco State University; Hamid Mahmoodi, San Francisco State University; Hao Jiang, San Francisco State University; Cheng Chen, San Francisco State University; A. S. (Ed) Cheng, San Francisco State University

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Minorities in Engineering

Million Additional College Graduates with Degrees in Science,Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics,” indicates that the United States needs to produceone million additional STEM professionals in the next decade in order to retain its historicalpreeminence in science and technology.9 The report proposes that addressing the retentionproblem in the first two years of college is the most promising and cost-effective strategy toaddress this need. Strategies that have been proven effective in increasing the retention andsuccess of minority students in science and engineering include introducing context inintroductory courses,10 capstone courses and projects,11 alternative instructional strategies,12 andsummer programs.13-19 Although proven to be a

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Undergraduate Student Issues: Persistence

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary Moriarty, National Science Foundation; Susannah Howe, Smith College; Elena Rose Yasinski, Carnegie Mellon University

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Women in Engineering

serving as project director and principal investigator for multiple grants through the U.S. Department of Education and the NSF. Much of her work has focused on developing programs that fostered Universal Design for Learn- ing in higher education. Her doctorate is in Educational Policy, Research, and Administration from the University of Massachusetts.Prof. Susannah Howe, Smith College Susannah Howe is the Design Clinic Director in the Picker Engineering Program at Smith College, where she coordinates and teaches the capstone engineering design course. Her current research focuses on innovations in engineering design education, particularly at the capstone level. She is also involved with efforts to foster design

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Building BIM into Construction Curricula

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Arundhati Ghosh, Arizona State University; Kristen Parrish PhD, Arizona State University; Allan Dee Chasey, Del E Webb School of Construction, Arizona State University

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Construction

based scenarios for simulating Collaboration, interaction and Management common Project Management issues faced preparing for real life Capstone during pre-construction and construction challenges faced in the industry Table 2 - Core and BIM Concepts in the existing curriculumVertical IntegrationThe core concept of vertical integration is to share knowledge between different levels ofexpertise - allowing students to gain an appreciation for certain skills and the academy to deliveran education that is holistic and integrated. It mirrors the practices of the construction industrywhere alliances are formed between experts

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Distance Education and Engineering Workforce Professional Development

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kim A. Scalzo, State University of New York, HQ; Lisa Miles Raposo, State University of New York Center for Professional Development

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Continuing Professional Development

in an EU-US DAETE and DAETE2 projects to develop international quality standards for continuing education centers. She is also a co-creator of the Bray-Scalzo Partnership Model for creating and sustaining successful partnerships. Kim currently serves as Chair of the Continuing Professional Development Division of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE-CPD). She is also a member of the International Association of Continuing Engineering Education (IACEE) Council and serves as the Vice President for Products and Services on the IACEE Executive Committee. Additionally, she has served as a member of the National University Telecommunications Network (NUTN) Advisory Board and is currently a member of

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Sustainability and engineering education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Woolschlager, Saint Louis University, Parks College of Eng.

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Environmental Engineering

. The typical method for incorporating sustainability concepts into courses is to add theword or concept of sustainability in a course that is typically included in traditionalenvironmental engineering programs, such as Introduction to Environmental Engineering,Freshmen Engineering, or Senor Design or Capstone Design. Below is one example of thismethod of sustainability integration taken from one of the programs reviewed: Civil and Environmental Engineering Design: Capstone design experience. Fundamental principles in various areas of civil and environmental engineering applied to open-ended design projects. Economics, safety, reliability, environmental, sustainability, ethical and social considerations.However, seven

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Aerospace Division Technical Session 4

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chadia A. Aji, Tuskegee University; M. Javed Khan, Tuskegee University

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Aerospace

Paper ID #8228Using a UAV to Teach Undergraduates Math and Aircraft PerformanceDr. Chadia Affane Aji, Tuskegee University Dr. Chadia Affane Aji is an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics in the College of Arts and Sciences at Tuskegee University. Dr. Aji’s research interests lie in the areas of numerical analysis, computational applied mathematics, nonlinear partial differential equations, complex analysis, and on improving student learning in undergraduate mathematics courses. Dr. Aji has been a principle investigator or co-principle investigator on numerous interesting and engaging NSF projects. Dr. Aji

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Laboratory Experiences in Signal Processing and Controls

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jean Jiang, Purdue University, North Central; Li Tan, Purdue University, North Central

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

) board and simulation tools such as MATLAB and MultiSIM. We willalso present the course assessment and outcome, which include how the students apply theirgained DSP knowledge to their capstone senior projects. Finally, we will address possibleimprovement of the course content and associated laboratories.II. Course Prerequisite RequirementsIn this section, we will explain the course pre-requisites, which can be divided into threecategories, as described below. Page 23.1150.3A. Digital Signal Processing Course RequirementThe first signal processing course covering the key topics of analog signal processing, such ascommon analog functions, Laplace

Conference Session

Design Based Energy Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer M Peuker, University of Alaska, Anchorage; Steffen Peuker, University of Alaska Anchorage

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Incorporating Active Learning into a Thermal System Design LectureAbstractMany mechanical engineering departments offer a thermal system design (or similar) course forsenior students. Some courses have a laboratory component, but many are a lecture only format.This paper demonstrates how active learning—through virtual labs, a semester long project, andin-class assignments—was incorporated into the lecture portion of a thermal system design courseto enhance learning and provide the students a laboratory experience without a physical laboratory.These active learning ideas can also supplement the learning during lecture for those courses

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Aerospace Division Technical Session 3

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Peter J. Schubert, IUPUI; Steven Anthony Zusack

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Aerospace

majorsworking together. These kinds of projects would require students to reference informationlearned in specific courses and thus encourage students who have not yet taken these courses todo so. The final question results were, overall, very promising. It was surprising to see a studenthad an overall unpleasant experience. However, since the survey was done anonymously, it isimpossible to ask the student for more follow up. For future projects, the student reactions surveymay have a section for a brief paragraph explaining any suggestions for changes. This sectionwill help eliminate the surprise and confusion of a response like this.VI. SummaryThe Space Scream experiment became the capstone event of Space Day 2012. All of the 350 inattendance watched

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Thermal Sciences

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lin Lin, University of Southern Maine; James W. Smith, University of Southern Maine; Stephen Knittweis

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Mechanical Engineering

Page 23.302.9the refrigeration cycle, again, at what cost? This unit is certainly cost effective, and has thepotential to deliver hands-on experience to students.AcknowledgementThe authors gratefully acknowledge the work of Anthony Newton, a former mechanicalengineering major who began the initial modification of the air conditioner and Peter Juarez,a senior mechanical engineering major who helped with the construction.References[1] Hands-on experience with a turbojet engine in the thermal science laboratory course. Messiha Saad, ASEE2008 conference proceedings AC2008-1960[2] Thermal Science capstone projects on mechanical engineering. Nihad Dukham, and Mark Schumack.ASEE 2011 conference proceedings AC2011-1278[3] Thermal-fluid sciences course

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NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yalcin Ertekin, Drexel University (Engineering Technology); Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University (Tech.); Radian G Belu, Drexel University (Tech.); Jack G. Zhou, Drexel University (Eng.)

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

, its progress beinghighlighted in the following sections. The CNC simulators to be developed and implementedduring this project will provide realistic operation, part programming and maintenanceenvironment at a fraction of the current cost. This will be done by using a real CNC hardware,therefore significantly lowering training costs. Industry-supplied and coordinated projects will beused in conjunction with capstone projects using collaborative student teams. The newly-equipped laboratories will be networked for cross-institutional use between Drexel Universityand affiliated community colleges. Figure 1 shows the overall architecture of the proposedcollaborative project involving web-enabled, advanced manufacturing systems over the Internet

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Communication and Engineering Careers: Motivating Our Students

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tristan T. Utschig, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jeffrey S. Bryan; Judith Shaul Norback, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

analysis for ongoing CETL projects. His master’s thesis is an analysis of choice and player narratives in video game storytelling.Dr. Judith Shaul Norback, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Judith Shaul Norback, Ph.D. is faculty and the Director of Workplace and Academic Communication in the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. She has developed and provided instruction for students in industrial engineering and biomedical engineering and has advised on oral communication instruction at many other universities. The Workplace Communica- tion Lab she founded in 2003 has had over 19,000 student visits. As of Spring 2013, she has shared her instructional materials with

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Laboratory Development in ECE I

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wagdy H Mahmoud, University of the District of Columbia; Nian Zhang, University of the District of Columbia

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Electrical and Computer

embedded hard core processors (available in the Virtex 5 board) or the downloadable soft core processors available to all boards to optimize the performance of the designed application.The skills gained from performing the above steps will enable students to: i) developprofessional capstone design projects and Master-level theses; ii) improve their researchcapabilities and their long-life learning skills; iii) enable student to design entire system (speechcoding, adaptive noise canceller, echo suppressor, etc.) from the built-in and designed blocks; iv)improve their marketability and enhance their professional careers.4. Adaptive Noise Cancellation systemIn adaptive noise cancellation, the adaptive filter is usually designed as a transversal

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Programs in Entrepreneurship

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nada Marie Anid, New York Institute of Technology; Steven H. Billis, New York Institute of Technology; Marta Alicia Panero, New York Institute of Technology

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

. of Faculty Residences in Industry 1. Infuse modern engineering tools 1. No. of students into the curricula impacted Students 2. Develop entrepreneurial skill sets 2. Employment figures 3. Job opportunities 3. Experiential activities 4. Real world open-ended design including internships projects 4. Capstone Senior Design projects 5. Research projects

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CIP Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Danielson, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Chell A. Roberts, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus

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College Industry Partnerships

specificcriteria such as electrical or mechanical). The curriculum also includes nine hours ofunrestricted electives, which are often useful when a student transfers into the program sincecredits can count towards the degree where other engineering programs might have to reject thecredit. Page 23.116.2The primary focus area includes significant upper division project experience with six semesterhours of project-based credits in the 20 credit hours within the focus area. The 20 credits in thefocus area do not include eight hours of multidisciplinary capstone design, which are consideredcore content for the degree. The secondary focus requires 12 semester

Conference Session

Design Pedagogy and Curriculum 1

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bradley Adam Camburn, University of Texas, Austin; Brock U Dunlap, University of Texas, Austin; Vimal Kumar Viswanathan, Georgia Institute of Technology; Julie S Linsey, Georgia Institute of Technology; Daniel D. Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy; Richard H. Crawford, University of Texas, Austin; Kevin Otto, Singapore University of Technology and Design; Kristin L. Wood, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)

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Design in Engineering Education

approximately 100 papers and has been awarded over $3 million of research grants.Dr. Richard H. Crawford, University of Texas, Austin Dr. Richard H. Crawford is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin and is the Temple Foundation Endowed Faculty Fellow No. 3. He is also Director of the Design Projects program in Mechanical Engineering. He received his BSME from Louisiana State University in 1982, and his MSME in 1985 and Ph.D. in 1989, both from Purdue University. He teaches mechanical engineering design and geometry modeling for design. Dr. Crawford’s research interests span topics in computer- aided mechanical design and design theory and methodology. Dr. Crawford is co-founder of the

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Civil Engineering Division Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammad Ali Khasawneh P.E., Jordan University of Science and Technology; Mohammad Obadat P.E., The University of Tennessee at Martin

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Civil Engineering

as an assistant professor in the Civil Engineering Department at Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio. Here he devel- ops and teaches general engineering and civil engineering courses, works on transportation engineering projects, and holds membership with a number of organizations and committees. From September 2003 to August 2008 he was a research assistant in the Civil Engineering Department at the University of Akron. He worked on a number of Transportation/Pavement Engineering research projects, and Geotechnical En- gineering research projects. Then from September 2003 to August 2008, he was a teaching assistant with the Civil Engineering Department at the University of Akron. His work has been published in

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching in Architectural Engineering

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Allen C Estes, California Polytechnic State University; Brent Nuttall P.E., California Polytechnic State University; Jill Nelson P.E., California Polytechnic State University; Margot Kally McDonald AIA, NCARB, LEED BD+C, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo; Gregory F. Starzyk JD, Cal Poly at San Luis Obispo

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Architectural

. degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1997.Prof. Brent Nuttall P.E., California Polytechnic State University Professor Nuttall has 25 years experience as both a practicing engineer and engineering professor. He is currently a tenured professor at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo where his teaching focus is on structural and seismic design for engineers, architects and construction management students. His professional experience includes the design of many high profile new construction and renovation projects including the Getty Villa Museum, Cathedral of our Lady of the Angels, Dodger Stadium Renovation and Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Restoration.Jill Nelson P.E., California

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Case Studies in Entrepreneurship

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ravi T. Shankar, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL; Francis Xavier McAfee, Florida Atlantic University; Michael S Harris, Florida Atlantic University; Ravi S Behara, Florida Atlantic University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

functionality (an engineeringfocus) with aesthetics, user-friendliness, relevance and empathy. It was our objective to developproject oriented courses that integrated these aspects at the university level.Our long journey towards this was inspired by ABET’s3 accreditation criteria 3(a-k) that mapwell to team-oriented semester long projects, as envisioned and implemented in the capstoneprojects of an engineering curriculum. However, not all the criteria can be met in the capstoneprojects. The capstone projects also tend to vary much in quality and focus, leading to demandson faculty and student members alike. This led us to utilize the lessons learned from a six- yearlong industry funded project on significantly increasing engineering design

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NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yanna Lambrinidou, Virginia Tech; Marc Edwards, Virginia Tech

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

, 2008]. Washington, DC: National Academies Press.26 Herkert, J. R. 1994. Ethical Risk Assessment: Valuing Public Perceptions. IEEE Technology and SocietyMagazine (Spring).27 Vallero, D. A. and P. A. Vesilind. 2006. Preventing Disputes with Empathy. Journal of ProfessionalIssues in Engineering Education and Practice 132(3).28 Bielefeldt, A. R., K. G. Paterson, and C. W. Swan. 2010. Measuring the Value Added from ServiceLearning in Project-Based Engineering Education. International Journal of Engineering Education26(3):535-546.29 Bielefeldt, A. R., M. M. Dewoolkar, K. M. Caves, B. W. Berdanier, and K. G. Paterson. 2011. DiverseModels for Incorporating Service Projects into Engineering Capstone Design Courses. InternationalJournal of

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Materials Science Education for the Future

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey W. Fergus, Auburn University

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Materials

. The courses are listed as materials engineeringcourses (MATL), but they are designed to be accessible to students in other majors (engineeringand non-engineering). Freshman chemistry is listed as a prerequisite, but the necessarychemistry is minimal so students with high school chemistry or other sciences are allowed totake the course – as long as they are not distressed by seeing chemical equations.These courses have also been approved as electives in a university-wide Sustainability Minor.The Sustainability Minor has six hours of required courses (an introduction to sustainability anda capstone course) and nine hours of elective courses from a wide variety of topics in the generalareas of Society and Market, Environment, Social Justice2

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NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michele Miller, Michigan Technological University; James P. De Clerck, Michigan Technological University; Sheryl A. Sorby, Ohio State University; Laura Maria Roberts; William J. Endres, Michigan Technological University; Kevin David Hale

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #7337Meeting the NAE Grand Challenge: Personalized Learning for EngineeringStudents through Instruction on Metacognition and Motivation StrategiesDr. Michele Miller, Michigan Technological University Dr. Michele Miller is an associate professor of Mechanical Engineering at Michigan Technological Uni- versity. She teaches classes on manufacturing and does research in engineering education with particular interest in hands-on ability, lifelong learning, and project-based learning.Dr. James P. De Clerck, Michigan Technological University After an eighteen year career in the automotive industry, Dr. De Clerck joined the

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Aerospace Division Technical Session 2

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Michael Butler, Lockheed Martin

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Aerospace

. The LSBL interventionperiod of the study lasted five class periods each lasting 75 minutes and took place within a threecalendar week period. Both the experimental and control groups participated in the interventionat the same time during the regularly scheduled class time. The study was conducted at thebeginning of the fall semester in order to minimize the number of confounding variables thatcould impact the results. At the beginning of the term, the students did not have any formalaircraft design instruction/experience, other than what they would have brought with themthrough internships, cooperative education experiences, or voluntary underclassmen participationin capstone projects such as the Design, Build and Fly effort. The research

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Two-Year College Division Transfer Topics Part I

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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MD B. Sarder, University of Southern Mississippi

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Two Year College Division

with term projects,capstone projects, career advising, and job searching. Each mentor was assigned up to 10mentees. Each mentor was supposed to spend approximately 100 hours per year. Each mentorcompletes two surveys during the academic year and submits a summary report at the end ofeach year. Based on student response rates to portfolio activity, we expected most of our ETstudents to take advantage of this service. We recruited 10 professional mentors in the first yearand increased the number to 20 by fifth year.Measuring Program EffectivenessOur project was expected to impact the following number of individuals (Table 3)Table 3: Benchmarking impact throughout the projectCC Recruitment 15,000 STEM majors at area CCs (CC)Regional

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Two-Year College Division Transfer Topics Part II

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Wenshen Pong, San Francisco State University; Hamid Shahnasser, San Francisco State University; Hamid Mahmoodi, San Francisco State University; Hao Jiang, San Francisco State University; Cheng Chen, San Francisco State University

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Two Year College Division

-year transfer institution, reduce the effects of transfer shock, and enhance their academicsuccess at the baccalaureate institution, the COMETS program provides opportunities toparticipate in the Intersegmental Enrollment Program. Every fall semester for each year of thegrant, four Cañada College sophomore students—one each from the areas of civil, mechanical,electrical, and computer engineering—are selected to participate in upper-division courses orsenior design capstone courses at SFSU.For the 2010-2011 academic year, the civil engineering student participated in the design andconstruction of a timber bridge. The mechanical engineering student participated in a project onMaterials and Manufacturing. Both the computer engineering and the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James L. Hanson, California Polytechnic State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

NationalScience Foundation) have been widely reported (e.g., Refs. 7, 8).Several of the studies have involved bringing research activities directly into the curriculum(e.g., Refs. 9, 10, 11, 12). Most of these investigations appear to keep research as the focal pointof the experience for the students. Sanford-Bernhardt and Roth reported multiple options foradministratively promoting research activities for students. 9 Others have reported research-oriented capstone project experiences (e.g., Ref. 10). A lesser amount of research experiences forconventional lecture and/or laboratory courses has been reported (e.g., Refs. 11, 12), especiallyin civil engineering. When incorporated, students have reacted favorably to having curricularcontent that is not