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Design throughout the Mechanical Engineering Curriculum I

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anurag Purwar, Stony Brook University

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Mechanical Engineering

engi-neering design and provides a project-based design experience wherein the students design andbuild a microcontroller driven autonomous mechatronic device. In doing so, they are provided anearly exposure to the systematic approach to engineering problem solving that brings together fun-damentals concepts of forces, motions, energy, materials, manufacturing processes, and machinesand mechanisms. This goal aligns well with our department’s vision to create a design-orientedparadigm of Mechanical Engineering education that begins with an early introduction to designprinciples and ends with capstone design experience. Some of the Course Learning Objectives (CLOs) of this class pertaining to the design experi-ence are: 1. Apply Engineering

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SDR & Programming in ECE Education

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Zhiping Zhang, Wright State University; Zhiqiang Wu, Wright State University; Bin Wang, Wright State University

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Electrical and Computer

wirelessengineering education”, we have developed and demonstrated the first nationwide example ofevolvable software defined radio (SDR) based laboratories for three existing undergraduatecourses [4][5]. Given the success of this project, NSF has continued to support us through aTransforming Undergraduate Education in Science (TUES) type II project to further develop aseries of SDR based lab modules that serve a wide range of courses from a freshman yearintroductory course to senior year capstone design projects.In this paper, we report an SDR [6]-[11] based signal detection and RF parameter estimationplatform which can be adopted by many courses of electrical and computer engineering curricula.This SDR based platform is equipped with a user-friendly

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Construction Session 2: PM, BIM, and Collaboration

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Namhun Lee, Central Connecticut State University; Linda Reeder, Central Connecticut State University

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Construction

approach to a building project in design and construction Milwaukee School of decision making …….. Students are ……. to produce high-quality 3-D Engineering designs and construction documents, along with cost-estimating, and construction planning.Introduction to BIM, North Emphasis is placed on research and integration of architectural,Carolina A&T State Univ. structural, MEP, specifications and cost estimating of building systems for decision modeling using BIM.Construction Management Applying knowledge and skills learned in the previous courses, BIM,Capstone, North Dakota and other software programs to prepare a bid proposal and an on-siteState

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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AB Shafaye; Rafic Bachnak

  An Internship Program that Promotes Student Success in Engineering and Engineering Technology AB Shafaye and Rafic Bachnak School of Science, Engineering, and Technology Penn State HarrisburgAbstract - STEM education has been given much attention in recent years. A major concern,however, is that success rates in U.S. colleges and universities are still low. While a number offactors affect student success, active learning approaches such as research and internshipexperiences, hands-on experimentation and projects, challenged-based instruction and problemsolving, and peer

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Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ivan Cardoso Monsão, PPGM-UFBA/BiLab-Business and Innovation Lab; Jes Fiais Cerqueira P.E., Federal University of Bahia (Brazil); Augusto Cesar Pinto Loureiro da Costa, Universidade Federal da Bahia; Jose Siqueira Dias, University of Campinas

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Design in Engineering Education

to transform the content learnedinto practical projects implies restructuring a course, with teacher training and changes in thecontent of the disciplines10. The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE)5 reports thatstudents involved in “high impact practices” have higher scores on deep approaches to learning,integrating learned theory into meaningful applications.Very often, students’ contact with practical activities is during traditional lab classes, where thestudents do hands on work on pre-formatted experiments used to strengthen the theoreticalconcepts6, or when they are concentrating on their capstone projects7,8, where students apply theknowledge acquired on engineering design projects very late, giving them little chance

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Teaching and Advising Tools Using Computers and Smart Devices

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Emil H Salib, James Madison University; Ian Healey, ASIS International; Alexander Ryan Chamberlain, Cisco Systems ; Livia S Griffith

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Diversity

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Computers in Education

across campus. Not only are expenses incurred inhardware costs but also in manpower hours setting up and tearing down computing labs, installingsoftware and maintaining images.In [1], the authors provide excellent survey of the opportunities of using Cloud Computing ineducational environment. We also believe that the problems identified above can be solved byintegrating a private cloud computing environment into James Madison University’s educationalresources. This challenge became the topic of a senior capstone project at James Madison Uni-versity. Two students and their advisor proposed to address these issues by utilizing VMwarevSphere [2] and Horizon View software [3] suites. Horizon View is a cloud computing solutionthat provides access to

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First-Year Programs Division Poster Session

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jacques C. Richard, Texas A&M University; Noemi V. Mendoza Diaz, Texas A&M University; Tanya Dugat Wickliff, Texas A&M University; So Yoon Yoon, Texas A&M University

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

served more than 2000 students since its inception. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Paper ID #16190 Dr. Wickliff is blessed to work daily in the area of her passion – developing young professionals – in her exciting current role at Texas A&M University. She is the Director of the College of Engineering’s, Zachry Leadership Program and a Professor of Engineering Practice. At Texas A&M University, she has taught Capstone Senior Design and Foundations of Engineering courses, but now teaches Engineering Leadership Development courses. She has also taught Project

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division Poster Session: Works in Progress

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tasha Tiffany Tardieu, University of Michigan; Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

Paper ID #16824Incorporating Engineering Programs for Secondary Schools in Trinidad andTobago (Work in Progress)Miss Tasha Tiffany Tardieu, University of Michigan Recent graduate of the University of Michigan, studied Civil Engineering with an International Studies Minor for Engineers. As a student in the College of Engineering’s Honors Program, I investigated the incorporation of co-curricular engineering programs at the upper secondary school level in Trinidad and Tobago for my capstone project. This project will be continued beyond my undergraduate career.Dr. Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan Shanna Daly is an

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Biomedical Division Poster Session

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer H. Choi, University of California - Davis

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Biomedical

increased team discussion time, frequentassessments and additional teamwork factors such as conflict occurrence and resolution will alsobe addressed. The impact that improved teamwork skills may have on students will be evaluatedthrough collection of annual retention data, performance in the capstone design course, andspecific questions related to teamwork readiness on our department’s annual exit survey tograduating students. The impact will be compared to historical student data, in which thetraditional lecture-based introductory course was offered, and used to guide continuousdevelopment of our undergraduate curriculum to prepare our students for future success.References1. Richardson J. et al., Freshman Design Projects in the Foundation

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Construction Division Poster Session

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Namhun Lee, Central Connecticut State University; Jacob P. Kovel P.E., Central Connecticut State University; Lee W. Lee, Central Connecticut State University

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Construction

various approachesto the process of monitoring and controlling projects as well as managing a construction site. Inquadrant III courses, the emphasis is on the detailed tools and techniques for buildingconstruction. The quadrant IV courses emphasize upon acquiring the skills and the approachesneeded for collective representation and dispute resolution. In addition to the courses in Figure2, the capstone course (CM 595 Applied Research in Construction Management) as well as the‘Research Methods’ course encompasses and applies all prior course works, and requires theproduction of a complete professional-quality project analysis, utilizing actual industry data andresources.The students’ ratings on the satisfaction levels of the overall graduate

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Maker Spaces within the University

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Craig Forest, Georgia Institute of Technology; Helena Hashemi Farzaneh, Institute of Product Development, Technical University of Munich; Julian Weinmann, Munich University of Technology; Udo Lindemann, Technical University of Munich

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Design in Engineering Education

-centric environments for design, invention, andprototyping. In a makerspace, users work side by side on different projects within an openculture of collaboration. Makerspaces are generally equipped with traditional manufacturingequipment, such as manual mills and lathes, more advanced equipment, such as CNC-mills(Computerized Numerical Control) machine tools, and emerging rapid prototyping tools such as3D printers, along with worktables, chairs, and even couches. Similar to traditional workshops,especially larger makerspaces are divided into areas, based on the materials groups andmanufacturing methods.These spaces exist to facilitate a culture of design, invention, and prototyping. Physicalprototyping is a key activity in product development and

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NSF Grantees Poster Session II

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Nathan E Canney, Seattle University; Christopher Swan, Tufts University; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

impacts are not primary learning goals for the course Graduate-level course 34 Senior capstone design 28 First year introductory course that include ethics among other topics 24 First year design-focused course that includes ethics among other learning 21 goals Professional issues course (any level; e.g. project management, 14 communications) Other 14 Full course

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Multidisciplinary Teamwork

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Pilar Pazos, Old Dominion University; Nina Magpili, Engineering Management & Systems Engineering (EMSE), Old Dominion University; Zikai Zhou, Old Dominion University; Luis Jose Rodriguez, Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

engineering students participating in virtual team projects was used in theanalysis. Results from the analysis are presented suggesting a statistically significant impact ofthe intervention on self-management skills when comparing randomly assigned teams with andwithout the intervention. The intervention is designed to be scalable so that it can be embeddedinto existing project-based courses. Our findings have important implications for thedevelopment of teamwork skills in engineering courses and provide evidence of a successfulstrategy that can be integrated into the existing engineering curriculum.KeywordsVirtual teams, team effectiveness, information and communication technologies, engineeringeducation, collaborative learningIntroductionThe

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Multidisciplinary Efforts in Upper-level Courses

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Timothy R McJunkin, Idaho National Laboratory; Craig G Rieger, Idaho National Laboratory; Aunshul Rege, Temple University; Saroj K Biswas, Temple University; Michael Haney, University of Idaho; Michael John Santora, University of Idaho; Brian K. Johnson, University of Idaho, Moscow; Ronald Laurids Boring; D. Subbaram Naidu P.E., University of Minnesota Duluth; John F. Gardner, Boise State University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

 instructors plan to attempt to augment the participation from the disciplines outside ECE by incorporating short modules in core classes of the subject areas of human factors, cybersecurity, and other relevant disciplines to introduce the concept or ResCS and encourage participation in the ResCS course. To provide more in depth exploration and completeness of projects the ResCS course will have an optional second semester structured as an undergraduate capstone or graduate thesis support to encourage completion of concepts into implemented designs. The team seeks to disseminate the successes of the course and the Grid Game to other universities and continue to encourage related disciplines at universities to participate in this interdisciplinary

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College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session III: Collaboration

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Diane L Peters PE, Kettering University; Anne M Lucietto, Purdue University

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College Industry Partnerships

with them; often,these collaborations are each run separately and therefore can be considered to be separatecollaborative efforts. Such collaborations often focus on providing projects for students, for theircapstone design course or a similar class. One example of this is Olin College. Another model iswhen a university has a strong experiential learning program that features co-op or internshipexperiences, such as the co-op program at Kettering University, Drexel University, or theUniversity of Cincinnati. Collaborations may also focus on the professional development offaculty members, as at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.Olin College (www.olin.edu)As in all engineering programs, Olin College students perform a capstone project. In the

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Assessment II: Learning Gains and Conceptual Understanding

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brian M. Frank, Queen's University; Natalie Simper, Queen's University; James A. Kaupp, Queen's University

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

research project investigating the development and measurement of general learning outcomes. Natalie comes from an Australian Senior-Secondary/ Post-Secondary teaching background, with experience at the State-wide level in curriculum development, large-scale assessment, and evaluation and assessment of outcomes based education.Dr. James A. Kaupp, Queen’s University Assessment and Quality Assurance Coordinator (Msc ’06, PhD ’12) at Queen’s University, Kingston, On- tario, Canada in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science. Educational research interests include engineering education development, cultural change in higher education, higher-order thinking develop- ment and assessment, outcomes-based data-informed

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division Poster Session: Works in Progress

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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A. Leyf Peirce Starling, The Engineering Place, North Carolina State University; Diane Brauner, Perkins School for the Blind

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

schedule.Choosing appropriate activities tied into themes allowed for consistent reinforcement of not onlythe engineering design process, but also explicit instruction of science concepts. Following asuccessful Capstone Project model, the students concluded the camp by completing theengineering design process to solve a problem that they defined as socially relevant. Figure 1provides a brief description of the activities completed in camp.Pictures of campers doing sample activities:Figure 1: Camp Schedule and Activities Day Theme Activity Description Move into Dorms, Students move into dorm rooms, work with Orientation and

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Diversity in Community Engagement Implementation I

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ann-Perry Witmer P.E., Univerity of Illinois College of Engineering; Keilin Jahnke, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Community Engagement Division

. As a result, it is hoped that the students will determine an effective collaborative learningapproach that informs each others’ areas of interest regarding international developmentsustainability, while building a knowledge base for better understanding the interrelationshipsamong these disciplines to evaluate long-term interactions between an engineered infrastructureand a recipient community.We emphasize that this course is not design-based, such as an Engineering Capstone project, nordoes it teach technical design. Instead, it focuses engineering minds on the non-engineeringinfluences that must be considered to produce a successful, sustainable engineering design for arecipient outside the designers’ own sociocultural experience.Course

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Developing Infrastructure Professionals

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Douglas Schmucker P.E., University of Utah; Joshua Lenart, University of Utah; Steven J. Burian P.E., University of Utah; Amir Mohaghegh Motlagh, University of Utah

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Diversity

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Civil Engineering

-scale interventions and chose to approach changes cautiously byconducting a small pilot study involving the courses in the professional “core.”Three course were selected (CVEEN 1000, 3100, and 4910) as appropriate candidates. Thesecourses represent students from across the program and constitute the core of the department’sprofessional skills-related offerings. Practical issues caused the co-authors to implement theinfrastructure theme in only two courses: CVEEN 1000 and 3100. The capstone course (CVEEN4910) was already overloaded with a focus on development and execution of design projects; aswell, many aspects of an infrastructure perspective were already embedded in the course from theoutset of this study.4 Rubric DevelopmentThe initial

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 10

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Galina Burylina, Kazan National Research Technological University; Phillip Albert Sanger, Purdue University - West Lafayette; Julia Ziyatdinova; Dilbar Sultanova

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Paper ID #17396Approaches to Entrepreneurship and Leadership Development at an Engi-neering UniversityMrs. Galina Burylina, Kazan National Research Technological UniversityDr. Phillip Albert Sanger, Purdue University - West Lafayette Dr. Sanger is a professor in the School of Engineering Technology in the College of Technology of Purdue University. His focus and passion is real world, industry based, senior capstone experiences both domes- tically and internationally. He has successfully developed this area at Purdue and at Western Carolina University. Prior to his career in academia, Dr. Sanger had a successful 30 year

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CEED Paper Session 1: Using Co-Op and Internships to Improve Diversity, Retention, Learning, and Assessment

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vedaraman Sriraman, Texas State University - San Marcos; Bobbi J. Spencer, Texas State University - San Marcos; Kimberly Grau Talley P.E., Texas State University - San Marcos; Araceli Martinez Ortiz, Texas State University - San Marcos

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Diversity

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

, families, and students from underrepresented communities. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Early Internships for Engineering Technology Student Retention: A Pilot StudyAbstractResearch in engineering technology major retention suggests that early internships present anoutstanding opportunity for freshman and sophomore students to engage, socialize, and learn incommunities of practice and to “discover” the link between theory and practice early in theiracademic tenure, leading to a consequent improvement in retention rates. At Texas StateUniversity, the traditional senior-level capstone internship program was reengineered andconverted into a sophomore level

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Architectural Division Technical Session 1

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Edward M. Segal, Hofstra University; Sigrid Adriaenssens, Princeton University

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Architectural

course.IntroductionEngineering design projects that focus on real world problems can help prepare students for thechallenges that they will face later in research settings and industry. In some architectural and/orcivil engineering curricula, students are exposed to design in first-year and/or senior capstonecourses. In an existing academic curriculum that lacks first-year and/or senior capstone coursesit may not be feasible to add new courses that are entirely focused on design. As an alternative tostandalone design courses, design components can be integrated into other courses that arealready part of the curriculum. Bucciarelli1, in a review of a workshop held by the EngineeringCoalition of Schools for Excellence in Education and Leadership (ECSEL), describes a set

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Biomedical Division Poster Session

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Margo Cousins, University of Texas, Austin; Lynda K. Gonzales, University of Texas, Austin; Erin Dolan, University of Texas, Austin; Kathryn E. Flowers, Texas 4000 for Cancer; Courtney Becker, Texas 4000 for Cancer; Laura Suggs, University of Texas, Austin; Mia K. Markey, University of Texas, Austin

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Paper ID #15347Work in Progress: Enhancing the Undergraduate Research Experience throughPartnership with a Non-profit OrganizationMs. Margo Cousins, University of Texas, Austin Ms. Cousins oversees undergraduate and graduate academic advising at the Department Biomedical Engi- neering at The University of Texas at Austin. She directs the office in strategic academic and professional development advising, capstone projects program, industry partnerships, first-year interest groups, and other special programs.Lynda K. Gonzales, University of Texas, AustinDr. Erin Dolan, University of Texas, AustinKathryn E. Flowers, Texas 4000

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Environmental Engineering Division: Curricula, Criteria, Student Performance, and Growth

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Prahlad Murthy, Wilkes University

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Environmental Engineering

“computer intensive (CI)”. In the ENV programcurriculum, the two senior capstone project courses satisfy the WI and OPO requirements;Hydrology and Air Quality are the two courses that are designated as CI and satisfy thegraduation requirements.Engineering topics that are part of the curriculum are appropriate to the discipline ofenvironmental engineering in many ways. Courses like CADD Laboratory, Engineering ProjectAnalysis, and Professionalism & Ethics, Statics, Strength of Materials, EngineeringThermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics support material and concepts in courses such asEnvironmental Engineering Hydraulics, Water Quality, Water and Wastewater Treatment, AirQuality, and Air Pollution Control. Moreover, topics covered in the above

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Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary Carpenter Ed.D., CCD - Custom Curriculum Design; Logan Edward Micher, Florida Polytechnic University; Chris Yakymyshyn; Jorge Vargas, Florida Polytechnic University; Christina Drake, Florida Polytechnic University

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. The Wickenden Report5(1930) recommended design projects for sophomores and juniors, and the Grinter Report6 (1955)recommended engineering programs contain both technical (including design) and social(general education, social sciences) goals. Credit hour caps reduced or eliminated courses suchas shop, design and manufacturing technology by the 1960’s. Reconsideration of these changesbegan in earnest by the late 1980’s. For example, a 1997 National Science Foundation reportSystemic Engineering Educational Reform- An Action Agenda7 listed teamwork, project-basedlearning and industry interactions as important areas of emphasis. In addition to the creation ofsenior year capstone design classes, existing freshman introductory classes were modified

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Courses in Emergent Areas

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel Lepek, The Cooper Union; Marc-Olivier Coppens, University College London (UCL)

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Chemical Engineering

Coppens’s experience in transforming the capstone Chemical ProcessDesign course at his former US university, and a project-based course on fractals in chemicalengineering taught in the USA and the Netherlands. Working together, this new elective courseprovided students with an introduction to the emerging research area of Nature InspiredChemical Engineering, leveraged new technologies to help improve the learning process, andprepared them for applications in the future workplace.Centre for Nature-Inspired EngineeringThe overarching vision of the Centre for Nature-Inspired Engineering is to use nature as aguiding platform to seek potentially transformative solutions to engineering grand challenges,such as sustainable energy, clean water, and

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 5

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John K. Estell, Ohio Northern University; David Reeping, Ohio Northern University; Heather Sapp, Ohio Northern University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

having computing professionalsperform the development or using service learning as part of a capstone design course tocomplete the project.12-13 Having a real-world end user in the form of elementary school childrenchanged the perspectives of the programmers; for example, these are some of the remarks madein the post-activity survey: “This program was geared towards kids from fourth to sixth grade so we had to keep that in mind. It wasn't just a game that we were trying to do, the overall outcome of the application was for the kids to learn from it.” “[The program was] a real program to be used by real people, and not being shoved into some archive where it will never see the light of day.” “We had to think differently

Conference Session

Student Preparation for, and Outcomes from, Community Engagement Efforts

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kurt Paterson P.E., James Madison University; Christopher Swan, Tufts University; David W. Watkins, Michigan Technological University

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

first program was an optional senior capstone project taking place with a community inCentral or South America, including two weeks of field work abroad. The second program was agraduate research program with a local service component developing sustainable developmentteaching materials with K-12 teachers based on the graduate student’s research. The thirdprogram involved short-term (three months) of field research in East Africa embedded within atwelve-month long research program on small-scale infrastructure research. The fourth programwas the Engineers Without Borders chapter at MPuT. The last student program was a graduateprogram comprised of one year of campus course work, followed by two years of field researchin a community partnering

Conference Session

The Intersection of Higher Ed and Industry

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mitchell L. Springer PMP, SPHR, Purdue University - West Lafayette; Mark T. Schuver, Purdue University - West Lafayette

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Continuing Professional Development

participants in non-STEM graduate programs. The hierarchy of disciplines,then, are:  Technology  Liberal Arts  Management  Health and human sciences  Engineering  AgricultureWhat separates STEM from non-STEM program offerings is the orientation toward technicalleadership versus first-, second-, or third-line leadership. More specifically, STEM is strictlyleadership of STEM oriented endeavors, providing various courses in six sigma, qualityinitiatives and business statistics with a coupled directed project. Non-STEM program offeringsare for leadership positions with a general understanding of team collaboration, human resourcemanagement and similar non-technical courses, culminating with a capstone project.The

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International Division Poster Session

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anna Sukhristina, Kazan National Research Technological University; Artem Bezrukov; Julia Ziyatdinova

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International

integrating industrial platforms for educationalpurposes is widely spread among engineering institutions – colleges and universities. Forinstance, students of engineering programs are required to undergo an internship at industrialenterprises of the region and perform a capstone project to demonstrate the new competenciesthey have obtained within the internship period. While regional academic-industrialcooperation through cluster partnership demonstrates positive results for training highlyqualified specialists at present, it should involve international experience in order to remainup-to-date in the forthcoming years.However, the idea of expanding clustering to an international level brings up the series ofpotential issues that arise from the