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Curricular and Non-curricular Models for Diverse Learners in Engineering

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kai Jin, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Hua Li, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Mohamed Abdelrahman, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering

Paper ID #12779Minority-focused Engagement through Research and Innovative Teaching(MERIT)Dr. Kai Jin, Texas A&M University, Kingsville Dr. Kai Jin is a Professor of Industrial Engineering and Co-PI of the MERIT project. Her research interests include Sustainable Energy, Green Manufacturing, Quality Control, and Multi Objective Decision Making and Optimization as well as Engineering Education. She has served as PI and Co-PI in several DoEd, DHS, NRC, and industry sponsored projects.Dr. Hua Li, Texas A&M University-Kingsville Dr. Hua Li, an Assistant Professor in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Texas A&

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Microprocessor, Microcontrollers, and Embedded Systems Education

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nannan He, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Han-Way Huang, Minnesota State University, Mankato

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Electrical and Computer

complex touch sensing devices (i.e., touch keys, touch slider andtouchscreen). The Atmel SAM 4S-EK2 board is chosen as the main development boardemployed for practicing the touch devices programming. Multiple capstone projects have beendeveloped, for example adaptive touch-based servo motor control, and calculator and games onthe touchscreen. Our primary experiences indicate that the project-based learning approach withthe utilization of the selected microcontroller board and software package is efficient andpractical for teaching advanced touch sensing techniques. Students have shown the great interestand the capability in adopting touch devices into their senior design projects to improve humanmachine interface.1. IntroductionModern touch

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College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 3

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Benneyan, Northeastern University; Corey Balint, Healthcare Systems Engineering Institute at Northeastern University

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Diversity

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College Industry Partnerships

President of the So- ciety for Health Systems. He serves on numerous editorial and advisory boards, has received 12 research, teaching, and service awards, and has been principal investigator or co-director in seven research centers totaling over $32 million in funding.Mr. Corey Balint, Healthcare Systems Engineering Institute at Northeastern University Corey Balint, holds both a BS and MS in Industrial Engineering from Northeastern University and cur- rently is a staff healthcare system engineer in the HSyE institute. Current responsibilities include: serving as day-to-day project manager of our AHRQ patient safety center, leading a portfolio of roughly 10 projects at any time, and assisting with senior team projects

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2015 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Scott Kiefer; Kala Meah; James Moscola; Tristan Ericson

Building Community Relationships with a Senior Design Experience Profs. Scott Kiefer, Kala Meah, James Moscola, and Tristan Ericson Department of Engineering and Computer Science York College of Pennsylvania York, PA 17403The Mechanical, Electrical, and Computer Engineering Programs at York College havemandatory co-op programs in which each student receives three semesters of engineering workexperience. Our senior design courses further develop our students’ design and projectdevelopment skills by intentionally targeting projects that emphasize working within a largerteam. For example, we have built autonomous robots for the

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Garrett M. Clayton; Allen Tan; Jordan Ermilio; Aaron Wemhoff

engineeringstudents, with more than 10 students traveling to the GWHF’s facilities in Cambodia for designreview and prototype testing. In this paper, the VU-GWHF partnership will be presented fromthe project partners’ perspectives. Project details, including scope, selection, planning andimplementation, will be discussed.1. IntroductionIn this paper, we discuss an ongoing international partnership between the Mechatronic SystemsLab (MSL) and Villanova Engineering Service Learning (VESL) at Villanova University (VU)and the Golden West Humanitarian Foundation’s (GWHF’s) Phnom Penh Design Lab (based inCambodia). GWHF is recognized by the international humanitarian explosive ordnance disposal(EOD) community as one of the premier non-governmental organizations

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Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Digital Systems Education 1

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cheng Chih Liu, University of Wisconsin Stout

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Electrical and Computer

American Society for Engineering Education, 2015Teaching Digital Designs by Building Small Autonomous Robotic Vehicles Using an FPGA PlatformThis article discusses the experiences of implementing a new model in teaching and learningdigital designs using Verilog in an embedded systems design course. This paper discusses thecourse structure, laboratory exercises, student projects and project evaluation process, and finallythe student evaluation outcomes. Students’ course assessment and student learning outcomeswere very positive. In many existing digital designs curriculum, students learn how to createstructural and behavioral models in Verilog Hardware Description Language (HDL) to designsimple combinational and

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Revitalization of Manufacturing Education

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shekar Viswanathan, National University

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Diversity

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Manufacturing

length of the program through assignments, tests, andcapstone projects. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the assessmentprocess developed and adopted in our institution to evaluate the manufacturing designprogram. It provides details regarding how a curriculum map and a multiyear assessmentplan should be developed and what direct and indirect measures should be adopted forassessment. A recently completed five-year assessment data will be used to illustrate theeffectiveness of assessment. A list of do’s and don’ts are provided based on theassessment outcome.Description of National University and Its Student Body Founded in 1971, National University (NU) is an independent, nonprofitinstitution of higher education1. Since its

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Educational Strategies in Architectural Engineering

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James B Guthrie P.E., California Polytechnic State University

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Architectural

potential gap through extensiveinteraction between the Architectural Engineering (ARCE) and the Architecture (ARCH)Departments, two of five departments located within the college. The ARCE Department hastraditionally taught a sequence of five structural courses to ARCH students with the goal ofgiving them structural engineering skills so that in their careers as project leaders they will betterunderstand structural engineering systems and principles. With this ability they can betterproduce efficient integrated designs, collaborate effectively with their structural engineeringconsultants and lead more successful projects.Although the five course structural sequence has been comprehensive and has given theArchitecture students the skills needed to

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INDUSTRY DAY SESSION: CMC PANEL SESSION TWO

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chiang Shih, Florida A&M University/Florida State University; Gregory John Kostrzewsky, Cummins, Inc; Lin Xiang Sun, Danfoss Turbocor Compressors

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Corporate Member Council, Diversity

, and professional responsibility so they can be successful in theircareers. Few of these elements can be simulated effectively in a traditional academicenvironment and the participation of engineering practitioners becomes critical. Similar to mostengineering programs, we have achieved this through the involvement of our advisory councilmembers in this capacity and this paper presents our experience in developing an academic-industrial partnership over the years. The relationship starts with the integration of theseindustry leaders into our program’s continuous improvement process, including ABETaccreditation assessment, the sponsorship of senior capstone design projects, and othereducational activities. The development of the partnership has

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Approaches to Sustainability and Grand Challenges

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard M. Goff, Virginia Tech

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

technical workforce. Using actual critical engineering design challenges toinspire and engage students in design solutions to real problems is the path to achieving a highdegree of student engagement. Sustainability, living better on less, and team projects that directlyimpact people’s lives speak to this generation of engineering students. Energy usage is one of themost critical engineering challenges we face today. Global warming due to harmful emissionsfrom burning fossil fuels and rising gas prices as well as national security issues have drivenpeople to look for new ways to reduce their fuel consumption and to live better on less. It hasbeen known for some time that streamlining vehicles can dramatically improve their fueleconomy and in

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Design as a Social Process: Teams and Organizations

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bridget M. Smyser, Northeastern University; Kris Jaeger-Helton, Northeastern University

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Design in Engineering Education

Faculty Advisor for Senior Capstone Design and graduate-level Challenge Projects in Northeastern’s Gordon Engineering Leadership Program. Dr. Jaeger has been the recipient of numerous awards in engineering education for both teaching and men- toring and has been involved in several engineering educational research initiatives through ASEE and beyond. Page 26.852.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 How Did We End up Together? Evaluating Capstone Project Success as a Function of Team and Project Formation Methods and

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2015 EDI

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Mark R Henderson

: Project Based Intro to Engineering Design II Calculus for Engineers II First-Year Composition University Physics I: Mechanics

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2015 EDI

Authors

Maria Oden

% 50% 40% 30% 23.5% 20% 10% 31/48 4/17 0% Keys to Success/Lessons Learned• Real projects with real partners in the field• Internship opportunities• Long-term commitment to solve challenges• Listen to partners in the field• Identify need, understand context, design, build, evaluate, iterate, re-evaluate, lather, rinse, repeat….• Encourage journal publication• Pursue opportunities for follow on grants to advance successful projects• Commercialization partners

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2015 EDI

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David Munoz

Problems Identified:• Water for 10,000 people, refugees from hurricane Mitch• Sanitation alternatives• Finding solutions – Reduces living expenses – Improves health Challenges• Expensive turn-key solution (>$1.5 million).• Important for all stakeholders to participate.• Takes time to develop trust.• Communication with 10,000 is difficult.• Successful (expensive) water businesses already exist.• Project required eight years to complete.• Resulting lack of interest (on the part of water businesses) or frustration (on the part of the local people) leads to vandalism. Circles of Friends (Trust)• Encourage people to form circles of friends to identify a local problem on which they can all work (small business

Conference Session

Cooperative & Experiential Education Division Technical Session 1

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher P. Pung, Grand Valley State University; Paul D. Plotkowski, Grand Valley State University; Chris Plouff, Grand Valley State University

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Diversity

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

applied and leveraged to enhance the capstone experience thatentails industry sponsored design and build style projects. The ability to comfortably interactwith professionals in an industrial environment, manage projects entailing interactions withother portions of the business outside of engineering such as purchasing, skilled trades,marketing, sales and others allows a wide variety of challenging projects to be considered for thecapstone design course. Frequently capstone projects are proposed by companies that currentlyhave one or more co-op students. If appropriate, the co-op student acts as the point of contactbetween the student team and the industry sponsor. This minimizes the amount ofmiscommunication and also allows faster turn-around

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Capstone Design

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott F. Kiefer, York College of Pennsylvania; Tristan M. Ericson, York College of Pennsylvania

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Mechanical Engineering

traditional role of teaching and administering a modest research program. At Trine University, a small private school in Angola, Indiana, Scott taught ten different courses from introductory freshman courses to senior design, while serving as advisor to many undergraduate research projects. For the last four years, Scott has been at York College of Pennsylvania where his concentration is on undergraduate education in mechanical engineering.Dr. Tristan Martin Ericson, York College of Pennsylvania Dr. Tristan Ericson is an assistant professor at York College of Pennsylvania. Prior to this appointment, he was a visiting professor at Bucknell University and received his PhD from Ohio State University in 2012. His research

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Division Experimentation & Lab-oriented Studies: Mechanical Engineering and Control

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason Yao, East Carolina University

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

current research interests include wearable medical devices, telehealthcare, bioinstrumentation, biosignal processing, and control systems. His educational research interests are laboratory/project-driven learning and integration of research into undergraduate education. Dr. Yao is a member of the American Society of Engineering Education and a senior member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Page 26.1163.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Modeling and Control of a Tungsten-Bulb Heated Incubator: Teaching Controls Theory in a

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Learning Through Service

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Foster, George Fox University; Gary E. Spivey, George Fox University

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

in the spring of the sophomore year. This structure provided an overlap of students intheir first and second year in the course. All student teams met concurrently one evening perweek to work on faculty-provided projects. Each faculty member was responsible forapproximately four teams. Faculty and students began each year of the program with excitement,but over time, a number of significant challenges emerged, among these the explosive growth ofthe George Fox University engineering program and its potential effect on the sustainability ofthe program. Therefore, in this paper we follow-up on our published review of the first few yearsof the program. Here we discuss the mechanics of these changes and their continuing effect onthe overall

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Technical Session 8

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John V. Tocco J.D., Lawrence Technological University

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Diversity

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Civil Engineering

experience in their senior year, formed the first all-female capstone team. The project the team selected was the conceptual design of a performance and visual art center for an existing nonprofit “village” that houses physically and emotionally abused girls. Each team member was responsible for the design of a component of the project based on her civil engineering subdiscipline. An all-female group of industry practitioners agreed to serve as mentors to the capstone team throughout the project cycle. With significant input from the practitioner-mentors, the students designed the project and not only presented to faculty and advisory board members, they also presented to the local chapter of a female-based construction industry

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2015 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

R. Alan Cheville; Michael S. Thompson

Developing Representations to Scaffold Capstone Design R. Alan Cheville, Michael S. Thompson Bucknell UniversityThis presentation discusses how representations—methods for how ideas are expressed—havebeen incorporated into a capstone design project in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Overthe past several years the authors have been developing methods that effectively represent thedesign process. This work discusses how four different representations were implemented in thefirst semester of a one year capstone design course to allow student teams to self-manage aproject in the second semester. The four representations are: 1) A functional abstraction that

Conference Session

Learning Through Service

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Katherine Schmotzer; Ana Paula Valenca, Purdue EPICS

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

evident as the majority of the LTS efforts remain outside the undergraduatecurriculum and are localized and non-sustainable in their current forms. Barriers to curricularchange have been studied within the academy and in particular related to LTS6,7.This paper describes the integration of a primarily extra-curricular model with a curricular modelfor LTS. The results and student perspectives are discussed.EPICS and EWB-USA ProgramsEngineers Without Borders - USA (EWB-USA) and the Engineering Projects in CommunityService (EPICS) are well recognized and have established best practices in service-learning,multidisciplinary project work and collaborations between industry and academia. Bothapproaches share the common goals of addressing compelling

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Building Information Modeling (BIM) in Construction Education

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andre Lucena MA, NAIT; Don Mah P.Eng., Northern Alberta Institute of Technology; Faisal Arain, Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT)

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Construction

experience in the design, construction and project management of various types of buildings (residential, commercial) and infrastructure projects.Dr. Faisal Arain, Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) Dr. Faisal Arain is currently working as Associate Dean, School of Sustainable Building and Environmen- tal Management with Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT), Edmonton, Canada. Dr. Arain is an Architect with an MS and Ph.D. in Construction Project Management. He has extensive experience of working at management and leadership positions in construction industry and academia in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and Canada. Dr. Arain has worked as Chair, Construction Project Management with Southern

Conference Session

Enviromental Engineering Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alandra Kahl, Pennsylvania State University, Greater Allegheny

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Environmental Engineering

education. She is the author of several technical papers and conference proceedings centered on environmental engineering. Her professional affiliations include the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Chemical Society, and the American Society for Engineering Education. Page 26.601.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 EnGAGE: Integrating Engineering and Civic EngagementAbstract:A recent focus in engineering education has been the integration of project based learning andinterdisciplinary coursework. Students are more apt to continue with the discipline if

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Teaching the Business Side of Construction

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Suat Gunhan, University of Texas, San Antonio

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Construction

, usually go on to work for construction companies. A construction engineer isexpected to possess technical and managerial skills. Technical content is well covered inconstruction curricula and it is considered a fundamental knowledge and skill. Technicalskills play key role for graduates to step in to the industry. If the new hires nurture theirtechnical capabilities with good business skills in following years, they build successfulcareers. Construction is people oriented business and employees from field engineers toexecutives are on the front lines serving clients on a daily basis. Due to credit-hourlimitations, other than the Project Management and Construction Capstone courses at theUniversity of Texas at San Antonio, all core courses include

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee Technical Session 2

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heidi J. C. Ellis, Western New England University; Gregory W Hislop, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.); Sarah Monisha Pulimood, The College of New Jersey; Becka Morgan, Western Oregon University; Ben Coleman, Moravian College

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Diversity

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

University. His scholarly interests span computing education research, information technology for teaching and learning, and software engineering. Prior to coming to Drexel, Dr. Hislop spent eighteen years working in government and industry where his efforts included software development and support, technology planning and evaluation, and development and delivery of technical education.Dr. Sarah Monisha Pulimood, The College of New Jersey S. Monisha Pulimood is on the faculty of the Department of Computer Science at The College of New Jersey. She has been successfully incorporating immersive learning experiences and multidisciplinary collaborative projects into her courses for several years; has published on undergraduate

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

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Christi Patton Luks; Laura P. Ford

2015 ASEE Zone III Conference (Gulf Southwest – Midwest – North Midwest Sections) Design Teams at a Distance: A First Attempt Christi Patton Luks and Laura P Ford Missouri University of Science & Technology/University of TulsaAbstract In the Spring 2015 semester, Chemical Engineering professors at two universitiesteaching a similar Junior-level course created a design project for teams formed with membersfrom each school. The intent was that students would have an opportunity to develop some real-world skills in teamwork when part of the team is working in another office across the countryor, as is

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2015 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Wayne Blanding; Scott Kiefer; Kala Meah; Tristan Ericson

essentially a full summer semester) and the following spring. The first semester isfocused on research and design, and the second semester is dedicated to build and test. At thebeginning of the first semester, students are already placed on capstone projects and the researchphase begins in earnest to allow enough time to complete a project design by the end of thesemester. We have historically targeted projects that require at least eight students, andsometimes up to twenty, that require students from our various engineering disciplines(mechanical, electrical, computer). Recent examples include autonomous robots for theInternational Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC) and formula style race cars for the Society ofAutomotive Engineering Formula Student

Conference Session

Curriculum Exchange

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacob L. Segil, University of Colorado at Boulder; Brian Huang, SparkFun Electronics; Lindsay Diamond, SparkFun Electronics

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

(Curriculum Exchange)Target Grade Level: 9-12th gradeAuthor’s Name and contact info:Jacob Segil (jacob.segil@colorado.edu, 303-735-7313)Brain Huang (brian.huang@sparkfun.com)Lindsay Diamond (lindsay.diamond@sparkfun.com)Curriculum Link: https://canvas.instructure.com/courses/876545Curriculum Summary:The SparkFun Introduction 2 Design (SI2D) High School course provides an introduction toengineering through a series of team-based design projects using products from SparkFunElectronics in a typical high school classroom. This curriculum was based on a First YearProjects Course taught at the [University] and is now being studied during a semester-long pilotat [High School] as described by [another ASEE 2015 K-12 paper submission]. Students learnkey

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Technical Session 7

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ryan Fries P.E., Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; Brad Cross P.E., Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; Jianpeng Zhou, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; Chad Verbais, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville

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Civil Engineering

, problem-based learning, and impacts of the learning environment. To improvestudent teamwork experiences in any course, faculty have an opportunity to apply a wealth ofknowledge from fields such as organizational or industrial psychology 5. Some argue thateffective team-based learning in capstone courses require that teams be heterogeneous and haveshared goals, meaningful activities, timely internal feedback, and external comparisons andfeedback 6. Thus, for faculty to facilitate an effective team-based learning experience, they mustbe very deliberate in the planning of team projects, milestones, activities, feedback methods, andtiming.Other research has focused on problem-based learning approaches. One study, focusing on astructural engineering

Conference Session

ECCD Innovative Teaching Applications

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chad Dunkel, University of Idaho; Ryan A Oliver, BP; Tao Xing P.E., University of Idaho, Moscow; Herbert L. Hess, University of Idaho, Moscow; Steven W. Beyerlein, University of Idaho, Moscow; Dev S. Shrestha, University of Idaho, Moscow; Russell Scott Smith, University of Idaho Energy Plant

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1993. His research and teaching interests are in power electronics, electric machines and drives, electrical power systems, and analog/mixed signal electronics. He has taught senior capstone design since 1985 at several universities.Dr. Steven W. Beyerlein, University of Idaho, Moscow Dr. Beyerlein has taught at the University of Idaho for the last 27 years. He is coordinator of the college of engineering inter-disciplinary capstone design course. He is also a co-PI on a DOE sponsored Industrial Assessment Center program in which several of the student authors have been involved. Dr. Beyerlein has been active in research projects involving engine testing, engine heat release modeling, design