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Active and Inquiry-Based Learning

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David B. Knight, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Educational Research and Methods

AC 2011-1963: EDUCATING BROAD THINKERS: A QUANTITATIVE ANAL-YSIS OF CURRICULAR AND PEDAGOGICAL TECHNIQUES USED TOPROMOTE INTERDISCIPLINARY SKILLSDavid B. Knight, Pennsylvania State University, University Park David Knight is a PhD candidate in the Higher Education Program at Pennsylvania State University and is a graduate research assistant on two NSF-funded engineering education projects. His research interests include STEM education, interdisciplinary teaching and research, organizational issues in higher education, and leadership and administration in higher education. Email: dbk144@psu.edu Page 22.519.1

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Extending a Hand Back: Older Students Inspiring Younger Students

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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AJ Almaguer, University of California, Berkeley; Roy Tangsombatvisit, University of California, Berkeley; Matthew Ford, University of California, Berkeley; Susan Yushan Chen, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley Engineers and Mentors; Lisa A. Pruitt, University of California, Berkeley; Neil Ray, University of California, Berkeley

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2011-2368: BUILDING ENGINEERS AND MENTORS: A MODEL FORSTUDENT-LED ENGINEERING OUTREACHAJ Almaguer, UC Berkeley AJ Almaguer studied Mechanical Engineering and Material Science Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He was one of the founding members of BEAM.ROY TANGSOMBATVISIT, UC BerkeleyMatthew Ford, UC BerkeleySusan Yushan Chen, Berkeley Engineers and Mentors at the University of California, Berkeley I am a Bioengineering senior at UC Berkeley. I joined BEAM in my junior year because I have always wanted to mentor. I have since been working with BEAM as staff and mentor. I have also helped establish BEAM as a more prominent engineering outreach organization on campus. I plan to enroll in graduate

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Multidisciplinary Technical Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Malinda S. Zarske, University of Colorado, Boulder; Lauren A. Rockenbaugh, University of Colorado, Boulder; Daria A. Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado, Boulder; Derek T. Reamon, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

AC 2011-975: ENGINEERING FOR AMERICAN COMMUNITIES: EN-GAGING ENGINEERING STUDENTS IN MULTIDISCIPLINARY ALTRU-ISTIC ENGINEERING DESIGN PROJECTSMalinda S Zarske, University of Colorado, Boulder MALINDA SCHAEFER ZARSKE is a doctoral candidate at the University of Colorado Boulder in engi- neering education. Her research interests include engineering student learning, diversity and recruitment. Her current research is centered on the impacts of project-based service-learning on student identity, recruitment, and retention in engineering. She is a Co-Director of the Engineering for American Commu- nities student organization, on the development team as well as a content editor for the TeachEngineer- ing.org digital

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Design Spine

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brian Frank, Queen's University; David S. Strong, Queen's University; Rick Sellens, Queen's University

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Design in Engineering Education

. This emphasis on professional practice would give coherence and efficacy to the primary task facing schools of engineering: enabling students to move from being passive viewers of engineering action to taking their place as active participants or creators within the field of engineering. In this process, the student would begin to develop an identity as an engineer.”20CDIO Standards 3, 4, 5, 7, and 8 mandate the curriculum components key to EDPS and theirintegration.3 Those standards are: Integrated Curriculum, Introduction to Engineering, DesignBuild Experiences, Integrated Learning Experiences, a nd Active Learning. The standards requireat least two design/build experiences integrated into the core curriculum and

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Engineering Design in Pedagogy

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nathan Mentzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Kyungsuk Park, Utah State University

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Design in Engineering Education, K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

engineering and technology education teachers to help create anunderstanding of what the overarching goals of the study were and their role providingresearchers with access to the school facilities and students. Once the teacher was familiar withthe study, a member of the research team made classroom visits to begin the recruitment process.The researcher explained the purpose of the study and the student’s role within the study.The target student for the pilot study was one who had completed several engineering basedcourses at the high school level. Senior students were targeted for the pilot study because theywere most likely to demonstrate design thinking after having studied multiple courses, thusallowing researchers to pilot the methodology. The

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Descriptions of Outreach Programs

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rayshun J. Dorsey, WizKidz Science and Technology Centers, Inc.; Ayanna M. Howard, Georgia Institute of Technology

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

unable to meet highexpectations. They tend to demand less academically and behaviorally, which translates intofewer opportunities to achieve and a decreased chance of graduating and going on to highereducation. As an example of this belief system, one teacher at a low-income school once said ofher students [6]: “We need to tell them, ‘You’re not all going to college.’ Some are not collegematerial and we should tell them that. They should set lower goals and follow them.” To combat this issue found in many underserved communities, we designed andimplemented a number of after school programs for at-risk elementary, middle, and high schoolstudents who have expressed or demonstrated interest in any aspect of science, technology,engineering and/or

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Rethinking PowerPoint and Other Acts of Communication

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Laura R. Grossenbacher, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Christina Matta, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Technical Communication Program

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

almost all of the engineering majors in our College(typically in their junior or early senior year). All told, we teach 600 - 700 engineering studentsper year in this class alone.Although we are housed in our own College of Engineering, we face challenges similar to thosedescribed by other non-engineering faculty or instructors with specific expertise in teachingwriting. Even where the writing-across-the-curriculum instructors have developed a fullyintegrated model for teaching communication within engineering design courses, they articulateconcerns we share. Craig, Lerner, and Poe, of the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies atMIT, have written about these shared challenges; they ask -- how can we help students “movefrom general academic

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Making Elementary Engineering Work: Lessons from Partnerships and Practice

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elisabeth W. McGrath, Stevens Institute of Technology; Carol Shields, Stevens Institute of Technology; Augusto Z. Macalalag Jr., Stevens Institute of Technology

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

, andimprove their own water filters. Figure 1(2) Catching the Wind (Mechanical Engineering)This module (Figure 2) guides students to learn about wind andthe ways engineers design machines to capture wind energy.Students explore different materials and shapes conducive tocatching the wind. For the design activity, students create theirown windmills that can lift a small weight. FElementary Pilot Study Results Figure 2The EiE modules were used in 13 New Jersey schools to assess the impact of grade appropriateengineering curricula for elementary students

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Engineering Education Research in K-12

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Karen A. High, Oklahoma State University; Melanie C. Page, Oklahoma State University; Julie Thomas, Oklahoma State University

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Educational Research and Methods, K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

profes- sionals. Dr. High is a trainer for Project Lead the Way pre-Engineering. Additionally, she works with middle school teachers and students on engineering projects.Melanie C Page, Oklahoma State University Melanie C. Page received her Ph.D. in Quantitative Psychology from Arizona State University in 1998. She is currently a professor in the Department of Psyhcology and Director of the OSU Institute for Cre- ativity and Innovation (ICI) in the School of Entrepreneurship. Her research interests are mainly in pre- vention/intervention research; She is currently involved in several projects. One major project is looking at decreasing childhood overweight through family and peer interventions (FiSH project) with

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Attracting Young Minds: Part II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sarah M. Brown, National Society of Black Engineers; Lauren D. Thomas, Virginia Tech

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Minorities in Engineering

both the program model and the impact of the program. Data collected fromparticipants includes demographics data, efficacy and learning assessments, and evaluations ofthe programs‟ content. This data is collected through survey templates provided to local studentleaders, tabulated locally, and returned to the National leadership. Through the pilot studies thedata collection and research methods are verified for their effectiveness in this unique programmodel. This paper will present the program assessment for internal development as well asaddress research questions about engineering students involved in STEM mentoring activities.Finally we present recommendations for developing the program further and a plan for acomprehensive study of the

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2011 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Lily Gossage

sequential designs within a mixed methods approach[4], a variety of research techniques was employed to elicit students’ views and attitudes. Afocus group of five Latino/Hispanic students was asked about their perceptions and attitudesregarding the climate within an engineering college. From their responses emerged 10 themes,collapsed into six dimensions; these were later used to construct a nine-item survey instrumentdeployed to over 150 Latino/Hispanic engineering students. In asking whether Latino/Hispanicengineering students felt disconnected to the general student population and to the engineeringdiscipline, the study also investigated the extent to which self-segregation occurred across otherethnic/racial groups. Questions were primarily

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gwen Lee-Thomas, Ph.D., Old Dominion University; Autar Kaw, University of South Florida; Ali Yalcin, University of South Florida

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NSF Grantees

Page 22.1626.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Using Online Endless Quizzes as Graded HomeworkINTRODUCTIONIn an effort to find the best use of limited teaching assistant’s time in today’s economy, a study1reported at ASEE 2010 conference by the last two authors of this paper indicated that there is nostatistically significant difference in student performance when homework is assigned, collectedand graded versus when homework is assigned, and neither collected nor graded. The study wasconducted in a Numerical Methods course at University of South Florida (USF) over a period ofthree years encompassing data from over 300 hundred

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FPD XI: Assessing First-Year Programs, Experiences, and Communities

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Tech; Kelly J. Cross, Virginia Tech University

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First-Year Programs

Pilot Validation Study Of The Epistemological Beliefs Assessment For Engineering (Ebae): First-Year Engineering Student Beliefs. American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference. June 20-23: Louisville, KY.Carr M., and E. Ní Fhloinn (2009). Assessment and Development of Core Skills in Engineering Mathematics. CETL-MSOR Conference 2009 Proceedings. D. Green, Ed. Birmingham, UK: The Math, Stats, and OR Network. 19-24.Concannon, J. and L. H. Barrow, Men’s and Women’s Intentions to Persist in Undergraduate Engineering Degree Programs, Journal of Science Education and Technology. 19(2): 133-145.Conejero, J.A.; Juan-Huguet, J.; Morillas, S.; Mas, J.; Vendrell, E. (2010).Assessment of the

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2011 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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University, Prescott campus, and inpart because this course is both writing intensive and presentation intensive and students couldbenefit from supplementary COM instruction. Moreover, it later became apparent that due to thedemanding nature of this course, students are often stressed and this stress can lead tointerpersonal conflicts between team members. It was thus argued that students could benefitfrom supplementary COM instruction in conflict negotiation and resolution. By inviting a COMinstructor into the senior design course, COM support could be deeply embedded in the students'capstone experience, providing timely instruction just before graduation. In order to maximizethe COM instructor's understanding of the engineering students' needs

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Capstone Design Projects in ECE

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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George York, U.S. Air Force Academy; Daniel J. Pack, U.S. Air Force Academy

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Electrical and Computer

Page 22.1087.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Multi-Disciplinary Capstone Design Project: An Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) for Vehicle TrackingAbstractOver the past several years we have used a variety of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)applications as multidisciplinary capstone design projects. In this paper, we present one of thoseprojects in which the goal of the UAS is to search, detect, and identify an approaching vehicle,then relay the identity of the vehicle to a ground station in an environment with radio frequency(RF) interferences. The project team had seven students from four different majors: SystemEngineering Management, System Engineering, Computer