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Summer and Cohort Programs for Minorities: Student Success

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mikhail M. Bouniaev, University of Texas, Brownsville; Immanuel Adaikalaraj Edinbarough, University of Texas, Brownsville; Bill W. Elliott, The University of Texas at Brownsville

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Minorities in Engineering

Annual Conference and Exposition, 2001. 8. Mary R. Anderson-Rowland, Dana C. Newell, “Lessons learned in a successful underrepresented minority retention program,” American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, 2005. 9. Bevlee Watford, Carrie Slater, Jean Kampe, Whitney Edmister, “Lessons learned: Implementing large-scale peer mentoring program,” American Society for Engineering Education, 2006. 10. Kelly Crittenden, James Nelson, Galen Turner, “Increasing student success in Engineering and Science through a freshman enrichment program,” American Society of Engineering Education, 2008. 11. Arturo Fuentes, Stephen Crown, Robert Freeman, Horacio Vasquez, Cristina

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DEED Melange

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer Wang, University of California, Berkeley; Alice Merner Agogino, University of California, Berkeley

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Design in Engineering Education

participatedin a creative role, taking on the bulk of the design process through brainstorming, testing,implementing, and refining the challenge. They flexibly carried out these processes with helpfrom the industry engineers in a mentor role and from educators in a logistical role. Theengineers brought up questions in meetings that really probed and defined the criteria, pinningdown the nuances and forcing the team to reflect on what was necessary or not. Thus, theyhelped refine the criteria by pushing for specifications as in real engineering practice and turnedthe design process into a more authentic learning experience. The educators were very strictwith the timeline and logistics, as the challenge was scheduled to be delivered to the public for aset

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Projects in ECE

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vignesh Subbian, University of Cincinnati; Carla C. Purdy, University of Cincinnati; Fred Richard Beyette Jr., University of Cincinnati

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Electrical and Computer

, College of Engineering and Applied Science, at the University of Cincinnati and an affiliate faculty mem- ber in UC’s Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She received her Ph.D. in Math- ematics from the University of Illinois in 1975 and her PhD. in Computer Science from Texas A&M University in 1986. She is the head of UC’s B.S. in Computer Engineering Program and the coordina- tor of the Preparing Future Faculty in Engineering Program. Her research interests include embedded systems and VLSI, intelligent embedded systems, software and systems engineering, computational biol- ogy and synthetic biology, agent based modeling and simulation, mentoring, and diversity in science and engineering.Dr

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K-12 and Pre-college Engineering Curriculum and Programming Resources, Part 1 of 2

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cynthia Marie Baker, University of Nebraska, Lincoln - Mid American Transportation Center; Laurence R Rilett P.E., University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Gina M. Kunz; Gwen C. Nugent

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

hands-on activities, the lessonsapply otherwise complex mathematical and scientific concepts in ways that students can relate toand understand. For example, during the “Speed” curriculum, teachers and mentors implement a“Motion and You” PowerPoint and interactive lesson that provides instruction based onNewton’s laws of motion. Teachers and mentors pair the abstract knowledge learned from thelesson with an activity in which students measure the motion of different types, sizes, shapes andweights of mobile objects as they race down a car track. Additionally, new lessons and activitiesare continuously being developed by teachers and mentors based on noted student interest,advisory board feedback, teacher/mentor areas of expertise and evolving

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Engineering Leadership Development Constituent Committee Division Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bruce DeRuntz, Southern Illinois University Carbondale; Rhonda K. Kowalchuk, Southern Illinois University Carbondale; John W. Nicklow, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

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Engineering Leadership Development Division

creating technical leadership development programs2. SIUC’S College ofEngineering also responded by creating its Leadership Development Program (LDP) in 2006with the support from Advanced Technology Services (ATS) and later, the National ScienceFoundation.While creating a technical leadership development program is an important first step, theefficacy of such a program is the most important outcome and wherein lies the greatestchallenge. SIUC’S College of Engineering has adapted an engineering management tool, HoshinKanri X-matrix, to effectively manage the large scale program, to teach students how to use thisimportant tool, and to quantitatively demonstrate the efficacy and impact of the program, whilemeeting the motivational needs of the

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Student Learning, Problem Solving, & Critical Thinking 2

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nathan M. Hicks, University of Florida; Amy Elizabeth Bumbaco, University of Florida; Elliot P. Douglas, University of Florida

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Educational Research and Methods

and Engineering Practice. (2004). at 117. Yadav, A., Shaver, G. M. & Meckl, P. Lessons learned: Implementing the case teaching method in a mechanical engineering course. J. Eng. Educ. 99, 55–69 (2010).118. High, K. & Damron, R. Are freshman engineering students able to think and write critically. in Asee Annu. Conf. Expo. Conf. Proc. 12p (2007).119. Catalano, G. D. Developing an Environmentally Friendly Engineering Ethic: A Course for Undergraduate Engineering Students. J. Eng. Educ. 82, 27–33 (1993).120. Hager, P., Sleet, R. & Kaye, M. The relation between critical thinking abilities and student study strategies. High. Educ. Res. Dev. 13, 179–188 (1994).121. Fleming, J., Garcia, N. & Morning, C. The

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Applications of Online Computing

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jacques C. Richard, Texas A&M University; Logan N. Collins; Kristi J. Shryock, Texas A&M University; John D. Whitcomb, Texas A&M University; John Edward Angarita, Columbia University

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Computers in Education

needs to be tested in aclassroom and compared to a classroom that uses conventional textbooks to quantify eTextbookeffectiveness. Other evaluations and assessments would also need to be conducted. We need toensure that 1) we do not distract the student and negatively impact their education and 2) do notsacrifice a thorough understanding of the subject for a minor increase in physical intuition. Wealso want to eventually assess if such an eTextbook is complementing other efforts fortransforming undergraduate engineering education. Page 24.602.13Suggestions for technological developments/developersInteractive eBooks on a large scale can be looked

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Best of DEED

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carl A. Reidsema PhD, The University of Queensland; Lydia Kavanagh, The University of Queensland; Lesley Jolly, Strategic Partnerships

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Design in Engineering Education

discipline. Within a course, integration must beachieved such that concepts are constructively aligned to the downstream artefacts ofmultiple hands-on design projects to avoid being interpreted as additional material to belearned but irrelevant to major assessment goals. A further challenge in an environment ofever-increasing class sizes is the development of an approach that allows for scale-up, yetalso ensures students actually achieve requisite theoretical knowledge, professional ability,and behavioural learning outcomes.A large scale (1200 students) Flipped Classroom (FC) second-semester first-year engineeringcompulsory course was designed, implemented, operated and evaluated at a leading research-intensive university in Australia over the past

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Sustainability

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Justin L. Hess, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Sarah Aileen Brownell, Rochester Institute of Technology; Alexander T. Dale, Engineers for a Sustainable World

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

Page 24.1257.2profession, especially those covering sustainability topics, contain several of the 10 aspects ofwickedness.3 The National Academy of Engineering’s Grand Challenges for Engineeringprovides one relevant large-scale list4 but more regional issues such as urban transportation orwater infrastructure pose similarly complex challenges due to local variations. These issues mayhave a variety of clear technical responses, but implementation requires social and politicalagreement that engineers have rarely addressed. With the added contemporary need forconsideration of depleting resources and global crises such as climate change – which has beendefined as a “super” wicked problem5 – novel approaches to engineering education that

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K-12 and Pre-college Engineering: Educational Policy and Research

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mitchell Nathan, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Greg Pearson, National Academy of Engineering

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

development; cognition; learning;achievement; informal education; non-formal education; mentor; out-of-school; after school;enrichment; and extracurricular.Overall, multiple searches in the formal education, informal education, and cognitive areasuncovered over 500 reference citations. The abstracts of these articles were reviewed to gleanmore information about content and relevance. Papers were initially included if the programdescribed or studied integrated at least two STEM subjects. Four other criteria were alsoconsidered:  Does the integration include engineering as one of the integrated subjects?  Does the article provide empirical evidence regarding the impact of the program or a review of research on

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2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

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Diversity in Technical Education: The Importance of Building Technical Capital ............ 294Assessment of Team Projects in an Electrical Power Systems Course ......................................................... 305Experience from a Faculty Exchange Program: Student Success Lessons from Cal Poly StateUniversity ............................................................................................................................................................................. 309Microhydro for Rural Electrification as a Learn-By-Doing and Multidisciplinary Project: LessonsLearned