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Dean C. Millar

, economic and environmental and societal contextFall 2010 Mid Atlantic ASEE Conference, October 15-16, 2010, Villanova University(i) Recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in, life-long learning(j) Knowledge of contemporary issues(k) An ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice3Our Response This paper proposes that engineering education will, because of logical and competitivefactors, be drawn to a strategic plan for ideal engineering professional preparation. Thatpreparation will include the goal of a student having a right job when they graduate. Moreover,it will include exposure to the professional requirements of an on-the-job engineer. Goingforward, this

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Allison L. Felix; Joel Z. Bandstra; William H.J. Strosnider

project plan during the two weeks, which is aprecursor to the integrative curriculum unit plan that will ultimately be implemented in theclassroom. The project plan template that was used comes from the Buck Institute for Education Fall 2010 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, October 15-16, 2010, Villanova University(www.bie.org). The project plan is the driver of the curriculum unit plan, which is designed toenhance and provide a context for existing content lessons rather than supplant existing lessons.The ProjectThe project challenged high school students in a high school summer outreach academy andmiddle and high-school teachers in a two-week summer science institute to design and constructa system to remediate water impacted by acid

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Keith M. Gardiner

Smarter CitiesSustainability and undergraduatesA course, IE334 – Organizational Planning & Control (OPC), is offered every fall for juniors,seniors, and occasional graduate students. For several years the content has been focused on avariety of issues related to sustainability, including energy and food production. Students haveindividual assignments for about half of the grade, and the remainder is made up of teamactivities. The „student-employees‟ are charged with collaborative team production of a series ofresearch reports and finally a „publication-ready‟ research paper.8 After a preliminary initial teamassignment based on examination and review of current issues afflicting industry and societyusing current news clips and e-newsletter

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David W. Dinehart; Timothy Harrington; Matthew Bandelt; Adam Beckmann

students, so the decision was made to serve middle school students. A Monsignor at anunderprivileged parish in Philadelphia, St. Martin of Tours, had requested some assistance in acareer day event at the parish school. The school in turn became the recipient of the firstengineering club. The principal of the school was excited about our interest, as was one of thesixth grade teachers. An engineering club announcement was sent out to the sixth grade. In onenight, the club was filled to capacity with twenty-five sixth grade students.This paper discusses the format and learning outcomes of the club, the curriculum, observationsand outcomes, lessons learned, and expansion plans, assessment needs, and conclusions.Format and learning outcomesThe

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Richard Devon; Kathryn Jablokow

, team management, market assessment and benchmarking, user needsassessment, product exploration, a development plan, and the target specifications. We expectothers who adopt FEED to modify it according to their own views, as we probably will in thefuture also.This process is then assessed through an early design review to make sure it was done well. It isthen followed by the familiar solution development stage, and that is followed by a criticaldesign review. Throughout these stages, we use a new concept of design validation to show theway in which both the design process and the product ideas are continually subject to validationand ultimately to testing, manufacture, use, and disposal. This is aimed at teaching design as athoughtful

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Andrea L. Welker; Leslie McCarthy; John Komlos; Alfred Fry

Knowledge4: • an ability to communicate effectively (ABET g, BOK 16) and • a recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning (ABET i, BOK 23).Outcomes by yearTo guide our instruction, 26 outcomes, which were based on those developed by ACRL1, werecreated for each year of study within our curriculum.By the end of the sophomore year, the students should be able to:1. explore general information sources to increase familiarity with a topic2. identify key concepts and terms that describe the information need3. define a realistic overall plan and timeline to acquire the needed information4. read text, select main ideas, and restate textual concepts in their own words5. identify verbatim material that can then be

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Kevin Dahm

regularly. To be sustainable, assessment plans must makeefficient use of faculty time. This paper will present strategies for integrating thecollection of assessment data with the process of grading individual student assignments.The Rowan Chemical Engineering programs’ identified objectives are all summative innature: e.g., “Graduates will have the ability to do…” Consequently, programmaticassessment strategies are based upon two courses that offer a culminating experience withrespect to these desired outcomes; namely, the capstone design course and theJunior/Senior Engineering Clinic. In both courses, the major deliverables are final designreports and final presentations. Detailed grading rubrics have been crafted for theseassignments in both

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completed in a short amount of time. The student team approachesthe problem as they best see fit – this may include trial and error, design-build-test-redesign, andany number of different design approaches. When complete, the designs are tested to determine a“winner” based on some predetermined metric. Examples of impromptu design exercisescurrently being developed for a diverse range of classes across engineering disciplines arepresented along with a discussion about some of the challenges of developing an adequateassessment plan. Relevant curriculum theory, such as that of Jerome Bruner’s spiral curriculum,will provide a backdrop for this discussion.1. IntroductionIn ABET’s 2010-2011 Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs 1 , engineering

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LeRoy Alaways

volunteered each of these factors. Table 2 – Success Factors and Categories Category Factors Communication, Leadership Communication Organization, Assignments, Planning Cell phones (Texting) Outside Assistance Outside Assistance and Advisors Outside Funding Teamwork

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Jason T. Kirby; Talat F. Salama

next several years. Fall 2010 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, October 15-16, 2010, Villanova UniversityBackgroundIn 2005, the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s (UAB) Department of Civil, Constructionand Environmental Engineering began the implementation of newly developed strategic plans inorder to enhance both research and academic programs. Among the changes was the adoption ofa new vision to: “become a nationally and internationally recognized, research-orientedDepartment of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering: a first choice for graduateand undergraduate education”. However, like many U.S. engineering programs, internationalcollaborations were scarce and rarely extended beyond individual research projects. To

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Bill Lorenz; Pritpal Singh

8531: Nanomaterials, Catalysis and Energy Transformations for a Sustainable FutureCourses offered in the Watershed Sustainability track include:  CEE 7010 Lake, Stream, and Wetland Ecology  CEE 7111 Introduction to Hydraulic Eng. And Hydrology  CEE 7211 Water Resource Planning and Management  CEE 8501 Surface Water Hydrology  CEE 8502 Watershed Modeling  CEE 8503 Open Channel Hydraulics  CEE 8512 River Mechanics and Engineering  CEE 8507 Environmental Flow  CEE 8508 Urban Hydrology and Storm Water Management  CEE 8510 Groundwater Hydrology 2 Fall 2010 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference

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James C. Peyton Jones; Connor McArthur; Tyler Young

://www.lego.com/ 14. A. Behrens, et al. “MATLAB meets LEGO Mindstorms- A freshman introduction course into practical engineering”, IEEE Trans. on Education, Vol.53, No.2, (2010), 306-317 15. T. Chikamasa, “Embedded coder robot NXT instruction manual”, www.mathworks.com/ matlabcentral/fileexchange/13399/, 2009. 16. McNinch, L. C., Soltan, R. A., Muske, K. R., Ashrafiuon, H., Peyton-Jones, J. C. “An Experimental Mobile Robot Platform for Autonomous Systems Research and Education”, Proceedings of the 14th IASTED International Conference on Robotics and Applications, (2009): 412-418 17. McNinch, L. C., Soltan, R. A., Muske, K. R., Ashrafiuon, H., Peyton-Jones, J. C. “Application of a Coordinated Trajectory Planning and

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Gary P. Halada

respond to aneed by building or creating something along a certain set of guidelines (or specifications) whichperforms a given function. Just as importantly, that device, plan or creation should perform itsfunction without fail. Everything, however, does eventually fail and, in some cases, fails withcatastrophic results. Through discussion and analysis of engineering disasters from nuclearmeltdowns to lost spacecraft to stock market crashes, this course will focus on how modernengineers learn from their mistakes in order to create designs that decrease the chance andseverity of failure.” The course is 3 credits and, while required for Engineering Science majors,is open to any student in the University who has completed at least one science or

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Shawn P. Gross; David W. Dinehart; Aleksandra Radlinska; Joseph Robert Yost

for Mechanics II than Mechanics I. Apotential reason for these lower ratings is identified in the section of this paper entitledChallenges.More comprehensive assessment plans based on evaluation of student work (especially in-classquizzes) and short student surveys given immediately after overarching problem solution periodsare in the process of being developed.ChallengesThe use of overarching problems worked well in the first year of the restructured mechanicscourses. The primary challenges are, as with any example problem, in developing theappropriate depth of examples to foster student learning without it becoming too laborious tosolve in the class time provided. In general, the overarching problems in Mechanics I seemed tobe of

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Frank T. Fisher; Hong Man

) fabrication of nanoshells for surface-enhanced Raman scattering, (c) nanohydrogels.ConclusionsThe methodology of video documentation and multimedia presentation of undergraduateresearchers working in various nanotechnology labs is being pursued in order to provide anengaging exposure to academic research and an introduction to nanotechnology accessible forstudents early within the undergraduate curriculum. Such modules may greatly increase thenumber of students exposed to such research while leveraging the excitement and wonder ofacademic research to create a compelling learning experience. The ultimate objectives of thelong-term research plan envisioned for this effort are 1) invigorating the first year

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Erick Froede; David Saint John; Richard Devon

nanotechnology and itssocial, ethical and legal impacts has worked best with a mixture of graduate and undergraduatestudents and a flat pedagogical hierarchy. We need to select against the culture of top downexpertise in this multidisciplinary and rapidly developing field. Outside of the classroom, anascent student club (the Intercollegiate Futures Society) cultivates the hobbyist ethos with handson work with a Rep-Rap Mendel, (the aforementioned open source 3-D printer). It also increasesthe range of majors that get recruited into nanotech related work in policy, scenario planning,ethics, and commercialization. We‟re hoping we can find a few good “F” students like Torvaldsto help us out.Bibliography 1. Linux online http://www.linux.org/ Viewed 10