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Amir Karimi; Randall D. Manteufel

. Knight, D.W, L.E. Carlson and J.F. Sullivan, 2007, “Improving Engineering Student Retention through Hands-On, Team Based, First-Year Design Projects”, ASEE International Conference on Research in Engineering Education, Honolulu, HI.5. ASEE, 2012, “Going the Distance: Best Practices and Strategies for Retaining Engineering, Engineering Technology and Computing Students”, http://www.asee.org/retention-project/best-practices-and- strategies/ASEE-Student-Retention-Project.pdf .6. Dimitriu, D. and Karimi, A. “Exploring the Engineering Profession-A Freshman Engineering Course,” ASEE 2004-1793, Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon, June 12-15, 2005.7. Karimi, A., 2002

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Tanvir Manzur; Md. Kabirul Islam; Nur Yazdani

common in BUET. These typesof competition ensure participation of students having different skills in a team environmentwhich allows quick and easy exchange of skills and concepts. The current practice amongundergraduate students of BUET is to focus primarily on course work and chase hard for a bettergrade. There are limited opportunities for undergraduate research in BUET. Research experienceis useful and helpful for undergraduate students to become independent, interdependent andlifelong learners.A survey was conducted among students of the course titled "Structural Analysis and DesignSessional III" under the HEQEP project. It is a final year design-based course in which studentshave the opportunity to utilize commercially available structural

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Oscar N. Garcia; Garima Bajwa; Cynthia L. Claiborne; Shanti R. Thiyagaraja; Mohamed Fazeen; Eric H. Pruett

Friday Afternoon Session 1- Faculty Information Theoretic thread of Compression, Encryption, and Error Control for the Cloud Oscar N. Garcia, Garima Bajwa, Cynthia L. Claiborne, Shanti R. Thiyagaraja, Mohamed Fazeen, Eric H. Pruett Electrical Engineering and Center for Information and Computer Security College of Engineering, University of North Texas AbstractThis paper is based on the theme, topics and experiences of a senior/first-year-graduate verysuccessful new course taught during the Fall of 2012 to an enthusiastic small group of seniorsand graduate

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Ronald E. Barr

. d. For the “life-long learning” outcome, one can use examples of undergraduate research  projects and examples of library literature searches found in project reports. Some programs also put forth the number of students who apply to graduate school.No Mappings of SOs to PEOs,No matter how the PEOs and SOs are defined by the program, the PEV will expect to see amapping of the PEOs to the SOs in the self-study. One example of such a mapping is shown inTable 12.Insufficient Posting/Publishing of SOsThe SOs represent a commitment to the learning experiences of the students in the program, andthus should be clearly conveyed to all constituents by adequate posting and publishing the SOs,such as: a. In the university catalog within

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Camille A. Issa

, while the US suffers anincreasingly serious decline in the number of engineering graduates and a lack of well-educatedengineers.While until quite recently U.S. engineering firms dominated in global infrastructure projects andthe development of new design and engineering solutions, they are now becoming minorparticipants and are quite often not even invited to propose and bid for important projects. Earlierlast century the US has built structures such as the Empire State Building in fewer than 18 Proceedings of the 2013 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference, The University of Texas at Arlington, March 21 – 23, 2013. Copyright 2013, American Society for Engineering

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Hector A. Ochoa

. For some people, it means alot of work and efforts preparing the best lecture possible in order to teach a course. It needs tobe understood that Online Learning should not be the same in every field. If we consider lecturesin the field of social sciences, they may require a big amount of graphs, pictures, tables, anddiagrams, in arts, they may require audio, high-quality images, and video. However, it is adifferent story when STEM courses are considered. Even between the fields that compose theSTEM area, there are remarkable differences between the teaching styles. For example, in math, Proceedings of the 2013 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference, The University of Texas at Arlington, March 21

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Amit Oza; Gary Coleman; Lex Gonzalez; Eric Haney; Amen Omoragbon; Xiao Peng; Bernd Chudoba; Paul Czsyz

, the grandsons ofCharles Lindbergh and the Ryan NYP designer Donald Hall along with the Aerospace Vehicle Proceedings of the 2013 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference, The University of Texas at Arlington, March 21 – 23, 2013. Copyright 2013, American Society for Engineering EducationDesign (AVD) Laboratory have decided to define a modern challenge to honor the 1927 designand operator team to better understand the impact of state-of-the-art technology on advancedaircraft performance.It would not be a stretch to say that since the 1950s there have been no significant gains ingeneral aviation (GA) operations and technology. This study hopes to re-energize

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Andy Walker; Bernd Chudoba

 been vetted by a survey of industrial professionals well-practiced in flight vehicle weightestimation – the results of which indicate the needs of a weight engineer revolve aroundthorough documentation of flight vehicle applicability, weight method processes and equations,and uncertainty. Transport aircraft validation cases have been applied to each entry in the AVDWeight Method Library in order to provide a sense of context and applicability to each method.This generic specification of a method library will be applicable for use by other disciplineswithin the AVD Lab, Post-Graduate design labs, or engineering design professionals. Proceedings of the 2013 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference The

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Lynn Peterson; James Epperson; Ramon Lopez; Kevin Schug; Carter Tiernan

linked to one or more of these objectives. Programcomponents include (1) implementation of the recognized best-practice “Emerging Scholars” program in high-loss courses in mathematics (specifically, Pre-calculus and Calculus I & II) andchemistry (Chemistry for Engineers and General Chemistry) courses, and (2) undergraduateresearch opportunities (“authentic experiences”) pairing first- and second-year undergraduateswith faculty mentors for the purpose of providing research experiences. The authenticexperiences component began in Spring 2010 and the first Emerging Scholars programs inmathematics and chemistry began in Fall 2010.Once data from three semesters of implementation of the Emerging Scholars courses wascollected and analyzed, it was

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Amit Oza; Gary Coleman; Lex Gonzalez; Bernd Chudoba; Paul Czsyz

-order application of a systematic Proceedings of the 2013 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference, The University of Texas at Arlington, March 21 – 23, 2013. Copyright 2013, American Society for Engineering Educationproduct development life-cycle methodology. A generic methodology has been developed tosupport research portfolio planning and its execution for evolutionary and revolutionary N+3generation commercial subsonic large long haul aircraft concepts and associated with past,present, and future technologies.This study investigated in total 5 case studies for 5 unique technology portfolios, 1 marketsegments (Boeing B777-300ER, 335 PAX), and 2 design scenarios

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Lana Rings

. “Globalization presentsengineering educators with new challenges as they face the need for graduates who can functioncomfortably in an increasingly distributed team context which crosses country and culturalboundaries”16.Furthermore, both students and professors themselves comprise a diversity that is widelyacknowledged. If, for example, one “googles” the keywords “engineering school diversity professor student,” one will easily find a number of universities addressing the diversity of their student populations. When students work together, “it remains a big challenge for students with different educational backgrounds, practical experience and ethnic backgrounds, to coordinatetheir knowledge, thinking and activities”17. In addition, “googling” “diverse

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John Sibert; Matthew Goeckner; Dave Galley; Kory Goldammer

and Institutionalization of a College Level Initiative, Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.7. Arendale, D. R., 2004, Pathways of persistence: A review of postsecondary peer cooperative learning programs, in Best practices for access and retention in higher education (Duranczyk, I. M., Higbee, J. L., Lundless, D. B. (Eds.)), Center for Research on Developmental Education and Urban Literacty (CRDEUL), University of Minnesota.8. Gafney, L., Varma-Nelson, P., 2007, “Evaluating Peer Led Team Learning: A study of Long-term effects on former workshop peer leaders”, Journal of Chemical Education, 84, pp. 535-539.9. Gosser, D. K., Cracolice, M. S., Kampmeier, J. A., Roth, V., Strozak, V. S., Varma-Nelson, P., 2001, Peer-Led Team

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Melanie Sattler

particularly important for engineering students because often fresh graduates are blamed that they do not have enough practical knowledge. Service learning could decrease the gap between the academic and practical knowledge. This is a new experience that I might work on when I go back to my country (Kuwait) and I will apply what I learned to evaluate air quality especially with oil sector around exploration and production areas.Habitat for I learned how to apply previously obtained knowledge (from economics to engineeringHumanity classes) to real-world projects, especially with regard to applying that knowledge to the long-term environmental impacts of