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Mark B. Colton; Timothy W. McLain

2016 ASEE Rocky Mountain Section Conference Mechatronics at BYU: A New Course for Undergraduate Mechanical Engineers Mark B. Colton and Timothy W. McLain Department of Mechanical Engineering, Brigham Young UniversityAbstract In Fall 2015 a required mechatronics course was introduced in the Department of MechanicalEngineering at Brigham Young University as part of a broader curriculum redesign. The courseis designed to prepare students to develop smart, microcontroller-enabled products and work ininterdisciplinary teams on projects involving mechanical hardware, electronics, and software.Although mechatronics courses often

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Clifton B. Farnsworth; Evan Bingham; Justin E. Weidman

2016 ASEE Rocky Mountain Section Conference Benefits and Challenges of the China Megaconstruction Study Abroad Program Clifton B. Farnsworth, Evan Bingham, and Justin E. Weidman Brigham Young UniversityAbstractInternational travel opportunities provide undergraduate students with valuable academicexperiences not typically available through traditional coursework, including experiencingcultural diversity, increasing global awareness, and recognizing similarities and differences inprofessional practice. This paper describes the benefits of one such study abroad opportunityrecently developed (the China megaconstruction study

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Jackson J. Graham; Randy C. Hurd; Tadd T. Truscott

measurement with ±0.5⁰C accuracy.The heat transfer blocks were made from two pieces of 6061 Aluminum that are welded together,measure roughly 1.5 x 1.5 x 1.0 inches, and are coated in silicone. The blocks have a passage forfluid milled into them and are connected to the recirculating heating/cooling baths via silicontubing and a variety of NPT and barbed fittings (Fig. 2 (b)). The heat transfer blocks are suppliedeither hot or cold water from PolyScience Performance Digital (PD07R-20-A11B)Refrigerated/Heated Circulating Baths9. During operation, the blocks are placed in the variousmilled pockets of the conduction plate (with a thermal compound used to reduce thermal contactresistances) and provide the necessary temperature differences across the

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Susan M. Reynolds

the code interesting, but I do think it was a useful exercise to spend a bit of time on. I don’t think I’ve ever actually read through the code before. I’ve used a number of different codes in different design classes, but only as a place to get equations, limits, etc. from. I’ve never just read the sections from start to end. So in that way it was interesting, if a bit dry.” Student B: “I chose to browse through ‘Appendix A5 – Earthquake Hazard Reduction in Existing Concrete Buildings.’ This appendix is, as the title suggests, meant to address the minimum standards for seismic resistance in existing concrete and concrete frame buildings. The first section, A501, mainly states that the purpose

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Richard Cozzens

2016 ASEE Rocky Mountain Section Conference A Framework for Developing Effective Concurrent Web-Based Engineering and Technology Curriculum for Rural High Schools Richard Cozzens Department of Engineering and Technology Southern Utah UniversityAbstractRural high schools have traditionally lacked access to the most up-to-date engineering andtechnology curriculum and teaching resources. Recently, the use of communication technologyhas allowed improved access to learning resources where they would otherwise not be available.With relatively standard technology and limited travel requirements

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John M. Santiago; Jing Guo

2016 ASEE Rocky Mountain Section Conference A System Engineering Approach for Implementing An Electrical or Computer Engineering Master’s Capstone Course John M. Santiago, Jr., Ph.D. and Jing Guo, D.Eng. Colorado Technical University (CTU), College of Engineering Colorado Springs, COAbstractThe paper presents how an electrical or computer engineering Master’s capstone courseincorporates system engineering concepts. The project in the capstone course attempts toprovide a balance among technical merit, system-level thinking, and improved communicationskills. The student has an opportunity to integrate

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Dina Battaglia; Krishna Sampigethaya; Akhan Almagambetov; Mehran Andalibi; Tyrone Groh; Kaela Martin; Matt Pavlina; Sam Siewert; Anne Boettcher

2016 ASEE Rocky Mountain Section ConferenceIntegrating Research into Undergraduate Courses: Experiences from a Multi- Disciplinary Faculty Learning Community Dina Battaglia, Krishna Sampigethaya, Akhan Almagambetov, Mehran Andalibi, Tyrone Groh, Kaela Martin, Matt Pavlina, Sam Siewert, and Anne Boettcher Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, AZAbstractA Faculty Learning Community (FLC) in any university provides an excellent way for faculty toboth innovate and improve teaching methods and styles. When our FLC, consisting of sevenfaculty members and two staff members, convened, it became apparent across academicdisciplines that undergraduate research

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N. Fang; L. McNeill; Robert Spall; P. Barr

2016 ASEE Rocky Mountain Section Conference The Overall Framework of a National Science Foundation- Sponsored Scholarship Program for Enhancing Undergraduate Engineering Education at Utah State University N. Fang, L. McNeill, R. Spall, and P. Barr College of Engineering, Utah State UniversityAbstractAs technology increasingly impacts the nation’s economy and security, high demands have beenset for engineering schools to graduate an ever greater number of quality students optimallyeducated to meet business and industry needs. However, recent statistics compiled by theAmerican Society for Engineering Education reveals that

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Nebojsa Jaksic; Nikolas D'Angelo; Gabriele Vigano

, production of metal objects using 3Dprinting technologies can be categorized into three groups of processes: 1. Pattern-based: where 3D-printed (plastic, starch, or wax) parts are used as patterns for casting. Direct 3D printing of molds can be included in this group. 2. Indirect: where an initial metal powder-based part is 3D printed, and then such part is heat-treated (or sintered) in a furnace 3. Direct: where parts are produced by either a) heat-joining of metal powder (powder bed fusion) or b) direct deposition of metal (wire or powder) with the aid of an external energy source (directed energy deposition).While the first group of processes can be easily implemented using inexpensive 3D

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Reza Kamali-Sarvestani; Ephraim Nielson; Jared Laufiso

the printing head movement. It was found that with adrop diameter of 30 µm, 25 µm produced a uniform conductivity in both the x and ydirections with 0.5 Ω/cm. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 208 2016 ASEE Rocky Mountain Section Conference a) b ) c) d )Figure 1. a) Top Left: Substrate is too hydrophobic. b) Top Right: Drop spacing is tooclose causing pooling. c) Bottom Left: Drop spacing is too large causing

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Dixon Y. Nielson

were asked to become familiarwith a few commonly used business concepts. An attempt was made to help the studentsappreciate that by understanding some basic business principles they could be viewed as more © American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 126 2016 ASEE Rocky Mountain Section Conferencevaluable to their managers. Grading was based on in-class participation, homework, a midtermexam, and a final exam. B. Student FeedbackAlthough student responses to this new approach were somewhat more positive than the previousfeedback, many students still did not consider the course to be

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Jason C. Ganley

this section, the experiential learning techniques used in the Unit Operations Laboratory atCSM are described. The experiential learning instruction style that is put into practice in thecourse is based on the four-step cyclical model described by Kolb6. The four stages of learning,shown from a student’s perspective and in relation to a typical thinking taxonomy, are illustratedin Figure 1. Figure 1: (a) Experiential learning cycle, and (b) hierarchical thinking taxonomy.When a student group begins preparation for a new experiment, they bring the factual recall andcomprehension gained from the prerequisite lecture courses (gray on the taxonomy diagram).Lab preparation begins with the initial experimental design; the practical equivalent

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Hugh Smith

% Winter2015 78% Table 1: Percentage of students receiving a non-zero grade for Selective Repeat assignment (higher is better)b. Working file transfer program – The students are then required to implement a workingversion of the reliable file transfer over UDP using sliding windows with selective repeat forflow control and error recover. The students are not required to implement their state diagramsand instead are allowed to choose how they want to implement their program.Instructor ObservationsFor a subjective point of view, we are very pleased with the results of this process. There havebeen numerous comments from the students about using this technique in other courses (e.g. ourparallel

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Keith E. Holbert

students’ evaluations of teachers and courses: a closer look,” Research in Higher Education, vol. 21, no. 1, 1984, pp. 45-116.4. K. Bedard, P. Kuhn, “Where class size really matters: class size and student ratings of instructor effectiveness,” Economics of Education Review, vol. 27, no. 3, June 2008, pp. 253-265.5. L. G. Rayburn, J. M. Rayburn, “Impact of course length and homework assignments on student performance,” Journal of Education for Business, vol. 74, no. 6, July/August 1999, pp. 325-331.6. J. S. Anastasi, “Full-semester and abbreviated summer courses: an evaluation of student performance,” Teaching of Psychology, vol. 34, no. 1, 2007, pp. 19-22.7. M. Shaw, B. Chametzky, S. W. Burrus, K. J. Walters

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Jeffrey S. Bates; Taylor D. Sparks

2016 ASEE Rocky Mountain Section Conference7 G. D. Kuh, What student affairs professionals need to know about student engagement, Journal of College Student Development 50 (2009) 6, 683-706.8 M. F. Bugallo, A. M. Kelly, A pre-college recruitment strategy for electrical and computer engineering study, 4th IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (2014) 1-4.9 D. F. Shell, M. P. Hazley, Associations of students’ creativity, motivation, and self-regulation with learning and achievement in college computer science courses, IEEE (2013) 1-7.10 W. B. Stouffer, J. S. Russell, M. G. Oliva, Making the strange familiar: creativity and the future of engineering education, American Society for Engineering

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Audrianna Rodriguez; Maria-Isabel Carnasciali; Shannon Ciston; Melissa L. Whitson; Viktoria Zelenak Berendt

, Nontraditional College Students: Assumptions, Perceptions, and Directions for a Meaningful Academic Experience. International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, 2011. 6(4): p. 1-10.8. O'Donnell, V.L. and J. Tobbell, The Transition of Adult Students to Higher Education: Legitimate Peripheral participation in a Community of Practice. Adult Education Quarterly, 2007. 57(4): p. 312-328.9. Crossan, B., et al., Understanding participation in learning for non-traditional adult learners: Learning careers and the construction of learning identities. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2003. 24(1): p. 55-67.10. Jacobson, R.R. and S.M. Harris, Does the type of campus influence self-regulated learning as

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D. G. Schmucker; J. Lenart; S. J. Burian

2016 ASEE Rocky Mountain Section Conference Integrating and Assessing Cultural Intelligence: Activities and Assessment Schmucker, D.G., Lenart, J., and Burian, S.J. University of UtahAbstractIn the past 1.5 years, the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University ofUtah has conducted a pilot study to “modernize” the curriculum. One element of that study hasbeen focused on professional skills, global learning, and cultural intelligence. This paperdescribes what we have done to integrate and assess cultural intelligence into a course in eachyear of the program. In particular

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John M. Santiago; Jing Guo

’ in2016. The engineering faculty created a YouTube channel to serve its video content. Thecontent supports a flipped classroom approach as defined by the department from a totally onlinedelivery of instruction. Preliminary results show student satisfaction with this teachingpedagogy. Ongoing improvements include investigating software tools and green-screentechniques to increase student engagement. For example, interactive video learning techniqueswith embedded ‘hot links’ within a video can promote student attentiveness. The teachinginnovation allows students to have options or call-to-actions such as: watching more videos,perusing other forms of content, or taking a short quiz or other assessment activity.Keywordsonline flipped classroom

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Evan Bingham; Clifton Farnsworth; Justin Weidman

Improving the Socratic Method of Teaching Through the Use of Interactive Lecture Experiences Evan Bingham, Clifton Farnsworth, Justin Weidman Brigham Young UniversityAbstractIt has been said that the most effective teachers use class time to help students think aboutinformation and ideas the way scholars in the discipline do. To this end, some use a SocraticMethod to facilitate deeper thinking during class time. The implementation of a Socraticeducation model seeks to increase cooperative argumentative dialogue between individualsthrough the asking and answering of questions to stimulate critical thinking. Unfortunately,teachers are in constant

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Jing Guo; Kathy Kasley; John M. Santiago

2016 ASEE Rocky Mountain Section Conference The Challenges of Teaching Engineering Labs Online Dr. Jing Guo, Dr. Kathy Kasley, and Dr. John Santiago College of Engineering, Colorado Technical UniversityAbstractThe paper presents the Engineering Department’s development and the pilot delivery of anonline laboratory experience to support the electrical and computer engineering online deliveryof a previously on campus course, “EE110: Introduction to Engineering”. The most significantchallenges in support of students in the construction, debug, and measurement of circuitparameters include the following: (1) replacing face-to-face interaction with both the

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Liz Cox; Barbra Sobhani

generation is acategory which intersects with other underrepresented categories in STEM such asgender, race, ethnicity and persons with disabilities, yet is often an invisible category inmost educational programs. Red Rocks Community College, Lakewood, CO, inpartnership with Colorado School of Mines, is piloting a multifaceted approach to makethis invisible minority visible through engineering projects that are relevant to the lives ofLIFG students.This paper describes a larger project to go beyond the deficiency model (lens used todefine LIFG students by what they lack) in order to create spaces for LIFG students tovalidate their funds of knowledge (those skills, abilities and experiences developedthrough manual labor, military, non white-collar

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Jing Guo; John M. Santiago

2016 ASEE Rocky Mountain Section Conference Flipped Classroom Method in Teaching “Introduction to Engineering” Course Online Dr. Jing Guo and Dr. John Santiago Colorado Technical University (CTU), College of EngineeringAbstractThis paper presents a flipped classroom method used in developing and delivering an onlinecourse entitled, “Introduction to Engineering”. The course includes a combination of mini-lectures and labs. Two one-hour chat sessions held synchronously are used where: (1) instructorsneed to hold one chat session for answering the mini-video lectures, reading material andproblem sets, (2) and another hour for

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Angela R. Bielefeldt; Daniel Knight; Christopher Swan; Nathan Canney

,carefully considering the broader positive and potentially negative consequences of their work.1This professional responsibility encompasses a broad range of topics. Topics that havetraditionally fallen under the definition of ethics often focus on microethical concepts - personaland business related requirements that are commonly outlined in various professional codes ofethics.2,3 However, engineers should also consider their broader responsibilities to society as awhole in areas such as sustainability– encompassing what has been termed macroethics.4There are numerous published examples of specific courses where students are taught aboutethical issues – including traditional microethics and broader macroethical issues such asengineers

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Scott Houser

2016 ASEE Rocky Mountain Section Conference Teaching Economics Principles to Engineering Students: Lessons and Questions Scott Houser Colorado School of MinesAbstractThe economics education literature is full of research about how to teach economics to specificgroups of students, mainly business and liberal arts students. Not much is known about thechallenges and opportunities of teaching economics specifically to engineering students. Thispaper is intended to frame a discussion of those challenges and opportunities.This paper is informed by experience and assessment data from a required core

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Thomas Fronk; Robert Spall

2016 ASEE Rocky Mountain Section Conference Developing Meaningful Input for Continuous Improvement in Undergraduate Engineering Education Thomas Fronk and Robert Spall Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Utah State UniversityAbstractThe continuous improvement process requires relevant feedback from well-informed participantswho share the same goals espoused by the educational institution. A variety of perspectives fromstudents, alumni, industries and faculty are necessary to ensure that educational improvementsare effective. The methods for collecting continuous improvement data from