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Richard Harris; Hameed Metghalchi; Claire Duggan; Emanuel Mason; Rachelle Reisberg; Deepti Dutt

of self-efficacy onretention among under-represented minority students. This study will include well-established measures ofScience/ Math/ Engineering academic self-efficacy and coping efficacy. However, work self-efficacy represents anew construct that focuses specifically on young workers‟ confidence in managing workplace conditions. The studywill feature a newly validated Work Self-Efficacy Inventory written by Joseph A. Raelin, at NortheasternUniversity, and published by Mind Garden, Inc.5.) Collect longitudinal data on the pathways to self-efficacy and individual-tracked retention in engineeringby following a cohort over a critical two-year time span. Most of the pivotal studies that established therelationship between self-efficacy and

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Ethan Danahy; Morgan Hynes; Leslie Schneider; Danielle Dowling

The Aggregation Tool: Toward Collaborative Inquiry in Design-Based Science and Engineering Projects Ethan Danahy, Ph.D.1 [Morgan Hynes, Ph.D.,2 Leslie Schneider, Ph.D., Danielle Dowling]Abstract – A growing body of research has shown two things: (1) collaborative design-based inquiry activitiesshow remarkable gains in students’ understanding of science and (2) such activities are largely absent in theclassroom because they can be challenging to implement. In order to rectify the current situation, the InteractiveLearning and Collaboration Environment, or InterLACE, project seeks to design a suite of technological tools thatfacilitates class-wide collaborative sense-making. To that end, we have created an idea aggregation tool that

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Sujata K. Bhatia; Brad Crane; David Goligorsky; Joseph P. Zinter; Gu-Yeon Wei

necessary to motivate and enable students to make informed decisions. With these considerations in mind,Harvard University introduced an on-campus, week-long intensive hands-on course on design thinking. The coursewon an award from the 2012 Harvard President’s Innovation Fund for Faculty, and was held during winter break.The course was intended to provide a concise and complete exposure to engineering and design, in a way that wouldbe accessible to students with no prior technical background. The course was also developed with the goal ofbroadening the problem-solving approach conventionally used by engineers, through incorporation of techniquesand methods used by designers – a process known as design thinking. The design process is characterized

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Francis J. Hopcroft

student makes his mark in the world by creating the impossible in a virtual world withunknown tools and building blocks of ephemeral thought. He is comfortable with mixing the real with the imaginaryand with intellectually developing ways to bridge the two. Discussions about the meaning and intent of art andhumanities are easy for this student to engage in because he is not constrained by artificial limits like time andmoney. Where the engineer sees himself as a Problem Solver, the computer scientist sees himself as a creativethinker. He can easily instill himself into the mind of the artist and begin to understand and appreciate what the artisthad in mind with his work. THE MEANING OF IT ALLObservations

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Brian Savilonis; Kent Rissmiller

throughout.With this project backdrop in mind, the Great Problems Seminars (GPS) were initiated for first year students in2007. Like the junior year project, GPS are designed to engage students with current events, societal problems, andhuman needs. Each seminar focuses on a large global issue. Power the World (PTW), focuses on energy and itsutilization. PTW is co-taught by a mechanical engineer and a social scientist (public policy).The faculty who developed the seminars [3] focused on three key principles: 1. Engage first-year students with current events, societal problems, and human needs in a project and team based learning environment, 2. Require first year students to perform/produce critical thinking, information literacy

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Keith M. Gardiner

IBM engineering workforce. Itwas soon recognized that these skills also needed promoting among engineering graduate programs, this lead to IBMgrants for the establishment of cross-disciplinary ‘Manufacturing Systems Engineering’ programs in Asia, Europeand the U.S. – these programs developed new courses and also adopted and adapted offerings from Colleges ofBusiness in collaboration with several disciplines in engineering [8].In parallel, by the nineties these initiatives promoting collaboration, communication, presentation and teamworkskills became widely employed in contests starting in middle schools with events like the Future City Competition,Mathcounts, Odyssey of the Mind, and science fairs etc. [9]. Similar competitions for university

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Jessica Dawn Ventura

different backgrounds. INTERCULTURAL SENSITIVITYWhen designing and implementing engineering programs, it is important to keep the following questions continuallyin mind: Where are the students at in their cultural understanding? and Where do we want them to be? MiltonBennett divides the six stages of intercultural sensitivity into two categories: ethnocentricism and ethnorelativism[10]. He describes the term ethnocentricism as the experience of one’s own culture being central to reality, “the waythings are.” The three stages within this category are Denial, Defense, and Minimization of difference.Ethnorelativism is then “the experience of one’s own culture as just one organization of reality among many

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Cullen A. Jones

adding reinforcing steel to the tensile region. A bit ofshowmanship (Fig. 1) helps bring other important training aids into the classroom: fun and excitement.Keeping these aids in mind, a series of new training aids have been integrated into lessons at the United StatesMilitary Academy, focusing on some of the more tricky concepts and principles. The following is an overview ofthese teaching tools implemented over the past two semesters, focusing on reinforced concrete and masonry design. 1 Instructor, Department of Civil & Mechanical Engineering, United States Military Academy, 752 ThayerRoad, Mahan Hall, RM330, West Point, NY 10996-1792, cullen.jones@usma.edu2012 ASEE Northeast Section Conference

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Jacob Cox; Jason Cody; Jesse Fleming; Matthew Miller

pace with their peers during ICEs and improve their performance on graded events. For the IT105 course, ICEsconsist of designing, programming, and implementing Raptor [1] and Java code. 1 Department of Electrical Engineering, United States Military Academy, 601 Thayer Road, West Point, NY 10996, jacob.cox@usma.edu 2 Department of Electrical Engineering United States Military Academy, 601 Thayer Road, West Point, NY 10996, jason.cody@usma.edu 3 Department of Electrical Engineering United States Military Academy, 601 Thayer Road, West Point, NY 10996, jesse.fleming@usma.edu 4 Department of Electrical Engineering United States Military Academy, 601 Thayer

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Valeria Matinuzzi; Danielle Peterson; Sean Iacobone; Salah Badjou

a regular basis. The present research was conducted in a semester-long sophomore-levelbiomedical engineering course of physiology for engineers.Keywords: Energy drinks, validation, taurine, caffeine, health INTRODUCTIONThe substances assessed in this paper are Red Bull and coffee, the two most commonly ingested energy drinks. Inorder to determine whether these energy drinks are safe for consumption and can deliver the promised effect, wewill evaluate existing research and conduct an experiment. The present research was conducted in a semester-longsophomore-level biomedical engineering course of physiology for engineers.Red Bull is the most popular new-age energy drink, and is increasing in