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Shuping Wang

2017 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual Conference Introducing CWDM for 40Gb/s and 100Gb/s Ethernet to Engineering Technology Curriculum Shuping Wang Department of Engineering Technology, University of North TexasAbstractSince the approval of the 40Gb/s and 100Gb/s Ethernet standard (IEEE 802.3ba) in 2010,4 x 10Gb/s channel coarse wavelength division multiplexing (CWDM) and 4 x 25Gb/schannel CWDM have been adopted and put into practical use as a standard for transmissionof data streams over a 10km or 40km single mode optical fiber. To keep students’ knowledgeand skills current with the new technology development and prepare

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able to disseminate knowledge and clarify concepts across the team. It should bementioned that in the case of large teams (~10 members), there was usually a graduate studentmentor who served to coordinate individual/team activities and progress, and this graduate studentalong with the undergraduate team members would report to the faculty mentor(s).Accelerated Summer Projects with/without University Support and/or Involving Exchange StudentsThis type of projects included those with durations lasting one summer session (~6 weeks) or bothsummer sessions (~3 months). The participant students were either registered for light course loads(1-2 courses), or were not taking classes during summer. Some of the students were pursuing non-academic hourly

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Roy Issa; Kenneth R. Leitch; Byungik Chang P.E.

tests (Tests No. 8 through 11 in Table1) were conducted on the active system. For all tests, water was poured into the still to a depthof 5 cm for a total volume of 36 liters. The conditions of the tests were as follows. The average 4wind speed in these tests ranged from 3.61 to 7.29 m/s, average ambient temperature rangedfrom 18.4 to 31 oC, and average water temperature in the basin ranged from 25 to 40oC. For thesolar distillation system with augmentation, the mass flow rate of water circulating in the systemwas 0.11 kg/s.Table 1.Operatingconditions for passive and active stills Average Temperatures Distillate Test Dates

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that can set pressure on the government to create environmental regulations forcurrent and future oil extraction operations in the country. The NSE emphasizes the need to“enforce the maintenance of discipline and strict standards of ethics in the practice of theengineering profession in Nigeria”33, however ethic courses do not seem to be part of theengineering curriculum at Nigerian universities. As long as ethics is not part of the academiccurriculum, Nigeria will continue to suffer from corruption and remain classified as a developingcountry despite its richness in natural resources.References 1. Brundtland, G., Khalid, M., Agnelli, S., Al-Athel, S., Chidzero, B., Fadika, L., ... & Singh, M. (1987). Our common future

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Copyright © 2017, American Society for Engineering Education 2017 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual Conferenceby neglecting kinetic and potential energies in the equations associated with the equations for thefirst law of thermodynamics, yet struggle to explain why these assumptions are justified. Likewise,they will assume steady-state behavior, but have difficulty to explain the reason. Students learnhow to approximate the evaluation of thermodynamics fluid properties, but cannot providereasonable justifications for the approximations. For example why the specific volume v (T, P),internal energy u (T, P), or entropy s (T, P) in the compressed liquid region can be simply beapproximated by saturation properties, vf (T), uf (T

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participate in on-campus activities focusing on their major. Aninterdisciplinary faculty team from mechanical engineering, civil and environmental engineering,biomedical engineering, and electrical and computer engineering created a Scholarship Programfor Undergraduate Retention and Success (SPURS) with the support of NSF’s S-STEMinitiative. The proposed program consists of an integrated approach to increase the number andgraduation rate of undergraduate students who enroll in the College of Engineering.KeywordsScholarship program, professional development, mentoring.This is an extended abstract.OverviewThe University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) is a Minority Serving Institution and has seenrapid growth in the last 10 years; however, student

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aid students in acquiring practical engineeringskills. This fact can be seen not only in the increase of success rates but also the overwhelmingpositive responses of student perception. Further assessment work will need in order tounderstand the role of student enrollment background as well as math placement to aid inenhancing the effectiveness of this course.References1 Beichner, R., J. Saul, R. Allain, D. Deardorff, and D. Abbot, “Introduction to SCALE-UP: Student- Centered Activities for Large Enrollment University Physics,” presented at the Annual meeting for the American Society for Engineering Education, St. Louis, MS, 2000.2 Ingram, B., M. Jesse, S. Fleagle, J. Florman, and S. Van Horne, Cases on Higher

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, and D. Abbot, “Introduction to SCALE-UP: Student- Centered Activities for Large Enrollment University Physics,” presented at the Annual meeting for the American Society for Engineering Education, St. Louis, MS, 2000.2 Ingram, B., M. Jesse, S. Fleagle, J. Florman, and S. Van Horne, Cases on Higher Education Spaces: Innovation, Collaboration, and Technology, IGI Global, Hershey, PA, 2013, pg. 165-185.3 Ewing, D., “Using the SCALE-UP Method to Create an Engineering First Year Engineering Course”, submitted for presentation at the 2017 annual conference of the ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section. Proceedings of the 2017 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual Conference

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Magdalena Grohman; Eun Ah Lee; Nicholas Gans; Marco Tacca; Matthew Brown

manyopportunities for lab members to discuss ethical or social aspects of engineering research projectat hand, so that modulation in situated context may be helpful to facilitate ethical or socialconsideration in engineering research labs. Based on the results presented above we suggest asituated approach, such as midstream modulation in engineering labs and collaboration withethics experts to improve engineering ethics education programs.References1. Zandvoort, H., Borsen, T., Deneke, M., and Bird, S. J., “Perspectives on Teaching Social Responsibility to Students in Science and Engineering,” Science and Engineering Ethics,19, 2013, 19, 1413-1438.2. Harris Jr., C. E., “The Good Engineer: Giving Virtue is due in Engineering Ethics,” Science and

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certification program,and even be offered as standalone professional or medical outreach courses. Various academictracks, branching off of the common core courses, could be implemented to complement theengineering curriculum with emphasis on support for various roles required of: engineers,researchers, medical device innovators, technical entrepreneurs, and individuals who arecurrently employed in or wish to enter the medical device industry. Because this globallyregulated industry has unique requirements, global university collaborations are recommended,e.g. sharing of best practices, assess unmet needs, develop collaborative programs, studentexchange(s),etc.ConclusionAs we have stated, technologies and expansion of global regulation of medical

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, S., 2012). Additionally, University budget cuts and tuition increases areforcing more traditional students to take jobs in addition to their study activities. These and manyother factors are increasing the demand for more individualized learning (Schuwer & Kusters2014). Each learner has different characteristics, learners are not a homogenous mass, but varyconsiderably in terms of educational background, income, age and learning experience. Thisdiversity of the student body is growing fast (Bates, A. W. 2005). Thus, it is becoming increasinglyimportant for universities to meet this growing demand.Meeting the individualized learning demand, requires a blend of innovation and knowledge,particularly knowledge about the students. There is a

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2017 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual Conference Impact of Entrepreneurial Mindset Integration in a First- Semester Engineering Course Benjamin S. Kelley Baylor University School of Engineering and Computer ScienceAbstractDuring the fall semester offering of EGR 1301: Introduction to Engineering, EntrepreneurialMindset (EM) topics were introduced as class topics on three separate occasions in two differentcourse sections. To measure if exposure to and practice of the specific EM topic of Create Valueimpacted student EM awareness two different self-assessment instruments were administered tothese and several other EGR

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Impacts. 2015 ASEEAnnual Conference and Exposition Proceedings. doi:10.18260/p.249672 Barrett, Thomas William, Mathew Cole Pizzico, Bryan Levy, and Robert L. Nagel. 2015. AReview of University Maker Spaces. 122nd ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Seattle,ASEE. 13.3 Kurti, S., Kurti, D., & Fleming, L. (2014). The Environment and Tools of Great EducationalMakerspaces. Teacher Librarian, 42(1), 8-12. Proceedings of the 2017 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual Conference Organized by The University of Texas at Dallas Copyright © 2017, American Society for Engineering Education4 Lagoudas, M. Z., & Froyd, J. E., & Wilson, J. L., & Hamilton, P. S., & Boehm, R., &

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Engineering Technology Course,” 121st ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Indianapolis, IN, June 15-18, 2014.5 Hossain, N.M, Welser, M. W., and Saad, H., “Integration of Numerical and Experimental Studies in a Heat Transfer Course to Enhance Students’ Concept,” ASEE 2011.6 Prince M. J., and Vigeant, M. A., “Assessment and repair of critical misconceptions in engineering heat transfer and thermodynamics,” 120th ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Atlanta, GA, June 23-26, 20137 Kurowski, P. M., “Thermal Analysis with SolidWorks Simulation 2015 and Flow Simulation 2015,” SDC Publications, 2015, pg. 39-54.8 Bergman, T. L., Lavine, A. S., Incropera, F. P., and Dewitt, D. P., “Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer

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Tony McClary; Germain Degardin; John Kulpa; Patricia Sullivan; Karen Trujillo

. MacPhee, D., Farro, S., Canetto, S. (2013) Academic Self-Efficacy and Performance of Underrepresented STEM Majors: Gender, Ethnic, and Social Class Patterns. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, Vol. 13, No. 1, 2013, pp. 347—369.Tony McClaryTony McClary is a graduate research assistant for the Engineering New Mexico Resource Centerworking in K-12 STEM Outreach. He received his bachelor’s degree in Kinesiology with a focusin performance psychology from New Mexico State University and is a candidate for hisMaster’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction with a minor in Physics from the NMSU Collegeof Education. Tony has worked with the College of Engineering in the design andimplementation of the NM PREP Academy and with the

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prone to be civicallyinvolved, to vote in local and national elections, and to be a better informed and moreresponsible electorate;” thus, finding that, “[s]ociety as a whole also benefits from education.”11Milligan et. al. state that, “[i]n addition, our evidence on broader outcomes indicates thateducation increases citizens’ attention to public affairs and to following politics;” consequently,“these results lend support to the notion that education has social externalities through theproduction of a better polity.”18 Therefore, research finds a, “strong and robust relationship Proceedings of the 2017 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual Conference Organized by The University of Texas at Dallas

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Programs Paper presented at 2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Vancouver, BC.6. RiCharde, R. S. (2009). Data management and data management tools. In B. Peat and L.J. Moriarty (eds.). Assessing Criminal Justice/Criminology Education: A resource handbook for educators and administrators (pp. 51-68). Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.7. TaskStream, Last accessed on December 30, 2016: https://www1.taskstream.com/8. TK20, Last accessed on December 30, 2016: http://www.tk20.com/9. True Outcomes, Last accessed on December 30, 2016: http://www.trueoutcomes.com/10. WEAVEOnline, Last accessed on December 30, 2016: http://www.weaveonline.com/Wei Zhan Proceedings of the 2017 ASEE Gulf

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will eventually lead to their likely adoption. Because of the success ABET has experiencedwith its outcomes-based assessment process, the future focus for ABET evaluators will continueto be on attainment of the Student Outcomes (SO’s) enumerated in the new proposed criterion 3.The paper suggests ways to measure and evaluate attainment of SO’s using both direct andindirect measures. The final part of the paper will focus on the Program Educational Objectives(PEO’s) of criterion 2, and their relationship to both the SO’s and the institutional goals.KeywordsAccreditation, ABET Criteria.IntroductionIn the mid-1990’s, ABET developed a new set of criteria (called EC2000) for accreditingengineering degree programs. The new criteria changed the focus

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Communication, 40(1), pp. 13-19, 1997.8 ABET, “ABET,” (Accessed 2017). Available WWW: http://www.abet.org.9 Watkins, S. E., “Teaching Engineering Ethics,” Proceedings of the ASEE Zone III Conference, ASEE, 2015.Biographical Information for Dr. Steve E. WatkinsDR. STEVE E. WATKINS is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at MissouriUniversity of Science and Technology, formerly the University of Missouri-Rolla. He iscurrently a 2016-17 Distinguished Visiting Professor at the United States Air Force Academy.He is active in IEEE, IEEE-HKN, SPIE, and ASEE including service as the IEEE Region 5Ethics Competition Chair, the 2017 IEEE-HKN President-Elect, the 2015-2017 ASEE Zone IIIChair, and the 2009 ASEE Midwest Section Chair. His

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, Houston, Texas. Paper #T2B-5.B.J. LaMeres, C. Plumb, 2014, “Comparing Online to Face-to-Face Delivery of UndergraduateDigital Circuits Content”, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON EDUCATION,VOL. 57, NO. 2, pp. 99-106.K. J. Reid, 2006, “Study of the Success or Failure of Changing Freshman EngineeringTechnology Courses to an Online Format: Did it Work?”, Proceedings of the 36th ASEE/IEEEFrontiers in Education Conference, October 28 – 31, 2006, San Diego, CA. pp. S1J-28 - S1J-33.S. Pisupati, J. Mathews, 2008, “Differences in teaching and learning outcomes in face-to-face,online and hybrid modes of energy conservation course”, Proceedings of the ASEE AnnualConference and Exposition, June 22, 2008 - June 24, 2008.J. Douglas, 2015, “Comparing learning outcomes and

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projections: 2005–2050. Washington, DC: Pewhispanic center, http://www.pewhispanic.org/2008/02/11/us-population-projections-2005-2050/[3] Hobson, Rosalyn S. "The changing face of classroom instructional methods: service learningand design in a robotics course." In Frontiers in Education Conference, 2000. FIE 2000. 30thAnnual, vol. 2, pp. F3C-20. IEEE, 2000.[4] Salzman, Noah and Strobel, Johannes, "Motivations and Benefits for College StudentsServing as Mentors in a High School Robotics Competition" (2011). School of EngineeringEducation Graduate Student Series.[5] Sevier, Carol, Seung Youn Chyung, Janet Callahan, and Cheryl Schrader. "What Value DoesService Learning Have on Introductory Engineering Students' Motivation and ABET ProgramOutcomes