Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth A. Parry; Laura Bottomley

exploreand learn without fear. This paper describes a series of hands-on classes designed to accomplishthis objective with children ages four to twelve.1.0 IntroductionChildren have a natural love of discovery and investigation, and science is a natural subject ofexcitement for kids. Unfortunately, science is not a subject emphasized heavily in elementaryschools. In some states, like North Carolina, elementary teachers are judged primarily onreading and math test scores. Bonuses and even employment rely heavily on these end-of-gradetests. Science, therefore, becomes a subject taught when time allows.This paper describes a series of classes that expose children ages four to twelve to the science intheir everyday play worlds. Taking science beyond the

Conference Session

Manufacturing Curriculum and Course Innovations

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hua Li, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Kai Jin, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; yue zhang, Texas A&M University-Kingsville

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Diversity

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Manufacturing

Engineering at Texas Tech University in 2013. His Research interests focus on: Manufacturing Technologies Sustainable and Renewable Energy Nanotechnology-Enabled Energy Con- version and Storage Design and Manufacturing of Multifunctional Polymer/ Nano-composites c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 A Curriculum Innovation Framework to Integrate Manufacturing related Materials and Quality Control Standards into Different Level Engineering Education1. IntroductionThe importance of standards and standardization is that they provide product manufacturers clearmaterial, mechanical and dimensional requirements coupled with specific quality assurance andtest methods to use to assure they are

Conference Session

FPD IX: Research on First-Year Programs and Students, Part II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Casey Canfield, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Brittany Strachota, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Yevgeniya V. Zastavker, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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First-Year Programs

focuseson one school, identified here as Eastern Technical University (ETU). This analysis is restrictedto ETU’s first-year mechanical engineering curriculum, which typically involves students takingMechanics (ETU Physics), Calculus (ETU Math), Introduction to Manufacturing (ETUEngineering), and/or Introduction to CAD (ETU Design). Each course includes threecomponents: lecture, recitation, and laboratory. ETU’s curriculum generally identifies lectures asthe main venue through which content knowledge is imparted, while the recitation sessions areprimarily used as an opportunity to engage with the material through Q&A experiences andparticipation in group-work exercises. The laboratories serve as vehicles for specific skilldevelopment and attempt

Collection

2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Gordon Romney; Pradip Dey; Mohammad Amin; Bhaskar Sinha

platform and solution stack,has likewise evolved. Windows and Linux are examples of computing platforms, while anintegrated combination of Windows, Apache, MySQL and PHP (WAMP) is a solution stack. Ofnecessity, successful students of IT and Computer Science disciplines must understand and beable to use the rapidly evolving cloud IaaS and PaaS. Higher education, however, is challengedin how to remain technologically current in courses offering rapidly evolving web servicesand cloud computing concepts. Such concepts can only be taught, properly, by experiential,hands-on learning by students using cloud computing resources. Fortunately, industrycompetition in cloud IaaS provides a free, limited time usage availability of virtualized

Conference Session

Curricular Issues in Computing and Information Technology Programs I

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephany Coffman-Wolph, West Virginia University Institute of Technology

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Computing & Information Technology

solving, logicalreasoning, critical thinking, etc.). All activities outlined below are programming languageindependent but could be tailored to whatever specific programming language you wish (orcould be done using generic pseudo-code).It has been demonstated4, 5 that hands-on activities for computer science topics increase bothstudent awareness and interest in the field of computer. The development of these computer-freehands-on activities for computer science topics was inspired by the Computer Science (CS)Unplugged website1, 2. CS Unplugged1, 2 provides videos, worksheets, and teaching guides to avariety of computer science activities. All the CS Unplugged1, 2 activities are “universal”computer topics (and, thus, not language specific or even

Conference Session

COED Modulus Topics

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Afrin Naz, West Virginia University; Mingyu Lu, West Virginia University; Jordan Bowen, West Virginia University; Cody Ryan Zackoski

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

number and data structure (Big Idea #3: Data and Information)  A simple tour in programming (Big Idea #4: Algorithms, Big Idea #5: Programming)  Construct a simple website (Big Idea #1: Creativity)  Computer hardware organization in a regular desktop computer (Big Idea #2: Abstraction)  Different types of operating systems (Big Idea #2: Abstraction)  Cutting-edge computing technologies such as Cloud Computing and Internet of Things (Big Idea #6: The Internet)  Ethics in Computer Science (Big Idea #7: Global Impact)Our online course is divided into eight units. Each unit includes three theoretical sessions andone hands-on session. The course also includes four online discussion sessions. The four-weekonline course

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Work in Progress Postcard Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Oai Ha, Western Carolina University; Martin L. Tanaka, Western Carolina University; Sudhir Kaul, Western Carolina University

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First-Year Programs

admission requirements for studentsapplying to the two programs. This distinction is typically characterized by the adoption ofdifferent curricula, instructional approaches, a mix of lectures and laboratories, and textbooks. Itis broadly expected that such an approach would facilitate the development of different domainsof knowledge, ranging from more abstract and theoretical for engineering students to moreapplied and hands-on for engineering technology students. Considering the disproportionatedifferences in the spatial contents, tools of spatial representation, and associated spatial reasoningprocesses in fundamental courses such as solid mechanics or fluid dynamics, this study seeks tofind a relationship, if any, between students’ spatial

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Division (EPP) Technical Session 1

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Guangpei Chen, School of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University and Institute of China’s Science, Technology and Education Policy, Zhejiang University; Yingying Qiao, School of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University and Institute of China’s Science, Technology and Education Policy, Zhejiang University; Yiang Yang

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Engineering and Public Policy Division (EPP)

Science, Technology andEducation Policy, Zhejiang University Yingying Qiao a PhD candidate at School of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University and Institute of China’s Science, Technology and Education Policy, Zhejiang University; Major: Educational Economics and Management; Research Interests: Science and Technology Policy, Higher Engineering Education.Yiang Yang ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023The constituent elements of STEM education and theirrespective effect on talent cultivation performance in theunique context of China: A two-stage study Abstracts: Imported from the US, STEM education has been introduced to andwidely implemented in China for over a decade. Its priority is

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Joint Session: Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division and Civil Engineering Division

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dave Kim, Washington State University, Vancouver; Charles Riley P.E., Oregon Institute of Technology; John D Lynch, Washington State University; Ken Lulay P.E., University of Portland; Sean St. Clair, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL), Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (DELOS)

Paper ID #42124Impact of Learning Transfer-focused Lab Writing Modules to the WritingInstructional Materials by Engineering Lab InstructorsDr. Dave Kim, Washington State University, Vancouver Dr. Dave Kim is Professor and Mechanical Engineering Program Coordinator in the School of Engineering and Computer Science at Washington State University Vancouver. His teaching and research have been in the areas of engineering materials, fracture mechanics, and manufacturing processes. In particular, he has been very active in pedagogical research in the area of writing pedagogy in engineering laboratory courses. Dr. Kim and his

Conference Session

Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Uma Kannan; Rajendran Swamidurai, Alabama State University

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Computing and Information Technology

Association) 2020survey [11] respondents say their cybersecurity teams are understaffed and 56% of the (ISC)2[10] survey respondents accept their institution is at risk. According to various reports, about40% of junior-level and over 50% senior and manager level security jobs are vacant and CyberSecurity job postings took 8% longer to fill than other IT job postings overall. In a lot of cases,even the people who should know how to do this job and know how to run these systems do noteven exist. [12]One of the challenges faced in addressing cyber workforce issues is the well documentedshortage of STEMC (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Computing)graduates with technical proficiency [11]. While STEMC careers in academia and industry

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Kimmel

the students must registerseparately. Several of the other courses are taught as lab/lecture combinations. All students mustalso complete a 15- to 24-week co-op assignment in industry as a requirement for graduation. In March 2001, a group of three Packaging Science faculty received an NSF CCLI grant toadapt materials characterization techniques to collaborative, discovery-based learning in theundergraduate Packaging Science curriculum. The major objectives of this project are:· To incorporate more science-based learning in our Packaging Science laboratory courses· To significantly increase the understanding and hands-on experience of our undergraduate students with state-of-the-art materials science characterization and investigative

Collection

2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

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

mine drainage, a ubiquitous and locally-relevantissue, and involved them in field experiences with real remediation systems. The design andconstruction of the remediation systems also involved learning and application of scienceconcepts from chemistry to environmental science, the engineering design process, mathematicalproblem solving, and the use of technology for data acquisition and analysis.Teams of 3-4 students or teachers were tasked with the challenge of building a bench-scale AMDremediation system using common materials of the type available at a hardware store (seebelow). In addition to restrictions on system size – bench space available per team wasapproximately 12’x3’ – and available materials, the design constraints included a

Conference Session

Fluid Mechanics Experiments and Laboratories

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Calvin Hsieh, Portland State University; Gerald Recktenwald, Portland State University; Robert Edwards, Pennsylvania State University-Erie

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

in a Fluid Science Laboratory ClassAbstractTwo inquiry-based laboratory exercises are incorporated into a laboratory section of a fluidmechanics class for third year Civil Engineering and Mechanical engineering students. Thelaboratory section also involves four other conventional laboratory exercises. The inquiry-basedexercises are designed to confront student misconceptions and to develop the ability of studentsto use qualitative reasoning. Student learning gains and changes in attitude were assessed for 73of the 119 students in the class who volunteered to participate in the research project. The studygroup completed background surveys and surveys on attitudinal change during the academicterm in which the laboratory exercises were

Conference Session

Aerospace Division (AERO) Technical Session 4

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Terry Bristol, Institute for Science, Engineering and Public Policy, Portland State University

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Aerospace Division (AERO)

. There is noway to understand the value of engineering knowledge from within the scientific picture ofreality. Another way to emphasize the difference is that there is no way to make sense of eitherinquiry or inquirers within the scientific worldview. Knowledge has no value in a deterministicworld. Without any account of inquiry, the scientific worldview cannot account for how thescientific worldview was supposedly learned. In other words, the scientific worldview can’taccount for or make sense of itself. In this sense, the scientific worldview is not self-referentiallycoherent. On the other hand, it can be argued that since engineers and engineering practice areembodied components of reality that the engineering worldview is, at least

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education III

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Asad Azemi, Pennsylvania State University; Nannette D'Imperio, Pennsylvania State University

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Electrical and Computer

matter by writing programs. This is the justificationfor adding laboratory modules to programming courses. The subject material is reinforced withthe inclusion of hands-on programming exercises shortly after the presentation of new concepts,which promotes active learning 2-3. Another enhancement, which has been employed, is the useof the problem-based learning approach 4-5. In this work, we describe our new approach toteaching an introductory programming course that consists of team teaching, the incorporation ofa hybrid delivery system, the utilization of a variety of assessment tools, and the employment ofcooperative learning through team work. Although some of these approaches have beenimplemented individually by other researchers and the

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Digendra K. Das; Atlas Hsie; Salahuddin Qazi

application in controlsystems. Some non-electrical students found the concept of mathematical modeling of controlsystems difficult. The course project and individual help by the Instructor made the course moremeaningful.MST 682 Advanced Topics in Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM). The course is basedon CIM model developed by the computer and automation systems association (CASA) of thesociety of manufacturing engineers. The model is commonly known as CIM wheel. A well-equipped lab supports the course, where students completed their hands- on assignments. Thecourse was well received by the students. Some students suggested that this course should beoffered earlier in the program.CONCLUSIONThe Master of Science program in advanced technology has

Conference Session

Promoting Scientific and Technological Literacy

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jan DeWaters, Clarkson University; Susan Powers, Clarkson University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

work two to three days per week throughout a semester to jointlyteach the project unit to middle or high school students. Page 11.738.3The lessons and materials we bring to the classroom uniquely value: ‚ the integration of math, science and technological content through hands-on activities in a holistic systems approach. ‚ the application of STEM principles to real-world problems by first providing a framework for problem solving and scientific inquiry, rather than just charging into math equations. ‚ the breadth and capacity of technology and engineering to solve problems that have social relevance.Given

Conference Session

Innovative Courses for ChE Students

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ramani Narayan

2002 ASEE Proceedings Paper Session No:__2213______ An Engineering Entrepreneurship Course for ChE Seniors Ramani Narayan (www.msu.edu/user/narayan) Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science Michigan State University, East Lansing MI 48824 ABSTRACT Entrepreneurship is the vehicle that fuels economic growth. The goal of this course is to expose ChE seniors to the “entrepreneurial process”, and better prepare them to enter the business

Conference Session

Focus on Entry Experiences in Chemical Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Margot A. Vigeant, Bucknell University; Lori Smolleck, Bucknell University

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Chemical Engineering

is the “Gizmo” project.Student teams of four students of diverse engineering major are asked to create a working“gizmo” for $20 or less in materials that a teacher or Scout leader could use to educatechildren about a given topic in math, engineering, or science. Gizmos were described asteam-created, interactive, functional creations. Use of pre-made parts was allowed, butany such parts had to be used in a creative or innovative way. For example, Lego brickscould be used to make a Gizmo, but not if used to exactly replicate the design on thepackage. Further, some element of student construction had to be included for a Gizmoto “count” – mixing baking soda and vinegar might be interesting and even educational,but without a built component, it

Conference Session

Research on Design Learning

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cynthia J. Atman, University of Washington; Janet McDonnell, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London; Ryan C. Campbell, University of Washington; Jim L Borgford-Parnell, University of Washington; Jennifer A Turns, University of Washington

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the ASEE. She was the recipient of the 2002 ASEE Chester F. Carlson Award for Innovation in Engineering Education and the 2009 UW David B. Thorud Leadership Award. Dr. Atman holds a Ph.D. in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University.Prof. Janet McDonnell, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London Janet McDonnell is Professor of Design Studies at Central Saint Martins, London where she is Director of Research. She holds a PhD for work on modelling engineering design expertise, an MSc in Computer Science and a BSc in Electrical Engineering. She is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of CoDesign.Mr. Ryan C. Campbell, University

Conference Session

Critical Reflections on Engineering Ethics Education

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jake Walker Lewis; Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder

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Engineering Ethics

the results should not be overly generalized due to thesmall number of teachers interviewed, the results indicate that many entering college studentsmay already be somewhat familiar with the importance of EESI in engineering. In addition, thefindings dovetail with recent attention on the preparation of K-12 teachers to educate students onengineering [21], indicating that teachers should be aware of the important role of ethics inengineering.AcknowledgmentsThis study was funded by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1540348. Anyopinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those ofthe author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.References[1] National

Collection

ASEE-NE 2022

Authors

Cuong H Pham, Wentworth Institute of Technology

Introduction to Computer Science + Society: A Multidisciplinary Course for All1. IntroductionEngineering education with a narrow focus on technology may have made sense in the past, itfails to meet the needs of 21st-century students, who will enter industries that fuse theHumanities with various forms of technology. Having a strong background only in STEM fieldswill not prepare tomorrow’s leaders for the complex social issues they will navigate. Broad,rigorous training in the liberal arts will meaningfully complement Engineering education.Multidisciplinary training in a variety of methods of research and interpretation preparesgraduates to tackle complex problems with the humility and confidence to conceptualize theirinvestigation in a

Conference Session

Teaching about New Materials

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mel Mendelson

Nanotechnology, forsophomores majoring in science and engineering.II. Design of CourseThe preliminary course content has been divided into weekly topics over a 15 week semester,and this was described in a previous paper [7]. It consisted of combining biology, chemistry,physics, materials science, electrical/mechanical engineering and ethics into one course. Thesedisciplines are team-taught by our faculty in the College of Science and Engineering at LMU.The goal of the course was to provide a descriptive view of how nanotechnology affected thehuman body. Our course emphasized the biological applications of nanotechnology. It startedwith an overview (summary) and its applications from a nanotechnology systems approach,where the individuals disciplines

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tamy Fry; Mark A. Nanny; Mary John O'Hair; Teri Reed Rhoads

technologies,and to build and renew the students’ desire to become involved in technological fields. This isaccomplished by allowing the students to experience math and science in ways that are excitingand meaningful to them in their everyday lives. The ATA utilizes project teams consisting of aneducation fellow, a science or engineering fellow (one is an undergraduate fellow and the otherone is a graduate fellow), and a participating secondary school teacher to develop and implementrelevant, hands-on lessons to teach math and science concepts in the classrooms. The lessonactivities are designed to introduce the required curriculum concepts in a fun and interestingmanner, to demonstrate the students’ potential to understand and enjoy math and science

Conference Session

Technical Session: Pedagogical Strategies and Classroom Techniques for Teaching Assistants

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Algeo Wilson IV, Louisiana State University; Adrienne Steele, Louisiana State University; Warren N. Waggenspack Jr., Louisiana State University; Wei-Hsung Wang Ph.D., Louisiana State University; Linda Lee Ramsey, Independent evaluator

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Student

LSU and administers a comprehensive radiological control program under a broad scope radioactive material license. Dr. Wang received his B.S. in geology from National Taiwan University, M.S. in environmental health engineering from Northwestern University, and Ph.D. in health physics from Purdue University. He is certified by the American Board of Health Physics (ABHP), the Board of Certified Safety Professionals, and the Board of Laser Safety. He is a member of the ANSI Z136 Technical Subcommittee on Laser Safety Control Measures and Training, the Editorial Board of Environmental Health Insights, Sigma Xi, and Phi Kappa Phi. Dr. Wang has been a full member of the Health Physics Society (HPS) since 1993, and a

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert H. Mayer

, engineering economics, environmental legislation and estuarinehydrodynamics. Page 5.16.1In subsequent semesters, the author developed a more formal course structure with a near equalbalance of water quality issues and ocean resource technology. An environmental engineeringtextbook focused on marine issues was unavailable. Therefore, aquatic-related material from avariety of traditional environmental engineering texts served as foundation stones for courselectures. However, the principal building blocks of successive course offerings were the studentresearch papers and presentations that were supplemented by instructor-developed lectures andguest

Collection

2018 ASEE Zone IV Conference

Authors

Maria Pantoja, California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo; Zoe Wood Wood, Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo

another day they receive a focused introduction to Computer Graphics. The material covered is related to the use of the GPU, but from the two perspectives of the sub-fields, with the faculty noting shared and divergent goals, perspectives and vocabulary. The purpose of these combined lectures is to give students a shared background related to the main concepts of each field. The expectation is that specific details will emerge and be tackled in the labs (ideally by the explanations of the student leader for that specific lab. 2. Hand-on experience. The lab portion of the collaboration spans two weeks. The first week students solve a problem using a traditional CG implementation and development tools, while the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Carol Shubin, California State University Northridge

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

science majors were somewhat bored, they all said that they still learned a few newthings.One of our Co-PIs created a manual for bootcamp called Getting Started in Machine Learning forPython 3, Scikit-Learn, and Jupyter, [9]. I warmly recommend this book to anyone who wants toteach a hands-on, how-to course in machine learning for undergraduates. While there are mathe-matical explanations for each method, a beginning student could skip directly to the recipes with-out any significant loss of continuity throughout the text. The book could be used as a lab manual.Most of the data sets are taken from clean, publicly accessible sources that do not require seriousdata scrubbing, feature engineering, or other modification.Year-long projectsDuring the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xumin Liu, Rochester Institute of Technology; Rajendra K Raj, Rochester Institute of Technology; Chunmei Liu, Howard University; Alex Pantaleev, SUNY Oswego

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

ModulesAbstractIn modern computing and engineering programs, new course materials need to be addedregularly in a flexible manner. The concept of course modules has been suggested as oneapproach to doing this; a course module, which is a self-contained unit of curriculumsuch as a lab or teaching component, can be included into existing courses withoutrequiring substantial course or program modifications. In this paper, the authors describetheir experiences in incorporating new curricula into computer science and engineeringcurricula at their three institutions, including Rochester Institute of Technology, HowardUniversity, and SUNY at Oswego. The relatively new paradigm of Service-OrientedProgramming (SOP) was introduced into their programs using course

Collection

2014 ERC

Authors

Kei Koizumi

The 2015 Budget:Science, Technology, and Innovation for Opportunity and Growth Kei Koizumi Assistant Director for Federal R&D, White House Office of Science & Technology Policy“We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation todaywill own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edgeAmerica cannot surrender. Federally funded research helpedlead to the ideas and inventions behind Google andsmartphones… There are entire industries to be built basedon vaccines that stay ahead of drug-resistant bacteria, orpaper-thin material that’s stronger than steel.” - President Barack Obama January 28, 2014The 2015 Budget