Conference Session

NEW THIS YEAR! - ASEE Main Plenary II: Best Paper Recognition & Industry Day Session: Corporate Member Council Speaker

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Betsy Palmer, Montana State University

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engineering projects. The National Academyof Engineering [1, 2] argues that the “Engineer of 2020” must not only be technically capable, butalso be able to understand the contextual requirements and consequences of their work.ABET program accreditation criteria[3] promote contextual engineering practice in several of itsoutcomes criteria [italics added]: (c) an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability (f) an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility (h) the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering

Conference Session

NEW THIS YEAR! - ASEE Main Plenary II: Best Paper Recognition & Industry Day Session: Corporate Member Council Speaker

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca A. Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato

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not naturally benefit from a group discussion. The group componentasks the students to evaluate others’ ideas and to synthesize a solution that incorporates the bestideas generated by the members of the group. Due to the need to compare and defend ideas,questions on the group test naturally elicit and evaluate higher-level cognitive functions likeanalysis, evaluation and transfer.1 By doing so, team testing converts the evaluation environmentinto a learning environment. Depending on instructor goals, team tests can be structured toreinforce evaluation goals or learning environment goals.Conventional wisdom holds that test periods are lost instructional time, but we recall that in ourown experience as students, good exams often led to a more

Conference Session

NEW THIS YEAR! - ASEE Main Plenary II: Best Paper Recognition & Industry Day Session: Corporate Member Council Speaker

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gale Tenen Spak, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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, definition, are better educated than the general Page 25.257.8population. Pew Research’s 2009 Mobile Access Spring Tracking Survey of 2,253 adults findsthat use of a computer, whether at home or at work (see, green color coding in Figure 1)correlates with education.12 Some of those who use a computer also access the web with theircell phones (see light green versus dark green in Figure 1). Figure 1. Access to wired (tethered) Figure 2. MMS is the fastest growing and 2nd and mobile web largest data service among cell phone usersThe mobile media protocol most used is the Short Message Service (SMS), which

Conference Session

NEW THIS YEAR! - ASEE Main Plenary II: Best Paper Recognition & Industry Day Session: Corporate Member Council Speaker

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael J. Prince, Bucknell University

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ASEE Board of Directors, Corporate Members Council

equations which should govern (1) the rate and (2) the amount of cooling provided by the ice. If necessary, consult your textbook or other sources. Compare your experimental data to your mathematical models and make sure that your model and results agree or that you can explain any discrepancies.4. Again working with others, answer the following related questions: a. Do factors which increase the rate of heat transfer always increase the amount of heat transfer too? b. Can we generalize the answer to that question to other processes such as mass transfer? For example, do factors which increase the rate at which a sugar cube dissolves in water (such as stirring) also increase the final amount of sugar