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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL) Technical Session - Instructional Technology 1

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Salvatore Marsico, Penn State University; Henrique Oliveira, University of Campinas; Débora Paula Simões, University of Campinas

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

Environment at the School of Civil Engineering, Architecture, and Urban Planning. His research is primarily in Surveying and Geospatial Science, working with topics related to engineering problems with attention to the Transport field. Previously he was an Assistant Teaching Professor of Surveying Engineering – at Penn State University - Wilkes-Barre campus. His teaching responsibilities at Penn State were in a broad area of Geomatics encompassing the areas of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing, GIS, and Geodesy. In 2010, he graduated in Cartographic Engineering, followed by a master’s degree in Cartographic Science in 2013, both from the Sao Paulo State University in Brazil. During his PhD, he had the opportunity to develop

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diana A. Chen, University of San Diego; Joel Alejandro Mejia, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Gordon D Hoople, University of San Diego; R. Jamaal Downey

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

manifests differentlybased on each team member’s positionality.Second, we planned to develop a transformative learning experience for engineering facultycentered around the role Whiteness plays in engineering education to co-construct ways todevelop critical consciousness. Critical consciousness allows an individual to understand theirown world more deeply while enabling them to intervene in their own reality and take actionagainst oppressive elements [6]. Originally, the development, implementation, and assessment ofthis learning experience (Years 2-4) took the form of a faculty development program in which werecruited and grouped engineering faculty from all over the nation. Data collected from thisfaculty development program would have included

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Walter C. Lee, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Malini Josiam, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

-phase research agenda and an education plan. The first phase of theresearch agenda involved developing a conceptual model of student navigation [2] to guide theforthcoming stages of the project. The second research phase consisted of conducting semistructured interviews at one institution to develop an understanding of the role of identity instudent navigation. The final phase of the research agenda, which is upcoming, involvescollecting semi structured interview data from other institutions to develop an understanding ofthe role of context in student navigation. The education plan involves disseminating researchfindings via workshops, as well as developing an SJI to increase alignment between students andpractitioners around the utility of

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Innovations in Materials Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig Johnson, Central Washington University

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Materials

safetyconcerns.An idea was developed to create videos that addressed these needed skills, concepts and issues.The videos would be used in the CWU Foundry, to supplement the introductory course (andother courses as needed). There was obviously no such material evident at CWU, but subsequentsearches did turn up some similar material such as those from Georgia Tech (Jonathon Colton)on NDSL – National Direct Science Library (2). There appeared to be limited use of externalmaterial due to the differences in equipment and procedures.It is also noted that there was no substantive way to determine the ‘effectiveness’ of using video,in an education pedagogy sense. To address this a metric was created and planned for use in

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Mentoring and Development of New Faculty

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Cady, National Academy of Engineering; Norman Fortenberry, National Academy of Engineering

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New Engineering Educators

preparingstudents to become engineers in the 21st century and the importance of integrating all elements ofsuccessful engineering practice in engineering education. In addition, they wrote a shortdescription of an idea or plan for implementing innovative techniques in their classroom. On thebasis of these ideas, they were preliminarily placed in one of four affinity groups that stemmedfrom Educating Engineers: design education, engineering fundamentals and analysis, laboratory/project/ experience-based learning, or ethics/society/broader engineering skills. Attendees wereable to attend more than one affinity group session at the symposium.The organizers strove for a mix of formal and informal networking opportunities, small groupdiscussions, and panel

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Instructional Innovations in Architectural Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald Miers, Western Carolina Univeristy; George Ford, Western Carolina University

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Architectural

years it was donatedto the village of Highlands. The structure received renovations and additions over the years whenit became the regional hospital for the area. Upon the recent completion of the new regionalhospital the Peggy Crosby Center became a not for profit establishment for the community. Itcurrently houses a computer training center, day care center, used bookstore, Red Cross offices,and a catering business, along with other use groups. During the fall of 2008, members of thePeggy Crosby Board of Directors approached the faculty of the Construction Managementprogram to assist them with needed updates and renovations for their building. The facultyprovided plans, estimates and recommendations for a various number of issues. This

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Measuring the Impacts of Project-Based Service Learning on Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shi-Jer Lou, National PingTung University of Science and Techno; Shun-Yuan Chuang, National Kaohsiung Normal University; Hsiang-jen Meng, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology; Ron Chuen Yeh, Meiho Institute of Technology, Taiwan; Kuo-Hung Tseng, Meiho Institute of Technology; Chi-Cheng Chang, National Taipei University of Technology

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International

learn knowledge andskills from complicated issues and the planned tasks. Laffey defined that PBL placesdemands on learners and instructors that challenge the traditional practices and supportstructures of schools. Learning from doing complex, challenging, and authenticprojects requires resourcefulness and planning, new forms of knowledgerepresentation in school, expanded mechanisms for collaboration and communication,and support for reflection and authentic assessment6. PBL incorporates the content ofdifferent subjects7, 8, and allows the students to pose the questions and investigatevarious issues in real situations. Since PBL involves the teaching materials of differentsubjects, students would be able to absorb knowledge completely. Also, the

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ERM Potpourri

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Bowman, Clemson University; Lisa Benson, Clemson University

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Educational Research and Methods

been“tagged” in MuseInk, a “Schoenfeld-style” plot is automatically generated to illustrate andexamine how much time a student spends working in different stages of their problem solvingstrategy. In Figure 4, the two plots generated by MuseInk show the strategic difference betweena student who fluctuates between different methods for solving a problem and eventually endsthe problem with an incorrect answer (top) compared to a student who spends an adequateamount of time demonstrating an understanding of the problem, planning, and finally quicklysolves for the correct answer (bottom.) The “duration” in Figure 4 is computed based on thenumber of strokes and erasures in each step of the problem solving strategy. A future“Schoenfeld-style” plot

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K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carol Shields, Stevens Institute of Technology

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

improvement in skills targeted in the students’ Individualized Page 22.1.2Education Plans (IEPs) – two of which are skills of written and oral communication andcollaboration.It is important to know that, in New Jersey, special needs teachers are expected to follow thestate core curriculum content standards through the general education curriculum, and thatspecial needs students take the same tests as the regular population. The state has a goal ofincreasing teachers’ awareness of the growing emphasis on 21st century skills in teaching andlearning and on providing strategies to facilitate student achievement of these skills in classroomsettings.NJ Core

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Reports from ADVANCE Institutions

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Suzanne Zurn-Birkhimer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Susan Ruth Geier, Purdue University; Chris Sahley, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Women in Engineering

femalefaculty, through career coaching. The first coaching cohort of female post-tenure STEM facultybegan in the spring of 2010. Initial reaction was positive and the cohort decided to continue in2010 - 11. Due to popular demand, a second cohort was also established in fall 2010. This paperwill discuss the motivation, implementation, initial assessment, and future plans of the CareerCoaching Cohorts. Evaluation data and participant demographics will be presented.IntroductionWomen have been present in the academy for years, but their numbers remain stunningly low.Much work has been done to increase the number of female professors, especially in the STEMdisciplines where their numbers are the lowest, but the increases have been steady but slow.3Also

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sydney Rogers, Alignment Nashville; Sandra Harris, Alignment Nashville and PENCIL Foundation; Ismail Fidan, Tennessee Technological University; David McNeel, Education Consultant

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NSF Grantees

Implementation Team meetings and correctiveactions are produced and implemented in the key deliverables of the project. The currentsituation of Art2STEM and the recent results of the project’s progress and evaluation arehighlighted in this paper.2. BackgroundStarting in 2006 MNPS began plans to restructure its comprehensive high schools into wall-to-wall academies. As planning and implementation proceeded those who were leading the effortdiscovered an extremely low level of interest among middle school students to participate inSTEM-related career academies in high school, while interest in other career academies like artsand entertainment was extremely high, especially among girls. In general concept, the MNPSacademies are small schools within a larger

Collection

2015 ASEE Workshop on K-12 Engineering Education

Authors

David Heil, David Heil & Associates, Inc.

Planning Guide (2011). David is a frequent national and international presenter on STEM education, is a past Director of Informal Science Education for the National Science Teachers Association, and a past member of the ASEE K-12 Executive Committee. Page 18.16.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 WORKSHOP PROPOSAL FORM 2015 Annual ASEE K-12 Workshop on Engineering Education “Authentic Engineering: Representing & Emphasizing the E in STEM” Presented by Dassault Systems

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A Century of College Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Russell

civil engineering is practiced.Complexity arises in every aspect of projects, from pre-project planning with variedstakeholders to building with minimum environmental and community disturbance. A2001 ASCE report Engineering the Future of Civil Engineering(www.asce.org/raisethebar) highlighted the significant and rapid changes confronting theprofession, while recent events have demonstrated our vulnerability to human-madehazards as well as natural disasters. The risks and challenges to public health, safety, andwelfare will continue to escalate in complexity, and the civil engineering profession mustrespond proactively. The 2001 report also concluded that the current four-year bachelor’sdegree is becoming inadequate formal academic preparation

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Real-World Manufacturing Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Nancy L. Baskin; M. Sohail Ahmed; Gregory L. Tonkay; Andrea Wittchen; E. Zimmers

time studies by viewing real factory personnel in work settings.In the approach described in this paper, joint university/industry projects serve as a source of data and experiencesthat can be used to support computer-based learning activities. Real-time interactions with factory personnel thatare accomplished through Web-cam technology and interactive meeting software are often used to capture keyobjects needed to create a session. As specific examples of our approach, this paper discusses the development oftwo multimedia learning sessions – one on direct time study and one on the use of simulation. It includes theeducational plan development, techniques used for creating multimedia objects, and concludes with a description ofthe resulting

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Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Vickers; Otto Loewer; John Ahlen; Ron Foster; Greg Salamo

Session 1654 (2002-2251) Launching an Innovation Incubator in a University Setting Ron Foster, Ken Vickers, Greg Salamo, Otto Loewer, and John Ahlen University of Arkansas/Arkansas Science and Technology AuthorityAbstract:A novel Innovation Incubator has been launched with the goal of enhancing both education andcommercialization of technology. The Incubator supports area clients that have new ideas, butlack the resources to advance towards proof-of-concept. Graduates students are involved with theIncubator in screening clients, and working with clients to improve intellectual property positionand develop initial business plans. Once a

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New Approaches in Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Boronkay; Janak Dave

Senior Design Project course sequence. At many institutionsthe capstone projects do not include the build and test components.In today’s world, parts and products are designed, manufactured, tested and sold in variouslocations/countries for customers around the world. This means that engineers and engineeringtechnologists must become familiar with global design, manufacturing, testing and distributionmethods and practices.This paper describes a plan to institute an international, team-based Capstone Senior DesignProject sequence. The plan calls for cooperation between foreign academic institutions, multi-national corporations and the University of Cincinnati.Current PracticeAt present, students propose an idea for a project of their own choosing

Collection

2024 ASEE-GSW

Authors

Mia K. Markey, The University of Texas at Austin; Huiliang Wang, University of Texas at Austin; Ju-Chun Hsieh, University of Texas at Austin; Xiangping Liu, University of Texas at Austin

faced initially. However, there were no gatherings for all five pairs. As aresult, she did not have a chance to get to know the other four pairs well, and they could not plansome activities together. Such activities could build a bigger network and expand the influence ofthis program. Based on these suggestions, we plan to hold an event to allow pairs to meet eachother. One undergraduate student reported that it would be better to pair an undergraduate studentand an international doctoral student via a shared interest survey, which could assemble a groupof buddy pairs that have more shared topics and interests. This might extend their friendship longerthan what this program planned. Therefore, we propose to start the interest survey upfront

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tanmay Bhowmik, Mississippi State University; Nan Niu, Mississippi State University; Donna Reese, Mississippi State University

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

a plan, implement the plan, and evaluate the so-lution. We find that students show significant deficiency in the overall problem solving pro-cess, whereas many professionals follow unique and effective tracing techniques in definingthe problem, and in developing and implementing the plan. We identify the improvement ar-eas and propose a set of learning activities for Software Engineering students to enhance theirtracing skills. We implement two learning activities in a Software Engineering course andreport our experience. Our study contributes to the improvement of training students in per-forming ART and other information-intensive tasks in Software Engineering.1 IntroductionA recent study by Begel and Simon1 shows that new college

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Experiences in Engineering Community Engagement

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Francis J. Hopcroft, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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Community Engagement Division

WA = Work Activity Risk Factor LT = Leisure Time Risk Factor Page 23.1048.4 FW = Food and Water Risk Factor D = Disease Risk Factor L = Location Risk Factor E = Emergency Services Risk Factor U = Local Unrest Risk FactorEach of these factors needs to be assigned a value of 1 to 5 depending on how significant thatrisk is relative to the currently proposed activity. For example, if the plan is to take 10 studentsacross the street to visit a local museum in an urban area, they will likely walk and thetransportation risk would be zero. On the other extreme, if the plan is to take 50 students to

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2024 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Kasey L. Moomau; Jessica Deters; Emily Fitzpatrick

attitudes toward service learning among undergraduate engineeringstudents. An undergraduate club at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is designing a robotics kitwith similar functionality to the Lego Spike system but at approximately one-third of the cost.The kit, estimated to be fabricated for less than $130 per unit, will offer opportunities forstudents to develop coding skills in Python alongside block-coding interfaces. This innovativeapproach combines cost-effectiveness with expanded coding capabilities, addressing thedisparity in access to STEM exploration experiences among K-12 students from differentsocioeconomic backgrounds. The pilot intervention plan involves implementing these kits inafter-school STEM clubs at local middle schools

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First-Year Programs Division GIFTS: Great Ideas For Teaching Students

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abigail Clark, Ohio Northern University; Stephany Coffman-Wolph, Ohio Northern University; Lauren H. Logan, Ohio Northern University

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

, including students, staff, faculty, and alumni • Develop a career plan, including a plan of study that will support that career plan • Develop an awareness of curricular and co-curricular opportunities • Build foundational skills for college success, including self-reflection, study skills, time management, and goal settingHistoric EffortsEngineering Orientation is a long-standing course at ONU, and has long sought to encouragestudents to engage with the college through co- and extra-curricular activities. Historically,students enrolled in engineering orientation were required to attend two professional societymeetings during the semester and report their attendance at these meetings to their faculty viaemail. However, anecdotal

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First-Year Programs Division GIFTS: Great Ideas For Teaching Students

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa K. Murray, Western New England University

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

, project management, process improvement, and culturally sustaining pedagogies. She serves as a co-advisor for National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) at Western New England University. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 GIFTS: Transforming First-Year Engineering Curriculum with Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Entrepreneurial-Minded Learning Lisa K. Murray Western New England University, Springfield, MA 01119 First Year Program, College of EngineeringAbstractThis Great Ideas For Teaching (and Talking With) Students (GIFTS) paper presents a plan topromote diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI) and

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL) - ASCE Collaborations

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timmy Elwin Kipfmiller III, United States Military Academy; Alexander Tucker, United States Military Academy; Charles James Richardson Reeves, United States Military Academy; Nicholas Ryan Parker, United States Military Academy; Scott M. Katalenich, United States Military Academy

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Diversity

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

structural panels subject to blast and static loading. Additionally, Timmy has earned the Envision Sustainability Professional Credential (ENV SP) equipping him with a framework that encourages systematic changes in planning, design, and delivery of sustainable civil infrastructure.Alexander Tucker, United States Military AcademyCharles James Richardson Reeves, United States Military AcademyNicholas Ryan Parker, United States Military Academy Nicholas Parker is a Civil Engineering major at the United States Military Academy at West Point. His academic interests revolve around transportation infrastructure and entertainment venue construction. Nicholas is a manager for the Division 1 Army Women’s Softball Team and he is also a

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Swaminathan Balachandran

Improvement, Ranjit K. Roy, John Wiley & Sons, January 2001.The Qualitek-4 (QT4) software for Taguchi Method from Nutek Inc., is made available free ofcost to students. Lessons 1 - 3 review basic statistical concepts and analysis of variance (ANOVA). Inaddition, practical aspects of planning engineering experiments, checking model validity, andestimating sample size are discussed. Students begin to use the software Design-Ease (Minitaband DesignExpert are alternative software) for most of the statistical and graphical analysis.Lessons 4 - 6 cover the randomized complete block design (RCBD), Latin squares, and factorialdesigns. At this stage, students begin a course project. The course project may be performedindividually or in teams of up

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2011 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Robert I. Egbert

all declared engineeringmajors who planned to spend four years on the MSU campus and obtain and engineering degreethrough the cooperative engineering program. Now the class has a mixture of at least three orpossibly four different groups of students.One group is made up of students who plan to stay in Springfield and complete their engineeringdegree through the MSU/Missouri S&T cooperative engineering program similar, to thosestudents who initially enrolled in the course when it was offered for the first time.A second group of students are those who plan to major in engineering and plan to start at MSUbut then transfer to Missouri S&T or another engineering program. This typically because theyeither do not reside in the nine county

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Keith M. Gardiner

Smarter CitiesSustainability and undergraduatesA course, IE334 – Organizational Planning & Control (OPC), is offered every fall for juniors,seniors, and occasional graduate students. For several years the content has been focused on avariety of issues related to sustainability, including energy and food production. Students haveindividual assignments for about half of the grade, and the remainder is made up of teamactivities. The „student-employees‟ are charged with collaborative team production of a series ofresearch reports and finally a „publication-ready‟ research paper.8 After a preliminary initial teamassignment based on examination and review of current issues afflicting industry and societyusing current news clips and e-newsletter

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Lou Harrington; Austin Bartlett; Quentin Willard; Jason McKay; Bruce Brown; Ernest Wong

provide NASA isintroducing it to a value-focused thinking (VFT) approach versus its current alternative-focused thinking(AFT) design. VFT tends to be a different way of focusing an organization’s goals and objectives into anaction plan. Values are what people really want, and VFT is markedly different than choosing 2alternatives and going with the one that fits the best. Oftentimes, when organizations rely on AFT, theyfail to take the time to reflect on what is really important to them. Ralph Keeney, a pioneer in the field ofVFT, introduces the concept of Constraint-Free Thinking: “thinking about values is constraint-freethinking . . . it is thinking about what you wish to achieve or what you

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Shahryar Darayan; David Olowokere; Xuemin Chen

86to TAC/ABET by January 31, 2009 for a re-accreditation report evaluation. The reportdescribing the actions taken to correct the shortcomings identified needed to be submitted toTAC/ABET by July 1, 2009. One of the program weaknesses reported by the TAC/ABET wasCriterion 3 (Assessment and Evaluation) which states “Each program must utilize multipleassessment measures in a process that provides documented results to demonstrate that the resultof the assessment of program objectives are being used to improve and further develop theprogram in accordance with a documented process” [3]. According to the TAC/ABET visitingteam, a continuous improvement plan has been written but has not been fully implemented. Theresponse to this assessment was to

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Beena Sukumaran; Joshua Bonzella; Kevin McGarvey; Heather Klein

identify local entrepreneurial opportunities that require redesign ordevelopment of a device that will enhance the quality of life of the local area. The students then work onredesigning or development of the device using local materials and input from the local community. Thebusiness students on the team perform a business feasibility analysis and present the plan to thecommunity, which can then develop these devices for the local or wider region.The first project undertaken through the program was redesign of a human powered grain crusher for acommunity in Senegal. The grain crusher being designed at Rowan University has undergone manyrevisions to make it more affordable and sustainable. It can be powered using a bicycle and therefore canutilize

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Jinmyun Jo

Preheating Effect on the Friction Stir Welding Jinmyun Jo Department of Engineering Virginia State University, Petersburg, VirginiaOne of the primary emphases of the engineering senior projects is to provide researchexperiences to senior students who plan to go to engineering graduate schools. This presentationdiscusses the process used and the results obtained during proposing and executing a researchproject. Preheating effect on the friction stir welding (FSW) process was proposed as the topicof the senior researches in which preheating effects were investigated using a sand insulator anddonor material. Thermal