Conference Session

Research to Practice: STRAND 2- Engineering Across the Curriculum: Integration with the Arts, Social Studies, Science, and the Common Core

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Glenn W Ellis, Smith College; Al Rudnitsky, Smith College; Beth McGinnis-Cavanaugh, Springfield Technical Community College; Isabel Huff, Springfield Technical Community College; Sonia K Ellis, Smith College

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Diversity

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

. With expertise in the design of PD and learning communities, Beth leads a collaboration with educators as co-PI on an NSF K12 engineering education project. She is the 2014 Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education Massachusetts Professor of the Year.Ms. Isabel Huff, Springfield Technical Community College After participating in the instructional design of Through My Window during her four years as an un- dergraduate, Isabel is thrilled to be working full-time as the outreach coordinator. She graduated summa cum laude from Smith College with a double major in Economics and Spanish in Spring 2014 and now works on the Springfield Technical

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Hands-on Active Learning

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mohammed Taqiuddin Taher, DeVry University, Addison; Ahmed S. Khan, DeVry University, Addison

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Diversity

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Engineering Technology

years of academic experience. He taught courses in Engineering, Computer Science, and Networking. Presently he is teaching courses in Cisco, Microsoft, UNIX, Data Communi- cations, and Emerging Technologies. Dr. Taher began his career as a Project Engineer for Zenith Data Systems Company. He worked at Benton Harbor Plant in Michigan for 2 years. Professor Taher is a member of IEEE and ASEE.Dr. Ahmed S. Khan, DeVry University, Addison Dr. Ahmed S. Khan is a Senior Professor in the College of Engineering and Information Sciences at DeVry University, Addison, Illinois. Dr. Khan has more than thirty-two years of experience in research, instruction, curricula design and development, program evaluation and

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Measurement and Instrumentation

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno; Lisa Benson, Clemson University

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

Paper ID #11470Engineering Students’ Perceptions of the Future: Exploratory InstrumentDevelopmentAdam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno Adam Kirn is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at University of Nevada, Reno. His re- search focuses on the interactions between engineering cultures, student motivation, and their learning experiences. His projects involve the study of student perceptions, beliefs and attitudes towards becoming engineers, their problem solving processes, and cultural fit. His education includes a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, a M.S. in

Conference Session

Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Digital Systems Education 1

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mehran Mozaffari Kermani, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Reza Azarderakhsh, Rochester Institute of technology

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Diversity

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Electrical and Computer

its battery depletion in 6 months, the resulting (now secure)device would be unacceptable, life-threatening, and impractical to use. Page 26.989.2In this paper, we present integrating emerging cryptographic engineering (used for protecting theaforementioned deeply-embedded systems) research with security education. This project isaddressing the respective tradeoffs between the security levels (noting the larger attack surfacefor deeply-embedded systems) and affording the overheads applicably, which are the two mainfacets of the proposed integration. To meet this objective, we have used such methodology formore than a year in educating graduate

Conference Session

Diffusion and Adoption of Teaching Practices

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kari L. Jordan, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach; James J. Pembridge, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach; Sarah Anne Blackowski; Heidi M Steinhauer, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach; Timothy A Wilson, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach; Douglas Holton, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach

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Educational Research and Methods

specificcontent area, and micro-communities of practice as those reflecting collaboration of smallercohorts of STEM faculty, in-person and virtually.This study addresses the following research questions: 1) How do engineering faculty involvedin a community of practice engage in knowledge transfer? 2) How does knowledge transfer ofspecific evidence-based instructional practices occur in an engineering faculty community ofpractice?Conducted within a large research project aimed at exploring stages of pedagogical change, thiswork utilizes a qualitative methodology. Nine faculty in a first-year engineering departmentparticipated in hour-long semi-structured interviews exploring use of EBIPs and collaboration.Interviews were analyzed using thematic coding to

Conference Session

Examining Social Ties and Networks

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Peter A Simon, Carnegie Mellon University; Susan Finger, Carnegie Mellon University; David Krackhardt, Carnegie Mellon University; Daniel P. Siewiorek, Carnegie Mellon University; Asim Smailagic, Carnegie Mellon University

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Educational Research and Methods

Systems and Wearable Computers at CMU. This Lab has developed over 30 novel Page 26.1090.1 mobile computer systems over the last twenty years. Dr. Smailagic has led or participated in numerous NSF, NIH, DARPA, and other research projects. Dr. Smailagic is a Fellow of IEEE and recipient of the Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence from Carnegie Mellon’s School of Computer Science. Dr. Smailagic has been a Program Chairman of over ten IEEE conferences. He was the Chair of the IEEE c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015

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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Noah Salzman, Boise State University; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University; Monica E Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Page 26.1141.3with finding this connection in the First-Year Engineering program. While the experience of thetransition from pre-college to First-Year Engineering is characterized by the frustration, reactionsto this frustration include both drawing from pre-college engineering as a source of motivation topersist or leaving engineering to study engineering technology in hopes of eliminating thesources of frustration in First-Year Engineering.The third way of experiencing the transition to college engineering is Tedium. The tedium is dueto having significant prior exposure to engineering projects perceived as more authentic,perceiving First-Year Engineering as less academically intense than pre-college engineering, andrepeating content already

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Promoting Engineering and Technological Literacy

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Heywood, Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin; Mani Mina, Iowa State University

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

course5.Dyer and Schmalzel13 also reported great difficulty in finding textbooks that were structuredaround a “just-in-time” approach that would be suitable for project work.The course to be described below may be seen as a development of Heywood’s early work. Itis appreciated that in the US other definitions of integration and interdisciplinarity are usedand a substantial discussion of these will be found in Heywood (2005)14 (see also Fogarty,199315). However, there are two points that need to be made.First, the idea of inter-disciplinary study in the British Isles is mostly associated with coursesin which students study two subjects throughout the period of study to the major (honours)level. With rare exceptions it seems that academics do not

Conference Session

New Engineering Educators Division Technical Session 1

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donald P. Visco Jr., University of Akron; Dirk Schaefer, University of Bath

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Diversity

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New Engineering Educators

scholarly publications in journals, books, and conferences, 60 presentations at national and international events, and $4M in external funding for research, development and technology transfer. In addition, he has supervised ap- proximately 60 research students on Ph.D., M.S, B.S., and other research and development projects. Dr. Schaefer is a registered Professional Engineer in Europe (Eur Ing), a Chartered Engineering (CEng), a Chartered IT Professional (CITP), and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) in the UK, as well as registered International Engineering Educator (Ing-Paed IGIP). From 2013 to 2014 he served as IGIP’s Founding President for the US region. Dr. Schaefer serves as a peer reviewer for approx

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Industrial Engineering Division Technical Session 2

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Justine M. Chasmar, Clemson University; Brian J. Melloy, Clemson University; Lisa Benson, Clemson University

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Industrial Engineering

operations research, with a research emphasis on modeling systems under uncertainty. His research has been supported by the government and private sectors and disseminated in a variety of forums. He is a member of the Institute of Industrial Engineers; his honorary affiliations include Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Xi.Dr. Lisa Benson, Clemson University Lisa Benson is an Associate Professor of Engineering and Science Education at Clemson University, with a joint appointment in Bioengineering. Her research focuses on the interactions between student moti- vation and their learning experiences. Her projects involve the study of student perceptions, beliefs and attitudes towards becoming engineers and scientists, and their problem

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Evaluating Student Behaviors and Attitudes

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel M. Ferguson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Kathryn W. Jablokow, Pennsylvania State University, Great Valley; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University; Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jessica Dolores Menold, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Paper ID #11833Jessica Menold is a second year graduate student interested in entrepreneurship, the design process, andinnovativeness of engineering graduates and professionals. She is currently working as a student mentorin the Lion Launch Pad program, where she works to support student entrepreneurs. Jessica is currentlyconducting her graduate research with Dr. Kathryn Jablokow on a project devoted to the development of apsychometric instrument that will measure the skills, behaviors, and traits of an innovative engineer. Herhope is that this awareness of individual innovativeness levels will

Conference Session

Engineering Physics & Physics Division Technical Session 2

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David K. Probst P.E., Southeast Missouri State University

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Diversity

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Engineering Physics & Physics

, the Fresnel relations,electromagnetic plane wave theory, Maxwell’s Equations, interference, diffraction, and Fourieroptics. There is also a design project done in teams as well as a presentation on a contemporarytopic in optics by each student.The primary delivery mode of the traditional course is the lecture because, as is typical ofphysics courses, it involves a lot of derivations. Students come to class, take notes as fast as theycan, ask a few questions along the way, and then go home and work a few problems, some ofwhich involve deriving or proving some result from the lecture. Each offering, a few studentscomment on student evaluations that the course does not have enough worked example problemsduring class, that is, it is not applied

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First-year Programs Division Technical Session 3: Diversity and Multicultural Influences in the First Year

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer Maritza Paz, The University of Texas at Austin, Cockrell School of Engineering; Margo Cousins, University of Texas, Austin; Cindy D. Wilson, University of Texas, Austin; Mia K. Markey, The University of Texas at Austin

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

Paper ID #13134Retention of First-Year Undergraduate Engineering Students: Role of Psy-chosocial Interventions Targeting First-Generation College StudentsMs. Jennifer Maritza Paz, The University of Texas at Austin, Cockrell School of Engineering Jennifer Paz is a graduate student of the Department of Educational Psychology at The University of Texas at Austin. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from Texas State University in 2011. She is currently working with Dr. Mia Markey in the Biomedical Engineering Department at The University of Texas at Austin in a project aimed at improving retention rates of first

Conference Session

Instrumentation Division Technical Session 1

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mingshao Zhang, Stevens Institute of Technology; Zhou Zhang, Stevens Institute of Technology; Yizhe Chang, Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Engineering and Science); Sven K. Esche, Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Engineering and Science)

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Diversity

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Instrumentation

been published. Examples include the digitalMichelangelo project that used tracked 3-D scanners to digitize large statues [ 16 ], theviewpoint-based approach of 3-D shape reconstruction using video sequences [17], dense 3-Dreconstruction from unregistered Internet-scale photo collections using appearance-basedclustering techniques [18], surface reconstruction from unorganized 3-D points by solving aspatial Poisson problem [19], and environment and object virtualization using a single 3-D scanner Page 26.1376.4[20,21].There is a body of research focusing on object scanning, and those techniques have been proven tobe suitable for building the

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ECCD Innovative Teaching Methods & Outreach

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Madhumi Mitra Ph.D, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Xavier Shastri Domnique Henry, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Courtney RC Shirvani, University of Maryland Eastern Shore

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Diversity

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

particular focus on bioenergy and bioproducts to STEAM educators and researchers; and2) to develop and provide curricular materials and a set of teaching tools for educators forenhancing multidisciplinary instruction in the areas of sustainable bioenergy and bioproducts.The academy focuses on lessons and activities pertaining to sustainability, systems thinking,bioenergy, bioproducts, bioheat, biopower, and environment and policies related to energyissues. The participants got the opportunity to acquire concrete experiences involving teamwork,time management, and project execution skills; reflected on their learning experiences throughpresentations and the end of the institute; developed concepts related to organic chemistry,physics, engineering

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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 7: The Transition from High School to College

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Caitlin Cairncross, University of Portland; Sharon A. Jones P.E., University of Portland; Zulema Naegele, University of Portland; Tammy VanDeGrift, University of Portland

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First-Year Programs

. During the programstudents learn about the STEM field, participate in leadership development, and connect withpeers and faculty. USC’s program is a 4 week program for engineering students (by participatingin the program students can actually earn college credits). During the program studentsparticipate in lectures, fieldtrips, and projects, and learn about the field of engineering as awhole.Though most of the summer bridge programs that were researched are significantly shorter, anddon’t require students to complete college-level courses, much of the co-curricular programming,such as workshops, team building activities, and field trips, proved to be useful in designing theUniversity of Portland summer bridge program.In addition to existing best

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shawn S. Jordan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

NSF-funded projects related to design, including an NSF Early CAREER Award entitled ”CAREER: Engineering Design Across Navajo Culture, Community, and Society” and ”Might Young Makers be the Engineers of the Future?” He has also been part of the teaching team for NSF’s Innovation Corps for Learning, and was named one of ASEE PRISM’s ”20 Faculty Under 40” in 2014. Dr. Jordan also founded and led teams to two collegiate National Rube Goldberg Machine Contest cham- pionships, and has co-developed the STEAM LabsTM program to engage middle and high school students in learning science, technology, engineering, arts, and math concepts through designing and building chain reaction machines. He has appeared on many TV

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First-year Programs Division Technical Session 4: The Best of the All: FPD Best Papers

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christina H Paguyo, Colorado State University; Rebecca A Atadero, Colorado State University; Karen E Rambo-Hernandez, West Virginia University; Jennifer Francis, West Virginia University

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

University Jennifer Francis is a graduate student at West Virginia University in the College of Education and Hu- man Services in the Education Research and Evaluation master’s program. Her research interests include mathematics education, project/problem based learning, and evaluations of a variety of educational pro- grams. Page 26.418.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Creating Inclusive Environments in First-Year Engineering Classes to Support Student Retention and LearningIntroductionA new NSF-funded experimental study seeks to incorporate

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Issues in Engineering Technology Education II

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed S. Khan, DeVry University - Addison; Aminul Karim, Higher Educational Consultant

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Engineering Technology

U.S. statesand 57 countries. The intent of the survey was to gauge the status of professionaldevelopment activities vis-a-vis faculty technical currency at personal, departmental, andinstitutional levels in the domains of engineering technology. The survey also exploresfaculty input regarding the importance of technical currency and its relationship tostudent learning and success. Finally, the paper compares the current status of facultyscholarship vis-à-vis faculty technical currency to the results obtained through earlierstudies (2003, 2007 & 2013). I. IntroductionThe purpose of project was to explore faculty perceptions of the importance and currentstatus of faculty technical currency for effective teaching. A survey was conducted

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International Division Technical Session 4

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tony Lee Kerzmann, Robert Morris University; Casey James McAndrew; Kendra Slis; Maria Elisabeth French; Katelyn Maione P.E., Robert Morris University

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International

for the students by allowing themto visualize the concept, learn about how to conduct such a large scale experiment, and to learnabout the aspects that affect the future success of such a project. Aside from these renewableresource site visits, the FLEAP allotted for cultural and historic site visits as well15.Culturally, students were exposed to three cities within Germany where they went on historicalsite visits, worked through language barriers each day, and immersed themselves in an entirelynew world bothsocially andemotionally.Theseexperiences aremeant to givestudents a betterunderstandingof culturaldifferences, andsensitivity todifferent normsthroughout theworld.Throughout the Figure 3: Adlershof Science

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Statics and Dynamics in Mechanical Engineering

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer E. Holte, University of St. Thomas

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Diversity

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Mechanical Engineering

improvements such as offering students guidance a dayor two before the assignment was due.The work presented in this paper strives to marry hands-on learning and real-world relevance formechanical engineers. Similar to Steif’s homework idea, the students answer engineering designquestions regarding a physical device, in this case, a can crusher. The difference is, the studentscan hold the device in their hands, and they do the work in the classroom where the instructorcan help redirect them if they get stuck or take a wrong turn as they make decisions on how totake a real object and create a mathematical model. Mariappan et al.25 and Hickman et al.26 alsouse a can crusher as the subject of longer open-ended design projects for sophomore

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 8

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Freddy Solis, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Joseph Victor Sinfield, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

movement, which did notbegin with the intention of addressing financial issues for the poor, but as an effort to understandand reduce famine in Bangladesh [17]. This movement could be considered “entrepreneurial” ina broader sense because a distinct set of related issues seem to have been at its core: deviations ingoals (e.g., reducing famine, improving irrigation, addressing farming ecosystem challenges, helping the poorest segment of the population), changes in context (e.g., agricultural techniques,irrigation, farming ecosystems, value chains), different end users (e.g., farmers, landowners,marginalized workers) and operating model pivots (e.g., university action research project,farming

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Understanding and Changing Engineering Culture

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Omoju Miller, UC Berkeley

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ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity

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Women in Engineering

Paper ID #17160Gaining Insights into the Effects of Culturally Responsive Curriculum onHistorically Underrepresented Students’ Desire for Computer ScienceMs. Omoju Miller, UC Berkeley Omoju Miller is the lead researcher on the ”Hiphopathy” project at UC Berkeley. She has an undergrad- uate degree in Computer Science (2001) and a Master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering (2004) from the University of Memphis. She has over a decade of experience in the technology indus- try. She is currently a doctoral candidate at UC Berkeley in Computer Science Education. Omoju also served in a volunteer capacity as an advisor to

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 10

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tobias Haertel, TU Dortmund University; Claudius Terkowsky, TU Dortmund University; Dominik May, TU Dortmund University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

the area of engineering education research. In his position he is managing several research and development projects on engineering education and technical training. Furthermore he of- fers workshops on professional teaching and learning for engineering faculty. In his research Dominik May focuses, inter alia, on future requirements for science and engineering graduates, such as interna- tional competence, in order to become successful engineers in a globalized professional world. Therefore he designs and investigates respective educational strategies with a special focus on online solutions and the integration of remote laboratories. For his research and the development of several transnational on- line courses he

Conference Session

Computers in Education Division Poster Session

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth A. Ritter III, University of Louisiana, Lafayette; Terrence L. Chambers PE, University of Louisiana, Lafayette; Christoph W. Borst, University of Louisiana, Lafayette

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Computers in Education

the initial creation of a scale 3D model of the real energyfacility for guided virtual tours to groups of students visiting projection display rooms. We havepreviously summarized the VEC extensions for consumer VR equipment, describing VRinteraction techniques and ongoing work on depth camera and networking aspects [15]. We nowgive a much more complete description of the VEC study and present initial results fromuniversity students and a small STEM high school class. Figure 1: Bird’s-eye view of the real (left) and virtual (right) facility.Solar energy is the fastest growing source of renewable energy in America, with the totalinstalled capacity expected to double in the next two years [16]. This creates a high demand foreducators

Conference Session

Assessing Literacies in Engineering Education

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xiaofeng Tang, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Qin Zhu, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Haishao Pang, Beijing Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

education for more than 30 years. As a manager, teacher and researcher, she has served many departments, including Office of BIT President, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, School of Law, etc. In 2011, she built the Center for Faculty Development (CFD) of BIT, which has been named as the National Demonstrational Center by the Ministry of Education of China. Now, professor Pang is the head of Graduate School of Educational and the director of CFD at BIT. Her teaching, research, and writing focused on general education and suzhi education, faculty de- velopment, and higher education management. She has published 8 books, more than 50 papers, and undertook around 15 research projects. Her monograph ”General

Conference Session

Education Programs in BME

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Breanne Przestrzelski, Clemson University; John D DesJardins, Clemson University; Carson Mackenzie Ida Brewer, Clemson University

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Biomedical

university technology transferoffice (Clemson University Research Foundation-CURF) to provide exposure to portfolioassessment, technology marketing, and technology licensing and commercialization. Withmentorship from the technology transfer officers and interns, the students evaluated both theneeds they were identifying in their own clinical shadowing experience as well as thosepreviously designed and housed within the university intellectual property medical technologyportfolio. Commercial potential was evaluated by the students themselves with the goal to gaininsight into the process that their future senior design projects would eventually undergo at theconclusion of their senior design experience. Both immersions were vital to the collection

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Linda Vanasupa, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Lizabeth T Schlemer, California Polytechnic State University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Ph.D. and M.S. degrees are in materials science and engineering from Stanford University and her B.S. degree in metallurgical engineering from the Michigan Technological University.Dr. Lizabeth T Schlemer, California Polytechnic State University Lizabeth is a professor at Cal Poly, SLO in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. She has been teaching for 23 years and has continued to develop innovative pedagogy such as project based, flipped classroom and competency grading. Her current research examines grading and the assumptions faculty hold about students. Through the SUSTAIN SLO learning initiative she and her colleagues have been active researching transformation in higher education

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Pulford, Auburn University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

students. While one student felt that the values of her writing class werepositively echoed in her discipline’s collaborative coursework, others lamented the few explicitopportunities to formally practice technical communication as an engineering value outside oftheir writing classes. In effect, these students felt that any additional quality that a student’swriting brought to a project or assignment outside of their writing class was not recognized inrubrics or grades. This lack of explicit curricular value for writing disappointed students who’dinvested effort in their writing classes. Three students noted that they made a personal point oftransferring the skills and standards of their writing class to other coursework, but they felt thatthey

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

APIs.Compared to traditional software APIs or libraries, web services provide two additionalbenefits: global accessibility and standardization. First, web services leverage thepowerful communication paradigm of the web and the ubiquitous HTTP/SMTP transportprotocols. Services may be accessed globally and via firewalls. Web services also providea lightweight approach to offering and reusing software applications. Unlike traditionalsoftware libraries that need to be downloaded and included in a project package, webservices are invoked by exchanging well-formed messages on the Web. Nothing butclient-stubs needs to be included in the project package. The user-side burden can befurther relieved when invoking RESTful services, where REST design pattern is