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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 1

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Gettens, Western New England University; Andrew Zimbroff, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Harlan E. Spotts Jr., Western New England University; Cameron Houser, 3 Day Startup; Alexis Taylor, 3 Day Startup; Mary G. Schoonmaker, Western New England University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

using bubble-pump technology. • A business to business venture around HVAC energy discounting. • A blimp-type drone for search and rescue operations. • An electronic bike venture for college campuses. • An on-person medical records system to assist with EMT trauma and pharmacy interaction with Alzheimer’s patients. The self-directed components of the program (idea voting, team formation) ensuredthat students felt a sense of buy-in and commitment for the projects. Students were thenpresented with an overview of the lean launch pad methodology [1]. Teams were giventime to then work on the lean launch pad canvas pertaining to their particular ventureclosing out day one. Figure 4: Students present

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Works in Progress: Curricula and Pathways

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sarah E. Parikh, Foothill College; Lori Silverman, Foothill College

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Educational Research and Methods

analysis.MotivationWe need more engineers and community colleges provide a pathway for additional engineeringstudents [1, 2]. Currently, there are seven million students in community colleges nationally andover two million students in public California community colleges [3, 4]. Understanding andimproving pathways to engineering via the community college route has the potential tocontribute currently untapped engineering talent to help fill the projected engineer deficit.Metrics should be established in order to assess the current rate of success and identify areas ofimprovement in community college transfer programs.Background on transfer program goalsSuccess of engineering transfer programs can be defined by how well it meets its objectives. Theauthors

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NSF Grantees Poster Session I

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vann Priest, Rio Hondo College; Gisela Spieler-Persad, Rio Hondo College; Ryan Taylor Bronkar, Rio Hondo College

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

/07/RHC-Self-Evaluation-2014-Report-Final.pdf3. Community College Week, Associate Degree and Certificate Producers, 2015, retrieved fromhttp://ccweek.com/articles.sec-17-1-top-100-charts.html4. See http://www.riohondo.edu/mathematics-and-sciences/mathematics-and-sciences-homepage/starss/5.Strayhorn, T. L., A hierarchical analysis predicting sense of belonging among Latino students, Journal ofHispanic Higher Education, 7(4), 301-320, 2010.6. Spieler-Persad, G., Progress Report Form, California Community College Chancellor’s Office, Academic AffairsDivision, 2016.7. Cole, D and Espinoza, A., Examining the academic success of Latino students in STEM majors, Project MUSE,49(4), 298-299, 2008.

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Professional Skills development in Design

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Julia Smith, University of Calgary ; Genevieve Hoffart, University of Calgary; Tom O'Neill, University of Calgary

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Design in Engineering Education

about the accuracy of the feedback they receivedand how confident they felt in providing feedback to their peers.Taken together, the present research explores student reactions to this tool and their intentions toalter their behavior after being presented with the feedback generated from the assessment.MethodParticipantsParticipants in this study were students enrolled in an electrical engineering course at a largeCanadian university, N = 159. Students worked with group members over the course of thesemester on a number of projects, thereby building an interpersonal connection to the membersof their team prior to providing the ratings.Materials and ProcedureStudents completed a peer feedback assessment via the ITP Metrics platform, in which

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Effective Use of Technology in Education

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Judith Virginia Gutierrez, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM); Frida Diaz Barriga, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM); Nelly Ramirez-Corona, Universidad de las Americas Puebla; Aurelio Lopez-Malo, Universidad de las Americas Puebla; Enrique Palou, Universidad de las Americas Puebla

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Computers in Education

. e. Planning - Project Management (Office Project, Word Processing, Ganttproject, Openproj, etc.) calendars, flow charts, mind maps, etc.). f. Blogging/vlogging - Blogging tool, blogger, wordpress, edublogs, classroom blogmiester, bloglines voicethread, Skype, etc. g. Modeling (Sketchup, Blender, Maya3d PLE, Autocad, tinkercad, thingiverse, Cubify, Mathematica, SystemModeler, Aspen, Minitab, SPSS, several statistical software, Mathcad, etc.). h. Song (finale notepad, garageband, Audacity, podcasting, recording narration, Office Mix, etc.).As can be seen in Figures 3 and 4, cognitive processes related to the cognitive process entitledcreate should

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Ethical Reasoning and Responsibility

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Nathan E. Canney, Seattle University

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Engineering Ethics

. In one case, the ethical dilemmas causedhim to leave engineering entirely for a career in family therapy. This quote from his interviewillustrates the issue: …there's a fundamental incompatibility that's being for profit and being for the public good… and so there were a few situations where I was asked to do things that I thought were unethical, and I kind of asked around to other people in the field who had been in similar situations where, like, the major client would say like, ‘Oh, we don't think that these laws are accurate. Can you go back and, like, make these changes or...’ …or one of my project managers actually he told me to kind of bury some of the findings that we came up with in text rather

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But I'm a Loner! Expanding capability and creativity by examining effective alliances

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

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New Engineering Educators

locale, andeventually have a mutually beneficial relations with the industrial sector; not so muchto supplement their income, but, principally, to be able to reach the broader goal, i.e.,to gain valuable experience and be truly involved in real engineering.iii) Third, reaching out to the industrial sector and engineering services in the Region,and striving to form symbiotic partnerships between local industry and academiathrough: capstone projects, theses work with practical overtones, and applied researchprojects in selected domains, is extremely desirable and beneficial. Today, with theengineering profession undergoing dramatic changes on many fronts - there is realneed for faculty and students, to become involved with practical problems and

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Idea Generation and Creativity in Design

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel P Brown, Northwestern University

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Design in Engineering Education

differentiated-inventive design solutions across all aspects of the user-product experience. As a consultant using this strategy, Dan has worked with large and small companies to create and commercialize many differentiated products and processes for their customers, often creatively redefining these spaces, while at the same time receiving an additional twenty patents for his unique and novel new product solutions. In 2001, Dan challenged himself to create a case study project for his design philosophy, to validate the methodologies of his design strategies, and to provide a sales and marketing tool for his design services. Seeking to create a new and innovative product while emulating the Differentiation by Design process

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Assessment, Course, and Curricular Development

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Glenn T. Wrate P.E., Northern Michigan University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

Semester 2015 offeringof the course the students were given laboratory projects where they used a Doble F6150e PowerSystem Simulator to test either a Schweitzer Engineering Labs SEL-221F microprocessor-basedrelay or a Westinghouse (ABB) Type CO electromechanical relay. The test setup for testing theSEL -221F is shown in Figure 8 below. Figure 8. Protective Relay Testing Lab SetupBased on employer input, the electromechanical relays were not included in the Winter Semester2016 lab assignments, and will not be included in the future. Also based on employers’comments, the students performed the tests individually rather than in teams. This allowed thestudents to gain experience in all aspects of testing – setting

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Epicenter Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Janna Rodriguez, Stanford University; Helen L. Chen, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University; Larry Leifer, Stanford University; Qu Jin, Stanford University

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Diversity

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Material Science and Engineering from Tsinghua University in China in 2007. Her research interests focus on educational studies that can help improve teaching, learning, and educational policy decision makings using both quantitative and qual- itative research methods. Her current research project in National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation (Epicenter) focuses on measuring engineering students’ entrepreneurial interests and related individual characteristics. Her Ph.D. dissertation involved using statistical modeling methods to explain and predict engineering students’ success outcomes, such as retention, academic performance, and grad- uation

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Explorations in Mechanics Pedagogy

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Derek James Lura Ph.D., Florida Gulf Coast University; Robert James O'Neill, Florida Gulf Coast University; Ashraf Badir P.E., Florida Gulf Coast University

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Mechanics

best practices from the scholarship of teaching and learning. Outside of course development, his primary re- search interests are in biomechanics, rehabilitation, prosthetics, and robotics. His current research projects include robotic methods modeling and predicting human motion, the functional evaluation of a variety of prosthetic devices, and the creating of low-cost virtual reality systems for stroke rehabilitation. His goals are to offer the best possible education to his students and to increase the mobility and manipulability of persons with disabilities.Dr. Robert James O’Neill, Florida Gulf Coast University Dr. ROBERT (BOB) J. O’NEILL is Professor and Chair of the Department of Environmental and Civil

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Concepts and Conceptual Knowledge

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gina Cristina Adam, University of California, Santa Barbara; Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University; James M Widmann, California Polytechnic State University; Alexa Coburn, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Baheej Nabeel Saoud, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Educational Research and Methods

Paper ID #13115How Misconceptions Might be Repaired through Inquiry Based ActivitiesMs. Gina Cristina Adam, University of California, Santa Barbara Gina C. Adam is pursuing her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and a M.A. in Teaching and Learning at University of California, Santa Barbara. Her main research interest is conceptual understanding in engi- neering education. Additionally, she helped as a graduate student researcher in two large scale engineering education projects, one related to developing a taxonomy for the field supervised by Dr. Cynthia Finelli at University of Michigan and one on pioneers in

Conference Session

Faculty Development II

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Louis Nadelson, Utah State University; Kimberly Kristine Hardy, Boise State University; Dazhi Yang, Boise State University

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Educational Research and Methods

). We found no significant relationshipbetween the students’ performance and mastery scores for their favorite course (r = .01, p> .05)but did find a significant relationship when they considered their least favorite course (r = .34,p< .01). Our analysis also revealed a significant negative correlation between courseachievement (grade), and mastery learning in the students’ least favorite course (r = -.29, p< .01)and for their performance scores (r = -.48, p< .01). We found no significant relationshipbetween course achievement and the scores on either form of motivation.Discussion and ImplicationsOur goal with this project was to determine how engineering student motivation shifts due totheir favoritism for their courses and the

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Dynamics

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shaobo Huang, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; John M. Mativo, University of Georgia

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Mechanical Engineering

that application ofthe principles is a bottleneck to many students’ learning experience in fundamental engineeringcourses.While engineering design has been widely used to improve students’ skills in applications,students have limited opportunities to learn from projects in fundamental engineering coursesdue to broad spectrum of content, strict schedule, relatively large enrollment, limited budget, andstudents’ design skills. This study selected engineering dynamics course as an example toimprove students’ capability in applying the principles in dynamics into problem solving throughreflective learning practices.Engineering dynamics is a high-enrollment engineering core course; while one of the mostdifficult courses to teach and learn in

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Circuits and Systems Education 2

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ilan Gravé, Elizabethtown College; Tomas Estrada, Elizabethtown College

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Electrical and Computer

Paper ID #12870A ”Trick and Think” Approach to a Second-Order Circuit LabDr. Ilan Grav´e, Elizabethtown College Ilan Grav´e received B.Sc. in Physics and Electrical Engineering and M.Sc. in Physics from Tel-Aviv University in Israel, and a PhD in Applied Physics from Caltech, in Pasadena, California (1993). In the past he has lead high-tech R&D avionics projects at the Israeli Aircraft Industries; has been a se- nior researcher and adviser at the Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, in the Ministry of Post and Communications in Rome, Italy; and has been on the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Univer- sity

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Instrumentation Division Technical Session 4

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aidan F. Browne, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; David George Vutetakis Jr, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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Diversity

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Instrumentation

Competition. He has worked for United Technologies (Hamilton Sundstrand) and General Dynamics on numerous projects including International Space Station Life Support, Joint Strike Fighter Propulsion Control Systems and U.S. Army Biodefense. He received his B.S. from Vanderbilt University and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Connecticut. Dr. Browne serves as the Chair of the Engineering Technology Division of the Southeastern Section of ASEE; he also does extensive volunteer work for the FIRST Foundation (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology).Mr. David George Vutetakis Jr, University of North Carolina, Charlotte Mr. Vutetakis is a graduate student at The University of

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Fundamental: Home, Parents, and Other Out-of-School Issues Related to K-12 and Pre-college Engineering Education

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brianna L Dorie, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica E Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

workers, is one of the central concerns of engineering education research. While manycurrent K-12 programs focus on engineering thinking and design (e.g. Project Lead theWay, Engineering is Elementary, Design Squad), there is still a need to promoteaspiration and understanding of engineering as an occupation, especially in out-of-schoolenvironments where children spend a majority of their time.1Career aspirations and expectations of children have already started to develop prior toentering formal schooling.2,3 During this critical development period, parents serve as themajor source of career information coupled with media (television, print, etc.) and othersocial experiences. While the significance of parents’ role in the development of

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ECCD Applications

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ulan Dakeev, University of Michigan, Flint; Quamrul H. Mazumder, University of Michigan, Flint; Faruk Yildiz, Sam Houston State University; Kenan Baltaci, University of Wisconsin, Stout

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

is covered by the cone of the wind augmentation apparatus as shown in Figure1. Therefore first and second year engineering students experienced a hands-on project thatchallenged their goal: to come up with a design that could improve power output on small-scalewind turbines. Page 26.447.2 Figure 1. Cross sectional of Wind Tunnel Attachment (WTA). (Modified from Dakeev, & Mazumder, 2014) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) reported that today’s world is thrivingon the idea of renewable energy 7. Scarcity of nonrenewable resources necessitated increasingdemand for energy sources that are naturally occurring

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International Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Saeed D. Foroudastan, Middle Tennessee State University

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Diversity

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International

teaching experi- ence, he also has performed extensive research and published numerous technical papers. He has secured more than $1 million in the form of both internal and external grants and research funding. Foroudastan is the faculty advisor, coordinator, and primary fundraiser for EVP teams entering national research project competitions such as the Formula SAE Collegiate Competition, the Baja SAE Race, the SolarBike Rayce, the Great Moonbuggy Race, and the Solar Boat Collegiate Competition. For his concern for and ded- ication to his students, Foroudastan received MTSU awards such as the 2002-03 Outstanding Teaching Award, the 2005-06 Outstanding Public Service Award, and the 2007 Faculty Advisor of the Year

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Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Digital Systems Education 2

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cho Sehyeong, Myongji University

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Electrical and Computer

programming, weexcluded them from the analysis. This resulted in a total of 29 freshmen in the control group and22 students in the test group. Table 2. Summary of schedules Week Control group (C only) Treatment group (CFL + C) 1 Intro to Computers, Prep for laboratory Intro to Computers, CFL basics, (incl. Linux and vim) operations, I/O 2 Beginning C programming CFL conditional, for loop 3 Integers and I/O CFL arrays, functions and recursion 4 conditionals CFL graphics and game project 5 while/for loops Linux and vim, Integers

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First-year Programs Division Technical Session 10: Paying Attention to Retention

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William John Palm IV P.E., Roger Williams University; Charles R Thomas, Roger Williams University

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

: first-year seminars and experiences,7-12 writing intensive courses,13collaborative assignments and projects,14, 15 undergraduate research,16, 17 diversity/globallearning,18, 19 and learning communities.20-22 In additions to these practices, some authors havereported other interventions designed to improve retention, including peer and facultymentoring,23, 24 bridge or college preparatory programs,24-26 and mandatory math tutoring.27In this study we explore the effectiveness of a variation of a learning community – namely aliving-learning community (LLC) of first-year engineering students that was started at ouruniversity in the fall of 2013 and is now in its second year. Loosely defined, an LLC is a groupof students who live together in a dorm

Conference Session

Online Teaching

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Morrow Nissenson, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Angela C. Shih, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

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Computers in Education

certificate of completion, sometimes for a small fee.2The large size and online nature of MOOCs have produced a lot of data on user habits anddemographics. The MOOC Project tracks many MOOCs and found that there is strong negativecorrelation between enrollment size and completion rate.3 Recently the University ofPennsylvania released two studies examining the MOOCs it offered during 2012-2013. Perna etal. (2013) analyzed data from about one million users enrolled in 17 MOOCs and found the Page 26.1168.2completion rate was only 4% on average.4 Christiansen et al. (2013) looked at survey data fromover 34,000 participants in 32 MOOCs and found that

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James L. Huff, Harding University; Brent K Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette; William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Kavitha Durga Ramane; William G Graziano, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

present two broader implications that are based on results from the firstphase of the study that investigated the identity development of seniors as they transitioned to theengineering workplace.One early finding from this study suggests that engineering students do not completely realizehow their work affects others until after they graduate (see the first theme of each gender). Thisfinding indicates that engineering educators can better foster a sense of social responsibility instudents by letting them practice such responsibility in college. Such practice might come fromcourses that allow engineering students to design projects to benefit real people in thecommunity – that is, service-learning. In general, if better understanding how engineers

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids and Heat Transfer II

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Austin W. Burrus, University of Oklahoma; Diana Bairaktarova, University of Oklahoma

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Mechanical Engineering

Figure 2: Bloom's Taxonomy4 Bloom’s Taxonomy was originally theorized by Benjamin Bloom around the 1950s. Thelevels of the model describe a higher level of learning with each ascending level.3 Once all levelsof the taxonomy are completed; the model implies that the student has mastery of the subject.The levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy, in order, are: Knowledge, Comprehension, Application,Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluation. Primarily, educators use lower level questions andexamples for assignments and teaching as they are easier to understand and grade. It is tedious tograde higher level questions as they have many more possibilities for correct answers. This maybe problems such as projects, papers, and oral reports that require rubrics for

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division: Curricular Programs

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Secules, University of Maryland, College Park; Ayush Gupta, University of Maryland, College Park; Andrew Elby, University of Maryland, College Park

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

Paper ID #12714Theorizing can contribute to marginalized students’ agency in engineeringpersistence.Mr. Stephen Douglas Secules, University of Maryland, College Park Stephen is an Education PhD student at UMCP, researching engineering education. He has a prior aca- demic and professional background in engineering, having worked as an engineer and project manager in building acoustics consulting firms for 5 years prior to becoming an educational researcher. His research interests include socio-cultural dimensions of engineering classrooms.Dr. Ayush Gupta, University of Maryland, College Park Ayush Gupta is Research

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Reflective & Critical Pedagogies

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katarina Larsen, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology; Johan Gustav Gärdebo, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

,medicine, or a joint-engineering degree in language studies or the social sciences(including project-based studies). While these changes in content of education allowstudents to better grasp the connection between politics, large technological projectsand societal effects, the issue remains how to pedagogically introduce students toassessing information and thinking analytically and critically. Thereby, onemotivation of the study is to analyze and discuss the potential of tools that couldachieve this in a practical way by introducing course activities of analytical thinking,critical reflections, and web-based peer feedback of the student‟s work.Between SweSoc‟s initiation in 2004 and its present design in 2015, the course hasundergone major

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Industrial Engineering Division Technical Session 1

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Specking, University of Arkansas; Patricia E Kirkwood, University of Arkansas; Lihua Yang, University of Arkansas

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Industrial Engineering

students mostinterested in MSE had a better understanding of the field.44The 2014 ASEE conference had several additional papers presented that are tangentiallyrelated to the research project currently underway at the University of Arkansas. Theyrepresent the various types of research being done on students’ perceptions ofengineering and science related careers. Nadelson and colleagues used surveys to assessthe undergraduate understanding of several engineering career options. The only taskspecific idea used in this survey was that engineers solved problems.45A paper by Rito does address student perceptions of industrial engineers. One of the fewpapers found that focuses on this engineering discipline. However, the question askedwere about

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First Year Programs Division Poster Session: The Best Place to Really Talk about First-Year Education

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Jane Grigg, Clemson University; Elizabeth Anne Stephan, Clemson University

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First-Year Programs

Page 26.1277.8 Learning in Engineering. Int J Eng Educ. 2010;26(5):1097-1110.7. Beichner R, Saul J, Abbot D, et al. Student-Centered Activities for Large Enrollment Undergraduate Programs (SCALE-UP) project. In: Redish E, Cooney P, eds. Research-Based Reform of University Physics. College Park, MD: American Association of Physics Teachers.8. Jonassen DH. Learning to Solve Problems. San Fransisco, CA: Pfeiffer; 2004.9. Pearson Higher Education. http://www.pearsonmylabandmastering.com/northamerica/myengineeringlab/.10. Grigg S, VanDyken J, Morkos B, Benson L. Process Analysis as a Feedback Tool for Development of Engineering Problem Solving Skills. In: ASEE Annual Conference. Atlanta, Ga; 2013

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Interest and Movitation: Formulating New Paradigms to Increase URM Participation in Engineering

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dina Verdin, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jennifer Lynne Morazes, Brandeis University

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering

obtained a four-year college degree40. From the statistics cited above, first-generation college students are more likely to be of Latino/a origin. This group of first-generation college students, historically, has not had as high educational attainment as majoritygroups have. As the population of Latino/as continues to grow it can be projected that this groupwill experience significant growth and supersede other populations in college enrollment23.One study investigated the effects of whether American universities cultural norms (i.e., normsof independence) serve as a disadvantage for first-generation college students35. The studyrevealed a cultural mismatch among first-generation college students due to their tendency topossess norms of

Conference Session

Promoting Engineering and Technological Literacy

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan Grunert, Virginia Tech; Peter Doolittle, Virginia Tech; Stephanie G. Adams, Virginia Tech

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Diversity

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

appreciation of the values we bring to that understanding.[...] Its contribution to liberal education would be to give an insight into the way of thinking of engineers in order to enable judgments to be made about the value of projects and the risks associated with them. 2This definition is problematic, though, in that it fails to produce an actual definition. Instead, itprovides researchers with some ideas as to how to identify and assess engineering literacy,explicating what the research “requires that we understand.”Engineering literacy works to describe an informed citizenry, wherein the person functionseffectively in a society that values engineering, as separate from technology. The NationalAssessment