Conference Session

Engineering Ethics: Using Case Studies

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy Skvarenina, Purdue University

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Engineering Ethics

judgement to projects that may be large and expensive, high risk, andaffect the public safety. While some choices are black and white, many are “gray.” As a resultsometimes the choice is between two “right” solutions and sometimes it is the “lesser of two Page 14.720.4evils.” Failing to act ethically can have legal and disciplinary consequences, such as the loss of “Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2009, American Society for Engineering Education”personal or corporate reputation, loss of a job, failure of a company, or personnel

Conference Session

Goal Specific First-Year Courses

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Lewis, University of Louisville; Jeffrey Hieb, University of Louisville; David Wheatley, University of Louisville

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First-Year Programs

-Engineering and Mechanical. Because of thisdiverse student population and potential interests, efforts are made to make the case studysubjects as general as possible with detailed discipline specific technical analyses minimized.Generally, the case study work concentrates on the evaluative nature of engineering work such asidentifying important variables in a problem, project assessment, and system analysis. Highlytechnical aspects of engineering such as detailed design, process development, and detailedanalysis are avoided.Case studies are organized as portions of three or four class periods. In the first class period, apresentation/lecture introduces the case study giving the historical and background informationconcerning the subject. During this

Conference Session

Issues and Direction in ET Education and Administration: Part II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Enrique Barbieri, University of Houston; Wajiha Shireen, University of Houston; Farrokh Attarzadeh, University of Houston; Raresh Pascali, University of Houston; Miguel Ramos, University of Houston; William Fitzgibbon, University of Houston

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Engineering Technology

in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University. She joined the University of Houston in 1993 where she is a full Professor of Engineering Technology and Electrical and Computer Engineering. She is an IEEE Senior member and is actively involved in teaching, research and consulting in the area of power electronics, motor drives, power quality and clean power utility interface issues.Farrokh Attarzadeh, University of Houston Dr. Attarzadeh is an associate professor of Engineering Technology. He teaches software programming, digital logic, and is in charge of the senior project course in the Compute Engineering Technology Program. He is a member of ASEE and serves as Associated Editor for

Conference Session

Embedded System Design

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zaydoun Rawashdeh, Wayne State University; Syed Masud Mahmud, Wayne State University

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Electrical and Computer

. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. During the last 20 years, he has been working in the areas of hierarchical multiprocessors, hierarchical networks, performance analysis of computer systems, digital signal processing, embedded systems, in-vehicle networking, performance analysis of networking protocols, secure wireless communications, and privacy protected vehicle-to-vehicle communications and simulation techniques. He has supervised a number of projects from Ford Motor Company and other local industries. He also served as a Co-PI on two NSF funded projects. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal and conference proceeding papers. He

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael S. Leonard; Donald E. Beasley; D. Jack Elzinga

1.134.4 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings1. Preparation: Identify a group of faculty members (and staff members, if desired) who will serve asparticipants in the strategic planning process. Note that if strategic planning is being done solely for curricularpurposes, this planning group could be, but does not have to be, the CDT. From this group, select four teams(with two to four individuals on each team) to address the following questions and to develop summaries of theirobservations and findings: a. What are the organization's strengths and weaknesses? b. What future projections can be made concerning the practice of the discipline(s) taught in the

Conference Session

Student Learning

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn Jablokow, Pennsylvania State University-Great Valley; Pamela Vercellone-Smith, Penn State Great Valley; Sally Sue Richmond, Penn State Great Valley

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Educational Research and Methods

required in order to solve a particularproblem vs. the amount of structure you (as the instructor) prefer. It can be difficult to evaluatethe solutions of others in a way that is truly objective with respect to style, but if we are toadvocate the understanding and appreciation of cognitive diversity, we must be prepared to setthe right example from the start.Implications for Collaborative (Team) Problem SolvingOne of the most important implications of cognitive diversity arises when students need tocollaborate (e.g., in project work, team assignments, etc.). While Adaption-Innovation theorycannot predict whether a student prefers working in groups, it can help explain the relativesensitivity to and importance of group consensus and adherence to

Conference Session

Use of Technology to Improve Teaching and Learning

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Margherita Landucci, Liceo Artistico Statale; Fabio Garganego, Municipality of Venice

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Educational Research and Methods

2006-465: TEACHING CHEMISTRY AS A CROSS-CULTURAL SUBJECT: IT &LINGUISTICSMargherita Landucci, Liceo Artistico Statale Margherita Landucci is a graduate in Physical Chemistry of Pisa University. She has worked at CNR (the National Council for Research)in spectroscopy and electrochemistry and taught at Pisa University. She has published works in The Journal of Chemical Society. She is the Italian coordinator of the project "Science and Technology in Society" promoted by The Association for Science Education,UK, and is teaching Phisical Chemistry and Materials Tecnologies at the Liceo Artistico Statale of Venice, Venezia.Fabio Garganego, Municipality of Venice Fabio Garganego is a graduate

Conference Session

Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jiliang Li P.E., Purdue University Northwest, Westville Campus, INDIANA, USA; Jinyuan Zhai, University of Akron

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Engineering Physics & Physics

Paper ID #17737Teaching/Learning Soil Mechanics with Mnemonics, Intuition, Insight andInspirationProf. Jiliang Li P.E., Purdue University Northwest, Westville Campus, INDIANA, USA Dr. Jiliang Li, D.Eng (Mining Engineering, USTB), Ph.D. (Civil Engineering, UA), P.E., M.ASCE, M.ASEE, is an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at Purdue University Northwest at Westville campus, Indiana. Before returning to teach at University, he had industrial experience in several States with consulting projects ranging from small residential, commercial and subdivision projects to large scale State DOT and federal projects after

Conference Session

Assessment and Liberal Education

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Caitlin Donahue Wylie, University of Virginia; Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia; Toluwalogo Odumosu, University of Virginia

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

between technical and non-technical skills is, to useengineering terminology, “nontrivial.”part of these courses, the student produce an undergraduate thesis portfolio that consists of atechnical report on engineering research or design, an STS research paper, and a sociotechnicalsynthesis that establishes the relationship between the two major deliverables of the project. Allparts of the portfolio demonstrate the extent to which students have mastered particularoutcomes, but none of them directly assesses their ability to apply the professional skillscomprehensively in the context of a particular engineering project, in other words, their masteryof the whole to which all of the professional skills contribute. The STS faculty scheduled a

Conference Session

The Big Picture in Engineering Education

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Quiles-Ramos, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Donna M. Riley, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, international accreditation will provide global mobility for many technical graduates from all over the world. ABET accreditation will increase the professional opportunities of graduates from ABET-accredited programs as they pursue employment, education, licensure and certification, and other opportunities at home and abroad (2).19We might note that this rhetoric, found in ABET’s 2008 annual report, has the tenor of acolonialist project, in promoting U.S. educational standards within a global arena.Indeed, from the standpoint of governance, ABET’s international expansion raises questionsabout representation and fairness. While foreign universities have begun to adopt ABET’s EC2000, ABET’s volunteer workforce has not yet

Conference Session

Learning Environments for Statics, Dynamics, and Mechanics of Materials

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Allen Evenhouse, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Rohit R. Kandakatla, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Nick A. Stites, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Nimit Patel, McKinsey & Company; Austin Zadoks, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Taylor Prebel, Purdue University; Claudio Cesar Silva de Freitas, Purdue University; Charles Morton Krousgrill, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Edward J. Berger, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Jeffrey F. Rhoads, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Jennifer Deboer, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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Mechanics

incorporating active and collaborative strategies with blended resourcesto enhance instruction in both conceptual knowledge and problem solving skills. Since theintroduction of the Freeform environment to these dynamics courses, the rate at which studentsreceive failing grades or withdraw from the course (the so-called DFW rate) has declineddramatically5. This success has given rise to various research projects centered aroundunderstanding, improving, and disseminating the Freeform environment. In continuing this work,our research team has begun to bring the Freeform environment to other educational instititions,but its implementation has proven challenging due, in part, to the lack of literature on what ABCclassrooms should look like in practice.To

Conference Session

The Big Picture in Engineering Education

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Secules, University of Maryland, College Park

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Conference Session

Pre-College: Perceptions and Attitudes on the Pathway to Engineering (1)

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marcelo Caplan, Columbia College Chicago

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

Paper ID #17782Scientists for Tomorrow - A Self-Sustained Initiative to Promote STEM inOut-of-School Time Frameworks in Under-served Community-Based Orga-nizations: Evaluation and Lessons LearnedMr. Marcelo Caplan, Columbia College Chicago Marcelo Caplan - Associate Professor, Department of Science and Mathematics, Columbia College Chicago. In addition to my teaching responsibilities, I am involved in the outreach programs and activities of the department. I am the coordinator of three outreach programs 1) the NSF-ISE project ”Scientists for To- morrow” which goal is to promote Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM

Conference Session

Understanding the Discipline of Engineering

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wajid Hussain; William G. Spady, International Network for OBE

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

Paper ID #17900Specific, Generic Performance Indicators and Their Rubrics for the Compre-hensive Measurement of ABET Student OutcomesMr. Wajid Hussain, Wajid Hussain is an enthusiastic, productive Electrical/Computer Engineer with a Master of Science De- gree coupled with more than 15 years Engineering experience and Mass Production expertise of Billion Dollar Microprocessor Manufacture Life Cycle. Over the years Wajid has managed several projects related to streamlining operations with utilization of state of the art technology and digital systems. This has given him significant experience working with ISO standard

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 13

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nozar Tabrizi, Kettering University

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Electrical and Computer

will presentsome test results. The last section is the conclusion.Previous workPang proposes an integration of online tools for digital circuit design to provide students with anactive learning environment [6]. Logicly, Multisim, Modelsim and a FPGA-based designsoftware are considered in this work, where Verilog is used as the hardware description languagefor FPGA synthesis. However, the topics covered to teach this language are not presented in thepaper. In [7] Fida El-Din and Krad use the same CAD tool and development board as we use toadd a lab project to a Computer Architecture and Organization course. This project is aboutmodeling, simulation and FPGA synthesis of an 8-bit Arithmetic and Login Unit. However, thepaper does not show the

Conference Session

Community Engagement in Diverse Contexts

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jerrod A. Henderson, University of Houston (CoE & CoT); Virginia Snodgrass Rangel, University of Houston; Rick P. Greer, University of Houston; Mariam Manuel, University of Houston; Sara Jolly Jones, University of Houston; Victoria Doan, University of Houston

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

earned distinction as Dr. Bruce D. Nesbitt Campus-Community Collaborator Awardee in 2016. Rick is also a co-founder of St. Elmo Brady STEM Academy (SEBA). SEBA is an educational intervention aimed at exposing underrepresented 4th and 5th-grade boys to hands-on, inquiry-based STEM activities. SEBA accomplishes its goals through an innovative educational curriculum and by engaging students’ fathers and/or male mentors who learn STEM alongside them. This project has been recognized and funded by local organizations, the University of Illinois and most recently, the National Science Foundation. Currently, Rick is the Program Manager for St. Elmo Brady STEM Academy in the Cullen College of Engineering at the University of

Conference Session

Key Educational & Professional Issues of Strategic Importance to the Civil Engineering Profession - and ASCE

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen J. Ressler P.E., U.S. Military Academy; Thomas A. Lenox Dist.M.ASCE, F.ASEE, American Society of Civil Engineers

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Civil Engineering

from Lehigh University. Dr. Lenox served for over 28 years as a commis- sioned officer in the U.S Army Field Artillery in a variety of leadership positions in the U.S., Europe, and East Asia. He retired at the rank of Colonel. During his military career, Dr. Lenox spent 15 years on the engineering faculty of USMA including five years as the Director of the Civil Engineering Division. Upon his retirement from the U.S. Army in 1998, he joined the staff of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). In his position as educational staff leader of ASCE, he managed several new educational initia- tives – collectively labeled as Project ExCEEd (Excellence in Civil Engineering Education). As ASCE’s Executive Vice

Conference Session

ERM Technical Session 6: Technology-enhanced Instruction and Assessment

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessica Watkins, Vanderbilt University; Merredith D. Portsmore, Tufts University; Rebecca D. Swanson, Tufts University

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Educational Research and Methods

(typically Skype). At the startof the program (Interview 1), each participant was individually interviewed by a member of theresearch team. Participants were asked about their views and goals toward teaching engineering,their reasons for enrolling in the program, and a description of their most recent engineering unit.In both the initial and final interviews (Interviews 1 and 6) participants watched two videos ofstudents’ engineering, collected from our prior projects (we refer to these “research videos” inFigure 1). The research videos were chosen because they showed evidence of students’ thinkingin engineering, including their planning of a design solution, giving and receiving feedback on aprototype, and analyzing their solution using evidence

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chrysanthe Demetry, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Elizabeth Long Lingo, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

Paper ID #25497Transforming the Associate-to-Full Promotion System: Wrestling with Strate-gic Ambiguity and Gender EquityDr. Chrysanthe Demetry, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Dr. Chrysanthe Demetry is Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and director of the Morgan Teaching & Learning Center at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Her scholarship focuses on materials sci- ence education, K-12 engineering outreach for girls, women academics in STEM, project-based learning, and faculty development and mentoring. As director of the Morgan Center at WPI since 2006, Demetry coordinates programs and services fostering

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Denise Wilson, University of Washington; Jennifer J. VanAntwerp, Calvin College; Joanna Wright, University of Washington; Lauren Summers, University of Washington

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Women in Engineering

faculty were interviewed. The participants heldposition titles of instructor, assistant professor, associate professor, or full professor andtaught in engineering, physics, or computer science at institutions that ranged in size from3,200 undergraduates to 46,000 undergraduates. Institutions were both public andprivate, teaching and research focused, and included some community colleges.Characteristics of the interview population are summarized in Table 1. IRB (InternalReview Board) approval was obtained at the lead institution on this project and apredefined recruitment protocol was used in a convenience sampling approach. Facultyare a very busy group and recruitment rates for interviews are low (less than 15%).Despite the fact that the total

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 9

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Samara Rose Boyle, Rice University; Canek Moises Luna Phillips, Rice University; Yvette E. Pearson P.E., Rice University; Reginald DesRoches, Rice University; Stephen P. Mattingly, University of Texas at Arlington; Anne Nordberg, University of Texas at Arlington; Wei Wayne Li, Texas Southern University; Hanadi S. Rifai P.E., University of Houston

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering

University Reginald DesRoches is the Karen and John Huff School Chair and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. As School Chair, he provides leadership to a top- ranked program with 100 faculty and staff and 1,100 stProf. Stephen P. Mattingly, University of Texas at Arlington STEPHEN MATTINGLY is a Professor in Civil Engineering and the Director of the Center for Trans- portation Studies at the University of Texas at Arlington. Previously, he worked at the Institute of Trans- portation Studies, University of California, Irvine and University of Alaska, Fairbanks. His most recent research projects address a variety of interdisciplinary topics including developing an app

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Cristiano Cordeiro Cruz, Aeronautics Technological Institute

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

debatesmotivated by movies [44].Science, Technology, and Society (STS) disciplines entered most Brazilian engineering curriculaafter the homologation of the 2002 National Guidelines on Engineering Education [22]. It maychange after the latest version of these Guidelines (2019), which, as stated earlier, do notmention such content, let alone make it mandatory. For most Brazilian engineering courses,critical thinking and social responsibility tend to be mostly addressed in these disciplines. Insome institutions, teachers managed to conceive very interesting implementations of suchclasses. It is the case, for instance, of the Aeronautics Technological Institute, whichincorporated a community engagement project to its STS discipline [45]. “Computer andSociety

Conference Session

NSF Grantees: Student Learning 2

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kelsey Joy Rodgers, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach; Matthew A. Verleger Ph.D. (He/His/Him), Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach; Farshid Marbouti, San Jose State University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

or using modeling projects, particularly in the first years of theengineering curriculum [1-3]. There are some well-developed pedagogies that demonstrate thesuccesses of doing this. Model-eliciting activities (MEAs) are an impactful example of apedagogical approach used in first-year engineering to teach mathematical modeling skills [3].Even though there are some established approaches, there is still a need for more meaningfulways to teach modeling throughout the engineering curricula and especially in first-yearengineering courses [1].Developing computational thinking skills is something that has been emphasized in engineeringeducation more recently and aligns with this call for curriculum that explicitly teachesmathematical and

Conference Session

Identity, Culture, and Socialization

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Sara A. Atwood, Elizabethtown College; Shannon Katherine Gilmartin, Stanford University; Angela Harris, North Carolina State University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

University, and the School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.Dr. Angela Harris, North Carolina State University Dr. Angela Harris joined the faculty at NCSU in August 2018 as an Assistant Professor. Harris is a member of the Global Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (Global WaSH) cluster in the Chancellor’s Fac- ulty Excellence Program. Her research seeks to better characterize human exposure pathways of fecal contamination and develop methods to interrupt pathogen transmission to protect human health. Harris is engaged in computational and laboratory investigations in addition to conducting field work in inter- national locations (prior work includes projects in Tanzania, Kenya, and

Conference Session

Faculty Development Medley!

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Elizabeth Pluskwik, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Mani Mina, Iowa State University of Science and Technology; John Heywood, Trinity College Dublin; Arnold Neville Pears, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)

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Diversity

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Faculty Development Division

Paper ID #31581Determinants of initial training for engineering educatorsDr. Elizabeth Pluskwik, Minnesota State University, Mankato Elizabeth leads the Engineering Management and Statistics competencies at Iron Range Engineering, an ABET-accredited project-based engineering education program of Minnesota State University, Mankato. She enjoys helping student engineers develop entrepreneurial mindsets through project-based and expe- riential learning. Her research interests include improving engineering education through faculty devel- opment, game-based learning, and reflection. Elizabeth was a Certified Public

Collection

2018 ASEE Zone IV Conference

Authors

David Kenric Hammond, Oregon Institute of Technology - Portland Metro; H. J. Corsair, Oregon Institute of Technology

(typically once totwice per week), the instructor runs the simulation to build the economic dispatch stack,determine forced outages, and establish which units have been called and what the market clearingprice – the price paid for all electricity purchased – will be. The instructor then reports theseresults, together with the actual fuel prices and demands used for calculation, back to the studentsand provides them with the next day’s fuel price forecasts and projected demands. Students usethose new fuel prices and demand forecasts to decide upon bids for the next market day.Throughout the term students keep track of their revenues, based on dispatched units and marketclearing prices, and their costs, based on actual fuel prices for those dispatched

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel D. Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy; Kristin L. Wood, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD); Aaron P Bauer, United States Air Force Academy; Blake Perez, Singapore University of Technology and Design; Milton Doria, United States Air Force Academy; Michael Lawrence Anderson P.E., United States Air Force; Luke Jensen, CREO

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Mechanical Engineering

, Blaberus discoidalis, and the gecko,Hemidactylus garnoti [33], Dynoclimber utilizes the Full-Goldman (FG) [35] template ofscansorial locomotion, which approximates the rapid vertical climbing seen in cockroaches andgeckos using two virtual legs [32].4 DEVELOPMENT OF DESIGN METHODSA new bio-inspired design method for wall-climbing systems has been developed. This methodis intended to enhance the concept generation or ideation phase of a design project. Effectiveideation is often seen as the key step in the design process for enhancing innovation [1]. Conceptgeneration methods can be broken into two categories; either “Intuitive” or “Directed”. Directedmethods are step-by-step, logical methods to produce ideas. Intuitive methods can

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 4 – Systems Thinking Integration and Systems Engineering Skills Evaluation

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diane Constance Aloisio, Purdue University; Karen Marais, Purdue University; Hanxi Sun, Purdue University

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Systems Engineering

Paper ID #21024Development of a Survey Instrument to Evaluate Student Systems Engineer-ing AbilityDiane Constance Aloisio, Purdue University Diane Aloisio is a PhD candidate in the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue University. Her research concentrates on taking a systems approach to finding the common causes of systems engineering accidents and project failures. Diane received a dual BS degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from University at Buffalo in New York.Dr. Karen Marais, Purdue University Dr. Karen Marais’ educational research focuses on improving systems engineering education. She is

Conference Session

Robotics

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cathy Burack, Brandeis University; Alan Melchior, Brandeis University; Matthew Hoover, Brandeis University

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education

roboticsprograms on a broader set of educational attitudes that are also related to long-term achievementand success in school.The youth development literature also points to positive impacts from these types of hands-onlearning experiences on a variety of life and workplace-related skills, including teamwork,communications, project management and problem-solving skills [38], [39]. These types of skillsare increasingly considered essential workplace skills and the teaching of these skills is nowconsidered an integral part of engineering education [40], [41],[42], [4].While math and science-related attitudes and those related to educational competence andengagement provide an interim set of outcomes or predictors of interest, this study also focuseson more

Conference Session

Graduate Education

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erika Mosyjowski, University of Michigan; Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan; Diane L. Peters, Kettering University

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

student when they’re spending all day every day working on their coursework, I was only spending all night every night working on my coursework. I was doing my job during the day. Same thing’s true writing up the thesis, same thing’s true studying for the qualifying exam. So it was pretty stressful.Another returning student, John, worked for a government agency that typically encouraged itsemployees to pursue advanced degrees. However, John found the agency was less supportive ofhis pursuit of education than he felt it was of many less senior employees. Thus, he was not ableto coordinate his efforts in his career and PhD. He explained: So some people get to do their homework or their projects or such on government time