Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Capstone Design

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Moses Sylvester Jaia Jr.; Payam Matin, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore

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Mechanical Engineering

ofmaterials. Tensile test is preliminary used to determine the stress-strain relationship (graph) inmany engineering materials including metals [1]. In a tensile test, a dog-bone tensile specimen isstretched uniaxially until fracture occurs. In a tensile test, the stress is calculated based on theforce measured by a load cell during testing. The strain is calculated based on the change inlength measured by an extensometer. Tensile testing delivers accurate results in the elasticdeformation zone and only a part of plastic deformation zone where deformation is uniform. Atthe onset of necking where the plastic deformation becomes non-uniform, tensile testing does notdeliver accurate results. While tensile testing results are applicable for most of

Conference Session

Measurement and Instrumentation

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claudia Elena Vergara, Michigan State University; Michael Cavanaugh, Michigan State University; Subashini Nagendran Sivakumar, Michigan State University; Daina Briedis, Michigan State University; Thomas David Dionise, Michigan State University; Abdol-Hossein Esfahanian, Michigan State University; Jon Sticklen, Michigan Technological University; Mark Urban-Lurain, Michigan State University

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Educational Research and Methods

Paper ID #12196 Fundamentals at Michigan Tech on August 1, 2014. His research has been supported by a number of companies, as well as by NSF/CISE, NSF/DUE. and DARPA. Specifically his research in DBER-based engineering education has been supported by NSF/DUE and NSF/CISE.Dr. Mark Urban-Lurain, Michigan State University Mark Urban-Lurain is an Associate Professor and Interim Director of the Center for Engineering Educa- tion Research at Michigan State University. Dr. Urban-Lurain is responsible for teaching, research and curriculum development, with emphasis on engineering education and, more broadly, STEM education. His research interests are in theories of cognition, how these theories inform the design of

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kelly Brumbelow, Texas A&M University; Debra A. Fowler, Texas A&M University; James R. Morgan, Texas A&M University; Whitney L. Anthony, Zachry Department of Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University

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Civil Engineering

onconcerns of conceptual gaps and redundancies in the degree program and the significant time thathad elapsed since the last comprehensive curriculum restructuring. This curriculum redesignwas noteworthy because it was among the first to incorporate the outcomes from ASCE’s CivilEngineering Body of Knowledge for the 21st Century: Preparing the Civil Engineer for theFuture, 2nd Edition (BOK2)1. Other efforts to incorporate the BOK2 holistically into curriculahave been documented at the Universities of Alabama, Arkansas, and Texas-Tyler2 andLawrence Technological University3, with BOK2-driven curriculum analysis and changeproposals discussed at Rose Hulman Institute of Technology4, Montana State University5,University of Louisiana6, Northern Arizona

Conference Session

Shaping the Future: Structured Mentoring for Today's Diverse Engineering Student Populations

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Courtney S. Smith, Virginia Tech; Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Tech

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering

occur acrossrace and sex boundaries.IntroductionMore-so than other post-secondary degree fields, engineering is dominated by both Whites andmales, who represent 70% and 82.1%, respectively, of the field1. In contrast, African-Americanwomen, who represent 6% of the U.S. population and 7% of the college student population2, asrecently as 2009 accounted for only 1% of the 70,000 undergraduate engineering degrees andonly 2.3% of the 3,376 engineering PhDs awarded in this country3 - a percentage that remainedunchanged in percentage in 20102, 4. The profile is even more troubling at the faculty level whereAfrican-American women remain less than 0.5% of the more than 20,000 tenure-track faculty inengineering5.These statistics illustrate that, despite

Conference Session

Survey and Assessment Development

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Educational Research and Methods

as the collection of validityevidence. This paper outlines a process for instrument blueprint creation and content validationto help support best practices in educational assessment. Based on Messick’s unified theory ofvalidity1, the instrument blueprint includes a process for item construction that incorporatesmultiple resources, including: (1) the views of content experts; (2) research from the relevantdomain of interest; (3) reviews of existing instruments; and (4) the expertise of the researchteam.This paper uses the development of a new instrument to measure engineering innovativeness asan illustrative example of the blueprinting process. Our new instrument will assess 20characteristics of innovative engineers as identified by in-depth

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Tactical Approaches to Entrepreneurship Education

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Gettens, Western New England University; Harlan E Spotts Jr., Western New England University; José Antonio Riofrío, Western New England University

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Diversity

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

mindset important?The Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN) foundation has set as its objective toestablish an entrepreneurial mindset within engineering programs. This entrepreneurial mindsetencourages engineering students to combine the technical skills learned in their traditionalengineering coursework with a mindset to “create extraordinary value for others.” This mindsetis comprised of three critical factors, including: Curiosity, Connections and Creating value. [1]Curiosity focuses on the rapidly changing environment in which we live. It is important forengineers to have an “insatiable” curiosity reflected in constantly questioning and wonderingabout the world around them. Curiosity is evidenced through Demonstration and

Conference Session

Self-efficacy and Emotion: ERM Roundtable

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura Hirshfield, University of Michigan; Debbie Chachra, Olin College of Engineering; Cynthia J. Finelli, University of Michigan; Jeremy M. Goodman, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

College of Engineering Page 26.1328.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Relating project tasks in design courses to the development of engineering self-efficacyIntroductionEngineering self-efficacy, the strength of one’s belief that one is able to complete an engineeringtask, is necessary for students to persist in the field and continue to be motivated to learn andchallenge themselves.1 Students who have a high level of academic self-confidence feel a senseof self-assurance about themselves, whereas students with high self-efficacy are sure that

Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session 2

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

M. Christopher Cotting, United States Air Force Test Pilot School

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Diversity

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Aerospace

.” Students gained superficial procedural knowledge without understanding the “why’s”behind that knowledge. According to How People Learn “Superficial coverage of all topics in asubject area must be replaced with in-depth coverage of fewer topics that allows key concepts inthat discipline to be understood.” 1 At USAF TPS we now refer to his concept as “targeted depth.”The new integrated curriculum was designed with the idea that approximately 10 coremathematical concepts keep reoccurring throughout the flying qualities phase curriculum. Thoseconcepts are introduced at the beginning of the curriculum with minimal context. These conceptskeep reoccurring throughout the curriculum where their application is called out to a specificapplication. This

Conference Session

Cultivating Engineering Scholarship and Research Mindsets Among URM Students

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amelito G. Enriquez, Canada College; Wenshen Pong P.E., San Francisco State University; Hamid Shahnasser, San Francisco State University; Hamid Mahmoodi, San Francisco State University; Cheng Chen, San Francisco State University; Xiaorong Zhang, San Francisco State University; Kwok Siong Teh, San Francisco State University; Nicholas Langhoff, Canada College

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering

baccalaureate degree in engineering, andpursuing a graduate degree. It will also highlight lessons learned and future plans for theprogram, as well as best practices that are useful to other institutions in developing similarprograms.1. IntroductionThe PCAST Report Engage to Excel: Producing One Million Additional College Graduates withDegrees in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics states a critical need todramatically increase the number of STEM graduates over the next decade. The report cites thelow completion rate among STEM students, with many leaving the STEM field in the first twoyears of their program. Among the recommendations to address this issue of low completion rate

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Course Development

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harold R. Underwood, Messiah College; Donald George Pratt, Messiah College

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

level. Thus,at Messiah College, we have formed a new Circuits I core course combining introductory analogand digital circuit theory. Accordingly, we replaced our Circuit Analysis and Digital Electronicscourses with a new Circuits 1, 2 sequence. While the Circuits 2 course takes up more advancedtopics required for electrical and computer specializations, the Circuits 1 course covers basicanalog and digital theory, including both discrete circuits and selected integrated circuit devices,working knowledge of which is required for competency in all engineering disciplines. Suchcompetency allows multidisciplinary teams to work together more effectively, when decidinghow to implement circuit functionality, make digital measurements, analyze and share

Conference Session

Statics and Dynamics in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer E. Holte, University of St. Thomas

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Diversity

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Mechanical Engineering

calculus” are just acouple examples of the students expressing their struggle to see the relevance of what they arelearning. Likewise, engineering faculty are often frustrated by their students’ apathy toward reallearning. When a machine design student says, “You mean I have to remember Statics?” itbecomes clear the student didn’t see the usefulness of free-body diagrams back in Statics class.When students don’t see a connection between the concepts they learn in Statics and their futureas engineers, they are less motivated to engage and to remember what they learn. There may bemany contributing factors as to why students tend to see Statics as “series of mathematicalmanipulations”1 rather than a way to understand physical systems. Textbook

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 8

Collection

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

: 1) experimental methods, instru- mentation, and sensor design, and 2) innovation management, particularly in the context of entrepreneur- ship and engineering education. Prior to Purdue and Innosight, he spent five years as a strategy consultant with McKinsey & Company and also worked as a geotechnical engineer for Haley & Aldrich. Dr. Sin- field is a frequent speaker on the management principles that can be employed to more predictably drive innovation and serves on the innovation advisory boards of multiple companies. He is the co-author of The Innovator’s Guide to Growth: Putting Disruptive Innovation to Work (Harvard Business Press, 2008), and has published in business periodicals such as Sloan

Conference Session

CAPSTONE (SENIOR) DESIGN AND UNDERGRADUATE PROJECTS

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University ; Michael G. Mauk, Drexel University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

prompts and activities for instructional uses.BackgroundThe United States Department of Energy has laid out a vision in 2011, which includes having theU.S. secure a leading role in clean energy technologies [1]. With current global considerations toconserve natural energy resources and convert to more sustainable methods of power generation,applied efforts need to be developed in order to integrate known methods of energy generation,and still be able to provide reliable results. Although traditional energy sources (such as fossilfuels) still meet most of our energy demands, the benefits of renewable energy have no match asbeing environmentally friendly while they are virtually inexhaustible. Sustainable developmentincludes solving the sustainable

Conference Session

Capstone Design Courses I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mansoor Nasir, Lawrence Technological University; Darrell K. Kleinke P.E., University of Detroit Mercy; Molly McClelland, University of Detroit Mercy

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

Engineering Education, 2016  Multidisciplinary Patient-Centered Capstone Senior Design ProjectsAbstractCapstone design projects are the culmination of the student learning process at the undergraduatelevel and provide an opportunity for students to work on real-world, open-ended problems.Following the engineering design process, students discover needs, propose solutions, buildprototypes and test the implemented design. There are many models that exist in the exactimplementation of this student experience, which satisfies many of the outcomes required by theAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), ranging from need-based designto basic research.1 A common model for biomedical engineering

Conference Session

Practical Teaching in Manufacturing

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sangarappillai Sivaloganathan, United Arab Emirates University; Rajesh Ganithi, Petroleum Institute

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Manufacturing

the choice of differentforms of material, machines and methods of holding the work. The exercise permittedthe use of both jig and fixture and thus it is unique. It enabled the students tounderstand the use of jigs, fixtures and standard work holders like the three jaw chuckand the vise. It also describes the assessment and students’ feedback.1 IntroductionMachine tool is a power driven appliance to bring the cutting tool and the work piecein contact and to have a relative motion between them that executes the cut. The cuttransforms the raw stock into a finished or semi-finished component. In order for thecut to be effective work has to be held firmly and appropriately and for the students,work-holding or ‘Fixturing’ is one of the least

Conference Session

K-12 & Pre- College Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lawrence E. Whitman, Wichita State University; Alex Petersen, STEMpact2020; Christopher D Wyant, Wichita East High School

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Diversity

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

. For example, one company provides employees 40 hours a year of paid leave forvolunteer efforts and will now encourage its employees to spend those hours on STEMmentoring. As more companies become aware of successful high impact mentoring efforts, wecan establish a “new normal” for industry commitment to volunteerism and high impact STEMmentoring. In the pilot year, Academic Year (AY) 2014-2015, we will establish a documentedbaseline of STEM mentoring (both high impact and volunteerism). The activities are: 1)Promotion of STEM mentoring in terms of adding new corporations and in increasing thenumber of professionals engaged per company, 2) Coordination with coalition mentoringorganizations to increase the STEM mentoring activities in our

Collection

2019 CIEC

Authors

Gregory Lyman; Jeffery Wilcox; Rowdy Sanford

Collaboration Copyright ©2019, American Society for Engineering Education Session ETD 415where students interested in robotics can learn the hands-on skills and practical knowledge forsuccessful careers in automation. The minor was designed to fit in conjunction with any of theengineering technology majors offered at CWU.As development began for the Robotics and Automation minor, the program faculty focused onhow to implement hands-on topics into the curriculum. There has been a multitude of researchshowing the benefits of hands-on learning [1] [2] [3] and its ability to provide a bridge from abstracttopics to real-world application, with many

Conference Session

Biomedical Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeannie S Stephens, University of Delaware; Sarah Ilkhanipour Rooney, University of Delaware; Elisa S. Arch, University of Delaware; Jill Higginson, University of Delaware

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Biomedical

instructor, homeworkassignments, and maintain a blog to document their immersion experience and an inventory ofidentified unmet needs. At the end of the term there is a poster session where the students presenta proposed solution to one of the unmet needs. The enrollment for Clinical Immersion is 15 - 20students placed at 6 - 7 clinical sites. The clinical sites have specialty areas for immersion, e.g.cardiology, general surgery, sports medicine, genetics, stroke rehabilitation, and otolaryngology,and each site and specialty area may host more than one student. Table 1. Senior Design Timeline and Phases Timeline Project Phases Weeks 1-2 Phase 1: Introduction &

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 11

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael S. Lehman, Lehigh University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

, twelve-monthprogram that differentiates itself in the market via its “dedicated approach” to entrepreneurialengineering education - a dedicated curriculum, a dedicated space and a dedicated faculty.This dedicated model, as detailed in the sections below, has been designed as the foundation foreducating students with a variety of undergraduate backgrounds in engineering (includingmechanical, electrical and chemical), business (including finance, accounting and marketing),and arts and science (such as design, physics, biology, psychology and anthropology) (see Fig.1). 65Figure 1: Undergraduate degrees of students in first three TE cohortses Majors Business

Conference Session

Innovation in Engineering Leadership Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adjo A Amekudzi-Kennedy, Georgia Institute of Technology; Reginald DesRoches, Georgia Institute of Technology; Susan E Burns P.E., Georgia Institute of Technology; Laurence J. Jacobs, Georgia Institute of Technology; Janille A Smith-Colin P.E., Georgia Institute of Technology; Wes Wynens, Georgia Institute of Technology; Lisa Gail Rosenstein, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Engineering Leadership Development Division

of the strategic plans of the various engineering schools. Table1 provides a list of leadership-focused objectives and strategies within the strategic plans of theInstitute, College of Engineering and selected engineering schools reflecting the broad focus onthe development of leaders and expansion of global influence. These strategic plan elements arewell aligned with the National Academy of Engineers’ Vision for the Engineer of 2020, whichincludes the following attributes (1): (1) Technical proficiency (2) Broad education (3) Global citizenship (4) Ethical grounding (5) Ability to lead in business and public service.These strategic plans and the NAE vision were foundations for the development of the GELMinor

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Understanding and Improving Female Faculty Experiences in STEM

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J. Kasi Jackson, West Virginia University ; Joel Alejandro Mejia, Angelo State University; Maja Husar Holmes, West Virginia University; Rachel R. Stoiko, West Virginia University

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ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity, Engineering Deans Council

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Women in Engineering

published in Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, International Journal of Public Administration, and Energy Policy.Dr. Rachel R. Stoiko, West Virginia University Dr. Rachel Stoiko is a postdoctoral fellow at West Virginia University. She is interested in the intersections of gender, work, and family. Specifically, she works on projects related to career decision-making and development, institutional diversity and inclusivity, and student success in STEM. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 1 Dialogues toward Gender Equity: Engaging Engineering

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert L. Nagel, James Madison University; Elise Barrella P.E., James Madison University; Eric C Pappas, James Madison University; Jesse Pappas, James Madison University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

performance by attribution status (amongothers). The final deliverable will be the first iteration of a low-cost scalable and transferableglobal model for instructional integration that will allow students and faculty to engage inmeaningful and intentional self-development of behaviors in specific sustainability content areas.1 IntroductionTwo tragic characteristics tend to characterize human behavior: 1) our inability to employ asystems approach for understanding the world around us, as well as ourselves; and 2) our failureto demonstrate behavior that is aligned with our values. These factors tend to result inindividuals who are often unable to direct their own personal growth and professionaldevelopment.The central goal of this research is to help

Conference Session

Works in Progress: Facilitating Student Success and Inclusion

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shonda L. Bernadin, Florida A&M University/Florida State University; Tracee Williams Mason, Florida A&M University

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Educational Research and Methods

researchquestions: (1) What specific emotions do students have about this course upon entering it? (2) Do their emotions change positively or negatively throughout the duration of the course?Other related research questions that may offer significant implications for understanding thecomplete emotional experience of engineering students in this course include: (3) How much do students’ emotions correlate with their academic performance in the course? (4) Does their emotion trajectory influence their motivation for pursuing engineering as a career?This study focuses on the first two research questions. Since this paper describes a work-in-progress, research questions (3) and (4) are beyond the scope of this paper. Future research inthis

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eduardo G. Perez, Inter American University of Puerto Rico; Omar Meza Castillo, Inter American University of Puerto Rico

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First-Year Programs

project. Students who completed the registration process were contacted by emailor phone two weeks before the beginning of ESIP.ProjectsThe ESIP consisted of ten days (5 hours each), from July 20 to 31, 2015, coming to a total of50 contact hours. The curriculum was based on innovative activities designed to fosterstudents’ self-confidence and understanding on STEM subjects in order to prepare them for thefirst-year engineering courses. Table 1 presents a brief description of the ESIP curriculum.Table 1. ESIP Curriculum and Contact Hours Project title STEM content and processes Contact hours General Program - 5 Orientation Motivational

Conference Session

Assessment, Course, and Curricular Development

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

electrical power systems (all in their first year); transformers and, generally,three-phase power equipment (in the first semester of their second year). All of the courses inthe two-year associate degree transfer into a four-year baccalaureate degree, so some of thestudents continue. Also, some of the students in the four-year program take this course as anelective.AssessmentThe student learning objectives of the course are that upon successful completion of the course,the student will be able to: 1. Understand and be able to calculate values using the per unit system 2. Understand and be able to calculate values using symmetrical components 3. Determine the operating characteristics and proper application of auxiliary transformers used

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Juan C Morales, Universidad del Turabo; Yacob Astatke, Morgan State University; Kenneth A Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Michael J. Prince, Bucknell University; Idalides Vergara-Laurens, Universidad del Turabo; Mary Cristina Ruales Ortega, Universidad del Turabo

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

itssuccessful application in distance learning. NSF has provided funding for two years, fromOctober 2014 to September 2016, to allow the researchers to obtain initial data on diffusion ratesand to perform additional assessment to determine effectiveness and the satisfaction level offaculty and students.Introduction Diffusion of educational innovations is a challenge that has defied a satisfactory solutionfor decades as evidenced by the many references in the literature; for example, Borrego [1] statesthat “despite decades of effort focused on improvement of engineering education, many recentadvances have not resulted in systemic change”. Felder and Hadgraft [2] state “We believe thatif engineering education research were stopped completely right

Conference Session

Laboratory Experiences in Chemical Engineering

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William M. Clark, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Chemical Engineering

modelallowed students to run virtual experiments to discover the effect of changing each controlparameter and to test various controller tuning methods. The virtual experiments were tied toreality and learning was strengthened by applying the knowledge gained to control the physicalexperiment.Physical ExperimentThe objective of the experiment, shown schematically in Figure 1, was to control the temperatureinside a jacketed, well-stirred vessel containing 200 ml of water. The vessel was heated andcooled by circulating water through the jacket surrounding the vessel. The temperature of thecirculating water was controlled with a PID controller acting on a temperature bath containing aheater and a refrigeration unit. The process studied was a simple one

Conference Session

Non-Canonical Canons of Engineering Ethics

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xiaofeng Tang, Penn State University; Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

action to address the problems. Should the engineers reach out to ahigher level of management and/or speak out publicly about the problems and hazards associatedwith the project? The answer to this question might seem obvious: Particularly because publicsafety is at issue, the engineers should continue reporting the problems up the chain until they areproperly addressed. Not to do so would be a violation of the codes of ethics of severalprofessional engineering societies.1 Cases similar to this one have been assigned to students innumerous engineering ethics classes over recent decades, and the appropriate response to theethical question is often guided by direct reference to professional ethics codes.The ethics case above draws on a real-world

Conference Session

Make It!

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andy Zhang, New York City College of Technology; Angran Xiao, New York City College of Technology, City University of New York; Bijan Bayat Mokhtari, Aalto University, New York City College of Technology; Ali Harb

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Diversity

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Manufacturing

, electronicdesign and programming from the mechatronic toy.1. IntroductionHands-on mechatronic design activities have been proven to be a very effective tool to inspireengineering students to stay focused on their study, to make connections to real engineering work, tounderstand the multidisciplinary nature of product design and the importance of teamwork andcollaboration. Project based hands-on projects provide students with valuable hands-on experience andallow them to take responsibility for their successful implementation of the project from start to finishwithin a reasonable time frame 1-7.The objective of this Candy Crane project is to provide a hands-on opportunity for the mechanicalengineering students to practice concurrent engineering, to learn

Conference Session

Communication Across the Divisions I: Communication in Engineering Disciplines

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mike Ekoniak, Virginia Tech; Molly Scanlon, Virginia Tech; M. Jean Mohammadi-Aragh, Mississippi State University

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Civil Engineering, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

comments and fewer in the less important categories. However, in all but onecategory, the differences between groups were not statistically significant. A follow-up surveywas used to gauge student perceptions on various dimensions related to the peer review process.Perceptions were generally more positive in the in-class instruction group, but again thedifferences were not statistically significant. These results indicate that the handout-only methodmay be adequate for teaching peer review to first-year electrical and computer engineeringstudents and indicate the need for further research in this area. Page 26.1482.2 1 Introduction