Conference Session

Research on Diversification & Inclusion

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Brewer, University of Georgia; Nicola Sochacka, University of Georgia; Joachim Walther, University of Georgia

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, New Engineering Educators, Student, Women in Engineering

development.Introduction Times have changed. There is a new message emerging. The future of engineering, and some would say of society, depends on its delivery. The new message starts with the recognition that engineering design is a social and humanistic field, as well as a technical and scientific one; and that, like other professions, human impact is placed at the center of the process [1].This excerpt is taken from Diane Rover’s Journal of Engineering Education AcademicBookshelf review of the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) Changing the Conversationreport. The conclusion of Rover’s article, much like the report she reviews, is clear – “in an ageof ‘messaging’”, messages have the power to transform engineering education.A

Conference Session

Examining Social Ties and Networks

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Janet Y Tsai, University of Colorado Boulder; Daria A Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado Boulder; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Educational Research and Methods

from engineering majors1. Data from our local site indicate that 82% of engineeringstudents return for the second year, while only about 69% continue into the third year, whilethere is a much smaller attrition rate between the third and fourth years2 (see Figure 1). Nationaldata on engineering student retention is typically reported for students persisting until the eighthsemester, and has been shown to range from 38% to 52% across a range of institutions3.Consequently, direct comparisons between the local site and national averages are not possible. Page 26.1021.2 Leave 1st year

Conference Session

Models and Practices of Community Engagement for Engineering Faculty

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Chris Swan, Tufts University; Kurt Paterson P.E., James Madison University; David O. Kazmer, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

engineer.” They also felt thatempathetic and caring faculty were helpful in motivating students to learn, and felt that empathyand care were already included in engineering coursework.Research QuestionsThe goal of this study was to better characterize faculty who are engaged in LTS. The specificresearch questions being explored were: 1. How has the number and type of engineering faculty who are active in LTS changed over time? a. It is hypothesized that given changes in generational values, younger engineering faculty are more likely to embrace LTS. However, the typical model at research- intensive universities places more value on research as compared to teaching and service, which

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

-year colleges and universities and howstudents’ innovative capability influences such transfer capacity. The goals are: (1) to explore thepedagogical practices used to support non-traditional students in community colleges to informpersistence, (2) to understand whether such practices are effective in offering non-traditionalstudents a program that enables them to stay in engineering and science majors and to transfer toa four year college or university, and (3) to determine if students’ propensity for innovativeproblem solving influences use of pedagogical practices and ultimately, transfer persistence. Theresearch targets five research questions: (1) What are the patterns of pedagogical practices thatcommunity colleges employ to enhance

Conference Session

Engineering Cultures and Identity

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hank Boone, University of Nevada, Reno; Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno

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ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

engineering students who have made it beyond traditional exit points inengineering, and into upper division courses. This understanding will be developed throughaddressing the following research questions (RQ):RQ 1) What experiences, affective domain traits, and social capital resources explainengineering students’ development of engineering role identity and feelings of belongingness?RQ 2) In what ways are these experiences unique for first generation engineering students whencompared to continuing generation peers?This increased understanding will be further utilized by the research team in subsequentqualitative phases of the research project by exploring grounds for causation and thedevelopmental role of any significant factors play in development

Conference Session

Research on Diversification, Inclusion, and Empathy II

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joachim Walther, University of Georgia; Shari E. Miller, University of Georgia; Nicola W. Sochacka, University of Georgia; Michael Alvin Brewer jr., University of Georgia

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

contemporary engineer – one who isnot only technically excellent but also innovative and aware of the inescapable humanisticaspects of working in complex socio-technical systems [1-4]. This vision of the “UGA engineer”has informed the curricula development for the College’s eight undergraduate programs. In theMechanical Engineering program, this vision led to the implementation of a design sequence thatincludes a compulsory, 3 credit hour, sophomore class that focuses on engineering and society(Engineered Systems in Society: MCHE 2990). In this paper, we describe the development of aset of four empathy modules that we have created as a core and integrated element of this courseand preliminary observations from their implementation in fall 2015. We

Conference Session

Diversity in Community Engagement Implementation II

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ziyu Long, Colorado State University; Sean Eddington, Purdue University; Jessica Pauly; Linda Hughes-Kirchubel, Purdue University; Klod Kokini, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Patrice Marie Buzzanell, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

(Glowacki-dudka & Brown, 2007; Hubball &Albon, 2007). In order to understand the design, participation, and outcomes of new faculty learningcommunities, we asked the following overarching research questions to guide our investigation: RQ-1: How do faculty describe their participation (or lack of participation) in NFLC? RQ-2: What roles do faculty report that the NFLC play in new faculty development?Organizational Socialization Organizational socialization is the ongoing behavioral and cognitive processes in whichan individual becomes part of the organization's pattern of activities (Anderson, Riddle, &Martin 1999; Jablin & Krone, 1987). The socialization processes involve both parties. On onehand

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Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE PSW Section Conference, canceled

Authors

Sheree Fu, California State University, Los Angeles; Steven Matthew Cutchin; Karen Howell, University of Southern California; Shalini Ramachandran, Boise State University

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Diversity

spaces where communities can optimize their search for information andexpect fair treatment from automated systems.IntroductionRecent discourse in information ethics has raised questions about bias in search algorithms andmachine learning. Algorithms are sets of instructions within computer programs that direct howthese programs read, collect, process, and analyze data. Algorithms have become part of thearchitecture of much of the internet and are also the basis of artificial intelligence (AI). We usethe term algorithm bias to refer to computer systems that “systematically and unfairlydiscriminate against certain individuals or groups of individuals in favor of others.”​1​ Severalarticles and books, such as Safiya Noble’s Algorithms of

Conference Session

New Pedagogical Approaches in Chemical Engineering

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Margot A Vigeant, Bucknell University; Michael J. Prince, Bucknell University; Katharyn E. K. Nottis, Bucknell University; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University; Thomas W Ekstedt, Oregon State University

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Chemical Engineering

2additionofdataloggingsoftwareandcomputerdisplayisanicebutoptionalfeature.Evenso,itischallengingtodowithalargeclassorevenasmallonewithoutaccesstolabspaceortablesorsufficientthermometers.Instructionaltimecanalsobeanissue;thisisrapidforanexperiment,butwouldtake~1/4ofastandardclassperiod.Feedbackfromfacultyatavarietyofinstitutionsindicatedthatitwouldbehelpfulifitwaspossibletodotheactivitiesinwaysthatrequiredacombinationof:lessequipment,lessclasstime,and/orlesssetuptime.Table2showstheapproachtovaryingeachoftheactivities.Ineachcase,thefirststep(writtenprediction)andfinalstep(writtenreflection)remainthesame.Thecentralactivityischangedtoaddressthespectrumoffacultyconcerns.Forexample,thelowerleftoption,instructordemonstration,requiresclassorlabtime,butrequiresonlyonesetofequipmentandminimalsetuptime.Inthecentercolumn

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Academic Programs

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kylie Goodell King, University of Maryland, College Park; Jessica Macklin, University of Maryland, College Park; Amanda Yard, University of Maryland, College Park

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

majors. In the capstone course,students are presented with overviews of each of the sponsoring organizations along with thebasic scope of each organization’s challenge. Students rank projects based on interest and thenare placed into teams taking into consideration student rankings, distribution of majors, and anyspecial circumstances for the project. For both courses, students remain in these teams for theentirety of the course. The original structure of the QUEST program consisted of a one-cohort model in whichone cohort of students was admitted each year. In 1992, 30 first-year undergraduate studentswere admitted as Cohort 1. As the program gained popularity and more qualified studentsapplied, more students were admitted and cohort

Conference Session

Computers in Education Engineering Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Virgilio Ernesto Gonzalez, University of Texas, El Paso; Oscar Antonio Perez, University of Texas, El Paso

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Diversity

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Computers in Education

. Page 26.1773.2INTRODUCTIONThroughout history there have been many attempts to provide an incentive to graduate fromcollege as fast as possible in order to optimize the different resources available to students.1 Whencompared, some of these incentives have been more effective than others.2 Undergraduate studentstake longer than expected to graduate with a 4-year undergraduate degree.Specifically at The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) students take longer than the nationalaverage3 to graduate4. Some of the factors for this delay are: social setting (commuter campus),low-income student population, cohort is not as homogeneously defined as in a residential campus,and the lack of available data to the operator or the agents. In some cases the

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2010 Public Policy Colloquium

Authors

Thomas W Peterson

Building an Innovation Ecosystem Thomas W. Peterson NSF Assistant Director for Engineering twpeters@nsf.govDirectorate for Engineering 1 Creating an Innovation EcosystemDirectorate for Engineering 2 Innovation for GrowthDirectorate for Engineering 3 Three layers in the Innovation Triangle Basic Research (the foundation) Entrepreneurship (translational research) Responding to National Priorities

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2019 CIEC

Authors

Charles McIntyre; Susan Labas

theconstruction industry who support the activities and efforts of all ACCE accredited andcandidate status programs”. Responsibility for planning and delivering the IAB Eventtransferred from the Development Committee to the Industry Liaison Committee.Table 1 lists the locations of all past and known future IAB Events. Table 1. IAB Event Locations 2019 - Houston, Texas 2018 - Tucson, Arizona 2017 - Orlando, Florida 2016 - Mobile, Alabama 2015 - Long Beach, California 2014 - Tampa, Florida 2013 - Baton Rouge

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2019 CIEC

Authors

Paul McPherson; Margaret Phillips; Kyle Reiter

increase involvement in teaching students about technical standards.IntroductionDespite standards affecting most facets of a company, as well as most products and machines weuse on a daily basis, standards are often under-appreciated and thus under-taught at manyeducational institutions. Even though both ABET, an accrediting body of engineering andengineering technology programs [1], [2], and employers have indicated the need for students toknow more about standards before entering the workforce [3], the topic is not alwaysincorporated into curricula [4]. One reason is that many faculty believe that “adding anything toalready jam-packed curriculum is dismissed as virtually impossible” [5]. At Purdue Universityhowever, faculty have risen to the

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2019 CIEC

Authors

Mohammad Uddin; Keith Johnson

or method when advisingEngineering Technology students. Advisors mentioned they employ mixed methods dependingon the student and the situation. Advising methods they found most effective for EngineeringTechnology students are appreciative advising, intrusive advising and learning-centered advising(Figure 1). Methods of Advising Employed by Advisor for Engineering Technology Students 0 1 2 Appreciative Advising Intrusive Advising Learning-centered AdvisingFigure 1: Advising methods/models used by advisor for Engineering Technology studentsAppreciative Advising is

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2019 CIEC

Authors

Angie Price; Mathew Kuttolamadom; Suleiman Obeidat

systems and techniques, as well as to teach them about the effects ofwelding parameters on quality. In order to improve the lab experience, a survey was takenregarding the student anticipation of the experience, and the results are shared and discussed.Suggestions for the improvement of the lab experience for the students using this system aremade.Introduction and BackgroundVirtual reality (VR) is an interactive computer-generated experience taking place within asimulated environment that incorporates mainly auditory and visual sensory feedback [1].Typically via a worn headset, a VR system ‘immerses’ the user in a computer-generatedgraphical user interface (GUI) that can be interacted with. Though it is most widely used in theentertainment

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine A Azurin, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Suzanna Conrad, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Winny Dong, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

librarianship.Dr. Winny Dong, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Bronco Scholar – An Online Hub for STEM Student Research In order to maintain the United States’ preeminence in science, technology, engineering,and mathematics (STEM) fields, the country must produce approximately one million moreSTEM professionals over the next decade than the projected current graduation rates.1 To attainthis goal, policymakers aim to increase STEM retention in college, arguing that it is a low-cost,fast way to produce more graduates with the training and expertise that the nation needs inSTEM fields.1 According to a 2014 report by the National Center for

Conference Session

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division: Curriculum and Resource Exchange

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Krystal S. Corbett, Cyber Innovation Center; Joshua M. Coriell, Cyber Innovation Center; Sara Hahler, Louisiana Tech University

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

others.K12 and Precollege Resource ExchangeAt the resource exchange full versions of the logic lessons will be available along with the materials to build andtest different logic gate circuits. Provided below is an abbreviated lesson on building and testing the logic gatesthat starts at the point in the lesson where students are ready to build the circuits. At this point they have alreadylearned about logical statements, logic operators, and truth tables. Lesson InformationContents Materials Per Group• Logic Review • Breadboard • 2 Logic Gates »» Statements »» Disjunctions • 1 LED • 9 Volt Battery

Conference Session

The Intersection of Higher Ed and Industry

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mitchell L. Springer PMP, SPHR, Purdue University - West Lafayette; Mark T. Schuver, Purdue University - West Lafayette

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Continuing Professional Development

Graduate Studies Divisions of ASEE. Mark is a Lifetime Certified Purchasing Manager with the Institute of Supply Management (formerly NAPM). c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 A Return on Investment Force Multiplier of an Entrepreneurial Administrative Organization for Professional StudiesAbstractScaling a maturing fee-based administrative organization, delivering professional programs toworking professional adult learners, to maximize return on investment, required a fully alignedand synchronized, and, naturally derived and time-phased three-pronged approach: (1) beingopen to multiple mediums of increasing band-width delivery, (2) creatively visualizing, andperforming a detailed

Conference Session

Circuits & Systems Education I

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fred W. DePiero, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; K. Clay McKell, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Bridget Benson, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Electrical and Computer

of the CATE software including such novelfeatures as guaranteed "nice" numeric values and platform-independence.Figures 1a, 1b. Examples of nodal and mesh analyses in CATE’s passive learning mode. Students are guided step-by-step through the analysis of generated circuits. Relevant voltages, currents and components are highlighted with each corresponding equation.The first two sections below discuss goals, features and learning objectives. In Section 3we include some details of our implementation. Results of student opinion surveys are inSection 4, describing our assessment of design and usage issues. Screenshots of theCATE website appear throughout.1. GoalsOur goals for CATE are multifaceted, and are intended to benefit both teachers

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine Haas, Engineering Ambassadors Network; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Joanna K. Garner, Old Dominion University; Karen A. Thole, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

groups in engineering. These Engineering Ambassadors develop valuable leadership and communication skills, which they apply through engineering outreach to middle and high school students. Christine received her MBA in marketing and international business from Drexel University and her BA in English and film from Dickinson College.Mr. Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Michael Alley is an associate professor of engineering communication at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of The Craft of Scientific Presentations (Springer-Verlag, 2013) and founder of the web- site Writing Guidelines for Engineering and Science (writing.engr.psu.edu), which receives more than 1 million page

Conference Session

Assessment of Engineering Leadership Skills

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William J. Schell IV P.E., Montana State University; Paul J. Kauffmann P.E., East Carolina University

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Diversity

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Engineering Leadership Development Division

the greatest challenges facing society today require technical solutions that can only becreated through collaboration within interdisciplinary teams.1 For these collaborations toeffectively harness the capabilities of groups that may not normally work together, effectivetechnical leadership must be deployed. Thus, the need for engineering leadership (EL).As evident by the development and growth of the Engineering Leadership Development Division(LEAD) within the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), recognition of the needto develop engineers with greater leadership skills is gaining momentum. However, observationsduring LEAD’s sessions at ASEE’s 2015 Annual Conference & Exposition seemed to indicatethat faculty engaged in

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 7: Experiential Learning

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela Thompson P.E., University of Louisville; Brian Scott Robinson, University of Louisville; Jaqi C. McNeil, University of Louisville

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First-Year Programs

assistants. Although only one credit hour, many topics are covered, includingintroductions to the different engineering disciplines, instruction in critical thinking, teambuilding and communication, ethics, professionalism, and introduction to engineering design.Critical thinking instruction, in particular, has been one area the instructors have aimed toimprove and reinforce in each iteration of the course. Students in this course are providedexplicit instruction in the Paul-Elder (PE) critical thinking framework (Figure 1).1 The PEframework was adopted by the university to improve critical thinking skills for allundergraduates across the curriculum. In addition to explicit instruction of the PE framework inthe Introduction to Engineering course

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gon Namkoong, Old Dominion University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

sector.1 Particularly, students are challenged more than everto be creative and think critically in order to confront contemporary issues related to solartechnologies. Such a demand requires students to be equipped with solid theoretical and practicalknowledge as a singular “body of knowledge”.2 This is of paramount importance in thatscientific discoveries have been made when solid background knowledge of principles, concepts,and theory is synergistically combined with scientific processing skills. To foster suchcapabilities in students’ learning, inquiry-based learning 3,4,5,6 is hailed in the literature as theeffective pedagogical approach to allow students to perform like scientists. In this approach,students develop a hypothesis based on

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 7

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Ryan Kirkpatrick, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Anneliese Watt, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Ashley Bernal, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

ignite their curiosity as theyinvestigate the Grand Challenges proposed by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).Students from various majors work together in teams using their creativity to design a solutionthat solves the stakeholders’ needs. Students are motivated to produce a high quality design notonly through the intrinsic motivation of meeting stakeholders’ needs, but also by the requirementof holding a press-conference with local media, who will need to be convinced of both the needfor and the value of the students’ design.Background: About our ProgramThe program investigates the Grand Challenges proposed by the National Academy ofEngineering (NAE)1 in a multidisciplinary course providing credit in Communication, Physics,and

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Division Poster Session

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ranjeet Agarwala, East Carolina University; Robert A. Chin, East Carolina University; Daniel P. Zuberbier, East Carolina University; Mark McKinley Sanders, East Carolina University

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Engineering Technology

Makerbot 9, provide their printer specifications indisparate format making an “apples to apples” comparisons difficult. As well, the layperson andeven professionals may not have access to these resources or may have difficulty assimilatingthese through conference and journal papers. And in many instances, jargon and many terms maymake no sense to the layperson.The authors in their prior work 1 have designed a system model and associated parameters for thedesign of a web based 3D printer selection system. This paper expands on their previous workand focuses on the deployment of a tool that will enable any category of end user to match theirneeds and product specifications to 3D printers by means of a webpage. The technology,techniques and methods

Conference Session

Developing Quality Experiences that Retain Diverse Engineering Talent

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rocio Alba-Flores, Georgia Southern University; Fernando Rios-Gutierrez, Georgia Southern University

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering

gender mix of students in traditional courses for the ElectricalEngineering program in our college versus the gender mix and race of students choosing othermayors such as humanities, business or arts programs [1]. In particular, four cohorts of the seniordesign classes were used to perform the investigation, with about a total of 120 studentsparticipating. The student population was as follows: Women (of any race) comprised about9.3% of the total class population for these senior design course offerings, while male African-American comprised 23%, and Hispanic students comprised 5.3%. On the other hand, inhumanities, business and arts programs, women comprised over 50.2%, African- American 27%,and Hispanic 2.61% of the student population. We also

Conference Session

Innovative Project-Based Learning Practices in Manufacturing

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sheng-Jen Hsieh, Texas A&M University

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Diversity

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Manufacturing

showed a decline in the number of undergraduate studentsmoving on to graduate school after graduation 1. A report by the Council of Graduate Schools2suggest that in order for the United States to maintain its leadership role in global innovation anddiscovery, our country must continue to develop highly skilled human talent through graduateschool. Studies suggest that suggest that undergraduate research may hold some of the answersto increasing student learning, retention, graduation rates and entrance into graduate programs 3-9.Federal agencies such as the National Science Foundation (NSF), Department of Defense, andNational Institute of Standards and Technology offer programs to provide research experiencesfor undergraduate students10-11. NSF’s

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 11

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Larry G. Richards, University of Virginia

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

architecture. Teams of students addressed threeproblems (1) they reinvented the telephone using the technologies available in the time of Belland his competitors, (2) they had to design and prototype a new consumer product, and (3) theyhad to design a system to solve and environmental or social problem. For project 1, students hadto study the writings and patents of Bell, Grey, and Edison. For the consumer product, weemphasized the importance of human factors and required the students to study the work of DonNorman.6, 7 The development of this course was funded by the National Science Foundation andFIPSE.The National Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) had been founded in 1995, and we haveparticipated in most of their annual conferences. Several

Conference Session

Focus on the Classroom: Innovative Pedagogies

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David I. Spang, Rowan College at Burlington County; Kathryn E. Strang, Rowan College at Burlington County

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Diversity

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Two Year College Division

(RCBC), much attention isgiven to the Middle States Commission on Higher Education requirements around bothinstitutional and educational assessment. Guidance is given by Middle States through Standard 7(Institutional Assessment) and Standard 14 (Assessment of Student Learning) in the obsolete„Characteristics of Excellence‟, now being phased out as transition to a new set of standardsoccurs. The new standards contain a strong focus on assessment as well through Standard V(Educational Effectiveness Assessment), a condensed summary of which is presented in Table I1.Table I. Middle States New Standard V. Educational Effectiveness AssessmentNew Standard V. Condensed SummaryEducationalEffectivenessAssessment 1