Conference Session

Integrating Social Justice in Engineering Science Courses

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna M. Riley, Virginia Tech

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Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, Page 26.1286.2and how student resistance to topics perceived as “not engineering” can be a positive learningopportunity.IntroductionSustainability has emerged as an acceptable theme in many engineering education contexts overthe past two decades, with an earlier history dating back to the 1960s.1 While environmentalengineering was the logical home for sustainability and has driven a great deal of the movementfor sustainability education in engineering, disciplines like chemical engineering and mechanicalengineering have also risen to the challenge to incorporate sustainability considerations inteaching their discipline to undergraduates.However, definitions of sustainability in engineering have been more technical in nature thandefinitions

Conference Session

The Philosophy of Engineering and Technological Literacy

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George D. Ricco, Gonzaga University, Spokane

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

to recentpublications.Introduction A few years ago, I began a journey to align what I saw were emergent philosophies withengineering education with traditional Western philosophies and constructs.[1] Since that time,much seems to have occurred in the world of engineering philosophy within our community, butthe call for furthering engineering philosophy still exists.[2-4] The purpose of this work is multi-fold: first, to further expand on concepts previously addressed within the context of Heidegger;two, to provide a scaffolding towards operationalizing some constructs potentially useful for themodern engineer and engineering student; and three, to integrate some modern works onengineering philosophy within our community and hopefully

Conference Session

Teaching & Learning in Graduate Programs

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diane L Peters, Kettering University

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

STEAM-inspired interdisciplinary studio course. Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference. Atlanta, GA.6. McCord, R., Hixson, C., Ingram, E. L., & McNair, L. D. (2014). Graduate student and faculty member: An exploration of career and personal decisions. Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference. Indianapolis, IN.7. Delamont, S. (2007). Arguments against auto-ethnography. In British Educational Research Association Annual Conference (Vol. 5, p. 8).8. Holt, N. L. (2008). Representation, legitimation, and autoethnography: An autoethnographic writing story. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 2(1), 18-28.9. Ellis, C., Adams, T

Conference Session

Emerging Computing and Information Technologies II

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Lohse, Holladay Labs; Reza Sanati-Mehrizy, Utah Valley University; Afsaneh Minaie, Utah Valley University

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Computing & Information Technology

the presence of mind in the middle of a call) toproperly classify cases. Human-based classification is only good at spotting call trends when theemployees use the system properly.This proposal has a beneficial side effect that classification would be done automatically, thereforeincreasing the ability to spot new trends and redeploy call-taking and training resources accordingly.To implement this proposal, the following the proposed system (figure 1) would be inserted into thenormal flow of information between first-level tech support employees and the second-level co-workers they consult with when they need help. Page 26.439.7

Conference Session

Labs & Hands-on Instruction II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth A. Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Dianna Newman, University at Albany/SUNY; Kathy Ann Gullie Ph.D., Evaluation Consortium, University at Albany/SUNY; Paul M. Schoch, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Electrical and Computer

on Engineering and Physics13. The latter had more specificson circuits, so she went through their list of topics and indicated what the students can and cannoteasily do.What someone completing regular high school physics should know (based only on the contenton that web site): 1. Ohm’s Law – Piece of cake. They’ll know it flat (or a 2 second reminder). They’ve seen it in middle school 2. Circuits – Again, should be completely familiar, could use a one second reminder that flow is out of positive terminal 3. Electric transfer in energy circuit – yes, they’ve got this. The difference between kilowatts and kilowatt hours just never clicks for many students. It’s simple, but they stumble a bit. 4. Controlling current

Conference Session

Computers in Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pedro Arturo Espinoza, University of Texas, El Paso; Mike Thomas Pitcher, University of Texas, El Paso; Oscar Antonio Perez, University of Texas, El Paso; Hugo Gomez, University of Texas, El Paso; Randy Hazael Anaya, University of Texas, El Paso; Hector Erick Lugo Nevarez, University of Texas, El Paso; Herminia Hemmitt, University of Texas, El Paso

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Computers in Education

for both instructors and students,alike. On the contrary, a classroom that has intimidating technology, a non-intuitive setup andinadequate furniture will also not meet the basic teaching needs of instructors and learning needsof students. Rather than trying to foretell what a classroom should look like in a few years, onecan design a modern instructional classroom that 1) has the ability to support multiple learningactivities not only from class to class, but also within the same class period, and 2) includestechnology that is not a feature in the room but rather is seamlessly integrated into theclassroom1. One cannot assume that because a new or renovated classroom has been built, thatfaculty will automatically come flocking to make use of

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter R Turner, Clarkson University; Jeffrey Humpherys, Brigham Young University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

disciplines, not just thosemajoring in Mathematics. Certainly students in engineering programs arean especially important sector for whom a relevant, applications andcomputationally focused mathematical education is desirable.The MaC II workshop picked up where the first workshop left off in manyrespects. The report from MaC I1 is available online at www.siam.org/reports/modeling_12.pdf. Themajor recommendations from the first workshop can be categorized as fitting four different categories: • Expand modeling in K-12 • Develop a high school one semester, or one year modeling course (with stratified content)                                                            1  School of Arts & Sciences, Clarkson University

Conference Session

Enhancing Student Success in Two-Year Colleges

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elaine L. Craft, Florence-Darlington Technical College

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

facilitate moreoff-campus study and reduced out-of-pocket expenses for transportation and childcare forstudents who otherwise would be required to return to the college to use computers.S-STEM, Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (formerlyCSEMS, Computer Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Scholarships) is a National ScienceFoundation (NSF) funding program that supports scholarships. The S-STEM program, like theNSF-funded CSEMS program that preceded it, “seeks to increase the success of low incomeacademically talented students with demonstrated financial need who are pursuing associate,baccalaureate, or graduate degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics(STEM)”1 The S-STEM program is funded by H-1B

Conference Session

UAV and other Team Projects in Aerospace Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Subodh Bhandari, Cal Poly Pomona

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

of mobiletargets using UAVs,7 vegetation growth analysis using UAVs,8 and environmental gasmonitoring using UAVs. These projects involve faculty and students from several departmentswithin the Colleges of Engineering and Science including Aerospace Engineering, Electrical &Computer Engineering, and Computer Science departments.An excellent collection of UAVs and associated equipment at the university facilitates theseprojects. The UAV Lab at Cal Poly Pomona has more than fifteen fixed- and rotary-wing UAVs of various sizes and payload capacities. Some of the UAVs are shown in Figure 1. Also

Conference Session

GSD 7: Innovative Graduate Education

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yunus Doğan Telliel, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Matthew James Lydon, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies Division (GSD)

3current formulations of CR: 1) understanding the context of a problem by co-evaluatingrelevance, priorities, and risk with stakeholders, and 2) co-developing solutions that can beimplemented and sustained within the same context. In that respect, the existing literature isalmost unified in highlighting the value of a cross-disciplinary education that prepares studentsto navigate epistemic contexts beyond academia while addressing the competing needs ofstakeholders inhabiting those contexts. It is important to keep in mind that, as Xuelong Hu recently claimed, this shift presents arather instrumentalist view of research that is subject to the short-term demands of externalpartners. Hu adds: interdisciplinarity, associated with

Conference Session

Marginalization, Identity, and Student Development (Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division ECSJ Technical Session 9)

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elisa Bravo, University of Michigan; Clay Walker, University of Michigan

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY), Equity

water was causing lead leaching. Additionally, Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha'sresearch identified elevated blood-lead levels in Flint's children. These findings were disclosed inSeptember 2015, leading Michigan’s Department of Health and Human Services to declare apublic health emergency on October 1, 2015, advising residents not to consume the water. By 3late October, Flint reconnected to the DWSD water source, yet the risk of lead leachingremained, prompting the city to recommend lead filters or bottled water for residents.Much of the responsibility or blame was placed on Michigan’s Department of EnvironmentalQuality, as their minimal approach to

Conference Session

1st and 2nd Year Instruction in Design

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Quamrul H. Mazumder, University of Michigan - Flint

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

designexperiences.ParticipantsA total number of 94 students participated out of 200 students in these courses. Theresponse rate was 36.5% as some students choose not to participate in the study.Figure 1 shows the number of dual-enrolled high school students and the students fromthe university. The number of participants in both groups were similar, thereforereducing sample size bias. The distribution of male and female students were 82% and18% respectively similar to the engineering student profile across the country.Number of Students High School University Figure 1: Number of High School and University students Institution Male Female High School 33 11

Conference Session

International Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marina Panteleeva, Kazan National Research Technological University; Phillip Albert Sanger, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Artem Bezrukov, Kazan National Research Technological University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

International

and skills necessary to efficientfunctioning in the life of society. James A. Banks stated that “ethnic, cultural diversity is apositive element in a society because it enriches the nation, gives individuals moreopportunities to experience other cultures and thus to become more fulfilled as humanbeings” 1. The aim of cross-cultural education is to provide the learners with “globalawareness – an integrated worldview”, necessary to achieve active and full participation insociety and, as a result, to form “intercultural personality”.Nowadays much attention is paid by the scholars to the development of the context of theintercultural education. In this paper different approaches to the cross-cultural education areconsidered for high school

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade - Reflections and Advice on the Educational Process

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian E Faulkner, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Tagged Divisions

Student

, lead by a graduate TA. The special MERIT section meets once a week, and is worth 1 credit hour on students’ transcripts in addition to the credit hours from the primary course (much like lab sections). MERIT is ​ not​ a remedial section. The students work problems that are very difficult for the median freshman. Each problem takes a group of four students an hour or two to solve. Problems are more open­ended than homework or exam problems and demand substantial thinking from the students. Students are evaluated on attendance and participation, rather than the completeness or correctness of their solutions. In this environment students have ample time to really understand concepts, rather than race toward the correct solution. After completing

Conference Session

Computers in Education Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James E. Lewis, University of Louisville; Jeffrey Lloyd Hieb, University of Louisville

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

technology components regarding the operating system aswell as supplementary software such as browsers, flash, java, etc. The online profiles, accountsand privacy module will focus on information security and some best practices to protect theironline accounts and identities. The campus computing modules will cover items related to beinga J.B. Speed School of Engineering student, some example modules would be on Blackboard,email, Office 365, etc. The last module would be related to ethics related to using technology asa user and as a student.This Work-in-Progress is the documentation of the early creation of this technology commonknowledge as well as the history and motivations behind each of the modules.1. IntroductionThe J.B. Speed School of

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade - Experiences Designing Courses and Communities

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aileen Tapia, University of Texas, El Paso; Jose Martinez, University of Texas, El Paso; Peter Golding P.E., University of Texas, El Paso

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Student

supports high schoolstudents interested in advancing to STEM degrees at institutions of higher education, and itprovides a near peer mentor experience that can assist the Junior Chapter members as theyproceed through the process of seeking and transitioning to university studies. We are workingto help students advance what we call the “SHPE driving pillars:” (1) academic development, (2)professional development, (3) outreach/community service, (4) leadership development, and (5)chapter development.The UTEP MAES/SHPE Student Chapter welcomes Junior Chapters with student membershipfrom all ethnicities for the purpose of increasing the number of Latino youth that enter andcomplete Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) related careers

Conference Session

Viewpoints, Perspectives, and Creativity in Civil Engineering Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Seamus F Freyne P.E., Mississippi State University; Veera Gnaneswar Gude P.E., Mississippi State University; Dennis D. Truax, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

% and 20%,respectively. Few students, only 1%, had the highest interest in materials.Survey responses of the Keirsey temperament test are displayed in Figure 1. Some 63% of therespondents were guardians, followed by idealists at 18%. Rationals and artisans were theleast common temperament types found in the survey. Figure 2 shows the Keirseytemperaments of the general population in this country.The freshman class was reasonably representative of the temperament types found in thegeneral population. But previous experience at MSU shows that many idealists, artisans, andrationals eventually leave the civil engineering program before graduation, and the share ofguardians consequently increases. The way courses are taught and the temperaments of

Conference Session

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division: Student-Centered Activities and Maker Spaces in Engineering Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claudio da Rocha Brito, Science and Education Research Council; Melany M. Ciampi, Safety, Health, and Environment Research Organization; Rosa Maria Castro Fernandes Vasconcelos, Universidade de Minho; Luis Alfredo Martins Amaral P.E., Universidade de Minho; Victor F. A. Barros Ing.-Paed IGIP, Science and Education Research Council

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education Division

life skills. However, it is necessary to deliver a high-quality education withcomparatively low spending. Therefore, public education, which should provide equaleducation access for all citizens, has to find ways to do so.K12 and the Current EducationIt is important to point out the importance of K12 education at present, since professionalpractices have changed tremendously and the requirements are not only very differentfrom the previous professional generation, but they also keep changing, and quickly. It isimperative to develop means and ways to provide good quality K12 education, no matterwhat the economic level of the country is FIG 1 K12Although challenging, many countries are making efforts to

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paulina Z. Sidwell, McLennan Community College

Tagged Topics

ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy

—some which required the Engineering Economics course forprogram completion. The Texas Board of Higher Education added Engineering Economics to theLower Division Academic Course Guide Manual (ACGM) during the fall semester of 2011 and,although the course is generally included within the schedule of an undergraduate’s junior year(within a four-year program), our college offers the course during the students’ sophomore year.The course’s learning outcomes were also provided in the ACGM, which are the following: 1. Apply different methods to calculate the time value of money. 2. Construct cash flow diagrams for a given problem. 3. Estimate total revenue, total cost, and break even points. 4. Calculate the uniform series payment

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 8

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenifer Blacklock, Colorado School of Mines; Mark B. Mondry, Colorado School of Mines

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

studentsinto the learning experiences and outcomes that represent the skills and knowledge they willneed to succeed in their careers.1Yet, these efforts do not come naturally in many of the university ecosystems. In many moretraditional engineering programs, these same agile and lean approaches, not to mention theconcept of design thinking2, fail to get incorporated into the improvement process forcurriculum, co-curriculum and program development.The Grassroots EffortsAt Colorado School of Mines, it all started with a comment from a prospective student and aninquiry from a non-traditional undergraduate who was looking for something outside of the   1

Conference Session

Software Engineering Technical Session 2

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Massood Towhidnejad, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Alexandria Spradlin, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Thomas Rogers Bassa, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Constituent Committee

RequirementsAt the beginning of the internship, the envisioned product was a semi-autonomous vehicle that could bedriven remotely. To be controllable remotely, it was required that the vehicle stream live high definition(HD) video at all times. The vehicle would also have a fully-autonomous mode in which it would travelalong sidewalks to navigate between waypoints. While in the autonomous mode, the vehicle would avoiddynamic obstacles. To protect the vehicle from rain and water accumulation on the ground, it was requiredthat the vehicle be IP67 compliant [1], meaning that the vehicle be dust-tight and immersible in 1~m of water.The vehicle also need be able of carrying a payload of at least 3lbs. The vehicle also shall have a light andsound source to

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Geoffrey L Herman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Laura D Hahn, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Matthew West, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

observations sparked the creation of a new model for SIIP and a new central message forcommunicating its central mission. Our faculty are now rallied around the simple message of“teach like we do research7.” This message is enacted through a three-stage model oftransformation illustrated in Figure 1. First, faculty are organized into Communities of Practice(CoPs) through which they will innovate their courses. Second, faculty commit to an implement-evaluate development cycle for which the CoP must commit to collecting data about theirinnovations and using the data to inform iterative development. Finally, we expect that theadoption of RBIS will naturally emerge without any mandates from the leadership team oradministration.Figure 1: The three key

Conference Session

Issues in Engineering Technology Education I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anne M. Lucietto, Purdue University; Eddy Efendy, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

students exhibiting TF and JP tendencies is much smaller. Evidence supports that engineering technology students are less judgmental and able to make decisions objectively when solving problems compared to their peers in engineering.The comparison of data taken from sophomore and junior ranked students in both required andelective courses supports the conclusion that there is a significant difference between engineeringtechnology students and engineering students, most significantly in the way these students learnand in their decision-making processes.ConclusionWhile these two papers are not the extent of engineering technology education literature, theyrepresent some of the work done in this area. Case Study 1 illustrates the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan J Ely, Ivy Tech Community College

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

training of the individual. This model is seenin figure 1.Figure 1. Supply Chain Technology Career Pathways Diagram6,(http://www.supplychainteched.org/career-pathways.html, 2015)Ivy Tech Community College is a singly-accredited statewide system with a centralizedcurriculum management system. All high school coursework is standardized through the IndianaDepartment of Education with uniform course objectives, standards and outcome assessments.As such, coursework developed for the high school dual-credit program is delivered with thesame content standards across the state of Indiana and may be applied to a college degreeprogram at any Ivy Tech Community College campus in the state. This allows consistency ofinstruction but also creates an immediate

Conference Session

New Engineering Educators Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark T. Gordon, California Baptist University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

of 65% of thefinal grade.ResultsStudents initially were not in favor of the flipped classroom format. As shown in Figure 1 below,55% of students responded that they liked the idea worse than a typical lecture. Only 36% ofstudents responded that they liked the idea of the format better. However, just five weeks into thesemester attitudes had already shifted. Only 9% of students said that they liked the format worse,36% said that they liked it better, and 45% said that they liked it much better. This trendcontinued to the end of the semester where 0% of the students said that they like the formatworse. Liked the Format Beginning 5 Weeks End of Semester 60

Conference Session

Curriculum in Engineering Leadership Development

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lynne Cowe Falls, University of Calgary; Robyn Paul, University of Calgary; Gord Aker P.Eng. PCC, Logical Leadership

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Leadership Development Division

engineering leadershipdevelopment opportunities. Page 26.486.2INTRODUCTIONThe University of Calgary is located in Canada’s ‘engineering capital’ and has over 4,500 undergraduateand graduate students. Within the school there are approximately thirty clubs, teams, and associations(CTAs) active at any time and the groups are loosely organized into four categories: governance groups(Engineering Students’ Society, department students’ societies, etc.), competitive teams (Solar Car, FSAEFormula 1 racing, etc.), industry affiliated student chapters (IEEE, ASME, etc.), and cultural-socialgroups (Engineers Without Borders, Schulich Soundstage musicians, etc

Conference Session

Design Throughout the Mechanical Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aaron Lalley P.E., South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Mark David Bedillion, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Michael Langerman, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Umesh A. Korde, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

tutorials are built off of lectures onengineering drawing fundamentals. The geometry shown in Figure 1 is used to train bothorthographic to isometric sketching skills and SolidWorks basics. Further projects requirestudents to follow standard tutorials on assembly generation and creation of complex geometries.These self-guided exercises are augmented by interactive teaching assistant sessions and in-classquestion and answer periods.Figure 1: SolidWorks model from custom tutorial. Students sketch the isometric view of this partfrom orthographic views in an earlier portion of the course.Design for Manufacturing, Freshman YearThe second course during the freshmen year introduces the students to basic manufacturingprocesses through hands on labs

Conference Session

Capstone and Design Projects

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vukica M. Jovanovic, Old Dominion University; Tatiana V. Goris, Purdue University, Columbus, IN; Ana M. Djuric, Wayne State University; Petros J Katsioloudis, Old Dominion University; Nathan John Luetke, Old Dominion University; Moustafa R. Moustafa, Old Dominion University; Basim Matrood, Old Dominion University

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Engineering Technology

Learning Activity Description The main task in this project was to model all necessary parts, select standard parts fromthe standard parts database in the Computer Aided Design (CAD), assemble all components, andanimate the main assembly of a robotic kit. Students had two possible data sources for their finalproject: one from the textbook6, which included the majority of the parts, and one from the kit,7which included a small autonomous robot. The kit for this project is a four legged walking typeof mechanism: a “mechanical tiger”6. The Mechanical tiger assembly, shown in Figure 1, is apart of the Robocraft Series7, which consists mainly of robots with mechanical and uniquemovement realized via motor. The CAD modeling software used in this

Conference Session

Fundamental: K-12 Students' Beliefs, Motivation, and Self-efficacy

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cole Hatfield Joslyn, Purdue University, West Lafayette; James Holly Jr., INSPIRE Institute, Purdue University; Morgan M Hynes, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Interest-based engineering challenges phase I: Understanding students’ personal, classroom, engineering, and career interestsIntroduction Engineering as a K-12 endeavor has formal beginnings as early as 2000 whenMassachusetts included engineering in its state curriculum frameworks1. The past fifteen yearshave seen increased attention on engineering in the K-12 classroom and was recently included inthe Next Generation Science Standards2, a set of national standards for science education thatgive equal attention to the importance of learning engineering. Marzano, Pickering, andMcTighe3 describe five dimensions of learning: (1) positive attitudes and perceptions

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Innovative Course Offerings

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rolfe Josef Sassenfeld, New Mexico State University; Luke Nogales, New Mexico State University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

business creation.The Lean LaunchPad business development methodologySteve Blank has led the charge for the Lean LaunchPad, a process that guides startups throughthe creation of their business. It’s a process that uses scientific experimentation to validate anentrepreneur’s best guess, or hypothesis, about their business model.1 The entrepreneur willhypothesize what the customer wants, who the customer is, as well as seven other key areaspresented in Alexander Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas.2 To test the hypotheses, theentrepreneur “gets out of the building” and talks to potential customers and key stakeholders. Ifthe hypothesis is validated, the entrepreneur builds confidence in the viability of his or herbusiness. It’s a process where the