Conference Session

Connecting BME education to the "real world"

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julia N. Savoy, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Mia K. Markey, The University of Texas at Austin; Henry Grady Rylander III P.E., The University of Texas at Austin

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Biomedical Engineering

exploratory, and lacking a clearoutline before arriving on site. These trainees did not discuss having “ownership” of theexternship or their project, and it was not clear from their language choices exactly who shouldbe developing such a plan. Students who did not have a clear plan were less likely to feel theyreceived feedback on their externship performance, either on their day-to-day work or on theexperience overall. These trainees had fewer opportunities to benefit from successful masteryexperiences or positive messaging from site mentors, while the opposite was true for traineeswith well-structured externships. For example, trainees in later cohorts explained that they hadspoken with more experienced peers and, as a result, wanted to have

Conference Session

Connecting Theory and Practice in a Change Project - And What I Wish I Knew Before I Started

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy B. Chan Hilton, University of Southern Indiana; John Ray Morelock, University of Georgia; Ella Lee Ingram, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Tris Utschig, Kennesaw State University

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Faculty Development Constituent Committee

tenured Associate Professor of Engineering Physics at Lewis-Clark State College. Dr. Utschig consults with faculty across the university about bringing scholarly teaching and learning innovations into their classroom and assessing their impact. He has regularly published and presented work on a variety of topics including assessment instruments and methodologies, using technology in the classroom, instructional design, team-based learning, and peer coaching. Dr. Utschig completed his PhD in Nuclear Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Connecting Theory with Practice: Four Change Projects in Faculty

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Johnathon Demetrio Garcia, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology; Alexander John Norway, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology; Victoria Joyous DuPriest, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology; Curtis John O'Malley, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

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Mechanical Engineering

design and present their results and findings to the class.The design portion of this class is emphasized through the use of semester-long projects,complimented with instruction about the design process through expert guest lectures fromindustry. The teams are allowed to experiment with their designs through SolidWorks and arerequired to build their entire prototype in SolidWorks using assemblies. Documentation is alsoan important aspect of the design process, as it requires students to have a series of status reportscontaining a portion of their project for each report. These reports help ensure that students aremaking progression throughout the semester and help them with skills to write an effective statusreport for future classes and

Conference Session

Course Transformation in ECE

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chaomin Luo, Mississippi State University; Zhuming Bi P.E., Purdue University Fort Wayne; Wenbing Zhao, Cleveland State University

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Electrical and Computer

Distributed Systems” publishedby Scrivener Publishing, an imprint of John Wiley and Sons. Furthermore, Dr. Zhao published over200 peer-reviewed papers on fault tolerant and dependable systems (three of them won the best paperaward), computer vision and motion analysis, physics, and education. Dr. Zhao’s research is supportedin part by the US National Science Foundation, the US Department of Transportation, Ohio State Bureauof Workers’ Compensation, and by Cleveland State University. Dr. Zhao has served on the organizingcommittee and the technical program committee for numerous international conferences. Dr. Zhao is anAssociate Editor for IEEE Access, an Academic Editor for PeerJ Computer Science, and is a member ofthe editorial board for

Conference Session

Diversity in Community Engagement Implementation I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keilin Jahnke, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Ann-Perry Witmer P.E., University of Illinois; Matthew Tan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Grace Frances Witmer, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

internationaldevelopment professionals, their added perspectives are key to helping the students discernappropriate actions and are vital to the success of the projects.The Course ObjectivesThe course is founded on eight governing principles for successful projects. The lead courseinstructor developed these principles over time as she participated on various internationalservice projects in Latin America and Western Africa. The governing principles are as follows: ● Vision and understanding: The project must have both vision and understanding; one without the other will lead to failure ● Community empowerment: The community must commit in writing to governing the system ● Skin in the game: The recipient community must invest in the system

Conference Session

BIM in Architectural Engineering

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Monson, University of Washington; Hoda - Homayouni, University of Washington; Carrie S Dossick, University of Washington; Anne K Anderson, Washington State University

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Architectural

objectives in these vignettes werefocused on building an understanding of concepts that undergird the software logic and that arecommonly seen in other BIM applications and contexts. For the SketchUp vignette, the set ofconcepts was delineated as a grading rubric available to students on Canvas as part of theassignment explanation. Students worked on the vignette exercise in class and had instructorsand peers available for questions and assistance. At the end of the lab time, students wererequired to submit their work through Canvas. As expected by an introductory assignment in Page 26.932.8software skills, the student work was generally basic and

Conference Session

WIED: Pre-College Student Experiences

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jane Andrews, Aston University; Robin Clark P.E., Aston University

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Women in Engineering

equation, you write it down and memorise it whereas with biology, it’s with the body and you can get a bit more involved with it. You can bet into it a bit more. Emily. 16 years. School 1.Of the 20 interviewees, only three preferred physics to the other sciences: I chose physics because I am good at it and I really enjoy it. Maths the same. Chemistry because I might need it for the university course I want to do and classics because I really enjoy the lessons. But I enjoy physics the most. I find it really interesting, especially the space topic. And I find it the easiest as well

Conference Session

Survey and Assessment Development

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicholas D. Fila, Purdue University; Justin L Hess, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Educational Research and Methods

of three versions of a survey, each in adifferent language, with three different cultural groups.6 Thematic analysis was used to identifyconceptual, contextual, and semantic issues with the survey implementation with samples fromthe three distinct cultural groups. These findings were evaluated holistically with quantitativefactor analysis and item analysis to evaluate and improve specific survey items.Another approach was identified by Onwuegbuzie, Bustamante, and Nelson.7 In their ten-stepInstrument Development and Construct Validation framework, they discussed a number ofapproaches to writing survey items (e.g. literature review, Delphi study, personal reflection).These authors utilized both quantitative and qualitative data to validate

Conference Session

Best of DEED

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine Goodman, University of Colorado, Boulder; Hunter Porterfield Ewen, University of Colorado, Boulder; Jiffer W Harriman Jr, University of Colorado; Jean Hertzberg, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Design in Engineering Education

Paper ID #12312Aesthetics of Design: a Case Study of a CourseMs. Katherine Goodman, University of Colorado, Boulder Katherine Goodman is currently a graduate student at the University of Colorado Boulder in the ATLAS Institute, working toward a Ph.D. in Technology, Media, and Society. Her research is in engineering education, with a focus on fluids and design courses. She holds a B.S. in mathematics and a masters of professional writing. She has previously worked as a technical writer and project coordinator, and as an instructor in composition at the University of Southern California and the Community College of

Conference Session

Reimagining Engineering Information Literacy: Novel Perspectives on Integration, Assessment, Competencies & Information Use

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura Robinson Hanlan, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Evelyn M Riley, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Diversity

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Engineering Libraries

degrees. We sought to understandnot only how librarians teach students about information seeking and lifelong learning, but howfaculty instructors and advisors approach teaching these critical professional skills. In additionwe sought to understand what information sources students actually use by reviewing the workscited within five award winning project team reports per year of our study, for a total of 60projects and almost 3000 works cited. We learned that student teams, despite year, projectlocation, or discipline of study and faculty advisor use a broad range of sources, both peer-reviewed and not, and that these sources only partially correlate to the sources recommended byfaculty. Most advisors depend on the support of librarians to help

Conference Session

Data Analysis and Assessment

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elaheh Molla Allameh, Purdue University; Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Seungwon Yang, George Mason University; Aditya Johri, George Mason University; Krishna Madhavan, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Computers in Education

Anytime, Anywhere (DIA2) that attempts to characterize the impact of NSF and other federal investments in the area of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education using interactive knowledge mining and visual analytics for non-experts in data mining. DIA2 is currently deployed inside the NSF and is already starting to affect federal funding policy. Dr. Madhavan also served as Visiting Research Scientist at Microsoft Research, Internet Services Research Group. His research has been published in Nature Nan- otechnology, IEEE Transactions on Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, and several other top peer-reviewed venues. Dr. Madhavan currently serves as PI or Co-PI

Conference Session

Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Digital Systems Education 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mehran Mozaffari Kermani, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Reza Azarderakhsh, Rochester Institute of technology

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

skills including presentation of the results ofdeeply-embedded security research orally or in writing, team-work, decision-making, and thelike, and (c) hard technical skills for simulations and implementations of the fault diagnosisschemes for crypto-systems including those based on AES and ECC. Page 26.989.7 ECDH, ECDSA, ECIES One Q= k.P Point

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael J. Davidson, Wentworth Institute of Technology; James Lambrechts P.E., Wentworth Institute of Technology; Leonard Anderson, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Nakisa Alborz, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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Civil Engineering

facilitate collaborative, experiential, interactive engagement,and peer learning through small-group and individual real world work assignments. The DSLfaculty have used a variety of teaching styles including problem-based, project based, discoveryand just in time teaching which have been indicated to enhance student problem solving abilitiesby many researchers 3,4,5. Other research3,4,5,6,7 indicates non-traditional courses such as DSL canincrease students’ overall academic performance, develop their interpersonal skills and developtheir ability to frame and solve real world problems. Collaborative and integrative courseenvironments have also been shown to reduce overall student attrition, increase retention ofminorities and women, increase

Conference Session

First-year Programs Division Technical Session 3: Diversity and Multicultural Influences in the First Year

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Haolin Zhu, Arizona State University; Ryan J Meuth, Arizona State University

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

Lego MazeRobot had significant impact with respect to the Autonomous Waste Sorter project. Thus, aftercompleting the Grand Challenges Project and the Lego Maze Robot Project, both groups ofstudents considered that their engineering related skills had improved compared to their peers,while students who completed the Autonomous Waste Sorter Project did not think that their skillsimproved compared to their peers. Page 26.259.8 Highest 10% Score Relative to Classmates Above Average Pre-Survey

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arash Esmaili Zaghi P.E., University of Connecticut; Sally M. Reis, University of Connecticut; Joseph S. Renzulli, University of Connecticut; James C Kaufman, University of Connecticut

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

STEM education. The actstates that “The defense of this Nation depends upon the mastery of modern techniques developedfrom complex scientific principles. It depends as well upon the discovery and development ofnew principles, new techniques, and new knowledge”.2 Published literature supports the idea that individuals with ADHD may have the potential tobe more creative than their peers. 3-7 Their ability to be spontaneous and divergent thinkersallows them to take more risks. As they naturally tend to think outside of the box, individualswith ADHD have the potential to offer unexpected solutions to complex problems.8 Despite thesignificant contribution ADHD students can make, they often struggle in traditional educationalenvironments. Mainly

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Megan Reissman, University of Dayton; Allison L. Kinney, University of Dayton; Kevin Patrick Hallinan, University of Dayton

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

in Biomedical Engineering from Tulane University in 2005 and her MS and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin in 2007 and 2010, respectively. Her interests include biomechanics of human movement, musculoskeletal modeling and simulation, and engineering education.Dr. Kevin Patrick Hallinan, University of Dayton Dr. Hallinan is a Professor and former Chair of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Univer- sity of Dayton. As Chair in 2008, he established a Master’s Program in Renewable in Clean Energy, which now has 55 students from 20 nations. His research interests, which have led to over 105 peer-reviewed pa- pers and over $4M in research funding, have been diverse

Conference Session

Graduate Education

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathan Hyungsok Choe, The University of Texas, Austin; Maura J. Borrego, University of Texas, Austin; Luis L. Martins, University of Texas, Austin; Anita Patrick, University of Texas, Austin; Carolyn Conner Seepersad, University of Texas, Austin

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Educational Research and Methods

. Recognition itemsincluded “my advisor sees me as an engineer,” and “my peers view me as an engineer.” Onepossible reason for this finding is that graduate students may not view the opinions of faculty andpeers as related. Another potential reason is that they do not need to rely as much on theirperceptions of the opinions of others. Unlike undergraduates, graduate students may have otheraccomplishments or validations that serve as recognition, including engineering bachelor’s ormaster’s degrees, full-time work experience, or licenses. Recognition items may need to bemodified and added in order to consider graduate students’ unique acknowledgements such asobtaining a bachelor’s degree in engineering or being a co-author on a published peer

Conference Session

Creating a Positive Environment for Learning

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald W. Welch, The Citadel; Kevin C. Bower P.E., The Citadel; Robert J. Rabb P.E., The Citadel; Ally Kindel Martin, The Citadel

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Diversity

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Civil Engineering

. However,once a student has made contact and then a commitment to attend, there are a number ofactivities and processes employed both before they arrive and during their first year to maintainthe pipeline and retain them in engineering once on campus. The main focus of these efforts areto create a culture of open communications with potential students and increase engagement ofengineering students with faculty, engineering professionals, and peers to scaffold resiliency inpersisting in engineering degrees.The overall goal was to design an effective recruiting and retention program that allowedstudents to be a part of a dynamic and supportive educational environment inside and outside ofthe classroom. While each first-year student has different

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session - Ethics Across Contexts

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gokhan Egilmez, University of New Haven; Phillip A. Viscomi, University of New Haven ; Maria-Isabel Carnasciali, University of New Haven

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics

Engineering, and Civil Engineering from Ohio University, and B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Istanbul Technical University, Turkey. His re- search interests cover a variety of topics that include engineering education, applied optimization and simulation modeling, social, economic and environmental life cycle assessment, data analytics, energy and sustainability, input-output analysis, transportation sustainability and safety. Gokhan has over 50 peer-reviewed publications in prestigious academic journals, books, and conference proceedings related to sustainable development, life cycle assessment, manufacturing system design and control, supply chain management, transportation safety assessment, and predictive modeling

Conference Session

Construction Division Technical Session 4: Capstone, Safety and Beyond

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bradley Louis Benhart, Purdue University; Clark A. Cory Ph.D., Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Rabita Rajkarnikar, Purdue University ; Cirilo I. Rangel, Purdue University; Mark Shaurette, Purdue Polytechnic Institute

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Construction Engineering

analysis for providing peer grading. The writing team hopes toexpand on this in a future paper.The capstone process has become popular among the advisory council members and is viewed asa differentiator for our program. The skills learned by the student in a team setting, presenting tostrangers, sets the foundation in place for skills which build confidence which foster leadership.The requirements of the capstone project pushes the typical student outside of their comfort zoneand enables faculty and industry partners an opportunity to view these results. Commoncomments include impressive, thorough, hard-working, professional, and effective. Theconfidence level of the students is enhanced as a result of the experience. At the end, while weare proud

Conference Session

Social Dialogue on Diversity and Inclusion

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan M. Lord, University of San Diego; Beena Sukumaran, Rowan University; Ella Lee Ingram, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Anthony A. Maciejewski, Colorado State University; James D. Sweeney, Oregon State University; Thomas Martin, Virginia Tech; Joseph M. LeDoux, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jeremi S. London, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Noah Salzman, Boise State University

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

faculty at Rowan University since 1998 and is currently Professor and President’s Fellow. She was Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering until very recently. Under her leadership, the Civil and Environmental Engineering Program had seen considerable growth in student and faculty numbers. Her area of expertise is in micro-geomechanics and has published over 100 peer reviewed conference and journal papers including several papers on engineering education and the unique undergraduate curriculum at Rowan University, especially the Engineering Clinics. She has been involved in various outreach activities to recruit more women and minorities into engineering and is Program Chair Elect of the Women in Engineering

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 8

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Robyn Sandekian, University of Colorado, Boulder; JoAnn Silverstein P.E., University of Colorado Boulder; Beverly Louie, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

small numbers, already face heavier service loads than their majority, men peers. So,in this study we asked, “What differences have these programs made in the hiring outcomeswithin our college?”This case study describes some of the recent interventions implemented at the University ofColorado Boulder (CU Boulder) College of Engineering and Applied Science (CEAS), apredominantly White, very high research activity doctoral institution [1]. We present thedemographic history of the college’s tenured/tenure-track faculty compared to national averagesin the United States, a discussion of changes incorporated into the tenured/tenure-track facultysearch processes over the past five years, the hiring results over the past decade, and insights

Conference Session

2-Year College Division: Workforce Pathways and ATE

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Cynthia Kay Pickering, Science Foundation Arizona Center for STEM at Arizona State University; Elaine L. Craft, Florence-Darlington Technical College; Caroline Vaningen-Dunn, Arizona State University; Anna Tanguma- Gallegos, Arizona State University; Emery DeWitt, Florence-Darlington Technical College

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Diversity

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Two-Year College

STEM initiative and translate her passion for STEM into opportunities that will attract, inspire and retain more girls in STEM to make it the new norm. She has also architected SFAz’s enhanced Community College STEM Pathways Guide that has received the national STEMx seal of approval for STEM tools. She integrated the STEM Pathways Guide with the KickStarter processes for improving competitive proposal writing of Community College Hispanic Serving Institutions. Throughout her career, Ms. Pickering has written robotics software, diagnostic expert systems for space station, manufacturing equipment models, and architected complex IT systems for global collaboration that included engagement analytics. She holds a US

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Anne M Lucietto, Purdue Polytechnic Institute; Diane L Peters P.E., Kettering University; Liza Ann Russell, Purdue University ; Meher Rusi Taleyarkhan, Purdue University; Shelly Tan

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

analysis for a local wastewater plant facility.Ms. Shelly Tan Shelly Tan is an undergraduate researcher working with Dr. Lucietto. She is currently pursuing a Bach- elors of Science in Health and Disease at Purdue University, and began working with Dr. Lucietto in the summer of 2019 as part of the Summer Stay Scholars program. In addition to her biology course- work, Shelly is pursuing minors in Studio Arts and Chemistry. Outside the classroom, she enjoys writing creative fiction, making art both physical and digital, and moderating for her favorite online communities. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Professional Women Identify Their Professional

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Technology Curriculum

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathleen Kitto, Western Washington University

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Engineering Technology

, such as a diving board. On theother hand, the post-class questionnaires showed that by the end of the term less than tenpercent of the students could not distinguish between these effects.Last term, in addition to writing research papers where the students answered importantmaterials engineering questions, the students presented their work to each other duringPoster Sessions. Peer grading rubrics were also used during the sessions (the studentswere provided with concept based grading guidelines). The students seemed to enjoy thesessions, but more importantly they gained valuable experience by communicating toeach other why one material is used for a particular application. Their arguments had tobe grounded in at least three materials

Conference Session

Two Year College Tech Session I

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Jonassen, University of Missouri; William Miller, University of Missouri; Matthew Schmidt, University of Missouri; Matthew Easter, University of Missouri; Rose Marra, University of Missouri

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Two Year College Division

scenarios are embedded in various contexts inwhich there is a need for ensuring radiological safety, including nuclear power plants,research reactors, hospitals, isotope production facilities, etc. Every scenario is supportedby all relevant regulations and guidelines (NRC, DOE, DOT, ANSI, INPO), proceduresfor each activity, supporting cases of operating experience and event reports, descriptionsof the radiation sciences, situational awareness (self- and peer-checking) procedures, andadvice from others. These scenarios may be used by course instructors in numerous ways,from the objects of lectures to problem-based learning. Utilizing a blended learningformat, learners concurrently approach course content and relevant scenarios both in classand

Conference Session

Women, Minorities and the New Engineering Educator

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cheryl Allendoerfer, University of Washington; Sharon Jones, Lafayette College; Jaime Hernandez, Texas State University-San Marcos; Rebecca Bates, Minnesota State University-Mankato; Robin Adams, Purdue University

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New Engineering Educators

professions. Discussions about the importance of meeting the needs of diverse students arewidespread; however, there has been less discussion of how to define diversity, and how toactually go about studying diversity in meaningful ways. Given the lack of explicit guidance inthis area, new engineering educators may benefit from examples of how their peers are thinkingabout diversity in designing educational research studies. In this paper we provide threeexamples of studies of diversity issues in engineering education in order to demonstrate someways in which diversity can be conceptualized and integrated in educational research. For eachstudy, we discuss how diversity is defined, how the research question addresses the relevantaspects of diversity

Conference Session

Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Roland Kempter, University of Utah; Cynthia Furse, University of Utah; Nick Safai, Salt Lake City College; Neil Cotter, University of Utah; Lee Brinton, Salt Lake Community College

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International

classes have adefinite advantage over their peers in the admission process. However, the transfergrades are not used when calculating the graduation GPA. Students have claimed thatthe earlier classes were easier to obtain high grades in at both schools, so not being ableto include those early class grades in their final GPA puts them at a disadvantage atgraduation. Obviously, this raises fairness concerns and may lead to discomfortamongst the student body.B. Sustaining academic standards – problems with grading on the curve From our teaching experience, we feel that discrepancies exist between thematerials taught at some of the non-accredited institutions compared to the UofU. This is

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Soda, U.S. Air Force Academy; Gregory Toussaint, U.S. Air Force Academy; Albert Batten, U.S. Air Force Academy

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Design in Engineering Education

consequence on the other, the teams were able to roughly identify how high arisk was posed by a particular item. The difficult part of this exercise was getting theteams to realize that not every aspect of a design project will always be 100% successful.Students, like inexperienced engineers, assume that every design challenge can be solvedin a matter of hours if they work hard enough, and that everything will be available whenthey need it. Each team was tasked to develop a test plan and write a technical report for theproject. The test plan was to identify the specific verification methods and proceduralsteps to certify that their final product satisfied the requirements of the problemstatement. The technical report was to document the design

Conference Session

Embedded Systems and Mobile Computing

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maurice F. Aburdene, Bucknell University; Marie Catherine Pizzorno, Department of Biology, Bucknell University; Alexander P Thompson, Bucknell University

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Computing & Information Technology

students to the NCBI databasePlease download the power point slide for class meetings 8 and 9.Open another browser.Open MATLAB.http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgiExplore and look at direct links to some of the organisms commonly used in molecular researchprojects.1) Search for an organism of interest to you. For example, search for “oryza sativa”. Get theaccession number and write it down, as you will need it later.2) Click on “nucleotide direct links” along the right hand side of the screen.3) Click on “GenBank” in the first entry listed. Study this page.4) Click on “FASTA”. Study this page.5) Click on “Graphics”. Seek help from the biology students or professor in the class to interpretthis graph!6) Click on “GenBank”. We are