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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Linda S. Hirsch, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Howard S. Kimmel, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Marie Anne Aloia, Bayonne High School; Laurent Simon, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

and implementing professional development programs, curricula, and assessment of student learning for K-12 teachers in STEM. At the college level, he had collaborated on projects exploring teaching methodologies and assessment strategies in undergraduate courses in the sciences, engineering, and computer science. Dr. Kimmel has received numerous awards in recognition of his service, including: ASEE 1985 Vincent Bendix Minorities in Engi- neering Award, and ASEE CENTENNIAL MEDALION for ”Significant Lasting Impact on Engineering Education,” 1993. The NJIT Foundation Overseers Public and Institute Service Award, 1981 (First Re- cipient) and in 2005; and the Allan R. Cullimore Distinguished Service Award (NJIT) for

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Curriculum Exchange

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wendy A Niesl, University of Minnesota STEM Education Center; Siddika Selcen Guzey, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Tamara J Moore, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Analysis, Measurement, & Science Authors and Contact: Wendy Niesl S. Selcen Guzey Tamara J. Moore University of Minnesota Purdue University Purdue University nies0023@umn.edu sguzey@purdue.edu tamara@purdue.edu Project Website: http://engineeringteams.org Project Description The Engineering to Transform the Education of Analysis, Measurement, & Science (EngrTEAMS) project is an engineering, design-based approach to teacher professional development that has 50 teachers per year designing curricular units for science topic areas related to the Next Generation

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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ann F. McKenna, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Jeremi S London, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Aditya Johri, George Mason University; Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Krishna Madhavan, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

consecutive summers (2011-2014), she worked in the National Science Foundation’s Division of Undergraduate Education on research and evaluation projects related to the use of technology in STEM education. Dr. London masters mixed methods and computational tools to address complex problems, including: science policy issues surrounding STEM learning in cyberlearning environments; evaluation and impact analysis of federal investments in R&D; and applications of simulation & model- ing tools to evaluate programs.Dr. Aditya Johri, George Mason University Aditya Johri is Associate Professor and Chair in the Applied Information Technology Department. Dr. Johri studies the use of information and communication technologies

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Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 3

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jose M. Garcia, Purdue University; Rick Homkes, Purdue University; Mark T. Carnes, Purdue University; Kevin D. Taylor, Purdue University

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Systems Engineering

and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), and a member of the Society of Automotive (SAE). Kevin is the Affiliate Director for Project Lead the Way R (PLTW) at Pur- due, a program that focuses on introducing engineering concepts in middle and high schools in the United States. Page 26.1086.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Lessons Learned from Team-teaching a PBL Robotics Course with Multi-disciplinary Instructors and StudentsAbstractA group of nine junior and senior level technology students were enrolled in a Design of RoboticSystems course in

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Aerospace Division Technical Session 1

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Seering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Karen Willcox, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Luwen Huang, MIT

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Aerospace

problems is her main area of interest. She graduated from MIT in 2011 and has been first employee of an ed-tech startup. Her other interests include bouldering and gymnastics. Page 26.1130.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Mapping Outcomes in an Undergraduate Aerospace Engineering ProgramOverviewStudent learning outcomes have long been established as an important component in the processof developing subject content, communicating expectations to students, and designing effectiveassessments.2 This project focused on mapping the

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Division Experimentation & Lab-oriented Studies: Electrical and Computer Engineering Labs

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Phillip Wong, Portland State University; Branimir Pejcinovic, Portland State University

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Diversity

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Portland State University, Electrical and Computer Engineering department. In this role he has led department-wide changes in curriculum with emphasis on project- and lab-based instruction and learning. His research interests are in the areas of engineering education, semiconductor device characterization, design and simulation, signal integrity and THz sensors. He is a member of IEEE and ASEE. Page 26.1480.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Teaching MATLAB and C Programming in First Year Electrical Engineering Courses Using a Data Acquisition DeviceOur

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Capstone and Collaborations in Civil Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Conrad, Portland State University; William A Kitch P.E., Angelo State University; Tori Rhoulac Smith, Howard University; Kenneth W. Lamb P.E. Ph.D, California State Polytechnic University - Pomona; Timothy James Pfeiffer P.E., Foundation Engineering, Inc.

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Civil Engineering

Paper ID #15308Faculty-practitioner Collaboration for Improving Civil Engineering Students’Writing SkillsProf. Susan Conrad, Portland State University Susan Conrad, Professor of Applied Linguistics, is the head of the Civil Engineering Writing Project, in which engineering faculty, engineering practitioners, and writing specialists collaborate to improve writ- ing instruction in civil engineering courses. She has written numerous articles and books about English grammar, discourse, and corpus linguistics.Dr. William A Kitch P.E., Angelo State University Dr. Kitch is Professor and Chair of the Civil Engineering

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New Trends in ECE Education II

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenny E.G. Porch; Ryan Michael Coyne, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Lei Zhang, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Ibibia K. Dabipi, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore

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Electrical and Computer

, Ryan Coyne, Lei Zhang, Ibibia Dabipi University of Maryland Eastern ShoreAbstract Social networking apps have penetrated every aspect of students’ daily life. However, manystudents are experiencing communication difficulties in their learning process. In this paper, wepresent our work, 'UMES-Chat', a mobile social network application that serves mainly for educationpurposes. It is developed with Xcode© on the iOS platform and utilizes XMPP protocol tocommunicate with the phone. By the use of the app, college students can effectively communicatewith each other and faculty, to discuss, share information, solve learning issues, and work in teamson course projects. In addition, the mobile application is being

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Analysis of Effectiveness and Impacts of Graduate Programs: Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 8

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sriram Sundararajan, Iowa State University

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Graduate Studies

through assignments,class discussions and a final project that incorporated one or more suitable broader impact effortsin the context of their technical research area. The first offering of the course was taken by 13students and student feedback indicated that 90% of the students gained a better understanding ofbroader impacts, could better articulate the impacts of their research and understood theimportance of intentional efforts to achieve specific societal outcomes.IntroductionEngineers must communicate the potential impact of their work beyond just the technicalaspects. The ability to develop and articulate how one’s research benefits society and contributesto the achievement of societal outcomes are key skills for scientists and engineers

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Military and Veterans Constituent Committee Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gene L. Harding, Purdue Polytechnic Institute; Frank Joseph Rossi Jr., Trinity School at Greenlawn; Michael R. Holtz, Purdue Polytechnic Institute

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Military and Veterans

local high school student who was interested in learning more about both electronicsand military applications.The ultimate goal of the Jammer Project is to create a functional set of equipment that includesboth a mock RCIED and jammer. They are planned to be used for demo purposes at high schoolrecruiting activities.This paper covers the first two phases of the Jammer Project: creating a mock RCIED and thecircuit to control the jammer. It begins with a short description of the course in which the lab istaught, how the link to high school students came about, plus some background information onmilitary applications and what the military terms “electronic warfare”. Then it describes thedesign and construction of both devices, followed by the

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Integrating Experiential Learning into the Curriculum

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy Hodges, Texas A&M University at Qatar; Yasser M. Al Hamidi, Texas A&M University at Qatar

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Cooperative and Experiential Education

Paper ID #23286Improving Students’ Writing Skills by Integrating Prototyping Activities intheir Writing CourseDr. Amy Hodges, Texas A&M University at Qatar Dr. Amy Hodges is an instructional assistant professor at Texas A&M University at Qatar, where she teaches first-year writing and technical and business writing courses. She also leads the Writing Across the Curriculum initiative and coordinates the undergraduate writing courses. Currently, she is working on a project examining writing strategies used by engineers in multinational workplaces and the impact of these findings on WAC/WID programs. Her primary

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Track: Special Topic - Computing & Technology Technical Session 5

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2019 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity

Authors

Frieda McAlear, Kapor Center; Allison Scott, Kapor Center

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Diversity, Special Topic: Computing & Technology

Paper ID #25024Women of Color in Computing: A Researcher-Practitioner CollaborativeFrieda McAlear, Kapor Center Frieda McAlear is a Senior Research Associate at the Kapor Center and one of the principal investi- gators of the Women of Color in Computing Researcher-Practitioner Collaborative. She has a decade of experience managing projects, developing evaluation and research methodology and building nonprofit technology capacity with socially progressive organizations in the Bay Area, Europe and Southern Africa. In 2013, she worked as an evaluator for an HIV/AIDS clinic serving villages in Lesotho and as a Program

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NSF Grantees: S-STEM 2

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Ronald B. Bucinell, Union College; Rebecca Cortez, Union College; Holli M. Frey, Union College; Joanne D. Kehlbeck, Union College; Michael E. Hagerman; David A. Cotter, Union College

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

1993, he has taught courses and laboratories in engineering mechanics, design, and entrepreneurship. His other responsibilities include undergraduate academic advising, senior design project supervision, undergraduate research supervision, and graduate research supervision. Dr. Bucinell has advised the SAE Baja, SAE Formula, and projects related to the ASME Human Powered Vehicle project. Dr. Bucinell has directed the International Virtual Design Studio project that ran in collaboration with the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey; Altim University in Ankara, Turkey; and ESIGELEC in Rouen, France. He also founded a chapter of Engineers Without Boarders at Union College and has traveled to Boru Village

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First-Year Programs: Maker Spaces in the First Year

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Nicholas Hawkins, University of Louisville; James E. Lewis, University of Louisville; Brian Scott Robinson, University of Louisville

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First-Year Programs

an introductory course in engineering fundamentals atthe J. B. Speed School of Engineering (SSoE) at the University of Louisville (UofL). The course,titled Engineering Methods, Tools, and Practice II (ENGR 111), is the second component of atwo-course sequence and is primarily focused on application and integration of fundamentalengineering skills introduced and practiced in the first component of the sequence (ENGR 110).Fundamental skills integrated within ENGR 111 include 3D printing, basic research fundamentals,circuitry, communication, critical thinking, design, engineering ethics, hand tool usage, problemsolving, programming, project management, teamwork, and technical writing. The course isrequired for all first-year SSoE students (no

Collection

2020 ERC

Authors

Ann McKenna

2020 ASEE Research Leadership InstituteResearch Development: Promising PracticesAnn McKennaMarch 9, 2020Focus for today Context of ASU and the Fulton Schools of Engineering (FSE) Structure of research offices Services provided to support proposal development and project executionASU Total Research Expenditures All-Time High 700

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Curriculum Development in Mechanical Engineering Technology

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Tomasi, Alfred State College

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Engineering Technology

ofengineering manager for a small mechanical design company. Students interested inparticipating in the course were required to submit a resume and schedule an interviewtime with the engineering manager. Several position vacancies were posted and studentswere encouraged to apply for one of the positions within the company. Seven studentswere “hired” to facilitate a variety of different functions within the organization. Since avariety of individuals with varying degrees of academic experience applied for positionswithin the company, the company was structured such that everyone would find itchallenging. The freshman and sophomore students would function as drafters, thejuniors and seniors were expected to work as designers and project engineers. Role

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Hurricane Katrina

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Ryan, SE/ES, LLC; Glenn Schexnayder, Boh Bros. Construction; Ed Scheuermann, Boh Bros. Construction

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Ocean and Marine

feetabove normal. The impact on the twin spans was devastating, causing damage to nearly40% of the pre-cast decks on both east-bound and west-bound spans, rendering the bridgeimpassable. Re-establishing this link to the city was critical to commerce in the city ofNew Orleans. Boh Brothers Construction Co., locally founded contractor with its mainoffice in the Central Business District of New Orleans, won the job for repairing thebridge. Boh’s bid included a fast-tracked 45-day schedule for completion of Phase-I ofthe project, which included repairing the east-bound span and opening it to two-waytraffic. A combination of innovation, intimate knowledge of local conditions, andefficiency resulted in the completion of the project ahead of schedule

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Curriculum Development and Applications

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sohail Anwar, Pennsylvania State University-Altoona College; Janice McClure, Pennsylvania State University-Altoona College

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Engineering Design Graphics

student design competencies in the topical area of communication.Topics covered include Internet navigation, website design, word processing, presentationsoftware, and computer aided design and drafting using AutoCAD.The second component of the course deals with manual graphic and drafting skills. Students areintroduced to the fundamentals of orthographic projection. The topics covered include multiviewprojection, dimensioning, lettering, oblique and isometric projection, sectional views, tolerances,scales, and selected topics in descriptive geometry.The third component of ED&G 100 focuses on team-based engineering design projects. Workingtogether in teams, students work on design projects selected from various disciplines ofengineering. This

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Integrating Research Into Undergraduate ECE Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Daniel, Ohio State University; Ronald Reano, Ohio State University

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Electrical and Computer

engineering faculty/student partnership involved exposing theundergraduate to a small scale research project designed to reflect typical activities experiencedby graduate students. The student went through the entire cycle of design, simulation,fabrication, and test of a working device prototype. Through this approach, the studentexperienced a microcosm of graduate school while interacting with graduate students,experiencing the difference between laboratory and simulation work, and developing technicalwriting skills through the development of the electronic portfolio.IntroductionA program referred to as "Research on Research" has been developed to expose undergraduatestudents to academic research. The program is instituted through the Technology

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ECE Curriculum Innovations

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Bunting, Oklahoma State University; Alan Cheville, Oklahoma State University; James West, Oklahoma State University

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Electrical and Computer

teamwork and communication, and is not effectively taughtby lecture, cookbook labs, or emphasizing analytical solution techniques. To communicateconcepts and skills requires students to both develop an understanding of concepts and to testthat understanding by applying the concepts and skills. Application serves as formative Page 11.1424.2 1 This work is funded by the National Science Foundation under grants: 0230695 & 0311257.evaluation. VECTOR is a project-based approach to EM in which student teams develop andevaluate their grasp of concepts through application in a complete project design-build-test cycle.The introductory EM

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Design in the BME Curriculum and ABET Assessment

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Glen Livesay, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Renee Rogge, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Biomedical

. Page 11.1427.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Vertical Mentoring: Closing the Loop in DesignAbstractTo help students ‘close the loop in design’ – that is, appreciate the importance and depth of theirdesign knowledge through a specific demonstration of this ability beyond their capstone designproject – we have implemented a vertical mentoring scheme in biomedical engineering design.Biomedical engineering seniors in the fourth quarter of the design sequence serve as designmentors to teams of juniors beginning their first quarter of design.In the junior-level course, student teams work on a smaller, common design project to ‘practice’a complete iteration of the design process before they tackle larger, more

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Using IT to Enhance Design Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ritsuko Izuhara; Hideo Miyata; Toshiyuki Yamamoto; Kazuya Takemata; Masakatsu Matsuishi

Kanazawa Institute of Technology ISHIKAWA 921-8501 Japan1. Introduction Engineering Design Courses (henceforth, ED Courses), characterized by Project-BasedLearning in Teams, are unique to Kanazawa Institute of Technology (henceforth, KIT). A total of1,700 engineering students from all eight engineering departments must take Engineering DesignCourses I through III before they graduate. In each Engineering Design Course, the studentsmust conduct two hours of in-class instructed learning as well as four hours of outside-classlearning activities in teams per week for ten weeks. KIT has also been a laptop engineeringinstitution since 1994, offering students a 24/7 learning activity lounge and e-Learning system

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Design Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Hong Zhang; John Chen; Bernard Pietrucha

Emerging From Engineering Education – Building a Remotely Operated Submarine Hong Zhang, Bernard Pietrucha, John Chen Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, 08028, USAAbstractIn spring 2004, the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Rowan University offered anew course called “Emerging Topic – Designing and Building a Remotely Operated Vehicle(ROV)”. It is a project-based course where students are required to design, build andoperate a submersible with provided materials. This course integrated many engineeringaspects into one project and also exposed mechanical engineering students to Mechatronics.The course was welcomed by students and the response from

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Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Easley, Louisiana Tech University; David Hall, Louisiana Tech University; Nicholas Beard, Louisiana Tech University; Glenn Fardsalehi, Louisiana Tech University; Nathan Wallace, Louisiana Tech University; Michael Swanbom, Louisiana Tech University

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Computers in Education

Wallace is an undergraduate student in Nanosystems Engineering at Louisiana Tech University.Michael Swanbom, Louisiana Tech University Michael Swanbom is a Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at Louisiana Tech University. Page 15.95.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 A Student-Run Help Desk to Facilitate a Robotics-Based Course SequenceAbstractMany engineering programs have implemented project-based, first-year experiences to foster thedevelopment of skills and attitudes that improve student retention and better prepare students foran increasingly dynamic and global workplace

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Women in K-12 Engineeering & Outreach Programs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heath Tims, Louisiana Tech University; Jim Nelson, Louisiana Tech University; Galen Turner, Louisiana Tech University; Missy Wooley, Ruston High School; Marvin Nelson, Benton High School

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

) programs at the university level. Teachersfrom regional high schools and university faculty from STEM disciplines work together throughmultiple collaborative projects. Collaborators (including the authors) come from a broad range ofdisciplines: engineering, education, mathematics, and the liberal arts, as well as K12 teachers andadministrators.The collaborative partnerships developed between area high schools and Louisiana TechUniversity ensure that the curriculum and education programs are challenging but appropriatelytargeted for high school students. These projects reach schools which have differing economicand social demographics. Thus the partnerships provide for the development of a robust programthat can be implemented in schools regardless

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Improving Teaching & Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sandra Courter; Mary McEniry; Cid Freitag

culturalperspectives and how they inform ways of practice including both teaching practice andengineering practice. After an orientation in Madison, Wisconsin, the experienceinvolved weekly on-line discussions based on readings, a personalized curriculumproject, and approximately two to three hours per week commitment on the part of eachparticipant. The Foundation Coalition funded this project. This paper highlights theassessment results of this pilot project and next steps based on analysis and reflection.A forth-coming mini-document will describe how to develop and implement a distance-based faculty development program.Description and ImplementationDuring the Spring 2003, 20 faculty representing ten teaching and research universitiesthroughout the country

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Industry Collaboration in Construction Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dan Koo, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; J. William White AIA, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Veto Matthew Ray, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis

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Construction

American Institute of Architects and the Construction Specifi- cations Institute. His professional interests include great architecture and all things related to construction innovation.Mr. Veto Matthew Ray, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis Mr. Matt Ray is a lecturer for the Construction Engineering Management Technology Program offered through the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at Indiana University Purdue University In- dianapolis. He currently provides instruction for Soils and Foundations, Construction Cost and Bidding, Construction Project Cost and Production Control as well as managing the Certificate of Training in As- set Management. He is a graduate of Purdue School of Engineering

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Computer Programming and Simulation

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregorio E. Drayer, Georgia Institute of Technology; Ayanna M. Howard, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Computers in Education

her B.S. in Engineering from Brown University, her M.S.E.E. from the University of Southern California, and her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California in 1999. Her area of research is centered around the concept of humanized intelligence, the process of embedding human cognitive capability into the control path of autonomous systems. This work, which addresses issues of autonomous control as well as aspects of interaction with humans and the surrounding environment, has resulted in over 130 peer-reviewed pub- lications in a number of projects – from scientific rover navigation in glacier environments to assistive robots for the home. To date, her unique accomplishments have been

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Construction Education Topics in Architectural Engineering

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura Elizabeth Leach, Western Kentucky University

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Architectural

meld with constructability, selection and sizing of materials, reducing material waste,efficient space design, and clearly illustrating the resulting design in a set of constructiondrawings. To achieve these course goals in a semester, the project size is kept small, allowing usto focus on quality instead of quantity.Initial offerings of the course resulted is several issues that needed to be addressed. Whilestudents are most often very excited about the first phase of the course, ‘designing’ a home,keeping the individual projects small in size and scope became quite difficult. Students wereintrensically motivated to design their ‘dream home’, intent on solving all the preceivedproblems of their childhood home(s). While student enthusiasm and

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Curriculum Development in Electr-Mech ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Richter

promoted if the project was a failure. We must win together orlose together. They are told that all team members have different strengths and that they need touse each other’s strengths, motivate each other and help each other in order to accomplish thetask before them. This is the way it is in today’s industrial autonomous design teams which arecomprised of members from various departments in an attempt to use concurrent engineeringand reduce the design process cycle time. The students are told that they will have two weeks toaccomplish the experiment with the robot given to them and to demonstrate their project to therest of the class. At this point the students usually will ask what are the instructions / experimentsthat they are to perform