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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

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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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

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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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

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2020 ERC

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

Collection

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

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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

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Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Goff; Janis Terpenny

engineering design as well as how to function moreeffectively in industry design environments. Material related to theories of student learning andappropriate pedagogical approaches to teaching an open-ended subject such as engineeringdesign are included. Having successfully completed this course, students are able to describeengineering design process and compare and contrast design across engineering and non-engineering disciplines. Students develop a syllabus for a design course in their own discipline,including assignments and projects. They also learn about effective project management and areable to characterize and demonstrate effective means of teaching/coaching/mentoring of variousdesign projects. As future educators, students are able to

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Lighting the Fire: REU

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shashi Nambisan

ABET’s evaluation criteria regarding undergraduate participationin research are examples of efforts and initiatives over the last decade to target and includeundergraduate students in research efforts. Going one step further would be including highschool students in such efforts. This paper summarizes efforts, experiences, and initiatives overthe last six years at the UNLV Transportation Research Center to include undergraduate and highschool students in research projects and lessons learned from the same – including examples ofpotential benefits and concerns. The paper also addresses innovative strategies and opportunitiesto fund high school students participating in research activities during the summer break.IntroductionFor well over the last

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Course Development and Services

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Mokodean; Xiannong Meng; Maurice Aburdene

engineering and information sciencedepartments, primarily within the United States. The data analyzed include the course titles,course structure, textbooks used, major topics and how they are covered, projects, and laboratoryexercises, if any. We found that the courses can be divided into three categories: those that coverthe general topics of computer networks using some practical examples, those that specificallydiscuss Internet protocols, and those that work through a set of programming projects afterstudents have had a previous network course.1. IntroductionPervasive use of the Internet, especially the World Wide Web (the web) has made teachingcomputer network courses a necessity for many universities and colleges. Students take networkrelated

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lee Zia; Roger Seals

The National Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Digital Library (NSDL) Program: Progress and Potential Lee L. Zia* Division of Undergraduate Education National Science Foundation Abstract This paper explains the background of the NSDL program and details the program structure along with a short description of progress to date with pointers to complete project descriptions. In addition it provides technical information about the NSDL metadata framework and outlines new program components introduced for fiscal year (FY) 2004

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Entrepreneurship Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Barker; David Hall

instruction was motivated by several factors. One is therelatively new emphasis at Louisiana Tech University on entrepreneurship. This emphasis has acentral focal point on campus, the Center for Entrepreneurship and Information Technology, orCEnIT. The mission of this center is to create an innovative entrepreneurial culture at LouisianaTech University. In order to change a culture, it is reasonable to begin with new members of thatculture. Another factor is the authors’ desire to see an improvement in the senior design projectsfor the capstone mechanical engineering design course sequence. These projects could benefitby attempting to have a marketable product as a final result. A third factor is the belief thatentrepreneurship begins by having ideas

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Engineering Technology Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Harvey Lyons

Session 3648 Teaching and Assessing Teaming Skills via Design Courses Harvey I. Lyons, P.E., Ph.D. College of Technology Eastern Michigan University Ypsilanti, MI 48197The writer has had the experience to introduce open-ended, team-based design projects tofreshmen in an introductory course and, as well, supervise open-ended, team-based designprojects to upper classmen who had not experienced the noted introductory program, e.g.,Introduction to Engineering, Introduction to Engineering Technology, etc

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Introduction to Engineering Courses

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Brenda Henry Groff; Carlos Pomalaza-Raez

Computer Science (ETCS). The mainobjective of this course is to help students find a successful career path early in their studies, i.e.increase retention. The course aims to provide students with sufficient computer and personaldevelopment skills and to help them develop the right mental attitude conducive for academicsuccess. Features of the course include projects of software and hardware nature, extensive use ofthe Internet and Web software tools, and a team-teaching format. As the main project of this course,small teams of students design, build, program, and test an autonomous mobile robot using LEGO®parts, sensors, and the Robotic Command eXplorer (RCX) controller. This is a multidisciplinary,project-driven learning process that encourages

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Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Reid Bailey

Session 2525 Effectively Using Quantitative Indices of Conative Ability to Guide Teams Reid Bailey Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering University of Arizona rrbailey@u.arizona.eduABSTRACTThe success of an engineering design project is reliant upon individuals working effectively inteams. Due to this importance, quantitative indices of interpersonal behaviors are frequentlyused to form teams with a diverse set of qualities. In this paper, the focus is not on formingteams with indices but instead on the

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

John Gershensen; Carl Wood; Joseph Clair Batty

graduates. Subsequently, the now famous list of 14 Competency Gaps wasdeveloped with broad-based industrial endorsement and support.4 The list included:Communication Skills, Teamwork, Manufacturing Principles, Reliability, Project Management,Manufacturing Processes, Business Skills, Quality and Standards, Change Management,Statistics and Probability, Ergonomics (Human Factors), and Materials. The gap definingworking groups also referred a category called Personal Attributes that included leadershipqualities, sensitivity to others, professionalism, integrity, global awareness, and a commitment tolifelong learning. The similarities to the ABET 2000 "a through k" criteria are obvious.5On the basis of a competitive proposal process, USU received one of

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Innovative Methods to Teach Engineering to URMs

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gordon W. Skelton, Jackson State University; Qing Pang, Jackson State University; Wei Zheng, Jackson State University; HuiRu Shih, Jackson State University; Tzusheng Pei, Jackson State University

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Minorities in Engineering

-1980 Research Interests Wireless sensor networking, intelligent decision-support systems, robotics, software engineering, soft- ware quality engineering/assurance, data fusion, engineering education, wireless application development, computer / information security, engineering education Current Research Activities Director, Center for Defense Integrated Data, Jackson State University, working on data fusion, intelli- gent decision-making, disaster response and emergency management decision support, communications interoperability, wireless sensor networks, and related concerns. Major Funded Research: ORNL/SERRI DHS, Disaster Response Intelligent System (DRIS) Feb 2007 Present. Project Manager, US

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BME Course and Curriculum Development

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alisha L. Sarang-Sieminski, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Debbie Chachra, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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Biomedical

, project-based design courses. She has also studied and published on other aspects of the student experience, including studies of persistence and migration (why students stay in engineering or choose to leave), as well as differences in the engineering experience between male and female students. In 2010, she received an NSF CAREER Award in support of her research on engineering education. Page 25.417.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Developing a Small-Footprint Bioengineering ProgramAbstractThe field of bioengineering is rapidly changing and expanding to