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Engagement in Practice: Engaging the Community through Educational Outreach

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Holly Larson Lesko, Department of Engineering Education, Virginia Tech; Jacob R. Grohs, Virginia Tech; Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Tech; Gary R. Kirk, School of Public & International Affairs, Virginia Tech; Cheryl Carrico P.E., Virginia Tech; Veronica van Montfrans; Andrew L. Gillen, Virginia Tech; Tawni Paradise, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education; Sarah Anne Blackowski, Virginia Tech; Liesl M Baum, Virginia Tech

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

Tech’s Department of Engineering Education. She has her doctorate in Engineering Education and her strengths include qualitative and mixed methods research study design and implementation. She is/was PI/Co-PI on 10 funded research projects including a CAREER grant. She has won several Virginia Tech awards including a Dean’s Award for Outstanding New Faculty. Her research expertise includes using motivation and related frameworks to study student engagement in learning, recruitment and retention in engineering programs and careers, faculty teaching practices and intersections of motivation and learning strategies.Dr. Gary R. Kirk, School of Public & International Affairs, Virginia TechDr. Cheryl Carrico P.E., Virginia

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First-Year Programs Division Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Farid Farahmand, Sonoma State University; David Andrew Story, Sonoma State University; David Anthony House, Sonoma State University; Robert Evan Rowlands, Gap Wireless

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First-Year Programs

educational technologies and authored many papers focusing on eLearning and Active Learning models.Mr. David Andrew Story, Sonoma State University David Story is currently a Sophmore Electrical Engineering student at Sonoma State University. He works on a plethora of research projects, mostly working on embedded systems that are used to educate and to improve the human condition. He has lead the development of an educational development board meant to introduce High School and first-year college student to wireless sensor systems. Other projects he has worked on including designing new subsystems for EdgeCube, Sonoma State’s CubeSat, as well as a variety of other personal projects. This summer David will be working as an

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 5

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nicholas D. Fila, Iowa State University; Justin L. Hess, Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis

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Diversity

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

research techniques, we sought to address the research question,“What aspects of engineering students’ innovation experiences were critical to the developmentof their ways of experiencing innovation?”Conceptual BackgroundThis study builds upon a previous study that explored differences in the ways engineeringstudents experienced innovation13. The current study expands the previous by exploring criticalincidents that led to new or refined understandings of innovation, but it is necessarily rooted inthe theoretical underpinnings and findings of the previous study. In this section, we summarizethe previous study and discuss how it informs the current investigation.The genesis of this project was a phenomenographic analysis of innovation among

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Issues in Academic Integrity and the Value of Portfolios, Case Studies, and Supportive Programs

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vincent Wilczynski, Yale University; Patrick H. Knowles Jr., Cleveland Mixer

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Graduate Studies

Foundation, the only national award that recognizes outstanding college teaching.Mr. Patrick H. Knowles Jr., Cleveland Mixer Patrick Knowles has had more than thirty years of increasing responsibilities in engineering design, engi- neering education, leadership & personnel supervision, financial & project management, and regulatory compliance. A registered Professional Engineer in Virginia, he recently accepted a position at a manufac- turing firm with duties including engineering design, engineering research, and engineering sales support. Previously he was the Technologies Department Chair of Three Rivers Community College as well as Professor in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Technology, and an Associate

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Diverse Issues in Renewable Energy

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lihong (Heidi) Jiao, Grand Valley State University

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Diversity

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

, 2016 Development of a Photovoltaic Emergency Power SystemAbstractThis paper describes the efforts in closing the “skills gap” that exists between the currentworkforce and the needs in the photovoltaic (PV) industry by educating engineering studentsthrough the development of a project for the course titled ‘Photovoltaic Systems’. The aim of thecourse project is to provide students with the hands-on skills and practical knowledge that willenable them to succeed in the field of solar PV.“Development of a Photovoltaic Emergency Power System for a Hospital in Malawi” wasselected as one of the course projects in the fall of 2012, as requested by an American doctorworking in Malawi. The goal of the project was to specify, design

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International Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wangping Sun, Oregon Institute of Technology; Qi Zhang, Yangzhou University

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International

, engineering, architecture, computer science,medicine, agriculture, animal husbandry, etc.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangzhou_University)In spring 2014, the College of Mechanical Engineering gave the approval to the authors of thepaper to design and pilot a graduate engineering course, Advanced Manufacturing Systems. Itwas a 40-hour, lecture-based, interdisciplinary course that covered material processing, processimprovement and process optimization. The course was taught in English and the Americanengineering teaching style was adopted.Approach to build the American classroom environmentIn the US, the instructor usually uses project-based learning to motivate the students’ interests 8.The class is more flexibly-structured and the instructor is

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Broad Perspectives on the Chemical Engineering Curriculum

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Troy J. Vogel, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; David L. Tomasko, Ohio State University

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Chemical Engineering

methods of attaining compliance with this criteria. This work shows 2 differentmethods of complying with the criteria within large public universities with undergraduatestudent populations in excess of 700 each. One method places emphasis on integrating safetythroughout the entire core curriculum within mini design projects mainly through student self-learning. The topics are then reinforced within the capstone courses during senior year. Thesecond method places emphasis on distributing safety topics among the unit operations andsenior design courses supplemented by an elective course in Chemical Process Safety. Repeatedemphasis of safety alongside technical content results in a relatively strong connection to thecontext of chemical process

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hua Li, Texas A&M University-Kingsville; Mohamed Abdelrahman, Texas A&M University-Kingsville

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

Paper ID #12827Integrating Research in Sustainable Energy and the Environment across Dis-ciplines through a NSF funded REU SiteDr. Hua Li, Texas A&M University-Kingsville Dr. Hua Li, an Assistant Professor in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Texas A&M University- Kingsville, is interested in sustainable manufacturing, renewable energy, sustainability assessment, and engineering education. Dr. Li has served as PI and Co-PI in different projects funded by NSF, DOEd, DHS, and HP, with a total amount of more than 2.5 million dollars.Prof. Mohamed Abdelrahman, Texas A&M University-Kingsville Dr. Abdelrahman

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Topics Related To Engineering Design Graphics Division

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nancy E. Study, Pennsylvania State University, Erie

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Engineering Design Graphics

peer assessment plan, students handed a print of the multiview drawing in tothe instructor at the beginning of lab then the assignments were redistributed to the students sothey could assess the drawings and mark any errors. Correctly identifying the majority of theerrors on the drawing they marked up was part of each student’s grade. Actual grading andassigning point values to the errors was not part of the peer review, this was done by theinstructor.Grades on the individual assignments along with final project and exam scores were compared tothose from previous semesters. Grades on the individual assignments improved significantly butthere were no significant differences in the exam grades or overall grades. This may be due, inpart, to the

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Subjects in Renewable Energy and ET

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fred Chiou, Electronics Engineering Technology at Weber State University

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Engineering Technology

Electronics Engineering Technology Department of Engineering Technology Weber State UniversityAbstractMany energy efficiency projects have been performed in Weber State University campus in thepast years. The achievement is remarkable. This paper will address the design of a pilot project,Solar Charging Station, through student’s senior project for education and research. Students willlearn the theory of solar Photovoltaic (PV) systems and to build an experimental solar chargingstation to charge the electric bikes and electric bikes. The integrated system will be used as thedemonstration for the two new courses, Renewable Energy and Solar PV Systems, at the WeberState University. The

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Novel Teaching Methods In Engineering Technology

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nancy L. Denton, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Wei Dai Vian, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Diversity

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Engineering Technology

(MET) and Manufacturing Engineering Technology(MFET) programs were among the first to be developed in response to the Grinter Report’srecommendation to create two paths to engineering careers, where engineering technologyprograms focus on educating engineering practitioners.8 Several factors have contributed torecent jumps in popularity and corresponding enrollment growing pains, e.g., pre-collegecurricula like Project Lead the Way and the re-shoring of a number of manufacturing operationsto the United States.9 While industry acceptance of the engineering technology baccalaureatedegree still lags engineering, the outstanding placement rate of graduates from these MET andMFET programs indicates their widespread recognition.10At Purdue

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Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 6

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

H. Bryan Riley, Ohio University

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Diversity

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Electrical and Computer

School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701 {rileyh1,cs044712,jp953310@ohio.edu}Abstract— Active learning occurs on different levels and we engineering students may undertake highly self-define a relevant problem for which students may achieve directed projects to engage learning about sensors,“hands-on” learning. The Infra-Red (IR) spectrum sensing for software design, and hardware development. One ofautonomous vehicle applications is a compelling approach to these self-directed student projects considers thedetecting objects in the path of vehicle travel. Official data

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Student Division Technical Session 3

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Margaret Carroll; James A. Coller, University of Michigan; Laura K. Alford, University of Michigan; Roxanne Pinsky, University of Michigan; Charles William Schertzing, University of Michigan; Julia T. Toye, University of Michigan; Magel P. Su, California Institute of Technology; Robin Fowler, University of Michigan; Sangam Munsiff, University of Michigan

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Student

instructor for several courses including Introduction to Engineering, Introduction to Materials and Manufacturing, and Structural and Chemical Characterization of Materials.Dr. Robin Fowler, University of Michigan Robin Fowler is a lecturer in the Program in Technical Communication at the University of Michigan. She enjoys serving as a ”communication coach” to students throughout the curriculum, and she’s especially excited to work with first year and senior students, as well as engineering project teams, as they navigate the more open-ended communication decisions involved in describing the products of open-ended design scenarios. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Gender

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Instrumentation Division Technical Session 1

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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David R. Loker, Pennsylvania State University, Erie; Stephen A. Strom, Pennsylvania State University, Erie

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Diversity

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Instrumentation

embedded systems in a variety of courses.Typical courses can include C programming, microcontrollers, instrumentation and measurementsystems, wireless communications systems, networking, and control systems, and they can belower-division and/or upper-division courses. Lab content within these courses provides studentswith hands-on projects which are intended to support the lecture material. The intent of this paper isto demonstrate that an inexpensive Programmable System-On-Chip embedded board (PSoC 5LP)can be used as a basis for many lab projects within a wireless communications systems course. Thesoftware development environment for the PSoC provides the flexibility to program in C as well asto use the schematic entry capability. The goal of

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K-12 Engineering Outreach Programs

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kelly Crittenden, Louisiana Tech University; James Nelson, Louisiana Tech University; Galen Turner, Louisiana Tech University; Alicia Boudreaux, Louisiana Tech University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2008-478: TECHSTEP: CONNECTING HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS ANDSTUDENTS TO INTEGRATED ENGINEERING AND SCIENCEKelly Crittenden, Louisiana Tech University Dr. Kelly Crittenden received his BS and PhD in BioMedical Engineering from Louisiana Tech University in 1996 and 2001 respectively. He is often involved in multidisciplinary work at Louisiana Tech, either through the Integrated Engineering Curriculum or through the IMPaCT (Innovation through Multidisciplinary Projects and Collaborative Teams) program. He is also very involved in STEM education at both the pre-college and college levels.James Nelson, Louisiana Tech University Dr. Jim Nelson is the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies for

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Sustainability and engineering education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Mueller PE P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; John Aidoo, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Environmental Engineering

engineering societies (including the American Society of Civil Engineers,the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers,the National Society of Professional Engineers, and the National Academy of Engineering)formally stated the need for engineers to “deliver solutions that are technically viable,commercially feasible, and environmentally and socially sustainable.” As civil engineers designpractical solutions to include economic feasibility and environmental impacts of a project, thereis a need to develop more engineers who are aware of and equipped with the ability to designsolutions that include sustainability principles, enhancing their services to society and theenvironment3.Although the need exists, as

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Design in the Curriculum

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James D. Sweeney, Florida Gulf Coast University; Kristine R. Csavina, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Lisa Zidek, Florida Gulf Coast University

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Biomedical

initiates with team formation andthe rapid design challenge, then assignment of teams (of two to four students) into their full two-semester design projects (typically with clients in local industry and/or health care), and throughthe remainder of each fall semester progresses teams through the design process (includingproblem definitions, team mission statements and contracts, development of project Houses ofQuality including competitive benchmarking, pertinent FDA regulations and engineeringstandards, patents and intellectual property, and structured brainstorming leading into projectdesign solution concepts and selection). The course also includes aspects of professionaldevelopment, and post-graduation planning. A roundtable design review late

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ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Parker; Max Anderson

first-year student by introducing him or her to engineering design through five design projects.Specifically, the goals of the project are to:1) Create a “portable” first year Introduction to Civil and Environmental Engineering (ICEE) course based on the Sooner City program.2) Assess the success of the ICEE course at meeting the following global objectives: a) Stimulate interest in engineering among freshmen; b) Provide freshmen with an understanding of the breadth of the civil and environmental engineering profession; c) Positively impact retention of freshman civil and environmental engineering students.3) Provide course materials on a web page to

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Intro to Engineering: Not Just 1st Year Engineers

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Janet Schmidt

first year students were introducedto the design process through the realization of an actual product (e.g., human powered waterpump) by working in small teams, Teaching Fellows (called TFs) have a variety of roles atypicalof most undergraduate teaching assistants.2 Specifically, TFs act as role models, tutors, and teamfacilitators in addition to assisting the faculty member with tasks such as grading, supervisingstudy sessions and occasionally teaching a class section on material related to the class project orteam dynamics. The purpose of the present paper is to describe the Teaching Fellows programtoday, ten years after its inception. While many features have remained virtually the same,significant changes in the students targeted for

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Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeremy Poling; Emily Blakemore; Lee Greguske; Glenn Wrate

to determine if additional funding of either technology was warranted. Theresults were also published on a student-developed web page. Since the study was performedwith students, in a high traffic area, this research was a wonderful vehicle to increase studentinterest in the energy efficiency area. This paper documents the two technologies, the students’response to the different technology, the methods used to compare the technologies, and thedevelopment of the web page. In addition, suggestions for further work in the area are made, andlessons learned on this project are discussed. It was found that while the amount of energy savedis small for an individual machine, Wisconsin alone has over 75,000 of these machines, so thetotal energy

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Pedagogy and Assessment in ECE III

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Greg Nordstrom, Lipscomb University; John Pettit, David Lipscomb University

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Electrical and Computer

information can be gathered by interviewing previousinstructors and/or the department chair. The review is documented with dates, comments, andrecommendations regarding the upcoming course, including changes to lectures, homework/labassignments (if applicable), projects, quizzes and tests. This is demonstrated in Figure 4 below.Non-bold entries represent data provided by the instructor

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Liberal Education for 21st Century Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nadia Kellam, University of Georgia; Joachim Walther, University of Georgia; Tracie Costantino, University of Georgia; Bonnie Cramond, University of Georgia

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Liberal Education

of artistic cognition and the transformative potential of aesthetic experience as an educative event. She is exploring this topic in an interdisciplinary curriculum project funded by the National Science Foundation with colleagues from engineering and creativity studies. In addition to numerous published articles and book chapters, Costantino has served as the editor of the Arts & Learning Research Journal and associate editor for the International Journal for Education & the Arts.Bonnie Cramond, University of Georgia Bonnie Cramond, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Educational Psychology and Instructional Technology at the University of Georgia. An international and

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Trends in Construction Engineering III

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Reza Beheshti; Edwin Dado

importance Page 9.394.11 In the continental Europe, “civil engineering” is considered as the most generic discipline. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationof IT for the BC industry. However, researchers still seem to live under the impression thatthey have all these fantastic solutions and the only thing lacking is a way to make the BCindustry using them. Several EU research projects have tackled this issue from theperspective of educating the practitioners and tried to bring

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Tricks of the Trade for Research

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Matt Eliot; Jennifer Turns

How can user-centered design help us think about the challenges of engineering education? Jennifer Turns, Matt Eliot, Steve Lappenbusch, Roxane Neal, Karina Allen, Jessica M. H. Yellin, Beza Getahun, Zhiwei Guan, Yi-min Huang-Cotrille Laboratory for User-Centered Engineering Education (LUCEE) University of WashingtonAbstractBecause engineering education is a complex endeavor, tools that help educators understandengineering education can be valuable. User-centered design is a conceptual tool that educatorscan use to understand current projects and imagine new opportunities. This paper focuses on theconcept of user-centered design and its application

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ismail Fidan

producing parts in a real environment. Since the hands-onlabs are very important to concrete the CAD/CAM/CNC concepts, lack of adequate CAM andCAD application hardware is the “weak link” in the current enhancement effort. MIT students’lab practices were limited to conventional CNC turning and milling projects. There was no hightechnology equipment beyond a couple of CNC machines. Therefore, implementing RP filledthe gap between CAD/CAM and provided MIT students with the opportunity to practice hightech prototyping assignments.A Generic Overview on RPRP consists of various manufacturing processes by which a solid physical model of a part ismade directly from 3D model data, without any special tooling. CAD data may be generated by3D CAD modelers or

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Mason; Arthur Western

engineer need intelligence, knowledge, courage, people skills,communication skills, and facility with uncertainty and risk. Rose-Hulman believes thatit has found a number of ways to provide experiences in applying these traits within anundergraduate engineering education.II Projects and Curricular Change at Rose-HulmanFrom the beginning, Rose-Hulman has recognized that realistic projects represent greatvehicles for weaving the complex combination of forces affecting innovation directly intothe learning process. In 1985 Rose-Hulman established, under the leadership of Dr. BrijKhorana, the Center for Applied Optics Studies (CAOS). The Center was the first formalindustrial outreach program at Rose-Hulman. It was established to complement the thennew

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Jessica Matson; Kenneth Hunter

at TennesseeTechnological University have strongly recommended the implementation of leadershipdevelopment education within the industrial engineering curriculum. After study in response totheir recommendations, a new one-credit elective course, IME 490 Engineering Leadership, wasdeveloped. Feedback from this course, from graduating senior exit interviews, and fromassessment of junior- and senior-level courses requiring team-based projects pointed to the needfor additional and earlier introduction of teamwork and leadership skill-building in thecurriculum. This paper describes a framework that has been used to design experiential learningprograms for developing teamwork and leadership skills in undergraduate industrial engineeringstudents at

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Ohland; Richard Layton

Session 2330 Peer Evaluations in Teams of Predominantly Minority Students Richard A. Layton, Matthew W. Ohland North Carolina A&T State University / University of FloridaAbstractThis paper presents an analysis of student peer evaluations in project teams where the majority ofthe students are African-American. Peer evaluations were used to assign individual grades fromgroup grades for design projects in a junior-level mechanical engineering course taught byLayton for three semesters in 1997-99. This study is similar to and complements a 1999 study byKaufman, Felder, and Fuller. The results of the two

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ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Zhengtao T. Deng; Xiaoqing (Cathy) Qian; Abdul Jalloh; Amir Mobasher; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

development of pre-existingprograms, the size and complexity of a particular program may become overwhelming.Universities are faced with preparing the students to cope with the challenges that theyare faced in their work environment in the context of simulation and modeling. Differenttools may be adopted in various departments for training the students in programmingsuch as C, C++, Basic ,Visual Basic, Fortran, or Matlab to name a few and thedepartments are faced with the question of what environment to adopt to train thestudents.One of the requirements of the Mechanical Engineering program at Alabama A&MUniversity is that all students participate in a project in every course. These projectsrequire utilization of computer programming. Two

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Novel Classroom Environments

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Skip Rochefort; Keith Levien

Session 1313 Lessons with LEGO® - Engaging Students in Chemical Engineering Courses Keith L. Levien, Willie E.(Skip) Rochefort Oregon State University "How can we generate more enthusiasm and improve the team skills of our studentsthrough incorporating hands-on experiences in chemical engineering based projects?" This isthe question we have tried to address at Oregon State University by initiating projects whichinvolve the popular LEGO® building system. This was initially motivated by the realizationthat the robotics line of these kits could