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Biomedical Division Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kyle Steven Martin, University of Virginia

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Virginia and the Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Programs. A native Virginian, she received her Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1992 working in the area of heat transfer in diesel engine cylinder heads. She then served as a Visiting Scholar and a Visiting Lecturer at the Uni- versity of California at Berkeley from 1993-1994, where she developed her interests in microscale heat transfer and aerogels while working in the laboratory of Chang-Lin Tien. In 1994 Pam joined the Mechan- ical and Aerospace Engineering Department at UVA where she received a National Science Foundation CAREER award in 1995, was promoted to Professor in 2004, was named

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Biomedical Division Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marcia A. Pool, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Jennifer L. Groh, Purdue University Women in Engineering Program, West Lafayette; Allison L. Sieving, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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to 4.6 from pre- to post-event) and gain more confidence to chooseengineering as a career (3.1 to 3.8 from pre- to post-event) when using a Likert scale (1 – 5 with1 being completely disagree and 5 being complete agree).Additionally, anecdotal data from all programs support that hands-on design activities engagestudent interest. Many participants stay in contact with activity mentors they meet during theseprograms and are further influenced to keep engineering on the forefront of their choices forcollege. Specifically, many parents and participants comment about a new interest in BME.Summary and conclusionsIncorporating the design process into outreach activities increases participant’s self-explorationof the problem and stimulates minds

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Entrepreneurship Education in New Contexts

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ronald S Harichandran P.E., University of New Haven; Maria-Isabel Carnasciali, University of New Haven; Nadiye O. Erdil, University of New Haven; Cheryl Q Li, University of New Haven; Jean Nocito-Gobel, University of New Haven; Samuel D. Daniels, University of New Haven

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

and studies: 1. Program-Level Assessment: The baseline survey shown in Appendix C will be administered to entering freshmen before they have completed any online module. Psychological measurement theory suggests that lengthy questionnaires can lead to low response rates and distorted responses due to fatigue.10,11 Therefore, the survey was designed to be concise with 37 items. Students’ general entrepreneurial mindset such as the intellectual and exploratory curiosity levels, interests and experiences in entrepreneurship, career goals, etc. will be measured through 12 items. The learning outcomes of the 18 online modules will be measured through 25 items, with one or at most two

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Curriculum in Engineering Leadership Development

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Steven W. Klosterman, Northeastern University; Steven T. McGonagle, Northeastern University; Simon Pitts, Northeastern University

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Engineering Leadership Development Division

positions during his 23-year career in the US Army Corps of Engineers. He is a graduate of Norwich University and Florida Tech, where he earned a master’s in Organizational Leadership and Psychology. He is a US Army Ranger and served as Professor of Military Science and Leadership at Providence College, and also at Florida Tech. Prior to assuming his teaching role at Northeastern Universities Gordon Engineering Leadership program, he spent five years in industry as Director of Operations of King Industries in Norwalk CT.Prof. Simon Pitts, Northeastern University Simon Pitts is director of Northeastern University’s Gordon Institute of Engineering Leadership and pro- fessor of practice in engineering leadership. Before

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Assessment and Outcomes: ERM Roundtable

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Golnaz Arastoopour, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Naomi C. Chesler, University of Wisconsin, Madison; David Williamson Shaffer; Zachari Swiecki, University of Madison-Wisconsin

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Educational Research and Methods

Vice Chair of Biomedical Engineering with an affiliate appointment in Educational Psychology. Her research interests include vascular biomechanics, hemodynamics and cardiac function as well as the factors that motivate students to pursue and persist in engineering careers, with a focus on women and under-represented minorities.Prof. David Williamson ShafferZachari Swiecki, University of Madison-Wisconsin Graduate student in educational psychology, learning sciences area Page 26.679.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Epistemic Network Analysis as a Tool for

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Interactive Panel on Improving the Experiences of Marginalized Students on Engineering Design Teams

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lorelle A Meadows, Michigan Technological University; Denise Sekaquaptewa, University of Michigan; Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech; Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Shawn S. Jordan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Debbie Chachra, Olin College of Engineering; Adrienne Minerick, Michigan Technological University

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education, Electrical and Computer, Engineering Libraries, First-Year Programs, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Minorities in Engineering, Student, Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering, Women in Engineering

experiences.Dr. Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech Marie C. Paretti is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she co- directs the Virginia Tech Engineering Communications Center (VTECC). Her research focuses on com- munication in engineering design, interdisciplinary communication and collaboration, design education, and gender in engineering. She was awarded a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to study expert teaching in capstone design courses, and is co-PI on numerous NSF grants exploring com- munication, design, and identity in engineering. Drawing on theories of situated learning and identity development, her work includes studies on the teaching and learning of communication

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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Robin Adams, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Molly H Goldstein, Purdue University, West Lafayette; K. Anna Douglas, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #12280Large-scale Research on Engineering Design in Secondary Classrooms: BigLearner Data Using Energy3D Computer-Aided DesignDr. Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette enay Purzer is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering Education. She is the recipient of a 2012 NSF CAREER award, which examines how engineering students approach innovation. She serves on the editorial boards of Science Education and the Journal of Pre-College Engineering Educa- tion (JPEER). She received a B.S.E with distinction in Engineering in 2009 and a B.S. degree in Physics Education in 1999. Her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees

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ECCD Applications

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gabriela De Mattos Veroneze, North Carolina A&T SU; Zhichao Li, North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University; Pedro Augusto Pinto Caldeira

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

report will berequired to have a conference format so the undergraduates can practice writing papers. At the end of the semester each group will present their Power Houses model as well astheir written project. To access students learning progress as well as attribute grade a finalwritten exam will be given. The expected outcome of this class is to engage students in using renewable energy thrutheir professional careers showing that there is an alternative to traditional models.Conclusion Renewable energy resources are here to be explored, studied and improved. The mainobjective to this class is to get engineering students from different departments and teach themhow these resources can be used in their projects as well as

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Tactical Approaches to Entrepreneurship Education

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Peter Rogers, The Ohio State University; Richard J. Freuler, Ohio State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Paper ID #11576The ”T-Shaped” EngineerDr. Peter Rogers, The Ohio State University Dr. Peter Rogers, Professor of Practice Engineering Education Innovation Center The Ohio State Univer- sity Columbus, OH 43210 Rogers.693@osu.edu Rogers joined the university in October, 2008 bringing with him 35 years of industrial experience. His career includes senior leadership roles in engineering, sales, and manufacturing, developing products us- ing multidisciplinary teams to convert customer needs to commercially viable products and services. He brings this experience to the university where he leads the effort in developing

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ECCD International Outreach

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rim Razzouk, Arizona State University; Anshuman Razdan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Ambika Prasad Adhikari, Arizona State University

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Diversity

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering in the School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering (CIDSE). Dr. Razdan has a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering and PhD in Computer Science. He has been a pioneer in computing based interdisciplinary collaboration and research at ASU. He leads the Image and 3D Exploitation and Analysis (I3DEA) lab (http://i3dea.asu.edu) He is the Principal Investigator and a collaborator on several federal grants from agencies including NSF, NGA and NIH and DHS, US Army, USAID, and Science Foundation of Arizona. He has led or participated in over $25Million grants in his career. Anshuman has published extensively in refereed journals and conferences and is sought as an

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Continuing Professional Development Division Technical Session 2

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mitchell L Springer PMP, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Mark T Schuver, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Continuing Professional Development

by Levin and Dean titled Generation on a Tightrope1, the authors present asnapshot of undergraduate students enrolled between 2009 and 2014. The authors begin bylaying the foundation: Today’s college students are struggling to maintain their balance as they attempt to cross the gulf between their dreams and the diminished realities of the world in which they live. They are seeking security but live in an age of profound and unceasing change. (p. ix)… They desperately want the economic opportunity their parents enjoyed but are coming of age during a deep recession with reduced career prospects. They want to believe in the America Dream and are optimistic about their personal futures but they are

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Qualitative Methodologies

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amy E. Slaton, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.); Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

Environmental and Ecological Engineering at Purdue University. She was co-PI of Purdue’s ADVANCE program from 2008-2014, focusing on the underrepresentation of women in STEM faculty positions. She runs the Feminist Research in Engineering Education (FREE, formerly RIFE, group), whose diverse projects and group members are described at feministengineering.org. She received a CAREER award in 2010 and a PECASE award in 2012 for her ”Learning from Small Numbers” project researching the stories of un- dergraduate engineering women and men of color and white women. She received ASEE-ERM’s best paper award for her CAREER research, and the Denice Denton Emerging Leader award from the Anita Borg Institute, both in 2013. She

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New Engineering Educators Division Technical Session 2

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ted Eschenbach P.E., University of Alaska Anchorage; Neal A Lewis, University of Bridgeport; Gillian M. Nicholls, Southeast Missouri State University; William J. Schell IV P.E., Montana State University

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New Engineering Educators

academic career, he spent 14 years in industry where he held leadership positions focused on process improvement and organizational development. Page 26.1654.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Using Agile Project Management to Maximize You and Your Coauthors’ ProductivityAbstractFor decades as information technology (IT) projects grew bigger and more complex, projectfailures seemed to become increasingly common, in spite of intense efforts to apply traditionalproject planning. Those traditional planning tools focused on balancing the triple

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Biomedical Engineering Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bilal Ghosn, Rice University; Tracy Volz, Rice University

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Biomedical

two key skills that engineering students should develop to achievesuccess. Most commonly, students are exposed to training for these skills separately in the earlyyears of their collegiate coursework followed by their combination in the latter years of study,particularly in upper-level design courses. In fall of 2014, we introduced “Design forDisabilities: Engineering Design Principles for Minimizing Patient Limitations,” a new first-yearwriting intensive seminar (FWIS), in an attempt to expose students to engineering designprinciples and technical communication in the context of an experiential-learning project early intheir college careers. By doing this, we hoped to provide a strong foundation for the developmentof core competencies in our

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Design and Entrepreneurship

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew Tadd, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan; Elaine Wisniewski, University of Michigan; Leena N Lalwani, University of Michigan

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

, Entrepreneurship, and a Flipped Classroom Experience    Abstract  Graduates in chemical engineering pursue a wide variety of careers and, in today’s businessenvironment, technical proficiency is required but no longer sufficient to ensure success. Well-developed problem-solving skills and the ability to describe, convey, and sell those solutions toupper management is a must. The pace of business has also increased – higher productivity,shorter design turns, and global competition mean that successful engineers must be self-starters,seek out opportunities for improvements, and have an entrepreneurial mindset. Our currentcapstone design experience fails to fully prepare our graduates for these challenges. Currently,the course focuses on technical design

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Ocean and Marine Engineering Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shyam Aravamudhan, North Carolina A&T State University

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Diversity

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Ocean and Marine

without exposureto real-world projects during the course of the technical education may neither develop theseimportant skills nor gain sufficient motivation to pursue careers in engineering. We thereforebelieve that the introduction of challenge-based engineering curricula and/or projects will createa favorable atmosphere for creativity, innovation, increased participation and teamwork.In this paper, we present the experiences and student learning outcomes when a group ofundergraduate students from diverse science and engineering disciplines (non-ocean engineeringdisciplines) were exposed to challenge-based ocean engineering project. The team consisted of 7undergraduate students (1 freshman, 2 sophomores, 2 juniors, and 2 seniors) from

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Best Practices for Two-Year Students Majoring in Engineering & STEM Fields

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anna Marbella Camacho, Cañada College

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Diversity

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Two Year College Division

sequence the less likely students are to persist, 2)lack of social and academic integration, 3) lack of awareness of academic options, and 4) lowself-efficacy – students do not believe that they can succeed in STEM.In an effort to address these obstacles and integrate all STEM student support services withinSTEM academic study, we created the STEM Center. Leveraging multiple grants and a varietyof STEM programs and services with a unified vision, the STEM Center now provides a one-stop destination for everything from study groups, tutoring, and club meetings to bridgeprograms (like the award-winning Math Jam), a STEM Speaker Series, STEM specific academiccounseling, STEM career exploration programs for high school students, internship

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Evaluating Student Behaviors and Attitudes

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Philip Reid Brown, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education; Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Shannon M. Sipes, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Assessment of the Rose-Hulman Leadership AcademyAbstractGiving students the ability to be entrepreneurial leaders is a potentially valuable outcome for anengineering program. Entrepreneurial leadership consists of communication, teamwork, andproblem solving skills that are important to careers in STEM fields, including engineering. Forengineering, in particular, entrepreneurship and leadership skills relate directly to accreditationoutcomes that every undergraduate engineering program must address. In this study, we describethe assessment of a three day leadership academy program at a small, technical school in theMidwestern United States. Activities in the academy consisted of seminars on leadership stylesand communication comingled with problem

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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 7: The Transition from High School to College

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Caitlin Cairncross, University of Portland; Sharon A. Jones P.E., University of Portland; Zulema Naegele, University of Portland; Tammy VanDeGrift, University of Portland

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First-Year Programs

Page 26.300.6on campus, and participated in workshops on topics such as effective writing and “survivingengineering.” These co-curricular activities were intended to introduce students to differentresources on campus that could be valuable to them, and to call attention to some of the commonchallenges that students face during their first year. Students also went on site visits to localengineering companies, in order to familiarize them with the local engineering community, andgive them an overview of the various career opportunities available within the field.Throughout their time in the program, participants stayed in a residence hall together and had thesupport of a peer mentor, a sophomore engineering student who provided assistance

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Shaping the Future: Structured Mentoring for Today's Diverse Engineering Student Populations

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jessica Alyce Wilson, University of South Florida; Jonathan Elliot Gaines, University of South Florida; Deonte Cooper, Bulls-Eye

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering

-confidence16. Frequently used as a response to retention in STEM because itprovides an opportunity for “investigative learning, technology…engag[ing students] in hands-on, real life projects…changing thecurriculum to promote more collaborative group work [which] has also helped students develop peer networks”10(p.4). In reference tothe approach developed by Geisinger and Raman (2013), there are three potential attrition factors that are not traditionally addressedthrough service learning. Those factors are high school preparation, interest and career goals, and race and gender. As a result, analternative method to address race and gender, and interest and career goals is through mentoring. Providing service-learningopportunities that influence

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New Engineering Educators Division Technical Session 2

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Monika Rummler, Technische Universität Berlin; Petra Nikol, Technische Universität Berlin

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New Engineering Educators

composition of the teaching staff atGerman research universities have different roles and responsibilities, recruitmentrequirements, career levels, and designations for teaching staff. In the organization anddelivery of the necessary teaching and student assessment provisions, relatively few tenuredfull professors are supported by comparatively few teaching staff members and external part-time lecturers, but by a huge number of so-called “assistants.” These assistants usually areyoung graduates with a master’s degree, hired shortly after their graduation. Professors andassistants are required to perform research and to teach. This is a result of the traditional andhighly appreciated German “Einheit von Forschung und Lehre” (the unity of research

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Pre-college Programs for Women

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Na Gong, North Dakota State University; Jinhui Wang, North Dakota State University

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division, Women in Engineering

Engineering (CNSE) Figure 3: Selected Photos of ECE-GIRLS. 4  Working on group project on FPGA-based piano: A Verilog programming and FPGA implementation based group project – keyboard piano- was designed to expose high school girls to important ECE concept and encourage them to pursue an engineering degree in college and then a career in engineering.  Touring university ECE facilities: In addition to equipment and facilities in the ECE department, there are great resources available at NDSU to ECE faculty and students. The Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) provides IC testing resources

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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 1: Using Technology and/or Technology Tools to Enhance Learning

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Matthew Long, Deakin University; Sivachandran Chandrasekaran P.E., Deakin University; Simon William Cavenett

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First-Year Programs

education philosophy is founded on the Project Ori- ented Design Based Learning (PODBL) approach at Deakin University.Mr. Simon William Cavenett Simon Cavenett is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Professional Practice (Engineering) at the School of Engineering at Deakin University. Prior to joining Deakin University in 2007 his 20 year career was based in industry. His career includes a number of significant achievements both in Australia and inter- nationally, particularly involving the design and implementation of leading edge telecommunications and IT technologies. Simon has extensive experience internationally; having worked professionally based the United States for over 11 years prior to returning to Australia to

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Developing Quality Experiences that Retain Diverse Engineering Talent

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tizoc Cruz-Gonzalez, University of Michigan; Sarah Rose Sobek, University of Michigan ; Julianna Marie Abel, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering

is necessary to expand and extend the avenues toreach students who otherwise may be unable to realize engineering as a career. One method tohelp recruit underrepresented students into the science, technology, engineering, and math(STEM) pipeline is to provide STEM interventions to pre-college students.This paper discusses a novel STEM intervention that occurs at a technical engineering researchconference and targets underserved high school students from varying geographic conferencelocations. The primary categories of underserved students targeted for this intervention areAfrican American, Hispanic/Latino, Native American/Pacific Islander, and socioeconomicallydisadvantaged students. In this paper, we discuss the challenges associated with

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Biomedical Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William H. Guilford, University of Virginia; Anna S. Blazier, University of Virginia; Alyssa B. Becker, University of Virginia

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Biomedical

campus resources, and incorporated several in-class discussions ontopics including pedagogy, choosing major, academic advising, preparing for a career, stressmanagement, and support resources.In the non-advised section, students spent an equivalent amount of time in weekly team progressmeetings. The instructor and teaching assistants spoke with each group independently for about 8minutes to see how their team was functioning, what progress they had made, what materialsthey might need, to give advice on their design, and to encourage brainstorming whereappropriate. In the first year of intervention, the non-advised group was taught first, followed bythe advised section. In the second year of intervention the order was reversed.Regardless of

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Biomedical Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dianne Grayce Hendricks, University of Washington; Ken Yasuhara, Center for Engineering Learning & Teaching (CELT); Alyssa Catherine Taylor, University of Washington

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Biomedical

, each student writes about how their leadership abilities interact witheffectiveness of their teammates’ abilities to help ensure project success. group Competencies Reflecting on expert accounts of leadership: After guest presentations aboutself-selected by leadership in bioengineering careers, students will write about the leadership students competencies that they deem most important and personally relevant. Reflecting on self-value and personal goals for development of leadership skills: In the first class meeting, after a class discussion on defining leadership, Self- students write a private letter to their future self, responding to prompts

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Innovative Approaches to Ethics Instruction

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohamed B. Trabia, University of Nevada - Las Vegas; Julie A. Longo, University of Nevada - Las Vegas; Susan Wainscott, University of Nevada - Las Vegas

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Engineering Ethics

Longo joined UNLV’s Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering as their Technical Writer in Oc- tober 2010. Her primary responsibilities include helping faculty prepare papers for publication as well as technical reports to funding agencies, and presenting workshops on technical writing as well as ethics in engineering. She has a B.S. in Biology from Rutgers University and an M.S. in Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. Mrs. Longo has worked in Technical Communications for most of her career. In 1976, she was a Senior Editor in Life Sciences on the first editorial board for an Elsevier subsidiary, Academic American En- cyclopedia, known today as New Grolier. For almost 15 years, she worked at

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UAV and other Team Projects in Aerospace Engineering

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael C. Hatfield, University of Alaska, Fairbanks; John Monahan, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Upward Bound; Samuel Vanderwaal; Carl H France; Logan Walker Graves, UAF

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Diversity

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Aerospace

MS students. Supported by ACUASI and UAF educational programs, theUB program helps low-income, prospective first-generation college students in rural Alaskan schoolsby promoting interest in STEM career fields. The project is named “Modern Blanket Toss” after theNative tradition of the blanket toss, which enabled people to be lofted into the air and expand theirrange of observation beyond the immediate surroundings. The program addresses an identified need forSTEM initiatives in rural Alaska through the use of an innovative structure and a novel learning toolthat is replicable and scalable to other high schools.The MBT program is currently in year 2 of a 3-year effort, serving over 50 students from 6 differentvillages. UAS designed by the

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Fostering Transformational Change in Civil Engineering

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William J. Davis P.E., The Citadel; Simon Thomas Ghanat P.E., The Citadel; Kevin C Bower P.E., The Citadel

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Civil Engineering

professional skills needed to establish a foundation for a successful career andfulfill the high calling of a practicing Civil Engineer.Procedures for systematic collection of assessment data were instituted and have been in placefor more than ten years. Data is collected on all twenty-two adopted outcomes, including asubset of nine outcomes specifically focused on professional skills. Data from direct and indirectmeasures are collected on an annual basis including Fundamentals of Engineering (FE)knowledge area scores, Embedded Indicator results, and Senior Exit Survey responses. Each ofthese assessment methods is described, collected data is summarized over a period of severalyears, and results are compared to investigate useful relationships between

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NSF Grantees Poster Session I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Melani Plett, Seattle Pacific University; Angelina Lane, Seattle Pacific University; Donald M. Peter P.E., Seattle Pacific University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

college. Thus, in the absence of improved college prep programs, colleges need tobridge the gap.For minority students who achieve high school graduation, community college is often the nextstep. Packard3 concluded that community colleges often provide an entry point for firstgeneration, low income, racial/ethnic minority or non-traditional college students. Increasing thenumbers of successfully graduating minority students in Science, Technology, Engineering andMath (STEM) is known to be achieved by intentional strategies to recruit students to and retainstudents at community colleges: emphasizing dual credit classes in high school, providingopportunity for career related experiences and providing community-related support4. Otherresearch showed