Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Igor Verner, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology; Leonid Revzin, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology

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Computers in Education

DispenserTaking aliquots by the Moore pipette requires time, high attention and manual skills, the lack ofwhich causes errors in students' experiments9. We developed and implemented a simpleautomatic dispenser (see Figure 1). F E C B A D Page 15.815.3 Figure 1. A. Servo motor; B. Plastic rail; C. Syringe; D. Tip; E Crank; F Interface.The device is a slider-crank mechanism constructed out of a servo motor A

Conference Session

Computational Tools and Simulation III

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hassan Rajaei, Bowling Green State University; Arsen Gasparyan, Bowling Green State University

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Computers in Education

Center Figure 1: The Virtual Training Environment (VTE) system overview.2.2 – Simulation and Animation for Interactive EducationThe VTE system supports multiple sessions and classrooms. Each course needs to have its ownpackage of model components to be integrated into the syllabus. To facilitate describing thissection we us a pilot course like Data Communications and Networking as an example. When amessage is sent from point A to B, the simulated model can project animation of the flowbetween the two points. Depending which portion of the course is under focus, the details of thecommunication pattern are projected. For example, the routing mechanism in the network andthe congestion handling process when part of the network becomes

Conference Session

Spatial Ability and Visualization in Graphics Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sheryl Sorby, Michigan Technological University; Norma Veurink, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

%). The gender difference in video game play was statisticallysignificant.On the background questionnaire administered along with the PSVT:R during fall 2009,three questions were included related to video game playing. These questions and theirresponse choices are included below. For each question, response choices were a) manyhours per week , b) once or twice per week , c) once or twice per month , d) once or twiceper year, or e) never .Instructions: For each activity listed below, fill-in the appropriate bubble on the Scantronsheet that indicates the most amount of time that you spent on that activity during anygiven year in your life. 6. Played computer or video games (such as action, adventure, racing, or sports games) 20

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Modeling Student Data

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Dyrenfurth, Purdue University; Mike Murphy, Dublin Institute of Technology; Gary Bertoline, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

cities is offered by RMIT in Australia.  http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=mnw9osj6o6x9;STATUS=A?QRY=global%20 university%20city%20index&STYPE=ENTIRE• Newsweek (weekly magazine) presents annually a listing of university ranks by subject (Art & Design College Rankings, Criminal Justice College Rankings, Education Programs College Rankings, Engineering College Rankings, Health & Nursing Programs College Rankings, IT & Computer Programming College Rankings, Law & Legal College Rankings, MBA & B-school Rankings, Music College Rankings, Pharmacist and Pharmacy Technician College Rankings, and Psychology College Rankings). In addition they list specialty rankings (Canadian University Rankings, Distance Learning &

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Engineering Education in India, the Far East, and Central Asia

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Junqiu Wang, Purdue University; Nathan McNeill, Purdue University; Sensen Li, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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International

AC 2010-1080: GROWING PAINS: CHINESE ENGINEERING EDUCATIONDURING THE LATE QING DYNASTYJunqiu Wang, Purdue UniversityNathan McNeill, Purdue UniversitySensen Li, Purdue University, West Lafayette Page 15.635.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Growing pains: Chinese engineering education in the late Qing DynastyAbstractWith the continued advancement of engineering as a global field of activity, it becomes criticalto understand engineering education from a more global perspective. Specifically, Chineseengineering education has been experiencing radical transformation and development over thepast twenty years, especially in

Conference Session

College-Industry Partnerships: Bringing Industry into the Curriculum Development and Design Cycle

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

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College-Industry Partnerships

relevant examples in the probability and statisticscourse that students take during their second year. Also, encouraging students to take anadditional course in the area of probability& statistics, as a technical elective, would go far inenabling students to handle engineering-type data more proficiently.iv) Reshuffling design topics in prerequisites - In the process of designing various structuralmembers for buildings, the teaching staff have noted two discrepancies in design prerequisites: a)the subjects need to be realigned i.e., to have the topics properly sequenced; and, b) the need tointroduce the students to local/regional design practices, making use of local codes. A strongargument has emerged with regard to the timing of the capstone

Conference Session

Retention Strategies in Action Part I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University; Armando Rodriguez, Arizona State University; Anita Grierson, Arizona State University

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Two Year College Division

, B.H., Zerby, D.M., Chain, E.L., and Banks, D.L.,“Improving the Transition Success of Engineering Community College Students to a University,” Proceedings ofthe American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon, June 2005, CD-ROM, 16pages. http://soa.asee.org/paper/conference/paper-view.cfm?id=2156115. Anderson-Rowland, M.R., Vanis, M., Zerby, D., Banks, D., and Matar, B., “METS Pilot Program: ACommunity College/University Collaboration to Recruit Underrepresented Minority Students into Engineering,”Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, June2004, CD-ROM, 9 pages. http://soa.asee.org/paper/conference/paper-view.cfm?id=2017216. Anderson-Rowland, M.R

Conference Session

DELOS Best Paper Nominations

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dawn Spencer, Colorado State University, Pueblo; Nebojsa Jaksic, Colorado State University, Pueblo

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

. http://soa.asee.org/paper/jee/paper-view.cfm?pdf=800.pdf.6. Hsi, S. and Agogino, A. “Scaffolding knowledge integration through designing multimedia case studies of Page 15.593.9 engineering design,” Proceedings of Frontiers in Education Conference, vol. 2, pp. 4d1.1-4d1.4, Atlanta, GA, 1995.7. Linn, M.C. “Designing computer learning environments for engineering and computer science: Scaffolded knowledge integration framework,” Journal of Science Education and Technology 4(2): pp. 103–126, 1995.8. Slack, T. B., Smith, D. L., Franzone, J., and Proffitt, A., “A Course in Computer Networking with a Laboratory on

Conference Session

DEED Potpourri

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Oscar Nespoli, University of Waterloo; Steve Lambert, University of Waterloo

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Design in Engineering Education

Cases and Instructional Modules”, Journal of Engineering Education. pp. 375-381.2. H. Petroski, Design Paradigms: Case Histories of Error and Judgment in Engineering, Cambridge University Press, 1994.3. Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board, “Accreditation Criteria and Procedures 2008”, text-only version, September 2008, available from www.engineerscanada.ca, accessed January 2009.4. B. Laurence and C. Walsh, “Nuvation Research Corporation Power Supply Characterization System”, WCDE- 00076, Waterloo Cases in Design Engineering (WCDE), February 2010.5. N. Mathew, R. Szymczyk and O. Nespoli, “GMCL Contingency Planning for TPMS”, WCDE-00027, Waterloo Cases in Design Engineering, December 2009.6. F. K. Cheuk, A

Conference Session

Novel Methods in Engineering Ethics

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carlos Bertha, U.S. Air Force Academy

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Engineering Ethics

greatest good for the greatest number? - Did character Y’s response appropriately balance short term and long termconsequences? - Mill discusses various notions/definitions of “justice” in the last chapter ofUtilitarianism. When you consider character Z’s choices, which of these notions seem(s) toapply? Who do they line up with your understanding of justice?Relativism, Pluralism, and Absolutism: - Character X offered character Y a bribe, but this situation happened in a foreign countrywhere this sort of thing is more common. Is offering (and accepting) bribes in this case wrong? - We have seen that character X’s dilemma puts following principle A in direct conflictwith consequence B. How do you resolve dilemmas of this

Conference Session

Teaching Technological Literacy - Engaging Students

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Walk, Old Dominion University

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Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

AC 2010-1945: INCREASING TECHNOLOGICAL LITERACY THROUGHIMPROVED UNDERSTANDING OF TECHNOLOGY EMERGENCE ANDDIFFUSIONSteven Walk, Old Dominion University Steven R. Walk, PE, is Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Technology at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia. He recently was head of the Center for Technology Forecasting, and Director of the Maritime-Aerospace Liaison and Technology Development Center, at Maine Maritime Academy, Castine, Maine. His research interests include high voltage electromagnetic phenomena, energy conversion systems, technology management, and technological change and social forecasting. Mr. Walk is owner and founder of Technology Intelligence, a

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Allison L. Felix; Joel Z. Bandstra; William H.J. Strosnider

modified to meet the treatment goals. Project treatment goalparameters and results from both the student and teacher projects’ are provided in the followingtable. Fall 2010 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, October 15-16, 2010, Villanova University Table 1. Treatment goals and outcomes for the bench-scale AMD remediation design exercise. [Fe] (mg/L) Turbidity (NTU) % Water Recovered Treatment Goals 1.0 100 90 Student Team A 8.0 785 88 Student Team B 11.0 218 88 Student Team C 12.0 555 31 Student Team

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Education: Upperclass Years

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Bullard, North Carolina State University

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Chemical Engineering

, “Chemical Product Design,” Chemical Engineering Education, 30(4), (Fall 2001).(20) Peters, M.S., K.D. Timmerhaus, and R.E. West Plant Design and Economics for Chemical Engineers, McGraw Hill, 5th Edition (2003).(21) Bullard, L.G., P.K. Niehues, S.W. Peretti, and S.H. White, “Web-based Delivery of Chemical Engineering Design Projects,” Chemical Engineering Education, 39(3), 194-199 (Summer 2005).(22) Weiss, B. and M.J. Castaldi, “A Tire Gasification Senior Design Project that Integrates Laboratory Experiments and Computer Simulation,” Chemical Engineering Education, 40(3), 203-210 (Summer 2006). Page 15.661.7(23) Benyahia, F

Conference Session

Assessment and Evaluation in Design

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2010-15: ASSESSMENT OF PROBLEM-BASED LEARNINGMysore Narayanan, Miami University DR. MYSORE NARAYANAN obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Liverpool, England in the area of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He joined Miami University in 1980 and teaches a wide variety of electrical, electronic and mechanical engineering courses. He has been invited to contribute articles to several encyclopedias and has published and presented dozens of papers at local, regional, national and international conferences. He has also designed, developed, organized and chaired several conferences for Miami University and conference sessions for a variety of organizations. He is a senior member of

Conference Session

The New ABET CE Criteria - Program Development

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Devine, CURRENTLY UNEMPLOYED

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Civil Engineering

determined a grade for waste waterinfrastructure in Indiana. The course Environmental Engineering – Aqueous determined a gradefor drinking water infrastructure in Indiana. The course Environmental Engineering – Non-Aqueous determined a grade for solid waste infrastructure in Indiana. Aside from the differentaspects of infrastructure in different classes, the assignments were identical.The assignment sheet was brief. The assignment, determine a grade for infrastructure, was Page 15.1133.3recognized by students as much of their life revolves around grades. The concept of a grade, aletter that is either A, B, C, D, or F was used to emphasize one

Conference Session

Administering First-Year Programs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Caverly, Villanova University; Howard Fulmer, Villanova University; Sridhar Santhanam, Villanova University; James O’Brien, Villanova University; Gerard Jones, Villanova University; Edward Char, Villanova University; Frank Mercede, Villanova University; Pritpal Singh, Villanova University; Randy Weinstein, Villanova University; Joseph Yost, Villanova University

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First-Year Programs

Page 15.994.11introduction, one of the major drivers in developing this new engineering experience was toprovide a more rigorous and intellectually stimulating introductory course for all freshmenengineering students. Based on the year-on-year comparison between the new and priorfreshman courses, the students indicated that indeed this new course required more hard workand was more intellectually stimulating than students in the earlier versions of the courseindicated by a substantial margin (Assessment A and B in Figure 2). The students also felt thatthey learned a great deal (Assessment C) and saw substantial value (Assessment D) in the coursecompared with the previous freshman engineering experience. Further faculty review of thesestudent

Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kerri Phillips, West Virginia University; Giampiero Campa, The MathWorks, Inc.; Srikanth Gururajan, West Virginia University; Marcello Napolitano, West Virginia University

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Aerospace

Build Fly Competition”, Accessed December 10, 2009. http://www.aiaadbf.org/.2. Brodeur, D.R., Young, P.W., Blair, K.B. Problem-Based Learning in Aerospace Engineering Education. Proceedings from 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition.3. Campa, G., Gu, Y., Seanor, B., Napolitano, M.R., Pollini, L., and Fravolini, M.L., Design and Flight Testing of Non-Linear Formation Control Laws, Control Practice Engineering: A Journal of the International Federation of Automatic Control, 15 (2007), 1077-10924. Campa, G. “PIL, Parameter Identification Library”, 2008. http://wwww.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/5. Domino, G. Interactive Effects of Achievement Orientation and Teaching Style on

Conference Session

Innovations in Civil Engineering Education I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Civil Engineering

Boulder’s Department of Civil,Environmental, & Architectural Engineering, 428 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309. Professor Bielefeldt can be reached atAngela.Bielefeldt@colorado.edu, 303-492-8433.1. Select circle the 1 best answer below: What are the three pillars of sustainability?(a) Finance: Infrastructure : Political(b) Infrastructure: Political : Social(c) Economic : Political : Social(d) Economic : Environmental : Social(e) Environmental : Financial : Political2. Please rate your personal level of familiarity with the term SUSTAINABILITY:(a) Very familiar (b) somewhat familiar

Conference Session

Teaching College Algebra and Using Mathematics Tutoring Tools

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hyounkyun Oh, Savannah State University; Asad Yousuf, Savannah State University; Sujin Kim, Savannah State University

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Engineering Technology

4 43 100 80.97 Spring 08 CCA 2 35 8 4 5 0 3 15 77.14 Summer 08 TCA 3 58 11 8 2 4 5 28 81.03 Total 1306 271 167 104 28 221 514 79.25TCA: Traditional College Algebra, CCA: Contemporary College Algebra, Und: undeclaredmajor, Acc: Accounting major, CIS: Computer Information system major, Bus: businessmanagement or marketing, Lib: Liberal Arts majorFirst of all, Table 2 shows the grade distribution of experimental students in College Algebra.The table shows that 61.92 % of students in TCA and 67.32 % of the ones in CCA receivedpassing grades of A, B or C. Overall

Conference Session

Student Learning

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Otto, Stanford University; Helen Chen, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University

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Educational Research and Methods

APPLE/PIE surveys, the intrinsic psychological motivation variable is a modified versionof the intrinsic motivation subscale of the Situational Motivation Scale (SIMS) (Guay, Vallerand,and Blanchard, 2000)vi and is comprised of three survey items (questions)1: a) I feel good when I am doing engineering activities b) Majoring in engineering is fun c) I think engineering is interestingStudents were asked to indicate the extent to which they agreed that each of the items was areason why they were studying engineering, and they had the option to respond: “stronglydisagree,” “moderately disagree,” “disagree,” “unsure,” “agree,” “moderately agree,” and“strongly agree.” The Cronbach’s alpha statistic measures the internal

Conference Session

Technological Literacy and K-12 Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Essinger, Drexel University; Ryan Coote, Drexel University; Pete Konstantopoulos, CAPA High School; Jason Silverman, Drexel University; Gail Rosen, Drexel University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

two years of the project. Inparticular, we will focus on (a) a brief description of two labs (which are some of the labsavailable at http://dk12.ece.drexel.edu), (b) the effectiveness of the labs by assessing i) overallK-12 student attitude change in the program and ii) graduate and undergraduate experiences anddevelopment, and (c) lessons learned thus far in the project.Rationale of STEM for Artistic Students At an early age students are encouraged, both deliberately and inadvertently, to excel attheir proficiencies and strengths, which can be equally mathematical, artistic, reasoning,designing, etc. The tendency to play to one’s strengths at an early stage of a student’sdevelopment can be ultimately self-fulfilling, leading students

Conference Session

Special Session: Impacts of Service in Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Linda Barrington, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; John Duffy, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

), (Learn andServe America, 2009). However, one of the earlier definitions is still widely accepted andcomprehensive: Service-learning is “a course based, credit-bearing, educational experience inwhich students (a) participate in an organized service activity that meets identified communityneeds and (b) reflect on the service activity in such a way as to gain further understanding ofcourse content, a broader appreciation of the discipline, and an enhanced sense of civicresponsibility." (Bringle & Hatcher, 1995). Note the three elements. To be defined as service-learning the activity must be in the context of a credit-bearing course, meet a real communityneed, and involve a reflection component

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students, Diversity, and Assessment

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Monica Cox, Purdue University; Osman Cekic, Purdue University; Sara Branch, Purdue University; Rocio Chavela Guerra, Purdue University; James Cawthorne, Purdue University; Benjamin Ahn, Purdue University

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Graduate Studies

Attrition Process. The Review of Higher Education, 6(2): 129-148.11. Braxton, J. M., Vesper, N., and Hossler, D. (1995). Expectations for College and Student Persistence. Research in Higher Education, 36(5): 595-612.12. Cabrera, A. F., & La Nasa, S. M. (2000). Understanding the College-Choice Process. New Directions for Institutional Research, 2000(107), 5 – 22.13. St. John, E. P., Paulsen, M. B., and Carter, D. F. (2005). Diversity, College Costs, and Postsecondary Opportunity: An Examination of the Financial Nexus Between College Choice and Persistence for African Americans and Whites. Journal of Higher Education, 76(5): 545-56914. Pascarella, E .T., and Terenzini, P. T. (2005). How College Affects Students: A Third Decade of

Conference Session

Construction Classroom Development

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessica Lower, Purdue.edu; Mark Shaurette, College of Technology, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Construction

meta-analysis to test a causal model. Communication Education, 55(1), 21-31.2. Cleveland-Innes, M. F. & Emes, C. (2005). Social and academic interaction in higher education contexts and the effect on deep learning. NASPA Journal, 42(2), 241-262.3. Cotten, S. R. & Wilson, B. (2006). Student-faculty interactions: Dynamics and determinants. Higher Education, 51, 487-519.4. Etten, S. V., Pressley, M, McInerney, D. M., & Liem, A. D. (2008). College seniors’ theory of their academic motivation. Journal of Educational Psychology, 100(4), 812-828.5. Furlich, S. A. & Dwyer, J. F. (2007). Student motivation and instructor immediacy in community college mathematics classes. The Mathematics Educator, 10(2), 55-70.6. Halawah, I

Conference Session

Mentoring & Outreach for Girls & Minorities

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keith Holbert, Arizona State University; Lisa Grable, North Carolina State University; Patricia Dixon, Florida State University; Sharon Schulze, North Carolina State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

educational pipeline: Statewide efforts in Ohio, 2009. Available online at http://www.aypf.org/documents/STEMIssueBrief-Final.pdf.4. Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, Society for Science & the Public, Washington, D.C., http://www.societyforscience.org/ISEF/.5. L. Grant, K. B. Ward, Kathryn B., Mentoring, Gender and Publication Among Social, Natural, and Physical Scientists, Washington DC: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, 1992.6. R. M. Kantor, Men and Women of the Corporation, New York: Basic Books, 1977.7. Adviser, Teacher, Role Model, Friend: On Being a Mentor to Students in Science and Engineering, Washington DC: National Academy Press, 1997.8. Assessing

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Peggy Leonowich-Graham; Katie Blue; Steven Condly

a. Predictors: (Constant), Same sex class, Post-course SE, Encouragement b. Dependent Variable: After completing this course, are you more likely to major in Information Technology, Computer Science, or Electrical Engineering?A significant ANOVA suggests that the predictors are making a significant contribution. Table 7. Coefficients Unstandardized Standardized Coefficients Coefficients Model B Std. Error Beta t Sig. 1 (Constant

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Raymond Jacquot, University of Wyoming; David Voltmer, Rose-Hulman Institute; John Steadman, University of South Alabama

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Electrical and Computer

and Impedance Matching, Proc. 2004 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Salt Lake City, UT, June 20-23, 2004, Session 1526.3. A. Rusek and B. Oakley, Easy-to-do Transmission Line Demonstrations of Sinusoidal Standing Waves and Transient Pulse Reflections, Proc. 2007 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Honolulu, HI, June 24-27, 2007, Session 3532.4. C.W. Trueman, Teaching Transmission Line Transients Using Computer Animation, Proc. ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Nov. 10-13, 1999, Session 12a9.5. R. G. Jacquot, C.H.G. Wright and R.F. Kubichek, Animation Software for Teaching Electrical Transmission Lines, Proc. 2006 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Chicago IL, June 18-21, 2006

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Leadership and Strategic Planning

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Keynton, University of Louisville; James Fiet, University of Louisville; Pankaj Patel, Ball State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

AC 2010-2012: CROSS-DISCIPLINARY TRAINING OF RESEARCHERS INENTREPRENEURIAL DISCOVERYRobert Keynton, University of LouisvilleJames Fiet, University of LouisvillePankaj Patel, Ball State University Page 15.336.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Cross-Disciplinary Training of Researchers in Entrepreneurial DiscoveryIntroductionThe work presented in this paper are the outcomes from an NSF-sponsored Partnership forInnovations program which involved the development of a new training paradigm in an attemptto:(1) stimulate the transformation of knowledge created by the nationally-renowned researchand education enterprise at the University into innovations to

Conference Session

Innovative Courses/Pedagogies in Liberal Education I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Layton, DeVry University

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Liberal Education

. ERIC Database. http://www.eric.ed.gov///sql/_storage_01/b////e.pdf (accessed December 28, 2009). 4. Litas, L. A. Teens now able to take advanced science classes in high school. Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), August 7, 2007. 5. Raham, G. Teaching Science Fact with Science Fiction. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Teacher Ideas Press, 2004. 6. Bixler, A. Teaching evolution with the aid of science fiction. The American Biology Teacher 69, no. 3 (2007): 337-8. 7. Segall, A. E. Science fiction in the engineering classroom to help teach basic concepts and promote the Page 15.1341.10

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Information and Network Security

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hetal Jasani, Northern Kentucky University

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Information Systems

technologies through a series of laboratory experiments using small-scaletest beds. The protocols and standards include IEEE 802.11 (a, b, g or simply WiFi)5,14,Bluetooth (IEEE 802.15)12, WiMAX (802.16)13, etc. The CIT program6 in the Department ofComputer Science7 at Northern Kentucky University17 offers several courses in networking andsystem administration. In general, students learn about many networking systems, but had rareopportunity to learn wireless networking technologies. A newly designed special topic course ofMobile and Wireless Network with hands-on laboratory experiments has demonstratedeffectiveness in teaching the concepts of different wireless network technologies. This course hasbeen offered to provide a practical view of mobile and