Conference Session

Two-year College Division: Authors Address Transfer Matters-Part I

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tanya Karam-Zanders, Louisiana State University; Dina Acklin, Louisiana State University; Sarah Cooley Jones, Louisiana State University; Warren N. Waggenspack Jr., Louisiana State University

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Diversity

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Two Year College Division

implications. Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 28, 331 – 351. Page 26.289.8 APPENDIX A  SECTION 1 In this section, you will be asked to think back to when you were about to transfer to LSU. Specifically, what were your concerns regarding the potential hurdles you were going to face?   1. Did you expect to face any ACADEMIC hurdles?   a. If so, please describe them:  b. How did you plan to overcome the hurdles?  c. Did you actually experience these hurdles in your first year?   d. If so, how did you overcome them

Conference Session

Engineering Economics New Frontiers

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hector E. Medina, Liberty University; Kyle Michael Ceffaratti, Liberty University

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Engineering Economy

consideration. The presentworth (PW) and Costs (C) associated with those alternatives are provided in Table 1.Alternatives are labeled A, B, C, D, E, F, G, and H, for simplicity. Using incremental BCRanalysis, determine the best alternative to be recommended.Solution (Note: All cash flows presented from now on are to be understood as to be multipliedby 1000. So for example, in table 1, the cost of alternative A is to be understood as $4 million($4,000 *1000), the PW Benefit of alternative H as $20 million (20,000 *1000), and so forth.):Step 1) Since the potential alternatives are already provided, step 1 is already taken care of. Step2) we calculate the BCR of each alternative, which is shown in Table 2; only those alternativeswith BCR ≥ 1 are further

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2015 EDI

Authors

Tom Byers; Rich Brown

alum, Clemson)B. Inclusion and Diversity • Kathy Banks (Dean, Texas A&M) • Melinda McClure (Senior and President, Student Engineering Council, Texas A&M)C. Student and Faculty Engagement • John DesJardins (Professor of Bioengineering, Clemson) • Brie Przestrzelski (Ph.D. candidate and University Innovation Fellow, Clemson)D. Table Discussion of 3 Topics and Sharing of Summaries 3Table Discussions and Highlights … 4A. Commercialization and Venture FormationWhat, if any, incentives or support should universities provide to encourageentrepreneurship and venture formation among their faculty and students? Shoulddisclosures

Conference Session

Engineering Physics & Physics Division Technical Session 3

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Elby, University of Maryland, College Park; Eric Kuo, Stanford University; Ayush Gupta, University of Maryland, College Park; Michael M. Hull, Wayne State College

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Diversity

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Engineering Physics & Physics

this paper,we argue that there can be a trade-off between emphasizing mathematical sense-making andemphasizing traditional problem-solving, both of which we define more carefully below.Our data come from the first-semester physics course taken by almost all engineering majors atBig University. One section, taught by an experienced, well-regarded professor, emphasized“traditional” quantitative problem solving (Instructor A). Two other sections, one taught by anovice instructor (Instructor B) and the other taught by an instructor experienced with “active-learning” pedagogy (Instructor C), emphasized mathematical sense-making. Our evidence showsthat traditional problem solving and mathematical sense-making do not automatically reinforceeach other

Conference Session

K-12 & Pre- College Engineering Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lawrence E. Whitman, Wichita State University; Alex Petersen, STEMpact2020; Christopher D Wyant, Wichita East High School

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Diversity

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

. Thispaper has presented a pilot effort to increase the supply of mentors to existing Youth ServingOrganizations. The paper presented levels for mentor commitment and intensity. Furthermore, itdefined a progression we all experience when individuals begin something new and laid out thesimple steps it takes to go from being a basic STEM volunteer making a small, but importantimpact on a child to becoming a mentor that is highly committed to high intensity mentoring andmaking a deep and lasting impact on a child.References[1] D. Chubin, K. Donaldson, B. Olds, and L. Fleming, "Educating Generation Net—Can US Engineering Woo and Win the Competition for Talent?," Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 97, pp. 245-257, 2008.[2] S. M. Takaghaj, C

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Program Development & Desired Outcomes

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ikhlaq Sidhu, University of California, Berkeley; Paris Deletraz, IE Business School

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Press.Ibarra, H. (2003). Working Identity. Cambridge: Harvard Business School Press.Little, B. R. (2011). Personal Projects and Free Traits: Personality and Motivation Reconsidered. ThousandOaks, CA: Sage.Mauer, René et. al. (2009). Self-Efficacy: Conditioning the Entrepreneurial Mindset. International Studies inEntrepreneurship, 24, 233-257.Shepherd, Dean A. et. al. (2010). Entrepreneurial Spirals: Deviation-Amplifying Loops of an EntrepreneurialMindset and Organizational Culture. Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, 34, 59-82.Suchman, L. (1987). Plans and Situated Actions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Page 26.575.10Weick, K

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2015 ASEE Workshop on K-12 Engineering Education

Authors

Laura Lee Lang NBCT, Sauk Prairie High School

addresses the following (maximum 4,000 characters): a. Learning objectives b. Hands-on activities and interactive exercises c. Materials that participants can take with them d. Practical application for teachers and outreach staffThe Teaching Creative Problem Solving workshop is designed to help teachers answerthe question of how to teach creative problem solving within the structure and time limitsof a science classroom.Laura Lang will give a step-by-step description of how her Advanced Placement Physicsstudents have used engineering practices to design devices in laboratory activities.Participants will have an opportunity to use some of those engineering practices todesign their own devices to solve a specific

Conference Session

Concept Inventories and Assessment of Knowledge

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carli Denyse Flynn, Syracuse University; Cliff I. Davidson, Syracuse University; Sharon Dotger; Meredith Sullivan

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

Graduated cylinders 2 Q8c Ice blocks 4 HECI Q9c Cool tea 2 Q10c Sponge dye 2 a. Question 1a scored with a 2 point value (1 point for each numerical value and units) b. Question modified from Carlson et al. (2002)17 c. Questions taken with permission from the HECI18Administration The instrument was administered in the Spring 2014 semester in a sophomore civil andenvironmental engineering class of 78 students (57 civil engineers, 15 environmental engineers,4 other). The average GPA at the beginning of course

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Curriculum Design and Evaluation

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Benjamin Crilly, U.S. Coast Guard Academy; Richard J. Hartnett P.E., U.S. Coast Guard Academy

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Electrical and Computer

assessment process as described by Colella2 and diagramed in Figure1. The assessment process shown in Figure 1 illustrates the key elements of the assessmentprocess which include (a) department review, (b) program review and (c) end of course review(EOCR). Note this process involves the stakeholders such as students, alumni, graduatingseniors, and faculty and addresses the appropriate ABET criteria. Note that this process is not Page 26.1420.2confined to a single program, but when appropriate reaches out to assist other programs anddepartments for mutual benefits. Particularly noteworthy is when the outcomes of one courseimpact another. A similar

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kyoung-Yun Kim, Wayne State University; Carolyn E Psenka PhD, Wayne State University; Kathy Schmidt Jackson, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Karl R Haapala, Oregon State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

coursecame from their participation in a team project that called for designing a sustainablemanufacturing process for a product. The teams were encouraged to select the product central totheir design, instead of the product being chosen for them by the instructor. Twenty-six engineering students in Class B, a course in integrated product development,participated in this study. A majority of the students in this class reported that they were pursuinga master’s degree in engineering, although four undergraduates and two doctoral alsoparticipated in the study. The age of the students in Class B ranged from 22 to 45 year old withmajority of the students reporting an age of less than 27 years old. The aim of this class is tofamiliarize students

Conference Session

New Teaching Pedagogies: Methods and Assessments

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Mott, California Polytechnic State University; Steffen Peuker, California Polytechnic State University

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Mechanical Engineering

alsosignificant (p = 0.0001, t = 7.21). The conclusion from Figure 2 is that the students must worktogether and be engaged in order to achieve the high tRAT scores.When the students do the tRAT, they do not know the correct answers until they scratch the IF-AT card. If everyone in the team has a different answer, they do not know who is correct andmust debate to determine the correct answer. During the tRAT, typical conversations overheardby the instructors include students saying “Why did you choose A?”, “I chose A because of X,which means that Y must be true” and “I remember reading X, Y, Z, so the answer cannot be B”. Page 26.1686.6This sort of back and

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Anurag Purwar; Pranav Korrapati; Q. J. Ge; Xin Ge

actuating dyad, and change circuit/branch.4.1 SynthesisIn the synthesis mode, the user can input N poses using touch-interface and editthem. As soon as sufficient number of positions (N ≥ 5 or N = 3, 4 with fixed-pivot or -line constraints) positions are entered, the possible dyad solutions that (a) (b)can either interpolate or approximate through given positions are computed anddisplayed. In Kinematics, the five position problem is known as Burmester prob- Figure 4: (a)lem for which there may be zero-, two-, or four-dyad solutions. Thus, up to a Synthesis icons,total of six linkages can be obtained by combining two dyads at a time. For more (b

Conference Session

Fundamental: Metrics & Assessment for K-12 Engineering Education

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tamara J Moore, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Siddika Selcen Guzey, Purdue University, West Lafayette; James Holly Jr., INSPIRE Institute, Purdue University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

). West Lafayette, IN: Purdue Press.8. Olds, B. M., Moskal, B. M., & Miller, R. L. (2005). Assessment in engineering education: Evolution, approachesand future collaborations. Journal of Engineering Education, 94(1), 13-25.9. Daugherty, J., Custer, R. L., Brockway, D., & Spake, D. A. (2012). Engineering concept assessment: Design &development. Proceedings of the 119th American Society for Engineering Education Annual (ASEE) Conferenceand Exposition, San Antonio, TX. Page 26.177.710. Dyehouse, M., Diefes-Dux, H. A., & Capobianco, B. (2011). Measuring the effects of integrating engineeringinto the elementary school

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2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Zekeriya Aliyazicioglu; Rajan Chandra

their peers and they are graded by their peers and the instructor(s).At the end of the academic year, we expect to finish the following additional supplemental items: a. A customized website that provides introduction to any topics in the C++ environment with many examples to support the chosen topic. b. An online tool that will allow students to debug, run, and study the behavior of their codes. This tool will accomplish the goal by accessing a C++ compiler on a remote server or Chromebook. Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Innovative Use of Technology I

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Oscar Antonio Perez, University of Texas, El Paso; Mike Thomas Pitcher, University of Texas, El Paso; Pedro Arturo Espinoza, University of Texas, El Paso; Hugo Gomez, University of Texas, El Paso; Herminia Hemmitt, University of Texas, El Paso; Randy Hazael Anaya, University of Texas, El Paso; Peter Golding, University of Texas, El Paso; Hector Erick Lugo Nevarez, University of Texas, El Paso

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Diversity

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Computers in Education

. The firstclass consisted of twenty-six students (Class B); the second class had twenty-two students (ClassC), and the third class had twenty-four students (Class D). Students were enrolled mainly in corecurriculum classes such as Foundations of Engineering, Pre-calculus, History, and PoliticalScience. All of the students in these classes were first semester freshmen and the class distributionrepresents the university demographics5. This type of enrollment reduced outside factors thatinfluence student learning and allowed the 3D printer to be one of few variables.The materials used for this research consisted of the Makerbot Replicator Desktop Printer (fifthgeneration with a build volume of 25.2 L x 19.9 W x 15.0 H and capable of printing 456

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Alex Antunes; Angela Walters; Amanda Raab

hardware. One example isNASA’s SWEP (Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement)4, a government-wide acquisitioncontract that provides a large range of IT products, and product related services. In recent yearsover a million products have been offered from over 3,000 manufacturers4.III. Classroom ComponentThe course framework was a 200-level “CubeSat Engineering” course open to any engineeringor computer science major. The course was run for the first time in Fall 2014. Students wereformed into small teams to a) learn then b) build a picosatellite power bus using providedschematics. In allowing schedule risk for a full-semester build project, we had to deal with thelikely result that student teams might fail to complete their build. In order to

Conference Session

Statics Online

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Devin R. Berg, University of Wisconsin, Stout

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Mechanics

surroundings? (a) I am not sure how the statics and dynamics principles discussed in this class relate to real life. (b) I can understand the application of statics and dynamics to a real life example when shown an example. (c) I can identify the statics and dynamics principles discussed in this class when I see them. (d) I can analyze the statics and dynamics principles relevant to a situation that I observe. 2. How prepared are you to discuss engineering mechanics with others? (a) I do not think that I could carry on a conversation about engineering mechanics with others. (b) I could describe simple engineering mechanics ideas with someone but not in detail. (c) I

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2015 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Felipe Pait

, hierarchical classroom, typical ofEurope, especially the Septentrion,B at least until the 1960s; and to judge from the rumors ofthose that come back to the University of S Paulo after a junior year abroad, not there yetcompletely overcome. In the land of Carnival, the class where the instructor talks with the chalk,the chalk streaks the slate, the slate speaks to the student, and the students checks the cheat sheetin the cell phone, this class repeats the European tragedy — after the class is over, the distanceevaporates in the coffee shop where professors and students call each other by the first name, onlyto return as a tropical farce in the next class. Also a requirement is the professor’s voice — thusthe importance of authorship, of papers, books

Conference Session

Manufacturing and Machine Component Design

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ali R. Mohammadzadeh, Grand Valley State University; Salim M. Haidar, Grand Valley State University

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Mechanical Engineering

B Z RAY A RBY Y Gear D Gear C Figure 1 Page 26.470.3Load and Shaft Diameter ConsiderationTo show the importance of dynamic load effects, calculations for shaft design are carried outconsidering the manufacturing and adjustment defects of the gears; the results are then comparedwith the usual treatments of static load considerations.Assuming that gear C delivers the power to the shaft and

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 3

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan L. Murray, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Amber M. Henslee, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Douglas K. Ludlow, Missouri University of Science & Technology

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Engineering Ethics

." Question 1 - Is it plagiarism if the following sentence appears in your paper? He heard the usual sounds of the sea and the birds. After a while, he could hear the other sounds that weren't so apparent at first (Covey, 1989, p. 293). A) Yes, this is plagiarism. The author's exact words are not in quotation marks. B) No, this is not plagiarism. The author's exact words are properly cited. C) I don’t know. Page 26.642.5This question tested the need for quotation marks. The passage is taken verbatim from theoriginal text. While a citation is given, the necessary quotation marks are not. The correctanswer is A. Question

Conference Session

Construction Engineering Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Namhun Lee, Central Connecticut State University; Sangho Park, Central Connecticut State University

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Construction

.27Wheatstone28 first introduced stereoscopic visualization based on human perception of depth in3D space.20 Stereoscopic visualization is a promising alternative to the perspective view-basedvisualization, and is actively used for transfer-of-training from virtual environment to realenvironment.21, 22Stereopsis MechanismFigure 2 shows how stereopsis is achieved in human visual perception. When a person seesobjects in 3D space, the two eyes converge to focus on an object of interest (e.g., the chair inFigure 2-a) and another object (e.g., the cube) appears shifted differently in the retina of left eye(Figure 2-b) versus right eye (Figure 2-c) due to binocular disparity. Even if the two eyesreceive the different images respectively, our brain not only

Conference Session

Computer-Based Tests, Problems, and Other Instructional Materials

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alex Daniel Edgcomb, University of California, Riverside; Joshua Sai Yuen, University of California, RIverside; Frank Vahid, University of California, Riverside

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Computers in Education

: true-false (Figure 2(a)), multiplechoice (Figure 2(b)), and short answer (Figure 2(c)). For true-false, the explanation givenwas the same whether true or false was clicked. For multiple choice, each clicked choiceprovided a different explanation. For short answer, a user enters an answer into a textinput and has the options of clicking the Show answer or Check button. Clicking theShow answer button twice reveals the answer and explanation. Clicking the Check buttonwhen the text input has the right answer reveals the answer and explanation. Clicking theCheck button when the text input has the wrong answer reveals a hint. The hint is thesame for any wrong text input. Figure 2. (a) True-false, (b) multiple choice, and (c) short answer question

Conference Session

First Year Programs Division Poster Session: The Best Place to Really Talk about First-Year Education

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Jane Grigg, Clemson University; Elizabeth Anne Stephan, Clemson University

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First-Year Programs

the survey were used as the sample assessed in this paper. In order toensure this group was representative, the distribution of final course grades were compared forthe survey respondents to 1) all students who completed the course in one of the sections wherethe survey was distributed and 2) all students taking the class. The survey respondent group hada slightly higher response rate from students earning A or B grades and a slightly lower responserate from students earning D or F grades. As illustrated in Table 2, the groups appear to havesimilar final grade distributions. No other factors were evaluated to determine differencesbetween groups.Table 2: Distribution of students in the sample Survey All

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Steven Magluilo; Abdullah Konak; Sadan Kulturel-Konak; Ivan Esparragoza; Gul E. Okudan Kremer

DashboardCreating a rubricPEAR includes several peer evaluation rubrics from the literature. PEAR also allows instructorsto create a custom rubric to better suit their course. Figure 2 illustrates the process of rubriccreation in PEAR. An instructor starts by opening the tool from his/her dashboard screen. Oncethe tool is open, the instructor first enters a rubric name and description. Then, the instructorpicks the professional skill area that the rubric will include (Figure 2-(a)). The number ofquestions in each rubric is given to avoid creating extremely long rubrics. Next, the instructorcan pick the specific questions that they want to include in their rubric (Figure 2-(b)). PEARincludes a large set of questions that are mapped against the MDL-based

Conference Session

Materials Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barry Dupen, Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne

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Diversity

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Materials

self-identify as visual learners, so a graph is more appropriate for theirlearning style.In reality, B-/C+ students do not suddenly earn 100% on all remaining assignments; nor do theytypically stop turning in work for the last two weeks of a course. Instead, they tend to continue atthe same level of performance.In my freshman Materials & Processes class, I staple each student's course grade graph to his orher graded Midterm Exam. The passing grade in this class is 70%. In the following course gradegraphs from Fall 2014, the vertical scale is 70% to 100%, unless the student has course gradesbelow 70% (Students Black and Red). Students can readily see whether they are improving overtime, and whether they are on track to pass the course

Conference Session

Computer-Based Tests, Problems, and Other Instructional Materials

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew West, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Geoffrey L. Herman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Craig Zilles, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Computers in Education

(a) 100 (b) 25 90 20 number of students total exam score 80 15 70 60

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Kara Vance; Abdullah Konak; Sadan Kulturel-Konak; Gul E. Okudan Kremer; Ivan Esparragoza

11.425 3 3.808 5.211 .001 I3 Within Groups 420.962 576 .731 Total 432.388 579 Figure 1. 95% Condidence Intervals of the Extracted Intrest Variables over Class StandingSpring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova University (b) How often have you been provided with feedback on (a) Have you ever taken a course or training on your individual teamwork performance? (1:Never to teamwork? (1: Never to 5: Many times) 5:All the time) (d) In classes that require a team

Conference Session

Research to Practice: STRAND 3 – Principles of K-12 Engineering Education and Practice

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan R Zubarriain, Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology; Nicholas Kumia, Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology; Shouling He, Vaughn College of Aeronautics & Technology

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Diversity

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

. Thecompact form brought in the wheels while also allowing a room to install necessary sensors. Thisled to a structurally strong chassis, as well as the added effect of a tighter turning radius for moreresponsive control. Although enough room was created for the inclusion of necessary sensors,like encoders, it was not as much room as the expanded form which allowed for other sensors,such as line tracking sensors and ultrasonic range finders.Students needed to decide, as a group, which design approach would be best for them to achievethe goals of their final project. Their final projects required them to complete a task throughdesigning and programming a robot. (a) (b

Conference Session

Statics and Finite Element Analysis

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah C. Baxter, University of St. Thomas; Ann Johnson, University of South Carolina; Bethany S. Fralick, University of South Carolina

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Mechanical Engineering

truss analysis, which is standard, but extends the problemto asking how the initial truss could be redesigned to meet different criteria. In each case, thepractical application, the “how-to” of the technique is presented. Details of the underlyingmathematical/ geometrical theory are beyond the scope of this paper but are available in theliterature.5,15,16.Terms used in Graphical StaticsThe main element in a graphical analysis is the construction of a force triangle or force polygon.This is the descriptive name for graphical vector addition where vector A is added to vector B by Page 26.1344.3putting the tail of B at the head of A and

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2015 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

Authors

Yasha Chaturvedi; Morgan Thomas

  Figure 4: Basics of grid. a) PLC b) Ethernetlower peak demand to off peak times.  c) Wireless ReferencesHowever, robust communication  Table 1: : Illustrates best technology according to the requirement