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Curriculums in Transition

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2004 Annual Conference

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Nathan Klingbeil

-Piana, C. K., 1999, "CircLES: A Retention Program for Entering Students in Engineering, Mathematics and Science," Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, Vol. 3, 13d8-2.4. Richardson, J., Dantzler, J, 2002, "Effect of a Freshman Engineering Program on Retention and Academic Performance," Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, Vol. 3, S2C/16-S2C/22.5. Kellar, J.J., Hovey, W., Langerman, M., Howard, S., Simonson, L., Kjerengtroen, L., Stetler, L., Heilhecker, H., Arneson-Meyer, L., Kellogg, S. D., 2000, "Problem Based Learning Approach for Freshman Engineering," Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, Vol. 2, F2G-7-F2G-10.6. Howard, B., 1999, "Enough of This Science and Mathematics, Let's Do Some

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The Best of Interdisciplinary Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

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William Rossi; Herbert Ingley; Erik Sander; Dow Whitney; Marc Hoit; R. Keith Stanfill

. building and working in a multidisciplinary business team 5. business planning and plans 6. marketing in an entrepreneurial environment 7. financing models (fundraising) 8. financials (income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement).ITV teamsIn the pilot offering, three virtual companies were formed. At least two ITV teams will beformed in each subsequent program year. Each ITV team consists of the following:• a technology development team composed of four to six undergraduate engineering and business students coached by an engineering faculty “coach”• a two- to five-person market research and business plan development team composed of MBA students coached by a CEI faculty member, the engineering faculty inventor(s

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Materials and Manufacturing Processes

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2004 Annual Conference

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Scott Danielson; Al Post; Bradley Rogers

/Fuel_Cells_for_Houses.pdf (Accessed January 2004.)4. Larminie, J. and Dicks, A., Fuel Cell Systems Explained, Wiley, 2000.5. Fuel Cell Handbook, 6th Edition, U.S Department of Energy, November 2002.6. Mehta, V and Cooper, J. S., Review and Analysis of PEM Fuel Cell Design and Manufacturing, Journal of Power Sources 114, pp 32-53, 2003. (Recommended)7. Fuel Cells: Green Power, S. Thomas, M. Zalbowitz, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, August 2003 http://education.lanl.gov/resources/fuelcells/fuelcells.pdf. (Accessed January 2004.)8. Barbir, F. - Technical Challenges in PEM Fuel Cell Development, Energy Partners, Inc., http://www.powerpulse.net/powerpulse/archive/aa_071299b1.stm.9. Bar-On, I., Kichain, R., Roth, R. – Technical cost

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Innovations in the Aerospace Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

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Masoud Rais-Rohani

. This paper presents thedetails of this experiential learning activity as well as a formative assessment of its effectiveness.I. IntroductionPrior to the 1950's, it was common for engineering programs to offer in their curricula suchcourses as sheet-metal fabrication, casting, and machine shop. With the advent of computers andmore emphasis on the theoretical side of engineering education, the courses on mechanical artswere gradually phased out with most of hands-on activities reduced and squeezed into thelaboratory courses. This shift in engineering education is mostly responsible for manyengineering graduates to have a very narrow understanding of the product development processthrough which a design concept is transformed into a physical

Conference Session

Laboratory Developments and Innovations

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2003 Annual Conference

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Venkata Ramana Ajjarapu; Shashank Krishnamurty; Sastry Vedula

prototyping tool would be valuable for an integrated teaching/research activity inPE area.References[1] G. Kurpis and C. Booth, The New IEEE Standard Dictionary of Electrical and Electronics Terms. NewYork, 1993.[2] O. Mo, Ned Mohan, R. Nilssen, W.P. Robbins, T.M. Undeland, “Simulation of Power Electronic andMotion Control Systems- An overview”. Proceedings of the IEEE, Volume:82 Issue:8, Aug. 1994 pp 1287 –1302[3] D. Maksimovic, A.M. Stankovic, V.J. Thottuvelil ,G.C. Verghese, “ Modeling and Simulation of PowerElectronic Converters”. Proceedings of the IEEE , Volume: 89 Issue: 6 , June 2001 ,Page(s): 898 –912.[4] R. Satish , T. V. Sivakumar, V. V. Sastry, V. Ajjarapu, S. S. Venkata, “ A PC-based Object-Centric VirtualPower

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Thomas Walker; Patrick Devens

Figure 3. Fall '97 Overall "C" grade Freshman-Engineering Student Performance.A display of all Fall '97 students grades in EF1015 versus their respective mathematicspre-test scores is displayed in Figure 4 and provided from Figure 1. The figure is derivedby taking vertical slices of Figure 1 when the “EF1015 Grade”s are “0.0” (“F”), “1.0”(“D”), “1.7” (“C-“), “2.0” (“C”), “3.0” (“B”), and “4.0” (“A”). EF1015 Grade / Fall 97 / All 5 4 F Student

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Trends in Mechanics Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Don Evans; Gary Gray; Francesco Costanzo; Phillip Cornwell; Brian Self

thereform path than other disciplines due to the existence of an assessment instrument thattests basic concepts. The well-known Force Concept Inventory (FCI) assessment instrumentof Hestenes, et al.14 has been in use for over 15 years and is now credited with stimulatingreform of physics education. Such assessment inventories can play an important part inrelating teaching techniques to student learning. The design of these instruments relies onthe designer(s) knowing the misconceptions commonly held by students in a discipline.The instruments use these misconceptions as distractors to see if a student can pick out acorrect concept from among the common misconceptions

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Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

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2003 Annual Conference

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Richard Hall; Nancy Hubing; David Oglesby; Vikas Yellamraju; Ralph Flori; Timothy Philpot

Another By! Paper presented at UMR Instructional Software Development Center Seminar Series, Rolla, MO.Dillon, A. and Gabbard, R. (1998). Hypermedia as an educational technology: A review of the quantitative research literature on learner comprehension, control, and style. Review of Educational Research 68: 322 - 349.Hall, R. H. (2001). Web-based training site design principles: A literature review and synthesis. in Web-based training. B. Khan (Ed.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Educational Technology Publications: 165 - 172.Hall, R. H., Watkins, S. E. and Eller, V. E. (in press). A model of web based design for learning. in The Handbook of Distance Education. M. Moore and B. Anderson (Eds.). Mahwah, NJ, Erlbaum.Landauer

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2001 Annual Conference

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Sarah Irvine; Mary Anne Lesiak; Andrea Prejean; Teresa Larkin-Hein

Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Session 2480AcknowledgementsThe above study was funded by The U.S. Department of Education under Title II, Part B –Dwight D. Eisenhower Professional Development Program to the District of Columbia. Theopinions expressed herein are those of the authors' and not necessarily those of the U.S.Department of Education or the District of Columbia.References1. Dede, C. (1999). The multiple-media difference. Technos, 8, 16 - 18.2. Bruner, J. (1963). The process of education. Cambridge. Harvard University Press.3. Papert, S. & Turkle, S

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2001 Annual Conference

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Teresa Larkin-Hein

learned in class to novel situations. Through the use of an on-lineforum, the potential exists for students to achieve greater understanding and more meaningfulreflection. A study involving the role of individual learning styles in terms of students' use ofand students' benefit from the use of on-line discussion forums is needed. Further research onthe impact of on-line discussion forums to long-term understandings and perceptions as well as acomparison to more “traditional” methods of instruction is also warranted.References1. Edwards, V. B. (1997). Editor’s introduction in Education Week. Washington, DC: Editorial Projects in Education.2. Hein, T. L., and S. E. Irvine (1998). Assessment of student understanding using on-line

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Programming and DSP Potpourri

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2002 Annual Conference

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Delores Etter; Cameron Wright; Michael Morrow; Thad Welch

0 −0.5 −1 −1.5 0.025 0.03 0.035 0.04 0.045 time (s) Figure 5: An AM signal to be demodulated via DSP. 62nd Order Hilbert Transformer FIR Filter Coefficients 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.2 amplitude 0 −0.2 −0.4 −0.6 −0.8 0

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Design and the Liberal Arts

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2002 Annual Conference

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Gayle Ermer; Steven VanderLeest

to do some library research to determine the nature of thepower generating technology and its potential effects on the environment and society. Table 1shows a decision matrix from one of these projects. Table 1: Electric Power Decision Matrix Alternatives Hydroelectric Wind Solar Natural Gas etc. … Criteria Weights Score Weighted S WS S WS S WS Score Cost 10 10

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Technology Entrepreneurship Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Stephen Markham; Russell Thomas; Roger Debo; Angus Kingon

School, Northwestern University, 2002 url: http://www.kellogg.nwu.edu/academic/majors/8) Private communication from David Ku, Georgia Institute of Technology.9) NCSU College of Engineering, 2002 ECE 292/492 Engineering Enterprise course sequence10) T K Miller III, NCSU, private communication, (October 2001).11) Pennsylvania State University, 200212) See for example, Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Educators, Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM, June 200113) A I Kingon, R Thomas, S K Markham, L Aiman-Smith and R Debo, An Integrated Approach to Teaching High Technology Entrepreneurship at the Graduate Level, Proc. of the ASEE Albuquerque, NM (2001).14) S Shane and S Venkataraman, The Promise of Entrepreneurship as a Field of

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Rethinking Culture and Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Diana Dabby

upon by most LdV scholars. For “Invention Day” students prepared a“quasi-patent” write-up on an invention of their choosing, as described above.Arithmetic, Italian high finance, silverpoint pencils, and soldi came into play as students soughtto answer the question of whether a reference to a certain Caterina in Leonardo’s Notebooks doesindeed refer to his mother: Expenses of the Interment of Caterina [1494] For the 3 lbs of tapers 27 S For the bier 8S A pall over the bier 12 S For bearing and placing the cross 4S For bearing the body 8S For 4 priests and 4 clerks

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Programming and DSP Potpourri

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2002 Annual Conference

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Masaaki Mizuno

course attendants. We refer to the former as “the instructor” and the later as “thesupervisor” in this paper. Page 7.1108.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationWe think that the difficulties of VC++ result from the following two factors:1. The difficulty of the C++ language, particularly the object oriented aspects of the language, such as the notion of classes, inheritance, polymorphism, and class variables. The same claim is also found in [2].2. VC++'s black-box nature of both the

Conference Session

Unique Lab Experiments

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Ryan

Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationlevel of that conclusion determined from statistical methods. If Am and Bm are the means oftheir respective data sets based on N points, then the difference in the means and its uncertaintycan be determined from: D = Am – Bm Del D = [(S A2 + S B2) / N] 1/2where S represents the sample standard deviation of each sample. The ratio of D to Del D can beused, along with a standard normal distribution probability table (or the NORMDIST function) todetermine the probability that D is larger than zero (i.e. Am is larger than Bm). A

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2001 Annual Conference

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Harriet Cornachione; Tim Brower

s s s na l nt nt

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2001 Annual Conference

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Sallie Townsend; Natalie Segal

Session 2248 Paper 902 Word Problems and Problems with Words: A Possible Solution Natalie D. Segal, Sallie S. Townsend S.I. Ward College of Technology at the University of HartfordAbstract: We began with a question: Why do our students have so much difficultysolving word problems in Math I? Another question followed: Why do our studentshave so much difficulty writing short (three-to-five paragraph), logical essays in EnglishI? One possible answer: Our students approach math and English problems as if theyrequired entirely different skills. However

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FPD V: Gender and Engineering Education: A Panel Discussion and Workshop

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yevgeniya V. Zastavker, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Debbie Chachra, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Caitrin Lynch, Olin College of Engineering; Alisha L. Sarang-Sieminski, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Lynn Andrea Stein, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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First-Year Programs, Women in Engineering

students.AcknowledgmentThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under GrantsNo. 0624738, 0953698, and 0939128. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions orrecommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarilyreflect the views of the National Science Foundation. We would like to express our gratitude tothe students who have participated in the Gender and Engineering Co-Curricular Activity. Wewould also like to thank our colleagues for intense conversations on the subject and support inthe formation of this manuscript.References:1. National Academy of Engineering (2002). Diversity in Engineering: Managing the Workforce of the Future, Washington, DC: National Academy Press2. National

Conference Session

Innovations in Power Engineering Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

vahid salehi pour mehr, Florida International University; Ali Mazloomzadeh, Florida International University; Osama A. Mohammed, Florida International University; Juan Francisco Fernandez, Florida International University; Javier Parra

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Electrical and Computer

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Computer Science and Information Technology in K-12 Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ethan E. Danahy, Tufts University, Center for Engineering Education and Outreach; Ashley Russell, Tufts University, Center for Engineering Education and Outreach

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

students.Bibliography1. National Assessment of Educational Progress, 2005. Available at http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/2. Rose, D. H., Meyer, A., & Hitchcock, C. (2005). The universally designed classroom: Accessiblecurriculum and digital technologies. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.3. Graham, S., Harris, K., MacArthur, C., & Schwartz, S. (1991) . Writing and Writing Instruction forStudents with Learning Disabilities. Learning Disability Quarterly. 14(2), 89-114. Page 22.859.124. National Science Education Standards, 1996. Available at http://www.nap.edu/html/nses/5. Wallace, R., Soloway, E., Krajcik, J. S., Bos, N., Hoffman, J

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Ethical Perspectives on the Grand Challenges of Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donna M Riley, Smith College

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

). Broadening the Appeal by Changing the Context of Engineering Education. ASEE Annual Conference.5. Rippon, S. and Collofellow, J. (2010). Camping the Way to Higher Retention Rates. ASEE Annual Conference.6. Zhang, Q., Vanasupa, L., Zimmerman, J., and Mihelcic, J. (2010). Development and Dissemination of Learning Suites for Sustainability Integration in Engineering Education. ASEE Annual Conference.7. Heun, M. and VanderLeest, S. (2008). Why a Liberal and Multidisciplinary Education is Needed to Solve the Energy Crisis. ASEE Annual Conference.8. Foster, J. and Heeney, A. (2009). The Engineering Science Praxis Sequence: Challenges and Opportunities when Integrating Sustainable Development into the Engineering Design

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Tricks of the Trade in Teaching I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brock E. Barry, U.S. Military Academy; Maj Jonathan Bodenhamer, U.S. Military Academy, Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering; James J O'Brien Jr., American Society of Civil Engineers

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New Engineering Educators

background knowledge andteaching experience. It is easy to be misled or misinterpret cues that are not filtered for context,culture, gender, and personal bias. The available literature focusing on nonverbal classroomcommunication is significantly partial toward projected cues of the instructor and providessurprisingly little content specific to decoding student generated cues.ReferencesAngelo, T. A., & Cross, K. P. (1993). Classroom assessment techniques : a handbook for college teachers (2nd ed.). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers.Davis, B. G. (2009). Tools for teaching (2nd ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.Gregersen, T. S. (2005). Nonverbal cues: clues to the detection of foreign language anxiety. Foreign Language

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Two Year-to-Four Year Transfer Topics Part II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary R. Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University

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Two Year College Division

well as a native student in their studies. Some argued that there was no differencebetween the two groups of students, but did not back it up with data or citations. Hill looked atdata of studies on this subject from 1928 to 1964 and found that the results were consistent inshowing a drop in grade point average after transfer. Hill asked guidance counselors in highschools to inform their students that this transfer shock occurred and that a s a transfer student itwould probably take longer to graduate than native students at a four year school.As more students began to attend community colleges in the 1980s, more studies occurred ontransfer shock. During this time the studies showed that transfer students usually earned GPAs.20 to .30 points

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FPD III: Innovation in Design in the First Year

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ann Saterbak, Rice University; Mark Embree, Rice University; Maria Oden, Rice University

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First-Year Programs

step in the designprocess or an important skill such as writing technical documents or teamwork. During theremaining 45 minutes, students meet in their design teams to work together. The first half of thesemester is devoted to defining the design problem, developing the design context review,establishing design criteria, brainstorming solutions, using a Pugh matrix to evaluate and selectone or two solutions, and then defining and describing the selected solution(s) in more detail.During design team meetings, each team has access to its own whiteboard.During the second half of the semester, half of the class periods are similar to the formatdescribed above; the other half of the class periods are entirely devoted to team meetings.Lecture topics

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Global Engineering Models: Curriculum Development, Improvements, and Partnerships

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kurt M. DeGoede, Elizabethtown College; Momodou Jain

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International

undergraduate colleges in theUS. While faculty at UTG (and smaller colleges in the US) will struggle to compete with theR1's in the scholarship of discovery, the playing field can be leveled or even tipped to theiradvantage in the other areas. Faculty at many smaller US colleges and UTG will likely alwayshave greater teaching responsibilities and less access to costly research laboratories andresources (library, software, database access, support staff, technicians, etc.). This clearly tips thecompetitive balance toward the R1's in the scholarship of discovery. However in the scholarshipof teaching, an increased valuation of teaching should provide opportunity to raise visibility inthis area of scholarship. Evidence of this can be seen every summer at

Conference Session

From Entrepreneurship Education to Market

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James V. Green, University of Maryland, College Park

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

contact throughout the project on data requirements,scheduling meetings, and project coordination. Clients are asked to be demanding of the studentteams in the mold of hired consultants, but still collaborate with them as they would with a newemployee.For the formation of student teams, candidate projects are defined in a one- to two-page scope ofwork by the client. All candidate projects are collected in a single email and distributed toHinman CEOs students near the start of the semester. Within approximately one week, studentsmay apply for multiple projects, but will be selected for no more than one.To apply, students send an email to the Hinman CEOs staff stating what project(s), in order ofpreference, that they are interested in joining

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Research Informing Teaching Practice II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Renata A. Revelo Alonso, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Michael C. Loui, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Educational Research and Methods

Outside EngineeringIntroductionAssessing the state of engineering education within the larger community of educators, theNational Science Foundation has highlighted the need for an understanding of engineering infields outside of engineering and “attention to STEM literacy for the public at large”1. In the1995 NSF report Restructuring Engineering Education: A Focus Change2, one of thesuggestions to address such a need was to offer engineering courses to non-engineering students.Consequently, in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s, engineering departments slowly began to offercourses for students who did not plan to major in engineering. Because few such generaleducation courses were offered in the past, little is known about the long-term student

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Innovative Course Developments in Construction

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Tingerthal P.E., Northern Arizona University

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Construction

confidence in understanding)Turning now to the topics themselves (see Table 2), the average ranking of each topic rangedfrom 1.58 for “free body diagrams” to 2.65 for “section modulus” (N=60). Most confidence wasshown in topics taught early in the semester and dealing with force and load. Least confidencewas shown with concepts taught later in the semester, and dealing with section properties (S),bending (stress, beam moment) and pure stress and strain. These lower ranked concepts dealwith more complex concepts. The notable exception to the relationship between order ofpresentation and ranking are the topics dealing with wood properties and design.Looking at performance on exam, a paired-sample t-test was used to compare the scores ontopics chosen

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NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ikseon Choi, University of Georgia; Yi-Chun Hong, National Central University; David K. Gattie, University of Georgia; Nadia N. Kellam, University of Georgia; Melissa G. Gay, University of Georgia; Lucas John Jensen, University of Georgia; Hyojin Park, University of Georgia; YounSeok Lee, University of Georgia

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

summer youth program.Ms. Hyojin Park, University of Georgia Hyojin Park is a doctoral student pursuing a degree in learning, design, and technology at the University of Georgia. She obtained a master’s degree in educational technology from Korea. Her research interests are mobile-based learning, real-world problem solving, and scaffolding.Mr. YounSeok Lee, University of Georgia Younseok Lee is a doctoral student in the Learning, Design, and Technology program at the University of Georgia. He holds a B.S. in electronic engineering and information technology and an M.S. in computer science with an emphasis in computer graphics. He worked for the Mobile S/W company for five years as a mobile S/W programmer and Project