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2001 Annual Conference

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William Callen; Steven Usselman

-engineers. They cannot simply retreat to the comfort of the “technical aspects” of the matter at hand, but must meldthe technical with the social, the economic, the political, and the ethical. In this sense, the group project becomes apracticum in modern engineering. Even those students not intending to pursue careers in engineering gain first-handexperience in the ways an informed citizenry influences technology and engineering design. Without necessarily intending it, with these changes we aligned our course almost perfectly with the objectivesembodied in the ABET 2000 criteria. The course material and assignments combine an appreciation for design withan emphasis upon the social, economic, and ethical dimensions of engineering. Unlike some

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2001 Annual Conference

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Mark Crozier

intent of the proposals provided by this paper is not to compromise traditional engineeringdisciplines, but to compliment them. Companies have committed a significant portion offunding to upgrade skills to meet engineering system management needs using many of the toolsand processes mentioned in this report. Many of these activities have had to be learned on-the-job with no prior understanding of core concepts and applications. Many of the trainingprograms used by companies to enhance employee skills may not adequately address the givensubject in a way that compliments an engineer’s core knowledge and talents. It is at this point inan engineer’s career development that America’s engineering education programs realize theopportunity, and some may

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2001 Annual Conference

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Brian West

. Other students designed and built some sensor circuits, and research wasperformed in electromagnetics.The skills learned in constructing the IEEE car and entering the competition, and thosetaught in the Project class and the Advanced Electronic class, has prepared the studentsto prioritize their needs, to brainstorm effectively, and to work together to get the jobdone. Obstacles were defeated by the use of the collective group imagination, bypersistence, and by perseverance. These are exactly the skills that will allow students tosucceed in their careers, and in life.Bibliography1. URL: http://www.ieee.org2. URL: http://www.tntech.edu/www/life/orgs/ieee/SECON/INDEX.HTML3. Gerhard, G. C., ”Teaching Design With Behavior Modification Techniques in

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2001 Annual Conference

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Jeremiah Neubert; Cynthia Widstrand; C. Swanson; Arthur Ellis; Ann Pumper

Copyright© 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationAnn M. Pumper received her B.S. in Mathematics and Chemistry Education from the UW in Madison, Wisconsin in1997. She is currently working on her M.S. in Science-Education at UW and is teaching chemistry at James MadisonMemorial High School, in Madison, Wisconsin. During the summer of 2000, she participated in the ResearchExperience for Teachers program.C. BRUCE SWANSONC. Bruce Swanson currently teaches at James Madison Memorial High School, in Madison, Wisconsin. He receivedhis B.S. in Chemistry from Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois in 1965 and his M.S. in Chemistry-Education from theUW in Madison, Wisconsin. Throughout his 34-year teaching career he has taught chemistry and physics

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2001 Annual Conference

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Nathan Chao; Bernard Mohr

thismode of lab instruction could be at four-year dorm-based engineering schools. Students at suchschools can easily collaborate and do basic lab experiments in their dorms. This would free uptheir in class lab time to explore larger more meaningful projects not possible before because oftime or preparation constraints imposed by the need to do basic experiments there. Such studentswill also feel empowered to try experimentation on their own and further inspire their creativeskills.The Future for e- LAB and Online Lab InstructionThere is a call, nationally, to stimulate interest for studies and careers in science and technology Page 6.168.7by

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Global Engineering Models: Curriculum Development, Improvements, and Partnerships

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jian Yu, Auburn University and Tsinghua University, China; Chetan S. Sankar, Auburn University

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International

theparticipants perceived that the use of student groups/teams to solving the problems presentedin the case studies is helpful. They “enjoyed working together” and “shared ideas” orreceived a “contribution of ideas from all the members of the group”. The students suggestedthat learners need group work for improving learning experience in this course while theinstructor need to have good communication skills, analyze and summarize the cases. Insummary, “the case studies will be absolutely useful in my career,” as one of the studentssaid.4.4.2 Evaluation of NIT Calicut Workshop The 54 participants in the NIT Calicut workshop were provided Questionnaire II. InQuestionnaire II, we will assign A, B, C and D value 4, 3, 2 and 1, that means a=4,b=3,c=2and d=1

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FPD XI: Assessing First-Year Programs, Experiences, and Communities

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jacqueline Q. Hodge, Texas A&M University; Magdalini Z. Lagoudas, Texas A&M University; Angie M. Harris, Texas A&M University; Jefferey E. Froyd, Texas A&M University; Margaret Hobson, Texas A&M University; Jasmine Alysse Pope

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First-Year Programs

Texas A&M University System. In this capacity she works with institutions of higher education across the state of Texas to strategically develop education and technical research proposals that will bring federal research dollars into Texas. Her office has garnered over $66 million in federal funding since 2003 for educational research, in addition to working with faculty who received individual technical awards, such as the NSF CAREER. Dr. Hobson has a B.S. from Texas Woman’s University and an M.S. and a Ph.D. from Texas A&M University in Educational Psychology (Dissertation: Teacher Perceptions of Change in Leadership Roles and Activities as a Result of Participation in a Science Education Leadership Program

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Innovations in Teaching Physics or Engineering Physics I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Patricia F. Mead, Norfolk State University; Ruth A. Streveler, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Lauren D. Thomas, Virginia Tech; Candace A. Cobb, Norfolk State University

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Engineering Physics & Physics

of the American Workforce.2. NAE. (2006). Enhancing the Community college Pathway Into Engineering Careers. Washington: National Academies Press.3. Hestenes D, Wells M, Swackhamer G 1992 Force Concept Inventory. The Physics Teacher 30: 141-16.4. NAS. (2000). How People Learn. Washington, DC: National Academies Press.5. Evans, D.L., Gray, G.L., Krause, S., Martin, J., Midkiff, C., Notaros, B. M. Pavelich, M., Rancour, D., Reed- Rhoads, T., Steif, P., Streveler, R., & Wage, K. (2003, November). Progress on concept inventory assessment tools. Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education Conference, Boulder, CO

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Assessment and Evaluation of K-12 Engineering Programs

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gisele Ragusa, Ph.D., University of Southern California

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Engineering and Public Policy, K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

student learning inSTEM via formation, nurturance and sustaining an important targeted school-university urbaneducational partnership. Our university has partnered with a large urban school district to plan,deliver and sustain a targeted inservice teacher professional development and a middle and highschool STEM curriculum intervention.Teacher Intervention Through our university partnership with local urban public middle and high schools, weengaged in a targeted recruitment of mid career teachers in the sciences. The project’s leadershipteam has worked with teams of two teachers who were placed, based on research interest, in anengineering laboratory that is conducting research using societally relevant engineeringtechnologies. The teacher

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Making Students Aware of Their World: Five Perspectives

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Linda M. Head, Rowan University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Integrated CurriculumIntroduction and BackgroundThere have for many years been efforts to bridge the gap between educational experiences inengineering and the liberal arts and sciences. Such efforts typically take the form of coursesdesigned to promote technological literacy for liberal arts majors, or courses designed toencourage engineering or science majors to consider the social and political implications of theirprofessions.Technological literacy for non-technology majors has been addressed in a variety of ways. Onevery popular version is to provide a course for students, early in their collegiate career, to learnan engineering application that has direct relevance to their lives. This approach has been used atYale University in the course

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Communication: From Pecha Kucha to Bullets

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Micah Hale, University of Arkansas; Richard A. Coffman, University of Arkansas

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

course and whether journal submission should be included. After obtaining Page 22.1115.6faculty feedback, a course may be developed and offered.If a “technical writing” course is not developed there are changes or additions that can be madeto our current undergraduate curriculum to at a minimum expose our students to technicalwriting. The recommendations are listed below. 1. In each of the first discipline specific course that requires a laboratory report, provide students with a style manual from a top journal. The students will then learn at an early stage in their career proper terminology and sentence structure

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Myths About Gender and Race

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Deborah Kilgore, University of Washington; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University; Cynthia J. Atman, University of Washington; Debbie Chachra, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Minorities in Engineering, Women in Engineering

evolution of the engineering curriculum since she joined the faculty in 2003. Her current research interests are twofold: as well as her research in biological materials (cur- rently focused on bioderived plastics synthesized by bees), she also researches the engineering student experience, including persistence and migration, differences by gender, and the role of self-efficacy in project-based learning. In 2010, she received an NSF CAREER Award in support of her research on engineering education. Page 22.1081.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Motivation

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A Systems-Thinking Approach to Solving Problems

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yumin Zhang, Southeast Missouri State University; David K. Probst, Southeast Missouri State University

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Systems Engineering

-specialization has brought about a serious problem:Students often develop career type tunnel vision in a specific direction and are blind sighted toother related areas.As pointed out by Barry Richmond1, the whole society needs to change the way to think andsolve problems. For example, little progress has been achieved for a number of social problemsdespite decades of painstaking efforts, such as poverty and drug addiction. In addition, the waywe act to solve certain problems often makes them even worse, such as the treatment of certaindiseases and the war of anti-terrorist. On the other hand, these issues can be addressedeffectively, if system thinking is widely adopted2.In our university, broad and balanced education is emphasized, where students are

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Institutional Perspectives and Boundary Work

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ron D Dempsey, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

engineeringtechnology educational programs is not well defined. The career status of technicians,technologists, and engineers is not understood by educator or employer.”37 This confusion withengineering has not abated over the years. Engineering technology suffers, as an academic andeconomic discipline, from a lack of clarity about what it is, what its graduates do, and confusionabout the boundaries between it and its more powerful and well-known discipline, engineering.Using the paper’s theoretical framework for boundary work of knowledge, practice, and power,one can see the how the boundaries between engineering technology and engineering lackdemarcation, to the detriment of engineering technology. Knowledge. ABET, the national accrediting body for

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Engineering Technology Futuristic Planning

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Peter J. Shull, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona

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Engineering Technology

students’ understanding islimited to the notion that there are engineers and technicians. Few have knowledge of what liesin between—technologist. This understanding would allow them to make a more informeddecision about their career choice.Our efforts address both of these issues to create a win-win solution for both the students and theprogram viability.Recruitment and Enrollment History 1999 to 2005The start date (1999) for this discussion on recruitment and enrollments represents the graduationof the first class of the EMET program—it began in 1996. Also, during this period, Penn StateAltoona offered two associate degree programs (EET and MET). The EMET 4-year programwas a 2+2 where student first completed an associate degree in either EET or

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FPD XI: Tidbits and Cookies

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Thomas J. Vasko, Central Connecticut State University; Peter F. Baumann, Central Connecticut State University

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First-Year Programs

 Problem-solving and solution presentation using the engineering method and format  Recording data, displaying it graphically, and representing it statistically  Using customary and international (SI) units of measure interchangeably  Applying basic engineering formulae to machine and process design  Working effectively on teamsOriginally explained in a previous work [1], FYE activities added to the introductory course fallinto three categories: informative, instructional, and support services. “Informative elementsincluded a general engineering (and engineering) technology curriculum review, a welcome andmembership invitation by student leaders of the technical student organizations on campus, and asession with the Career

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Adaptive and Supportive Learning Environments

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eric C. Huang, Manhattan College

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Chemical Engineering, Minorities in Engineering

, there was insufficient information to determine how the program affectedthe mentors. (The meeting reports provided by the mentors did not require self-observationsrelated to their own personal development.) In future iterations, additional feedback from theseniors may be used to quantify possible benefits on the mentors. Page 25.499.6Bibliography1. Allen, TD, LT Eby, ML Poteet, E Lentz, L Lima, Career benefits associated with mentoring for protégés: a meta-analytic review, Journal of Applied Psychology 89:127-136, 2004.2. Little, CA, KL Kearney, and PA Britner, Students’ self-concept and perceptions of mentoring relationships in a

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Aerospace Technical Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mehdi Shadaram, University of Texas, San Antonio; Thomas B. Morrow, University of Texas, San Antonio; C. Mauli Agrawal, University of Texas, San Antonio

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Aerospace

Practices Conference, Austin, TX February 2009.2. M. Shadaram, T. Morrow, and M. Agrawal, “Just in Time Math Project,” First Annual Meeting National Engineering Mathematics Consortium, Austin, TX, June 2009.3. M. Shadaram, “A Repeatable and Reproducible Approach for Improving Retention and Graduation Rates of Underrepresented Minorities and Women in EE,” TETC Best Practices Conference, Dallas, TX, February 2008.4. J. M. Tenor, S. L. Yu, C. L. Waight, K. S. Zerda, and T. L. Sha, “The Relations of Ethnicity to Female Engineering Students' Educational Experiences and College and Career Plans in an Ethnically Diverse Learning Environment,” Journal of Engineering Education, October 2008.5. C. H. Conliffe, “Formula for Action: ME3=Minority

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Design Spine

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeffrey L. Schiano, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Design in Engineering Education

-long learning, cultural sensitivity and diversity  Preparation for the senior design project o Student resume, team formation and project identification  Life as an engineer o A series of lectures by outside speakers on topics such as building a career, what to look for in a (small, mid-sized, large) corporate position, topics of current concern, the future of the profession, and professional responsibilityIn the senior design course, students demonstrate proficiency in a technical discipline area and anunderstanding of the

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Progress in Manufacturing Education III

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kevin L. Devine, Illinois State University; Corinne Zimmerman, Illinois State University

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Manufacturing

American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 A Low-Cost Manufacturing Outreach Activity for Elementary School StudentsMany postsecondary manufacturing programs across the country are exploring ways to reach outto K-12 students to help attract the next generation of students into Science, Technology,Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) careers. One effort to increase students’ interest in suchcareers involves exposing them to STEM concepts through field trips to science centers, spacecenters, universities, etc. Unfortunately, with ever-tightening budgets many school districts arecutting back on field trips and extra-curricular activities that often accompany STEM outreachactivities. This paper describes

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Experiential Learning Programs and the Transition to Industry

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Stamper, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; William A. Kline, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Mitchell A. Landess, Rose-Hulman Ventures

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College Industry Partnerships

by the student interns. During each of the past four summers, the student internswere surveyed to gain insights into their perception of the program. The aggregate results ofthose surveys show that 93% of the student interns had a positive overall experience, 99% of theinterns would recommend this opportunity to their colleagues, and 94% of the interns believedthat the internship helped them to fulfill their career goals.Since the inception of the program, the program has worked with 144 client companies. Thesecompanies have ranged from small early-stage startup companies to large multi-nationals. Forthese companies, the program has provided solutions to their technical needs and a mechanismfor recruiting talented students. It has also

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Instrumentation in Education

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew M. Hoff, University of South Florida; Richard Gilbert, University of South Florida

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Instrumentation

technology education pathway from high school through the B.S. in engineering technology and the providing the state colleges recruitment and retention support for students within this career pathway. Page 25.264.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Bioelectrical Instrumentation: Connections Within Interdisciplinary Engineering EducationAbstractDirect learning laboratory experiences are important to the future development of engineeringstudent’s capabilities. This work explores the implementation of bio-potential signal acquisitionby students

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Active Learning and Demonstrations in Materials Education

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Barry Dupen, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne

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Materials

past the middle of the semester, there wasnot enough time to accomplish all three tasks, and none of the submitted designs met the full setof design criteria. If the project had been introduced early in the semester as a required part ofthe curriculum, the students earning an A or B for the course would have submitted designswhich would have been more likely to meet the criteria.Freshman design projects are necessarily a gamble; students are asked to design a structure ormachine before taking any mechanical design courses, so the results are often strong in conceptbut weak in technical soundness. Clearly, juniors or seniors would have developed betterdesigns. However, by exposing freshmen to a design problem early in their academic careers

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Simulations and Visualizations

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Koenraad E. Gieskes, Binghamton University; Roy T.R. McGrann, Binghamton University; Charles Gazeley DeRusso, Binghamton University

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Mechanical Engineering

specificinformation needed in that subject. These representations used in engineering education not onlyinfluence the learning of the students, but also affect the analytical methods used by studentswhen they encounter similar concepts in their work. This investigation of the role of visualrepresentations in engineering and the students’ understanding thereof consists of several parts.First, an overview of such representations in mechanical engineering education is provided. Thena comparison of the different types of visual representations is presented. This paper culminatesin a discussion and comparison of the results of this investigation of student learning at variousstages in their educational careers. Data is collected from a first-year introductory

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Best. Class. Ever.

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Linda S. Davis, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Deborah Lynn Grubbe P.E., Operations and Safety Solutions, LLC; Ronald Lee Cutshall Sr., R. L. Cutshall Sr., Consulting; Steven J. Swanson; Michael T. Harris, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Arvind Varma, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Chemical Engineering

AC 2012-3985: PROCESS SAFETY MANAGEMENT COURSE DEVEL-OPMENTMrs. Linda S. Davis, Purdue University, West Lafayette School of Chemical EngineeringMs. Deborah Lynn Grubbe P.E., Operations and Safety Solutions, LLC Deborah Grubbe is Owner and Principal of Operations and Safety Solutions, LLC, a consultancy that specializes in safety and operations troubleshooting and support. Deborah is the former Vice President of Group Safety for BP PLC, which had its two safest years ever during her tenure. She was trained in the characteristics of safe operations during her 27-year career at DuPont, where she held corporate director positions in engineering, operations and safety. Grubbe is a member of the NASA Aerospace Safety

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Potpourri

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tolga Kaya, Central Michigan University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

around the ET building. Students were also reached through classrooms via“elevator pitch” presentations by the PI. Furthermore, individual students have been encouragedto participate by expressing how their work can become valuable assets towards graduate schoolapplications and career resumes.Once the students were recruited, the PI informed them of the common theme for the manyprojects (sensors for physiological activity monitoring) and how each project would be integratedinto an all-inclusive system with mutual benefit. Students were encouraged to collaborate ratherthan compete. Weekly group meetings were organized and students shared their findings with thegroup. Each student also discussed their progress at least once every few months

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International Division Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Oxana S. Pantchenko, University of California, Santa Cruz; Philip Jackson; Michael S. Isaacson, University of California, Santa Cruz; Ali DUPE Shakouri, Purdue University

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International

new interdisciplinary sustainability curriculum in collaboration with colleagues in engineering and social sciences. He has initiated an international summer school on renewable energy sources in practice. He received the Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering in 1999, the NSF Career award in 2000, and the UC Santa Cruz School of Engineering FIRST Professor Award in 2004. Page 25.1119.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 California - Denmark Renewable Energy Summer WorkshopAbstractThe California - Denmark Renewable Energy Summer Workshop is a collaborative

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Software Engineering Curricula

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mark Ardis, Stevens Institute of Technology; David Budgen, Durham University, UK; Gregory W. Hislop, Drexel University; Renée McCauley, College of Charleston; Mark J. Sebern, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

AC 2012-4645: REVISIONS TO SOFTWARE ENGINEERING 2004: CUR-RICULUM GUIDELINES FOR UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE PROGRAMSIN SOFTWARE ENGINEERINGDr. Mark Ardis, Stevens Institute of Technology Mark Ardis is a Distinguished Service Professor in the School of Systems and Enterprises at Stevens Institute of Technology. He is interested in the professionalization of software engineering, especially through teaching and technology transfer. In his career, Ardis has helped create academic programs in software engineering at five schools. He received a B.A. in mathematics from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Maryland.Prof. David Budgen, Durham University, UK David Budgen is a professor of

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BME Laboratory and Project Experiences

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jamie Lynn Brugnano, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University; Kevin Andrew Richards, Purdue University; Marcia A. Pool, Purdue University; Allison L. Sieving, Purdue University; Juan Diego Velasquez, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Sherry L. Voytik-Harbin, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Ann E. Rundell, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Biomedical

Computer Engineering at Purdue University. Her research interests apply systems and control theory to control cellular and physiological processes for developing and designing diagnostics and therapeutics. She is actively involved in curriculum design and employs pedagogical advances towards engineering education. She has co-authored more than 25 peer- reviewed articles, is a senior member in IEEE, serves as a Section Editor for the Encyclopedia of Systems Biology, and received the NSF CAREER award. Page 25.1140.2 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Scaffolding

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology Projects and Applications

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Antonio Francisco Mondragon, Rochester Institute of Technology; Adriana Becker-Gomez, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Engineering Technology

sites such as IEEE jobs[3], Monster[4] andYahoo! Careers[5] having Arduino or mbed as a skill required. Because of this, we need to trainour students on a platform that will be easy to use, that is widely used in industry and that willallow students to work at all levels of abstraction, from assembly language, going through a highlevel language such as C or C++ all the way to graphical programming and automatic codegeneration.2.1 ChallengesAs mentioned previously, the main challenge is to keep students motivated and engaged.Students want to create complex applications immediately and our job as educators is to keepthem with their feet on the ground by providing guidance through all the steps required toaccomplish the type of applications