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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Randy Russell; Nicholas Basker; Lisa Scranton; J. L. P Jessop; A. B. Scranton

Internet course can provide an added level of communication of the scientificconcepts through carefully planned audio-visual content (including voice, simulations,animations, pictures, and video) that can be continuously updated and improved. Finally, anInternet course allows each student to control the pace of the course to suit his or her uniquestyle of learning. Again, this flexibility in pace is hard to duplicate in a traditional classroomwhere the instructor must be more concerned with the class as a whole than any individual Page 4.483.3student and therefore adjusts the pace to the “average” learning pace of the class. In a relatedpoint, the

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Rama K. Vedachalam; George L. Engel

courses are still taught. In other cases, however,it appears that low-level circuit issues are almost totally ignored in favor of an exclusive systemslevel approach to the topic. With careful planning, we feel that there is an acceptablecompromise between these extremes. Much of the success of this approach relies upon the useof state-of-the-art, industrial grade software.The class-size during the Spring ’98 offering of the EE484 was twenty-one, five of of whomwere undergraduates with the remainder being, for the most part, first- or second-semestermaster’s students. A prerequisite for the course was successful completion of or concurrentenrollment in EE483: Computer Architecture and Organization. This pre/co-requisite wascritical to the success

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Ibeh

on “Thermoplastics in AutomotiveApplications” (Table II). Some of these examples are:* “Thermoplastics in Automotive Dashboard Applications”,* “Thermoplastic Materials Used for Automotive Bumpers”, and* “Thermoplastic Polyurethanes for Automotive Engine Block Prototype.”The students are especially encouraged to choose topics that include experimentation.Accompanying the list of suggested term paper topics is the schedule showing the variousdeadlines for the term paper process. The students are instructed to keep to the deadlines andavoid procrastination. This inculcates in the students the need for planning and scheduling.Planning and scheduling are elements of good leadership.IV Literature SearchLiterature search is a pivotal part of the

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Francois Michaud; Mario Lucas; Gerard Lachiver; Andre' Clavet; Jean-Marie Dirand; Noel Boutin; Philippe Mabilleau; Jacques Descoteaux

backgrounds in electrical engineering, computer engineering, civil engineering,mathematics, psychology, technical communication and business) working together tocoordinate the activities related to INGÉNIUS. Professors meet each week to plan theseactivities and to resolve issues related to student teams. In addition to the professors directlyinvolved in teaching to these students, other professors are included in activities related toINGÉNIUS such as team formation, robot assemblage, familiarization with the Handy Board,robot programming and organization of the robot competition.Similarly to problem-based learning8, ROBUS is used in INGÉNIUS as a general platform togive students hands-on technical and teamwork experiences early in the curriculum

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

John Eby; David Vader; Carl A. Erikson

receptacles. Confined to an office, someonepours the available material resources onto a table. As time passes, disaster seems to beinevitable, when the engineers emerge victorious. Amazingly, they have crafted a solution from,among other things, duct tape, plastic bags, and pieces of the flight plan document. This isengineering at its unambiguous best. When needs, goals, time constraints, and availableresources are unambiguous, engineers can solve problems.Rarely, however, are the scope and boundary of an engineer's work so well defined. In theUnited States, the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) describesengineering as devising components, systems and processes to meet needs. This is the process

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Veronica Ramirez; Saleh M. Sbenaty

Session 2559 Air Pollution Monitors – A Survey Veronica Ramirez, Saleh M. Sbenaty Middle Tennessee State UniversityAbstractIn recent years, ambient air quality monitoring has become an essential part of most industrialestablishments in order to satisfy the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act.This has made air quality surveys even more complex, requiring adequate planning to assure thatprescribed objectives can be attained in the shortest possible time and at the least cost. Airquality is usually monitored in order to characterize air quality in urban

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Zhao Liang; Ye Tao; Xiang Bo Wang; Ke Qin Li

offercreative classes that demonstrate the relationship between engineering design andcommunication (Shwom, Anderson, Olson, Kelso, & Colgate, 1999). Nowadays, in America,there is hardly any professional job advertisement that does not require effective communicationskills.In contrast, engineering students in China are seldom required to take courses in writing or anyother liberal arts courses. Do Chinese engineering students possess adequate communicationskills? This concern prompted the inclusion of four communication skills in the survey: (1) oralcommunication skills to convey and convince, (2) written communication skills to writeresearch/engineering plans, (3) written communication skills to write research/engineeringreports, (4) the ability

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

John T. Bell; H. Scott Fogler

active learners in the Felder andSilverman classification scheme. Global learners also benefit, from the opportunity to see the bigpicture and how their current studies relate to the larger whole. Of course experience, the mainfeature of VR, is of great benefit to all learning styles.The Ten StepsThrough our development work we have identified ten key steps in the development andimplementation of VR based educational modules. The following will describe each of the stepsand what we have learned about that stage of the process.Step 0: Plan for the future; Never underestimate how fast technology will change during yourdevelopment process. Experienced professional VR developers working full time can puttogether a complete polished VR simulation in

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Devon; Wayne Hager; Dhushy Sathianathan; Dominique Saintive; Michel Nowé; Jacques Lesenne

unexpectedly reduced by its assignment to another course for most ofNovember. These Penn State changes looked like a routine, if unfortunate, development withlimited consequence, until the Artois IUT reported that Thursdays were no longer available attheir sight due to required athletic activities at that time. The verbal understanding had nevertaken root and the result was a major scheduling problem that caused problems for most of thesemester. Nevertheless, by the end of September we conducted the first student conferences.Initially, we had planned to have the students get to know each other through some general classdiscussions about technology. Although these took place, they were unsatisfactory because of

Conference Session

Teaching Technological Literacy - Engaging Students

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Howell, San Jose State University; Patricia Backer, San Jose State University; Belle Wei, San Jose State University

Tagged Divisions

Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

answerquestions about student learning outcomes in a non-intrusive, systematic manner. The processrequires instructors to define learning objectives for each course, devise a rubric that measuresthese objectives, use the rubric to grade student work, record the data, and note needed changesfor future course offerings.” Page 15.408.6For continuing certification in General Education, a department’s GE courses are reviewedduring the normal program planning cycle. There is a section in a department’s programplanning self-study that addresses GE. In this section, the department must include acomprehensive evaluation of the course that may include a focus on

Conference Session

Capstone Design Projects

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Michalson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Stephen Bitar, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Robert Labonté, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

year, the process of product design. The course specifically includedsignificant class time discussing the business and non-technical implications of the designdecisions they make. As initially developed, during the course students not only learned aboutthe business of engineering, they also applied these concepts to create a working productprototype. At the end of the course, students had to subject their designs to a design reviewwhere their engineering work and their business plans were evaluated. As of 2010, the course has been offered twenty times and has become a central part ofour ECE curriculum. In addition, the Department has had at least three internal Capstone Designassessments and two ABET reviews (in our last ABET review

Conference Session

Teaching Mechanics of Materials & General Mechanics

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Anderson, Texas Tech University; Roman Taraban, Texas Tech University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

, and reflection as well as the morecommon define, plan, execute and check steps. The McMaster problem solving program uses astructure similar to that of Wankat and Oreovicz and implements it across entire curricula. Page 15.848.2Gray’s structured approach emphasizes pattern-matching that starts with a small number ofgeneral equations that students reduce to fit a given situation. The Mettes problem solvingschema is based upon a flow chart of problem solving steps and a constructionist approach tolearning. Litzinger’s integrated model emphasizes problem representation and the conversionfrom one representation (say problem statement) to another

Conference Session

Manufacturing Processes Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joel Dillon, United States Military Academy; Harold Henderson, United States Miliary Academy; Jeffrey Butler, United States Military Academy

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Manufacturing

Page 15.954.7to the aluminum part. While the first four students were unable to engrave their bottle openers,the laboratory technicians were able to test various sprays and laser settings prior to themachining portion of ME403 and students in the main course were able to engrave their bottleopeners as planned. The technicians achieved the best results using TherMark® LMM-14 Blackspray performed with the laser set to 20% power and a speed of 25 inches per second.Once the semester commenced, the instructors began building excitement about the machiningportion of the course early on by hanging poster-sized engineering drawings of the bottle openerson the wall of the classroom and passing around a finished bottle opener so students would

Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nidal Al-Masoud, Central Connecticut State University; Viatcheslav Naoumov, Central Connecticut State University; Zbigniew Prusak, Central Connecticut State University

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

GreatMoonbuggy Race Program as a Capstone design project, and to show how to use such acomprehensive design experience as an assessment tool addressing most ABET Criterion 3 a-kprogram learning outcomes, and its impact on students long terms career objectives. The projectis designed to imitate real-world workplace environment; students are divided into four differentindependent groups, namely, frame, transmission, steering, and suspension, all of which report toa project manager who oversees the execution plan and coordinates between the teams, andmanages day-to-day operational aspects of the project and scope. The Moonbuggy vehicle mustsatisfy not only functionality and strength, but also a set of geometrical and physical constraintssuch as weight

Conference Session

Learning By Doing in Chemical Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Larry Glasgow, Kansas State University; David Soldan, Kansas State University

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Chemical Engineering

students; i.e., they tend to be very goal-orientedwith a sharp focus on academic achievement. Nevertheless, the written responses to the question, “What was the most engagingfeature of the experiment?” were encouraging, and some samples are provided below:“The opportunity to take a real-world problem and try to solve it as a team of engineers.”“The most engaging part of the experiment was designing the experimental procedure.”“Being able to come up with our own plan of action and testing it to see if it waseffective.”“The most interesting feature of the experiment was how it tied to a major concern in theworld today—recycling waste energy. The fact that we were able to evaluate a possiblesolution for recycling thermal waste energy was very

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Capstone

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Palmer, Louisiana Tech University; Hisham Hegab, Louisiana Tech University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

objectives (controlparticle size and produce a narrow distribution) that they must balance with economics, safety,environmental, and manufacturability concerns. Students are taught literature searchingtechniques of both the patent and scientific literature. The students are shown the commonstructure of literature documents to enable them to extract the information necessary to plan theirown experiments. Students work in teams of three or less in the course and provide weekly peerassessments of both time and impact of their progress. The students begin by justifying aprocess in the literature to focus on by comparing reported particle size performance witheconomics and safety/environmental concerns. The students conduct baseline experimentssimilar to

Conference Session

Frontiers in Engineering Management

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Suzanna Long, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Hector Carlo, University of Puerto Rico; Jane Fraser, Colorado State University, Pueblo; Abhijit Gosavi, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Scott Grasman, Missouri University of Science & Technology

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Engineering Management

that studies the use of machine learning algorithms for large-scale problems commonly found in manufacturing planning and airline systems. In the past, he has been funded by NSF and the Department of Defense on using simulation-based techniques for solving supply chain problems and infrastructure rebuilding. He has recently co-authored (see Shah et al., 2009) a journal paper that provides new solution techniques for sustainable manufacturing processes. He reviews papers for a number of prestigious journals in his field of research. He is a member of ASEE, IIE, POMS, and INFORMS.Scott Grasman, Missouri University of Science & Technology Scott E. Grasman is an

Conference Session

Aspects of Public Policy in Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Todd Myers, Ohio University; Ben Stuart, Ohio University-Athens

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

technologists may not fully appreciate the need for public policy to guide theoptimal advancement of appropriate technologies or to regulate specific technologies’ potentialnegative impact upon society. This disparity creates a gap between innovation and regulation notoften addressed in current engineering and technology curriculum. Engineering and technology colleges are beginning to recognize a need to fill this gap byproviding public policy background to their undergraduate engineering and technology studentsin the form of a planned curriculum. In this paper we will review a recent effort to introduce apublic policy course into the curriculum at a midsized Midwest university’s college ofEngineering and Technology. Specifically, we will

Conference Session

Global Engineering Education: Intercultural Awareness and International Experience

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erin Crede, Virginia Tech; Maura Borrego, Virginia Tech

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International

and explore how each affects an engineering student (both international and domestic)during their graduate education.Exploring the Engineering Graduate Student ExperienceThe following sections detail the four main bodies of literature surrounding international andgraduate education which include: graduate student identity development, enculturation intolearning communities, socialization experiences and future career plans. These are not allinclusive, but represent a wide range of literature which was used to model that graduate studentexperience.Graduate Student Identity DevelopmentEngineering as a profession, like medicine or law, is endowed with a set of professionalknowledge and associated skills that are accepted as a requirement of each

Conference Session

CE Capstone: Innovations in Learning & Assessment

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charlie Quagliana, University of WIsconsin-Madison; Jeffrey Russell, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Michael Doran, University of WIsconsin-Madison; Rod Hassett, University of WIsconsin-Madison; Greg Harrington, University of WIsconsin-Madison

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Civil Engineering

user-client interaction. These real projects came to us initiallythrough two primary clients: The University Office of Facilities Planning and Management(FP&M) and the Regional Emergency All-Climate Training Center (REACT). Each client hasprovided a new project in each of the last several years.Projects have a willing client, clearly defined scope, specific time frame, program and budget.The scope of these projects are consistent with the capabilities of the students and the length ofthe academic semester, yet broad enough to be consistent with the goals, objectives, and desiredlearning outcomes of the course. These projects provide a significant challenge to thecommunication and collaboration skills, creativity, and innovation of the

Conference Session

Preparing Engineers for the Global Workplace and Successful Graduates for a Flat World: What Does It Take?

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Zappe, Pennsylvania State University; Thomas Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University; Hien Nguyen, Pennsylvania State University

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International

educationalexperiences that will increase their global awareness, cultural understanding, and culturalsensitivity. For many universities, requiring all students to work or study internationally is notan option due to the high financial cost. Therefore, other methods must be used to engagestudents in international experiences without requiring international travel.In order to inform planning related to non-travel based international experiences, data wascollected from 435 first-year engineering students from all campuses of Penn State University.Survey questions asked students about their perceptions of global awareness, including a self-assessment of their current awareness, their desire to improve their global awareness, and howthey anticipated improving

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chris Swan, Tufts University; Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Kurt Paterson P.E., Michigan Technological University; David O Kazmer, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University; Annie Soisson, Tufts University; Bowa George Tucker, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

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Community Engagement Division

withthe community; 3) a project planning phase; 4) site visits; and 5) a number of implementationchallenges including regulations, liability, local constraints, and sustainability. The focus of theEFELTS project is to evaluate LTS’s positive attributes and challenges as they relate toengineering faculty. The EFELTS workshops were an attempt to not only bring thesecharacteristics of LTS to the fore, but to also highlight the need for proper design, management,and assessment of LTS efforts; in a method appropriate for both novice and experienced faculty.Goals and AimsIn addition to workshops, the EFELTS project consists of three other major components – aSeptember 2011 summit of faculty experienced with LTS, an on-line survey, and interviews

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Division Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

N. Nezamuddin, Valparaiso University; Anurag Pande, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

potential for success in this regard. 8 Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) sponsored summer transportation institutes are the 9 most common transportation engineering outreach efforts. Hands-on activities at these summer10 institutes, such as collecting vehicle speed data using a radar gun and urban planning using the11 computer game SimCity, are popular with high school students. However, the review found no12 longitudinal study rigorously evaluating these efforts. Outreach efforts from other fields show13 that the near-peer activities and leveraging of contextual exposure to transportation in daily lives14 can make the transportation specific outreach programs more effective. This paper recommends15 an approach to address a

Conference Session

Methodological & Theoretical Contributions to Engineering Education 3

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Micah Lande, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Shawn S. Jordan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

MacGyver where the lead character would resolve each episode’spredicament by fashioning an escape plan out of found objects.2 Technology and sharing ofinformation via the Internet has greatly increased the ability for smaller communities with sharedinterests to coalesce and grow.The label “Maker” is a self-determined one assigned by affinity or involvement in a largerMaking community. Makers are do-it-yourself-minded individuals participating in informalcommunities (doing-it-with-others) that support and celebrate building and prototyping technicalproof-of-concept exploration and ad-hoc product development. A Maker is a modern-daytinkerer and hands-on doer and fashioner of stuff. The range of expertise could be large butnovices and experts alike

Conference Session

The Use of Games and Unique Textbooks in Mathematics Education

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adrian J. Lee, Central Illinois Technology and Education Research Institute; Sheldon H. Jacobson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; William A. Cragoe, Sacred Heart-Griffin High School

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

Direction This paper presents an analysis of the NCAA basketball tournament which is entirelymathematical in its methodology. However, the modeling process and its applications havestrong engineering implications. This section provides a few example topics for classroominstruction that could potentially follow this tournament analysis within a high school Page 24.930.9engineering course, along with future extensions planned for the current curriculum. Examples of well-established engineering applications involving the use of Bernoulli trialsand binomial and geometric distributions reside in the practice of quality control. In a large batchof

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Luster-Teasley, North Carolina A&T State University; Sirena C. Hargrove-Leak, Elon University; Cindy Waters, North Carolina A&T State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

probablily of being exposed toheavy metals. Scenario 3 minimic workers in the plan working without personal protectiveequipment and being exposed to heavy metals at a high rate. Lab Skills: Statistical Analysis ofdata, hazardous waste, public health, risk. (Figure 1)Case 2: Role Play - Ms. Hines and the sick 5th Grade Class Students participate in a role play exercise where an elementary teacher calls into work tolet her principal know that she is ill. The principal proceeds to inform the teacher that otherstudents in her 5th grade class are ill too. The day before the class had a field trip to a local parkthat is known to have a high population of geese. The students and the teacher were exposed tocontaminated water when and went to a local

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Marshall, University of Southern Maine; Carl Nelson Blue, University of Southern Maine

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

learning stylethat is the result of neuroscience research on how the human brain processes and retains newinformation”. 1Introduction“Acknowledging that students learn at different speeds and that they differ in their ability tothink abstractly or understand complex ideas is like acknowledging that students at any given agearen’t all the same height: It is not a statement of worth, but of reality”.2 In a differentiatedclassroom and laboratory, the teacher proactively plans and carries out varied approaches tocontent, process, and product in anticipation and response to student differences in readiness,interest, and learning needs. According to Tomlinson, our teaching style “can influence astudents’ IQ by 20 points in either direction, that’s a 40

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine Valle, Georgia Institute of Technology; John D. Leonard II, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Women in Engineering

. Page 24.997.14We have yet to develop the predictive model at this stage and plan to present it in the finalversion of this work.In future work, we also plan to look at ethnicity and race, and whether URMs also exhibit thesame behavior as women and white men (we suspect that is not the case). We also plan toconduct interviews, both one-on-one and in focus groups, to better uncover the rationales behindthese behaviors and results.Bibliography1. National Science Board’s 2014 “Science and Engineering Indicators”, http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind14/2. Marra, R. M., Rodgers, K. A., Shen, D., Bogue, B., “Leaving Engineering: a Multi-Year Single Institution Study,” Journal of Engineering Education, 101(1), 6-17, 2012.3. Ohland, M., Brawner, C

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Christine Haas, Engineering Ambassadors Network; Karen A. Thole, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Melissa Marshall, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Joanna K. Garner, Old Dominion University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

madeprogress on placing teaching materials online to help faculty at the pilot school train newrecruits. For instance, we created a set of teaching materials including instructional slides withdetailed teaching notes. Equally important, we created and posted online a high quality video ofa sample engineering ambassador presentation [18]. This video can be viewed atwww.engineeringambassadors.org.Greatest Challenges to the Network and Our Plan to Address Those ChallengesOur team has identified the following challenge as the greatest facing the EngineeringAmbassador Network in this first year of the Type II TUES grant: Maintaining the momentumand quality that the pilot schools had coming out of the inaugural national workshop. Althoughwe will run on-site

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gene Dixon, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

), this technical review is used to detect and resolve design errors and omissions that may include a failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA). • Release to Test/Build (RTB): a review that verifies issues identified in the CDR have been appropriately resolved, test plans are developed and safety/hazards analysis are completed. This review focuses on user and builder hazard minimization and may involve iteration to an earlier review phase.Main1 makes the point that for an efficient design process, the most critical design reviews arethe early ones. Design inadequacies that are unidentified, unchecked or unresolved until laterphases often result in costly design modification. As the design develops the cost of making