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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Andrzej Zarzycki

BIM as Design Exploration Tool in Architecture Andrzej Zarzycki New Jersey Institute of TechnologySession 6 : Teaching project based courses and design courses, including senior design course.Recent developments in contemporary architecture have been significantly influenced by theemergence of digital technologies as a primary production tool allowing for new ways ofthinking. These new developments, combined with research into new materials and fabricationtechnologies, make possible to purse imaginative designs that were not possible in the past. While often criticized for its overemphasis on formal expressions and its pursuit of thespectacular

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Computer Education Innovations II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jessica Kuczenski, University of Notre Dame; Joshua Enszer, University of Notre Dame; Mark McCready, University of Notre Dame; Jay Brockman, University of Notre Dame

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Computers in Education

educational process outside the classroomand ways to encourage students to have a more direct role in their own personal development.For this purpose, we present here the Notre Dame Electronic Portfolio (NDeP) project, which isdesigned to help us meet this goal. To date, we have successfully launched the NDeP project to aclass of ~80 chemical engineering sophomores who were able to create electronic portfolios, andwe were able to assess these portfolios using a rubric developed for this purpose.IntroductionThe primary goal of our undergraduate program is to produce engineers who are one step aheadof their peers, who have begun to prepare themselves for more than just their entry-level jobs. Inorder to reach this goal for our students, our department

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Engaging Students in Learning

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ronald Rockland, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Howard Kimmel, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Linda Hirsch, New Jersey Institute of Technology; John Carpinelli, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Levelle Burr-Alexander, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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Engineering Technology

AC 2010-159: TECHNOLOGY AND LEARNING OBJECTS IN THEENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY CLASSROOMRonald Rockland, New Jersey Institute of Technology RONALD H. ROCKLAND is Chair of the Department of Engineering Technology and a Professor of Engineering Technology and Biomedical Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology. He received a B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. in bioengineering and electrical engineering from New York University in 1967, 1969 and 1972 respectively. He also received an M.B.A. in marketing from the University of St. Thomas in 1977. He is a 2000 award winner in Excellence in Teaching for NJIT, a 2004 recipient of the F.J. Berger award from ASEE, and the past chair of the Master

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Suxia Cui; John Fuller; Pamela Holland-Obiomon; Warsame H. Ali

Educate New Generation on Nuclear Technology through Collaborating Engineering Project Suxia Cui, John Fuller, Pamela Holland-Obiomon, and Warsame H. Ali Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Prairie View A&M University Session: Interdisciplinary programs, sustainability and alternative energy as related to engineering educationAbstractFor the past several decades, nuclear technology has remained as one of the top interested issuesdue to its application as a new energy resource as well as a threaten weapon of massivedestruction. In the United States, the National Nuclear Security Administration

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Effective Methods for Recruiting Women to Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donna Milgram, Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and Science (IWITTS); Daniella Severs, Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and Science (IWITTS)

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Women in Engineering

effectiveness to the Committee forGovernment Performance and Results Act (GPRA) Performance Assessment, where it has alsobeen very well received. Project outcomes show that colleges that proactively recruit women intotheir technology programs will show a significant increase in the percentage of women studentsin those programs in a little over a year. Of the four community colleges participating in theProject’s first cohort, the two sites that implemented recruitment strategies within recommendedtimelines experienced a significant increase in women in targeted programs: City College of SanFrancisco’s (CCSF) Computer Networking and Information Technology (CNIT) program wentfrom 18% to 30% female students and San Diego Mesa College’s Geographic

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Gender and Minority Issues in K-12 Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Barbara Christie, Loyola Marymount University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2010-1807: GIRLS, SOLIDWORKS, ROBOTS, AND MOUSE TRAP CARS….OH MYBarbara Christie, Loyola Marymount University Page 15.617.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Girls, SolidWorks, Robots, and Mouse Trap Cars…OH MYAbstractGeneration Y, Millennial Generation, or Generation Next are terms used to describe thedemographic cohort born in the early 1990s. Although their titles of Generation Y orGeneration Next mean they are following Generation X, this group of students currentlyin high school, have their own unique style and are not to be underestimated orunderrated. Given a challenge, they will rise up to master whatever is requested of them.As the

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Engineering Ethics Outside the Classroom

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Traci Nathans-Kelly, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Sandra Courter, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Kevin Anderson, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Christine Nicometo, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Thomas McGlamery, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Engineering Ethics

engineering ethicsto undergraduates is substantial and programs, courses, case studies, special assignments,partnerships with industry and other venues have been forged and implemented quitesuccessfully in undergraduate education. A quick look in the IEEE archives, for example, showsover 75 recent papers and conference panels that address teaching undergraduate engineeringethics in the past three years alone.However, the body of work about how professional engineers are trained about ethics on the job,how they enact ethical decision making, or how/if they think about ethics in daily workenvironments is not nearly as rich. And while various professional codes of ethics are easilyfound in the engineering, business, and technical fields, part of our

Conference Session

Teaching Technological Literacy - College Courses and Minors

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Doyle, Penn State University; Richard Devon, Pennsylvania State University

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Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

AC 2010-2079: TEACHING PROCESS FOR TECHNOLOGICAL LITERACY: THECASE OF NANOTECHNOLOGY AND GLOBAL OPEN SOURCE PEDAGOGYRichard Doyle, Penn State University Professor of English and Science, Technology, and Society at Penn State University, Richard Doyle specializes in the rhetoric of emerging science and technology. He is an award winning teacher and he has published numerous books and articles.Richard Devon, Pennsylvania State University Professor of Engineering Design, Engineering Design Program, SEDTAPP, Penn State University. Devon has written widely on design ethics and on design education with a focus on communication technologies

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2010 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Michael Detamore; Paul Willhite

Planning for the ABET Program Outcomes in Life-Long Learning and Contemporary Issues Michael Detamore, Paul Willhite Department of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering, University of KansasAbstractCriterion 3 in the ABET review presents two “softer” criteria in items 3i and 3j, which are “arecognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning,” and “a knowledge ofcontemporary issues,” respectively. Undoubtedly, a number of engineering programs will electto determine their own definitions and evaluation policies for these issues in a wide variety ofdifferent ways. This presentation is designed to be more of an open dialogue, initiated withexamples of how

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Amos Joseph St. Germain

of the INTERFACE Conference movement at Southern technical Institutein Georgia which was to last some twenty years. There is the Society for the Historyof Technology (SHOT), which publishes TECHNOLOGY and CULTURE and holds anannual conference. 1978 saw the birth of the still extant Humanities andTechnology Association. So thing are better, no? Well maybe not so much.Consider what Derek Bok past president of Harvard has recently said in hisjeremiad, OUR UNDERACHIEVING COLLEGES (2006.) Bok sadly notes that 60% ofstudent in American undergraduate education are majoring in “vocational” subjectsnot liberal arts and they see getting a job as the primary reason for going to college(260.) And if you really want to make sure that your young person is

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Faculty & Program Exchanges: Internationalizing, Collaborations, Interactions

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ismail Fidan, Tennessee Tech University

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International

AC 2010-1111: FORMING COLLABORATIVE LINKS BETWEEN TURKEY ANDUS: INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON RAPID TECHNOLOGIESIsmail Fidan, Tennessee Tech University Dr. Ismail Fidan currently works as a Fulbright Senior Scholar at Nigde University, Nigde, Turkey. He is also a Tenured Full Professor at Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville, TN and Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Electronics Packaging Manufacturing for the last 10 years. He has teaching and research interests in additive manufacturing, electronics packaging, knowledge-based systems and distance education. Page 15.595.1

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Thinking, Reasoning & Engineering in Elementary School

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christine Cunningham, Museum of Science, Boston; Cathy Lachapelle, Museum of Science, Boston

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

towardengineering. The Engineering Attitudes Survey was originally developed as an assessment ofmiddle school students’ knowledge of engineering and their attitudes toward it. The survey wasadapted for EiE use. To measure the impact of EiE on students, the attitude survey wasadministered to a “test/EiE” group of students who used the EiE curriculum (students weretaught an EiE unit and related science) and a “control” group whose students were taught relatedscience, but did not use EiE materials. Data about student sex, race/ethnicity, and free andreduced lunch status were also collected. The attitudes instrument was administered to studentsin six states in a pre/post design. Results indicate that students who completed the EiEcurriculum were significantly

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Best Practices in Existing College-Industry Partnerships

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mahesh Aggarwal, Gannon University

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College-Industry Partnerships

AC 2010-52: COLLEGE-INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIPS AT ITS BESTMahesh Aggarwal, Gannon University Page 15.288.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 College-Industry Partnerships at its BestIntroductionThis paper describes an integrated graduate program at Gannon University in cooperation with apracticum at GE Transportation leading to a Master of Science in mechanical, electrical, orembedded software engineering degree. Both are located in Erie, Pennsylvania. The programincludes the support of GE Transportation engineering mentors for directing the graduatestudents and Gannon University faculty mentors for administering the program and providingstudent

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Construction Classroom Development

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dennis Audo, Pittsburg State University; Seth O'Brien, Pittsburg State University

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Construction

AC 2010-711: CONSTRUCTION-RELATED ACTIVITIES FOR STUDENTS IN 1ST- 8TH GRADEDennis Audo, Pittsburg State UniversitySeth O'Brien, Pittsburg State University Seth O’Brien Mr. O’Brien is an instructor at Pittsburg State University in the Department of Construction Management/Construction Engineering Technology; teaching Construction Contracts, Surveying I, Senior Projects and Materials Testing and Inspection. Mr. O’Brien worked in the construction industry for 6 years serving as a Project Manager and Estimator for general contractors prior to joining the staff at PSU. Page 15.316.1© American Society

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Best Zone Paper Competition

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carol Gattis, University of Arkansas; Shannon Davis, University of Arkansas; Bryan Hill, University of Arkansas; Edgar Clausen, University of Arkansas; Christa Hestekin, University of Arkansas; Bradley Dearing, Illinois State University

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Council of Sections

Mr. Hill is the Director of Undergraduate Recruitment for the College of Engineering at the University of Arkansas. He manages the college-wide recruitment operation and directs the engineering summer programs.Edgar Clausen, University of Arkansas Dr. Clausen currently serves as Professor, Associate Department Head and the Ray C. Adam Endowed Chair in Chemical Engineering at the University of Arkansas. His research interests include bioprocess engineering (fermentations, kinetics, reactor design, bioseparations, process scale-up and design), gas phase fermentations, and the production of energy and chemicals from biomass and waste. Dr. Clausen is a registered professional engineer

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Learning by Doing

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James O'Brien, Villanova University

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Civil Engineering

AC 2010-1419: SERVICE LEARNING IN THE COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING ATVILLANOVA UNIVERSITYJames O'Brien, Villanova University Professor Jim O’Brien is a tenured Faculty member in the College of Engineering of Villanova University. At Villanova he has won numerous awards for teaching including the Lindback Award, the Farrell Award, and the Engineering Teacher of the Year Award. He has served as the Director of the Computer Aided Engineering Center, Director of Villanova PRIME Program (engineering community outreach), and Chairman of many department and college committees. His areas of specialization are in Hydraulics and Hydrology, Water Resources Management, Computer Aided Design, Engineering

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Manufacturing Division Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dave Kim, Washington State University, Vancouver; Wei Li, University of Texas; Tamara Wogen, Washington State University, Vancouver

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Manufacturing

AC 2010-114: TEACHING OF BIOMEDICAL MANUFACTURING IN THEUNDERGRADUATE MANUFACTURING/MECHANICAL ENGINEERINGPROGRAMSDave Kim, Washington State University, VancouverWei Li, University of TexasTamara Wogen, Washington State University, Vancouver Page 15.1182.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010Biomedical Manufacturing in the Undergraduate Manufacturing/MechanicalEngineering Programs AbstractBiomedical manufacturing defined as “the applications of manufacturing technology toadvance the safety, quality, cost, efficiency, and speed of healthcare service and research”is a rapidly growing field. This field is unlike many other businesses

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Capstone Design Projects

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Wahlstrom, Argonne National Laboratory; Frank Falcone, Argonne National Laboratory; Doug Nelson, Virginia Tech

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2010-1409: INTEGRATING HARDWARE-IN-THE-LOOP INTO UNIVERSITYAUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING PROGRAMSMichael Wahlstrom, Argonne National LaboratoryFrank Falcone, Argonne National LaboratoryDoug Nelson, Virginia Tech Page 15.767.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Integrating Hardware-in-the-Loop into University Automotive Engineering Programs Using Advanced Vehicle Technology CompetitionsAbstractWith the recent increase in complexity of today’s automotive powertrains and control systems,Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation has become a staple of the vehicle development processin the automotive industry. For

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Embedded System Design

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ronald Hayne, The Citadel; Mark McKinney, The Citadel

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Electrical and Computer

AC 2010-947: INTERDISCIPLINARY LABORATORY PROJECTS INTEGRATINGLABVIEW WITH VHDL MODELS IMPLEMENTED IN FPGA HARDWARERonald Hayne, The Citadel Ronald J. Hayne, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Citadel. His professional areas of interest are digital systems and hardware description languages. He is a retired Army Colonel with experience in academics and Defense laboratories.Mark McKinney, The Citadel Mark H. McKinney, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Citadel. His professional areas of interest include power systems, measurement and instrumentation systems and engineering

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2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Christopher J. Lowrance

An Efficient Teaching Technique for Engineering Major Christopher J. Lowrance Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department United States Military Academy, West Point, NY 10996 Christopher.Lowrance@usma.eduAbstractAlmost every professor has experimented with various teaching techniques in order to find aneffective way to reach their students. As a new instructor to engineering trying to find my ownpreferred teaching style, I found a particular technique to be extremely effective in terms itsbenefits and the positive feedback I receive from my students. According to numerous educationexperts, just purely lecturing

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2010 Northeast Section Meeting

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Christopher J. Lowrance

An Efficient Teaching Technique for Engineering Major Christopher J. Lowrance Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department United States Military Academy, West Point, NY 10996 Christopher.Lowrance@usma.eduAbstractAlmost every professor has experimented with various teaching techniques in order to find aneffective way to reach their students. As a new instructor to engineering trying to find my ownpreferred teaching style, I found a particular technique to be extremely effective in terms itsbenefits and the positive feedback I receive from my students. According to numerous educationexperts, just purely lecturing

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2010 Northeast Section Meeting

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XingYing Cheng; Daren Wilcox

Introductory Digital Logic Design and Bluespec XingYing Cheng1, Daren Wilcox2AbstractMost digital logic courses in engineering curriculums introduce hardware design using VHDL.The three primary levels of abstraction in VHDL taught in the introductory course follow closelyto the traditional steps of Boolean logic, namely structure, data flow, and behavior. However,presenting the introductory material at a higher level of abstraction might just be as beneficial.Recently, a new electronic design automation tool, Bluespec, has emerged that promises a highlevel of abstraction for digital hardware design. In this paper, Bluespec will be introduced inrelation to current VHDL design concepts

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DELOS Best Paper Nominations

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Satterfield, National Institute of Standards and Technology; Susan Heller-Zeisler, National Institute of Standards and Technology

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

SchoolScience Teachers, a collaboration between NIST and local school districts, is a two-weekworkshop designed to support middle school science teachers through a combination of hands-onactivities, lectures, tours, and visits with scientists and engineers in their laboratories.Throughout the workshop teachers are provided with in-depth material on topics in the middleschool curriculum taught by NIST scientists and also provided resources and instructional toolsto teach that material in the classroom.The NIST Summer Institute is designed to increase the teachers’ understanding of the subjectsthey teach, provide materials and resources to implement what they have learned at NIST in theclassroom, rekindle their enthusiasm for science, and provide a

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Developing Young MINDS in Engineering - Part I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carol Gattis, University of Arkansas; Todd Shields, University of Arkansas; Bryan Hill, University of Arkansas; Shannon Davis, University of Arkansas

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Minorities in Engineering

expertise include survey research, applied statistics and public opinion. He has primary responsibility for designing an on-line survey administered to all College of Engineering students during the spring semesters. He also has primary responsibility as the external evaluator of the ECAP program, assessing the effectiveness of the program for improving student grades, increasing retention and improving overall satisfaction with the college and university.Bryan Hill, University of Arkansas Bryan Hill is the Assistant Dean for Student Recruitment and International Programs at the University of Arkansas College of Engineering. He has a Master’s degree in industrial engineering and more

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Communication - Needs and Methods

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Warren Waggenspack, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Sarah Liggett, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Warren Hull, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; David Bowles, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Stephen Sears, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Daniel Thomas, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Paige Davis, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge

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Liberal Education

-EPSCoR Center for Bio-Modular Multi-Scale Systems (CBM2) and is responsible for the development and implementation of several of the centers K-12 and public outreach programs.Sarah Liggett, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge Sarah Liggett is a Professor of English at Louisiana State University (LSU) in Baton Rouge. She is the Director of the campus-wide Communication across the Curriculum Program and is also the Director of the LSU Writing Center. She has published extensively on the histories, theories, programs, practices of technical and scientific writing. Dr. Liggett holds B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Purdue University.Warren Hull, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge

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Sustainable Construction Practice

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Phil Lewis, North Carolina State University; Michael Leming, North Carolina State University

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Construction

AC 2010-899: INVOLVING INDUSTRY PARTNERS IN CONSTRUCTIONENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT CAPSTONE COURSESPhil Lewis, North Carolina State UniversityMichael Leming, North Carolina State University Page 15.816.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Involving Industry Partners in Construction Engineering and Management Capstone CoursesAbstractThe objective of this paper is to share the experiences of faculty using a case study project in aconstruction engineering capstone course as part of a construction engineering and managementcurriculum. This case study may be used by others as a model for incorporating industrypartners in capstone courses

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Special Session: Impacts of Service in Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kurt Paterson, Michigan Technological University

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Educational Research and Methods

AC 2010-2028: SPECIAL SESSION: DEVELOPING INTERCULTURALENGINEERS THROUGH SERVICEKurt Paterson, Michigan Technological University Page 15.1083.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Developing Intercultural Engineers Through ServiceAbstractThis paper reports on recent efforts to understand the cultural awareness among engineeringstudents. A standard assessment program has been instituted across the various programs atMichigan Technological University with pre-, during-, and post-project phases. The mixed-methods assessment plan consists of surveys, reflection statements, journaling, a wellnessindicator, the Intercultural Development Inventory, and project

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Integrating Mathematics, Science, and Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brad Hunt, Norwood High School; Regina Lamendella, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Sara Garrison, Norwood City Schools; Andrea Burrows, The University of Cincinnati; Mike Borowczak, The University of Cincinnati; Anant Kukreti, The University of Cincinnati

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Mathematics

student learning. Thefindings are based on surveys given to the students before and after the lesson taught inpartnership with university and community members.The purpose of this lesson was for students to discover how engineers use derivatives to solvereal-world engineering problems. Students measured urban, sub-urban, and rural storm waterrunoff volume to generate three different storm water runoff graphs using Microsoft Excel. Next,students generated the derivative graph to discover differences in rates of change of water runoffwithin these three watershed scenarios. The class then discussed how to relate their storm waterrunoff data to watershed characteristics, identified challenges associated with increased runoffrates in a urban setting

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New Research & Trends for Minorities in Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amy Freeman, Pennsylvania State University; Anita Persaud, Pennsylvania State University; Drey Kharem, Pennsylvania State University; William Rothwell, Pennsylvania State University; Edgar Yoder, Pennsylvania State University

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Minorities in Engineering

Persaud, Pennsylvania State University Anita Persaud is the Associate Director and Research Associate for the Office of Engineering Diversity (Multicultural Engineering Program) at The Pennsylvania State University. She received her BA from Queens College in Queens, New York, majoring in Psychology, and she received her MEd and DEd degrees in Counselor Education from the College of Education from Penn State University. She is the Senior Diversity Researcher on a current NSF-STEM grant where she is responsible for assisting Penn State branch campuses in creating their own ASE summer bridge programs. She also teaches First Year Seminar courses for incoming engineering students.Drey

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Shawn P. Gross; David W. Dinehart; Aleksandra Radlinska; Joseph Robert Yost

Use of Structured Overarching Problems in Sophomore-Level Mechanics Courses Shawn P. Gross, David W. Dinehart, Aleksandra Radlinska, and Joseph Robert Yost Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Villanova University, Villanova, PA 19085In 2009, the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Villanova Universityrestructured its sophomore mechanics courses to present topics in a more integrated sequence.Courses in the classical areas of Statics, Mechanics of Solids, and Civil Engineering Materialswere repackaged into a pair of four-credit mechanics courses which combine content from theseareas. The first course (Mechanics I