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2001 Annual Conference

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Andrew Grossfield

, Massachusetts 1961 Page 6.508.13 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ! 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationANDREW GROSSFIELDThroughout his career Dr. Grossfield, has combined an interest in engineering and mathematics. He earned a BSEEat the City College of New York. During the early sixties, he obtained an M.S. degree in mathematics at NYU atnight while working full time as an engineer for aerospace/avionics companies. He studied continuum mechanics ina doctoral program at the University of Arizona. He is licensed in New York as a

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2001 Annual Conference

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William Drake; Douglas Walcerz

curriculaexperiences; nationally-normed subject content examinations; recent graduate surveys that demonstrategraduate satisfaction with employment including career development activities, mobility opportunities, andappropriate job title; and employer surveys that demonstrate satisfaction with recent graduates. Programsalso must demonstrate that their graduates are readily accepted into the workforce and are prepared forcontinuing education.ixABET developed and is in the process of introducing the following objectives, as a part of EngineeringTechnology Criteria 2000 (ET2K). These standards include the following statements about outcomesassessment that we believe are compatible with the NAIT accreditation requirements. Since his group ofoutcomes was developed

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2001 Annual Conference

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Martha Wilson

Society for Engineering Education”VI. Follow-up Studies and ActivitiesThe survey results indicate that the Industrial Engineering Department is doing a fairly good jobof retaining female students; however, improvements can be made in terms of recruiting newstudents, particularly from the regional community colleges.Specifically, several activities should be pursued at both the college and departmental level: • Recruit students from the regional community colleges. • Visit high schools to encourage students to pursue an engineering degree and to educate guidance counselors, and science and math teachers about career opportunities in engineering. • Increase the exposure of the IE department through advertising, community outreach

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Per Reinhall; Michael Jenkins; Joyce Cooper; Angela Linse; Eric Stuve

final reports. It is imperative that all groups function properly forthis interdisciplinary project to move forward. The students have, in general, responded very wellto this fact. They quickly realize that the only way to achieve the goals is to work together and tokeep deadlines within the group.Interdisciplinary IssuesThe interdisciplinary nature of the project is simultaneously its most challenging and interestingaspect. Since primarily chemical and mechanical engineering students have been involved, thisproject has brought to fore the differences in their respective training. Chemical engineers rarelybuild something during there academic career, while mechanical engineers are asked repeatedlyto build and design systems and components

Conference Session

Middle School Engineering Programs, Curriculum, and Evaluation

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jed S. Lyons, University of South Carolina

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

perspectives of science and help us think about things in different ways. • He showed us and explained to us different ways to look at science. • He helped explained things differently. • You get new views and ideas from someone else, a different perspective. Also our Page 22.747.7 engineer is very creative and I learned a lot of new things. • It gives another insight on science in the classroom.Other students emphasized the new information they learned about careers. Here are some ofthose student comments. • It helped us learn about the world

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Schneider, Cornell University; Maria Terrell, Cornell University

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NSF Grantees

-item online survey adapted from the Longitudinal Assessmentof Engineering Self-Efficacy (LAESE) instrument developed as part of the NSF-fundedAssessing Women in Engineering (AWE) project (Assessing Women in Engineering (AWE)Project, 2007).The LAESE was designed to measure undergraduate students’ self-efficacy related to succeedingin the engineering curriculum, as well as feelings of inclusion in the academic environment,ability to cope with setbacks or challenges related to the college environment, and expectationsabout engineering career success and math outcomes. The original use of the instrument wasfocused on self-efficacy among undergraduate women engineering students, and specifically onthe relationship of self-efficacy and the other

Conference Session

First-Year Activities and Peer Review Strategies in Civil Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Luciana Barroso, Texas A&M University; James R. Morgan, Texas A&M University

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Civil Engineering

your professional career. The goal is to provide constructive feedback so that future work submitted by the team is improved. Your team will be evaluated on the quality of the feedback provided – being too easy or too hard will not help anyone improve as well as instructions on marking projects and grading rubrics.”It is critical to emphasize what students are learning in terms of course content, as well as whatthey are gaining in other ways from performing the peer-review cycle. Both parts of the peerreview cycle add to the learning outcomes (learning from the good and bad approaches attemptedby the other team & getting peer feedback about the clarity and correctness of their ownapproach). This not only improves student motivation

Conference Session

Teaching Mechanics

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dean Q. Lewis, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College; Mary Lynn Brannon, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Mechanics

throughout their college experience, including earlyin their undergraduate educational career. It is important to teach future engineers to be creativeand flexible, along with being curious and imaginative.1Traditionally, many engineering majors will include an Introduction to Design course forfreshmen to give them an understanding of the engineering design process which includes one ormore projects that the students work on in teams. Additionally, many students take a Strength ofMaterials course (a.k.a. Mechanics of Materials) at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College in thesophomore or possibly junior year. This course provides basic theory and application of therelationship between loading conditions on a body and the resulting stresses and strains

Conference Session

Curricular Innovations in College-Industry Partnerships

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard T. Schoephoerster, University of Texas, El Paso; Ryan Wicker, University of Texas, El Paso; Ricardo Pineda, University of Texas, El Paso; Ahsan Choudhuri, University of Texas, El Paso

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College Industry Partnerships

Dynamics Fort Worth Division (1987-1989), and has spent his entire academic career at The University of Texas at El Paso (Assistant Professor, 1994-2000; Associate Professor, 2000-2005; Professor, 2005-present).Ricardo Pineda, University of Texas, El Paso Dr. Ricardo L. Pineda holds Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees from Lehigh University and a B.Sc. degree from Universidad Nacional de Colombia. He has over 25 years of experience in Systems Engineering in dif- ferent industries ranging from Research and Development at Bell Labs to Chief Technology Officer at AT&T in Mexico. He was a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff (DMTS) at Bell labs where as a Systems Engineer he worked on requirements and the architecture of new

Conference Session

Capstone Design I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregg M. Warnick, Brigham Young University; Robert H. Todd, Brigham Young University

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Design in Engineering Education

expertise in dealing withany intellectual property situations they may face as they work with their industrial sponsors ontheir respective projects.All Capstone project teams are provided an opportunity to present their project work at theconclusion of each of the two semesters with the inclusion of a project fair at the end of thesecond semester. The project fair provides Capstone project teams an opportunity to demonstratethe physical results of their project in a setting similar to a career fair. Capstone project teamsalso prepare presentations that highlight the results of their project work. Since the goal of BYUand other academic institutions is to faciliate and provide learning opportunities for students,these presentations are open to the

Conference Session

High School Engineering Programs, Curriculum, and Evaluation

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heath Tims, Louisiana Tech University; Krystal S Corbett, Louisiana Tech University; Galen E. Turner III, Louisiana Tech University; David E. Hall, Louisiana Tech University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

highschool graduates – preparing them for any career path, particularly in STEM disciplines.Two high school based curricula currently being used to address these concerns are Project Leadthe Way and the Infinity Project. Project Lead the Way (www.pltw.org) has modules forintroducing engineering topics to students in both middle and high school. However, high schoolteachers in our partner schools have indicated to us that they would prefer a more in-depthcurriculum that ties together application and content. The Infinity Project (www.infinity-project.org) focuses on digital electronics, allowing for a rigorous approach, but is limited to avery narrow range of topics. Teachers have indicated to us that they like the rigorous nature ofthe Infinity

Conference Session

Issues and Answers in Mathematics Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Chanley, North Essex Community College; Michael E. Pelletier, Northern Essex Community College; Linda A. Desjardins, Northern Essex Community College; Lori Heymans, Northern Essex Community College

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Mathematics

. Many students come to the College directly afterhigh school, while others bring a variety of living and work experiences to their studies. The Page 22.1377.2average age ranges from 25 years old in the day classes to approximately 31 years old in theevening courses. Some students take conventional college programs, planning to transfer to afour-year institution after graduation, while other students sign up for associate degree orcertificate programs leading directly to employment in specialized career fields. Also,significant numbers of students at NECC enroll in developmental and second language coursesto upgrade their skill sets before pursuing

Conference Session

New Faculty Development

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Walter W. Schilling, Milwaukee School of Engineering; John K. Estell, Ohio Northern University; Frederick Clayton Berry, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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New Engineering Educators

areexposed to many different levels of expectations. At one extreme are students who are overachievers and have been very strongly driven throughout their academic career. These studentshave either taken an AP course or possibly taken community college courses as part of their highschool program. These students need guidance only in how to channel their energy to besuccessful. At the other extreme, however, are first generation college students. These studentsmay need stronger levels of mentorship to be successful. Yet both of these sets of students arepresent in the same freshman course, and both of these students will be assessing theperformance of course instructors. They each will have a level of expectation set for the facultymember. At the

Conference Session

Accreditation and Assessment in SE Programs

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan E. Conry, Clarkson University

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

each of these disciplines may acquire many of these skills andmuch of this knowledge in courses that are not necessarily taken by students in the other twodisciplines. It tells us that there is a commonality between the computer engineering andsoftware engineering programs that is reflected in the general shape of the curriculum, in thedegree to which student elective choices are constrained, and in the emphasis on engineeringdesign. These are programs that are intended to prepare students for professional careers. It tellsus that there is in general more commonality between the computer science and softwareengineering programs than there is between either of these two programs and the computerengineering program on the same campus. This study

Conference Session

SE Capstone Design Projects, Part I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James A. Nemes, Pennsylvania State University, Great Valley; Kirsten S. Hochstedt, Penn State University; Mary Lynn Brannon, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Elizabeth C. Kisenwether, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Robert M. Capuro, Pennslyvania State University; Sven G. Bilen, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Multidisciplinary Engineering, Systems Engineering

students with little or no previous exposure tosystems engineering. Specifically, at the end of the course it was intended that students should  Understand what systems engineering is  Understand what systems engineers do  Understand the qualities and skills that systems engineers bring to projects  Develop and practice the skills of systems engineers  Understand how systems engineers think (analytic skills)  Consider a career in systems engineeringTo reach these objectives, the approach taken was to introduce students to systems engineeringprinciples through the delivery of course modules covering systems engineering topics, whileconcurrently having students apply these principles to their design projects. The

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Boerio, University of Cincinnati; Dionysios D. Dionysiou, University of Cincinnati; Ian Papautsky, University of Cincinnati; Miguel Pelaez, University of Cincinnati; Mark Schulz; Christopher Huth; Vesselin N. Shanov, University of Cincinnati; Donglu Shi, University of Cincinnati

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NSF Grantees

Excellence in Review Award, Environmental Science and Technology (American Chemical Society) (2008), the AEESP Dissertation Advisor Award (2008), the NSF CAREER Award (2005); the DuPont Young Professor Award (2005); the 2007 Sigma Xi Award for Young Faculty, University of Cincinnati Chapter; the 2006 College of Engineering Research Award for Young Faculty, and the 2009 and 2010 College of Engineering Distinguished Engineering Researcher Award.Ian Papautsky, University of Cincinnati Ian Papautsky is an Associate Professor in the School of Electronics and Computing Systems at the Uni- versity of Cincinnati. He received a Ph.D. in bioengineering from the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT. His research interests focus on

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kemper Lewis, University at Buffalo - SUNY; Deborah A. Moore-Russo, University at Buffalo, SUNY; Omar M. Ashour, Pennsylvania State University ; Timothy W. Simpson, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Gül E. Okudan Kremer, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Xaver Neumeyer, Northwestern University; Ann F. McKenna, Arizona State University, Polytechnic; Wei Chen, Northwestern University

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NSF Grantees

of its competitors’ vehicles each year [10]) anddesign improvement (e.g., Whirlpool annually invites suppliers to disassemble and help improveWhirlpool products [11]). In the classroom, product dissection has become a popular pedagogyfor engaging engineering students given its “hands-on” nature. Product dissection introducesstudents to functional products and processes, and providing such experiences early in thestudents’ academic careers increases motivation and retention [12]. Product dissection can alsobe used to increase awareness of the design process [5], and such “learning by doing” activitiesencourage the development of curiosity, proficiency, and manual dexterity – three desirable traitsof an engineer [13

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chung-Suk Cho, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; David S. Cottrell, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Candace E. Mazze, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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NSF Grantees

product(s) that meaningfully addressesthe driving question.12 Project based learning is associated with some distinctive benefits whencompared to learning solely from textbooks including a deeper knowledge of subject matter,increased self-direction and motivation, improved research and problem-solving skills, andunderstanding how classroom learning connects to jobs and careers.13 This research projectwould work directly with local operational centers located in Charlotte, Concord, Davidson, andMatthews.Methods and the Concept of Operations The end-state of this aggressive research project envisions a successful implementation ofthe guided-inquiry module protocols as well as the deployment of student teams to Habitat forHumanity job-sites

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jack L. Beuth, Carnegie Mellon University; Rohit Kumar, Carnegie Mellon University; Carolyn Penstein Rose, Carnegie Mellon University

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NSF Grantees

degree would advance past thefreshman-level calculus sequence. Student surveys suggested that the traditional mathematicscurriculum was perceived as very difficult, and more importantly, not tied to applications.Students perceived the math sequence as representative of the overall content of their chosenmajors, and would choose another career path, leading many well-qualified students away fromSTEM-based careers.The solution to this problem developed at Wright State contains 3 principal characteristics 1) Development of a first-year engineering math course, EGR 101, taught by engineering faculty, that covers and motivates only math topics actually used in later engineering courses. 2) Restructuring of the engineering curriculum

Conference Session

Basic Concepts in Entrepreneurship

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barbara A. Karanian Ph.D., Stanford University; Mona Eskandari, Stanford University; Jackie Liao, Stanford University; Zubair Ahmed

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

emotions andsensations and details of events that they have previously encountered within the frame of acurrent goal. The construct of episodic memory is informative12. Consider the following storyexample that came to us from one participating graduate student: “Aren’t first moments really just moments? Maybe they set off a new chain of events, and in a sense they are the first in a series of events that form a chapter or short story in a collection of short stories that make-up life? Well here are two memorable moments in my story: Al Wathba Prison, August 2011. Almost ten years after deciding to make my career in security and terrorism, I spent a short stint in Al Wathba Prison - a notorious prison in the middle of

Conference Session

Broadening Participation of Minority Students in and with K-12 Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Allison Anderson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Guillermo Luis Trotti, Trotti & Asssociates, Inc.; Suzanne Marie Wilcox, ExplorationWorks Museum of Science and Culture; Elizabeth Perry Gundersen, ExplorationWorks Museum of Science and Culture; Dava J. Newman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering, Minorities in Engineering

Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum permanent col- lection. Mr. Trotti has over 25 years of professional and academic experience. He has taught Space Architecture design at the College of Architecture at the University of Houston and Industrial Design courses for extreme environments at the Rhode Island School of Design. He is currently on the Board of Directors of Studio Arts Center International (SACI) in Florence, Italy. As founder and director of several space enterprises during his career he has been involved in the design of the International Space Station, many Space vehicles, Lunar and Mars surface Systems. As founder and president of two ar- chitecture / industrial design firms in Houston and Boston he has been

Conference Session

Advances in Communication Instruction

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Beth Bateman Newborg, University of Pittsburgh; Teresa L. Larkin, American University; Dan Budny, University of Pittsburgh

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

sense of ‘community’ among average students ofscience.”8 As faculty clinging solely to the modes and practices of established, liberal artsbased composition courses are likely to face counterproductive confusion from anengineering community, the modes and practices of a traditional science classroom may,especially for students not already versed in the sciences, present potential barriers thatcould inhibit learning.With the University of X’s E/FEWP, composition faculty members’ increasing awarenessof the “language” and of science and technology oriented fields such as engineering hasled to more effective ways of engaging engineering students in a project of discursivelyexploring how they position themselves in the disciplines and career choices

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason K. Durfee, Eastern Washington University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

curious andinquisitive. Fourth, students might have to apply their knowledge in a different manner in orderto understand or solve a problem. Fifth, all projects require reporting on the work completed.That is accomplished through verbal communication with a faculty member or in a formal paperor presentation. This will strengthen and enhance student communication skills and betterprepare them to function in their future careers. Finally, even though this is not research it willrequire critical thinking and problem solving skills by the students. It has also been shown thatstudent projects carried out with faculty mentoring results in increased student retention andachievement. This is important not only to our institution but to the local

Conference Session

Laboratory Development in ECE I

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohamed Tawfik, Spanish University for Distance Education (UNED); Elio Sancristobal, Spanish University for Distance Education (UNED); Sergio Martin, Spanish University for Distance Education (UNED); Rosario Gil, Spanish University for Distance Education (UNED); Alberto Pesquera Martín, Spanish University for Distance Education (UNED); Tovar Edmundo, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid; Martin Llamas-Nistal, University of Vigo; Gabriel Diaz Orueta, Spanish University for Distance Education (UNED); Juan Peire; Manuel Castro, Spanish University for Distance Education (UNED)

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Electrical and Computer

Microsoft’s OSs.   Page 25.326.12 Figure 6. Remote controlled Hydraulic plant experiment controlled with PLC at our department.Case StudyDuring the academic course 2009-2010, our department started deploying a remote laboratoryfor designing, wiring and measurements of analog electronic circuits, known as VISIR [34],on the practices of the subjects “Electronic Circuits and Components”, a first grade subject ofthe technical industrial engineering career. The system has been proven to withstand a highfunctional capacity and complex electronic

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Transportation and Geotechnical Engineering

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yusuf A. Mehta, Rowan University; Leslie Ann McCarthy P.E., Villanova University

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Civil Engineering

: the design process.procurement of work; bidding versus quality basedselection processes; how the design professions and Outcome 2: Graduates will We discussed thethe c have an awareness of the licensure and licensure process and the Y responsibility 5 impact of professional associated with the licensure on their career. design process

Conference Session

Engineering Education Ties and Engineering Programs in the Middle East and Latin America

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lourdes Gazca, Universidad de las Américas, Puebla; Aurelio Lopez-Malo, Universidad de las Américas, Puebla; Enrique Palou, Universidad de las Américas, Puebla

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International

, 3rd, 5th, 7th and 9th semester to find out theirperception about the progress they feel go reaching in the learning outcomes expected byUDLAP’s ES. Table 5 summarizes the results from these surveys.Learning outcomes were rated with values between 2.59 and 4.15 points. A wide variationbetween the different scores in different semesters is present. It is very important to the cleartrend towards improvement in the progress perceived by students as they advance in theirundergraduate career. Eleven of the thirteen learning outcomes obtained its lowest score in the3rd semester and all thirteen learning outcomes obtained their highest score in the ninth semester.The largest number of significant differences (p <0.05) was found in the comparison

Conference Session

FPD III: Innovation in Design in the First Year

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Lau, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Tara Lynn Sulewski, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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First-Year Programs

in the previous 40 years,then T would have to decrease by a factor of 23.These exercises are intended to motivate students and show them that there are significantopportunities for impact throughout their careers to bring our activities in balance with theEarth’s capacity. The ZEH project is just one example of how we as engineers can contribute.Student FeedbackAt the conclusion of the first offering of the project in spring semester 2010, students were askedto reflect on their experience and were prompted by these questions: Page 25.398.14 1. What can you do now that you couldn’t do before? 2. How might understanding house systems

Conference Session

Capstone Design and Innovations in ECE

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard James Choquette, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Payam Matin, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Ali Eydgahi, Eastern Michigan University

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Electrical and Computer

University Ali Eydgahi started his career in higher education as a faculty member at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1985. Since then, he has been with the State University of New York, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore, and Eastern Michigan University. During 2006-2010, he was Chair of the Department of Engineering and Aviation Sciences, Founder and Director of the Center for 3-D Visualization and Virtual Reality Applications, and Technical Director of the NASA funded MIST Space Vehicle Mission Planning Laboratory at the University of Maryland, Eastern Shore. In Aug. 2010, he joined Eastern Michigan University as an Associate Dean in the College of Technology and currently is a Professor in the School of

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sumedh Inamdar, University of Texas, Austin; Krystian Zimowski, University of Texas, Austin; Kevin A. Gibbons Ret., U.S. Air Force Academy, NexOne, Inc., and CAStLE; Brittany Rucker, U.S. Air Force Academy; Daniel D. Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy; Kristin L. Wood, University of Texas, Austin; Richard H. Crawford, University of Texas, Austin

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Design in Engineering Education

Pilot School. Kevin spent most of his AF career performing flight test on advanced aircraft weapons systems. His interests include thermo-fluid sciences, teaching, experimentation, traveling, SCUBA, and botanical sciences.Miss Brittany Rucker, U.S. Air Force AcademyDr. Daniel D. Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy Dan Jensen is a professor of engineering mechanics at the U.S. Air Force Academy where he has been since 1997. He received his B.S. (mechanical engineering), M.S. (applied mechanics), and Ph.D. (aerospace engineering science) from the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has worked for Texas Instruments, Lockheed Martin, NASA, University of the Pacific, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, and MSC Software Corp. His

Conference Session

ECE Curriculum Improvement

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marcin Lukowiak, Rochester Institute of Technology; Andrew Meneely, Rochester Institute of Technology; Stanislaw P. Radziszowski, Rochester Institute of Technology; James R. Vallino, Rochester Institute of Technology; Christopher A. Wood, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Electrical and Computer

information about previously discussed curriculum changes and our two newcourses, we prepared an attitudinal survey and administrated it several times to students enrolledin the Cryptography I course. In this survey, we asked a number of questions regarding thestudents' prior experience with cryptography, reasons for enrolling in this course and their futureacademic and career interests in this area.We are pleased that most of the students expressed a high interest and support for our efforts.There was an overwhelming agreement that the upgraded Cryptography I increased students’interest in cryptography after taking the course and would possibly assist with employment in thesecurity area. The following are some exemplary quotes from students: I