Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deepika Sangam, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

Test to Assess Misconceptions About Simple Electric Circuits. The Journal of Educational Research, 2010. 103(3): p. 208-222.9 Eide, A.R., R. Jenison, and S. Mickleson, Engineering Fundamentals and Problem Solving. 5'th ed. 2007: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math. 480.10 McDermott, L.C., Shaffer, P. S., Research as a guide for curriculum development: An example from introductory electricity. Part I: Investigation of student understanding. American Journal of Physics, 1992. 60(11): p. 994-1003.11 Duit, R., Students' Representation of the Topological Structure of

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Graham, University of Louisville; Karla Conn Welch, University of Louisville; Jeffrey Lloyd Hieb, University of Louisville; Shamus McNamara, University of Louisville

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

engineeringclasses will be beneficial both from an instructor’s perspective, to provide insight into areas ofmisunderstanding, and for the student’s perspective, to provide them with opportunities to re-examine and deepen their understanding of the material. This paper presents a snapshot of thisendeavor as we attempt to apply this new approach to the education of electrical and computerengineering students. It is clearly a work in progress, but initial results are promising.References 1. Ideas to Action: Using Critical Thinking to Foster Student Learning and Community Engagement, 2007, https://louisville.edu/ideastoaction/files/finalreport.pdf, accessed on 12-10-2009. 2. E. Cooney, K. Alfrey, and S. Owens, "Critical Thinking in Engineering and

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Global Engineering Education: Cross-cultural Awareness and Social Impacts

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kurt M. DeGoede, Elizabethtown College; Jennifer Kadlowec, Rowan University; Momodou Jain

Tagged Divisions

International

projects described, a community in BuniaduVillage approached some of the UTG students looking for help powering their mosque. A groupof students went out to the site and designed a complete PV system meeting the mosque’s needs.The community covered the costs of all the required equipment. On installation everythingworked and was still working perfectly to date. Our hope is that this is just a small example ofwhat might be possible with the collaborative, locally funded, approach outlined here.Works Cited 1. Oakes, W. Creating Effective and Efficient Learning Experiences While Addressing The Needs Of The Poor: An Overview of Service-Learning in Engineering Education. American Society for Engineering Education, 2009. 2. Fikkert, B.; Corbet, S

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Going Viral: Effective Instructional Techniques in an Online Environment

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Norb Delatte, Cleveland State University

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Civil Engineering

. and Ince, S. (1957) History of Hydraulics, Dover21  Lewis, Tom (1999) Divided Highways: Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life, VikingPress22  Delatte, N. J. (2008) Beyond Failure: Forensic Case Studies for Civil Engineers, ASCE Press, Reston, VA 23  Evans, H., Buckland, G., and Lefer, D. (2004) They made America: from the steam engine to the search engine:two centuries of innovators, Little, Brown, and Company, New York, NY24  Bowler, P. J. (1993) The Norton History of the Environmental Sciences, Norton25  Cleveland State University Special Collections, (2012), http://library.csuohio.edu/speccoll/26

Conference Session

Research Informing Teaching Practice I

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Jane Grigg, Clemson University; Lisa Benson, Clemson University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

equation is correct. Foractual learning to occur, however, they must structure available information to fit with priorknowledge to create a useful understanding of the concepts or process. Nilson suggests sometechniques to conduct initially before diving into the problem solving attempt, including 1)reviewing the problem and clarify meaning, 2) define the problem, 3) identify given knowledge,4) identify the knowledge needed to acquire, 5) set objectives [7].Research has shown that inadequate mental workload capacity may hinder learning throughoutthe problem solving task [8]. If a student’s workload capacity is low, then (s)he may lack enoughexcess capacity to encode new knowledge because lower level tasks are not being performedefficiently

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ryan A. Taylor, University of Alabama; David Jeff Jackson, University of Alabama

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Design in Engineering Education

ofAlabama has been using in previous years. The Dragon12-Plus MCU from EVBplus has beenthe main hardware that laboratory assignments for ECE 383 have been built around2,3,8. This hascontributed to a decline in the grasp of the fundamentals of microcontrollers and peripheralinterfacing. Possible reasons could include the absence of the connections in physical sight of theuser when working with the MCU, or possibly the sheer magnitude of the device that the studentis working with. The fact that the students working the assignments have not been making thephysical wiring connections from the microcontroller to the peripheral device(s), because of themonolithic nature of the MCUs, may be contributing to this decline in peripheral interfacingaptitude

Conference Session

Learning and Assessment II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig J. Hoff, Kettering University; Gregory W. Davis, Kettering University; Kathryn L. Hoff

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Mechanical Engineering

students inattendance.The approach used in this case varied over a three-term period, providing insight into whichaspects of the peer-tutoring process led to different observable effects on the students’performance. Additionally, the professor(s) teaching the same class each term varied, allowingfor insight into how the professor may influence the structure and content of the tutoringsessions.During the first term, a single peer tutor was employed by the university’s SARC to providelearning assistance to engineering students taking MECH-320: Thermodynamics. The tutor’sschedule was posted, however the professor made no commitment to the process, not even goingout of the way to mention in class that a peer tutor was available for consultation. As

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bonnie H. Ferri, Georgia Institute of Technology; JillL L. Auerbach, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Electrical and Computer

,” vol. 100(2), pp. 253-280, 2011.6 R. Dua, J.E. Seiffertt, B. Blaha, K. Gupta, V. Satagopan, J.R. Stanley, D. Beetner, and D.C. Wunsch,, 2005,“Hands-On Projects and Exercised to Strengthen Understanding of Basic Computer Engineering Concepts,”Proceedings of the American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland.7 W. Durfee, P. Li, and D. Waletzko, 2005, “At-Home System and Controls Laboratories,” Proceedings of theAmerican Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland.8 B. Ferri, J. Auerbach, J. Michaels, D. Williams, 2010, “TESSAL: Portable Distributed Laboratories in the ECECurriculum,” 2010 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, June, Vancouver.9 B. Ferri, S. Ahmed, J

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Patricia Kristine Sheridan, University of Toronto; Greg Evans, University of Toronto; Doug Reeve, University of Toronto

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Design in Engineering Education

-188, 1994.[3] S. McCahan, et al., "Engineering Strategies and Practive: Team Teaching a Service Learning Course for a Large Class," McGraw-Hill Ryerson Alan Blizzard Award Paper, 2007.[4] C. E. Larson and F. M. J. LaFasto, Teamwork: What must go right, what can go wrong. Sage, 1989.[5] K. C. Williams and C. C. Williams, "Five key ingredients for improving student motivation," Research in Higher Education Journal, vol. 2011, 2011.[6] W. J. Popham, Transformative Assessment. ASCD, 2008.[7] G. R. Bushe and G. Coetzer, "Appreciative Inquiry as a Team-Development Intervention: A Controlled Experiment," Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 13-30, 1995.[8] J. Maxwell. (2011, Jul.) Team

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Research in Engineering Education I

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hanjun Xian, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Krishna Madhavan, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

-supported cooperative work. ACM; 1988. p. 1–12. Page 25.96.1118. Nomura S, Birnholtz J, Rieger O, Leshed G, Trumbull D, Gay G. Cutting into collaboration: understanding coordination in distributed and interdisciplinary medical research. In: Proceedings of the 2008 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work. ACM; 2008. p. 427–436.19. Davidson Frame J, Carpenter MP. International research collaboration. Social Studies of Science. 1979;9(4):481–497.20. Luukkonen T, Persson O, Sivertsen G. Understanding patterns of international scientific collaboration. Science, Technology & Human Values. 1992;17(1):101.21. Kim K-W

Conference Session

CoED General Technical Session II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert P. Brazile, University of North Texas; Kathleen Swigger, University of North Texas; Matt Ray Hoyt, University of North Texas; Brian Lee, University of North Texas; Brandon Nelson, University of North Texas

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Computers in Education

, it should bepossible to study the patterns among the participating instructors and identify the compatiblecourses. To address this issue, we need to obtain instructor data over several semesters tounderstand which courses and projects were successfully executed.6. AcknowledgmentsThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.0705638. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this materialare those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation. We also wish to thank the students who participated in the study, and the manycolleagues (in all four countries who helped make this research possible.7. References[1] P

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maria Dawn Blevins, University of Utah; Steven J. Burian, University of Utah

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Civil Engineering

Sustainability Summit. Denver, CO. 28, February, 2011. 2. Office of Sustainability. University of Utah office of sustainability. (2011, April 27). Retrieved from http://www.facilities.utah.edu/portal/site/facilities/menuitem.f3f7b0b1f50f8fe6d0f3d010c1e916b9/?vgne xtoid=f3a0bf5b7e46d110VgnVCM1000001c9e619bRCRD 3. Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, Initials. (20100, April 29). Stars (sustainability tracking assessment and rating system. Retrieved from https://stars.aashe.org/ 4. Anderson, J.L., Chenoweth, S., DeVasher, R., House, R., Livingston, J., Minster… & Williams, J.M. Communicating sustainability: sustainability and communication in the engineering

Conference Session

Mechanics Classroom Demonstrations

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Josué Njock-Libii, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne

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Mechanics

(including access toscientific and engineering equipment)”. A project such as the one described in this paper adds allthree things to teaching[29].8. References[1] B. Self and R. Redfield, New approaches in teaching undergraduate dynamics, Proceedings of the 2001 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Albuquerque, NM, June 24-27, 2001.[2] R. A. Streveler, T. A. Litzinger, R. L. Miller, and P. S. Steif, Learning conceptual knowledge in the engineering sciences: overview and future research, Journal of Engineering Education, 97, 2008, pp. 279- 294.[3] P. J. Cornwell, Dynamics evolution – change or design, Proceedings of the 2000 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, St. Louis, MO, June 18-21, 2000.[4] G

Conference Session

Design Tools and Methodology II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Geoffrey Samuel Frost, University of Toronto; Jason A. Foster, University of Toronto; Robert Irish, University of Toronto; Patricia Kristine Sheridan, University of Toronto

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Design in Engineering Education

, 1980.[7] K. MacQuarrie, The Last Days of the Incas. Simon and Schuster, 2007.[8] J. Foster, “ESC101 Lecture Notes,” 2005. University of Toronto.[9] M.P. Collins, “CIV102 Lecture Notes,” 2005. University of Toronto.[10] J. Fiskel, Design for Environment, Creating Eco-Efficient Products and Processes. McGraw Hill, first ed.,1996.[11] A. M. Curtis Moore, Green Gold, Japan, Germany, the United States, and the Race for EnvironmentalTechnology. Beacon Press, 1994.[12] S. Schmidheiny, Changing Course, A Global Business Perspective on Development and the Environment. MITPress, April 1992.[13] “UN Conference on Environment and Development.” Online, June 1992. United Nations.[14] Handbook of Steel Construction. Emerson Group, third ed., June 2007.[15

Conference Session

Laboratory Innovations

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Awlad Hossain, Eastern Washington University; Hani Serhal Saad, Eastern Washington University; Martin W. Weiser, Eastern Washington University

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Mechanical Engineering

Material Density Thermal Heat Thermal 3 (g/cm ) Conductivity Capacity Diffusivity (W/m-K) (J/g-K) (m2/s) Maple 0.6 0.14 1.3 1.8x10-7 Stainless Steel 304 8.0 16.2 0.5 4.05x10-6 Zinc 7.14 116 0.39 4.17x10-5 Tin 7.365 67 0.21 4.33x10-5 Aluminum 6061-T6 2.7 167 0.896 6.9x10-5 Graphite 1.76 120 0.71 9.6x10-5 Copper

Conference Session

National and Multi-university Initiatives

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cynthia C. Fry, Baylor University; William M. Jordan, Baylor University; Edmond John Dougherty, Villanova University; Nassif E. Rayess, University of Detroit Mercy; Pritpal Singh, Villanova University; Kenneth F. Bloemer, University of Dayton

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

the institutions identify their own core competencies that would benefit the other members in the dense network of schools.”7The Helping Hands Dense Network was initiated within a one-hour period during the 2010 Page 25.1303.3KEEN Fall conference. The objectives of the one-hour workshop were: To identify other like-minded institutions who share common goals and values, To identify each institution’s s strengths to determine the optimal plan to leverage those strengths, To put together a compelling one-minute presentation of vision, mission, and objectives of the newly formed dense network, and To present

Conference Session

Spatial Visualization

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diarmaid Lane, University of Limerick; AJ Hamlin, Michigan Technological University; Norma L. Veurink, Michigan Technological University; Niall Seery, University of Limerick

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Engineering Design Graphics

., External Representations Contribute to the Dynamic Construction of Ideas in Diagrammatic Representation and Inference, M. Hegarty, Meyer, B., Narayanan, N.H., Editor. 2002, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg. p. 341-343.3. Suwa, M., Tversky, B. How do designers shift their focus of attention in their own sketches? in Papers from the AAAI-97 Fall Symposium. 1997: AAAI Press.4. Fish, J., Scrivener, S., Amplifying the Mind's Eye: Sketching and Visual Cognition. Leonardo, 1990. 23(1): p. 117-126.5. Deregowski, J.B., Illusions, Patterns and Pictures. 1970, New York: Academic Press.6. Storer, I., Reflecting on professional practice : capturing an industrial designer's expertise to support the development of the

Conference Session

Assessment in Graphics Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary A. Sadowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Judith A. Birchman, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Brandon Xavier Karcher, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

course of theirsearch. An additional question asked—Did your parent(s) or guardians(s) assist you in your Page 25.1341.9search for a college? —to which, 74.0 percent (77.0 percent previous) responded “yes.” Whenasked to indicate all of the methods they used to search, the replies indicated that it waspredominantly the Internet, 90.0 percent (82.0 percent previous); followed by campus visits, 74.0percent (72.0 percent previous); and printed materials, 42.0 percent (67.0 percent previous). Thetop three choices remained the same although printed materials ranked lower than on theprevious survey. Answer

Conference Session

Capstone Design I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sharad Vimal Oberoi, Carnegie Mellon University; Susan Finger, National Science Foundation

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Design in Engineering Education

Engineering: A Question Based Approach, Doctoral Dissertation, Stanford, CA: Stanford University, 1997.3. Finger, S., Gelman, D., Fay, A., Szczerban, M., Smailagic, A., and Siewiorek, D.P. (2006). “Supporting collaborative learning in engineering design,” International Journal of Expert Systems and Applications, 31(4), November, 734-741.4. Arampatzis, A. T., Tsoris, T., and Koster, C. H. A. (1997). “IRENA: Information retrieval engine based on natural language analysis,” Proceedings of RIAO’97 Computer-Assisted Information Searching on Internet, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 159-175.5. Heylighen, A., and Martin, G. (2004). “That elusive concept of concept in architecture: a first snapshot of concepts during design,” in J. S

Conference Session

FPD V: Increasing Engagement and Motivation of First-year Students

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carrie Robinson, Arizona State University; James Collofello, Arizona State University

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First-Year Programs

success. Ensuring that UGTAs have an appropriatecombination of technical knowledge, pedagogical understanding, and personal skills ensures toan effective and sustainable program.References 1. “A Model for Freshman Engineering Retention,” C. P. Veenstra, E. L. Dey, & G. D. Herrin, Advances in engineering education, Winter 2009, ASEE. 2. “Persistence, Engagement, and Migration in Engineering Programs,” M. Ohland, S. Sheppard, G. Lichetenstein, O. Eris, D. Chachara, & R. Layton, Journal of engineering education, July 2008. 3. “Building Community and Retention Among First-Year Students: Engineering First-Year Interest Groups (eFIGs), S. Courter & G. Johnson,” ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference

Conference Session

Improving IE Course Content

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hung-da Wan, University of Texas, San Antonio; Yi-Ching Liao, University of Texas, San Antonio; Glenn Kuriger, University of Texas, San Antonio

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

thinking. These options should be further explored to potentially createbetter simulation games for the education of lean manufacturing in the future.Bibliography1. Visionary Products, “Lean zone office,” (http://www.visionaryproducts.biz/Portals/0/Files/ VPF-0001_Visionary-Products.pdf).2. Superteams, “The 5S Numbers Game,” (http://www.superteams.com/5s-game.php).3. Mirehei, S. M., Kuriger, G., Wan, H., and Chen, F.F., 2011, “Enhancing Lean Training for the Office Environment through Simulation and Gaming,” International Journal of Learning and Intellectual Capital, 8(2), pp.206-221.4. Wan, H., Tadikonda, B.M., and Kuriger, G., 2011, “Lean Training via the Internet: Two Flash-based Simulation Games,” 2011 Annual Industrial

Conference Session

Innovative Uses of Technology and Techniques for Laboratory Exercises

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ghassan T. Ibrahim, Bloomsburg University; Aaron J. Homiak, Geisinger Health System; Alexander Hallden-Abberton, Bloomsburg University; John R. Pulaski

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

generally uses Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, Page 25.1162.8or DHCP, which assigns a different IP address to a client machine each time that client connectsto the network. For a simple client like the Arduino there seems to be no way to check the IPaddress assigned by the network, it can only respond to the IP address pre-assigned in its code.To resolve this problem, the team met again with the campus network administrators whothankfully agreed to allocating a static IP address to the Arduino’ s Wi-Fi card.Wi-Fi Connectivity Sequence ChartThe student tasked with wireless connectivity and information logging had no prior knowledgeof wireless

Conference Session

FPD V: Increasing Engagement and Motivation of First-year Students

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Isaac W. Wait, Marshall University

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First-Year Programs

?                 The ampere is a measure of the amount of electric charge passing a point in an electric circuit per unit time with 6.241 × 1018 electrons, or one coulomb per second constituting one ampere.  The volt is defined as the value of the potential difference (voltage) across a conductor when a current of one ampere dissipates one watt of power in the conductor.  One watt is the rate at which work is done when one ampere (A) of current flows through an electrical potential difference of one volt (V).  (1 W = 1 J/s = 1 N∙m/s)   Journal Entry Question:  In class this week we characterized the efficiency of the inverter.  Explain how knowing the inverter efficiency will affect your design of other system components, such as (1) the batteries, and (2

Conference Session

Curriculum Exchange II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jared P. Coyle, Drexel University; Adam K. Fontecchio, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Conference Session

Faculty and Program Developments, Exchanges, and Best Practices

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marissa Jablonski, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; John R. Reisel, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Tagged Divisions

International

since during the last five years, the group hasconsistently worked on gravity-fed potable water distribution systems than it does on design.Overall the following outlines the process that this particular student chapter of EWB hasfollowed to procure, design, plan, and construct projects:1. commit to sustainable engineering work in developing communities;2. create a relationship with an in-country non-profit organization(s) committed to collaborative Page 25.1221.9 work that is willing to follow-up and find projects;3. work with the non-profit organization(s) to find communities with needs within Maslow’s hierarchy who also show a

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Education and K-12

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fernando Garcia Gonzalez, Texas A&M International University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

ded to put in n place docum mentation sttandards thatt all teammemberss must follow w. In a progrramming claass the studennts are requiired to includde Page 25.1231.14documen ntation in all programs ho owever the students s nevver really undderstand the importance ofthe documentation because their programs are generally too small and trivial, are created by asingle person and are not maintained after they are turned in.While the vehicles are complex enough to require systems engineering they are not so complexthat the team members will

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert O'Connell, University of Missouri, Columbia; Pil-Won On, University of Missouri, Columbia

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

appropriate and immediate actions to correct them. Often, theobserved difficulties were very different from the instructor‟s expectations.The two negative results from the instructor-based observations, which suggested changes to bemade in the way we were using the strategy, concerned motivating students to prepare for classon a regular basis, and students‟ discomfort with the formative/summative assessment gradingscheme being used. These concerns were echoed in the Student Evaluation Surveys, taken of 62students in both courses at the end of the semester. A summary of the principal results of thesurvey follows: Perception of learning: 45 students (73%) felt that they learned more with team-based learning (as implemented) than

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Beverly Baartmans; Sheryl Sorby

advanced undergraduatestudents are chosen each year for this program. To qualify students must be a U.S. citizen, major-ing in mathematics, science, or engineering, be a full time graduate or advanced undergraduatestudent at Michigan Tech, and have their own car. A GK-12 fellowship includes a graduate stu-dent stipend of $18,000 per year ($10,000 per year for advanced undergraduate students), gradu-ate student tuition and fees, and a $450 textbook allowance for graduate students. Needless to say,the competition is keen to get into this program. In return, each GK-12 teaching fellow spends aminimum of ten hours per week providing direct assistance to a teacher(s) in a local school and upto five hours per week preparing outside of the classroom

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Myers; Kathleen Nunnally; Catherine Blat; Patricia Tolley

, SI leaders skillfully teach students how to learn by introducing them to and helping themapply academic success strategies. Most important is the fact that SI is not a remedial program.Therefore, all of the students enrolled in these courses are encouraged, but not required, to attendsessions. Students who have previously made an “A” in the course qualify to be an SI leader.Applicants are interviewed by the College’s program director and the course instructor(s) and areselected based on their technical competency, communication skills, and ability to work as part ofa team. SI leaders are paid a small stipend and, typically, are contracted for 10 hours per week: • three hours attending class

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Ross Staffeldt

night, so that manufacturer'sdefault settings for each program are restored and student “additions” to machines are removed.The login script for a student enrolled in a mathematics course also mounts the student's drive S,which is the student's private workspace, the student's drive M, which provides the relevant classdirectory, and, in some cases, the student's drive Z, which carries extra software appropriate for aparticular course. Since many faculty members run Windows NT machines that are served by a Page 6.971.6machine distinct from the laboratory server, the Department of Mathematical Sciences ComputerProceedings of the 2001