Report on the Learning Experiences of Undergraduate Students in a Novel Aerospace Engineering Course Integrating Teaching and Research

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American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition 2013

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Volume 1

MONDAY: AEROSPACE DIVISION TECHNICAL SESSION 5

REPORT ON THE LEARNING EXPERIENCES OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS IN A NOVEL AEROSPACE ENGINEERING COURSE INTEGRATING TEACHING AND RESEARCH ...... 1 Dennis K. McLaughlin, Sven Schmitz, Irene B. Mena

DEVELOPMENT OF AEROSPACE ENGINEERING-FOCUSED UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH AT A SMALL UNIVERSITY: ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND LESSONS LEARNED ...... 15 R. Danner Friend, Jacques N. Beneat

IN-SITU STRAIN LOCALIZATION MEASUREMENTS OF SHAPE MEMORY ALLOY ACTUATORS DURING A RESEARCH EXPERIENCE FOR UNDERGRADUATES PROGRAM...... 28 Judy Santa, Dimitris C. Lagoudas, Darren John Hartl, Kristi J. Shryock

COMPUTERS IN EDUCATION DIVISION GENERAL TECHNICAL SESSION 1

USING KNOWLEDGE BUILDING TO SUPPORT DEEP LEARNING AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF 21ST CENTURY SKILLS...... 44 Glenn W Ellis, Yanning Yu

ON ADOPTING AN INQUIRY STANCE: A CASE STUDY OF THREE TEACHERS AS THEY INTEGRATED THE INTERLACE TECHNOLOGY TO ENCOURAGE STUDENT SHARING AND REASONING ...... 65 Danielle Marie Dowling, Morgan M Hynes

STUDENT PERCEPTIONS OF ONLINE RESOURCES AS PREDICTORS OF PERFORMANCE IN A HYBRID CLASSROOM: EXPLORATORY FINDINGS FROM A LARGE ENGINEERING ECONOMICS COURSE...... 91 Kellie Grasman, Dan Cernusca, Suzanna Long

TRANSLATING EDUCATIONAL THEORY INTO EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE: A CASE STUDY OF THE ADAPTIVE MAP PROJECT ...... 103 Jacob P. Moore, Michel Paul Pascale, Christopher B. Williams, Chris North

CEED TECHNICAL SESSION 1

INTERNSHIPS AND UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH: IMPACT, SUPPORT, AND INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF AN NSF S-STEM PROGRAM THROUGH PARTNERSHIPS WITH INDUSTRY AND FUNDING FROM FEDERAL AND LOCAL WORKFORCE AGENCIES ...... 118 Lisa Massi, Michael Georgiopoulos, Cynthia Y. Young, Cameron M. Ford, Patrice Lancey, Divya Bhati, Kim A. Small

ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF A STUDENT INTEGRATED INTERN RESEARCH EXPERIENCE AS A PATHWAY TO GRADUATE STUDIES...... 141 Manuel D. Rossetti, Edgar C. Clausen, Carol Schubert, Micah Hale, Kim Lascola Needy

COOPERATIVE EDUCATION AS THE CATALYST FOR EFFECTIVE AND EFFICIENT ASSESSMENT OF ABET STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES FOR AN ENGINEERING PROGRAM ...... 153 Chris Plouff

CO-OPS AND INTERNS-WHAT DO THEY SEE AS THEIR COMMUNICATION NEEDS ...... 172 Craig J. Gunn

PERSPECTIVES FROM INTERNSHIPS AND CO-OPS WITH INDUSTRY...... 188 David Wanless

ASSESSMENT OF STUDENT LEARNING 1

DEFINING AND MEASURING INNOVATIVE THINKING AMONG ENGINEERING UNDERGRADUATES ...... 198 Catherine T. Amelink, Bevlee A. Watford, Glenda R. Scales, Mahnas Jean Mohammadi-Aragh, Dakota Farquhar-Caddell

EMBEDDING LIFELONG LEARNING IN ENGINEERING COURSES ...... 208 Nidal Al-Masoud, Viatcheslav Naoumov, Steven Joseph Kirstukas

PREDICTING COURSE PERFORMANCE FROM HOMEWORK HABITS ...... 222 Kevin Rawson, Tom Stahovich

QUANTITATIVE ASESSMENT OF PROGRAM OUTCOMES USING LONGITUDINAL DATA FROM THE FE EXAM...... 234 Joe C. Guarino, James R Ferguson, V Krishna C Pakala

USING EDUCATIONAL DATA MINING TO IDENTIFY CORRELATIONS BETWEEN HOMEWORK EFFORT AND PERFORMANCE ...... 244 James Herold, Thomas Stahovich, Kevin Rawson

TRAINING AND WORKFORCE NEEDS IN THE ENERGY SECTOR

CENTER FOR ENERGY EDUCATION LABORATORY ...... 258 Robert Gilbert

SMART GRID, INDUSTRY TRENDS AND POWER ENGINEERING EDUCATION...... 272 Wajiha Shireen, Radhakrishna Kotti, Jesus Arturo Villanueva

PILOTING AN ENERGY SPECIALIST TRAINING PROGRAM: LESSONS LEARNED...... 282 Sungwon S. Kim, Patrick A. Tebbe

NUCLEAR WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT SCHOLARSHIPS AND ENHANCEMENTS PROGRAM PHASE I: OUTREACH AND RECRUITING ...... 292 Hayrettin B Karayaka, Mehrube Mehrubeoglu

ENGINEERING AND PUBLIC POLICY I

BEYOND SES: INDIVIDUAL FINANCIAL STATUS AS A PREDICTOR OF PERSISTENCE FOR HIGH- PERFORMING UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING STUDENTS ...... 306 James J. Pembridge, Kacey Beddoes

DEVELOPING AN INSTRUMENT TO ASSESS STUDENT'S PRIOR KNOWLEDGE AND POSSIBLE INTEREST IN PUBLIC POLICY COURSES ...... 315 John Alexander Mendoza-Garcia

TEACHING SOCIAL TOPICS IN ENGINEERING: THE CASE OF ENERGY POLICY AND SOCIAL GOALS ...... 324 Rylan C. Chong, Dennis R. Depew, Ida B Ngambeki, Melissa Jane Dark

ENGINEERING ETHICS DIVISION TECHNICAL SESSION

STUDENT ETHICS IN ENGINEERING: A COMPARISON OF ETHICS SURVEY RESULTS FROM UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING STUDENTS AT THREE DIFFERENT ENGINEERING PROGRAMS AND INSTITUTIONS ...... 340 Jessica A Kuczenski

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF VIDEOS AS A LEARNING TOOL IN AN ENGINEERING ETHICS COURSE: A STUDENTS' PERSPECTIVE...... 362 Mona Itani

ENHANCING ENGINEERING ETHICS CURRICULUM BY ANALYZING STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION...... 374 Brittney Hope Jimerson, Eui Hyun Park, Vinod K Lohani, Steven M. Culver

GLOBAL PORTRAYALS OF ENGINEERING ETHICS EDUCATION: A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW...... 389 Justin L Hess

ENGINEERING LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT DIVISION TECHNICAL SESSION

LEARNING EXPECTATIONS AND OUTCOMES FOR AN ENGINEERING LEADERSHIP PRINCIPLES CLASS ...... 407 Kirsten S. Hochstedt, Andrew Michael Erdman, Richard John Schuhmann

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT IN TIGHT TIMES: SCALING UP COURSES WITHOUT WATERING THEM DOWN ...... 424 Chris Carlson-Dakes, Gregory W Harrington

DEVELOPING ENGINEERING LEADERS USING ENGINEERING LEADERSHIP CAPABILITIES AND LEADERSHIP LABS...... 445 Simon Pitts, Steve McGonagle, Steven W Klosterman

USING LEADERSHIP EDUCATION PRACTICES TO ENHANCE FRESHMEN ENGINEERING STUDENT INTERVIEWING SKILLS ...... 461 David Bayless

ENGINEERING STUDENTS PERSPECTIVE ON MENTORING AND LEADERSHIP...... 469 Diana Bairaktarova, Monica Farmer Cox, Glen Depalma, Pouneh Eftekhari

PURDUE UNIVERSITY’S ENGINEERING LEADERSHIP PROGRAM: ADDRESSING THE SHORTFALL OF ENGINEERING LEADERSHIP EDUCATION ...... 481 Amadin Osagiede, Monica Farmer Cox, Benjamin Ahn

THE IMPACT OF LEADER COACHING BEHAVIOR ON ENGINEERS’ MOTIVATION TO LEARN AND VOICING BEHAVIOR ...... 493 Toby Egan

PROGRAMS IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP

”IMPACT! EXPLORING INNOVATION ACROSS DISCIPLINES” - ENGAGING THE UNIVERSITY INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM THROUGH A UNIVERSITY-WIDE COURSE ...... 512 Steven B. Shooter, Seth Orsborn

DESIGNING, DEVELOPING AND IMPLEMENTING AN ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM ...... 531 Monique Fuchs, Frederick F. Driscoll

ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION CENTER: BRINGING TOGETHER INDUSTRY, FACULTY, AND STUDENTS...... 540 Nada Marie Anid, Steven H. Billis, Marta Alicia Panero

CAMPUS-WIDE COURSE MODIFICATION PROGRAM TO IMPLEMENT ACTIVE & COLLABORATIVE LEARNING AND PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING TO ADDRESS THE ENTREPRENEURIAL MINDSET ...... 554 Andrew L Gerhart, Donald D. Carpenter

DEVELOPING A MARKETING HIGH-TECHNOLOGY PRODUCTS AND INNOVATIONS COURSE: FIRST YEAR REVIEW ...... 574 James V Green, Alyssa E. Cohen Sherman

FPD 1: PROJECTS AND TEAMWORK IN FIRST YEAR COURSES

TEAMWORK IN FIRST-YEAR ENGINEERING PROJECTS COURSES: DOES TRAINING STUDENTS IN TEAM DYNAMICS IMPROVE COURSE OUTCOMES AND STUDENT EXPERIENCES? ...... 589 Malinda S Zarske, Janet L Yowell, Samantha Maierhofer, Derek T Reamon

IMPLEMENTING FIRST-YEAR DESIGN PROJECTS WITH THE POWER OF CHOICE...... 604 Thomas Shepard

PUTTING THE FUN IN PROGRAMMING FUNDAMENTALS - ROBOTS MAKE PROGRAMS TANGIBLE ...... 618 Todd R Hamrick, Robin A. M Hensel

INTRODUCTION OF A DIGITAL LOGIC PROJECT IN A FIRST-YEAR HONORS ENGINEERING COURSE...... 626 Diana G. De La Rosa-Pohl, Stuart A. Long, Casey Goodwin

MATERIALS

STRESS CONCENTRATION FACTORS DUE TO TYPICAL GEOMETRIC DISCONTINUITIES FOR SHAFT DESIGN BY NUMERICAL SIMULATION ...... 647 Xiaobin Le P. E., Zelong Le

CHALLENGES IN TRANSFORMING BRITTLE TO FLEXIBLE STRUCTURES...... 663 John M Mativo, Siddharth Savadatti

DESIGN AND ANALYZE THE FRAME FOR THE GLOBAL SUSTAINABLE URBAN TRANSPORT (SUT) VEHICLE...... 675 Mohammad Kamal Hossain

PROVIDING LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES BY DESIGNING A SPLIT HOPKINSON PRESSURE BAR...... 686 Mohamad Dyab, Payam Matin, Yuanwei Jin

BEYOND THE CLASSROOM: SUMMER AND SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMS TO ENGAGE MINORITIES

A SURVEYING COURSE AS SUMMER EXPERIENCE FOR...... 707 G. Padmanabhan, D. Darshi De Saram, Thomas Charles Schanandore, James Schanandore, Robert V. Pieri

A HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL SUMMER ACCELERATOR MATH PROGRAM IN A HISPANIC SERVING INSTITUTION ...... 721 Ivan Lopez Hurtado, Charles Knight, Raul R Peralta, Jorge Crichigno

PREPARING UNDERREPRESENTED STUDENTS FOR SUCCESS IN ENGINEERING: RESULTS AND LESSONS LEARNED FROM FOUR YEARS OF THE SUMMER ENGINEERING INSTITUTE ...... 737 Amelito G Enriquez, Wenshen Pong, Nilgun Melek Ozer, Hamid Mahmoodi, Hao Jiang, Cheng Chen

DESIGN OF A SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM FOR OPTIMAL IMPACT ...... 762 Jeffrey W. Fergus, Shirley A Scott-Harris

NSF GRANTEES’ POSTER SESSION

A STUDY OF THE IMPACT OF PEER-LED TEAM LEARNING ON THE FIRST-YEAR MATH COURSE PERFORMANCE OF ENGINEERING STUDENTS ...... 772 John R. Reisel, Marissa Jablonski, Ethan Munson

DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW POWER ELECTRONICS CURRICULUM RELEVANT TO TOMORROW'S POWER ENGINEERING CHALLENGES...... 787 Nicholas David, Suman Debnath, Munadir Aziz Ahmed, Dionysios C. Aliprantis, Maryam Saeedifard

LIVE ENERGY: AN INITIATIVE FOR TEACHING ENERGY AND SUSTAINABILITY TOPICS WITH THE MOST UP-TO-DATE AND RELEVANT CONTENT ...... 799 Christine Ehlig-Economides, Bugrahan Yalvac, Emily Binks-Cantrell, Don R Gilman, Mehmet Ayar Timothy Allen Robinson, Anthony R Kovscek, Reza Toossi, Sarma V. Pisupati

IMPACT OF STUDENT TOURS OF MANUFACTURING FACILITIES ...... 817 Marilyn Barger, Richard Gilbert, Marie A. Boyette

GRAND CHALLENGES DELI (DISCOVER, EXPLORE, LEARN, IMAGINE) PROJECT UPDATE...... 827 Jane Hunter, James C. Baygents

ENGINEERING INTRODUCTION IN PRE-CALCULUS COURSES...... 836 Richard M. Bennett, Margaret Helen Russell, Claudia J Rawn

FROM THEORY TO IMPLEMENTATION: MEETING INDUSTRY NEEDS THROUGH UNIVERSITY & COMMUNITY COLLEGE COLLABORATION IN DIGITAL LOGIC DESIGN PROGRESS REPORT...... 844 Nasser Alaraje, Aleksandr Sergeyev

AN ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGY FOR EXAMINING THE ROLE OF SLATE ENABLED TECHNOLOGY IN DEVELOPING INNOVATIVE THINKING ...... 855 Catherine T. Amelink, Glenda R. Scales, Bevlee A. Watford

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH AND THE SMART GRID: REU-SITE: ENGINEERING THE GRID...... 859 Leda Lunardi

MENTAL MODELS OF STUDENTS AND PRACTITIONERS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENT FOR TRAFFIC SIGNAL ENGINEERING ...... 870 David S Hurwitz, Shane A. Brown, Mohammad Rabiul Islam, Kelvin Daratha

RESULTS FROM IMPLEMENTATION AND ASSESSMENT OF CASE STUDIES IN THE ENGINEERING CURRICULUM...... 876 Norb Delatte, Joshua Gisemba Bagaka, Matthew W Roberts, Rebecca A Atadero, Manoochehr Zoghi, Philip W. Johnson, Tara L. Cavalline, Michael K Thompson

INFLUENCE OF S-STEM FUNDING: CHALLENGES AND SUCCESSES...... 892 Mo Ahmadian

Volume 2

GROWING ASSESSMENT CAPACITY OF ENGINEERING EDUCATORS THROUGH ASSESS...... 903 Denny C. Davis, Jennifer E Lebeau, Michael S. Trevisan, Howard P Davis, Shane A. Brown, Brian F French

THE DEVELOPMENT OF PRODUCT ARCHAEOLOGY AS A PLATFORM FOR CONTEXTUALIZING ENGINEERING DESIGN...... 912 Kemper Lewis, Deborah A. Moore-Russo, Gul E. Okudan Kremer, Conrad Tucke, Timothy W. Simpson, Sarah E Zappe, Ann F. McKenna, Adam R Carberry, Wei Chen, David W. Gatchell

CONNECTING RESEARCH AND TEACHING THROUGH PRODUCT INNOVATION: QUALITY OF LIFE TECHNOLOGY RET SITE ...... 929 Mary R Goldberg, Jon Pearlman, Christian D Schunn, Birdy Reynolds, Shelly Renee Brown

CONFIGURATION AND ASSESSMENT OF A SENIOR LEVEL COURSE IN BIOMETRIC SYSTEMS...... 936 Ravi P. Ramachandran, Robi Polikar, Kevin D. Dahm, Robert M Nickel, Richard J. Kozick, Sachin Shetty, Ying Tang, Steven H Chin

A MULTIDISCIPLINARY UNDERGRADUATE NANOTECHNOLOGY EDUCATION PROGRAM ...... 950 Priscilla J Hill, Oliver J. Myers, Yaroslav Koshka, Giselle Thibaudeau, Carlen Henington

TRANSFORMING UNDERGRADUATE CURRICULUM FOR GREEN PLASTICS MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY ...... 957 Spencer Seung-Hyun Kim

NSF ATE CREATE RENEWABLE ENERGY CENTER ...... 965 Kathleen Alfano

EFFECTIVE COLLABORATIVE INQUIRY-BASED LEARNING IN UNDERGRADUATE COMPUTER NETWORKING CURRICULUM...... 980 Jianyu Dong, Huiping Guo

CELL DI-ELECTROROTATION: STUDYING OF ROTATION TO CHARACTERIZE BIOLOGICAL CELLS AND THE CONNECTIONS IN ENGINEERING TO THE NEXT GENERATION STANDARDS ...... 991 Shawn H Maison, Adam J. P. Bauer, Steven Shapardanis, Thomas Stuart White, Ze Zhang, Bingbing Li, Qin Hu, Tolga Kaya

THE ICOLLABORATE MSE PROJECT: PROGRESS UPDATE 2013 ...... 1002 Kathleen L Kitto, Debra S. Jusak

ENHANCING PEER-LEARNING USING SMART DEVICES ...... 1022 Zahed Siddique, Firas Akasheh, Gul E. Okudan Kremer

COLLABORATIVELY DEVELOPING RESEARCH-BASED CURRICULAR MATERIALS TO IMPROVE CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION ...... 1035 Shane A. Brown, Devlin B. Montfort, Cara J Poor

CAREER: COGNITIVE MODELS OF CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING IN PRACTICING CIVIL ENGINEERS AND DEVELOPMENT OF SITUATED CURRICULAR MATERIALS...... 1040 Shane A. Brown

FROM DEFENSE TO DEGREE: ACCELERATING DEGREE OPPORTUNITIES FOR MILITARY VETERANS ...... 1045 David L. Soldan, Don Gruenbacher, Noel N. Schulz, Blythe A Vogt, William Bowes Hageman

SMARTER TEAMWORK: SYSTEM FOR MANAGEMENT, ASSESSMENT, RESEARCH, TRAINING, EDUCATION, AND REMEDIATION FOR TEAMWORK ...... 1052 Matthew W. Ohland, Misty L. Loughry, Richard A. Layton, Rebecca Lyons, Daniel Michael Ferguson, Kyle Heyne, Tripp Driskell, David Jonathan Woehr, Hal R Pomeranz, Eduardo Salas, Andrew Caleb Loignon

EVALUATION OF A FIRST-YEAR RETENTION PROJECT: FINDINGS AT HALFTIME...... 1063 Alan D. Niemi, Matthew G. Green, Melanie Roudkovski

THREE TRAINING PROGRAMS FOR PREPARING UNDERGRADUATES TO CONDUCT RESEARCH...... 1089 Susan L. Burkett, David F. Bahr, Shelley N Pressley, Kimberly R Schneider, John C Lusth

GAME EFFECTIVENESS OF POWER VILLE IN PROMOTING SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING DESIGN ...... 1100 Ying Tang, Sachin Shetty, Kauser Jahan, John P Henry, S. Keith Hargrove, Talbot Bielefeldt

CAREER: STUDENT MOTIVATION AND LEARNING IN ENGINEERING ...... 1110 Lisa Benson, Adam Kirn, Beshoy Morkos

MAKING ETHICS EXPLICIT: RELOCATING ETHICS TO THE CORE OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION ...... 1123 Mary E. Sunderland, Joonhong Ahn, Cathryn Carson, William E. Kastenberg

LAB-IN-A-BOX: STRATEGIES TO TEACH ONLINE LAB COURSES WHILE MAINTAINING COURSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES AND OUTCOMES...... 1134 Kathleen Meehan, Justin Adam Cartwright

CURRICULAR MATERIALS AND METHODS FOR STUDENT CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING IN MECHANICS OF MATERIALS ...... 1142 Shane A. Brown, Devlin Montfort

ANALYSIS OF CONTEXTUAL COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN (CAD) EXERCISES ...... 1148 Elif Oztur, Bugrahan Yalvac, Xiaobo Peng, Lauralee Mariel Valverde, Prentiss Dwight McGary, Michael Johnson

USE OF INTERACTIVE CLASSROOM MODELS AND ACTIVITIES TO INCREASE COMPREHENSION OF GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING CONCEPTS...... 1164 Kimberly A Warren, Chuang Wang

WHAT IS ENGINEERING KNOWLEDGE: A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF CONCEPTUAL CHANGE AND EPISTEMOLOGY OF ENGINEERING STUDENTS AND PRACTITIONERS...... 1184 Shane A. Brown, Devlin Montfort, Nadia L. Frye

USING VIDEO MEDIA TO ENHANCE CONCEPTUAL LEARNING IN AN UNDERGRADUATE THERMODYNAMICS COURSE...... 1204 James P Abulencia, Margot A Vigeant, David L. Silverstein

ENGAGED IN THERMODYNAMICS - STUDENT ENGAGEMENT IN THE CLASSROOM...... 1209 Patrick A. Tebbe

FACULTY DEVELOPMENT USING VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE...... 1216 Russell Pimmel, Ann F. McKenna, Norman L. Fortenberry, Brian Yode, Rocio C Chavela Guerra

ASSESSMENT AND REPAIR OF CRITICAL MISCONCEPTIONS IN ENGINEERING HEAT TRANSFER AND THERMODYNAMICS ...... 1233 Michael J. Prince, Margot A Vigeant, Katharyn E. K. Nottis

FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE FACULTY MOTIVATION OF EFFECTIVE TEACHING PRACTICES IN ENGINEERING ...... 1239 Cynthia J. Finelli, Kenyon M Richardson, Hanna R. Daly

A NANOELECTRONICS CONCEPT INVENTORY: A TOOL TO ASSESS LEARNING OF FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS ...... 1250 Syed Iqbal Omar, Amit Verma, Reza Nekovei

TOYS AND MATHEMATICAL OPTIONS FOR RETENTION IN ENGINEERING (TOYS'N MORE) INTERMEDIATE OUTCOMES FOR STEM STUDENTS WHO PARTICIPATED IN MATH TUTORING, A TOY-BASED FRESHMAN ENGINEERING DESIGN COURSE, OR A SUMMER BRIDGE PROGRAM ...... 1261 Catherine L Cohan, Alexander Yin, Amy Freeman, Javier Gomez-Calderon, Janice M. Margle, Jill L Lane, Dhushy Sathianathan

THE ARROWS IN OUR BACKS: LESSONS LEARNED TRYING TO CHANGE THE ENGINEERING CURRICULUM...... 1289 Steven W Villachica, Anthony Wayne Marker, Donald Plumlee, Linda Huglin, Amy Chegash

INCORPORATING ENGINEERING INTO THE HIGH SCHOOL CHEMISTRY CLASSROOM...... 1307 Lisa Arnold, Ze Zhang, Tolga Kaya, Bingbing Li, Qin Hu

REU SITE: SUMMER UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH IN ENGINEERING/SCIENCE PROGRAM AT THE GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY...... 1312 Leyla F Conrad, Gary S. May, Jilll L Auerbach

COLLABORATIVE DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNET-ACCESSIBLE, INTERACTIVE, MEDICAL IMAGING TEACHING COURSEWARE AND APPLICATION TO UNDERGRADUATE CURRICULA...... 1324 Weizhao Zhao, Ann G Bessell, Nurgun Erdol, Anthony J McGoron, William T. Rhodes

A GRAND CHALLENGE-BASED FRAMEWORK FOR CONTEXTUAL LEARNING IN ENGINEERING ...... 1333 Lisa G. Huettel, Michael R. Gustafson, Joseph C. Nadeau, David Schaad, Michael M Barger, Lisa Linnenbrink-Garcia

CHARACTERISTICS OF STUDENTS WHO DO NOT DO HOMEWORK...... 1347 Richard M. Bennett, William Schleter, Taimi Olsen, Stan Guffey, Wenshu Li

DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTERVIEW PROTOCOL TO UNDERSTAND ENGINEERING AS A CAREER CHOICE FOR APPALACHIAN YOUTH...... 1355 Mrs. Cheryl Carrico, Matthew Arnold, Holly M Matusovich, Marie C Paretti

DEFINING MAKERS MAKING: EMERGENT PRACTICE AND EMERGENT MEANINGS ...... 1369 Micah Lande, Shawn S Jordan, James Nelson

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: INTEGRATION OF CONCEPTUAL LEARNING THROUGHOUT THE CORE CHEMICAL ENGINEERING CURRICULUM -YEAR 2...... 1377 Milo Koretsky, John L. Falconer, David L. Silverstein, Ronald L. Miller, Debra Gilbuena, Bill Jay Brooks

NSF TUES: DEVELOPMENT OF WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM LAB MODULES AND KITS FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT EDUCATION ...... 1385 Youngwoo Seo, Christopher Mark Hessler, Donald V. Chase

LEARNED LESSONS FROM THE FIRST YEAR RESEARCH EXPERIENCES FOR TEACHERS PROGRAM...... 1389 Tolga Kaya, Kumar Yelamarthi, Brian P Dejong, Qin Hu, Shaopeng Cheng, Steve Kettler, Daniel Chen

CREATING SCALABLE REFORM IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION THROUGH LOW-COST INTRINSIC MOTIVATION COURSE CONVERSIONS OF ENGINEERING COURSES...... 1406 Geoffrey L Herman, Kathryn F Trenshaw, Michael C. Loui, Kerri Ann Green, David E. Goldberg

FEEDBACK IN COMPLEX, AUTHENTIC, INDUSTRIALLY SITUATED ENGINEERING PROJECTS USING EPISODES AS A DISCOURSE ANALYSIS FRAMEWORK - YEAR 1 ...... 1418 Milo Koretsky, Audrey Briggs Champagne, Debra Gilbuena

IMPROVING STUDENT ENGAGEMENT VIA CONTENT PERSONALIZATION ...... 1426 Christopher D. Schmitz, Michael C. Loui, Renata A Revelo Alonso

PIPELINE FOR PROGRESS: MULTI-LEVEL INSTITUTIONAL COLLABORATION FOR ENGINEERING EDUCATION...... 1432 Caye M Drapcho, Lib Crockett

INCORPORATING BIOMETRICS TECHNOLOGY INTO A SOPHOMORE LEVEL GENERAL EDUCATION COURSE...... 1453 Shane Cotter, Anastasia Pease

BRIDGING ENGINEERING, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY (BEST) FOR ELEMENTARY EDUCATORS ...... 1462 Erin M Fitzgerald, Christine M Cunningham

A FRAMEWORK FOR IMPLEMENTING QUALITY K-12 ENGINEERING EDUCATION...... 1481 Tamara J Moore, Aran W Glancy, Kristina Maruyama Tank, Jennifer Anna Kersten, Micah S Stohlmann, Forster D. Ntow, Karl A Smith

IMPACT OF PLP ON STUDENT LEARNING: INITIAL RESULTS ...... 1502 Rebecca L. Damron, Sohum A Sohoni, Yoonjung Cho, Kerri S Kearney

ATTRACTING COLLEGE AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS TO STUDY ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY THROUGH HANDS-ON MECHATRONICS PRODUCT DESIGN PROJECTS ...... 1518 Andy S Zhang, Sidi Berri, Iem H Heng, Farrukh Zia

TECHNOLOGICAL LITERACY: ASSESSMENT AND MEASUREMENT OF LEARNING GAINS ...... 1528 John Krupczak, Kate A Disney

CCLI: EVALUATION OF A MENTORING PROGRAM FOR DELIVERING ENGINEERING CONTENT TO CALCULUS STUDENTS...... 1539 Jeremiah J. Neubert, Deborah Worley, Naima Kaabouch, Mohammad Khavanin

BRIDGING THE VALLEY OF DEATH: EXAMINING THE WORK ENVIRONMENT INFLUENCING ADOPTION OF INNOVATIONS IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION...... 1549 Kirsten A Davis, Ross A. Perkins, R. Casey Cline, Sondra M Miller

IMPACTING UNDERGRADUATE NANOSCIENCE AND NANOENGINEERING EDUCATION ...... 1562 Dhananjay Kumar, Devdas M. Pai, Courtney Lambeth, Robin Guill Liles, Narayan Bhattarai

INTRODUCING SOFTWARE DEFINED RADIO INTO UNDERGRADUATE WIRELESS ENGINEERING CURRICULUM THROUGH A HANDS-ON APPROACH ...... 1573 Shiwen Mao, Yingsong Huang, Yihan Li, Prathima Agrawal, Jitendra K Tugnait

THE SEARCH FOR STRATEGIES TO PREVENT PERSISTENT MISCONCEPTIONS ...... 1585 Dazhi Yang, Inanc Senocak

VIRTUAL 3-D LABORATORY FOR CNC MACHINING AND AUTOMATION CURRICULUM ...... 1593 Yalcin Ertekin, Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Radian G Belu, Jack G. Zhou

DEVELOPMENT OF LABORATORY MODULES FOR USE IN MEASUREMENT AND INSTRUMENTATION, AND APPLIED QUALITY CONTROL COURSES...... 1607 Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Yalcin Ertekin, Radian G Belu

NUE: NANOCORE II (NANOTECHNOLOGY CONCEPTS, OPPORTUNITIES, RESEARCH AND EDUCATION) AT THE FAMU-FSU COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING ...... 1624 Mei Zhang, Amy B Chan Hilton

PROMOTING CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING IN ENGINEERING STATICS THROUGH THE USE OF ADAPTIVE CONCEPT MAPS ...... 1630 Jacob P. Moore, Christopher B. Williams, Chris North, Aditya Johri

MEETING THE NAE GRAND CHALLENGE: PERSONALIZED LEARNING FOR ENGINEERING STUDENTS THROUGH INSTRUCTION ON METACOGNITION AND MOTIVATION STRATEGIES ...... 1643 Michele Miller, James P. De Clerck, Sheryl A. Sorby, Laura Maria Roberts, William J. Endres, Kevin David Hale

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CENTER FOR MOBILE HANDS-ON STEM...... 1652 Kenneth A Connor, Kathleen Meehan, Bonnie Ferri, Dianna Newman, Yacob Astatke, Mohamed F. Chouikha, Deborah Walter

MECHANIX: EVALUATING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF A SKETCH RECOGNITION TRUSS TUTORING PROGRAM AGAINST OTHER TRUSS PROGRAMS ...... 1662 Olufunmilola Atilola, Erin M McTigue, Tracy Anne Hammond, Julie S Linsey

A COMPARISON OF DESIGN SELF-EFFICACY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING FRESHMEN, SOPHOMORES, AND SENIORS...... 1677 Joanna Tsenn, Daniel A. McAdams, Julie S Linsey

A LIBRARY OF HANDS-ON NANOSCIENCE ACTIVITIES APPROPRIATE FOR GRADE 10 THROUGH 14 STUDENTS ...... 1692 Deb Newberry

ASSESSMENT OF ACTIVE LEARNING MODULES: AN UPDATE OF RESEARCH FINDINGS ...... 1699 Ashland O. Brown, Richard H. Crawford, Daniel D. Jensen, Joseph J. Rencis, Jiancheng Liu, Kyle A. Watson, Kathy Schmidt Jackson, Rachelle Kisst Hackett, Paul Henry Schimpf, Chuan-Chiang Chen, Ismail I Orabi, Firas Akasheh, Brock U Dunlap, Ella R. Sargent

INFORMAL PATHWAYS TO ENGINEERING...... 1725 Monica E Cardella, Marisa Wolsky, Christine Andrews Paulsen, Tamecia R Jones

ENGAGING US ENGINEERING STUDENTS IN FUEL CELL RESEARCH AT A FOREIGN SITE...... 1736 Xia Wang, Qian Zou, Laila Guessous, Gary Barber, Michael A Latcha

METSTEP: THIRD YEAR REVIEW ...... 1746 Mary R. Anderson-Rowland, Armando A. Rodriguez, Anita Grierson, Richard A. Hall, Phil Blake McBride, John H Bailey, Rakesh Pangasa, Clark Vangilder, Russell Cox

S-STEM PROGRAMS FOR TRANSFER AND NON-TRANSFER UPPER DIVISION AND GRADUATE ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE STUDENTS...... 1760 Mary R. Anderson-Rowland, Armando A. Rodriguez, Anita Grierson

COLLABORATIVE CLASSROOM TOOLS FOR NANOTECHNOLOGY PROCESS EDUCATION ...... 1770 Andrew Sarangan, Joseph W Haus, Surinder M. Jain, Jamshid Moradmand, Nick Reeder

BUILDING BRIDGES BETWEEN THE ENGINEERING CLASSROOM AND THE RESEARCH LABORATORY: NANOSCIENCE AT UNION COLLEGE SUPPORTED BY THE NSF NUE PROGRAM...... 1780 Palmyra Catravas, Michael E Hagerman, Brian D. Cohen, Samuel Amanuel, Rebecca Cortez, Kevin Bubriski, Amin Meyghani, Seyfollah Maleki

AN EXPERIMENT TO INTRODUCE TEMPERATURE-RESPONSIVE POLYMERS FOR BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS: POLYMER SYNTHESIS ...... 1791 Stephanie Farrell, Jennifer Vernengo, Madina Yermagambetova, Zhanna Zhatkanbaeva

Volume 3

AN EXPERIMENT TO INTRODUCE PH-RESPONSIVE HYDROGELS FOR CONTROLLED DRUG DELIVERY: MECHANICAL TESTING ...... 1801 Stephanie Farrell, Jennifer Vernengo, Madina Yermagambetova, Peter John Schwalbenberg

A NATIONAL MODEL FOR ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS EDUCATION: LONGITUDINAL IMPACT AT WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY...... 1813 Nathan W. Klingbeil, Anthony Bourne

ORGANIZING THE CURRICULUM: INTRODUCING ENGINEERING PRINCIPLES THROUGH BIOMEDICALLY RELATED EXPERIMENTS: MODULE DEVELOPMENT ...... 1825 Stephanie Farrell, Jennifer Vernengo, Mary Staehle, Jennifer Kadlowec, Tom Merrill, Robi Polikar, Johannes Strobel

WATER AND WASTEWATER TECHNICIAN EDUCATION...... 1835 Jana Fattic, Andrew N. S. Ernes, Joseph Lee Gutenson

INTEGRATED SERVICE-LEARNING: STUDENTS PERSPECTIVES...... 1847 Emmanuelle Reynaud, Linda Barrington, Ella Willard-Schmoe

INTEGRATING CYBER INFRASTRUCTURE WITH PHYSICAL LABORATORIES ...... 1865 Yongpeng Zhang, Lin Li

DESIGN AND SIMULATION OF A SUN TRACKING SOLAR POWER SYSTEM ...... 1872 Liping Guo, Jingbo Han, Andrew W Otieno

JUST-IN-TIME-TEACHING WITH INTERACTIVE FREQUENT FORMATIVE FEEDBACK (JITTIFFF OR JTF) FOR CYBER LEARNING IN CORE MATERIALS COURSES...... 1879 Stephen J Krause, Dale R Baker, Adam R Carberry, Milo Koretsky, Bill Jay Brooks, Debra Gilbuena, Cindy Waters, Casey Jane Ankeny

E-BOOK ON DSP THEORY WITH INTERACTIVE IOS, JAVA, AND ANDROID SIMULATIONS ...... 1889 Andreas S Spanias, Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan, Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy, Mahesh K Banavar, Suhas Ranganath, Xue Zhang, Girish Kalyanasundaram, Deepta Rajan

TEACHING LINEAR CIRCUIT ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES WITH COMPUTERS...... 1903 Brian J Skromme, Qiao Wang, Paul Rayes, John M Quick, Robert Kenneth Atkinson, Tim Frank

ENGAGING COMMUNITY COLLEGE STUDENTS IN UNIVERSITY RESEARCH...... 1914 Maria Teresa Napoli, Arica Lubin, Liu-Yen Krame, Jens-Uwe Kuhn, Nicholas Arnold, Ofelia Aguirre, Megan T. Valentine

EARLY WORK FOR THE MATHEMATICS AS A GATEKEEPER TO ENGINEERING PROJECT: A REVIEW OF INFORMAL LEARNING, ENGINEERING AND DESIGN THINKING LITERATURE ...... 1926 Delean A Tolbert, Monica E Cardella

INTEGRATING RESEARCH TO THE UNDERGRADUATE GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING CLASSROOM ...... 1944 James L. Hanson

AN ENGINEERING AND EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY TEAM APPROACH TO INTRODUCING NEW UNSATURATED SOILS MECHANICS MATERIAL INTO INTRODUCTORY UNDERGRADUATE GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING COURSES...... 1953 Arthur Ornelas, John Sadauskas, Sandra Houston, Wilhelmina C. Saveny, Eddy Ramirez, Claudia E. Zapata

IMAGE ANALYSIS OF MICROFLUIDICS: VISUALIZATION OF FLOW AT THE MICROSCALE ...... 1978 Michael G Mauk, Richard Chiou, Vladimir Genis, Eric Carr

LEARNING TO LISTEN: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC APPROACH TO ENGINEERING ETHICS EDUCATION ...... 1995 Yanna Lambrinidou, Marc Edwards

MICRO-PATTERNED POLYPROPYLENE FILMS: REDUCED SLIDING FRICTION ...... 2001 Amod Ogale, Sarah Kelley Hulseman, Andrew Hampton Cannon, Byron S. Villacorta

TRANSFORMING UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING EDUCATION WITH 3D VIRTUAL REALITY LABORATORY ...... 2012 Pnina Ari-Gur, Pavel Ikonomov, Roman Rabiej, Peter Thannhauser, Marwa M Hassan, Daniel M. Litynski, Renee Schwartz

CORRELATION ANALYSIS OF SCAFFOLDING CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING THROUGH QUESTION PROMPTS WITH PROCESS AND OUTCOMES OF PROJECT-BASED SERVICE LEARNING ...... 2021 Wei Zheng, Liusheng Wang, Jianjun Yin

COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS IN ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION

USING BUILDING SIMULATION TO TEACH HIGH PERFORMANCE AND INTEGRATED DESIGN ...... 2042 Jacob Nathan Dunn, Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg, Sherry McKibben

THE BRIDGE HOUSE: A LIVING DYNAMICS LABORATORY ...... 2070 Graham C. Archer, Cole C McDaniel, Pablo D. Ramos

ADAPTIVE RE-USE: THE ARCHITECTURE OF RE-PURPOSING EXISTING OBJECTS ...... 2080 David Jan Cowan, Kirsten Hill, Mary Ann Frank

HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT: CAMPUS SCAVENGER HUNT TO TEACH STRUCTURES AND TECHNOLOGY TO ARCHITECTS...... 2093 Sinead Macnamara, Robert A. Svetz

BIOLOGICAL AND AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION TECHNICAL SESSION

\ NETWORK PARTICLE TRACKING (NPT) AND POST PATH ANALYSIS FOR UNDERSTANDING STUDENT LEARNING AND RETENTION...... 2103 Ernest W. Tollner, Qianqian Ma, Caner Kazanci

IMPLEMENTATION OF A "RAPID DESIGN CHALLENGE" IN A CROSS-DISCIPLINARY SENIOR CAPSTONE COURSE AND EVALUATION OF DEVICE PERFORMANCE ...... 2123 Abby M Kell, David Jones, Roger Michael Hoy, Evan Curtis, Angela Kaye Pannier, Richard R. Stowell

COOPERATIVE TEACHING IN A DISTANCE EDUCATION ENVIRONMENT ...... 2143 Chi N. Thai, Yan-Fu Kuo, Ping-Lang Yen

FOSTERING CREATIVITY IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION THROUGH EXPERIENTIAL AND TEAM- BASED LEARNING ...... 2158 Chehra Aboukinane, Daniel N. Moriasi, Ann L. Kenimer, Kim Dooley, James Linder

EXPERIENCES IN ENGINEERING COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

SERVICE-LEARNING AS A DRIVING FORCE FOR CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT IN CCE 1001, "INTRODUCTION TO ENGINEERING DESIGN" ...... 2183 Edmund Tsang, Darrell G. Harden, Danielle Elise Larson-Jaramillo

A COMMUNITY-ENGAGEMENT-BASED DESIGN PROJECT IN INTRODUCTORY ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING ...... 2193 Mary Cardenas

A FOLLOW-UP STUDY OF A FIRST-YEAR LEADERSHIP AND SERVICE LEARNING MODULE...... 2207 Farzana Ansari, Jennifer Wang, Ryan Shelby, Eli Patten, Lisa A Pruitt

IMPLEMENTING A SERVICE LEARNING CLASS FOR UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERS WITH LITTLE REQUIRED BUDGET...... 2233 Joan B Schuman, Kellie Grasman

BREAKING GROUND: THE LSU COMMUNITY PLAYGROUND PROJECT ...... 2242 Marybeth Lima

RISK VS. LIABILITY ASSOCIATED WITH OFF-CAMPUS STUDENT EXCURSIONS...... 2255 Francis J. Hopcroft

COMPUTER HARDWARE AND SIMULATION

FLOWVISUAL: DESIGN AND EVALUATION OF A VISUALIZATION TOOL FOR TEACHING 2D FLOW FIELD CONCEPTS ...... 2274 Man Wang, Jun Tao, Chaoli Wang, Ching-Kuang Shene, Seung Hyun Kim

USE OF A CPLD IN AN INTRODUCTORY LOGIC CIRCUITS COURSE...... 2294 Krista M Hill, Ying Yu

A CONTROLLER IMPLEMENTATION USING FPGA IN LABVIEW ENVIRONMENT...... 2308 Biswanath Samanta, Jonathan Gregory Turner

AN INEXPENSIVE APPROACH FOR TEACHING ADAPTIVE FILTERS USING REAL-TIME DSP ON A NEW HARDWARE PLATFORM ...... 2319 Michael G. Morrow, Cameron H. G. Wright, Thad B. Welch

CROSSING BOUNDARIES SERVICE LEARNING AND INTERDISCIPLINARY TEAMS

ENGAGING STUDENT LEARNING THROUGH PUBLIC SERVICE PROJECTS...... 2329 Philip A. Dunn

THE CONFLUENCE OF INFORMATION: TEAMBUILDING IS NOT ENOUGH TO PRODUCE SUCCESSFUL INTERDISCIPLINARY TEAMS ...... 2337 Edwin R. Schmeckpeper, Michael Puddicombe

INTERDISCIPLINARY TEAM PROJECT - INTERNATIONAL SOLAR DECATHLON ...... 2349 James G Sullivan

ENHANCING STUDENT LEARNING AND ENGAGEMENT IN CONSTRUCTION COURSE USING SERVICE LEARNING...... 2362 Chung-Suk Cho, Candace Mazze, Sandra Loree Dika, Gary Bruce Gehrig

CEED TECHNICAL SESSION 2

“LEVERAGING CO-OP EXPERIENCES TO ENHANCE ENGINEERING STUDENTS' LEADERSHIP SKILLS”...... 2371 Karen P Kelley, Steven Thomas McGonagle

THE IMPACT OF SELF-EFFICACY, THROUGH EXPERIENTIAL EDUCATION, ON THE RETENTION OF ENGINEERING STUDENTS...... 2387 Mohamad Metghalchi, Richard Harris, Emanuel Mason, Claire Duggan

THE EFFECT OF COOPERATIVE EDUCATION AND CONTEXTUAL SUPPORT ON THE RETENTION OF UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING STUDENTS ...... 2398 Joseph A Raelin, Margaret B. Bailey, Jerry Carl Hamann, David L. Whitman, Rachelle Reisberg, Leslie K. Pendleton

ENGINEERING STUDENTS' PERCEPTIONS OF WORKPLACE PROBLEM SOLVING ...... 2424 Rui Pan, Johannes Strobel

DESIGN PEDAGOGY AND CURRICULUM 1

A HANDS-ON, ACTIVE LEARNING APPROACH TO INCREASING MANUFACTURING KNOWLEDGE IN ENGINEERING STUDENTS...... 2438 Jay R. Goldberg, David B. Rank

CONNECTING DESIGN PROBLEM CHARACTERISTICS TO PROTOTYPING CHOICES TO FORM A PROTOTYPING STRATEGY ...... 2452 Bradley Adam Camburn, Brock U Dunlap, Vimal Kumar Viswanathan, Julie S Linsey, Daniel D. Jensen, Richard H. Crawford, Kevin Otto, Kristin L. Wood

ASSESSING THE DESIGN OF A RAPID PRODUCT DESIGN CYCLE ACTIVITY THAT DEVELOPS STUDENT UNDERSTANDING OF ENGINEERING DESIGN AND PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE ...... 2469 Patricia Kristine Sheridan, Robert Irish, Jason A. Foster

THE INNOVATION CANVAS - A TOOL TO DEVELOP INTEGRATED PRODUCT DESIGNS AND BUSINESS MODELS ...... 2491 William A Kline, Cory A. Hixson, Thomas W. Mason, Patricia Brackin, Robert M. Bunch, Kay C Dee, Glen A. Livesay

CHANGES IN STUDENT PERCEPTIONS OF ENGINEERING DESIGN DURING THE COMPLETION OF A SOLID MODELING COURSE ...... 2511 Steven Joseph Kirstukas, Nidal Al-Masoud

LABORATORY EXPERIENCES IN SIGNAL PROCESSING AND CONTROLS

\ TEACHING ENGINEERING DESIGN CONCEPTS THROUGH A MULTIDISCIPLINARY CONTROL PROJECT...... 2527 Ding Yuan

TEACHING SPEECH AND AUDIO PROCESSING IMPLEMENTATIONS USING LABVIEW PROGRAM AND DAQ BOARDS...... 2540 Jean Jiang, Li Tan

BYOE: MOBILE EXPERIMENT FOR SIGNALS AND SYSTEMS - ANALYSIS OF A GUITAR STRING...... 2553 Bonnie Ferri, Aldo A. Ferri, Kenneth A Connor

A SYSTEMATIC APPROACH FOR DEVELOPMENT AND SIMULATION OF DIGITAL CONTROL ALGORITHMS USING SIMULINK ...... 2567 Matthew G Feemster

TRENDS IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION

INTERNATIONAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION JOURNALS: PAST, PRESENT AND POTENTIAL RESEARCH DIRECTIONS ...... 2579 Leticia Anaya

STUDYING FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE SCHOLAR RETENTION IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION RESEARCH...... 2603 Hanjun Xian, Krishna Madhavan

THE CHALLENGE OF CHANGE IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION: IS IT THE DIFFUSION OF INNOVATIONS OR TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING?...... 2618 Junaid A. Siddiqui, Robin Adams

MEASURING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PEDAGOGICAL INNOVATIONS USING MULTIPLE BASELINE TESTING ...... 2641 Alex Albert, Matthew R. Hallowell

ENGINEERING IDENTITY 1

THE DEVELOPMENT OF CRITICAL ENGINEERING AGENCY, IDENTITY, AND THE IMPACT ON ENGINEERING CAREER CHOICES...... 2656 Allison Godwin, Geoff Potvin, Zahra Hazari

ENGINEERING IDENTITY OF BLACK AND HISPANIC UNDERGRADUATES: THE IMPACT OF MINORITY SERVING INSTITUTIONS ...... 2670 Lorraine N. Fleming, Kalynda Chivon Smith, Dawn G. Williams, Leonard B. Bliss

FROM FRESHMAN ENGINEERING STUDENTS TO PRACTICING PROFESSIONALS: CHANGES IN BELIEFS ABOUT IMPORTANT SKILLS OVER TIME...... 2688 Katherine E Winters, Holly M Matusovich, Samantha Brunhaver, Helen L. Chen, Ken Yasuhara, Sheri Sheppard

Volume 4

THE IMPACT OF INCLUSIVE EXCELLENCE PROGRAMS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF ENGINEERING IDENTITY AMONG FIRST-YEAR UNDERREPRESENTED STUDENTS ...... 2708 Daniel Knigh, Jacquelyn F. Sullivan, Daria A Kotys-Schwartz, Beth A Myers, Beverly Louie, Jeffrey T. Luftig, Malinda S Zarske, Jordan Michelle Hornback

A PICTURE ELICITS A THOUSAND MEANINGS: PHOTO ELICITATION AS A METHOD FOR INVESTIGATING CROSS-DISCIPLINARY IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT ...... 2725 Kristen Hatten, Tiago R Forin, Robin Adams

ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION I

AN UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH PROJECT ON DEVELOPING A 3D VISION SYSTEM FOR AN INDUSTRIAL ROBOTICS PROJECT...... 2746 Donald C. Richter, Joseph Cluever

DEVELOPING A ROBOTIC KIT FOR MECHATRONIC ENGINEERING EDUCATION...... 2755 William Sarkis Babikian, Shouling He, Hossein Rahemi

CREATING UNDERGRADUATE APPLIED RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES FOR ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY STUDENTS IN HEALTHCARE ROBOTICS ...... 2763 Saeed Khan, Lee J. Gatton, Beverly Gatton

CASE STUDIES IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP

FROM IDEA TO IMPACT: A CASE STUDY FOR SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION ...... 2772 Daniel Raviv, Alex Kotlarchyk

BENDING MOMENTS TO BUSINESS MODELS: INTEGRATING AN ENTREPRENEURSHIP CASE STUDY AS PART OF CORE MECHANICAL ENGINEERING CURRICULUM...... 2791 Mark Schar, Sheri Sheppard, Samantha Brunhaver, Mark Cuson, Michelle Marie Grau

A QUALITATIVE STUDY INTO THE INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER EXPERIENCE OF A MICRO-MANUFACTURER WITHIN A UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COLLABORATION CONTEXT IN REGIONAL AUSTRALIA...... 2811 Steven Chingnam Goh

REEL ENTREPRENEURS: ILLUSTRATING ENTREPRENEURSHIP WITH FEATURE FILMS...... 2823 Zbigniew J Pasek

SMART PHONE APP DEVELOPMENT: A MULTI-COLLEGE APPROACH...... 2832 Ravi T. Shankar, Francis Xavier McAfee, Michael S Harris, Ravi S Behara

FPD 2: RETENTION

RETENTION IN A FIRST YEAR PROGRAM: FACTORS INFLUENCING STUDENT INTEREST IN ENGINEERING ...... 2846 Lizzie Santiago

THE EFFECT OF REQUIRED INTRODUCTION TO ENGINEERING COURSES ON RETENTION AND MAJOR SELECTION ...... 2856 Marisa Kikendall Orr, Catherine E. Brawner, Matthew W. Ohland, Richard A. Layton

A LONGITUDINAL MODEL TO INCREASE THE ENROLLMENT AND GRADUATION OF ALASKA NATIVE/AMERICAN INDIAN ENGINEERING UNDERGRADUATES ...... 2865 Herbert P. Schroeder, Linda P. Lazzell

ENHANCING RETENTION AND ACHIEVEMENT OF UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING STUDENTS...... 2887 Anant R. Kukreti, Kristen Strominger, Urmila Ghia

INSTRUMENTATION TECHNICAL SESSION I

LINEAR MODEL ESTIMATION OF NONLINEAR SYSTEMS USING LEAST-SQUARES ALGORITHM ...... 2917 Alireza Rahrooh, Walter W. Buchanan, Remzi Seker

PORTABLE PHOTOVOLTAIC LABORATORY FOR IN-SERVICE TEACHER WORKSHOPS...... 2925 Kenneth E. Dudeck, Wieslaw Grebski

REMOTE DEMONSTRATION OF PACKAGING ...... 2934 Akram Hossain, Mohammad A. Zahraee

ENHANCEMENTS TO A PROPULSION DEMONSTRATOR...... 2948 Rafic Bachnak, Carolina Maldonado, Fernando Garcia Gonzalez

WIRELESS ROBOT...... 2960 Asad Yousuf, Jarvis Brewer, Mohamad A. Mustafa, Alberto G De La Cruz, Faraz Muhammad Yousuf

I STEM

STEM THINK TANK AND CONFERENCE: ENCOURAGING K-12 TEACHERS TO INTEGRATE STEM IN THE CLASSROOM...... 2971 Stacy S Klein-Gardner, Crystal Tricia Chukwurah

INTERCONNECTED STEM WITH ENGINEERING DESIGN PEDAGOGY...... 2990 M. David Burghardt

INTEGRATING K-12 ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE: BALANCING INQUIRY, DESIGN, STANDARDS AND CLASSROOM REALITIES...... 3016 Marion Usselman, Mike Ryan, Jeffrey H Rosen, Fred Stillwell, Norman F. Robinson, Brian Douglas Gane, Sabrina Grossman

UNDERSTANDING INTEGRATED STEM EDUCATION: REPORT ON A NATIONAL STUDY...... 3028 David R. Heil, Greg Pearson, Susan E. Burger

CREATING A STEM SCHOOL USING ENGINEERING CONNECTIONS...... 3043 Laura Bottomley, Elizabeth A Parry

K 12 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT I

TEACHERS IN INDUSTRY: MEASURING THE IMPACT OF A K-12 TEACHER INTERNSHIP PROGRAM...... 3053 Bradley Bowen

ENGINEERING WITHIN K-12 FROM THE TEACHE'S PERSPECTIVE: EFFECTIVELY INTEGRATING ENGINEERING ACTIVITIES TIED TO EDUCATIONAL STANDARDS...... 3067 Debra Kay Gallagher, Kenneth Reid

INTRODUCING ENGINEERING INTO THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC CLASSROOM: TEACHER WORKSHOPS...... 3077 Kenneth Reid, Tyler J Hertenstein, Morgan Sperry, Debra Kay Gallagher, Stacy McClelland

TRAINING SECONDARY MATH AND SCIENCE TEACHERS TO BRING AN ENGINEERING PERSPECTIVE TO THE CLASSROOM...... 3087 Anant R. Kukreti, Eugene Rutz, Julie Steimle, Howard E. Jackson, Catherine Maltbie

A SURVEY OF FORMER GK-12 FELLOWS...... 3104 Jed S. Lyons, Erica Pfister-Altschul

STATE OF MANUFACTURING

SURVEY OF MANUFACTURING COMPANY EXPECTATIONS BASED ON THE SME FOUR PILLARS OF MANUFACTURING KNOWLEDGE ...... 3125 Paul Nutter, Robert L. Mott, Carl R Williams, Mark J. Stratton

2013 STATE OF MANUFACTURING EDUCATION...... 3142 Hugh Jack

ASSESSING MANUFACTURING CAPITAL INVESTMENTS IN THE GLOBAL MARKET ...... 3165 Rex C Kanu

LEVERAGING SCARCE RESOURCES TO PRESERVE AN IMPORTANT, LOW ENROLLMENT MANUFACTURING PROGRAM ...... 3180 Bill D. Bailey

INTERACTIVE APPROACHES TO TEACHING MATERIALS FUNDAMENTALS

ILLUSTRATING ROTATING PRINCIPAL STRESSES IN A MATERIALS SCIENCE COURSE ...... 3187 Somnath Chattopadhyay, Rungun Nathan

THE EFFECT OF A VISUALLY-BASED INTERVENTION ON STUDENTS' MISCONCEPTIONS RELATED TO SOLUTIONS, SOLUBILITY, AND SATURATION IN A CORE MATERIALS COURSE...... 3199 Stephen J Krause, Omowunmi Isaacs-Sodeye

HOW TO WRITE A TEXTBOOK IN TEN EASY STEPS ...... 3214 Barry Dupen

USING THE PROCESSING, PROPERTIES AND CHARACTERIZATION OF BRASS TO TEACH THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN CRYSTAL STRUCTURE AND MICROSTRUCTURE ...... 3226 Anastasia Micheals, Emily L. Allen

TECH SESSION 1

ROBOTICS: ENHANCING PRE-COLLEGE MATHEMATICS LEARNING WITH REAL-WORLD EXAMPLES...... 3241 Ravi T. Shankar, Don Ploger, Agnes Nemeth, Steven Alan Hecht

INTEGRATING DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY FOR THE INNOVATION OF CALCULUS CURRICULUM ...... 3259 Patricia Salinas

USING MYMATHLAB FOR LEARNING REINFORCEMENT IN THE CLASSROOM AND ATTENDANCE DATA FOR ENGINEERING CALCULUS...... 3273 James E. Lewis, Jeffrey Lloyd Hieb

IMPROVING STUDENT UNDERSTANDING AND EFFICIENCY THROUGH TECHNOLOGY USE IN THE DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS CLASSROOM...... 3284 Catherine Matos, Tamara Pearson

CHOOSING AND ADAPTING TECHNOLOGY IN A MATHEMATICS COURSE FOR ENGINEERS ...... 3292 Jenna Tague, Jennifer Czocher, Gregory Richard Baker, Amanda Roble

THERMODYNAMICS

ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACT OF TESTING FREQUENCY ON STUDENT PERFORMANCE IN A BASIC THERMODYNAMICS COURSE...... 3303 John R. Reisel

DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTERVENTION TO IMPROVE STUDENTS' CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING OF THERMODYNAMICS ...... 3313 Stephen R. Turns, Peggy Noel Van Meter, Thomas A. Litzinger, Carla M Firetto

UNDERSTANDING THE CONTINUED POOR PERFORMANCE IN THERMODYNAMICS AS A FIRST STEP TOWARD AN INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGY...... 3326 Nihad Dukhan, Mark Schumack

CORRELATION OF PREREQUISITE COURSE GRADES WITH STUDENT PERFORMANCE...... 3344 Amir Karimi, Randall D. Manteufel

STATICS THEY CAN MOVE AT CONSTANT VELOCITY!

SOFTWARE SIMULATIONS AND PROJECT BASED ACTIVE LEARNING TO ENGAGE STUDENTS IN AN INTRODUCTORY STATICS COURSE...... 3359 Abhijit Nagchaudhuri, Rajnish Sharma

INITIAL INVESTIGATION INTO THE EFFECT OF HOMEWORK SOLUTION MEDIA ON FUNDAMENTAL STATICS COMPREHENSION...... 3375 Sean Moseley, Shannon M. Sipes

DEVELOPING THRESHOLD CONCEPTION IN STATICS ...... 3384 Sirena C. Hargrove-Leak

LEARNING STATICS BY FEELING: EFFECTS OF EVERYDAY EXAMPLES ON CONFIDENCE AND IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT...... 3394 Janet Y Tsai, Daria A Kotys-Schwartz, Michael Patrick Hannigan

MINORITY STUDENT SUCCESS

BRIDGES TO ENGINEERING: SUCCESS FOR TRANSFERS ...... 3413 Annita Alting, Feridun Delale, Joseph Barba

PROMOTING STUDENT SUCCESS IN ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE THROUGH RESEACH AND INTERNSHIP PROGRAMS...... 3433 Rafic Bachnak, Rohitha Goonatilake, Carolina Maldonado, Dan Mott

SUCCEEDING AS ENGINEERING MAJORS: CULTURAL ECOLOGY THEORY AND PERCEPTIONS OF WITHIN-RACE GENDER AND ETHNICITY DIFFERENCES IN ENGINEERING SKILLS AND WORK ETHNIC ...... 3443 Jennifer O Burrell, Afiya C Fredericks, Lorraine N. Fleming

ACADEMIC AND SOCIAL BARRIERS TO BLACK AND LATINO MALE COLLEGIANS' SUCCESS IN ENGINEERING AND RELATED STEM FIELDS...... 3454 Terrell Lamont Strayhorn, Leroy L. Long, Joseph A Kitchen, Michael Steven Williams, Meg E. Stentz

ROBOTICS, MECHATRONICS, AND CONTROL SYSTEMS MULTIDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES

TEACHING UNDERGRADUATE INTRODUCTORY COURSE TO MECHATRONICS IN THE MECHANICAL ENGINEERING CURRICULUM USING ARDUINO ...... 3468 Jose Antonio Riofrio, Steven G Northrup

A NEW APPROACH IN MECHATRONICS EDUCATION THROUGH PROJECT BASED LEARNING BY INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION ...... 3482 Devdas Shetty, Arunkumar Chandrashekarappa Giriyapur

ROBOTICS AS AN UNDERGRADUATE MAJOR: A RETROSPECTIVE...... 3494 Michael A. Gennert, Taskin Padir

REDESIGNING THE CIRCUITS FOR NON-MAJORS COURSE WITH THE ADDITION OF A ROBOTICS PROJECT...... 3517 Chad Eric Davis, Pakize S. Pulat

TEACHING SYSTEM MODELING AND FEEDBACK CONTROL SYSTEMS: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY COURSE IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING...... 3536 Li Tan, Jean Jiang

INNOVATIONS IN TEACHING AND RESEARCH IN PHYSICS OR ENGINEERING PHYSICS I

PREPARING STEM STUDENTS FOR SUCCESS IN PHYSICS THROUGH AN INTENSIVE SUMMER PROGRAM ...... 3551 Polin Yadak, Amelito G Enriquez

ADAPTING AN ENGINEERING PHYSICS MEASUREMENTS LABORATORY TO INCORPORATE METROLOGY CONCEPTS ...... 3567 Harold T. Evensen, W. Doyle

THE EVOLUTION OF CURRICULUM ASSESSMENT WITHIN THE PHYSICS PROGRAM AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ...... 3575 Teresa L. Larkin, Jessica Uscinski

TECHNOLOGY-ENABLED NURTURING OF CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION: A SPECIFIC ILLUSTRATION FROM AN UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING PHYSICS COURSE ...... 3594 Frank V. Kowalski, Susan E. Kowalski, Patrick B. Kohl, Hsia-Po Vincent Kuo

Volume 5

LABORATORY AND DESIGN EXPERIENCES IN THE INTRODUCTION TO ENGINEERING COURSE AT AN ENGINEERING AND PHYSICS DEPARTMENT ...... 3608 Baha Jassemnejad, Scott Tracewell, Evan C. Lemley, Kevin Rada, Juan Camilo Orozco

THE CASE FOR INDIVIDUALIZED-INSTRUCTION: PRECONCEPTION-INSTRUCTION-INTERACTION...... 3637 Thomas Mark Scaife, Andrew F Heckler

IMPACT OF A DESIGN PROJECT ON ENGINEERING PHYSICS: MOTOR DOES IT REALLY MOTIVATED OUR STUDENTS?...... 3652 Bala Maheswaran

TRICKS OF THE TRADE

LESSONS LEARNED FROM OTHERS' STORIES: HOW CHANGEMAKERS' STORIES CHANGED US ...... 3661 Joi-Lynn Mondisa, Junaid A. Siddiqui, Mel Chua, Linda Vanasupa, Roberta J Herter, Robin Adams

ASSEMBLING THE IDEAL DOCTORAL DISSERTATION COMMITTEE IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION...... 3675 James J. Pembridge, Stephanie Cutler

EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING: THE HEART OF A SUCCESSFUL EDUCATION - ONE JOURNEY THROUGH GRADUATE SCHOOL...... 3691 Lynn Albers, Laura Bottomley

TEACHING YOUR FIRST LARGE LECTURE: SURVIVING WITH ATTENTIVE AND ENGAGED STUDENTS ...... 3701 Mahnas Jean Mohammadi-Aragh, Rachel Louis Kajfez

DEFINING AND REFINING TECHNOLOGICAL AND ENGINEERING LITERACY

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION FIELDS: PROVIDING SYNTHESIS AND KNOWLEDGE THROUGH HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES...... 3711 Presentacion Rivera-Reyes, Oenardi Lawanto, Raymond Edward Boyles

ABSTRACTION AS A VECTOR: DISTINGUISHING PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE FROM PHILOSOPHY OF ENGINEERING...... 3719 John Krupczak, Gregory Bassett

APPLICATION OF PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES FOR ENHANCING TECHNOLOGICAL LITERACY ...... 3726 Robert M. Brooks, Mehmet Cetin, Jyothsna Kavuturu

APPLYING A KNOWLEDGE-GENERATION EPISTEMOLOGICAL APPROACH TO COMPUTER SCIENCE AND SOFTWARE ENGINEERING EDUCATION...... 3737 Stephen T Frezza, Richard W. Moodey, David Arthur Nordquest, Krishnakishore Pilla

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES LITERACY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF BUENOS AIRES ENGINEERING STUDENTS...... 3750 Osvaldo Clua, Maria Feldgen

AEROSPACE DIVISION TECHNICAL SESSION 1

FLUID DYNAMICS DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS TAKE-HOME EXPERIMENT USING PAPER AIRPLANES ...... 3761 Michael John Hargather, Shannon Hussan, Timothy W Jacomb-Hood, Zachary Francis, Carly Seneca, Martha Quinlin, Raveen Fernando

LESSONS LEARNED BY THE AEROSPACE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT AT TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY FOLLOWING ITS FIRST SUMMER CAMP FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ...... 3776 David B Kanipe, Kristi J Shryock, Jacques C. Richard

CREATING THE FRAMEWORK FOR BETTER AEROSPACE ENGINEERS ...... 3792 Trevor J. Bennett, Kristin D. Nichols, Kristi J Shryock

USING HIGH-ALTITUDE BALLOONING TO GIVE FRESHMEN A HANDS-ON INTRODUCTION TO THE "SPACE" SIDE OF AEROSPACE...... 3811 James Flaten

INSTRUCTIONAL INNOVATIONS AND GLOBAL ISSUES IN ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION

TEACHING BUILDING PROFESSIONALS DESIGN OF EARTHQUAKE RESISTANT BUILDINGS: HAITI EXPERIENCE...... 3828 James P. Mwangi

THE STRUCTURES - DESIGN STUDIO LINK ...... 3844 Hollee Hitchcock Becker

STRUCTURAL ELECTIVE COURSE FOR SPECIAL BUILDING SYSTEMS ...... 3855 James P. Mwangi

THE SUSTAINABLE BUILDING FIELD TRIP - REAL VS. VIRTUAL ...... 3863 Orla Smyth Lopiccolo

“BEST” OF BED

DEVELOPMENT OF A DESIGN- AND PROJECT-BASED FRAMEWORK TO INCLUDE SCIENTIFIC REASONING IN AN UNDERGRADUATE, INTRODUCTORY-LEVEL BIOENGINEERING LABORATORY COURSE...... 3873 Idalis Villanueva, Rachel L. Manthe, Kevin M Knapstein

ENGAGING UNDERGRADUATE BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING STUDENTS IN LAB ON A CHIP RESEARCH THROUGH A COURSE-BASED PROJECT ...... 3891 Michael J Rust, Andrew Wellesley Browne

IMPROVED RETENTION AND RECALL WITH A PEER REVIEWED WRITING ASSIGNMENT ...... 3901 Amy Michelle Clobes, William H Guilford

FROM THE UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT PERSPECTIVE: THE ROLE OF GRADUATE STUDENTS IN AN UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH PROGRAM ...... 3911 Megan E. Faurot, Frederick Doe, Elana Rose Jacobs, Norman G Lederman, Eric M Brey

DELIVERY AND ASSESSMENT OF THE BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING CAPSTONE SENIOR DESIGN EXPERIENCE...... 3923 Anthony J McGoron, Hamid Shahrestani, Michael Edward Brown, James Dennis Byrne

REAL AND VIRTUAL “NEW” APPROACHES TO TEACHING “OLD” COURSES

A HEAT CONDUCTION IPHONE AND IPAD APP FOR ENGINEERING EDUCATION ...... 3939 Jason M. Keith, Gerald C Nelson, Abby Lammons Thompson, John Louis Gazzini, Read Sprabery

IMPROVING STUDENT ATTITUDES TOWARD THE CAPSTONE LABORATORY COURSE USING GAMIFICATION...... 3950 Daniel D. Burkey, Daniel D. Anastasio, Aravind Suresh

USE OF STUDIO-BASED LEARNING IN A MATERIAL/ENERGY BALANCE CLASS ...... 3968 Richard L. Zollars, Christopher Hundhausen, Adam Scott Carter

SOLVING MATERIAL BALANCE PROBLEMS AT UNSTEADY STATE USING A REMOTE LABORATORY IN THE CLASSROOM ...... 3979 Darinka Del Carmen Ramirez

TEACHING THERMODYNAMICS THROUGH VIDEO MEDIA ...... 3995 James P Abulencia, Margot A Vigeant, David L. Silverstein

TEACHING AND ASSESSING SUSTAINABILITY AND LIFE LONG LEARNING

DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF A SUSTAINABLE DESIGN RUBRIC TO EVALUATE STUDENT ABILITIES TO INCORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY INTO CAPSTONE DESIGN PROJECTS ...... 4006 Mary Katherine Watson, Elise M. Barrella, Thomas A. Wall, Caroline R. Noyes, Michael O. Rodgers

USING INNOVATIVE TOPICS TO ATTRACT FUTURE ENGINEERS: LIQUEFACTION AND SUSTAINABILITY MODULES FOR ENGINEERING CAMP...... 4039 Jeffrey C. Evans, Michelle Renee Oswald, Akmal S Daniyarov, Christopher Adam Kulish

INCORPORATING SUSTAINABILITY INTO THE CIVIL ENGINEERING CURRICULUM VIA CROSS COURSE COLLABORATIONS...... 4054 Claire L. Antaya, Melissa M. Bilec, Piervincenzo Rizzo, Amy E. Landis

ASSESSMENT OF A NEW APPROACH TO IMPLEMENT LIFE-LONG LEARNING INTO CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING COURSES ...... 4069 Diane L. Bondehagen, Yusuf A Mehta, Claude Villiers

CIP DIVISION TECHNICAL SESSION 1

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ISSUES IN COLLEGE-INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIPS...... 4082 Lori Glover, Todd S. Keiller

LOCAL AND REMOTE UNRELATED UNIVERSITIES PARTNER ON INDUSTRY-TAUGHT COURSE...... 4093 Charles E. Baukal, Geoffrey L Price, Geoffrey D. Silcox, Michael Newton, Terry L Phipps

TABLETS, MOBILE AND TECHNOLOGY

WIRELESS TABLET PCS FOR ENHANCED TEACHING AT AN AUSTRALIAN REGIONAL UNIVERSITY TEACHING BOTH CAMPUS AND DISTANCE MODES...... 4105 Steven Chingnam Goh, Linda Ann Galligan, Harry Ku

USING MIXED MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICES FOR REAL-TIME FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT...... 4118 Frank V Kowalski, Susan E. Kowalski, Tracy Q Gardner

BUILDING TECHNOLOGY FLUENCY: FOSTERING AGENTS OF CHANGE...... 4132 Wanda Eugene, Shaundra Bryant Daily, Tiffany Barnes, Richard Burns

EVALUATION OF THE VTEXT ELECTRONIC TEXTBOOK FRAMEWORK...... 4141 John Oliver Cristy, Joseph G. Tront

INFORMATION AND NETWORK SECURITY

INTERNET ACCESSIBLE REMOTE EXPERIMENTATION WITH INTEGRATED LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ...... 4153 Abul K. M. Azad, Munish Sharma

EXPERIENCES DEVELOPING INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH IN COMPUTING ...... 4174 Jason St. John, Thomas J. Hacker, Raymond A Hansen, Natasha N. Nikolaidis, Robert M Trinkle

IPV6 SECURITY COURSE WITH REMOTE LABS - DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT ...... 4182 John Pickard, Te-Shun Chou, Philip J Lunsford, John Spence

PILOTING A NEW CURRICULUM: A VIEW FROM THE TRENCHES ...... 4193 Krystal S Corbett, Chuck Gardner, Anthony Joseph Taffaro, Marvin Nelson

A STUDY OF APPLICATION OF DATA MINING ALGORITHMS IN HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY ...... 4203 Reza Sanati-Mehrizy, Jeffrey H Wright, Afsaneh Minaie, Ali Sanati-Mehrizy, Paymon Sanati-Mehrizy

BUILDING BIM INTO CONSTRUCTION CURRICULA

ENERGY MODELING/SIMULATION USING THE BIM TECHNOLOGY IN THE CURRICULUM OF ARCHITECTURAL AND CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT ...... 4210 Hyunjoo Kim

STRATEGY TO INCORPORATE BIM CURRICULUM IN PLANNING AND SCHEDULING CLASSES ...... 4219 Marcel Maghiar, Sunitha Jain, James G Sullivan

FROM BIM TO COLLABORATION:A PROPOSED INTEGRATED CONSTRUCTION CURRICULUM...... 4230 Arundhati Ghosh, Kristen Parrish, Allan Dee Chasey

INTEGRATING INDUSTRY BIM PRACTICES INTO UNIVERSITY CURRICULUM ...... 4239 Kevin R. Miller, Clifton B. Farnsworth, Justin Earl Weidman

DESIGN METHODOLOGY AND EVALUATION 1

USING DIGITAL WORKBOOKS TO COLLECT DESIGN PROCESS DATA ...... 4251 Adam R Carberry, Morgan M Hynes, Ethan E Danahy

STATISTICAL OUTLIER DETECTION FOR JURY BASED GRADING SYSTEMS ...... 4260 Mary Kathryn Thompson, Line H Clemmensen, Harvey Rosas

TRAINING FUTURE DESIGNERS: A STUDY ON THE ROLE OF PHYSICAL MODELS...... 4273 Vimal Kumar Viswanathan, Julie S Linsey

THE QUALITY OF ENGINEERING DECISION-MAKING IN STUDENT DESIGN TEAMS...... 4288 Nicholas D. Fila, Senay Purzer

THE DESIGN OF LANGUAGE FOR ENGINEERING EDUCATION: RECYCLING IM AND TEXT MESSAGING TO CAPTURE ENGINEERING PROCESSES...... 4299 Tamecia R Jones, Monica E Cardella, Senay Purzer

LABORATORY EXPERIENCES IN MECHANICAL, MATERIALS AND THERMAL SYSTEMS

UPDATES TO A SEQUENCE OF THERMODYNAMICS EXPERIMENTS FOR MECHANICAL ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY STUDENTS ...... 4311 Roger A Beardsley

DEVELOPMENT OF VERIFICATION AND VALIDATION ENGINEERING DESIGN SKILLS THROUGH A MULTI-YEAR COGNITIVE APPRENTICESHIP LABORATORY EXPERIENCE ...... 4340 Allison L. Sieving, Marcia Pool, Scott Alan Jewett, Trisha Eustaquio, Rajtarun Madangopal, Alyssa Panitch, Kate Stuart, Ann E Rundell

A REMOTELY-ACCESSIBLE RECONFIGURABLE PLATFORM FOR ROBOTICS EDUCATION...... 4355 M. Reza Emami, Jason Kereluk

INTERCONNECTING THE MECHANICAL ENGINEERING CURRICULUM THROUGH AN INTEGRATED MULTICOURSE MODEL ROCKETRY PROJECT ...... 4368 Matthew J. Traum, C Prantil, William C Farrow, Hope Leigh Weiss

LABORATORY EXPERIMENT IN ENGINEERING MATERIALS FOR UPPER-LEVEL UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDENTS ...... 4389 David R Veazie

ISSUES IN ADVISING AND MENTORING

THE REFLECTIVE ENGINEERING ADVISOR: A PARADIGM FOR LEARNING-CENTERED STUDENT ADVISING ...... 4402 Emily L. Allen, Francisco Castillo, Eva Schiorring

TAKING DIFFERENT PATHS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF MENTORING MODELS AMONG ROBOTICS COMPETITION TEAMS ...... 4420 Nathan Dolenc

EXPLORING EARLY COLLEGE CREDIT IMPLICATIONS FOR ENGINEERING...... 4433 Karen Zunkel, Jason Pontius, Thomas J Brumm

FORMULATING PREDICTIVE MODELS OF ENGINEERING STUDENT THROUGHPUT ...... 4453 Gillian M. Nicholls

NEW TRENDS IN ECE EDUCATION I

RENEWABLE ENERGY EDUCATION AT CLEMSON UNIVERSITY - A CERTIFICATION PROGRAM WITH SOLAR, WIND & ELECTRICAL GRID CLASSES...... 4463 Bosco Mansel Oliver, John R. Wagner, Elham B. Makram, Rajendra Singh

HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATION OF HYBRID AC-DC POWER SYSTEM LABORATORY INVOLVING RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES...... 4474 Ali Mazloomzadeh, Mustafa Farhadi, Osama A. Mohammed

INTRODUCING AN INSTRUCTIONAL MODEL IN UNDERGRADUATE ELECTRIC POWER ENERGY SYSTEMS CURRICULUM-PART (I): AUTHORITATIVE VS. DIALOGIC DISCOURSE IN PROBLEM- CENTERED LEARNING ...... 4489 Jia-Ling Lin, Paul Imbertson, Tamara J Moore

Volume 6

THE PERPETUAL CHALLENGE: FINDING A COMPLEMENTARY BALANCE OF DEPTH AND BREADTH IN AN ENGINEERING CURRICULUM -- APPROACH OF THE ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING FACULTY...... 4505 Robert J. Albright

DESIGN BASED ENERGY EDUCATION

OPTIMIZATION AND TESTING OF A FIRST GENERATION CAVITATION HEAT PUMP ...... 4515 Syed Mohammed Tahmid, Bilal Saleh Gill, Kee M Park, Yeong Ryu, Sanghoon Lee

A LABORATORY FOR ENERGY EFFICIENT PRODUCT DESIGN ...... 4526 Alamgir A. Choudhury, Jorge Rodriguez

SEEKING THE SUN - A STUDENT DESIGN COMPETITION ENDEAVOR...... 4536 Bill M. Diong, Scott J. Tippens

ENHANCING STUDENT LEARNING THROUGH A REAL-WORLD PROJECT IN A RENEWABLE ENERGY COURSES COURSE ...... 4544 Oxana S Pantchenko, Tiffany Wise-West, Michael S. Isaacson, Ali Shakouri

INCORPORATING ACTIVE LEARNING INTO A THERMAL SYSTEM DESIGN LECTURE...... 4561 Jennifer M Peuker, Steffen Peuker

ENGINEERING AND PUBLIC POLICY II

ENGINEERING EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES, QUO VADIS? ...... 4585 Mickey R. Wilhelm

IMPLEMENTATION OF A RISK MANAGEMENT PROGRAM TO ADDRESS PUBLIC POLICY ISSUES IN MEGA PROJECTS...... 4601 Andrew J Bates

APPROACHES TO INTEGRATING POLICY INTO ENGINEERING EDUCATION...... 4622 Ida B Ngambeki, Dennis R. Depew, Melissa Jane Dark, Rylan C. Chong

USING GRAPHICS IN THE REST OF THE ENGINEERING COURSES

FREEHAND SKETCHING FOR ENGINEERS: A PILOT STUDY ...... 4636 Richard W Marklin, Jay R. Goldberg

INTRADEPARTMENTAL COLLABORATION TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF ENGINEERING DRAWINGS CREATED BY STUDENTS IN SENIOR DESIGN PROJECT...... 4650 Andy S Zhang, Gaffar Barakat Gailani

TEACHING SUSTAINABILITY IN AN ENGINEERING GRAPHICS CLASS WITH SOLID MODELING TOOL...... 4658 Ananda Mani Paudel, Jane M. Fraser

DEVELOPING AUTHENTIC PROJECTS FOR A SENIOR LEVEL DESIGN CLASS ...... 4673 Mehmet Emre Bahadir

ENGINEERING ECONOMY DIVISION TECHNICAL SESSION

PRESENT VALUE ANALYSIS OF TRADITIONAL LOANS...... 4697 Robert C. Creese

DEVELOPMENT OF A MOBILE APP FOR ENGINEERING ECONOMICS...... 4707 Weihang Zhu, Alberto Marquez, Julia Yoo

EXTENDING THE CASE STUDY ON WHEN TO COLLECT SOCIAL SECURITY: ECONOMIC DECISION MAKING FOR COUPLES ...... 4718 Neal Lewis, Ted Eschenbach

ENGINEERING ETHICS DIVISION TECHNICAL SESSION

ANCIENT STRUCTURAL FAILURES AND MODERN INCARNATIONS: ...... 4731 Marilyn A. Dyrud

COLLABORATION BETWEEN PRIVATE SECTOR AND ACADEMIA: ARE WE COMPROMISING OUR ENGINEERING PROGRAMS?...... 4746 Rigoberto Chinchilla

IMPROVING UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING ETHICS THROUGH APPLICATION OF ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT THEORY: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF A NEW COURSE'S IMPACT...... 4759 William J. Schell

EDUCATING ENGINEERING STUDENTS ABOUT ETHICS: EXPERIENCES AT BROWN UNIVERSITY AND TRINITY COLLEGE ...... 4770 David K. Ware, David J. Ahlgren, Harvey F. Silverman

LESSONS LEARNED FROM TEACHING WITH AN ETHICS TOOLKIT ...... 4782 Martin S. High, Scott D Gelfand, Ronald Steve Harrist, Shelia M. Kennison

FRESH PERSPECTIVES ON INFORMATION LITERACY

EDUCATING FOR EVIDENCE BASED DECISIONS IN ENGINEERING: THE VIEW AS LIBRARIAN AND INSTRUCTOR ...... 4800 Amy S. Van Epps

AN E-LEARNING APPROACH TO DATA INFORMATION LITERACY EDUCATION ...... 4810 Jon N. Jeffryes, Lisa Johnston

INFORMATION LITERACY INSTRUCTION ASSIGNMENT IN AN ONLINE MODULE...... 4822 John B. Napp, Phoebe Jane Ballard

WORK IN PROGRESS: CRITICAL THINKING AND INFORMATION LITERACY: ASSESSING STUDENT PERFORMANCE...... 4831 Ruth E. H. Wertz, Michael Fosmire, Senay Purzer, Austin Iglesias Saragih, Amy S. Van Epps, Megan R Sapp Nelson, Brian G Dillman

RE-TOOLING INFORMATION INSTRUCTION DELIVERY AND ASSESSMENT FOR THE FRESHMAN ENGINEERING CLASS: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY...... 4840 Mary L. Strife, Marian G. Armour-Gemmen, Robin A. M Hensel

NEW COURSE DEVELOPMENT CONCEPTS IN ET

LEARNING OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM - FLIPPING AN UNDERGRADUATE CIRCUITS ANALYSIS COURSE...... 4853 Ronald H Rockland, Linda Hirsch, Levelle Burr-Alexander, John D. Carpinelli, Howard S. Kimmel

ADVANCED COURSES IN PROGRAMMABLE CONTROLLERS FOR ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY ...... 4861 William T. Evans

A LOW-COST HANDS-ON INSTRUMENTATION COURSE FOR EET STUDENTS ...... 4877 Biswajit Ray

A NEW COURSE ON PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FOR ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY...... 4892 Joseph A. Morgan, Jay R Porter, Wei Zhan

CAPSTONE AND SENIOR DESIGN PROJECTS SESSION

THE EMBEDDED DEVELOPMENT TOOLS YOU DID NOT HAVE WHEN GROWING UP...... 4906 Antonio Francisco Mondragon, Adriana Becker-Gomez, Carmen A Bovalino, Michael B Jones, Derrick Brazil, Michael R Caldwell

INCORPORATING ENGINEERING CHALLENGES INTO CAPSTONE DESIGN AND SENIOR PROJECT COURSES ...... 4923 Martin William Weiser, Hani Serhal Saad, N. M. Awlad Hossain

EET CAPSTONE STUDENT PROJECT: MULTI-SENSOR DEVICE TO MONITOR EXTERNAL ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS AND GPS LOCATION FOR EVALUATING RUST POTENTIAL ON COILS ...... 4940 Aleksandr Sergeyev, Nasser Alaraje, Seth William Adams

EFFECT OF PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE AND ATTITUDES ON CAPSTONE PROJECT ACHIEVEMENT ...... 4956 Byron G. Garry

ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION II

A PROPOSAL TO IMPLEMENT A COURSE ON VISION SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS IN ROBOTICS AT THE OREGON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ...... 4973 Matthew Floyd, Hoejin Kim, David E. Culler

EXPERIENCES IN DEVELOPING A ROBOTICS COURSE FOR ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY ...... 4986 Antonio Jose Soares, G. Thomas Bellarmine, Doreen Kobelo, Rabbani Muhammad, Chao Li, Salman A. Siddiqui, Stacy Tinner

MACHINE DESIGN EXPERIENCE IN A MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM...... 4998 Guanghsu A. Chang

CLASSES IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP

INTRODUCTORY COURSE CONTENT TARGETING INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR ENGINEERING STUDENTS...... 5011 Nihad Dukhan, Nassif E Rayess

USER-BASED APPROACH TO TEACHING AND LEARNING PRODUCT DESIGN ...... 5024 Daniel Raviv

CONFLICTS IN LEARNING: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF PROBLEM BASED LEARNING IN RELATION TO CULTIVATING INNOVATIVE ENGINEERS...... 5085 Zhang Fenzhi

DESIGNING AN INTRODUCTORY ENTREPRENEURIAL THINKING COURSE ...... 5100 Daniel Michael Ferguson, James Edwin Cawthorne, Ruth Streveler

MODULES FOR INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN EXISTING CURRICULA ...... 5146 Jorge Rodriguez, Alamgir A. Choudhury

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING PEDAGOGY AND INNOVATION

EDUCATIONAL INNOVATION IN A NEW ONLINE SUSTAINABLE SYSTEMS ENGINEERING MASTERS DEGREE PROGRAM THROUGH CROSS-CAMPUS COLLABORATION ...... 5154 Marty Anne Gustafson, Carl Vieth, Patrick Eagan

TEACHING A HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT COURSE USING AN INVERTED CLASSROOM...... 5163 Angela R Bielefeldt

THE USE OF ACTIVE LEARNING TO ADDRESS ABET COURSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES IN A LARGE UNDERGRADUATE ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING CLASS...... 5176 Alison M Cupples, Susan J. Masten, Weimin Sun

DEVELOPMENT OF A CONCEPT INVENTORY FOR INTRODUCTORY ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING COURSES ...... 5187 Sukalyan Sengupta, Jeffrey A Cunningham, Sarina J. Ergas, Ramesh K. Goel, Dilek Ozalp, Teri Reed-Rhoads

RESEARCH ON FIRST YEAR COURSES

A TAXONOMY OF ENGINEERING MATRICULATION PRACTICES ...... 5197 Xingyu Chen, Catherine E. Brawner, Matthew W. Ohland, Marisa Kikendall Orr

DEVELOPMENT OF A FIRST-YEAR ENGINEERING COURSE CLASSIFICATION SCHEME ...... 5210 Kenneth Reid, Tyler J Hertenstein, Graham Talmadge Fennell, Elizabeth Marie Spingola, David Reeping

ENGAGING EARLY ENGINEERING STUDENTS (EEES): A FOURTH YEAR REPORT FROM AN NSF STEP PROJECT ...... 5219 Jon Sticklen, Daina Briedis, Claudia Elena Vergara, Mark Urban-Lurain, Louise Paquette, Ruth Heckman, Neeraj Buch, Thomas F. Wolff

ENGINEERING LEARNING COMMUNITIES - USA NATIONAL SURVEY 2012 ...... 5243 Jess W. Everett, Maggie A Flynn

METHODS, TECHNIQUES, AND NEW PROGRAMS IN GRADUATE EDUCATION

DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A MASTER OF SCIENCE DEGREE IN MODELING, SIMULATION, AND VISUALIZATION ...... 5255 Niaz Latif, Joy L Colwell

A GRADUATE ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY ONLINE COURSE IN SUSTAINABLE AND GREEN MANUFACTURING ...... 5270 Richard Chiou, Tzu-Liang Bill Tseng, Yalcin Ertekin, M. Eric Carr

DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTERNET-DELIVERED COMMUNICATION CURRICULUM FOR GRADUATE WOMEN IN STEM...... 5283 Bianca L. Bernstein, Amy K. Way, Liza Cohen Hita Hita, T Michael Liddell, Arti R. Sarma, Jennifer M Bekki

PERFORMANCE-CENTERED ADAPTIVE CURRICULUM FOR EMPLOYMENT NEEDS ...... 5298 Albert Gomez, Rosario Gil, Gabriel Diaz Orueta, Elio Sancristobal, Sergio Martin, Mohamed Tawfik, Manuel Castro, Alberto Pesquera

INSTRUMENTATION TECHNICAL SESSION II

MATCHING PURSUITS IN EEG ANALYSIS...... 5313 Mohammad Rafiq Muqri, Furqan Muqri, Shih Ek Chng

UNDEFINED OBSTACLE AVOIDANCE AND PATH PLANNING...... 5334 Akram Hossain

PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS: ESSENTIAL AND AFFORDABLE ...... 5350 John Marshall

UNIVERSAL RANGE DATA ACQUISITION FOR EDUCATIONAL LABORATORIES USING MICROSOFT KINECT ...... 5361 Mingshao Zhang, Zhou Zhang, Sven K. Esche

GLOBAL COMPETENCY AND WHAT MAKES A SUCCESSFUL ENGINEER

ASSESSING ENGINEERING GLOBAL COMPETENCIES - IMPORTANCE AND PREPARATION ...... 5371 Robert J. Gustafson, Miriam Regina Simon

Volume 7

THE IMPACT OF ROLE-PLAYING SIMULATIONS ON GLOBAL COMPETENCY IN AN ONLINE TRANSNATIONAL ENGINEERING COURSE...... 5391 Kari Wold, Stephanie Moore

SUMMARY FINDINGS ON THE USE OF GLOBAL VIRTUAL TEAMS TO ACHIEVE SELECTED GLOBAL COMPETENCE LEARNING OUTCOMES FOR ENGINEERING STUDENTS...... 5409 Holt Zaugg, Alan R Parkinson, Spencer P. Magleby, Randall Davies

DEVELOPING GLOBALLY AWARE ENGINEERS AND SCIENTISTS IN NANOTECHNOLOGY...... 5419 Nancy Healy, Lynn Charles Rathbun

DEVELOPING KNOWLEDGE OF WORLD HISTORY IN ENGINEERING STUDENTS AS A COMPONENT OF GLOBAL COMPETENCY ...... 5431 Amber Lynn Genau

THE STATUS OF ENGINEERING IN THE CURRENT K-12 STATE SCIENCE STANDARDS (RESEARCH TO PRACTICE) ...... 5438 Tamara J Moore, Kristina Maruyama Tank, Aran W Glancy, Jennifer Anna Kersten, Forster D Ntow

DEFINING ENGINEERING IN K-12 IN NORTH CAROLINA...... 5461 Laura Bottomley, Elizabeth A Parry

INSTITUTIONAL PERSPECTIVES AND BOUNDARY WORK

WHAT MAKES FACULTY ADOPT OR RESIST CHANGE IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION?...... 5493 Donna M Riley, Victoria Henry, Lucia C Leighton

HELPING OR HURTING? CAN INSTITUTIONS HELP DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS IN ENGINEERING WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS?...... 5513 Valerie C. Lundy-Wagner

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION: DIFFERENTIATING FROM TRADITIONAL EDUCATION AND ENGINEERING DISCIPLINES...... 5522 Kenneth Reid, Tyler J Hertenstein, Graham Talmadge Fennell, Elizabeth Marie Spingola

BOUNDARY WORK BETWEEN ENGINEERING AND ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY: KNOWLEDGE, EXPERTISE, AND POWER AT SOUTHERN POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY ...... 5532 Ron D Dempsey

FOUR PILLARS OF MANUFACTURING

THE FOUR PILLARS OF MANUFACTURING AS A TOOL FOR EVALUATING COURSE CONTENT IN THE MECHANICAL CONCENTRATION OF A GENERAL ENGINEERING CURRICULUM...... 5555 Gayle E. Ermer

THE FOUR PILLARS OF MANUFACTURING KNOWLEDGE MODEL - ILLUSTRATIONS OF MAPPING CURRICULA INTO THE MODEL...... 5572 Robert L. Mott, Hugh Jack

AN APPLICATION OF THE SME FOUR PILLARS OF MANUFACTURING KNOWLEDGE ...... 5585 Paul Nutter, Hugh Jack

EXTENDING THE DIMENSIONS OF MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING ...... 5590 David L. Wells

MATHEMATICS DIVISION TECHNICAL SESSION

INTERPRETING AND COMMUNICATING ABOUT PHENOMENA WITH NEGATIVE RATES OF CHANGE ...... 5601 Helen M Doerr, Jonas Bergman Arleback, Annmarie H O'Neil

INTRODUCING CALCULUS TO THE HIGH SCHOOL CURRICULUM: CURVES, BRANCHES AND FUNCTIONS...... 5617 Andrew Grossfield

TRADEOFFS IN USING MATHEMATICA TEMPLATES IN AN INTRODUCTORY NUMERICAL METHODS COURSE...... 5635 Shirley B. Pomeranz

DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS IN MATHEMATICS FOR ENGINEERS ...... 5654 Zohra Manseur

CASE STUDY: NUMERICAL CONVERGENCE STUDY ON SIMULATED SPACEBORNE MICROWAVE RADIOMETER MEASUREMENTS OF EARTH...... 5663 Jamiiru Luttamaguzi, Ka'Ren Ladoris Byrd, Akbar M. Eslami, Ehsan O Sheybani, Giti Javidi

DELIVERY METHODS IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING COURSES

EXPERIENCES OF IMPLEMENTING BLENDED TEACHING AND LEARNING TECHNIQUE IN MECHANICS AND DESIGN COURSES...... 5672 Raghu Echempati, Anca L. Sala

OUTCOME, ECONOMIC AND OPERATIONAL BENEFITS OF HYBRID COURSES - A PUBLIC RESEARCH UNIVERSITY PERSPECTIVE ...... 5681 David J. Dimas, Faryar Jabbari, Jia Frydenberg

INVERTING (FLIPPING) CLASSROOMS - ADVANTAGES AND CHALLENGES ...... 5701 Gregory Mason, Teodora Rutar, Kathleen E. Cook

A NOVEL GAME-BASED APPROACH FOR TEACHING AN ENGINEERING COURSE: IMPLEMENTATION IN MECHANICAL VIBRATION COURSE...... 5722 Zahra Shahbazi, Sina Shahbazmohamadi

STATICS & STRENGTH OF MATERIALS A NICE COUPLE

LEVERAGING SIMULATION TOOLS TO DELIVER ILL-STRUCTURED PROBLEMS IN STATICS AND MECHANICS OF MATERIALS: INITIAL RESULTS ...... 5740 Christopher Papadopoulos, Aidsa Ivette Santiago Roman, Genock Portela-Gauthier, Arturo Ponce

LABORATORY ACTIVITIES TO ILLUSTRATE THE IMPORTANCE OF LOW CYCLE FATIGUE ...... 5753 Stephen Boedo, Elizabeth A. Debartolo, Matthew Kasemer

DEVELOPMENT OF LOW-COST, HANDS-ON LAB EXPERIMENTS FOR AN ONLINE MECHANICS OF MATERIALS COURSE ...... 5762 Jamie Douglas, Mark H Holdhusen

A STUDY OF WARPING OF NON-CIRCULAR SHAFTS IN TORSION...... 5774 Somnath Chattopadhyay

MICRO TECHNOLOGY AND NANOTECHNOLOGY

IMPACTS OF NEW MODES OF INSTRUCTIONS FOR NANOTECHNOLOGY EDUCATION WITHIN ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE PROGRAMS...... 5781 Maher E. Rizkalla, Mangilal Agarwal, Sudhir Shrestha, Hazim A El-Mounayri, Kody Varahramyan

A HANDS-ON, INTRODUCTORY COURSE FOR FIRST-YEAR ENGINEERING STUDENTS IN MICROSYSTEMS AND NANOMATERIALS ...... 5794 Harold T. Evensen

ASSESSMENT AND ACCREDITATION OF A NANOSYSTEMS ENGINEERING DEGREE AT LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY...... 5807 Hisham Hegab, James D Palmer

A NEW INTERDISCIPLINARY ENGINEERING COURSE ON NANOSCALE TRANSPORT PHENOMENA ...... 5816 Zhiyong Gu, Bridgette Maria Budhlall, Hongwei Sun, Carol Forance Barry, Alfred A. Donatelli, Jill Hendrickson Lohmeier

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH PROJECTS USING MICROFLUIDIC DEVICES ...... 5840 Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Radian G Belu, Patrick Lee Kirby, Justin Bryan Gillander

TRAINING AND SUPPORT FOR NE ES

TECS-TRAIN - A FACULTY MENTORING PROGRAM FOR ENHANCING QUALITY, INTERACTION, AND COMMUNICATION IN ONLINE AND BLENDED LEARNING COURSES...... 5857 Te-Shun Chou, John Barry Duvall, Kamalesh Panthi, Tijjani Mohammed

MENTORING PROGRAMS SUPPORTING JUNIOR FACULTY ...... 5873 Canan Bilen-Green, Roger A. Green, Christi McGeorge, Elizabeth J. Birmingham, Ann Burnett

PROSPECTIVE PROFESSORS IN TRAINING: A TRANSITION PROGRAM FOR PH.D. CANDIDATES IN ENGINEERING ...... 5882 Chirag Variawa, Sherif N Kinawy, D. Grant Allen, Chris Damaren, Susan McCahan, Bryan Karney

LEARNING HOW TO LEARN AND TEACH: MENTOR AND MENTEE TEAM ...... 5895 Vishwas Narayan Bedekar, John Lee, Douglas E. Spearot

INNOVATIVE PEDAGOGY IN CIVIL ENGINEERING EDUCATION

USING INTERACTIVE VIDEO CONFERENCING FOR MULTI-INSTITUTION, TEAM-TEACHING...... 5910 Steven J. Burian, Jeffery S Horsburgh, David E Rosenberg, Daniel P. Ames, Laura G Hunter, Courtenay Strong

THREE APPROACHES TO FLIPPING CE COURSES: FACULTY PERSPECTIVES AND SUGGESTIONS ...... 5924 Brian Swartz, Stephanie Butler Velegol, Jeffrey A. Laman

CHALLENGE-BASED INSTRUCTION FOR A CIVIL ENGINEERING DYNAMICS COURSE...... 5938 Matthew D. Lovell, Sean P Brophy, Sensen Li

INQUIRY-BASED APPROACH FOR CIVIL ENGINEERING STUDENTS: A CASE STUDY ...... 5950 Chuang Wang, Kimberly A Warren

FOSTERING CRITICAL THINKING THROUGH A SERVICE-LEARNING, COMBINED SEWER ANALYSIS PROJECT IN AN UNDERGRADUATE COURSE IN HYDROLOGIC ENGINEERING...... 5961 Isaac W Wait, Jeffrey Thomas Huffman, Christopher T. Anderson

ASSESSMENT OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND ENGAGEMENT THROUGH SUSTAINABILITY ...... 5975 Jane M. Fraser, Leonardo Bedoya-Valencia, Jude L. Depalma, Nebojsa I Jaksic, Ananda Mani Paudel, Ding Yuan

ENGINEERING DESIGN, PROJECT MANAGEMENT, AND COMMUNITY SERVICE CONNECTED THROUGH SERVANT LEADERSHIP...... 5987 Matthew J. Traum, David A Howell, Leah C. Newman

AN ASSESSMENT APPROACH TO PROJECT-BASED SERVICE LEARNING...... 6000 Antonette T. Cummings, James Huff, William C. Oakes, Carla B. Zoltowski

ASSESSING IMPACT WITHOUT USING GRADES: QUALITY REVIEW OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT...... 6027 Theresa M. Vitolo, Karinna M Vernaza, Barry J Brinkman, Scott E Steinbrink

IN THEIR OWN WORDS: ENGINEERING STUDENTS' VIEWS ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE ENGINEERING PROFESSION AND SOCIETY ...... 6049 Nathan E Canney, Tess Bowling, Angela R Bielefeldt

SPECTRA OF LEARNING THROUGH SERVICE PROGRAMS ...... 6060 Angela R Bielefeldt, Kurt Paterson, Chris Swan, Olga Pierrakos, David O Kazmer, Annie Soisson

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS AND MOBILE COMPUTING

INTRODUCING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY STUDENTS TO CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEMS USING A LAB EXPERIENCE...... 6077 Richard G. Helps, Scott Pack

GENOMICS, SIGNAL PROCESSING, AND BIOINFORMATICS...... 6087 Maurice F. Aburdene, Marie Catherine Pizzorno, Alexander P Thompson

IMAGE PROCESSING AND MATH COURSES...... 6104 Alireza Kavianpour, Behdad Kavianpour

THE WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS FOR FACTORY AUTOMATION...... 6114 Javad Shakib

EVALUATING ONLINE TUTORIALS FOR DATA STRUCTURES AND ALGORITHMS COURSES...... 6128 Simin Hall, Clifford A. Shaffer, Eric Fouh, Mai Hassan, Daniel Breakiron

SECURITY ANALYSIS OF CPS: UNDERSTANDING CURRENT CONCERNS AS A FOUNDATION FOR FUTURE DESIGN ...... 6142 Francis N Mensah, Richard G. Helps

BEST OF DEED

BUILDING STUDENT CAPACITY FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE TEAMWORK...... 6161 Denny C. Davis, Ronald R Ulseth

INGENUITY LAB: MAKING AND ENGINEERING THROUGH DESIGN CHALLENGES AT A SCIENCE CENTER...... 6187 Jennifer Wang

DESIGNING FOR COMMUNITIES: THE IMPACT OF DOMAIN EXPERTISE ...... 6204 Kristina Elizabeth Krause, Cynthia J. Atman, Jim L. Borgford-Parnell, Ken Yasuhara

A VERSATILE GUIDE AND RUBRIC TO SCAFFOLD AND ASSESS ENGINEERING DESIGN PROJECTS ...... 6228 Robert L. Nagel, Olga Pierrakos, Jacquelyn Kay Nagel

DESIGNING THE DESIGN EXPERIENCE - IDENTIFYING FACTORS OF STUDENT MOTIVATION IN PROJECT-BASED LEARNING AND PROJECT-BASED SERVICE-LEARNING ...... 6246 Lauren A Cooper, Daria A Kotys-Schwartz

FIRST YEAR ENGINEERING

EFFECT OF MULTIPLE CHOICE TESTING ON STUDENT PERFORMANCE IN AN INTRODUCTORY ENGINEERING COURSE ...... 6260 Jennifer M Peuker, Jennifer McFerran Brock, Steffen Peuker

EXAMINING THE EXPERIENCES AND PERCEPTIONS OF FIRST-YEAR ENGINEERING STUDENTS ...... 6277 Irene B Mena, Sarah E Zappe, Thomas A. Litzinger

Volume 8

THE EFFECTS OF MERIT-BASED SCHOLARSHIPS ON FIRST-YEAR ENGINEERING STUDENT CHARACTERISTICS AND ACADEMIC BEHAVIORS ...... 6294 Xingyu Chen, Matthew W. Ohland, Russell Andrew Long

COMPARING FIRST-YEAR STUDENT ATTITUDES TOWARDS ENGINEERING ACROSS A LIBERAL ARTS UNIVERSITY ...... 6316 Rick Olson, Truc T. Ngo, Susan M Lord

ABET ACCREDITATION, ASSESSMENT AND PROGRAM IMPROVEMENT IN ECE

IMPLEMENTATION AND RESULTS OF A REVISED ABET ASSESSMENT PROCESS...... 6330 Diane T. Rover, Douglas W. Jacobson, Ahmed E. Kamal, Akhilesh Tyagi

THE STATE OF THE USE OF STANDARDS IN ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION...... 6351 Ahmed S. Khan, Aminul Karim, Jennifer A McClain

EVALUATING FLIPPED CLASSROOM STRATEGIES AND TOOLS FOR COMPUTER ENGINEERING...... 6384 Mark William Redekopp, Gisele Ragusa

SELF-REGULATED LEARNING AND BLENDED TECHNOLOGY INSTRUCTION IN A FLIPPED CLASSROOM ...... 6402 Kenneth A Connor, Dianna L Newman, Meghan Morris Deyoe

LEARNING STYLES AFFECT ON STUDENTS IN GRAPHIC AND DESIGN COURSES

PREFERENTIAL LEARNING OF STUDENTS IN A POST-SECONDARY INTRODUCTORY ENGINEERING GRAPHICS COURSE: A PRELIMINARY STUDY FOCUSED ON STUDENTS AT-RISK ...... 6415 Jeremy V Ernst, Aaron C. Clark

DESIGNING ACTIVE LEARNING ACTIVITIES FOR ON-LINE AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGY: A REPORT ON STUDENT'S PERCEPTIONS OF THE ACTIVITIES AND ACTIVITY REFINEMENT ...... 6424 Alice Y. Scales, Terri E Varnado, Jennifer Buelin-Biesecker

INQUIRY-GUIDED LEARNING (IGL) IN GRAPHICAL COMMUNICATIONS COURSE...... 6436 Lulu Sun, Christopher D Grant

INFORMATION GRAPHICS AND ENGINEERING DESIGN...... 6447 Marjan Eggermont

ENGINEERING ECONOMY DIVISION TECHNICAL SESSION

PROJECT BASED LEARNING IN ENGINEERING ECONOMICS: TEACHING ADVANCED TOPICS USING A STOCK PRICE PREDICTION MODELING...... 6461 Lizabeth T Schlemer

A COMPARATIVE REVIEW OF TWO ENGINEERING ECONOMICS SECTIONS: ONE TRADITIONAL AND ONE ONLINE...... 6475 Joseph Hubert Wilck, Paul J. Kauffmann

PROJECT BASED LEARNING IN ET PROGRAM

EFFECT OF ACTIVE TEACHING IN A PROJECT BASED CLASS ...... 6487 Norm Clark, Malini Natarajarathinam

COURSE-RELATED UNDERGRADUATE PROJECTS FOR DYNAMICS ...... 6496 B. S. Sridhara

A UNIVERSITY AND COMMUNITY COLLEGE PARTNERSHIP TO MEET INDUSTRY NEEDS FOR FUTURE WORKERS IN ADVANCED AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGY ...... 6508 Chih-Ping Yeh, Gene Yeau-Jian Liao, Joseph L Petrosky

TEMPERATURE AND LEVEL CONTROL OF A MULTIVARIABLE WATER TANK PROCESS...... 6521 Vassilios Tzouanas, Matthew Stevenson, Sanjo Peter

ISSUES IN ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION

ASSESSING THE VALUE OF BACHELOR GRADUATES IN ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY (ET): MAKING THE CASE FOR A PROPER VALUATION OF ET SKILLS IN INDUSTRY...... 6538 Saeed Khan

SUCCESSFULLY PUBLISHING NEW TECHNOLOGY-LEVEL TEXT MATERIALS...... 6547 Christopher R Conty

IMPACT OF A SUCCESSFUL TECHNOLOGY GRADUATE DEGREE PROGRAM- REPORT ON PROGRAM AND ITS GRADUATES...... 6573 Niaz Latif, Mohammad A. Zahraee, Joy L Colwell

OBTAINING CRITICAL MASS AND COALESCENCE IN ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY - MOVING AN ET PROGRAM TO A SUCCESSFUL COMMUNITY...... 6584 Amy L Miller, Jerry W. Samples

ASSESSMENT

DEVELOPMENT AND INITIAL VALIDATION OF AN INNOVATION ASSESSMENT...... 6592 Geoff Wright, Paul T Skaggs, Jacob Dean Wheadon, Clifton B. Farnsworth

ANALYSIS OF PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES AND SKILLS OF MERCER UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING STUDENTS ...... 6610 R. Radharamanan

ASSESSING STUDENT DESIGN WORK IN SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROJECTS ...... 6625 Lindsey Anne Nelson

ANALYZING THE EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS PLAN DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES USING BLOOM’S TAXONOMY ...... 6638 Jacob Dean Wheadon, Nathalie Duval-Couetil

ASSESSMENT OF LEARNING BASED ON THE PRINCIPLES OF DISCOVERY AND METACOGNITION...... 6656 Mysore Narayanan

FIRST YEAR ENGINEERING COURSES, PART I: MULTIMEDIA, LARGE CLASSES, AND T AS

USE OF MULTIMEDIA CASE STUDIES IN AN INTRODUCTORY ENGINEERING COURSE AT TWO SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITIES: A QUALITATIVE EVALUATION STUDY ...... 6678 Kimberly C. Huett, Barbara B. Kawulich, P. K. Raju, Chetan S Sankar

FACTORS THAT HELP AND HINDER TEACHING ASSISTANTS' ABILITY TO EXECUTE THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES ...... 6699 Farshid Marbouti, Kelsey Joy Rodgers, Hyunyi Jung, Alena Moon, Heidi A. Diefes-Dux

WEB-BASED AUDIENCE RESPONSE SYSTEM FOR QUALITY FEEDBACK IN FIRST YEAR ENGINEERING ...... 6717 Brian M Frank

A TEACHING ASSISTANT TRAINING PROTOCOL FOR IMPROVING FEEDBACK ON OPEN-ENDED ENGINEERING PROBLEMS IN LARGE CLASSES...... 6732 Matthew A Verleger, Heidi A. Diefes-Dux

RESEARCH AND GRADUATE STUDIES

EXAMINING GRADUATE STUDENTS' PHILOSOPHIES OF EDUCATION: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY ...... 6744 Mary Katherine Watson, Alexandra Emelina Coso

DESIGNING A SURVEY INSTRUMENT FOR A NATIONAL STUDY OF DIRECT-PATHWAY AND RETURNING ENGINEERING GRADUATE STUDENTS ...... 6762 Erika A. Mosyjowski, Shanna R. Daly, Diane L Peters, Steven J. Skerlos

EXPERIENCE WITH MENTORING AND DIRECTING GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AT A DISTANCE IN A MECHANICAL ENGINEERING PROGRAM ...... 6777 Vincent Capece, John R. Baker

PEDAGOGICAL TECHNIQUES TO PROMOTE DEVELOPMENT OF GRADUATE ENGINEERING STUDENTS AS DISCIPLINARY WRITERS ...... 6785 Sarah Lyn Gassman, Michelle A Maher, Briana Timmerman, Charles E. Pierce

INSTRUMENTATION TECHNICAL SESSION III

REMOTE CIRCUIT DESIGN LABS WITH ANALOG DISCOVERY ...... 6796 Asad Yousuf, Alex Wong, Derek W. Edens

A SIMPLE LABORATORY EXERCISE INTRODUCING PHOTOVOLTAICS ...... 6807 Herbert L. Hess

LABVIEW AND ARDUINO AS A GATEWAY TO PLC PROGRAMMING...... 6815 Wesley B. Williams

USING THE PARALLAX PROPELLER FOR MECHATRONICS EDUCATION...... 6827 Hugh Jack

INT. ENGINEERING EDUCATION; DEVELOPMENTS, INNOVATIONS, PARTNERSHIPS, AND IMPLEMENTATION

DEVELOPING INNOVATION CAPABILITIES AND COMPETENCIES FOR UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION ...... 6835 James L. Barnes, Michael J. Dyrenfurth, Susan Kubic Barnes

EXPERIMENTAL VEHICLES PROGRAM CREATES LASTING PARTNERSHIPS WITH THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIES ...... 6858 Saeed D. Foroudastan, Courtney Thompson

A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE ACROSS THE WORLD: SECRETS TO SUCCESS ...... 6864 Michael J. Dyrenfurth, James L. Barnes, Susan Kubic Barnes

ACE: INNOVATIVE EDUCATIONAL MODEL TO TEACH PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS FOR ENGINEERING STUDENTS...... 6895 Genaro Zavala, Angeles Dominguez, Ruth Rodriguez Gallegos

OUTREACH TO K 12 FEMALES

USING SOCIAL NETWORKING TO MENTOR 9TH-GRADE GIRLS FOR ACADEMIC SUCCESS AND ENGINEERING CAREER AWARENESS...... 6907 Patricia Carlson, Ryan Smith, Matthew Ryan Davidson

DOES A MIDDLE SCHOOL INTERVENTION FOR GIRLS HAVE LONG-LASTING DIFFERENTIAL EFFECTS ON THEIR PERCEPTIONS OF AND PARTICIPATION IN ENGINEERING? (RESEARCH TO PRACTICE)...... 6921 Chrysanthe Demetry, Suzanne Sontgerath

USING SPORTS TO ATTRACT YOUNG WOMEN INTO ENGINEERING ...... 6934 Jani M Pallis, Jill L McNitt-Gray

GIRLS GO BEYOND BLACKBOARDS TOWARDS POSITIVE ATTITUDES ABOUT ENGINEERING...... 6943 Christina Kay White, Richard H. Crawford, Austin Bates Talley, Anthony J Petrosino, Kristen Bland

A FEMALE-ONLY CAMP FOR STEM DISCIPLINES ...... 6969 Muhittin Yilmaz, Nuri Yilmazer, Eusebio Cuellar Torres, Tamara Denise Guillen

RETHINKING ENGINEERING WRITING

“DOING ENGINEERING IN THE SCHOOL OF LETTERS & SCIENCE: ADDING A MANUFACTURING LINE DESIGN PROJECT TO A WRITING PROGRAM CLASS FOR ENGINEERS”...... 6981 Brad Jerald Henderson

USING LEARNING THROUGH WRITING PEDAGOGY TO IMPROVE LABORATORY LEARNING OUTCOMES...... 7015 Steven R Walk

THE COACH: A WEB-BASED RESOURCE FOR IMPROVING THE WRITING SKILLS OF ENGINEERING STUDENTS ...... 7034 David M. Beams, Luke Niiler, Beth Todd, Marcus Brown, Garry W. Warren

ENGINEERING WRITING FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC: A CLASSROOM APPROACH...... 7049 Elisa Warford

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING LABORATORY INNOVATIONS

INTEGRATION OF SIMULATION AND EXPERIMENT IN PARTICLE TRANSPORT, DEPOSITION AND REMOVAL ...... 7061 Goodarz Ahmadi

DISCOVERY LEARNING EXPERIMENTS IN A NEW MACHINE DESIGN LABORATORY ...... 7070 Mark Nagurka, Fernando Rodriguez Anton

A LOW-COST DYNAMIC PLANT AND DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM FOR LABORATORY COURSES ON CONTROL SYSTEMS AND MECHATRONICS ...... 7088 Nick Patrick Rentsch, Sergey Dusheyko, McKenzie Suzanne Campagna, Ozkan Celik

USE OF AN AFFORDABLE HIGH SPEED VIDEO CAMERA FOR VISUALIZATION IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING COURSES ...... 7101 John R. Baker, Vincent Capece

NEW APPROACHES IN ENGINEERING

LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION! INCREASING FIRST-YEAR ENGINEERING STUDENT ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE VIA AN INNOVATIVE PRE-ORIENTATION PROGRAM ...... 7123 Karen T. Marosi, Barbra Steinhurst

INTEGRATING STEM AND THE ARTS: A CALL FOR PARTNERSHIPS ACROSS DISCIPLINES ...... 7133 Ishbah Cox, Monica Farmer Cox

REFORM THE INTRO TO ENGINEERING COURSE FOR RETAINING MINORITY ENGINEERING FRESHMEN...... 7141 Singli Garcia-Otero, Nasser Ghariban, Fedra Adnani

COMMUNITY-RELEVANT RESEARCH FOR TCC STEM STUDENT RETENTION...... 7149 Audrey Lynn Lavallie, Eric Asa, G. Padmanabhan

CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT AND MULTIDISCIPLINARY INSTRUCTION

MODULARIZING EMERGING TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION: TWO CASE STUDIES...... 7162 Deb Newberry, Marilyn Barger

A NEW MULTIDISCIPLINARY COURSE IN SUSTAINABILITY USING A COMBINATION OF TRADITIONAL LECTURE AND SELF-DIRECTED STUDY MODULES ...... 7174 Jeffrey R Seay

EVALUATION OF HYBRID INSTRUCTION OF AN INTRODUCTORY ELECTRONICS COURSE ...... 7185 Catherine Skokan, Ravel F. Ammerman, William Hoff

Volume 9

USING VIDEO TO TIE ENGINEERING THEMES TO FOUNDATIONAL CONCEPTS ...... 7193 Darshita N. Shah, Jennifer E French, Janet Rankin, Lori Breslow

BEST METHODS FOR NE ES

ASSESSING SCHOLARLY OUTLETS...... 7206 Robert A. Chin, Michael Behm

INTERDISCIPLINARY PROBLEMS AND NUMERICAL ANALYSIS: 10 THINGS WE WISH WE KNEW 20 YEARS AGO...... 7216 James C. Squire, Turk McCleskey, Elizabeth White Baker, Anthony Evan English

USE OF AN ELECTRONIC DOSSIER FOR PROMOTION...... 7228 Carmine C. Balascio

INNOVATIONS IN TEACHING AND RESEARCH IN PHYSICS OR ENGINEERING PHYSICS II

EMBEDDING COMPUTATION WITH EXPERIMENTATION IN THE SOPHOMORE AND UPPER-LEVEL PHYSICS CURRICULUM ...... 7237 Marie Lopez Del Puerto, Adam S Green, Jeffrey A. Jalkio, Marty Johnston, Paul R Ohmann

DEVELOPMENT OF A MATERIALS SCIENCE COURSE TO SERVE DIVERSE CONSTITUENCIES ...... 7247 Melissa Eblen-Zayas

ASSESSMENT OF VIRTUAL PHYSICS LAB (VPL) IN SUMMER COURSE FOR PRE-COLLEGE PREPARATION...... 7255 Varun Kumar Karingula, Hazim A El-Mounayri, Tamer M. Wasfy, Hatem M Wasfy, Jeanne Michele Peters

A SIMPLE DEMONSTRATION OF THE POWER FACTOR...... 7273 Robert A Ross

INTEGRATED PHYSICS AND MATH COURSE FOR ENGINEERING STUDENTS: A FIRST EXPERIENCE...... 7280 Angeles Dominguez, Genaro Zavala, Juan Antonio Alanis

AN ENGINEERING PHYSICS INTRODUCTION TO ELECTRONICS FOR ECE SOPHOMORES ...... 7289 Steve E. Watkins

A GENTLE BRIDGE BETWEEN DYNAMICS AND THERMODYNAMICS...... 7304 David K. Probst, Yumin Zhang

EXPERIENCE IN ASSESSING TECHNOLOGICAL LITERACY

EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING IN THE CIVIL ENGINEERING CURRICULUM: COLLABORATIONS BETWEEN COMMUNITY COLLEGES, RESEARCH I UNIVERSITIES AND NATIONAL LABORATORIES...... 7310 Claire L. Antaya, Kristen Parrish, Elizabeth A Adams, Amy E. Landis

GAINS IN ENGINEERING-RELATED SKILLS ACHIEVED BY STUDENTS IN TECHNOLOGICAL AND ENGINEERING LITERACY MINORS ...... 7322 John Krupczak, Mani Mina

WHEN ENGINEERING STUDENTS WRITE ABOUT WASTE ELECTRONICS: TRENDS IN HOW THEY THINK OF GLOBAL IMPACTS ...... 7335 Denise M Wilson, Cheryl Allendoerfer, Ryan C. Campbell, Elizabeth Burpee, Mee Joo Kim

USING HEAVY METAL MUSIC TO PROMOTE TECHNOLOGICAL AND SOCIO-CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING...... 7352 Brian P Kirkmeyer

PANEL: OPPORTUNITIES & METHODS TO ENCOURAGE MORE WOMEN TOWARD RESEARCH COMMERCIALIZATION

PANEL: OPPORTUNITIES & METHODS TO ENCOURAGE MORE WOMEN TOWARD RESEARCH COMMERCIALIZATION...... 7368 Adrienne Minerick, Babs Carryer, Mary Raber, Abby Lammons Thompson, Louise C. Dunlap

DISTANCE LEARNING AND ONLINE TEACHING SESSION

LOOKING INTO FUTURE: ONLINE ENGINEERING EDUCATION...... 7385 Shekar Viswanathan, Mudasser Fraz Wyne

SURVEY OF EXISTING REMOTE LABORATORIES USED TO CONDUCT LABORATORY EXERCISES FOR DISTANCE LEARNING COURSES ...... 7398 Thomas Fallon

TRADITIONAL, BLENDED, AND ON-LINE TEACHING OF ELECTRICAL MACHINERY COURSE...... 7410 Aleksandr Sergeyev, Nasser Alaraje

STUDENT ENGAGEMENT STRATEGIES IN ONE ONLINE ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY COURSE ...... 7423 Julie M Little-Wiles, Patricia Fox, Charles Feldhaus, Stephen Hundley, Brandon Sorge

IMPLEMENTATION ACTIVE LEARNING IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY

CLARIFICATIONS OF A DATUM AXIS OR CENTERPLANE SPECIFYING IN MAXIMUM MATERIAL CONDITION OF GEOMETRIC DIMENSIONING AND TOLERANCING...... 7435 Cheng Y. Lin, Jennifer Grimsley, Mileta Tomovic

IMPLEMENTING ACTIVE LEARNING PRINCIPLES IN AN ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY FLUID MECHANICS COURSE ...... 7442 Michael W Martin

MET SENIOR PROJECTS AS A MEANS OF DEVELOPING LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS AND EQUIPMENT FOR COURSE LABS...... 7454 Craig Durwin Engle, Gregory P. Neff

INTEGRATING CURRICULUM AND LABS IN ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMS

ARM DEVELOPER DAY: ENGAGING ENGINEERING STUDENTS THROUGH TARGETED HANDS-ON WORKSHOPS...... 7462 Antonio Francisco Mondragon, Adriana Becker-Gomez, Joe Bungo

A LABORATORY BASED, PROBLEM SOLVING PEDAGOGY PREPARES ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY GRADUATES TO SUCCEED ON THE JOB ...... 7482 John Marshall

REAL-TIME EEG SIGNAL PROCESSING BASED ON TI'S TMS320C6713 DSK ...... 7488 Zhibin Tan, William H. Blanton, Qianru Zhang

EVALUATION OF THE EFFECT OF WIRESHARK-BASED LABORATORIES ON INCREASING STUDENT UNDERSTANDING OF LEARNING OUTCOMES IN A DATA COMMUNICATIONS COURSE...... 7497 Craig A Chin, Leigh Sharma, Garth V Crosby

NEW APPROACHES AND APPLICATIONS TO ENHANCE TECHNOLOGICAL LITERACY PART 1

DEMONSTRATION OF ELECTRICAL PRINCIPLES IN THE CLASSROOM BY HYDRAULIC ANALOGUES...... 7510 R. William Graff, Paul R. Leiffer

WAVES OF ENGINEERING: USING A MINI-WAVE FLUME TO FOSTER ENGINEERING LITERACY...... 7519 Alicia L Lyman-Holt, Laia Cari Robichaux

STIMULATING INTEREST IN TECHNOLOGICAL AND ENGINEERING LITERACY USING A MULTIDIMENSIONAL DESKTOP VIRTUAL REALITY FRAMEWORK...... 7531 Magesh Chandramouli, Gary R. Bertoline

TOWARD MORE PRAGMATIC ENGINEERING CLASSES: TRANSFORMATION FROM TRADITIONAL TO DEWEYAN CLASSES IN TECHNOLOGICAL LITERACY AND COMPETENCY APPROACHES ...... 7551 Mani Mina

TUESDAY: THE CIVIL ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGIST AND THE CIVIL ENGINEER – WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE

THE CIVIL ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGIST AND THE CIVIL ENGINEER - ACCORDING TO THE AUTHORITIES, WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?...... 7563 Thomas A. Lenox, James J O'Brien

OPPORTUNITIES FOR CIVIL ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGISTS WITHIN THE ENTERPRISE OF CIVIL ENGINEERING ...... 7599 Joe D Manous, Jon D Nelson

PREPAREDNESS OF CIVIL ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY GRADUATES FOR DESIGN CAREERS...... 7616 Harry G Cooke, Todd Dunn, Scott B. Wolcott

COMPUTER BASED GRADING AND LEARNING STYLES

AUTOMATED GRADING OF FIRST YEAR STUDENT CAD WORK ...... 7632 Keith Alan Hekman, Mark T Gordon

CAN UNDERGRADUATES LEARN PROGRAMMING WITH A "VIRTUAL PROFESSOR" FINDINGS FROM A PILOT IMPLEMENTATION OF A BLENDED INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGY...... 7643 Dan Cernusca, Clayton E Price

ENHANCING STUDENT COMPREHENSION WITH VIDEO GRADING ...... 7657 Walter W Schilling, John K. Estell

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN: LEARNING STYLE PREFERENCE EFFECT ON...... 7671 Grant Crawford, Lynn K Byers, Rebecca Zifchock

TEACHING WITH TECHNOLOGY

AUTOMATED TEXT ANALYSIS FACILITATES USING WRITTEN FORMATIVE ASSESSMENTS FOR JUST-IN-TIME TEACHING IN LARGE ENROLLMENT COURSES ...... 7680 Luanna B Prevost, Kevin C Haudek, Emily Norton Henry, Matthew C Berry, Mark Urban-Lurain

ACHIEVING COHERENT AND INTERACTIVE INSTRUCTION IN ENGINEERING MECHANICS...... 7695 Caleb H Farny, Sean B Andersson

MOBILE TEACHING: MERGING SMART PHONES, CLOUD, AND DESKTOP TO ACHIEVE CONTENT- SPECIFIC INSTRUCTION IN A GENERIC ENVIRONMENT...... 7703 Larry Burton, Robert Cobb, Ibraheem A. Kateeb, Li-Shiang Tsay, Cameron Seay, Tony E. Graham, Chafic Bousaba

MATERIALS SCIENCE STUDENTS' PERCEPTIONS AND USAGE INTENTIONS OF COMPUTATION...... 7715 Alejandra J. Magana, Michael L Falk, Mike Reese, Camilo Vieira

ASSESSMENT OF STUDENT LEARNING 2

CONSISTENT COURSE ASSESSMENT MODEL...... 7728 Sabah Razouk Abro, Jerry Cuper

PROCESS ANALYSIS AS A FEEDBACK TOOL FOR DEVELOPMENT OF ENGINEERING PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS ...... 7750 Sarah Jane Grigg, Jennifer Van Dyken, Lisa Benson, Beshoy Morkos

MULTISOURCE FEEDBACK FOR STEM STUDENTS IMPROVES ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE...... 7762 Jesse Pappas

USING LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS TOOLS TO CHARACTERIZE ENGINEERING DESIGN PROJECT DOCUMENTATION ...... 7786 Micah Lande, James Nelson

THE INFLUENCE OF FEEDBACK ON TEAMWORK AND PROFESSIONAL SKILLS IN AN AUTHENTIC PROCESS DEVELOPMENT PROJECT ...... 7799 Debra Gilbuena, Audrey Briggs, Milo Koretsky

RECRUITMENT, RETENTION AND FIRST YEAR PROGRAMS IN ECE

LESSONS LEARNED FROM AN ECE RECRUITING AND RETENTION PROGRAM THAT INCREASED UNDERGRADUATE ENROLLMENT OVER 60% IN FOUR YEARS ...... 7823 Chad Eric Davis, James J. Sluss

AN UPDATE: THE ENGAGEMENT AND RETENTION OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING STUDENTS WITH A FIRST SEMESTER FRESHMAN EXPERIENCE COURSE...... 7840 Hector A. Ochoa, Mukul Shirvaikar

FREQUENCY DOMAIN CONCEPTS FOR EE FRESHMAN ...... 7859 Christina Howe, Dick Blandford

TEACHING DIGITAL CIRCUIT DESIGN TO MIDDLE-SCHOOL STUDENTS ...... 7869 Christopher R. Carroll

MODERN EMBEDDED SYSTEMS AS A PLATFORM FOR PROBLEM SOLVING IN FRESHMAN ENGINEERING: WHAT IS THE BEST OPTION? ...... 7875 John W Pritchard, Mani Mina

TOPICS IN BIOMASS AND GASIFICATION PROCESSES

AN INTERDISCIPLINARY SENIOR DESIGN PROJECT TO CONVERT AGRICULTURAL RESIDUES TO SOLID FUEL PELLETS...... 7887 Wookwon Lee, Harry R. Diz

SERVICE LEARNING WITHOUT BORDERS - TURNING PEANUT SHELLS TO FUEL BRIQUETTES IN THE GAMBIA...... 7901 Hong Zhang, Jess W. Everett, Jessica Tryner

AN INEXPENSIVE INVERTED DOWNDRAFT BIOMASS GASIFIER FOR EXPERIMENTAL ENERGY- THERMAL-FLUIDS DEMONSTRATIONS...... 7910 Matthew J. Traum, Kyle Pace, Jeremy R Anderson

OPTIMIZATION OF A TRASH TO ENERGY SYSTEM ...... 7926 Drew Witte, Peter J. Schubert

ENERGIZING THE STEAM CURRICULA WITH BIOENERGY AND BIOPRODUCTS...... 7933 Madhumi Mitra, Abhijit Nagchaudhuri, Corinne Johnson Rutzke

ENGINEERING ETHICS DIVISION TECHNICAL SESSION

IMPLEMENTING A CAMPUS-WIDE RCR TRAINING REQUIREMENT FOR DOCTORAL STUDENTS...... 7945 Jason Borenstein, Robert J Butera

ETHICS IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION USING VIRTUAL WORLDS ...... 7953 Jodi Reeves, Larysa Nadolny

TWO YEARS LATER: A LONGITUDINAL LOOK AT THE IMPACT OF ENGINEERING ETHICS EDUCATION...... 7962 Trevor Scott Harding, Donald D. Carpenter, Cynthia J. Finelli

ENGINEERING ETHICS SURVEY FOR FACULTY: AN ASSESSMENT TOOL...... 7972 Frank E Falcone, Edward F. Glynn, Mark Edward Graham, Mark Doorley

STUDENT ENROLLMENT, ATTENDANCE, RETENTION, AND GRADUATION IN ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMS

IMPROVED RETENTION AND OTHER IMPACTS BENEFITING ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY UNDERGRADUATES INVOLVED IN HIGH SCHOOL OUTREACH...... 7992 Christina R Scherrer

A FORMAL RESEARCH STUDY ON CORRELATING STUDENT ATTENDANCE POLICIES TO STUDENT SUCCESS ...... 8000 Donald C. Richter, Jason K Durfee, Doris M Munson, Terence Geyer, William R Loendorf

AN INTERDISCIPLINARY STRATEGY FOR IMPROVING ENROLLMENTS IN ET PROGRAMS ...... 8012 Austin B. Asgill, Craig A Chin, Florian Misoc, Simin Nasseri Adimathara P. Preethy, Scott J. Tippens, Randall A. Emert, Ali Khazaei

RECRUITING POST DOCS TO DIVERSITY THE FACULTY IN ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY...... 8024 Keith V. Johnson

IMPLEMENTING TRANSFER, EXCHANGE, RESEARCH PROGRAMS AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT; IN ASIA AND FAR EAST

SEVEN YEARS OF SUCCESS IN IMPLEMENTATION OF A 3 + 1 TRANSFER PROGRAM IN ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY BETWEEN UNIVERSITIES IN CHINA AND THE UNITES STATES...... 8033 Scott I. Segalewitz

THE ROLE OF UNIVERSITIES IN THE CONTINUOUS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE RUSSIAN ENGINEERING WORKFORCE ...... 8042 Phillip Albert Sanger, Julia Ziyatdinova, Svetlana Vasilievna Barabanova, Vasiliy G. Ivanov

ACTIVE LEARNING IN NEPAL: A CASE STUDY OF EFFECTIVENESS, CULTURAL CONSIDERATIONS AND STUDENT ATTITUDES AT A SOUTH ASIAN UNIVERSITY...... 8047 James M Widmann

OVERVIEW ON THE "TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES PROGRAM (TIROP)" - SEASON ONE: 2012 ...... 8059 Jeffrey S. Cross, Kikuo Kishimoto, Hisakazu Mihara, Masahiko Hara

STARTING THEM EARLY

ENGINEERING CHILDHOOD: KNOWLEDGE TRANSMISSION THROUGH PARENTING ...... 8069 Brianna L Dorie, Monica E Cardella

USING PUPPETS TO ELICIT TALK DURING INTERVIEWS ON ENGINEERING WITH YOUNG CHILDREN...... 8076 Brianna L Dorie, Zdanna Tranby, Scott K Van Cleave, Monica E Cardella, Gina Navoa Svarovsky

Volume 10

GENDER RESEARCH ON ADULT-CHILD DISCUSSIONS WITHIN INFORMAL ENGINEERING ENVIRONMENTS (GRADIENT): EARLY FINDINGS ...... 8083 Monica E Cardella, Gina Navoa Svarovsky, Brianna L Dorie

PRE SERVICE DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES

PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS' MODELING AS A WAY OF THINKING IN ENGINEERING DESIGN...... 8096 Matthew D. Lammi, Cameron Denson

PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS' ENGINEERING DESIGN PRACTICES IN AN INTEGRATED ENGINEERING AND LITERACY EXPERIENCE...... 8117 Kristen Bethke Wendell

ENGINEERING RELATED ACTIVITIES USING DIGITAL FABRICATION IN AN INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY COURSE FOR PRESERVICE ELEMENTARY TEACHERS ...... 8133 Daniel Tillman

COMMUNICATION AND ENGINEERING CAREERS: MOTIVATING OUR STUDENTS

EMBEDDING COMMUNICATION IN AN INTERDISCIPLINARY PROJECT-BASED UPPER-LEVEL ENGINEERING DESIGN COURSE...... 8148 John C. Anderson, David W. Gatchell, Barbara Shwom, Stacy Benjamin, John Andrew Lake

IMPLEMENTING A STUDENT-SUGGESTED COURSE IN ENGINEERING CAREER DEVELOPMENT ...... 8158 Julie E. Sharp, Christopher J Rowe

INSIGHTS INTO THE PROCESS OF BUILDING A PRESENTATION SCORING SYSTEM FOR ENGINEERS...... 8174 Tristan T. Utschig, Jeffrey S. Bryan, Judith Shaul Norback

ENGAGING AND MOTIVATING STUDENTS IN ENGINEERING COMMUNICATION WITH COMPETITION AND PRIZES ...... 8191 Katherine Golder, Deanna Gail Levis, Darlene B Webb

SIMULATION AND PROGRAMMING

USING SIMULATION TO IMPROVE THE EFFICIENCY OF CAM AND CNC INSTRUCTION...... 8214 Derek M Yip-Hoi

AN EFFECTIVE LEARNING APPROACH FOR INDUSTRIAL ROBOT PROGRAMMING ...... 8229 Guanghsu A. Chang, Wesley L. Stone

CYBER BASED LAYER MANUFACTURING WITH AN ON-LINE TESTING SYSTEM ...... 8243 Tzu-Liang Bill Tseng, Richard Chiou, Paras Mandal, Carlos Alejandro Garcia, Natalia V Espino, Zhonghua Hu, David Ricardo Romo, Monica I. Corella

UTILIZING APPLICATIONS PROGRAMMING INTERFACES TO PROVIDE PRODUCT LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT AND ENHANCE MANUFACTURING EDUCATION ...... 8262 David E. Culler , Noah David Anderson

SYSTEMS LEARNING WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF SUBJECT LEARNING...... 8272 Carrie Steinlicht, Byron G. Garry

THERMAL SCIENCES

COMBINATION UNIT TO SUPPORT INSTRUCTION IN THERMODUNAMICS, FLUID MECHANICS, AND HEAT TRANSFER ...... 8284 Lin Lin, James W. Smith, Stephen Knittweis

IMPLEMENTING A FLIPPED CLASSROOM IN THERMODYNAMICS...... 8294 Evan C. Lemley, Baha Jassemnejad, Eric Judd, Brock Philip Ring, Andrew Wayne Henderson, Grant M Armstrong

TEAM-BASED LEARNING AND SCREENCASTS IN THE UNDERGRADUATE THERMAL-FLUID SCIENCES CURRICULUM...... 8302 Georg Pingen

PROBLEM FRAMING BEHAVIOR IN STATICS AND THERMODYNAMICS ...... 8323 John Jackman, Stephen B. Gilbert, Gloria Starns, Mathew Hagge, Leann E Faidley

ENGAGEMENT IN FORMAL AND INFORMAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS

FIRST LEGO LEAGUE PARTICIPATION: PERCEPTIONS OF MINORITY STUDENT PARTICIPANTS AND THEIR FLL COACHES...... 8333 Jeffrey H Rosen, Cher C Hendricks, Norman F. Robinson, Julia Sonnenberg-Klein

USE OF VIDEO TECHNOLOGY TO IMPROVE STUDENT LEARNING ...... 8346 Nesim Halyo, Qiang Le

A BETTER MOUSETRAP: WHY DID THEY COME? ...... 8357 Mary R. Anderson-Rowland

ISSUES OF OUTREACH AND INTEREST IN ENGINEERING

GENDER DIFFERENCES IN MOTIVATION TO PERFORM K12 OUTREACH...... 8372 Sara A. Atwood, Joshua M Frey

STUDENT PERCEPTIONS AND INTEREST IN ENGINEERING: EFFECTS OF GENDER, RACE/ETHNICITY, AND GRADE LEVEL...... 8398 Susannah Sandrin, Connie M Borror

WHY SOME COMMUNITY COLLEGE STUDENTS CHOOSE ENGINEERING AND SOME DON'T ...... 8425 Mary R. Anderson-Rowland, Armando A. Rodriguez, Anita Grierson

EQUIPPING AN ARMY OF AMBASSADORS: A WORKSHOP MODEL FOR A STEM CAREER SPEAKER'S BUREAU ...... 8442 Meagan C Pollock

AEROSPACE DIVISION TECHNICAL SESSION 2

AN EXPERIMENT IN LIVE SIMULATION-BASED LEARNING IN AIRCRAFT DESIGN AND ITS IMPACT ON STUDENT PREPAREDNESS FOR ENGINEERING PRACTICE ...... 8459 William Michael Butler

THE INTEGRATION OF STAKEHOLDER REQUIREMENTS WITHIN AEROSPACE ENGINEERING DESIGN EDUCATION ...... 8485 Alexandra Emelina Coso, Amy Pritchett

USING A GRADUATE STUDENT DEVELOPED TRAJECTORY GENERATION PROGRAM TO FACILITATE UNDERGRADUATE SPACECRAFT / MISSION CAPSTONE DESIGN PROJECTS ...... 8498 Martin James Brennan, Adam Wayne, Wallace T. Fowler

AN INTRODUCTORY COURSE IN PRACTICAL SYSTEMS ENGINEERING ...... 8514 Michael A. Swartwout, Sanjay Jayaram

GRASPING THE “CONCEPT”

THE EFFECT OF INQUIRY-BASED ACTIVITIES AND PRIOR KNOWLEDGE ON UNDERGRADUATES' UNDERSTANDING OF REVERSIBILITY...... 8520 Katharyn E. K. Nottis, Margot A Vigeant, Michael J. Prince, Ana Gabriela Aguilera Silva

CONCEPT GROUP EXERCISES FOR CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT OF STUDENTS LEARNING ABILITIES...... 8539 Rajesh V Shende

SEMESTER-LONG CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERING ELECTIVES COURSE...... 8549 Adrienne R Minerick

IMPLEMENTATION OF STATE-OF-THE-ART LEARNING TOOLS IN THE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AT NAZARBAYEV UNIVERSITY IN THE POST-SOVIET REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN ...... 8568 Sayara Saliyeva, Dinara McLaughlin, Moulay Rachid Babaa, Hella Tokos, Stefaan Jan Rogier Simons, Sarim Naji Al Zubaidy, Joseph A. Menicucci

EXAMINING THE INNOVATION-DECISION PROCESS: A PRELIMINARY STUDY OF THE AICHE CONCEPT WAREHOUSE...... 8582 Debra Gilbuena, Christina Smith, Bill Jay Brooks, Talia Sidne Finkelstein, Milo Koretsky

CREATING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION LEARNING IN THE CURRICULUM

DEVELOPMENT AND ASSESSMENT OF AN INNOVATIVE PROGRAM TO INTEGRATE COMMUNICATION SKILLS INTO ENGINEERING CURRICULA ...... 8598 Warren N. Waggenspack, Sarah Liggett, Warren R Hull, David Bowles, Paige Davis

IMPROVING THE WRITING OF ENGINEERING STUDENTS THROUGH PORTFOLIOS...... 8619 Mark W. Milke, Creon Upton, Glen F Koorey, Aisling Dominique O'Sullivan, Keith Comer

ADDRESSING COMMUNICATION ISSUES THROUGH FACULTY/STUDENT PARTICIPATION ...... 8632 Craig J. Gunn

ENHANCING DESIGN TEAM INTERACTION BY UNDERSTANDING COMMUNICATION STYLES...... 8653 Gregg L. Fiegel

CIP DIVISION TECHNICAL SESSION 2

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AT KING SAUD UNIVERSITY AND ITS PARTNERSHIP WITH INDUSTRY ...... 8673 Abdullah I. Almhaidib

A SUCCESSFUL ENGINEERING PROGRAM-CORPORATE PARTNERSHIP...... 8682 Scott Danielson, Chell A. Roberts

ENGINEERING EDUCATORS IN INDUSTRY: A CASE STUDY OF A DOCTORAL INTERNSHIP ...... 8693 Meagan C Pollock

BEST OF COMPUTER IN EDUCATION DIVISION

A RUBRIC-BASED GRADING APP FOR IPADS...... 8701 Smitesh Bakrania, Sean Banger

THE FLIPPED CLASSROOM: A SURVEY OF THE RESEARCH ...... 8711 Jacob Lowell Bishop, Matthew A Verleger

EFFECTIVENESS OF AN ONLINE WRITING SYSTEM IN IMPROVING STUDENTS' WRITING SKILLS IN ENGINEERING ...... 8729 Patricia R Backer

STUDENT ATTENTION IN UNSTRUCTURED-USE, COMPUTER-INFUSED CLASSROOMS...... 8744 Mahnas Jean Mohammadi-Aragh, Christopher B. Williams

THE EDUCATION SECTOR REVOLUTION: THE AUTOMATION OF EDUCATION ...... 8758 Hatem M Wasfy, Tamer M. Wasfy, Riham M Mahfouz, Jeanne Peters

EMERGING COMPUTING AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES

ALTERNATE PATHWAYS TO CAREERS IN COMPUTING: RECRUITING AND RETAINING WOMEN STUDENTS ...... 8777 Shaundra Bryant Daily, Juan E Gilbert, Wanda Eugene, Christina Gardner-McCune, Kyla Alanna McMullen, Phillip Wendell Hall, Sekou L Remy, Damon Lamar Woodard

DEVELOPMENT OF A MULTI-PLATFORM HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING STREAMING VIDEO DISTRIBUTION CLUSTER ...... 8788 Carlos R Morales, Perry Lucas Cox, Matthew John Farrenkopf, Robert Eric Knorr, Erick Morales, Christopher Gaeta, Martin Jerome Durchholz

SECTOR-SEARCH WITH RENDEZVOUS: OVERCOMING COMMUNICATION LIMITATIONS IN MULTIROBOT SYSTEMS ...... 8794 Briana Lowe Wellman, Tommy Suriel, Evanna Maria Reynoso

AN ASSOCIATIVE BASED APPROACH TO ANALYZING AN ONLINE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT ...... 8805 Bahareh Azarnoush, Jennifer M Bekki, Bianca L. Bernstein, George C Runger

SCAFFOLDING BEGINNING RESEARCH STUDENTS USING OPEN SOURCE TOOLS...... 8817 Dhana Rao, Rajeev K Agrawal, Venkat N Gudivada

INCORPORATING TECHNOLOGY INTO CONSTRUCTION EDUCATION

USING MOBILE TECHNOLOGY IN A CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT "HANDS-ON" LABORATORY...... 8827 R. Casey Cline, Kirsten A Davis

A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR TECHNOLOGY-ENHANCED PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING IN CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT EDUCATION ...... 8834 Namhun Lee

USING ELECTRONIC FLASHCARDS FOR STUDENT SELF-EVALUATION OF READINESS FOR EXAMS...... 8846 Kirsten A Davis

TEACHING CONSTRUCTION HAZARD RECOGNITION THROUGH HIGH FIDELITY AUGMENTED REALITY...... 8854 Antoine Jean-Pierre Tixier, Alex Albert, Matthew Ryan Hallowell

FACULTY AND COURSE EVOLUTION: TEACHING WITH TECHNOLOGY, ONLINE DELIVERY, AND ADDRESSING EMERGING STUDENT & INDUSTRY NEEDS

THE MOVE TO ONLINE: MORE OF THE SAME OR RE-CREATING ENGINEERING EDUCATION? ...... 8869 Wayne P. Pferdehirt

VIRTUAL OFFICE HOURS THROUGH VIDEO CONFERENCING: LESSONS LEARNED ...... 8881 Daniel Dickrell

TEACHING JOURNEYS OF ENGINEERING FACULTY: STORIES OF TRANSITION ...... 8886 Sandra Bird, Nadia N. Kellam

"THE BOTTOM 3" - A NEW REVOLUTION IN LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT ...... 8895 Eric Paul Pearson, Timothy Boyd, Noah Miller

VIDEO RECORDING VS. CLASS VISITS: A COMPARISON OF TWO FACULTY DEVELOPMENT TOOLS...... 8913 Michael J. Richards, Daniel D. Jensen, Jason Daniel Christopher

UNDERGRADUATE GPA AS A CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTOR IN EVALUATING PROFESSIONAL WORKING ADULT LEARNER ADMISSIONS ACCEPTABILITY ...... 8923 Mitchell L Springer, Mark T Schuver

THE TEACHING CIRCLE FOR LARGE ENGINEERING COURSES: CLEARING THE ACTIVATION BARRIER...... 8932 Cynthia J. Finelli, Joanna Mirecki Millunchick

DESIGN TEAMWORK

TEAM LEADERSHIP ON CAPSTONE DESIGN PROJECT TEAMS ...... 8941 Stephen W. Laguette

TALKIN' TEAMS - STRATEGIES FOR ELEVATING STUDENT AND TEAM SKILL DEVELOPMENT OVER PROJECT COMPLETION...... 8956 Greg Kremer

MENTORING TEAM CONFLICTS IN CAPSTONE DESIGN: PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS...... 8967 Marie C Paretti, James J. Pembridge, Stephen C Brozina, Benjamin David Lutz, Jintana Nina Phanthanousy

Volume 11

A TEAM-EFFECTIVENESS INVENTORY FOR GUIDED REFLECTION AND FEEDBACK ...... 8976 Patricia Kristine Sheridan, Lobna El Gammal, Jennie Phillips, Greg Evans

REDMINE AS A WEB-BASED COLLABORATION TOOL IN ENGINEERING DESIGN COURSES ...... 8989 Junichi Kanai, Mark Anderson

LABORATORY EXPERIENCES IN ELECTRONICS AND CIRCUITS

USING MILLER'S THEOREM AND DOMINANT POLES TO ACCURATELY DETERMINE FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR AND BIPOLAR JUNCTION TRANSISTOR SMALL SIGNAL AND SPICE CAPACITOR VALUES ...... 9002 Ernest M. Kim, Thomas F. Schubert

MODELS OF MOBILE HANDS-ON STEM EDUCATION...... 9013 Kenneth A Connor, Bonnie Ferri, Kathleen Meehan

REAL-WORLD VS. IDEAL OP-AMPS: DEVELOPING STUDENT INSIGHT INTO FINITE GAIN- BANDWIDTH LIMITATIONS AND COMPENSATION...... 9030 Tooran Emami, Richard J. Hartnett

CLOSING THE DESIGN CYCLE: INTEGRATION OF ANALYSIS, SIMULATION, AND MEASUREMENTS RESULTS TO GUIDE STUDENTS ON EVALUATION OF DESIGN...... 9045 Avik Dayal, Kathleen Meehan, A. A. Beex

INNOVATIONS IN REMOTE LABORATORIES & SIMULATION SOFTWARE FOR ONLINE AND ON-SITE ENGINEERING STUDENTS ...... 9056 Jodi Reeves, Bhaskar Raj Sinha, Mohammad N Amin, Arthur Strum Davis

NOVEL PEDAGOGIES I

AN ANALYSIS OF THE FIDELITY OF IMPLEMENTATION OF RESEARCH-BASED INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES IN THE STATICS CLASSROOM ...... 9069 Stephanie Cutler, Maura J. Borrego

LONG-TERM IMPACTS OF PROJECT-BASED LEARNING IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING...... 9086 Arthur C Heinricher, Paula Quinn, Richard F. Vaz, Kent J Rissmiller

ACTIVE LEARNING REQUIRES LEARNING - NOT JUST ACTIVITY...... 9111 Shannon Rhey Butler, Kay C Dee

LEARNING THROUGH AN INNOVATIVE FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT STRATEGY: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF HOW ENGINEERING STUDENTS INTERPRET SYSTEM EQUILIBRIUM...... 9120 Sensen Li, Sean P Brophy

FACULTY AND STUDENT PERCEPTIONS OF PROJECT-ENHANCED LEARNING IN EARLY ENGINEERING EDUCATION: BARRIERS, BENEFITS, AND BREAKTHROUGHS...... 9135 M. Razi Nalim, Manikanda K Rajagopal, Robert J Helfenbein

ENGINEERING IDENTITY 2

PERSONAL EPISTEMOLOGY AND SOPHOMORE CIVIL ENGINEERING STUDENTS ...... 9149 Nadia L. Frye, Devlin Montfort, Shane A. Brown

ENGINEERING STUDENTS' DEVELOPMENT AS LIFELONG LEARNERS...... 9160 John C. Chen, Susan M Lord, Karen J McGaughey

STUDENT ATTITUDES TOWARD STEM: THE DEVELOPMENT OF UPPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT SURVEYS...... 9169 Malinda Faber, Alana Unfried, Eric N. Wiebe, Jeni Corn, Latricia Walker Townsend, Tracey Louise Collins

BAZINGA! YOU'RE AN ENGINEER...YOU'RE__! A QUALITATIVE STUDY ON THE MEDIA AND PERCEPTIONS OF ENGINEERS ...... 9195 Rachel McCord

NEW TRENDS IN ECE EDUCATION II

DEVELOPING INTERACTIVE TEACHING STRATEGIES FOR ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING FACULTY...... 9215 Margret Hjalmarson, Jill K Nelson, Lisa G. Huettel, Wayne T. Padgett, Kathleen E. Wage, John R. Buck

AN EXAMINATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT AND LEARNING PREFERENCES IN ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING (ONGOING)...... 9224 Askia Hill, Cordelia M Brown

CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE ELECTRICAL CONCEPTS OF VOLTAGE AND CURRENT: A PILOT STUDY OF A METHOD TO CREATE REPRESENTATIONS OF STUDENTS' MENTAL MODELS ...... 9238 Mark T Carnes, Heidi A. Diefes-Dux

CROSS-INSTITUTIONAL COLLABORATION ON HYBRID ENGINEERING COURSES AMONG INSTITUTIONS IN NEW MEXICO...... 9248 Jorge Crichigno, Gregory L Heileman, Ivan Lopez Hurtado, Alfredo J. Perez, Ramiro Jordan, Timothy L Schroeder

VISUALIZATION TOOLS, MODELING ABILITIES AND GRADING MODELS

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STUDENTS' ABILITY TO MODEL OBJECTS FROM ASSEMBLY DRAWING INFORMATION AND SPATIAL VISUALIZATION ABILITY AS MEASURED BY THE PSVT:R AND MCT ...... 9266 Theodore J. Branoff, Modris Dobelis

INTEGRATION OF AUGMENTED REALITY INTO THE CAD PROCESS ...... 9277 Tumkor Serdar, El-Sayed S. Aziz, Sven K. Esche, Constantin Chassapis

A COMPARISON OF MANUAL VS. ONLINE GRADING FOR SOLID MODELS ...... 9287 Holly K. Ault, Alister Fraser

SURVEY OF THE CURRENT ACADEMIC AND INDUSTRIAL TRENDS IN UTILIZING THE CADD TECHNOLOGY ...... 9300 Hosein Atharifar, Faruk Yildiz, James Richard Knapp

ENHANCING ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT

PARTNERING WITH STUDENTS TO CONTINUOUSLY IMPROVE THE SYSTEMS ENGINEERING & ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT PROGRAM ...... 9314 Jonathan Philip Mayhorn, Ertunga C Ozelkan

IMPROVING GENERIC SKILLS AMONG ENGINEERING STUDENTS THROUGH PROJECT-BASED LEARNING IN A PROJECT MANAGEMENT COURSE...... 9334 Ana Valeria Quevedo, Dante Arturo Guerrero, Martin Palma, Susana Vegas

DEVELOPING COMMUNITY FOR DISTANCE LEARNERS IN AN ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT PROGRAM ...... 9351 La Tondra Murray

THE DEVELOPMENT AND DELIVERY OF AN ONLINE GRADUATE COURSE: LESSONS LEARNED AND FUTURE DIRECTION ...... 9359 Garth V Crosby, Julie Dunston

CONVERTING POINT ESTIMATES FOR COST-RISK ANALYSIS...... 9370 Robert C. Creese

AN UNDERSTANDING OF PSYCHOLOGY TO ENHANCE ORGANIZATIONAL STRENGTH...... 9377 Liana H. Bayatyan, S. Jimmy Gandhi

THEMES IN RENEWABLE ENERGY AND ET

INTEGRATION OF GREEN CONCEPTS IN THE TECHNOLOGY CURRICULM FOR WORK FORCE DEVELOPMENT FOR THE RENEWABLE ENERGY INDUSTRIES ...... 9388 Immanuel Edinbarough

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON THE OPTIMUM HARVESTING OF SUNLIGHT FOR AN EFFICIENT SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEM...... 9408 Immanuel Edinbarough

PROJECT-BASED CURRICULUM FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY...... 9420 Florian Misoc, Tommy D Ball, Austin B. Asgill, Cyril B Okhio

STUDENT LEARNING EXPERIENCE FROM RENEWABLE ENERGY CASE STUDIES ...... 9437 Richard Chiou, Radian G Belu, Michael G Mauk, M. Eric Carr, Tzu-Liang Bill Tseng

NOVEL TEACHING METHODS IN ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY

TEACHING SI UNITS IN ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMES ...... 9453 Edward E Osakue, Jonathan J. Lewis

NOVEL PRACTICES IN TEACHING CIRCUIT ANALYSIS IN AN EET PROGRAM ...... 9471 Ying Lin, Todd D. Morton

VIRTUAL PROJECT TEAMING: INCORPORATION OF IMMERSIVE ENVIRONMENTS AND ROLE- PLAYED CASE STUDY ASSESSMENTS ...... 9482 Charles J Lesko

INTERACTIVE THREE DIMENSIONAL VISUALIZATION BASED ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION - MODELING AND ANIMATION ...... 9495 Tianwei Wang, John R. Wagner, Kapil Chalil Madathil, Melissa Isabel Zelaya, Jeff Bertrand, Kristin Kelly Frady, Anand K. Gramopadhye, Sabarish V. Babu

BASIC CONCEPTS IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP

TAXONOMY OF ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTIVITY ...... 9506 Daniel Michael Ferguson, Sridhar S. Condoor

THE INFLUENCE OF CULTURE, PROCESS, LEADERSHIP AND WORKSPACE ON ...... 9525 Leo E. Hanifin, Ross A. Lee, Jonathan Weaver, Kenneth F Bloemer, Cynthia C. Fry

INDICATORS OF CREATIVE AND ENTREPRENEURIAL THINKING AMONG ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY STUDENTS...... 9565 Senay Purzer, Nicholas D. Fila

A MULTI-PRONGED APPROACH TO NURTURING IT ENTREPRENEURS...... 9574 Neelam Soundarajan, Rajiv Ramnath, Bruce W. Weide

THE POWER OF FIRST MOMENTS IN ENTREPRENEURIAL STORYTELLING ...... 9592 Barbara A. Karanian, Mona Eskandari, Jackie Liao, Zubair Ahmed

PROBLEM AND PROJECT BASED LEARNING IN ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

GIS AND INTRODUCTORY ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING: A WAY TO FOLD GIS INTO AN ALREADY-EXISTING COURSE ...... 9610 Mary Cardenas, David Wayne Kelley, Warren Roberts

INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO ADDRESS THE DYNAMICS OF WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS FOR ENGINEERING STUDENT EDUCATION ...... 9625 Youngwoo Seo, Kimberly Mary Coburn, Donald V. Chase

COLD-CLIMATE GREENHOUSE AND FOOD WASTE DIGESTER...... 9634 Susan E. Powers, Stefan J. Grimberg

INTERDISCIPLINARY, REAL-WORLD, CLIENT-BASED TERM PROJECTS IN AN INTRODUCTORY ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE COURSE...... 9647 Andrew Ross Pfluger, Major Matthew P. Baideme, Katie E Matthew, Major Stephen A. Lewandowski, Jeffrey Allan Starke, Michael A. Butkus

INTEGRATING ENGINEERING FOR DEVELOPING COMMUNITIES INTO ENGINEERING EDUCATION A CASE STUDY ...... 9664 Lupita Del Carmen Montoya, Robyn Sandekian, Daniel Knight

FPD 5: TRANSITIONS AND STUDENT SUCCESS, PART 1

HELPING STUDENTS FIND THE RIGHT TRACK: A PARTNERSHIP FOR STUDENT SUCCESS...... 9677 Elizabeth Anne Stephan, Christine C Murphy

SCHOLARSHIPS FOR ACADEMIC SUCCESS PROGRAM: A FINAL REPORT ...... 9684 Carolyn Skurla, Steven R. Eisenbarth

RESEARCH PILOTS ASSESS ENHANCED STUDENT SUCCESS RESULTING FROM STUDENT AFFAIRS COLLABORATION WITH ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCES...... 9702 Edmund Tsang, Laura Darrah, Paul V. Engelmann, Cynthia Halderson, Bryan W. Thumme, Anetra Grice

BUILDING THE WHOLE ENGINEER: AN INTEGRATED ACADEMIC AND CO-CURRICULAR FIRST- YEAR EXPERIENCE ...... 9716 S. Patrick Walton, Daina Briedis, Mark Urban-Lurain, Timothy J Hinds, Carmellia Davis-King, Thomas F. Wolff

TRAINING AND MENTORING OF GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANTS

THE INFLUENCE OF A TEACHING ASSISTANT ORIENTATION ON TEACHING ASSISTANT PERCEPTIONS OF SELF-EFFICACY...... 9731 Kevin Andrew Rosse-Richards, Juan Diego Velasquez, David B Nelson, Chantal Levesque-Bristol

GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANTS VIEWS OF THEIR OWN TEACHING PRACTICE COMPETENCE ...... 9749 Rachel Louis Kajfez, Holly M Matusovich

ACTIVE LEARNING IN ENGINEERING: PERSPECTIVES FROM GRADUATE STUDENT INSTRUCTORS...... 9762 Tershia A. Pinder-Grover

RELIABILITY OF THE GLOBAL REAL-TIME ASSESSMENT TOOL FOR TEACHING ENHANCEMENT (G-RATE) ...... 9786 Nikitha Sambamurthy, Jeremi S London, Jeeyeon Hahn, Jiabin Zhu, Monica Farmer Cox

ACCREDITATION, PROGRAM EVALUATION, AND EDUCATION RESOURCE’S IMPACT IN LATIN AMERICA

IMPACT OF OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES IN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS IN SPAIN AND LATIN AMERICAS THROUGH SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS ...... 9793 Edmundo Tovar, Jorge A. Lopez-Vargas, Nelson O Piedra, Janneth Alexandra Chicaiza

PATH TO ACCREDITATION FOR ENGINEERING PROGRAMS IN LATIN AMERICA THROUGH COORDINATED AND TAILORED SUPPORT: THE LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN CONSORTIUM OF ENGINEERING INSTITUTIONS (LACCEI) PAR AMIGO INITIATIVE...... 9810 Zenaida Otero Gephardt, Maria M. Larrondo-Petrie, Mariana Archibold

THE TEACHING AND EVALUATION OF TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING CONCEPTS TO DOMINICAN JUNIOR HIGH AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS...... 9820 Geoff Wright, Ron Terry, Steven L Shumway, Richard G. Helps

AN EVALUATION OF THE MEXICAN CULTURE ON STUDENTS HANDS ON RESEARCH EXPERIENCES...... 9832 Erick Jones, Vettrivel Gnaneswaran, Beatriz Murrieta

OUTREACH ALONG THE K 12 PATHWAYS TO ENGINEERING

STUDENT-CREATED WATER QUALITY SENSORS...... 9848 Liesl Hotaling, Susan Lowes, Rustam Stolkin, Peiyi Lin

Volume 12

IMPACT OF TEAMS CLUBS: AN AFTERSCHOOL ENGINEERING ENRICHMENT PROGRAM THAT IMPACTS K-12 STUDENTS AND COLLEGE STUDENT LEADERS...... 9865 Janet L. Yowell, Malinda S Zarske, Daniel Knight, Jacquelyn F. Sullivan

USING EDUCATIONAL "HANDS-ON" EXPERIENTIAL TOOLS TO INTRODUCE MATH, SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING CONCEPTS TO K-16 STUDENTS (RESEARCH TO PRACTICE) ...... 9882 Kelly Doyle, Lelli Van Den Einde, Catherine W. French, Heidi A Tremayne, Sean P Brophy

2D PAPER TRUSSES FOR K12 STEM EDUCATION ...... 9908 Kelly B Crittenden, Heath Tims, David E. Hall

USING THE E IN STEM AS A CATALYST FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS CURRICULUM REFORM IN A LARGE SCHOOL DISTRICT...... 9919 Susan A. Pruet, James Van Haneghan, Melissa Divonne Dean

K 12 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT II

ENGINEERING EDUCATION EXPERIENCE, E3, FOR TEACHERS: A PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP FOR 6-12 ENGINEERING EDUCATION ...... 9930 Bette Grauer, Karen L Roberts, Tom C. Roberts, Gary A. Clark, Amy Rachel Betz

INTEGRATION OF MEDICINE AND ROBOTICS - AN ONLINE TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FOR STEM EDUCATION...... 9964 Ronald H Rockland, Levelle Burr-Alexander, Howard S. Kimmel, John D. Carpinelli, Linda S Hirsch, Thomas Michael Tylutki

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM DESIGN FOR GRADES 6-12 TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND DESIGN EDUCATORS...... 9973 Jeremy V Ernst, Aaron C. Clark, Vincent William Deluca, Laura Bottomley

K-8 TEACHERS' RESPONSES TO THEIR FIRST PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE IN ENGINEERING ...... 9984 So Yoon Yoon, Yi Kong, Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Johannes Strobel

VERTICAL INTEGRATION OF ENGINEER EDUCATION IN K-12 RURAL SCHOOLS ...... 10005 Gary R. Mayer, Allison Jane Fahsl, Stephen McCaire Marlette, Georgia Bracey

MATHEMATICS DIVISION TECHNICAL SESSION

CONTRIBUTIONS OF A MANDATORY INTERNSHIP COURSE TO AN ENGINEERING CURRICULUM...... 10026 Arif Sirinterlikci, Tony Lee Kerzmann

FLORIDA'S MODEL FOR INDUSTRY-TECHNICAL EDUCATION PARTNERSHIPS...... 10044 Marilyn Barger, Richard Gilbert, Michael C. Ennis

RESEARCH EXPERIENCES FOR UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING STUDENTS...... 10052 Sheng Jen

USING THE ASME STUDENT DESIGN COMPETITION AS THE CULMINATING DESIGN AND BUILD EXPERIENCE IN A FRESHMAN LEVEL CAD-CAM COURSE ...... 10065 Wendy S. Reffeor, Christopher P. Pung, Sung-Hwan Joo

CCLI: EVALUATION OF A COST EFFECTIVE PROGRAM FOR AUGMENTING CALCULUS WITH ENGINEERING CONTENT ...... 10076 Jeremiah J. Neubert, Deborah Worley, Naima Kaabouch, Mohammad Khavanin

DOES IT MATTER WHO TEACHES A CORE MATHEMATICS COURSE TO ENGINEERING UNDERGRADUATES?...... 10086 Ryan Boyd Cartwright, Autar Kaw, Ali Yalcin

MAKING MATHEMATICS RELEVANT TO ENGINEERING STUDENTS...... 10101 Michael R. Allen, Dale A. Wilson

CROSS-DISCIPLINARY COHERENCE: MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS FOR ENGINEERING ...... 10111 Gregory Richard Baker

DEVELOPMENT OF AN ONLINE HIGH SCHOOL MULTIVARIABLE CALCULUS-THEMED INTRODUCTION TO ENGINEERING COURSE ...... 10122 Samantha Nacole Andrews, Greg Mayer, Rui Hu, Connelly Hunter Connelly, Nathaniel William Tindall, Neva Rose

FIRST STEPS IN STRENGTHENING THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN MATHEMATICS AND ENGINEERING ...... 10128 Kathleen A Harper, Gregory Richard Bake, Deborah M. Grzybowski

MECHATRONICS

INFUSING MECHATRONICS AND ROBOTICS CONCEPTS IN ENGINEERING CURRICULUM ...... 10137 Anca L. Sala

DEVELOPMENT OF A SENIOR MECHATRONICS COURSE FOR MECHANICAL ENGINEERING STUDENT ...... 10155 John G. Cherng, Ben Q. Li, Narasimhamurthi Natarajan

INTEGRATION OF SENSORS AND LOW-COST MICROCONTROLLERS INTO THE UNDERGRADUATE MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DESIGN SEQUENCE ...... 10177 Horacio Vasquez, Arturo A Fuentes

MICROCONTROLLERS FOR MECHANICAL ENGINEERS: FROM ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE TO CONTROLLER IMPLEMENTATION ...... 10190 Noah Salzman, Peter H. Meckl

DYNAMICS WOW! THEY ACCELERATE

SOUP CAN RACES: TEACHING ROTATIONAL DYNAMICS ENERGY-BASED SOLUTIONS ...... 10199 Richard Brown Bankhead

INQUIRY-BASED LEARNING ACTIVITIES IN DYNAMICS ...... 10209 Brian P. Self, James M Widmann, Michael J. Prince, Jeffrey Georgette

CURRICULUM DESIGN OF STATICS AND DYNAMICS: AN INTEGRATED SCAFFOLDING AND HANDS- ON APPROACH ...... 10228 Sudhir Kaul, Pattabhi Sitaram

CORRELATION OF STUDENTS' BASIC UNDERSTANDING OF RIGID BODY DYNAMICS AND PERFORMANCE IN STATICS...... 10238 Jeffrey L. Newcomer

IT TAKES A VILLAGE: ENGINEERING BEYOND THE CLASSROOM

SOCIAL SUPPORT: HOW HISPANIC AND BLACK ENGINEERING STUDENTS PERCEIVE THE SUPPORT OF PEERS, FAMILY, AND FACULTY ...... 10246 Lorraine N. Fleming, Inez N. Moore, Dawn G. Williams, Leonard Bernard Bliss, Kalynda Chivon Smith

BE A SCIENTIST: FAMILY SCIENCE FOR MINORITIES ...... 10264 Luz M Rivas, Dara Olmsted

HOW UNDERREPRESENTED MINORITY ENGINEERING STUDENTS DERIVE A SENSE OF BELONGING FROM ENGINEERING...... 10273 Elizabeth Litzler, Cate Samuelson

MOTIVATION OF LATINA STUDENTS LEADING TO RETENTION IN ENGINEERING...... 10293 Carrie Robinson

CAPSTONE PROJECTS, DESIGN PROJECTS, AND TEAMWORK

A MULTIDISCIPLINARY CAPSTONE PROJECT EXPERIENCE IN A SMALL LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGE SETTING: THE HYBRID SOLAR TRACKER ...... 10306 Tomas Enrique Estrada

EXAMINING THE IMPACTS OF A MULTIDISCIPLINARY ENGINEERING CAPSTONE DESIGN PROGRAM ...... 10319 Jacob T Allenstein, Bob Rhoads, Peter Rogers, Clifford A Whitfield

DESIGNED-FOR-MOTIVATION BASED LEARNING FOR LARGE MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM ONE SEMESTER HANDS-ON NETWORK BASED COURSE CASE STUDY ...... 10335 Emil H Salib, Joshua Alfred Erney, Matthew Edwin Schumaker

A MULTIDISCIPLINARY HYDROELECTRIC GENERATION DESIGN PROJECT FOR THE FRESHMAN ENGINEERING EXPERIENCE...... 10351 Michael W. Prairie, Gregory Wight, Peter Kjeer

SYSTEMS ENGINEERING EDUCATION RESEARCH

SYSTEMS ARCHITECTING AND SOFTWARE ARCHITECTING - ON SEPARATE OR CONVERGENT PATHS?...... 10361 Howard Eisner

USE OF AN ANALOGY TO DEMONSTRATE THE ORIGIN AND NATURE OF STEADY-STATE ERRORS IN CONTROL SYSTEMS...... 10372 Robert J. Albright

ANALYZING K-12 EDUCATION AS A COMPLEX SYSTEM ...... 10389 Donna C. Llewellyn, Marion Usselman, Douglas Edwards, Roxanne A Moore, Pratik Mital

LEARNING PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF ENGINEERING GRADUATE STUDENTS FROM TWO DIFFERENTLY RANKED UNIVERSITIES USING COURSE OUTCOMES...... 10400 Lin Li, Yong Wang

ONLINE TEACHING BEST PRACTICES: FACULTY PREFERENCES ...... 10411 Agnes Galambosi, Ertunga C Ozelkan

NEW APPROACHES AND APPLICATIONS TO ENHANCE TECHNOLOGICAL LITERACY PART II

USING SCALE MODELS TO PROMOTE TECHNOLOGICAL LITERACY...... 10430 William R Loendorf, Terence L Geyer, Donald C. Richter

GADGET AVALANCHE: A TECHNOLOGY LITERACY COURSE FOR NOVICE ADULTS...... 10446 Katy Luchini-Colbry, Dirk Colbry

PUBLIC WORKS FOR PUBLIC LEARNING: A CASE STUDY ...... 10458 Thalia Anagnos, Becky Carroll, Shannon Weiss, David R. Heil

FIRST-YEAR ENGINEERING STUDENTS' LEARNING OF NANOTECHNOLOGY THROUGH AN OPEN- ENDED PROJECT ...... 10473 Kelsey Joy Rodgers, Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Krishna Madhavan, William C. Oakes

TWO YEAR COLLEGE DIVISION TRANSFER TOPICS PART 1

TRANSFER STUDENT TRANSITION: LESSONS LEARNED...... 10491 Gail D. Jefferson, Sally J. Steadman, F. Carroll Dougherty

ENGINEERING TRANSFER STUDENTS' VIEWS ON ORIENTATION AND ADVISING ...... 10498 Catherine Mobley, Catherine E. Brawner

A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY OF ENGINEERING TRANSFER STUDENTS AT FOUR INSTITUTIONS: COMPARING LATERAL AND VERTICAL TRANSFER PATHWAYS...... 10513 Erin Shealy, Catherine E. Brawne, Catherine Mobley, Richard A. Layton

BRIDGING THE GAP IN TRANSITION OF STUDENTS FROM COMMUNITY COLLEGES TO UNIVERSITIES ...... 10531 B. Sarder

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT ISSUES: CULTURE

PILOT STUDY: AN EXPLORATION OF THE EXPERIENCES THAT INFLUENCE WOMEN'S INTEREST, PURSUIT, AND CONTINUED INVOLVEMENT IN STEM CAREERS...... 10544 Rosalyn S. Hobson, Cindy Jong, Donna Joy Dockery, Mary Hermann, Teresa Jones Carter

A NATURAL EXPERIMENT: NAE'S CHANGING THE CONVERSATION REPORT AND STUDENTS' CHANGING PERCEPTIONS OF ENGINEERING ...... 10557 Elizabeth Litzler, Julie Ann Lorah

THE INFLUENCE OF GENDER STEREOTYPES ON ROLE ADOPTION IN STUDENT TEAMS ...... 10574 Lorelle A Meadows, Denise Sekaquaptewa

NEGOTIATING MASCULINE SPACES: ATTITUDES AND STRATEGIES OF FIRST-YEAR WOMEN IN ENGINEERING ...... 10590 Marie C Paretti, Courtney S Smith

ARE THERE GENDER DIFFERENCES IN HOW MALE AND FEMALE INTERNS AND THEIR MENTORS RATE WORKFORCE SKILLS IN STEM FIELDS?...... 10602 Thomas E. Pinelli, Cathy W. Hall, Kimberly Marie Brush, Jeannine B. Perry

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING POSTER SESSION

WORK IN PROGRESS: STARFISH SCHOOLHOUSE: DEVELOPMENT OF A STORY BASED E-LEARNING MODULE TO TEACH REGENERATIVE MEDICINE CONCEPTS TO MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS AND TEACHERS ...... 10616 Cheryl Bodnar, Joan Frances Schanck, Kalyani Raghavan, Nathan Grant Smith, Kurt Hess, Brian Michael Buirge, Robert Melvin, Brian Hackett

WORK-IN-PROGRESS: TEACHING RESPONSIBILITY FOR SAFETY IN BIOENGINEERING DESIGN ...... 10624 Denny C. Davis, Howard P Davis

WORKS IN PROGRESS: NORTH AMERICAN CONSORTIUM ON REHABILITATION ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY FOR THE INDIVIDUAL (NARETI)...... 10629 M. Barbara Silver Thorn, Karla Bustamante

WORKS IN PROGRESS: DEVELOPMENT OF INTEGRATED COMPUTER SIMULATIONS AND LABORATORY EXERCISES FOR TEACHING HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY...... 10635 Bradley P. Sutton, Jennifer R Amos, Manuel Alejandro Ramirez Garcia, Jennifer Lynne Bailey

WORK IN PROGRESS: THE EFFECT OF TIME ON STUDENT ATTITUDES AND INTERESTS REGARDING GLOBAL HEALTH FOLLOWING AN INTERNATIONAL FIELD EXPERIENCE...... 10640 Michael J Rust, Steven G Northrup

WORK IN PROGRESS: AN ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE PROGRAMME - OPENING ENGINEERING STUDENTS' MIND THROUGH A LIVING LABORATORY EDUCATION ...... 10645 Desmond Y. R. Chong, Jian Huei Choo, Keng Soh, Yee-Sien Ng, Ming Po Tham

WORK IN PROGRESS: COMPUTATIONAL MODELING OF BIOMEDICAL DEVICES WITH ACTIVE LEARNING STRATEGIES...... 10651 Tom Merrill

WORK IN PROGRESS:DEVELOPING AN INTEGRATED MOTION CAPTURE AND VIDEO RECORDING FOR PEDIATRIC BIOMECHANICAL STUDIES ...... 10656 Mohammad Habibi, Eric Diep

WORK IN PROGRESS: ASSESSMENT OF A FRESHMAN ENGINEERING PROJECT ON CONTRASTING AUTOMATIC BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT APPROACHES...... 10661 Lunal Khuon, Kevin M Buckley

WORK IN PROGRESS: A MULTI-FACETED LABORATORY MODULE IN CARDIOVASCULAR FLUID MECHANICS TO DEVELOP ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION SKILLS IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING UNDERGRADUATES...... 10666 Jeffrey A. Lamack, Charles S. Tritt

WORK IN PROGRESS:DEVELOPMENT OF HANDS-ON DESKTOP LEARNING MODULES FOR BIOENGINEERING COURSES...... 10671 Amirhossein Arasteh, Casey M. Clark, Bernard J. Van Wie, Nehal I. Abu-Lail, Olusola Adesope, Shane A. Brown

WORK IN PROGRESS: USING CLINICAL ADVISORY BOARDS AND AN ONLINE SYSTEM TO PROVIDE FEEDBACK FOR CLIENT-BASED SENIOR DESIGN PROJECTS...... 10681 Richard L. Goldberg, Kevin Caves

WORK IN PROGRESS: COLLABORATIVE LEARNING IN MEDICAL ELECTRONICS LABORATORY ...... 10687 Jorge E Bohorquez, Jonathon Anthony Toft-Nielsen

WORK IN PROGRESS: ADAPTING INEXPENSIVE GAME TECHNOLOGY TO TEACH PRINCIPLES OF NEURAL INTERFACE TECHNOLOGY AND DEVICE CONTROL ...... 10692 Benjamin R Campbell, A. Clayton Pozzi

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING POSTER SESSION & UNIT OPERATIONS LAB BAZAAR

A COMPUTER-CONTROLLED BIODIESEL EXPERIMENT ...... 10697 William M. Clark, Nicholas Janeiro Medeiros, Donal James Boyd, Jared Snell, Lucas J Brutvan

TOOLS FOR TEACHING BATCH DISTILLATION INDUCTIVELY USING PROCESS SIMULATION ...... 10710 Landon Mott, Jeffrey R Seay, David L. Silverstein

INDUSTRY PRACTICE TRAINING THROUGH MODULAR CLASSROOM EXERCISES ...... 10721 Arthur Felse

A VERSATILE COMPRESSIBLE FLUID EXPERIMENT...... 10741 William M. Clark

CIVIL ENGINEERING DIVISION POSTER SESSION

FULL-SCALE MECHANICAL VIBRATIONS LABORATORY...... 10754 Cole C McDaniel, Graham C. Archer

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INCORPORATING HYDRAULIC DESIGN SOFTWARE INTO AN INTRODUCTORY FLUID MECHANICS COURSE THROUGH VIRTUALIZED, INTERNET-DELIVERED SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS...... 10764 Isaac W Wait, Mike McSween, Bradley E Workman

DEVELOPMENT OF A FRAMEWORK FOR THE ONLINE PORTAION OF A HYBRID ENGINEERING COURSE...... 10784 Natalya A. Koehler, Charles T. Jahren

AN INFINITELY EXPLORABLE ONLINE LEARNING SYSTEM FOR CIVIL ENGINEERING...... 10818 Franco Capaldi

USING DARWIN 3.1 IN UNDERGRADUATE PAVEMENT DESIGN COURSES...... 10829 Mohammad Ali Khasawneh, Mohammad Obadat

STUDENT PERCEPTIONS OF ONLINE HOMEWORK TOOLS IN UNDERGRADUATE STATICS COURSE...... 10849 Ryan N. Fries, Mark P. Rossow, Daniel M Woehl

ACTIVE LEARNING ACTIVITIES IN STRUCTURAL MODEL UPDATING...... 10862 Juan M Caicedo

CONNECTION BETWEEN MATHEMATICAL AND VISUAL APPROACHES IN ENGINEERING CLASSES...... 10870 Pyoyoon Hong

COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT OF STUDENT PERFORMANCE ON EXAMS WHEN USING ONLINE HOMEWORK TOOLS IN AN UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING MECHANICS COURSE ...... 10882 Monique H. Head, Oludare Adegbola Owolabi, Petronella A James

A GIS BASED LABORATORY IN TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING: SELF-EFFICACY AS A PREDICTOR OF STUDENTS' LEARNING ...... 10891 Ghulam H. Bham, Dan Cernusca

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT DIVISION POSTER SESSION

FACULTY PERSPECTIVES ON SERVICE-LEARNING IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES ...... 10907 Bowa George Tucker, David O Kazme, Olga Pierrakos, Chris Swan, Angela R Bielefeldt, Kurt Paterson, Annie Soisson

DEVELOPING BEST PRACTICES FOR AN UNDERGRADUATE STEM SUMMER RESEARCH PROGRAM IN A GOVERNMENT INSTITUTION THROUGH A HIGHER EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP...... 10925 Jessica Drenna, Mary Y. Lanzerott, Maggie Varga, Sean J Creighton, Derrick Langley, Diana Lynn Cahill

PUBLIC WORKS PROJECTS AS VEHICLES FOR ENGINEERING EDUCATION AND OUTREACH...... 10941 Shannon Weiss, David R. Heil, Thalia Anagnos

STUDENT EXPERIENCES IN SERVICE-LEARNING: ENGINEERING VS. SCIENCES ...... 10960 Ella Willard-Schmoe, John J. Duffy, Emmanuelle Reynaud, Linda Barrington

THE IMPACTS OF REAL CLIENTS IN PROJECT-BASED SERVICE-LEARNING COURSES ...... 10977 Malinda S Zarske, Dana E Schnee, Angela R Bielefeld, Derek T Reamon

WORKSHOPS FOR THE ENGINEERING FACULTY ENGAGEMENT IN LEARNING THROUGH SERVICE (EFELTS) PROJECT: DEVELOPMENT AND INITIAL FINDINGS...... 10996 Chris Swan, Angela R Bielefeldt, Kurt Paterson, David O Kazmer, Olga Pierrakos, Annie Soisson, Bowa George Tucker

VARIETY OF COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS IN RELATED PROGRAMS...... 11008 Sarah Marie Brown, Mario Alan Hulett

EXPLORING HOW ENGINEERING STUDENTS LEARN THE PROCESS OF PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT...... 11017 Nathan E Canney, Kaitlin Litchfield, Molly Victoria Shea

COMPUTERS IN EDUCATION (CO ED) ENGINEERING POSTER SESSION

WORK-IN-PROGRESS: A NOVEL APPROACH TO COLLABORATIVE LEARNING IN ENGINEERING PROGRAMS...... 11031 Neelam Soundarajan

WORK-IN-PROGRESS: THE IMPACT OF MATLAB MARINA - A VIRTUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT ON STUDENT LEARNING IN A COMPUTING FOR ENGINEERS COURSE ...... 11049 Priya T Goeser, Wayne Johnson, Shonda L Bernadin, Delana A. Gajdosik-Nivens

WORK-IN-PROGRESS: DSP EDUCATION THROUGH WEB-BASED SELECTIVE CONCEPT RETRIEVAL ...... 11062 Gregory Augustus Krudysz

WORK-IN-PROGRESS: USING HARDWARE-BASED PROGRAMMING EXPERIENCES TO ENHANCE STUDENT LEARNING IN A SENIOR FEEDBACK CONTROLS LECTURE COURSE ...... 11072 Johne' M Parker, Stephen L. Canfield, Sheikh Khaled Ghafoor, Kassy Moy Lum

WORK-IN-PROGRESS: DESIGN OF AN ONLINE LEARNING COACH ...... 11085 Fred W Depiero

WORK-IN-PROGRESS: VIDEOS AND VIDEO PODCASTS - WHAT ENGINEERING EDUCATORS OUGHT TO KNOW ...... 11100 Bill M. Diong

WORK-IN-PROGRESS: IOS® ; DEVICES AS DAQ AND HARDWARE FOR EXPERIMENTS IN CLASS TO ENHANCE THE REAL TOUCH, FEEL AND SEE EXPERIENCES...... 11108 Alexander Hans Nagl, Rungun Nathan

DESIGN IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION (DEED) ENGINEERING POSTER SESSION

ON TEACHING CAPSTONE DESIGN: THE ROLE OF PRACTITIONERS IN THE CLASSROOM ...... 11115 Waddah Akili

DEVELOPING DESIGN COURSES IN A PROJECT-BASED CURRICULUM ...... 11130 Mohammad Habibi, Ronald R Ulseth, Michael Richard Carlson

COMPUTER ENGINEERING DESIGN PROJECTS IN COLLABORATION WITH INDUSTRY SPONSORED COMPETITIONS...... 11140 Robert A. Meyer, John McLellan, Jeffrey S Sumey

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DESIGN EXPERIENCE FOR HISPANIC AND LOW INCOME STUDENTS ...... 11153 Stewart Parnell Prince, Yassaman Tarazkar

INCREASING STUDENT RESPONSIBILITY IN DESIGN PROJECTS WITH AGILE METHODS...... 11170 Martin Grimheden

EMPOWERING ENGINEERING STUDENTS TO LEARN HOW TO LEARN ...... 11182 Farrokh Mistree, Dirk Ifenthaler, Zahed Siddique

TEAM-BASED DESIGN-AND-BUILD PROJECTS IN A LARGE FRESHMAN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING CLASS ...... 11213 Mario W. Gomes, Elizabeth A. Debartolo

INTEGRATING 'DESIGN CHALLENGES' INTO A FRESHMAN INTRODUCTION TO MECHANICAL ENGINEERING COURSE ...... 11224 Gerald Sullivan, Jon-Michael Hardin

IMPLEMENTATION AND ASSESSMENT OF A BLENDED LEARNING ENVIRONMENT AS AN APPROACH TO BETTER ENGAGE STUDENTS IN A LARGE SYSTEMS DESIGN CLASS ...... 11235 Reid Bailey, Michael C Smith

INTEGRATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY WITH CAPSTONE EXPERIENCE ...... 11248 Mohamed E. El-Sayed, Jacqueline A. El-Sayed

THE DEVELOPMENT OF PRE-SERVICE DESIGN EDUCATOR'S CAPACITY TO MAKE PROFESSIONAL JUDGMENTS ON DESIGN CAPABILITY USING ADAPTIVE COMPARATIVE JUDGMENT ...... 11258 Patrick Rowsome, Niall Seery, Diarmaid Lane, Seamus Gordon

EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND METHODS (ERM) POSTER SESSION

A STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODEL CORRELATING SUCCESS IN ENGINEERING WITH ACADEMIC VARIABLES FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGE TRANSFER STUDENTS ...... 11268 Marcia R Laugerman, Mack Shelle

EXAMINING REFLECTIONS OF CURRENT ENGINEERING STUDENTS ON EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH ...... 11282 Diana Bairaktarova, Mary K. Pilotte, Demetra Evangelou, Monica Farmer Cox

KEY ASPECTS OF CYBERLEARNING RESOURCES WITH COMPELLING RESULTS ...... 11290 Jeremi S London

NOVICE-LED PAIRED THEMATIC ANALYSIS: A METHOD FOR CONCEPTUAL CHANGE IN ENGINEERING ...... 11304 Devlin B. Montfort, Geoffrey L Herman, Shane A. Brown, Holly M Matusovich, Ruth A. Streveler

METHODS FOR EFFICIENT AND RELIABLE SCORING OF DISCUSSION TRANSCRIPTS...... 11313 Jay McCormack, Ashley Ater Kranov, Steven W. Beyerlein, Patrick D. Pedrow, Edwin R. Schmeckpeper

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING (ECE) POSTER SESSION

STUDENT LEARNING IN A REQUIRED ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING (EE) COURSE FOR NON-EE MAJORS: PERCEPTION OF VALUES FOR FUTURE WORK IN MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAMS...... 11332 Alexander Ganago, Hongwei Liao

USE OF FLASH SIMULATIONS TO ENHANCE NANOTECHNOLOGY EDUCATION...... 11354 Lifang Shih, Jane Leclair, Sohail Anwar

INTRODUCING NANOELECTRONICS INTO THE ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING CURRICULUM ...... 11373 David H Hoe

FACULTY AT TOP EE/CS RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES...... 11388 Anil Saigal, Arun Karthik Saigal

A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF STUDENT PERFORMANCE IN AN ELECTIVE APPLIED DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING COURSE...... 11396 Roger A. Green

MULTI-FLOOR MAPPING AND NAVIGATION WITH UNCERTAINTY...... 11408 James Ellingson, Kundan Nepal, Megan Rose McGill, Mitchell J Hoffmann

INCREASING ECE STUDENT EXCITEMENT THROUGH AN INTERNATIONAL MARINE ROBOTICS COMPETITION...... 11418 Major Joseph Lee Heyman, Wenli Huang, Guangming Xie, Pongpat Taephanitcharoen

APPLICATION OF ACTIVE LEARNING IN MICROWAVE CIRCUIT DESIGN COURSES ...... 11430 Branimir Pejcinovic

CONTROL SYSTEMS DESIGN COURSE WITH A FOCUS FOR APPLICATIONS IN MOBILE ROBOTICS ...... 11440 Rocio Alba-Flores, Fernando Rios-Gutierrez

SYNERGY OF EDUCATIONAL TOOLS IN TEACHING OF A NEW LECTURE/LAB COURSE ON ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS AND WAVES...... 11453 Nizami Z Vagidov, Vladimir Mitin, Athos Chariton Petrou, Joseph L Zawicki Zawicki

ENGINEERING LIBRARIES (ELD) POSTER SESSION

BEYOND JEE: FINDING PUBLICATION VENUES TO GET YOUR MESSAGE TO THE 'RIGHT' AUDIENCE...... 11467 Amy S. Van Epps

HOW DO ENGINEERING STUDENTS AND FACULTY USE LIBRARY RESOURCES? ...... 11480 Janet Fransen

WORK-IN-PROGRESS: "ASK US HERE" IN THE SHADOW OF HUNT LIBRARY ...... 11502 David A Zwicky

STUDENTS, VENDOR PLATFORMS, AND E-TEXTBOOKS: USING E-BOOKS AS E-TEXTBOOKS...... 11510 Sara M. Samuel, Natsuko Hayashi Nicholls, Leena N Lalwani, David S. Carter, Paul F. Grochowski

ENGINEERING LIBRARIANS AS PARTNERS OF FACULTY IN TEACHING SCHOLARLY INQUIRY TO UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS THROUGH CURRICULUM INTEGRATION: THE BIOTEXTILES PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT COURSE BLOG ...... 11537 Greg Tourino, Martin W. King

WORK IN PROGRESS: COLLABORATION FOR QUALITY: A LIBRARIAN-FACULTY PARTNERSHIP TO ASSESS STUDENTS' INFORMATION LITERACY IN FRESHMAN ENGINEERING ...... 11547 Alison Bradley, R. Daniel Latta, Meg Harkins

MENTORING SCENARIOS IN A CHANGING INFORMATION WORLD ...... 11555 Jay J. Bhatt, Kevin P Drees, Tom C. Volkening, Carol A. Brach, Mary L. Strife, Amy S. Van Epps, Bruce Neville

FIRST YEAR PROGRAMS (FPD) POSTER SESSION

ENGINEERING LEARNING COMMUNITIES ...... 11566 Pamela Renee Lockwood, Emily M. Hunt

FIRST-YEAR MATH AND PHYSICS COURSES AND THEIR ROLE IN PREDICTING ACADEMIC SUCCESS IN SUBSEQUENT COURSES ...... 11577 James J. Pembridge, Matthew A Verleger

INTEGRATING RECRUITING INTO THE FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE: AN OPPORTUNITY TO BOOST ENROLLMENT AND RETENTION ...... 11589 Elizabeth Anne Stephan, Edward Randolph Collins, Chris Porter

OUTREACH ACTIVITIES FROM FIRST-YEAR ENGINEERING PROJECTS...... 11603 Amber Kemppainen, Gretchen L. Hein, Steve Haisley Patchin, Kimberly D'Augustino, Cody J Kangas

AN AUTOMATED APPROACH FOR FINDING COURSE-SPECIFIC VOCABULARY...... 11619 Chirag Variawa, Susan McCahan, Mark Chignell

GETTING ENGINEERING STUDENTS TO STAY THE COURSE...... 11633 Robert Silverstein

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FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE ENGINEERING FRESHMAN TO CHOOSE THEIR ENGINEERING MAJOR ...... 11658 Stephen Zahorian, Mike Elmore, Kyle J. Temkin

NOVEL PROGRAM FOR ENGINEERING STUDENT RETENTION...... 11671 Gail D. Jefferson, Sally J. Steadman, Tom G Thomas, Kuang-Ting Hsiao

ASSESSMENT OF SPATIAL VISUALIZATION SKILLS IN FRESHMAN SEMINAR ...... 11681 Samantha Islam, Samuel H. Russ, Kevin D. White

WHAT'S TRUST GOT TO DO WITH IT? ASSESSING A RESEARCH-BASED MENTORING PROGRAM FOR NOVICE ENGINEERS...... 11693 Alyssa N Berg, Janet Y Tsai, Virginia Lea Ferguson, Beverly Louie

ATTENDANCE IN LARGE ENGINEERING CLASSES AND ITS EFFECT ON STUDENT PERFORMANCE...... 11711 Mike Elmore, Koenraad E Gieskes

INTERNATIONAL DIVISION POSTER SESSION

HOW COLLEGE STUDENTS ARE INCREASING GLOBAL COMPETENCY WHILE INSPIRING THE NEXT GENERATION OF ENGINEERS THROUGH UFLL (STUDENT POSTER)...... 11721 Jeff Scott Thomas, Nick M. Safai, Christopher F Thompson

INTRODUCTION OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN THE ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY CURRICULUM...... 11737 Alireza Rahrooh, Walter W. Buchanan, Robert De La Coromoto Koeneke

PROBLEM-SOLVING LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS FOR AN INTRODUCTION TO FOOD ENGINEERING COURSE...... 11744 Tammara Ramirez, Aurelio Lopez-Malo, Enrique Palou

ELICITING INCOMING ENGINEERING STUDENTS' IMAGES OF ENGINEERING AND ENGINEERS AT TWO MEXICAN INSTITUTIONS...... 11759 Caridad Cruz, Aurelio Lopez-Malo, Enrique Palou

DIRECT AND INDIRECT ASSESSMENT OF UNIVERSIDAD DE LAS AMERICAS PUEBLA'S FOOD ENGINEERING PROGRAM OUTCOMES ...... 11768 Efra Altamirano, Lourdes Gazca, Aurelio Lopez-Malo, Enrique Palou

K 12 AND PRE COLLEGE ENGINEERING POSTER SESSION

WORK IN PROGRESS: BRAINSTORMING WITH YO-YOS IN HIGH SCHOOL OUTREACH: INSPIRING STUDENTS INTEREST IN LEARNING PHYSICS...... 11795 Ning Fang

ENGINEERING EVERYWHERE: BRIDGING FORMAL AND INFORMAL STEM EDUCATION (WORKS IN PROGRESS) ...... 11804 Sharlene Yang, Lydia Beall

PROTOTYPING AN INTERACTIVE APPLICATION TO SUPPORT COLLABORATIVE OPEN-ENDED PROBLEM SOLVING FOR PRECOLLEGE STUDENTS ...... 11813 Farshid Marbouti, Johannes Strobel

A LEGO-BASED OUTREACH MODULE AIMED AT PROMOTING ADVANCED MANUFACTURING CAREERS TO K-12 STUDENTS IN THE UNITED STATES ...... 11821 Christopher Andrew Almodovar, Kyle Mattson, Evan Karl Day, Sean McKibben, Richard Yoo, Johnson Samuel, David E Silverman

FUTURE WORLDS: DEVELOPMENT OF ASSESSMENT METHODS FOR AN INTERACTIVE CYBERLEARNING PLATFORM FOR INFORMAL EXPLORATIONS IN SUSTAINABILITY FOR STUDENTS AGES 9 - 12 (RESEARCH TO PRACTICE)...... 11842 Rebecca Arielle Citrin, Arthur D. Kney

PAPERBOTS, AN INEXPENSIVE MEANS FOR ENGINEERING EDUCATION...... 11847 Brian Patrick O'Connell

USING ENGINEERING PROBLEMS TO STIMULATE CRITICAL THINKING IN THE MIDDLE SCHOOL SCIENCE CLASSROOM (WORKS IN PROGRESS OR CURRICULUM EXCHANGE) ...... 11860 Nicole D. Berge, Charles E. Pierce

THE 3D ESTIMATOR: INTRODUCING MIDDLE-SCHOOL STUDENTS TO BACK OF THE ENVELOPE ESTIMATION INTERACTIVELY ...... 11864 Peter Thomas Malcolm

CONNECTING RURAL TEACHERS AND STUDENTS TO NANOSCALE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING THROUGH TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ...... 11879 Joyce Allen

PHYSICS ON THE ROPES COURSE...... 11885 Elizabeth Ann Holden, Kristina M Fields

TEACHING FOR TRANSFER IN ENGINEERING HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAMS: A STUDY IN PROGRESS ...... 11907 Fred J Figliano

LIBERAL EDUCATION/ENGINEERING & SOCIETY (LEES) POSTER SESSION

I AIN'T NO ENGLISH TEACHER ...... 11911 Craig J. Gunn

ENGINEERING AMBASSADOR NETWORK: INCREASING DIVERSITY THROUGH OUTREACH TO MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOLS...... 11931 Ashlea Noelle Krupa, Melissa Marshall, Michael Alley, Joanna K. Garner, Christine Haas, Johanna Gretchen Hatzell

ENGINEERING AMBASSADOR NETWORK: ESTABLISHMENT OF SUCCESSFUL ENGINEERING AMBASSADOR PROGRAMS AT FOUR UTC PARTNER SCHOOLS ...... 11944 Christine Haas, Lynn S. McElholm, Sonya M Renfro, Elizabeth S. Herkenham, Melissa Marshall, Michael Alley

MANUFACTURING DIVISION POSTER SESSION

ABSTRACT: THE FOUR PILLARS OF MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING...... 11967 Christopher P. Pung

ABSTRACT: A PRODUCT DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING PROGRAM...... 11969 Christopher P. Pung

MATERIALS DIVISION POSTER SESSION

A MATERIALS ENGINEER'S APPROACH TO EXPLAINING SCIENTIFIC PROBLEMS IN AN 8TH GRADE CLASSROOM: A CASE STUDY...... 11971 Peter R Hondred, Denise Crawford, Debbie Ann Victor, Michael R. Kessler

ANALYTICAL STUDIES ON S-N CURVES FOR SOME STEELS ...... 11984 Somnath Chattopadhyay

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING (ME) POSTER SESSION

QUANTITATIVE IMPACT OF TEXTBOOK COMPANION POWERPOINT® SLIDES AND RELATED INSTRUCTIONAL APPROACH ON STUDENT LEARNING IN STATICS...... 11991 Robert T. Bailey, Christopher H. Morrell

USE OF PROCESS-ORIENTED APPROACHES IN CONTENT-INTENSIVE COURSES: SOME INSIGHT IN TEACHING / LEARNING OF MACHINE DESIGN ...... 12002 Raghuram V Pucha, Tristan T. Utschig, Steven Y. Liang

STUDENT INDUSTRY COOPERATION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THERMAL SYSTEM DESIGN TEACHING LABORATORY EQUIPMENT...... 12017 Steffen Peuker

IMPLEMENTATION OF ACTIVE COOPERATIVE LEARNING AND PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING IN AN UNDERGRADUATE CONTROL SYSTEMS COURSE...... 12033 Sanjay Jayaram

SUMMER FACULTY IMMERSION AS A STRATEGY TO DIFFUSE ENGINEERING EDUCATION INNOVATIONS: FIRST YEAR RESULTS ...... 12048 Juan C Morales, Michael J. Prince

CAN STUDENT QUESTIONS HELP IN ASSESSING INDUCTIVE TECHNIQUES IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DESIGN CLASSES?...... 12075 Nina Robson

EFFECTIVE USE OF AN UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP FOR DESIGN AND MANUFACTURE OF TOOLS TO ASSIST IN TEACHING STRENGTH OF MATERIALS...... 12083 Jacob Lee Finley, Mehrdaad Ghorashi

COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH TO TEACHING DYNAMICS OF PLANAR MECHANISMS BASED ON MODERN LEARNING THEORIES ...... 12105 Firas Akasheh, Kenneth D Dawson, Jonathan Rocha

INFLUENCE OF UNCERTAINTIES AND ASSESSMENT OF SIGNIFICANT DIGITS IN THERMODYNAMICS...... 12117 Randall D. Manteufel, Amir Karimi

WOMEN IN ENGINEERING (WIED) DIVISION POSTER SESSION

THE DECLINE OF WOMEN IN RUSSIAN ENGINEERING EDUCATION ...... 12135 Svetlana Vasilievna Barabanova, Phillip Albert Sanger, Julia Ziyatdinova, Anastasia Sokolova, Vasiliy G. Ivanov

USING COMMUNICATION AND WRITING TECHNIQUES TO IMPROVE STUDENT LEARNING

EFFECTS OF REQUIRING STUDENTS TO WRITE ABSTRACTS FOR HOMEWORK PROBLEM SOLUTIONS...... 12142 Kevin D. Dahm, Stephanie Farrell

A REFLECTIVE WRITING ASSIGNMENT TO ENGAGE STUDENTS IN CRITICAL THINKING...... 12152 Taryn Melkus Bayles

PROMOTING METACOGNITION THROUGH REFLECTION EXERCISES IN A THERMODYNAMICS COURSE...... 12165 Mariajose Castellanos, Joshua A Enszer

AUTHENTICITY PROMOTES STUDENT ENGAGEMENT AND LEARNING IN A STAND-ALONE TECHNICAL COMMUNICATIONS COURSE...... 12178 Shannon Ciston, Sean Poust

SOCIO CULTURAL DIMENSIONS OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

SOCIAL CONSTRAINTS: A CRITICAL COMPONENT OF GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN-BASED PROJECTS ...... 12192 Amy Wood, Parry Fader Garff, Carol J Ward, Eric C. Dahlin, Randy S. Lewis

HOW LAND USE CHANGE, CHANGED CULTURE...... 12203 Aimee S Navickis-Brasch, Anne Liu Kern, Jillian Rae Cadwell, Laura Laumatia Laumatia, Fritz Fiedler

GLOBAL ENGINEERING DESIGN SYMPOSIUM: ENGAGING THE SOCIOCULTURAL DIMENSIONS OF ENGINEERING PROBLEM SOLVING ...... 12216 Brent K Jesiek, Anne Elizabeth Dare, Julia D Thompson, Tiago R Forin

CREATING SOCIALLY AWARE ENGINEERS THROUGH INTERNATIONAL SERVICE LEARNING...... 12233 Sandra Loree Dika, Brett Tempest, Miguel A. Pando

RAISING STUDENTS' CULTURAL AWARENESS THROUGH DESIGN SCENARIOS ...... 12245 Andrea Mazzurco, James Huff, Brent K Jesiek

IMPLEMENTATION OF A STEM SUMMER ENRICHMENT PROGRAM IN A LOW INCOME COMMUNITY...... 12258 Antonio Jose Soares, Rabbani Muhammad, Doreen Kobelo, G. Thomas Bellarmine, Chao Li, Salman A. Siddiqui

DISTANCE EDUCATION AND ENGINEERING WORKFORCE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

SUSTAINING SUCCESSFUL CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION PROGRAMS BY SYSTEMATIC ASSESSMENT OF THE KEY PERFORMANCE RESULTS ...... 12269 Soma Chakrabarti, Zachary Gredlics, Kevin Curry, Kara D Lynch

CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY ADULT PROFESSIONAL LEARNERS ...... 12280 Mitchell L Springer, Gary R. Bertoline, Mark T Schuver

COMMUNITY-DRIVEN, COMPETENCY-BASED CERTIFICATE PROGRAMS FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT...... 12288 Kim A. Scalzo, Lisa Miles Raposo

"DECISION MAKING: THE FULL MONTY!" A UNIQUELY INSPIRED LEADERSHIP TRAINING EXPERIENCE...... 12297 Noah Miller, Timothy Boyd, Eric Paul Pearson

BUILDING AND SUSTAINING ...... 12316 Ed Alef, Soma Chakrabarti

INTEGRATING PROFESSIONALISM IN A PROJECT-BASED ENGINEERING CURRICULUM ...... 12327 Mohammad Habibi, Motahareh Alaei, Andrew Lillesve

AN EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE THROUGH MODULAR SKILL BASED SIMULATIONS...... 12334 Tim Boyd, Eric Paul Pearson, Noah Miller

FACULTY DEVELOPMENT THROUGH INDUSTRIAL INTERNSHIP...... 12352 Vedaraman Sriraman, Wayne W. Wheatley, Valerie Ann Little

DESIGN PEDAGOGY AND CURRICULUM 2

PROTOTYPE EXEMPLARS: THE PATH TO EFFECTIVE DESIGN OR TO DESIGN FIXATION?...... 12362 Thomas F. Schubert, Frank G Jacobitz, Michael S Morse, Truc T. Ngo

INTEGRATING INTERDISCIPLINARY PROJECT-BASED DESIGN STREAMS INTO UPPER-LEVEL ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING COURSES: A METHODOLOGY TOWARD IMPLEMENTING APPLICATIONS-ORIENTED, ASSOCIATIVE PROJECT STREAMS INTO ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING COURSES ...... 12381 Scott Anthony Grenquist

ENHANCING THE QUALITY OF SENIOR DESIGN PROJECTS: THE INTRODUCTION OF A COORDINATED SEQUENCE OF DESIGN COURSES TO PREPARE STUDENTS FOR THE CAPSTONE EXPERIENCE IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING...... 12389 Timothy F. Wheeler, Mary Lynn Brannon

A PEDAGOGICAL MODEL TO EDUCATE TOMORROW'S ENGINEERS THROUGH A CLOUD-BASED DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING INFRASTRUCTURE - MOTIVATION, INFRASTRUCTURE, PEDAGOGY, AND APPLICATIONS...... 12401 Srujal Patel, Dirk Schaefer, Daniel P. Schrage

DEVELOPMENT OF AN OPEN-SOURCE CONCURRENT ENROLLMENT COURSE THAT INTRODUCES STUDENTS TO THE ENGINEERING DESIGN AND DOCUMENTATION PROCESS ...... 12442 Richard Cozzens, Jeremy Ray Farner, Thomas James Paskett, Elias V. Perez, Isabella Borisova

RETENTION AND PERSISTENCE IN ENGINEERING

DISCIPLINARY DIFFERENCES IN ENGINEERING STUDENTS' ASPIRATIONS AND SELF- PERCEPTIONS...... 12463 Geoff Potvin, Zahra Hazari, Leidy Klotz, Allison Godwin, Robynne M. Lock, , Jennifer Dawn Cribbs, Nicole Barclay

LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF ENTERING STUDENTS WITH ENGINEERING AS THEIR MAJOR: RETENTION AND ACADEMIC SUCCESS...... 12474 Cathy W. Hall, Karen A. De Urquidi, Paul J. Kauffmann, Karl Louis Wuensch, William Swar, Odis Hayden Griffin

THE DYNAMICS OF ATTRACTING SWITCHERS: A CROSS-DISCIPLINARY COMPARISON ...... 12487 Corey T Schimpf, George D Ricco, Matthew W. Ohland

FACTORS INFLUENCING STUDENTS' CHOICE OF ENGINEERING MAJOR...... 12501 Maria-Isabel Carnasciali, Terance Joshua Thomas

THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL INTEGRATION ON ENGINEERING STUDENTS' PERSISTENCE, LONGITUDINAL, INTERINSTITUTIONAL DATABASE ANALYSIS...... 12537 Eric L Huerta-Manzanilla, Matthew W. Ohland, Russell Andrew Long

Volume 15 ERM POTPOURRI

A STATISTICAL STUDY OF CONCEPT MAPPING METRICS ...... 12553 Kathryn W. Jablokow, Joanna F. Defranco, Sally Sue Richmond

CHARACTERIZATION OF ITERATIVE MODEL DEVELOPMENT IN A COMPLEX, AUTHENTIC ENGINEERING TASK ...... 12567 Erick Jacob Nefcy, Audrey Briggs Champagne, Milo Koretsky

STEM STUDENTS OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM: THE ROLE OF THE INSTITUTION IN DEFINING EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITY ...... 12586 Denise Wilson, Cheryl Allendoerfer, Mee Joo Kim, Elizabeth Burpee, Rebecca A Bates, Tamara Floyd Smith, Melani Plett, Nanette M Veilleux

A CASE STUDY OF ENGINEERING FACULTY COLLABORATION: CO-AUTHORING AN E-BOOK ON ENERGY AND SUSTAINABILITY...... 12605 Bugrahan Yalvac, Mehmet Ayar, Dennie L. Smith, Christine Ehlig-Economides

LABORATORY DEVELOPMENT IN ECE I

EXPLOITING A DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY TO ACTIVELY ENGAGE STUDENTS IN THE LEARNING PROCESS...... 12619 John M Robertson, Kathleen Meehan, Robert John Bowman, Kenneth A Connor, Douglas A Mercer

AN EFFECTIVE PROJECT-BASED EMBEDDED SYSTEM DESIGN TEACHING METHOD...... 12635 Karl L Wang, Clint S Cole, Tinghui Wang, Joe Harris

SOFTWARE/HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATION OF AN ADAPTIVE NOISE CANCELLATION SYSTEM ...... 12644 Wagdy H Mahmoud, Nian Zhang

EDUCATIONAL EXPERIMENTS IN RENEWABLE ENERGY ANALYSIS, FORECASTING, AND MANAGEMENT IN HYBRID POWER SYSTEM ...... 12656 Tan Ma, Osama A. Mohammed, Ahmed Taha Elsayed

VISUALIZATION TOOLS AND USES IN GRAPHICS

STUDENT PERCEPTIONS OF TACTILE AND VIRTUAL LEARNING APPROACHES: WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM THEIR VIEWPOINT?...... 12668 Kathy Schmidt Jackson, Conrad Tucker, Gul E. Okudan Kremer

TOOLS, METHODOLOGIES AND MOTIVATION TO IMPROVE SPATIAL SKILL ON ENGINEERING STUDENTS ...... 12684 Melchor Garcia Dominguez, Jorge Martin-Gutierrez, Cristina Roca

AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF STUDENTS' APPROACHES TO GENERATING, MAINTAINING AND COMMUNICATING VISUAL-MENTAL IMAGES ...... 12701 Thomas Delahunty, Niall Seery, Raymond Lynch, Diarmaid Lane

GEOMETRIC UNITY CONSTRUCTIONS...... 12714 James A Wronecki

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT AND MANUFACTURING

HIGH IMPACT ACTIVITIES TO IMPROVE STUDENT LEARNING...... 12722 Wei Zhan, Jyhwen Wang, Manoj Vanajakumari

A CROSS-COURSE DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING PROJECT...... 12736 Michael Johnson, Wm Adam Farmer

ELECTRONIC PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCES FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS: A NASA SPONSORED EXAMPLE...... 12748 Jay R Porter, Joseph A. Morgan, Wei Zhan

INDUSTRY ENGAGEMENT IN A MANUFACTURING SIMULATION COURSE...... 12764 Ali Alavizadeh

ETAC/ABET RELATED OUTCOME BASED ISSUES

AN EVOLVING CAPSTONE COURSE USED IN ABET ASSESSMENT...... 12776 Wesley L. Stone, Guanghsu A. Chang

USE OF STUDENT TUTORS TO IMPROVE ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY STUDENT WRITTEN COMMUNICATION SKILLS...... 12784 Robert Weissbach, Ruth Camille Pflueger

ASSESSMENT OF COMMUNICATION AND TEAMWORK SKILLS IN ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMS...... 12801 Daniel K. Jones, Mohammed Abdallah

FPD 6: TRANSITIONS AND STUDENT SUCCESS, PART II

EXCEED: EXCELLENCE IN YOUR ENGINEERING EDUCATION SUMMER TRANSITION PROGRAM...... 12812 Stacy Holander Gleixner, Katherine Casey, Jared T. Tuberty, Sanela Latic, Patricia R Backer, Emily L. Allen

DO ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIORS TOWARDS HOMEWORK AND STUDYING CHANGE BETWEEN HIGH SCHOOL AND ENGINEERING CLASSES ...... 12833 Nora Honken, Patricia A Ralston

DEVELOPING A SUMMER BRIDGE COURSE FOR IMPROVING RETENTION IN ENGINEERING ...... 12852 Jerry Volcy, Carmen Sidbury

REIMAGINING ENGINEERING DIVERSITY: A STUDY OF ACADEMIC ADVISORS' PERSPECTIVES ON SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS...... 12865 Valerie C. Lundy-Wagner, Noah Salzman, Matthew W. Ohland

GRADUATE STUDENT EXPERIENCE

A STUDENT-DIRECTED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FOR DOCTORAL STUDENTS SEEKING INDUSTRY PLACEMENT ...... 12875 Daniel P. Dempsey, Carol Barry, Joey Mead

AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF THE RESEARCH MENTOR EXPERIENCE IN A NOVEL UNDERGRADUATE AEROSPACE ENGINEERING COURSE...... 12885 Irene B Mena, Sven Schmitz

AM I A BOSS OR A COACH? GRADUATE STUDENTS MENTORING UNDERGRADUATES IN RESEARCH...... 12897 Janet Y Tsai, Daria A Kotys-Schwartz, Beverly Louie, Virginia Lea Ferguson, Alyssa Nicole Berg

EXAMINING THE SKILLS AND METHODS OF GRADUATE STUDENT MENTORS IN AN UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SETTING ...... 12917 Benjamin Ahn, Monica Farmer Cox, Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Brenda M. Capobianco

GLOBAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION CROSS CULTURAL AWARENESS AND SOCIAL IMPACTS

ENGINEERING IMPACTING SOCIAL, ECONOMICAL AND WORKING ENVIRONMENT ...... 12932 Claudio Da Rocha Brito, Melany M. Ciampi, Rosa Maria Castro Fernandes Vasconcelos, Luis Alfredo Martins Amaral, Victor Freitas

PREPARING STUDENTS TO WORK ON MULTI-CULTURAL TEAMS...... 12944 Luis Gerardo Chang, Christine Marie Fiori, Edward J. Jaselskis, Cliff Schexnayder, Lisa G Hogle, Jennifer S Shane

DEVELOPING DIRECT MEASURES OF GLOBAL COMPETENCE ...... 12954 Jennifer Deboer, Glenda S Stump, Frances Carter-Johnson, Gayle Allen, Lori Breslow

EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES AND EFFECTS ON CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION SKILLS OF AN INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE FOR UNDERGRADUATE STEM STUDENTS THROUGH MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY'S PAVLIS INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL TECHNOLOGICAL LEADERSHIP ...... 12965 Madelyn Espinosa, Helena Keller, Nicole Westphal

IT’S ELEMENTARY

EFFECTIVE ENGINEERING ACTIVITIES FOR OUT-OF-SCHOOL TIME (RESEARCH TO PRACTICE) ...... 12975 Melissa Higgins, Jonathan Hertel

BRINGING SOIL MECHANICS TO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS ...... 12991 Eduardo Alfonso Suescun-Florez, Ryan Francis, Vikram Kapila, Magued G. Iskander

DEVELOPING A CROSS-DISCIPLINARY CURRICULUM FOR THE INTEGRATION OF ENGINEERING AND DESIGN IN ELEMENTARY EDUCATION ...... 13009 Emily Ann Marasco, Laleh Behjat

ENGINEERING SOLAR ENERGY IN THE FOURTH GRADE SCIENCE CLASSROOM ...... 13013 Christina Hobson Foster, Jenefer Husman, Christine Mendoza

DYNAMICS OF 5TH GRADE STUDENTS ENGINEERING SERVICE LEARNING PROJECTS...... 13031 Jessica E S Swenson, Merredith D Portsmore

BY DESIGN

HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS' COGNITIVE ACTIVITY WHILE SOLVING AUTHENTIC PROBLEMS THROUGH ENGINEERING DESIGN PROCESSES...... 13049 Amy Alexandra Wilson, Emma R. Smith, Daniel L Householder

TEACHERS' ATTENTION TO STUDENT THINKING DURING THE ENGINEERING DESIGN PROCESS: A CASE STUDY OF THREE ELEMENTARY CLASSROOMS...... 13086 Amber Kendall, Merredith D Portsmore

HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS MODELING BEHAVIORS DURING ENGINEERING DESIGN...... 13106 Tanner J Huffman, Nathan Mentzer, Kurt Henry Becker

FOSTERING ADAPTIVE EXPERTISE: DESIGN BASED INSTRUCTION IN HIGH SCHOOL ENGINEERING ...... 13122 Pat Ko, Stephanie Baker, Taylor Martin, Jennifer Rudolph, Noel Hector Ramos

THE ENGINEERING DESIGN PROCESS AS A PROBLEM SOLVING AND LEARNING TOOL IN K-12 CLASSROOMS ...... 13137 Jennifer Mangold, Stefanie Robinson

COMMUNICATION, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, AND THE ENGINEERING AMBASSADOR NETWORK

HOW SLIDE DESIGN AFFECTS A STUDENT PRESENTER'S UNDERSTANDING OF THE CONTENT...... 13151 Shannon Marie Aippersbach, Michael Alley, Joanna K. Garner

LEADING THROUGH DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS: DEVELOPING STUDENTS' LEADERSHIP COMMUNICATION SKILLS...... 13162 Julia M. Williams

ENGINEERING AMBASSADOR NETWORK: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS WITH AN OUTREACH FOCUS ...... 13166 Johanna Gretchen Hatzell, Melissa Marshall, Michael Alley, Karen A. Thole, Christine Haas, Renata S. Engel, Joanna K. Garner

ENGINEERING AMBASSADOR NETWORK: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE ENGINEERING AMBASSADORS ...... 13177 Catherine Talbot, Michael Alley, Melissa Marshall, Christine Haas, Sarah E Zappe, Joanna K. Garner

ENGINEERING AMBASSADOR NETWORK: DISSEMINATION THROUGH AN INAUGURAL NATIONAL WORKSHOP ...... 13187 Karen A. Thole, Sarah E Zappe, Melissa Marshall, Michael Alley, Renata S. Engel

CAPSTONE MANUFACTURING AND DESIGN

INTERDISCIPLINARY SENIOR DESIGN PROJECT TO DEVELOP A TEACHING TOOL: MINI CNC MILL ...... 13197 Yalcin Ertekin, Richard Chiou

A SENIOR DESIGN PROJECT IN ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY GLASS MANUFACTURING ...... 13213 Richard Chiou, Michael G Mauk, M. Eric Carr

IMPROVING EFFECTIVENESS OF INTERDISCIPLINARY DESIGN PROJECT: LESSONS LEARNT...... 13226 Priya A. Manohar, Cathleen Jones

EXPLORATION OF A STUDENT PROJECT IN A MATERIALS PROCESSING COURSE...... 13240 Somnath Chattopadhyay

TEACHING MATERIALS SCIENCE USING INNOVATIVE METHODS

SUPPLEMENTING INSTRUCTION WITH PENCASTS CREATED WITH A SMARTPEN ...... 13248 Surendra K. Gupta

MUDDIEST POINT FORMATIVE FEEDBACK IN CORE MATERIALS CLASSES WITH YOUTUBE, BLACKBOARD, CLASS WARM-UPS AND WORD CLOUDS ...... 13253 Stephen J Krause, Dale R Bake, Adam R Carberry, Milo Koretsky, Bill Jay Brooks, Debra Gilbuena, Cindy Waters, Casey Jane Ankeny

INNOVATIONS IN NANO MATERIALS EDUCATION THROUGH INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS...... 13271 Ajit D. Kelkar, James Gardner Ryan, Ram V Mohan, Sachin Marotrao Shendokar

SUPPORTING AND ENHANCING MATERIALS TEACHING...... 13283 Michelle Hsieh, Arlindo Silva

MEASURING THE IMPACT OF INTERNSHIPS ON DESIGN USING A MATERIALS ACTIVITY ...... 13290 Craig Johnson, Charles O. Pringle, Nathan Davis

MATHEMATICS DIVISION TECHNICAL SESSION

A STUDY OF STUDENTS' PERCEPTIONS OF MATHEMATICS HOMEWORK POLICIES, WITH EMPHASIS ON ENGINEERING UNDERGRADUATES ...... 13300 Jennifer Vandenbussche, William George Griffiths, Christina R Scherrer

VERTICAL ASSESSMENT OF MATH COMPETENCY AMONG FRESHMEN AND SOPHOMORE ENGINEERING STUDENTS...... 13311 Kendrick T. Aung, Ryan Underdown, Qin Qian

DEVELOPING MATHEMATICAL INTUITION BY BUILDING ESTIMATION SKILLS ...... 13327 Rebecca Bourn, Sarah C. Baxter

A STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF EARLY REMEDIATION IN PREREQUISITE MATERIAL IN A CALCULUS I COURSE...... 13337 Jennifer Vandenbussche

STUDENTS USE STATISTICS TO JUSTIFY SENIOR PROJECT SELECTION...... 13346 Murray Teitell, William S. Sullivan

USING PROJECTS IN MATHEMATICS AND ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS COURSES DESIGNED TO STIMULATE LEARNING ...... 13361 Hassan Moore

HANDS ON/EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING

QUICKLY BUILDING STUDENTS' CONFIDENCE IN THEIR FABRICATION ABILITIES ...... 13382 Daniela Faas, Daniel D. Frey

PROGRAMMING PRINTERS PRINTED BY 3D PRINTERS ...... 13399 Gavin T. Garner

LEVERAGING SUMMER IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCES INTO ABET CURRICULA ...... 13408 Michael J Benson, Major Hans J Thomas, Shad A Reed, Bruce Floersheim, Steven J. Condly

GLOBAL CONFIDENCE: U.S. STUDENT OUTCOMES FROM AN INTERNATIONAL CAPSTONE DESIGN EXPERIENCE...... 13423 Daria A Kotys-Schwartz, Chiang Shih

Volume 16

MECHANICS, HANDS ON DEMO SHOW & TELL!

FLIPPING A LARGE-ENROLLMENT FLUID MECHANICS COURSE - IS IT EFFECTIVE? ...... 13439 Carrie J. McClelland

FIRST ENCOUNTERS: STATICS AS A GATEWAY TO ENGINEERING ...... 13448 Sinead C. Macnamara, Joan V. Dannenhoffer

INITIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE ENGINEERING GENOME PROJECT--AN ENGINEERING ONTOLOGY WITH MULTIMEDIA RESOURCES FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING ENGINEERING MECHANICS ...... 13463 Edward J. Berger

MENTORING MINORITY STUDENTS

ROSE-BUD (ROSE BUILDING UNDERGRADUATE DIVERSITY) MAPS (MENTORING AND PROFESSIONAL SKILLS) ...... 13476 Carlotta A Berry, Deborah Walter

MENTORING MINORITY STUDENTS IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING: AN ENGAGED APPROACH...... 13491 Christine S Gran, Tuere Bowles, Olgha B Davis, Rex E Jeffries, Barbara Smith

HELP ME HELP YOU: BUILDING A SUPPORT NETWORK FOR MINORITY ENGINEERING STUDENTS ...... 13504 Walter Curtis Lee, Kelly J Cross

EXAMINING THE INTERSECTION OF GRADUATE STUDENT FUNDING, MENTORING AND TRAINING AS A MECHANISM OF SUCCESS FOR PEER MENTORS AND THEIR MENTEES ...... 13516 Frances Carter-Johnson, Renetta G. Tull, Miguel Alfonso Nino

INTEGRATING ART, HUMANITIES, AND ENGINEERING

ASSESSING STUDENT AND EMPLOYER SATISFACTION IN A LIBERAL ARTS/ENGINEERING BACHELOR OF ARTS DEGREE...... 13534 Michael Haungs, David Gillette, Debra L. Valencia-Laver, Elizabeth Ann Lowham

BUILDING A BETTER ENGINEER: THE IMPORTANCE OF HUMANITIES IN ENGINEERING CURRICULUM...... 13544 Adeel Khalid, Craig A Chin, Mir M. Atiqullah, John F. Sweigar, Beth Stutzmann, Wei Zhou

INTEGRATING ENGINEERING AND ARTS THROUGH CAPSTONE DESIGN: CREATIVE CAMPUS MEETS THE LEARNING FACTORY...... 13550 Timothy W. Simpson, Marcus Shaffer, Elisha Clark Halpin, Amy Dupain Vashaw, Dorothy H. Evensen

LEARNING OUTCOMES FROM AN ART-ENGINEERING CO-CURRICULAR COURSE...... 13568 John J. Marshall

TRICKS OF THE TRADE I

THOSE WHO CAN, TEACH. IMMERSING STUDENTS AS PEER EDUCATORS TO ENHANCE CLASS EXPERIENCE...... 13578 Beverly Kristenson Jaeger, Kerri Liss, Bea Van Den Heuvel, Ellen Wilson

LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION!: PEER-TO-PEER LEARNING THROUGH GRADUATE STUDENT VIDEOS ...... 13608 Kimberly Grau Talley

ENTERING THE PERFORMANCE ZONE: A PRACTICAL PRE-LECTURE GUIDE FOR NEW FACULTY...... 13616 Tomas Enrique Estrada

PEDAGOGY FOR THE NEW ENGINEERING FACULTY...... 13628 John Marshall

OCEAN AND MARINE TECH SESSION

COASTAL, OCEAN AND MARINE ENGINEERING GRADUATE EDUCATION: A 2012 HEALTH ASSESSMENT...... 13639 Robert W. Whalin, Qing Pang

PROBLEM BASED LEARNING THROUGH MODELING AND SIMULATION OF UNMANNED VEHICLES...... 13654 Lifford McLauchlan, Mehrube Mehrubeoglu, Jayson Durham

A SENIOR STUDENT DESIGN PROJECT IN MARINE AND COASTAL ENVIRONMENT MONITORING...... 13664 Radian G Belu, Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PEDAGOGICAL APPROACHES

SUPPORTING SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURAL STYLE EDUCATION USING ACTIVE LEARNING AND ROLE-PLAYING...... 13677 John Georgas

IMPROVING INDIVIDUAL LEARNING IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING TEAM PROJECTS ...... 13693 Joanna F. Defranco, Colin J. Neill

USING SOFTWARE ENGINEERING CONCEPTS IN GAME DEVELOPMENT - SHARING EXPERIENCES OF TWO INSTITUTIONS...... 13704 Jon A Preston, Sushil Acharya

AN EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE LIFECYCLE MODEL INSPIRED BY HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY ...... 13719 Feras A. Batarseh

PROGRAMS IN SUPPORT OF SYSTEMS ENGINEERING EDUCATION

A NOVEL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCING K-12 STEM EDUCATION & ENTREPRENEURSHIP...... 13735 Chet Boncek

ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT CREATING INDIVIDUALS WITH A MIND FOR BUSINESS AND A HEART FOR ENGINEERING ...... 13776 Saeed D. Foroudastan Brigette Elizabeth Prater Thompson

PRESENTING A NEW OPPORTUNITY FOR ENGINEERING STUDENTS: INTRODUCTION OF AN UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE PLAN IN LEADERSHIP ENGINEERING...... 13784 Roger V. Gonzalez, Elsa Q. Villa, Peter Golding, Joseph A Ramos

ESTABLISHING A COMMUNITY COLLEGE PATHWAY TO BACCALAUREATE SYSTEMS ENGINEERING PROGRAMS...... 13798 Susan K Donohue, Ali Bouabid

SYSTEMS ENGINEERING GRADUATE EDUCATION FOR VETERANS - A PILOT PROGRAM...... 13813 Michael C Smith, Barry Horowitz, Thomas S. Brett

SYSTEMS ENGINEERING EDUCATORS WORKSHOP...... 13827 Valerie Maier-Speredelozzi, Colleen Grinham, Manbir Sodhi

RETAINING AND DEVELOPING WOMEN FACULTY IN STEM

ENGAGING FOUCAULT TO BETTER UNDERSTAND UNDERREPRESENTATION OF FEMALE STEM FACULTY...... 13836 Kacey Beddoes, Corey T Schimpf, Alice L. Pawley

EXPLORING WOMEN ENGINEERING FACULTY'S MENTORING NETWORKS...... 13850 Ziyu Long, Patrice Marie Buzzanell, Klod Kokini, Robyn F Wilson, Jennifer C Batra, Lindsey B. Anderson

THE IMPORTANCE OF THE DISCIPLINARY SOCIETY IN LEADERSHIP SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND ADVANCEMENT ...... 13876 Tamara Bush, Laura J Genik

BROADENING PARTICIPATION: A REPORT ON A SERIES OF WORKSHOPS AIMED AT BUILDING COMMUNITY AND INCREASING THE NUMBER OF WOMEN AND MINORITIES IN ENGINEERING DESIGN...... 13886 Katherine Fu, Tahira N Reid, Janis P. Terpenny, Deborah L. Thurston, Judy M. Vance, Susan Finger, Gloria J. Wiens, Kazem Kazerounian, Janet Katherine Allen, Kathy Jacobson

INNOVATIVE TEACHING IN ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING

TEACHING ARCHITECTURE, ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION DISCIPLINES: USING VARIOUS PEDAGOGICAL STYLES TO UNIFY THE LEARNING PROCESS...... 13907 Jill Nelson, John W. Lawson

COMMUNITY SERVICE DRIVEN STUDENT SENIOR PROJECT AND BACK TO COMMUNITY FOR IMPLEMENTATION...... 13917 James P. Mwangi

CONTEXTUAL LEARNING CONCEPTS DRIVE ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION TO PARTNER WITH INDUSTRY ...... 13929 Shahnaz J. Aly, Laura Elizabeth Leach

INTERDISCIPLINARY DESIGN - FORMING AND EVALUATING TEAMS...... 13942 Allen C Estes, Brent Nuttall, Jill Nelson, Margot Kally McDonald, Gregory F. Starzyk

PERSPECTIVES AND APPROACHES TO TEACHING SIMULATION AND DESIGN BASED COURSES

A NEW MOTIVATION AND PERSPECTIVE ON TEACHING SIMULATION AND DESIGN: THE DEVELOPMENT OF A DYNAMIC PROCESS MODEL IN CONJUNCTION WITH AN OPERATOR TRAINING SIMULATOR (OTS) ...... 13958 Richard Turton

EFFICIENT AND EFFECTIVE INSTRUCTION IN PROCESS SIMULATION ACROSS THE CHEMICAL ENGINEERING CURRICULUM...... 13978 Rebecca K. Toghiani, Hossein Toghiani, Larry Everett Pearson

ASSESSING METACOGNITIVE AWARENESS DURING PROBLEM-SOLVING IN A KINETICS AND HOMOGENEOUS REACTOR DESIGN COURSE...... 14002 Nelly Ramirez-Corona, Ramirez Apud Lopez Zaira, Aurelio Lopez-Malo, Enrique Palou

HOW WE TEACH: CAPSTONE DESIGN ...... 14016 David L. Silverstein, Lisa G. Bullard, Warren D. Seider, Margot A Vigeant

INVOLVING UNDERGRADUATES IN RESEARCH

CONDUCTING STATE-OF THE-ART RESEARCH IN AN INSTITUTION WITH A STRONG UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION FOCUS...... 14031 Yusuf A Mehta, Ralph Alan Dusseau, Ravi P. Ramachandran

INTEGRATION OF REMOTE MAJOR RESEARCH INSTRUMENTATION IN UNDERGRADUATE CIVIL ENGINEERING EDUCATION...... 14044 Usama El Shamy, Tarek Abdoun, Flora P McMartin, Miguel A. Pando

INTEGRATION OF A REAL-TIME WATER AND WEATHER MONITORING SYSTEM INTO A HYDROLOGY COURSE...... 14059 Randel L. Dymond, Vinod K Lohani, Daniel S Brogan, Manuel Alejandro Martinez

MULTI-INSTITUTIONAL PHYSICAL MODELING LEARNING ENVIRONMENT FOR GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION...... 14071 Tarek Abdoun, Usama Shamy, Anthony Tessari, Victoria Bennett, John E Lawler

CIP TECHNICAL SESSION

NOT ALL THE SAME: A LOOK AT EARLY CAREER ENGINEERS EMPLOYED IN DIFFERENT SUB- OCCUPATIONS...... 14087 Samantha Brunhaver, Shannon Katherine Gilmartin, Michelle Marie Grau, Sheri Sheppard, Helen L. Chen

PROJECT ORIENTED K-12 PROGRAMS IN RURAL SOUTH...... 14114 Atin K Sinha

INTERACTIVE SESSION – MEASURING THE IMPACT ON COMMUNITIES

INTERACTIVE SESSION: MEASURING THE IMPACT OF CONNECTION TO COMMUNITY ...... 14126 Rebecca A Bates, Julie P Martin, Denise Wilson, Melani Plett, Tamara Floyd Smith

DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS

DEVELOPMENT OF A REMOTE OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIER ILAB USING ANDROID-BASED MOBILE PLATFORM ...... 14145 Oyebisi Samuel Oyediran, Olawale Babatunde Akinwale, Obafemi Awolowo, Kayode Peter Ayodele, Lawrence O Kehinde

A FRAMEWORK FOR DEVELOPING COLLABORATIVE TRAINING ENVIRONMENTS FOR ASSEMBLING ...... 14160 Yizhe Chang, El-Sayed S. Aziz, Sven K. Esche, Constantin Chassapis

DEVELOPMENT OF A MECHATRONICS STUDIO COURSE IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING...... 14176 Biswanath Samanta, Yong Zhu

THEORY AND COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE - FINDING THE BALANCE IN A FINITE ELEMENTS COURSE...... 14191 Gregory K Watkins

CURRICULAR ISSUES IN COMPUTING AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMS

TAPESTRY WORKSHOPS: HELPING HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS GROW AND DIVERSIFY COMPUTING ...... 14205 James P Cohoon, J. McGrath Cohoon, Luther A Tychonievich, Catherine E. Brawner

COLOMBIAN ELEMENTARY STUDENTS' PERFORMANCE AND PERCEPTIONS OF COMPUTING LEARNING ACTIVITIES WITH SCRATCH...... 14221 Camilo Vieira, Alejandra J. Magana

CAPSTONE EXPERIENCE: MULTIMEDIA REQUEST AUTOMATION...... 14235 Mudasser Fraz Wyne, Raul Soto

PERCEPTIONS OF ENGINEERING PROFESSORS AND STUDENTS REGARDING THE ACCEPTANCE AND USE OF MOODLE...... 14248 Hoda Baytiyeh

TEACHING DATA MINING IN THE ERA OF BIG DATA...... 14257 Brian R. King, Ashwin Satyanarayana

DESIGN METHODOLOGY AND EVALUATION 2

CAN PEDAGOGICAL STRATEGIES AFFECT STUDENTS' CREATIVITY? TESTING A CHOICE-BASED APPROACH TO DESIGN AND PROBLEM-SOLVING IN TECHNOLOGY, DESIGN, AND ENGINEERING EDUCATION...... 14279 Jennifer Buelin-Biesecker, Eric N. Wiebe

DEFINE "ENGINEERING DESIGN": UNDERSTANDING HOW FRESHMAN STUDENTS DEVELOP THEIR UNDERSTANDING OF ENGINEERING, DESIGN, AND ENGINEERING DESIGN...... 14291 Alan Chong, Jason A. Foster, Patricia Kristine Sheridan, Robert Irish

Volume 17

USE OF CONCEPT GENERATION TECHNIQUES IN DIFFERENT CULTURAL SETTINGS...... 14315 Meagan R. Vaughan, Richard H. Crawford

AN ASSESSMENT OF STUDENT NEEDS IN PROJECT-BASED MECHANICAL DESIGN COURSES ...... 14329 Donal Holland, Conor Walsh, Gareth J. Bennett

THE IMPACT OF THE PRODUCT DESIGN PROCESS ON FINAL YEAR DESIGN PROJECTS ...... 14340 April M. Bryan

OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTIONS TO STUDENT LEARNING THROUGH LABORATORY EXPERIENCES

EXAMINING SKILL RETENTION FROM A REDESIGNED LABORATORY COURSE TO CAPSTONE DESIGN SEQUENCE...... 14353 Bridget M. Smyser, Gregory J Kowalski

DANI-K: A VISION-BASED ROBOT CONTROL EXPERIMENT WITH A DANI ROBOT AND KINECT SENSOR BUNDLE ...... 14368 Nebojsa I Jaksic

GETTING MORE LEARNING FROM LABS - SIX PRINCIPLES TO BUILD UNDERSTANDING AND SKILL ...... 14381 Clark Hochgra, Richard Cliver, David S Martins

INCORPORATING ADULT LEARNING METHODS AND PROJECT BASED LEARNING IN LABORATORY METROLOGY COURSES ...... 14398 Georgia L Harris

CULTURE, RACE, AND GENDER ISSUES

"YOU CHOOSE BETWEEN TEAM A, GOOD GRADES, AND A GIRLFRIEND - YOU GET TO CHOOSE TWO!" - HOW A CULTURE OF EXCLUSION IS CONSTRUCTED AND MAINTAINED IN AN ENGINEERING DESIGN COMPETITION TEAM...... 14420 Cindy E Foor, Susan E. Walden, Deborah A. Trytten, Randa L. Shehab

"LEARNING FROM SMALL NUMBERS" OF UNDERREPRESENTED STUDENTS' STORIES: DISCUSSING A METHOD TO LEARN ABOUT INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURE THROUGH NARRATIVE...... 14442 Alice L. Pawley

GENDER DIFFERENCES IN THE LONG-TERM IMPACTS OF PROJECT-BASED LEARNING ...... 14463 Richard F. Vaz, Paula Quinn, Arthur C Heinricher, Kent J Rissmiller

SCIENCE LITERACY AND TEXT BOOK BIASES...... 14481 Gisele Ragusa

ECE CURRICULUM IMPROVEMENT

HOW ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY STUDENTS UNDERSTAND CONCEPTS OF ELECTRICITY. COMPARISON OF MISCONCEPTIONS OF FRESHMEN, SOPHOMORES, AND SENIORS ...... 14492 Tatiana V. Goris, West Lafayette, Michael J. Dyrenfurth

SOPHOMORE-LEVEL CURRICULUM INNOVATION IN ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING...... 14512 Cordelia M Brown, Dimitrios Peroulis, Greg Lammers

RATIONALES ON A REQUIRED CLASS ON SIGNAL AND POWER INTEGRITY IN A COMPUTER ENGINEERING CURRICULUM...... 14522 Jianjian Song, Deborah Walter, Edward Wheeler

EE AND ME - TOGETHER AGAIN...... 14532 Dennis A. Silage

ELECTRICAL ENERGY COURSES, LABS, AND PROJECTS I

AN APPLIED COMPARISON STUDY: SOLAR ENERGY VS. THERMOELECTRIC ENERGY...... 14539 Faruk Yildiz, Keith L. Coogler, Bill Crockford

ENERGY SUSTAINABILITY IN TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS: TRANSLATING ELECTRIC VEHICLE RESEARCH RESULTS TO 7TH AND 8TH GRADERS ...... 14552 Ona Egbue, Suzanna Long, Ean-Harn Ng

PROMOTING STEM WITH AN ELECTRIC ENERGY SYSTEM...... 14564 Al Mundy, Andrew Laffely, Major Bryan John Cooper, George York, Herbert L. Hess

LOW VOLTAGE POWER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM PROVIDES INCUBATOR FOR ENERGY-RELATED STUDENT PROJECTS ...... 14573 Dale H. Litwhiler, Elizabeth Wiggins-Lopez

LABORATORY DEVELOPMENT FOR A CCLI COURSE ON PV ENGINEERING...... 14584 Hirak C Patangia

ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT IN THE CLASSROOM

COMPARING STUDY ABROAD INTEREST BETWEEN UNIVERSITIES...... 14597 Eric Specking, Kathryn D. Abel, Kim Lascola Needy

DEVELOPMENT OF A MINOR IN SUSTAINABLE MANUFACTURING FOR MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS ENGINEERING PROGRAM ...... 14608 Mazyar Aram, Ileana Costea

THE IMPACT OF CLICKERS ON YOUR CLASSROOM AND YOUR CAREER ...... 14616 Ted Eschenbach, Neal Lewis, Gillian M. Nicholls, Jani M Pallis

THE CASE FOR ON-LINE COLLEGE EDUCATION - A WORK IN PROGRESS...... 14629 Brian E. White, S. Jimmy Gandhi

MODIFICATIONS OF ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT PROGRAM AT CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE...... 14644 Alireza Kabirian, S. Jimmy Gandhi, Ileana Costea, Ahmad R Sarfaraz, Mark Rajai

DREYFUS FIVE-STAGE MODEL OF ADULT SKILLS ACQUISITION APPLIED TO ENGINEERING LIFELONG LEARNING ...... 14653 Nora Honken

SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS IN ET PROGRAMS

LEARN MATLAB PIGGYBACKED ONTO C-PROGRAMMING ...... 14666 Maddumage Karunaratne

RAPTOR - A VEHICLE TO ENHANCE LOGICAL THINKING ...... 14676 Nikunja Swain, Wanda Moses, James Allen Anderson, Cynthia T Davis

USING NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING TO OPTIMIZE THE FIBER PACKING DENSITY OF OPTICAL FIBER CABLES- A SHORT PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING COURSE...... 14688 Kenneth W. Jackson, Gregory L. Wiles

A CASE FOR PYTHON SCRIPTING IN UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY...... 14698 Omer Farook

INTERDISCIPLINARY AND UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH IN ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY

METHODOLOGY FOR EVALUATING STATISTICAL EQUIVALENCE IN FACE RECOGNITION USING LIVE SUBJECTS WITH DISSIMILAR SKIN TONES...... 14707 Rigoberto Chinchilla, Bryan G. Baker

CELLULAR PHONE CONTROL APPLICATION AS AN UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH PROJECT ...... 14722 Robert Weissbach, Garrett Loverde, James Bimber

AN REU EXPERIENCE WITH WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS RESEARCH...... 14730 Xiaojing Yuan, Heidar Malki, Gangbing Song

FPD 7: FIRST YEAR ENGINEERING COURSES, PART II: PERCEPTIONS AND PARADIGMS

HOW IMPORTANT IS THE WOW FACTOR IN FIRST YEAR ENGINEERING COURSES? ...... 14737 Thalia Anagnos, Burford J. Furman, Ping Hsu, Patricia R Backer

BY THE STUDENTS, FOR THE STUDENTS: A NEW PARADIGM FOR BETTER ACHIEVING THE LEARNING OBJECTIVES ...... 14751 Mohammadjafar Esmaeili, Ali Eydgahi

THE INVERTED CLASSROOM IN A FIRST-YEAR ENGINEERING COURSE ...... 14766 Mrs. Brooke Morin, Krista M. Kecskemety, Kathleen A Harper, Paul Alan Clingan

FACULTY PERCEPTIONS ON UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING EDUCATION IN FIRST-YEAR ENGINEERING, PHYSICS, AND MATHEMATICS COURSES ...... 14777 Janaki Isabella Perera, Brendan Thomas Quinlivan, Yevgeniya V. Zastavker

GENERAL TOPICS IN GRADUATE EDUCATION

ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT GRADUATE STUDENT ONLINE LEARNING PREFERENCES...... 14792 A. Mark Doggett

GRADUATE ENGINEERING STUDENT PERCEPTIONS OF EPORTFOLIO AND THE ROLE OF DEPARTMENTAL CULTURE ...... 14801 Mahnas Jean Mohammadi-Aragh, Lisa Dupree McNair

SUSTAINABILITY PERSPECTIVES OF GRADUATE STUDENTS ON TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS AND MANAGEMENT...... 14824 Robert M. Brooks, Mehmet Cetin, Jyothsna Kavuturu

FEELING LIKE A GRAD STUDENT: A SURVEY OF UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHERS' EXPECTATIONS AND EXPERIENCES ...... 14835 Katy Luchini-Colbry, Korine Steinke Wawrzynski, Megan Shannahan

ENGINEERING EDUCATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND TECHNOLOGY EXPLORATION IN AFRICA AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

WATER FILTERS IN GHANA: AN EXPLORATION OF THE TECHNOLOGY AND EDUCATION THAT IS REQUIRED FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AT THE BASE OF THE ECONOMIC PYRAMID ...... 14853 John Paul Farris

OBSERVATIONS ON STARTUP AND OPERATIONAL CHALLENGES FOR US ENGINEERING PROGRAMS IN THE MIDDLE EAST...... 14860 Wilhelm Alexander Friess, Muhieddin Amer

IMPROVING ECE EDUCATION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICAN COUNTRIES USING THE MOBILE STUDIO TECHNOLOGY AND PEDAGOGY ...... 14871 Yacob Astatke, Craig J. Scott, Jumoke Oluwakemi Ladeji-Osias, Kenneth A Connor, Salessawi Ferede Yitbarek, Albert Edward Sweets, Farzad Moazzami

A COST EFFECTIVE METHODOLOGY FOR PEDESTRIAN ROAD CROSSING FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ...... 14883 Muhammad Ali, Fazil T. Najafi

SECONDARY (6 12) OUTREACH

USING SUMMER PROGRAMS TO EXCITE SECONDARY STUDENTS ABOUT NANOSCALE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING ...... 14894 Nancy Healy, Angela Berenstein

LOOKING FOR LEARNING IN AFTER-SCHOOL SPACES ...... 14905 Christine Schnittka, Michael A Evans, Tiffany Drape, Samantha Gwai Lan Won

WISENGINEERING: INTEGRATING COMMON CORE MATH CONCEPTS IN AN INFORMAL SETTING ...... 14922 Crystal Jean Dejaegher

HOW TO USE ENGINEERING IN HIGH SCHOOL SCIENCE: TWO CASE STUDIES ...... 14934 Ibrahim F. Zeid, Jessica Chin, Sagar V. Kamarthi

UNIVERSITY-COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS AND PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT IN PRE-COLLEGE ENGINEERING EDUCATION...... 14947 Ethan Alexander Peritz, Morgan M Hynes

MUSIC TECHNOLOGY AS A VEHICLE TO STEM/STEAM FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS...... 14960 Jeff Gregorio, Brandon G Morton, Youngmoo Kim, Jessica S Ward

A CHALLENGE TO ENGINEERING EDUCATORS

REALLY CHANGING THE CONVERSATION: THE DEFICIT MODEL AND PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF ENGINEERING...... 14970 Canek Moises Luna Phillips, Kacey Beddoes

RAZE THE SILOS: USING DIGITAL PORTFOLIOS TO INCREASE INTEGRATIVE THINKING...... 14986 Lisa Dupree McNair, Wende Garrison

USING THE PORTFOLIO APPROACH TO ASSESS MULTI-YEAR ENGINEERING PROJECTS: A CASE STUDY...... 15001 Harold R Underwood

EMBEDDING INFORMATION LITERACY WITHIN SUSTAINABILITY RESEARCH: FIRST YEAR STUDENTS'; PERSPECTIVES ...... 15017 Isolde Adriana Parker, Seetha Veeraghanta

TEACHING BEST PRACTICES

HOLISTIC CONSIDERATION OF BEST PRACTICES IN PRODUCT DESIGN, QUALITY, AND MANUFACTURING PROCESS IMPROVEMENT THROUGH DESIGN FOR VALUE...... 15030 Merwan B Mehta, Mark Angolia

TEACHING MANUFACTURING WITH GROUP CELL PRACTICES...... 15040 Wayne P Hung, Adam Farmer

ENHANCING STUDENT LEARNING IN A GRADUATE COURSE IN MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY ...... 15050 Bimal P. Nepal

DESIGNING THE FUTURE: INTEGRATING CUTTING-EDGE DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING TOOLS INTO 9TH AND 10TH GRADE STEM EDUCATION...... 15061 Ismail Fidan, Julie C Bake

THEME-BASED TEACHING /LEARNING: A NEW APPROACH IN TEACHING MANUFACTURING PROCESSES...... 15071 Masud Salimian, Yaseen Mahmud, Avis L. Ransom (Morgan State University School Of Engineering)

COMPUTING IN THE CLASSROOM

IPADS IN THE ENGINEERING CLASSROOM - BOON OR BANE? ...... 15083 Major Ryan R. Goyings, James Ledlie Klosky, Bobby G Crawford

FROM BLACK BOARDS TO DIGITAL BOARDS: STUDENTS AND PROFESSORS EXPERIENCE CHALLENGES AND REMEDIES ...... 15101 Zahra Shahbazi, Sina Shahbazmohamadi

THE USE OF SYMBOLIC SOLVERS IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION...... 15117 B. K. Hodge, Rogelio Luck

USING ANIMATIONS TO ENHANCE UNDERSTANDING OF ENERGY SYSTEM CONCEPTS...... 15132 B. K. Hodge, Govinda Mahajan

RESEARCH ON LEARNING, PERFORMANCE, AND IMPACT

FOSTERING DIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL LEARNING AMONG MINORITY ENGINEERING STUDENTS THROUGH GROUP-STUDY: A CASE STUDY...... 15146 Ananda Mani Paudel, Sylvester A. Kalevela

IMPACT OF ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT (API) SKILLS ON MATH AND SCIENCE ACHIEVEMENT GAINS...... 15160 Sylvanus N. Wosu

Volume 18

EVALUATING THE "IMPACTS" SECTION OF THE ENGINEERING SELF-EFFICACY, INTEREST, AND PERCEPTION SURVEY ...... 15195 Cameron Denson, Chandra Y Austin, Christine E. Hailey

MULTIDISCIPLINARY LEARNING, EVALUATION, AND ASSESSMENT

THE MOST MISUNDERSTOOD ABET CRITERION - CRITERION 3B ...... 15203 K. S. Krishnamoorthi

ASSESSING SERVICE LEARNING REFLECTIONS ...... 15214 Lawrence E. Whitman, Cindi Mason

ENGINEERING DESIGN ACTIVITY TO DEVELOP STRATEGY TO EVALUATE INTERDISCIPLINARY DESIGN SKILLS ...... 15225 Matthew E. McFarland, Reid Bailey

THE COMPREHENSION CHALLENGE ...... 15245 Narayanan M. Komerath

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING OUTREACH: INDUSTRY, K 12

INDUSTRY INVOLVEMENT IN AN UNDERGRADUATE SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PROJECT COURSE: EVERYBODY WINS...... 15259 W Eric Wong

CHALLENGES AND BENEFITS OF PROGRAMMING COMPETITIONS AS OUTREACH TO HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS...... 15272 Sushil Acharya

EDUCATION AND OUTREACH ACTIVITIES IN IRELAND: AN EXPERIENCE REPORT ...... 15286 Clare McInerney, Mike Hinchey

SOFTWARE AND SYSTEM ENGINEERING EDUCATION: COMMONALITIES AND DIFFERENCES ...... 15299 Massood Towhidnejad, Thomas B Hilburn, Richard Fairley

INSTITUTIONAL TRANSFORMATIONS

BUILDING A MORE SUPPORTIVE CLIMATE FOR WOMEN IN STEM: DISCOVERIES MADE, LESSONS LEARNED...... 15309 Jenna P. Carpente, D. Patrick O'Neal

ENGAGING MALE FACULTY IN INSTITUTIONAL TRANSFORMATION...... 15330 Canan Bilen-Green, Roger A. Green, Christi McGeorge, Cali L. Anicha, Ann Burnett

PROMISING ORGANIZATIONAL PRACTICES FOR INCREASING FACULTY GENDER EQUITY: A CASE STUDY...... 15342 Karen J. Horton, Amy Fried, Mary Madden

STRATEGIES TO SUPPORT (FEMALE) STEM FACULTY AS VOICED BY FEMALE STEM FACULTY AT A MAJOR RESEARCH UNIVERSITY...... 15355 Pamela S. Lottero-Perdue

K 12 AND STEM PROGRAMS IN ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY

PROJECT MANAGEMENT FOR UNDERGRADUATE AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS...... 15393 Wei Zhan, Joseph A. Morga, Matt Leonard

SUPPORTING K-12 TEACHERS THAT WANT TO BUILD THEIR OWN DO-IT-YOURSELF (DIY) INTERACTIVE DIGITAL WHITEBOARDS ...... 15410 Daniel Tillman

INTRODUCING NEW METHODOLOGIES AND THE INCOMING STUDENTS TO ENGINEERING PROGRAMS

INCORPORATING NEW TRENDS AND TEACHING METHODOLOGIES: IMPROVING STATE OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION IN PAKISTANN ...... 15419 Salahuddin Qazi, Adeel Khalid, Qaiser H Malik)

MENTORING ENGINEERING STUDENTS: REALITIES, CHALLENGES, AND REWARDS ...... 15434 Waddah Akili

INTRODUCING FRESHMEN ENGINEERING STUDENTS TO CIVIL ENGINEERING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA...... 15447 Zhang Lei, Fazil T. Najafi

THE STATE OF MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSES (MOOCS) IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? ...... 15457 Flora S Tsai, Kyle H Wong

CEIII WRAPUP

CURRICULUM EXCHANGE: "MAKE YOUR OWN EARTHQUAKE"...... 15473 Sandra Hull Seale, Thalia Anagnos, Lelli Van Den Einde

CURRICULUM EXCHANGE: VISUALIZATION TOOLS AND ONLINE COURSES FOR TEACHING ABOUT EARTHQUAKES...... 15482 Sandra Hull Seale, Thalia Anagnos

THE PICTURESTEM PROJECT: A CURRICULAR APPROACH USING PICTURE BOOKS TO TRANSFORM STEM LEARNING IN ELEMENTARY CLASSROOMS(CURRICULUM EXCHANGE)...... 15490 Kristina Maruyama Tan, Tamara J Moore, Christy Pettis

CURRICULUM EXCHANGE: "THE ART OF ENGINEERING": A FOUR-YEAR PROJECT-BASED HIGH SCHOOL CURRICULUM...... 15503 Sandra Hull Seal, Amir Muhsin Abo-Shaeer

CURRICULUM EXCHANGE: MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS GO BEYOND BLACKBOARDS TO SOLVE THE GRAND CHALLENGES...... 15510 Austin Bates Talley, Richard H. Crawford, Christina Kay White

SPECIAL INITIATIVES AND PROGRAMS AT TWO YEAR COLLEGES

GRITTY STUDENTS: THE EFFECT OF PERSEVERANCE ON RETENTION FOR TRADITIONAL AND NONTRADITIONAL STUDENTS ...... 15520 Anne-Marie A Lerner

TRANSFER EXPERIENCE FOR UPPER DIVISION ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE STUDENTS ...... 15527 Mary R. Anderson-Rowland

ASSESSMENT OF INNOVATIVE ENVIRONMENTS THAT ADDRESS INTELLECTUAL CURIOSITY...... 15541 Mysore Narayanan

MICROMACHINING: A NEW TREND IN MANUFACTURING...... 15554 Farzin Heidari

WEDNESDAY: AEROSPACE DIVISION TECHNICAL SESSION 3

AUTONOMOUS PATROL AND SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM (APSS) - A STUDENT PROJECT TO HELP AID THE CAMPUS POLICE ...... 15561 Adeel Khalid

HOW CLOSE TO SPACE BEFORE NOBODY CAN HEAR YOU SCREAM ...... 15577 Peter J. Schubert, Steven Anthony Zusack

NATIONWIDE STUDENT MOVEMENT ON SPACE SOLAR POWER...... 15586 Peter J. Schubert

RENOVATING AN ANCIENT LOW SPEED WIND TUNNEL: A STUDENT TEAM PROJECT CASE STUDY ...... 15596 Narayanan M. Komerath

PREPARATION OF PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS OUTSIDE OF THE USA, WHAT ARE THE EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE, AND EXAM REQUIREMENTS?

THE ATTRIBUTES OF A GLOBAL ENGINEER: PURPOSE, PERSPECTIVES, AND PROGRESS ...... 15609 Stephen Hundley, Lynn G Brown, Patricia Fox, Catherine Didion, Daniel R. Sayre

ABET'S GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT ...... 15621 Michael K. J. Milligan, Daniela Iacona, Joseph L Sussman

EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE: WHAT'S HAPPENING AROUND THE WORLD? ...... 15629 Mark William Killgore

EDUCATION AND TRAINING REQUIREMENTS FOR A PRACTICING CIVIL ENGINEER TO QUALIFY IN AUSTRALASIA AND THE UNITED KINGDOM ...... 15641 Albert T. Yeung

ONLINE LEARNING

INTEGRATING ONLINE IDENTITY MANAGEMENT TOOLS IN A COMPLETE SOCIAL MEDIA LITERACY CURRICULUM FOR ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY STUDENTS ...... 15656 Mihaela Vorvoreanu), Geovon Andre, Francisco Javier Portela, Anna Bao

A COMPARISON OF SUDENT PERFORMANCE USING TWO DIFFERENT ON-LINE LECTURE DELIVERY SOFTWARES...... 15668 Michelle E Jarvie Eggart

ONLINE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT DESIGN: A HEURISTIC EVALUATION...... 15675 Emily A Hildebrand, Jennifer M Bekki, Bianca L. Bernstein, Caroline J Harrison

A PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK FOR MEASURING ONLINE STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES...... 15686 Petronella A James, Craig J. Scott, Yacob Astatke, Jumoke Oluwakemi Ladeji-Osias, Ladawn E. Partlow, Kofi Nyarko

PREPARING FOR PRACTICE

TRAINING IN TROUBLESHOOTING PROBLEM-SOLVING: PREPARING UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING STUDENTS FOR INDUSTRY ...... 15705 Presentacion Rivera-Reyes, Raymond Edward Boyles

WHAT MAKES AN EFFECTIVE ENGINEERING DIAGRAM? A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF NOVICES AND EXPERTS ...... 15721 Alisha A Waller, Joseph M Ledoux, Wendy C Newstetter

MAKING SENSE OF DESIGN: A THEMATIC ANALYSIS OF ALUMNI PERSPECTIVES...... 15738 James Huff, Carla B. Zoltowski, William C. Oakes, Robin Adams

LEARNING STRATEGIES AND LEARNING TRAITS CRITICAL TO PRACTICING ENGINEERS AFTER COLLEGE ...... 15754 Daniel Michael Ferguson, James Edwin Cawthorne, Corey T Schimpf, Monica E Cardella

PROJECT BASED AND COOPERATIVE LEARNING IN ECE

LAB AND TEAM PROJECT DEVELOPMENT FOR ENGINEERING PROBLEM SOLVING USING MATLAB, WITH EMPHASIS ON SOLAR POWER AND ENGINEERING FOR SUSTAINABILITY...... 15800 Stanley W. Hsu, Rajeevan Amirtharajah, Andre Knoesen

TRACKING HIGH ALTITUDE BALLOONS IN AN EE PROJECTS CLASS...... 15814 Dick Blandford, Mark Earl Randall, Don Roberts

AN INDUSTRY RELATED PROJECT-BASED MICROCONTROLLER COURSE ...... 15821 Faruk Yildiz, Reg Recayi Pecen, Keith L. Coogler

SENIOR PROJECT BASED EDUCATIONAL COLLABORATION BETWEEN PHYSICS AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING ...... 15833 Richard W. Freeman, Anthony H. Hawes, Royce Warner James, Eric Jonathan Page, Ali M. Reza

NEW CONCEPTS FOR ALTERNATIVE AND RENEWABLE ENERGY COURSES

FIRST RESULTS WITH A VIRTUAL PLATFORM FOR THE RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COURSES ...... 15847 Radian G Belu

U.S. COAST GUARD ACADEMY MARINE RENEWABLE ENERGY SEMINAR: SECOND OFFERING ...... 15865 Elizabeth Deanna L Bergondo

USE OF VARIOUS SOFTWARE TOOLS IN AN ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SYSTEMS COURSE ...... 15879 Mehmet Sozen

THE LOWCOST VERTICAL AXIS WIND TURBINE PROJECT: AN EXERCISE IN LEARNING ACROSS DISCIPLINES...... 15890 Narayanan M. Komerath, Akshay Milind Pendharkar, Vrishank Raghav

MOTIVATING STUDENT LEARNING USING BIOFUEL-BASED ACTIVITIES...... 15902 Craig J. Hoff, Jennifer Aurandt, Matthew R. O'Toole, Gregory W. Davis

FPD 8: ENGINEERING MATH ISSUES

IMPLEMENTING AN ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS OF MATHEMATICS COURSE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AND ASSESSING RETENTION IMPACT...... 15914 Heath A Schluterman, Kellie Schneider, Adrienne L. Gaines

CONCEPT INVENTORIES AS PREDICTORS OF CHANGING PRE-ENGINEERING SKILLS ...... 15924 Shelley Lorimer

UNLOCKING THE GATE TO CALCULUS SUCCESS: PRE-CALCULUS FOR ENGINEERS - AN ASSERTIVE APPROACH TO READYING UNDERPREPARED STUDENTS ...... 15935 Tanya D Ennis, Jacquelyn F. Sullivan, Beverly Louie, Daniel Knight

AN ANALYSIS OF TWO INTERVENTIONS DESIGNED TO IMPROVE STUDENT PERFORMANCE IN ENGINEERING CALCULUS ...... 15958 Julia H. Chariker, Patricia A Ralston, Jeffrey Lloyd Hieb, Carrye Y Wilkins

INNOVATIVE IE CURRICULA

A NEW MODEL FOR MENTORING GRADUATE STUDENTS: TEACH THEM HOW TO TEACH ...... 15970 Yunchen Huang, Lesley Strawderman, John M. Ushe

MEASURING INTERCULTURAL SENSITIVITY: A CASE STUDY OF THE REU PROGRAM AT UPRM ...... 15979 Saylisse Davila, Viviana I. Cesani, Alexandra Medina-Borja

EDUCATING THE PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER OF 2020: ...... 15997 Susan L. Murray, Terri M. Lynch-Caris

TRAINING INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING STUDENTS AS ENERGY ENGINEERS...... 16004 Masud Salimian, Yaseen Mahmud, Avis L. Ransom

EVALUATION OF PERCEPTUAL CHANGES IN AN ENGINEERING SALES PROGRAM ...... 16018 David Paul Sly, Daniel P Bumblauskas, Adam R Carberry

CHALLENGES IN ENGINEERING, MODELS IN PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMS, CAPSTONE DESIGN AND FUNCTION GENERATOR FOR EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT

CHALLENGING TIME FOR ENGINEERING ...... 16026 Claudio Da Rocha Brito, Melany M. Ciampi, Rosa Maria Castro Fernandes Vasconcelos, Luis Alfredo Martins Amaral, Victor Freitas De Azeredo Barros

EXPORTING US QUALITY ASSURANCE MODELS IN PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMS ...... 16037 Russel C. Jones, Bethany S. Jones

CAPSTONE DESIGN ALUMNI SURVEY ...... 16045 John Aidoo, Shannon M. Sipes, James H. Hanson, Matthew D. Lovell

A LOW-COST PROGRAMMABLE ARBITRARY FUNCTION GENERATOR FOR EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT ...... 16054 Mani Dargahi Fadaei

Volume 19

K 5 TEACHER TRANSFORMATION

ELEMENTARY TEACHER AS TEACHER OF ENGINEERING: IDENTITIES IN CONCERT AND CONFLICT ...... 16067 Pamela S. Lottero-Perdue

ENGINEERING DESIGN PROCESS KNOWELDGE: COMPARISON BETWEEN TEACHERS NEW TO ENGINEERING AND MORE EXPERIENCED TEACHERS ...... 16098 Ming-Chien Hsu, Monica E Cardella

ELEMENTARY TEACHERS' TWO-YEAR IMPLEMENTATION OF ENGINEERING: A CASE OF SUCCESS ...... 16108 K. Anna Douglas, Daphne Duncan Wiles, So Yoon Yoon, Heidi A. Diefes-Dux

COMPUTATIONAL/CS INITIATIVES

INTRODUCING 6-12 GRADE TEACHERS AND STUDENTS TO COMPUTATIONAL THINKING...... 16134 A. Dean Fontenot, Richard A Burgess, Vinitha Hannah, Debra J Nash

COMPUTATIONAL THINKING IN K-12 SCHOOLS USING HANDS-ON ACTIVITIES...... 16154 Nikunja Swain, Wanda Moses, James Allen Anderson, Cynthia T Davis

USING PROGRAMMING TO STRENGTHEN MATHEMATICS LEARNING IN 9TH GRADE ALGEBRA CLASSES ...... 16166 Eric A Freudenthal, Kien H. Lim, Sharie Kranz, Catherine Tabor, Jeremy L Ramirez

WEAVING A COMPUTER SCIENCE TAPESTRY: RESULTS OF A WORKSHOP PROMOTING THE RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION OF GIRLS IN HIGH SCHOOL COMPUTER SCIENCE ...... 16181 David R. Wright

INTRODUCE COMPUTER ENGINEERING TO MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS THROUGH A SCIENCE PROJECT...... 16194 Yonghui Suxia Cui, A. Anil Kumar

INTEGRATION OF MANUFACTURING AND SOCIETY

INTRODUCING MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING WITH KENTUCKY GOVERNORS SCHOLAR PROGRAM ...... 16204 Jaby Mohammed

FACE-TO-FACE VERSUS ONLINE DELIVERY OF A GRADUATE COURSE IN QUALITY ASSURANCE ...... 16213 Julie Dunston, Garth V Crosby

INTEGRATING MANUFACTURING, MANAGEMENT AND MARKETING INTO INTERNATIONAL SERVICE LEARNING...... 16222 Ismail Fidan, Bonita Barger, Ersel Obuz, S. Murat Bagdatli, Ismet Anitsal, Meral Anitsal

AEROSPACE DIVISION TECHNICAL SESSION 4

INVESTIGATION OF THE BENEFITS OF USING A CASE STUDY METHOD TO TEACH MECHANICAL ENGINEERING FUNDAMENTALS COURSES TO DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING STUDENTS ...... 16230 Wayne W. Walter, Michael G. Schrlau, Patricia Iglesias, Kate N. Leipold, Timothy Aaron Nichols

USING A UAV TO TEACH UNDERGRADUATES MATH AND AIRCRAFT PERFORMANCE ...... 16240 Chadia Affane Aji, M. Javed Khan

LEARNING TO INNOVATE ACROSS DISCIPLINES: A CASE STUDY ON THREE TEAM PROJECT EXPERIENCES...... 16254 Juan Pablo Afman Afman, Narayanan M. Komerath

A CASE STUDY ON ADVANCING LEARNING IN AN UPPER-LEVEL ENGINEERING COURSE ...... 16265 Narayanan M. Komerath

“MODULAR” LEARNING

USING ENERGY MODULES TO INTRODUCE SUSTAINABLE ENGINEERING AND IMPROVE RETENTION OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS...... 16279 Jason M. Keith, Bill B Elmore, William Todd French, Hossein Toghiani, Rebecca K. Toghiani

AN INSTRUCTIONAL MODULE ON THERMALLY COUPLED COLUMNS FOR UNDERGRADUATE CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SEPARATIONS...... 16290 Priscilla J Hill, Carlen Henington, Rebecca K. Toghiani

A MODULAR APPROACH OF INTEGRATING BIOFUELS EDUCATION INTO CHEMICAL ENGINEERING CURRICULUM...... 16298 Qinghua He, Rong Zhang, Jin Wang, Frank Leonard Armstead, Rong Zhu Walburn, Donald Ray Johnson, Julius Lenard Taylor

LOOSE CHANGE AND DISHWASHER OPTIMIZATION: CREATIVE APPLICATIONS OF ENGINEERING STATISTICS...... 16312 Matthew Cooper

NEW HANDS-ON FLUID MECHANICS CARTRIDGES AND PEDAGOGICAL ASSESSMENT ...... 16322 Jacqueline K Burgher, David Finkel, Bernard J. Van Wie. Olusola Adesope, Shane A. Brown, Justin William Atkinson

ACTIVITIES AND ASSESSMENT FOR “AWKWARD ABET OUTCOMES”

DEVELOPING AND ASSESSING STUDENT'S PRINCIPLED LEADERSHIP SKILLS TO ACHIEVE THE VISION FOR CIVIL ENGINEERS IN 2025 ...... 16339 William J. Davis, Kevin C Bower, Ronald W. Welch, Douglas H. Fehrmann

A DOCUMENTARY PROJECT IN A CIVIL ENGINEERING COURSE...... 16356 Seamus F Freyne

BRINGING CREATIVITY INTO THE LAB ENVIRONMENT ...... 16363 Clifton B. Farnsworth, Ronald W. Welch, Michael J McGinnis, Geoff Wright

STUDENT PROJECTS IN ENGINEERING HISTORY AND HERITAGE ...... 16384 Norb Delatte

COMBINING IN-CLASS DESIGN PROBLEMS AND EFFECTS TO STIMULATE CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS...... 16396 Nathan Huynh, Juan M Caicedo, Charles E. Pierce, Jason W Gantt

COMPUTERS AND LEARNING

IMPACT OF INTERNET USE ON THE ACADEMIC ADVANCEMENT OF ENGINEERING STUDENTS...... 16410 Hoda Baytiyeh

SERIOUS GAMES TO IMPROVE STUDENT LEARNING IN ENGINEERING CLASSES...... 16419 Pramod Rajan, Chetan S Sankar

A LEARNING OUTCOMES ASSESSMENT LEVEL DASHBOARD BASED ON STANDARD TERMINOLOGY ...... 16434 Khalid W Khawaja

PODCAST USAGE IN HIGHER EDUCATION: WHAT IS ITS EFFECT ON STUDENT READING?...... 16451 Shelly A Clark, Eugenia Fernandez

POTPOURRI

USE OF SUSTAINABLE AND SYSTEMATIC PLAN TO ASSESS STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES FOR NON-TRADITIONAL IT STUDENTS...... 16462 Lifang Shih, Jane A Leclair

CROP MONITORING PLATFORM: A CASE OF TEACHING MACHINE VISION THROUGH UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH ...... 16481 Duke Mejia Bulanon, Stephen A. Parke

ENGAGEMENT OVERLOAD: USING AUGMENTED REALITY TO PROMOTE STUDENT INTEREST IN COMPUTING...... 16490 Jeffrey Chastine

APPLICATION OF WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS IN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM ...... 16504 Afsaneh Minaie, Ali Sanati-Mehrizy, Paymon Sanati-Mehrizy, Reza Sanati-Mehrizy

COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE COURSE IN UNDERGRADUATE COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING CURRICULA...... 16516 Afsaneh Minaie, Paymon Sanati-Mehrizy, Ali Sanati-Mehrizy, Reza Sanati-Mehrizy

NOVEL METHODS OF CONSTRUCTION EDUCATION

APPLYING DECODING THE DISCIPLINES IN A CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING MECHANICS COURSE: A DESCRIPTION OF THE DECODING INTERVIEW...... 16533 John Tingerthal

UNREALIZED POTENTIAL: COURSE OUTCOMES AND STUDENT LEARNING ...... 16549 Kimberly Grau Talley

APPRAISAL OF LEARNING OBJECTIVES OF A COURSE IN CONSTRUCTION SCIENCE ...... 16557 Ifte Choudhury

A PROJECT-BASED INTEGRATED WORK/REVIEW CYCLE (PBIWR) FOR DESIGN AND LEARNING OF ACCELERATED CONSTRUCTION MONITORING...... 16566 Don Chen, Shen-En Chen, Gary Bruce Gehrig

BUILDING ON THE MOON: AN OPEN-ENDED EXERCISE BENCHMARKING FRESHMAN CMGT STUDENTS ...... 16578 Rebecca N Macdonald, Erich Connell

CAPSTONE DESIGN

USING MINI DESIGN COMPETITIONS IN CAPSTONE...... 16584 Joseph Anders Wahlquist, Daniel D. Jensen, Kristin L. Wood, Kyle Fitle, David Carte

DEVELOPMENT OF A CIVIL ENGINEERING CAPSTONE DESIGN COURSE FOR A NEW PROGRAM...... 16600 David A Saftner, Sara D. Ojard, Eshan V. Dave, Nathan William Johnson, Eil Kwon, Rebecca Teasley

DELIVERING THE SENIOR CAPSTONE PROJECT: COMPARING YEAR-LONG, SINGLE SEMESTER AND HYBRID APPROACHES...... 16607 Kevin Schmaltz

AN INNOVATIVE TWO-YEAR ENGINEERING DESIGN CAPSTONE EXPERIENCE AT JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY ...... 16622 Olga Pierrakos, Elise M. Barrella, Robert L. Nagel, Jacquelyn Kay Nagel, Justin J Henriques, Daniel Devon Imholte

ENHANCING THE CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING CAPSTONE PROGRAM AT BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY THROUGH ON-CAMPUS INTERNSHIPS AND GRADUATE STUDENT MENTORS...... 16644 E James Nelson, Tatevik Christensen, Fernando S Fonseca, A. Woodruff Miller

LABORATORY DEVELOPMENT IN ECE II

REAL-TIME INTERACTIVE TROUBLESHOOTING AND ASSESSMENT OF DISTANCE LAB PROJECTS ...... 16656 Dale N. Buechler, Phil J Sealy, John R Goomey

NEW EE LAB PROJECTS FOR NON-EE MAJORS: FOURIER SPECTRA OF MUSIC AND PERCEPTION OF THE EFFECTS OF STUDENT-BUILT FILTERS...... 16667 Alexander Ganago, Sudarshan Sivaramakrishnan

ANALOG-CIRCUIT-BASED ACTIVITIES TO IMPROVE INTRODUCTORY CONTINUOUS-TIME SIGNALS AND SYSTEMS COURSES...... 16687 Mario Simoni, Maurice F. Aburdene, Farrah Fayyaz

HANDS-ON ACTIVE LEARNING IN FIBER OPTICS COURSE...... 16701 Lihong Jiao

ELECTRICAL ENERGY COURSES, LABS, AND PROJECTS II

A PROJECT BASED IMPLEMENTATION OF A POWER SYSTEMS COURSE FOR ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY STUDENTS...... 16712 Hayrettin Bora Karayaka, Robert D. Adams

A POWER SYSTEMS PROTECTION TEACHING LABORATORY FOR UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE POWER ENGINEERING EDUCATION ...... 16726 Jennifer Ferris, Robert B Bass

HANDS-ON LEARNING OF COMMERCIAL ELECTRICAL WIRING PRACTICES FOR ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING STUDENTS THROUGH TWO-UNIVERSITY COOPERATIVE EFFORT...... 16735 Herbert L. Hess, Brian Peterson, Susan Elmore, Al Mundy

SIMULATION OF FACTS DEVICES AS REACTIVE POWER COMPENSATORS AND VOLTAGE CONTROLLERS IN THE SMART GRID ...... 16749 Ramadan Elmoudi, Ilya Y. Grinberg, Mohammed Safiuddin

CAD ASSESSMENTS, TRENDS AND APPLICATIONS

ASSESSMENT PROCESS USING THE FIRST YEAR COMPUTER GRAPHICS COURSE AT UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK...... 16766 Srikanth B Pidugu, Mamdouh M. Bakr, Swaminadham Midturi, George P Tebbetts

AUGMENTING A FIRST-YEAR DESIGN COURSE WITH AN UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT ADMINISTERED SOLIDWORKS MODULE ...... 16776 Richard Whalen, Chirag Patel, David Joseph Tortoriello, Justin Baldacci, Jeffrey Speroni

A SIGNIFICANT REVERSE ENGINEERING PROJECT EXPERIENCE WITHIN AN ENGINEERING GRAPHICS CLASS ...... 16802 Douglas Howard Ross

COMPUTER AIDED REVERSE ENGINEERING OF A TOY CAR ...... 16814 Jahangir Ansari

ENGINEERING ETHICS DIVISION TECHNICAL SESSION

INTERACTIVE SESSION: INCLUDING ETHICAL DISCUSSIONS IN YOUR TECHNICAL CLASSES ...... 16821 Rebecca A Bates, Michael C. Loui

UTILIZING AN ENGINEERING ETHICAL REASONING INSTRUMENT IN THE CURRICULUM...... 16830 Carla B. Zoltowski, Patrice Marie Buzzanell, William C. Oakes

SUSTAINABILITY AND ENGINEERING EDUCATION

INTRODUCING SUSTAINABLE DESIGN PRINCIPLES IN FRESHMAN CIVIL ENGINEERING DESIGN ...... 16840 Jennifer Mueller Price, John Aidoo

ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN UNDERGRADUATE COURSE ON SUSTAINABILITY RESEARCH METHODS...... 16848 Kim Lascola Needy, Tahar Messadi, John Henry Kester

IMPLEMENTATION OF SUSTAINABILITY CONCEPTS IN ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING CURRICULUMNS...... 16860 John Woolschlager

SUSTAINABLE WATER: DEVELOPMENT, DELIVERY AND ASSESSMENT OF K-5 MODULES ...... 16871 Alexandre David Wing, Cristal Hibbard, Jennifer Strong, Junko Munakata-Marr

INNOVATIVE PEDAGOGICAL 'GAME DESIGN/CREATION' METHODOLOGY FOR SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION...... 16883 Ben D Radhakrishnan, Shekar Viswanathan, James Jay Jaurez

FPD 9: FIRST YEAR ENGINEERING COURSES, PART III: RESEARCH, SUSTAINABILITY, AND PROFESSIONALISM

BLENDING SUSTAINABLE DESIGN, SYSTEMS THINKING, AND ENGINEERING SCIENCE CONCEPTS IN AN INTRODUCTORY ENGINEERING COURSE ...... 16909 Robert L. Nagel, Kyle G. Gipson, Jonathan Howard Spindel, Elise M. Barrella

INCORPORATING A SUSTAINABILITY MODULE INTO AN INTRODUCTION TO ENGINEERING COURSE...... 16925 Leonardo Bedoya-Valencia, Ding Yuan, Jane M. Fraser

Volume 20

THE UNWRITTEN SYLLABUS: IT'S NOT JUST EQUATIONS STUDENT THOUGHTS ON PROFESSIONAL SKILLS...... 16937 Stanley M. Forman, Susan F Freeman

STEM INSIGHT: DEVELOPING A RESEARCH SKILLS COURSE FOR FIRST- AND SECOND-YEAR STUDENTS ...... 16962 Dirk Colbry, Katy Luchini-Colbry

INNOVATIVE IE COURSE CONTENT

TOWARDS IMPROVING STOCHASTIC AWARENESS...... 16979 John P. Mullen

EXPERIMENTAL ASSESSMENT OF HIGHER-LEVEL DATA ANALYSIS SKILLS...... 16989 Julie Ann Layton, Thomas Reed Willemain

TO BE GREEN OR NOT TO BE GREEN? ETHICAL TOOLS FOR SUSTAINABILITY ENGINEERING ...... 17007 Connie Gomez, Heidi A. Taboada, Jose F. Espiritu

TEACHING GAGE REPRODUCIBILITY AND REPEATABILITY USING THE MOUSE FACTORY...... 17019 Douglas H Timmer, Miguel Gonzalez

USING INFORMAL ORAL PRESENTATIONS IN ENGINEERING CLASSES: TRAINING STUDENTS FOR THE "YOU GOT A MINUTE" MOMENT...... 17030 Justin W. Kile

STUDY ABROAD, INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE, EXCHANGE PROGRAMS AND STUDENT RETENTION

INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE IN HIGHER ENGINEERING EDUCATION - A REPRESENTATIVE SURVEY ON INTERNATIONAL MOBILITY OF ENGINEERING STUDENTS...... 17038 Ute Heinze, Ursula Bach, Rene Vossen, Sabina Jeschke

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ATTITUDES ACQUIRED THROUGH ENGINEERING STUDENT EXPERIENCES ABROAD ...... 17061 Keilin Tarum Deahl, Eileen Walz, Russell Korte, Valeri Werpetinski, Laura D Hahn, Judith A Sunderman, J. Bruce Elliott- Litchfield

INTRODUCTION TO GERMAN ENGINEERING. A TRANSATLANTIC EXPERIENCE ...... 17080 Manfred J Hampe, Jan Helge, David J. Dixon

ENHANCING STUDENT RETENTION IN UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING PROGRAMS - A CASE STUDY...... 17088 Ahmed Imran, Mohamed Nasor M. Kalil, G. M. Hayati

RESEARCH INITIATIVES

A LARGE-SCALE SURVEY OF K-12 STUDENTS ABOUT STEM: IMPLICATIONS FOR ENGINEERING CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT AND OUTREACH EFFORTS (RESEARCH TO PRACTICE) ...... 17095 Eric N. Wiebe, Malinda Faber, Jeni Corn, Tracey Louise Collins, Alana Unfried, Latricia Townsend

RESEARCH-INFORMED PRACTICES FOR INCLUSIVE SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND MATH (STEM) CLASSROOMS: STRATEGIES FOR EDUCATORS TO CLOSE THE GENDER GAP ...... 17104 Helena Isabel Scutt, Shannon Katherine Gilmartin, Sheri Sheppard, Samantha Brunhaver

A STUDY OF THE IMPACT OF A NATIONAL PROJECT BASED LEARNING CURRICULUM (PLTW) ON STUDENT CONTINUATION TO POSTSECONDARY INSTITUTIONS...... 17121 David G. Rethwisch, Soko S Starobin, Frankie Santos Laanan, Melissa Chapman Haynes

IMPLICATIONS OF PROBLEM BASED LEARNING (PBL) IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS UPON THE K-12 ENGINEERING EDUCATION PIPELINE ...... 17134 Daniel Tillman

THE CREATION, EVOLUTION AND IMPACT OF A GK-12 OUTREACH MODEL ...... 17148 Lynn Albers, Elizabeth A Parry, Laura Bottomley

SUPPORTING DIVERSITY IN ENGINEERING

INCREASING DIVERSITY IN ENGINEERING: A K-6 SUMMER OUTREACH PROGRAM FOR DYSLEXIC CHILDREN...... 17155 Lyndsey Alyssa Wright, Barbara M. Moskal

PROVIDING AN ENGINEERING CONTEXT TO PROMOTE GLOBAL AWARENESS AND ENGAGE UNDERREPRESENTED MINORITY HIGH SCHOOL MATHEMATICS STUDENTS...... 17164 Douglas Edwards, Jeremy Lingle, Jessica D Gale

ENGAGING STUDENTS WITH VISUAL IMPAIRMENTS IN ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE THROUGH ROBOTIC GAME PROGRAMMING (RESEARCH-TO-PRACTICE) ...... 17176 Chung Hyuk Park, Ayanna M Howard

RESTRUCTURING/RETHINKING STEM

TURNING STEM INTO STEAM ...... 17190 Chris Robinson, Sarah C. Baxter

FACULTY REFLECTIONS ON A STEAM-INSPIRED INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIO COURSE ...... 17201 Nicola Sochacka, Kelly Woodall Guyotte, Joachim Walther, Nadia N. Kellam

AN ON-LINE COURSE IN THE HISTORY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY...... 17228 Michael Geselowitz, Lyle Feisel

THE T-SHAPED ENGINEER: CONNECTING THE STEM TO THE TOP...... 17239 Joe Tranquillo

PRACTICAL TEACHING

WHETHER TO CAST, WELD OR BOLT - LEARNING DESIGN FOR MANUFACTURING THROUGH A GRADUATION PROJECT...... 17260 Sangarappillai Sivaloganathan

A STUDY OF PROCESS VARIABILITY OF THE INJECTION MOLDING OF PLASTICS PARTS USING STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL (SPC)...... 17271 Rex C Kanu

ELECTRICAL SAFETY, THE NFPA AND PLC SAFETY...... 17280 William T. Evans

A NOVEL APPROACH FOR SUSTAINABLE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION...... 17309 Lam F. Wong, Henry Griffith

MICROLUBRICATION EFFECTS IN MILLING AISI 1018 STEEL:AN APPROACH TOWARDS GREEN MANUFACTURING ...... 17323 Nourredine Boubekri, Vasim Shaikh

MATERIALS SCIENCE EDUCATION FOR THE FUTURE

DEEPENING CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING IN AN INTRODUCTORY MATERIAL SCIENCE COURSE THROUGH ACTIVE LEARNING STRATEGIES...... 17328 Todd C. Hufnagel, Michael J. Reese

MATERIALS ENGINEERING AS A CATALYST FOR SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION...... 17349 Jeffrey W. Fergus

STUDENT CASE STUDY CREATION FOR THE SUSTAINABLE SIDE OF MATERIAL SCIENCE ...... 17358 Cindy Waters, Stephanie Luster-Teasley

A HYBRID APPROACH TO TEACHING MATERIALS SCIENCE USING POGIL AND ACTIVE LEARNING ACTIVITIES...... 17371 Eunice Yang

IMPLEMENTATION OF MATERIALS FOR ENERGY STORAGE COURSE ...... 17382 Lindsay M. Corneal

POTPOURI A MIX

OUTCOMES OF USING AN INFINITELY EXPLORABLE ONLINE LEARNING SYSTEM ...... 17394 Franco Capaldi, Devin R. Berg

THE EVOLUTION OF STUDENT INTERACTION WITH AN INFINITELY EXPLORABLE ONLINE LEARNING SYSTEM...... 17406 Franco Capaldi

COMPUTER SIMULATION AND ANIMATION IN ENGINEERING MECHANICS: A CRITICAL REVIEW AND ANALYSIS ...... 17416 Ning Fang

PROJECT-BASED LEARNING: TEACHING ENGINEERING DESIGN NOT TINKERING...... 17437 Scott F. Kiefer, Stephen N Kuchnicki

INTERCOLLEGIATE AND CROSS DISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION

DEVELOPING INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH PARTNERS: THE LEARNING BY INNOVATIVE NEURO COLLABORATIONS RESEARCH URE ...... 17453 Barbara Burks Fasse, James William Schwoebel, Ethan James Craig, Anish Joseph, Ajit Vakharia, Steve M. Potter, Kim Dooley, James Linder

REVOLUTIONIZING FINANCIAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION: SIMULATION-BASED STRATEGIES FOR LEARNING ...... 17480 Matt Olfat, Kari Wold, Roy Lee Hayes, Mark Endel Paddrik

ADAPTED PHYSICAL ACTIVITY DESIGN PROJECTS: A COLLABORATION BETWEEN KINESIOLOGY AND ENGINEERING ...... 17509 Brian P. Self, James M Widmann, Lynne A Slivovsky, J. Kevin Taylor, David W. Hey

ENGINEERS IN HOSPITAL: AN IMMERSIVE AND MULTIDISCIPLINARY PEDAGOGICAL APPROACH FOR BETTER SOLUTIONS...... 17521 Eng Keng Soh, Ameek Kaur, Ming Po Tham, Desmond Y. R. Chong

TRICKS OF THE TRADE II

TEACHING STRATEGIES WHEN STUDENTS HAVE ACCESS TO SOLUTION MANUALS ...... 17538 Edward F. Gehringer, Barry Wayne Peddycord

INSTILLING THE NECESSITY OF LIFELONG LEARNING USING ARTICLE REVIEWS...... 17551 Walter W Schilling

GETTING STARTED WITH SCREENCASTING: A TOOL TO SUPPLEMENT CLASSES, ANSWER STUDENT QUESTIONS, AND PROVIDE GUIDED ANALYSIS PRACTICE...... 17558 Sean Moseley

CAPSTONE PROJECTS: UNLEASHING IMAGINATION AND ENGAGING MINDS...... 17568 Adrian Ieta, Rachid Manseur, Thomas E. Doyle

TRICKS OF THE TRADE

THEORY TO PRACTICE: A REFLECTION ON THE APPLICATION OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION COURSEWORK TO NEW COURSE DEVELOPMENT ...... 17585 Ruth E. H. Wertz

FROM SERIOUS LEISURE TO KNOWING ORGANIZATIONS: INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES IN PROJECT-BASED LEARNING STUDENT ENGINEERING TEAMS ...... 17600 Michael L. W. Jones

EXPLORING THE EXPERIENCE OF UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH: A CASE STUDY USING FACEBOOK ...... 17613 Katy Luchini-Colbry, Tobias Ortega-Knight, Charles Huang Chen, Danny Lynch, Kathleen Anne Fitzsimons, Crystal D Alton, Juan L. Mena Lapaix, Joshua Drost

CAPSTONE DESIGN COURSES AND TOOLS IN SUPPORT OF SYSTEMS ENGINEERING EDUCATION

APPLYING SYSTEMS ENGINEERING TO THE LUNABOTICS MINING COMPETITION CAPSTONE DESIGN CHALLENGE ...... 17631 Lisa Guerra, Gloria A. Murphy, Lisa D. May

INTERACTIVE BOTTLE RECYCLER: A "GREEN" SENIOR DESIGN PROJECT CASE STUDY ...... 17646 Ertunga C Ozelkan, Peter L Schmidt, Devin Hatley, Kathleen Ann Boutin-Pasterz

A FOUR-YEAR EXPERIENCE WITH THE GRADUATE CURRICULUM FOR SYSTEMS ENGINEERING AT UTEP AND ITS CONVERGENCE/DIVERGENCE WITH GRCSE...... 17664 Aditya Akundi, Eric D Smith

A TOOL FOR ABET ACCREDITATION ...... 17680 Ravi T. Shanka, Jonathan Paul Dickson, Carlo A Mazoleny

IMPROVE RETENTION RATE AND PERFORMANCE OF STUDENTS IN STEM FIELD USING A VIRTUAL TEACHING ASSISTANT SYSTEM ...... 17692 Pablo Biswas, Runchang Lin

DEVELOPING SYSTEM-THINKING ORIENTED LEARNING MODULES OF NETWORKED MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS FOR UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING CURRICULUM ...... 17718 Xiaojing Yuan, Heidar Malki, Xiaohui Yuan

TWO YEAR COLLEGE DIVISION TRANSFER TOPICS PART II

PROMOTING ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE AMONG UNDERREPRESENTED COMMUNITY COLLEGE ENGINEERING STUDENTS THROUGH A SUMMER RESEARCH INTERNSHIP PROGRAM ...... 17730 Amelito G Enriquez, Wenshen Pong, Hamid Shahnasser, Hamid Mahmoodi, Hao Jiang, Cheng Chen

DEVELOPMENT OF A MULTIDISCIPLINARY SUMMER RESEARCH PROGRAM FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGE STUDENTS IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING...... 17746 Sharnnia Artis, Catherine T. Amelink

THE FIVE YEAR EVOLUTION OF A MESA PROGRAM...... 17758 Dan G. Dimitriu, Jerry O'Connor

FIRST-YEAR PROJECT-BASED ENGINEERING: SECRET WEAPON FOR STUDENT SUCCESS ...... 17768 Michael E. Pelletier, Linda A. Desjardins, Paul Chanley, Lori Heymans

Volume 21

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT ISSUES: PERSISTENCE

JOB SHADOWING: IMPROVING INTEREST AND PERSISTENCE FOR WOMEN IN ENGINEERING...... 17788 Mary Moriarty, Susannah Howe, Elena Rose Yasinski

ENGINEERING STUDENT INVOLVEMENT: COMPARISON OF TWO DISSIMILAR INSTITUTIONS...... 17799 Kerry Meyers, Catherine F Pieronek, Leo H McWilliams

TENSION OF LEGACY: SELF-AUTHORSHIP OF FEMALE ENGINEERING STUDENTS AND THEIR PROFESSIONAL CHOICE...... 17813 Jennifer A. Skaggs

PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF FACTORS INFLUENCING TIME TO GRADUATION BY GENDER ...... 17829 Christine Valle, John D. Leonard, Ann Marie Blasick

SEEING THE BIG PICTURE: THE ROLE THAT UNDERGRADUATE WORK EXPERIENCES CAN PLAY IN THE PERSISTENCE OF FEMALE ENGINEERING UNDERGRADUATES ...... 17853 Cate Samuelson, Elizabeth Litzler

TRENDS AND APPLICATIONS IN CURRICULA AND THE CAPSTONE EXPERIENCE

NATIONAL TRENDS IN THE CIVIL ENGINEERING MAJOR DESIGN EXPERIENCE: PART DEUX...... 17869 Tonya Lynn Nilsson, Kevin D. Hall, Ronald W. Welch

IMPROVING MUNICIPAL INFRASTRUCTURE IN CAPSTONE THROUGH A CONSULTING FIRM MODEL ...... 17890 Daniel M. Dulaski

A MODEL FOR COLLABORATIVE CURRICULUM DESIGN IN TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING EDUCATION...... 17901 Kristen L. Sanford Bernhardt, David S Hurwitz, Rhonda K Young, Rod E. Turochy, Shane A. Brown, Joshua Swake, Andrea R. Bill, Kevin Heaslip, Michael Kyte

COMPUTERS IN EDUCATION DIVISION GENERAL TECHNICAL SESSION 2

SERVICE LEARNING: INDUSTRIAL EMBEDDED SYSTEMS COURSE...... 17915 Steven F Barrett, Ivo Wambeke

EXPERIMENTS FOR A FRESHMAN ENGINEERING COMPUTING COURSE...... 17927 Charles H. Forsberg

QUICK-RETURN MECHANISM REVISITED ...... 17942 Raghu Echempati, Theodore Paul Dani, Ankita Sahu, Nathan Marshall Leblanc

A THREE YEAR LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF MOBILE TECHNOLOGY AND ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACT ON STEM-BASED COURSES...... 17958 Oscar Antonio Perez, Mike Thomas Pitcher, Pedro Arturo Espinoza, Hugo Gomez, Virgilio Gonzalez, Herminia Hemmitt

BUILDING A BETTER PROGRAM CONSTRUCTION CURRICULUM ENHANCEMENTS

DEVELOPING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM EXAMPLES TO USE IN THE CONSTRUCTION CLASSROOM ...... 17971 Philip A. Dunn

STARTING A CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING PROGRAM AT MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY ...... 17979 Mark O. Federle

ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO INCORPORATE DESIGN FOR SAFETY INTO CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING CURRICULA...... 17986 Robert G. Batson

EXPLORING THE IMPACT OF VARIOUS INTERACTIVE DISPLAYS ON STUDENT LEARNING IN CONSTRUCTION COURSES ...... 17996 Samaneh Zolfagharian, Masoud Gheisari, Javier Irizarry, Pavan Meadati

MISCONCEPTIONS

VALIDATING THE DIAGNOSTIC CAPABILITY OF THE CONCEPT ASSESSMENT TOOL FOR STATICS (CATS) WITH STUDENT THINK-ALOUDS...... 18007 Dana Denick, James W Pellegrino, Ruth A. Streveler, Louis V Dibello

CONCEPTUAL CHANGE IN MECHANICS OF MATERIALS...... 18020 Shane A. Brown

INVESTIGATING THE IMPACT OF VISUOHAPTIC SIMULATIONS FOR CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING IN ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM ...... 18029 Karla L. Sanchez, Alejandra J. Magana, David Sederberg, Grant P Richards, M. Gail Jones, Hong Z Tan

USING WRITING TO LINK PROCEDURES AND CONCEPTS IN STATICS ...... 18045 Chris Venters, Lisa Dupree McNair, Marie C Paretti

PROPOSING A MODEL OF CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING OF EQUILIBRIUM TO INFORM INTERDISCIPLINARY AND INTEGRATED CURRICULA ...... 18062 Dana Denick, Ruth A. Streveler

CAPSTONE DESIGN AND INNOVATIONS IN ECE

RESULT-ORIENTED ENGINEERING CAPSTONE DESIGNS TO AID PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES...... 18072 Hanqi Zhuang, Oren Masory, Zvi S Roth

ASSESSMENT OF A MULTI-UNIVERSITY UNMANNED SYSTEMS CAPSTONE DESIGN PROJECT ...... 18085 George York, Erlind George Royer, Daniel Harold Harold, Daniel D. Jensen

INTRODUCING A BUSINESS ACUMEN INTO AN ENGINEERING CURRICULUM ...... 18102 John J. Burke

ONE LAST TOOL FOR THEIR TOOLBOX: PREPARING STUDENTS FOR CAPSTONE DESIGN...... 18110 Barbara E. Marino

TOPICS IN ENERGY MANAGEMENT

ECONOMIC AND LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS OF RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS ...... 18119 Kendrick T. Aung

ECONOMIC ENHANCEMENTS TO A FIRST-YEAR NET ZERO ENERGY HOME DESIGN PROJECT...... 18129 Andrew Lau

HANDS ON EXPERIENCE FOR STUDENTS ON AN ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ...... 18144 Jaime Ramos, Emmanuel Benitez, Leonel Aguilera

THE DESIGN OF A WI-FI ENABLED CLOUD MONITORING DEVICE ...... 18152 Esther T. Ososanya, Sasan Haghani, Wagdy H Mahmoud

INFORMATION TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES FOR ENGINEERING EDUCATION

INFLUENCE OF DISCOVERY SEARCH TOOLS ON SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING E-BOOKS USAGE...... 18166 Eugene Barsky, Sarah Jane Dooley, Tara Mawhinney, Zoey Peterson, Michelle Spence

PROXIMITY OF EQUATIONS, TEXT, AND FIGURES IN CIVIL ENGINEERING E-TEXTBOOKS ...... 18178 Paul Richards

USING CITATION ANALYSIS TO EXPLORE THE INFORMATION NEEDS OF GRADUATE STUDENTS AFFILIATED WITH A FUEL CELL RESEARCH CENTER ...... 18187 Michael J White

BEST PRACTICES FOR ENGAGING USERS IN A WEB CONFERENCING ENVIRONMENT ...... 18199 Giovanna Badia, April Colosimo

USING GAMING TECHNOLOGY TO TEACH RESPONSIBLE CONDUCT OF RESEARCH...... 18213 Amy G. Buhler, Margeaux Johnson, Michelle Leonard, Melody Royster

INSTRUMENTATION TECHNICAL SESSION

BUILDING WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS WITH ZIGBEE...... 18226 Mohammad Rafiq Muqri, Robert Alfaro

INSTRUMENTATION TO FACILITATE LEARNING IN A FIRST BIO-POTENTIALS COURSE ...... 18244 Andrew Hoff, Richard Gilbert

REMOTE HUMIDITY AND TEMPERATURE REAL-TIME MONITORING SYSTEM FOR THE STUDY OF THE AFTER-RIPENING PROCESS IN SEEDS...... 18252 Thiruparan Balachandran, Saleh M. Sbenaty, Jeffrey Walck

CROSS-DOMAIN INTEGRATION OF HOME AUTOMATION, ENTERTAINMENT, AND E-HEALTH USING WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK...... 18263 Xiaojing Yuan, Xiaohui Yuan, David Adam Harden, Yang Lu

CURRICULUM AND PROGRAM DEVELOPMENTS, EXCHANGES, COLLABORATIONS, AND PARTNERSHIPS

FROM GLASSBORO TO THE GAMBIA- A COLLABORATIVE WORK WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF THE GAMBIA AND A WINTER TRIP TO THE GAMBIA VILLAGES...... 18270 Hong Zhang, Jess W. Everett, Jennifer Kadlowec, Sean Coffey, Andrea Rose McFarland

TRANSATLANTIC INTERACTION WITH EUROPEAN PROJECT SEMESTER ...... 18278 Duane L. Abata, Arvid Andersen, Wayne B. Krause

GOING BIG: SCALING UP INTERNATIONAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION TO WHOLE COLLEGE INITIATIVES ...... 18291 Eck Doerry, Harvey Charles

USING INTERNATIONAL ENGINEERING EXPERIENCES TO INFORM CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT ...... 18309 Eileen Walz, Keilin Deahl, Russell Korte, J. Bruce Elliott-Litchfield, Judith A Sunderman, Valeri Werpetinski, Laura D Hahn

K 12 ROBOTICS

A ROBOTICS SUMMER CAMP FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS: PIPELINES ACTIVITIES PROMOTING CAREERS IN ENGINEERING FIELDS...... 18331 Mehmet Ayar, Bugrahan Yalvac, Fatih Ugurdag, Alpaslan Sahin

DEVELOPMENT OF A SUMMER HIGH SCHOOL RESEARCH PROGRAM...... 18349 Arif Sirinterlikci, Selin Frances

TRANSFORMING A MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL ROBOTICS CURRICULUM ...... 18358 Mercedes M McKay, Susan Lowes, Devayani Tirthali, Elisabeth W McGrath, Jason Sayres, Karen A Peterson

REGIONAL AUTONOMOUS ROBOTICS CIRCUIT: PROVIDING INFORMAL APPROACHES TO STEM EDUCATION...... 18379 Joann M. Marshall, Krystal S Corbett, Geoffrey Cazes

STEM APPLICATIONS: INTEGRATING INFORMAL LEARNING WITH THE FORMAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT ...... 18391 Krystal S Corbett, Joann M. Marshall

RET INITIATIVES

IMPACT OF ATTENDING A RESEARCH EXPERIENCE FOR TEACHERS PROGRAM WITH INTERNATIONAL AND SOCIETALLY RELEVANT COMPONENTS ...... 18403 Zornitsa Georgieva, Reagan Curtis, Tyler A Saenz Saenz, Miracle David Solley, Darran Cairns

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE FOR K-12 STEM TEACHERS : CHARECTERIZATION OF ELECTROSPUN CARBON NANOFIBERS (ECNF)...... 18424 Hasina Huq, Mounir Ben Ghalia

INNOVATING EDUCATION FOR THE NEXT GENERATION OF ENGINEERS - RESULTS OF AN NSF-RET PROGRAM FOCUSED ON INNOVATION ...... 18429 Margaret Pinnell, Rebecca P. Blust, Suzanne Franco, Renee Beach, Sandra M Preiss

DIFFERENCE, DISABILITY, AND (DE)POLITICIZATION: THE INVISIBLE AXES OF DIVERSITY

THE ISLAND OF OTHER: MAKING SPACE FOR EMBODIMENT OF DIFFERENCE IN ENGINEERING ...... 18445 Donna M Riley

BODY? WHAT BODY? CONSIDERING ABILITY AND DISABILITY IN STEM DISCIPLINES...... 18464 Amy E. Slaton

THE VEILING OF QUEERNESS: DEPOLITICIZATION AND THE EXPERIENCES OF LGBT ENGINEERS ...... 18480 Erin A. Cech

"WHAT CAN YOU TEACH ME?": (RE)THINKING RESPONSES TO DIFFERENCE FOR MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAMWORK...... 18488 Julie L Taylor

INFORMATION LITERACY, COMPUTER EFFICACY AND READINESS

STRENGTHENING COMMUNITY COLLEGE ENGINEERING EDUCATION THROUGH COLLABORATION AND TECHNOLOGY...... 18502 Amelito G Enriquez, Elizabeth Paderi, Tiffany Reardon

AN INVESTIGATION OF THE INFORMATION-SEEKING BEHAVIORS OF TWO-YEAR COLLEGE STUDENTS ENROLLED IN TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMS...... 18519 Melissa Isabel Zelaya, Kapil Chalil Madathil, Jeff Bertrand, Tianwei Wang, Anand K. Gramopadhye, John R. Wagner, Sabarish V. Babu

A MULTI-PRONGED APPROACH TO ASSESSING TECHNICAL AND NON-TECHNICAL WORKFORCE SKILLS IN A TWO YEAR COLLEGE ...... 18528 Bill D. Bailey

THE IMPACT OF COMPUTER EFFICACY ON THE SUCCESS OF NONTRADITIONAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE STUDENTS ...... 18538 Amy Renee Henson

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT ISSUES II

THE DESIGN OF A LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME FOR WOMEN ENGINEERING STUDENTS AT A SOUTH AFRICAN UNIVERSITY ...... 18548 Ann Sharon Lourens

WISE WOMEN OF THE UAE...... 18563 Nadia M Alhasani

UNDERSTANDING THE FACTORS INFLUENCING STUDENT PARTICIPATION IN SUPPLEMENTAL INSTRUCTION IN FRESHMAN CHEMISTRY ...... 18573 Kristen B. Coletti, Melinda Covert, Paul A. Dimilla, Lauren Gianino, Rachelle Reisberg, Emily Wisniewski

ASSESSING GENDER DIFFERENCES IN FIRST-YEAR STUDENT MOTIVATION...... 18590 Robin Fowler, Lorelle A Meadows

ESTABLISHING A WOMEN'S MENTORSHIP NETWORK IN A STEM LEARNING COMMUNITY ...... 18606 Melissa A Dagley, Nirmala Ramlakhan, Cynthia Y. Young, Michael Georgiopoulos

“HOW DO WE COMPARE?” STUDENTS, CASE STUDIES, AND LEARNING APPROACHES

LIVING IN TWO WORLDS: COMPARING CHEMICAL ENGINEERING STUDENTS TO OTHER ENGINEERS AND CHEMISTS...... 18621 Allison Godwin, Geoff Potvin

Volume 22

A COMPARISON OF PEER EVALUATION METHODS IN CAPSTONE DESIGN ...... 18632 Joshua A Enszer, Mariajose Castellanos

COMPARING A MODIFIED PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING APPROACH TO A TRADITIONAL APPROACH TO TEACHING HEAT TRANSFER ...... 18641 Christi P Patton Luks

MAPPING RURAL STUDENTS' STEM INVOLVEMENT: CASE STUDIES OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING UNDERGRADUATE ENROLLMENT IN THE STATES OF ILLINOIS AND KANSAS ...... 18651 Joel J. Versypt, Ashlee N. Ford

BEYOND BS: ISSUES AFFECTING GRADUATE EDUCATION

INCREASING THE PREPAREDNESS OF MASTERS- LEVEL STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING GRADUATES DURING THEIR FIRST FIVE YEARS OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE...... 18677 Zsuzsa Balogh, Marvin E. Criswell

EXPECTATIONS FOR THE MASTERS-LEVEL STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING GRADUATE PREPAREDNESS USING THE DELPHI METHOD ...... 18688 Zsuzsa Balogh, Marvin E. Criswell, Michael A De Miranda

YOU KNOW YOU CAN, BUT SHOULD YOU AND WILL YOU? THE STATUS OF MASTER'S LEVEL ACCREDITATION IN CIVIL ENGINEERING ...... 18702 Andrea L Welker

A STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING MASTER'S PROGRAM -- THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS ...... 18709 Cole C McDaniel, Allen C Estes

THE D/M/A OF CE

DIFFERENCES BY STUDENT GENDER IN ENGINEERING SERVICE-LEARNING ...... 18721 Linda Barrington, Emmanuelle Reynaud, Ella Willard-Schmoe

MODEL FOR UNDERGRADUATE OUTREACH PROJECT INVOLVING COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT...... 18738 Joshua M Frey, Sara A. Atwood

IMPROVING STUDENTS' CAPSTONE EXPERIENCE WITH COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION ...... 18750 Daniel M. Dulaski

IT'S ALL ABOUT RELATIONSHIP - EXPANDING RELATIONAL LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES...... 18760 Greg Kremer

MAKING THE MOST OF SITE VISITS ...... 18774 Lindsey Anne Nelson

A COMMUNITY PARTNER'S ROLE DURING A FIRST-YEAR SERVICE LEARNING PROJECT...... 18788 Libby Osgood, Clifton R Johnston, Andrew Trivett

ROBOTS AND K 12 COMPUTER APPLICATIONS

EXPOSING MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS TO ROBOTICS AND ENGINEERING THROUGH LEGO AND MATLAB...... 18803 Jeffrey Laut, Vikram Kapila, Magued G. Iskander

I-3 EXPERIENCE: EXPANDING RESEARCH AND DESIGN OPPORTUNITIES FOR UNDER- REPRESENTED HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS...... 18817 Christina Gardner-McCune, Darrryl Bryant McCune, Chanteal Maria Edwards, Cedric Stallworth

MULTI-ROBOT COMMUNICATION FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH ...... 18833 Robert L. Avanzato

ENHANCING K-12 EDUCATION WITH ENGINEERING OUTREACH ...... 18845 Cheryl D. Seals, Earl B. Smith

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY ISSUES IN THE CLASSROOM

BARRIER TO GREEN BUILDING CONSTRUCTION ON LONG ISLAND, NY - A LESSON LEARN FROM A SENIOR PROJECT ASSIGNMENT...... 18854 Amitabha Bandyopadhyay

COMPENSATION STRUCTURE AND CONTINGENCY ALLOCATION IN INTEGRATED PROJECT DELIVERY ...... 18861 Mei Liu, F. H. Griffis, Andrew J Bates

APPLICATION CASE STUDY OF MOBILE COMPUTING TO DECREASE PAPERWORK AT "NEIGHBORHOOD STABILIZATION PROGRAM (NSP)" CONSTRUCTION SITE ...... 18873 Tulio Sulbaran

AN INNOVATIVE PARTNERING APPROACH: INDUSTRY LED CONSTRUCTION LABS...... 18886 Lisa M Holliday, Matthew Reyes, Richard Cecil Ryan, Kenneth F. Robson

MOTIVATION AND SELF EFFICACY

MEASURING COMPUTING SELF-EFFICACY ...... 18897 Hannah Kolar, Adam R Carberry, Ashish Amresh

AN INSTRUMENT FOR ASSESSING UPPER-DIVISION ENGINEERING STUDENTS' EFFICACY BELIEFS ABOUT MATHEMATICS...... 18904 Robert Melendy

UNLOCKING STUDENT MOTIVATION: DEVELOPMENT OF AN ENGINEERING MOTIVATION SURVEY...... 18914 Philip Reid Brown, Holly M Matusovich

DEVELOPING AN INSTRUMENT TO MEASURE MOTIVATION, LEARNING STRATEGIES AND CONCEPTUAL CHANGE ...... 18931 Rachel McCord, Holly M Matusovich

SOFTWARE AND WEB BASED LEARNING IN ECE

USING A VIRTUAL PLATFORM FOR TEACHING ELECTRICAL MACHINES AND POWER SYSTEMS COURSES ...... 18953 Radian G Belu, Rina Nicoleta

FROM ROBOTS TO GORILLAS: COMPUTER PROGRAMMING FOR ENGINEERS...... 18971 Dileepan Joseph

UBIQUITOUS AND SMART LEARNING PARADIGM FOR PREPARING QUALIFIED AND SKILLED ENGINEERS...... 18986 Mohamed Tawfik, Sergio Martin, Rosario Gil, Alberto Pesquera, Santiago Monteso Fernandez, Albert Gomez, Nevena Mileva, Mihail Milev, Manuel Castro

UTILIZATION OF MATLAB SIMULINK EXERCISES FOR AN UNDERGRADUATE COMMUNICATIONS COURSE...... 19002 Brice Aaron Hirst, Yahong Rosa Zheng

IMPROVING COURSE EFFECTIVENESS

PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING AND INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING ...... 19017 Abhijit Gosavi, Jane M. Fraser

ELECTRONIC FLASHCARDS AS A TOOL TO IMPROVE EXAM READINESS ...... 19027 Susan L. Murray, Julie Phelps

THE CONVERGED CLASSROOM...... 19032 Gregory L. Wiles, Thomas Reid Ball

A PROPOSAL FOR USING PROBLEM POSING TO CONNECT LEARNING OF BASIC THEORY WITH ENGINEERING DESIGN...... 19042 Richard L Marcellus

ENJOYABLE INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY CAN ENHANCE LEARNING ...... 19053 Terri M. Lynch-Caris, Mark A. Palmer

CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT

CONNECTING COGNITIVE DOMAINS OF BLOOM'S TAXONOMY AND ROBOTICS TO PROMOTE LEARNING IN K-12 ENVIRONMENT ...... 19060 James Muldoon, Paul T Phamduy, Raymond Le Grand, Vikram Kapila, Magued G. Iskander

DESIGNING STEM CURRICULUM FOR K12 STUDENTS ...... 19093 B. Sarder

THE CSI EXPERIENCE - INCORPORATING ENGAGING CURRICULUM INTO MIDDLE-SCHOOL CLASSROOMS ACROSS THE COUNTRY...... 19104 Lindsey G. Groark, Delores M. Etter

NEW PROJECT-BASED INSTRUCTIONAL MODULES IMPROVE CLIMATE CHANGE LITERACY (RESEARCH TO PRACTICE) ...... 19114 Susan E. Powers, Jan Dewaters, Suresh Dhaniyala, Mary Margaret Monica Small

INCORPORATING ENGINEERING IN MIDDLE SCHOOL SCIENCE...... 19125 Gabriella J Ducamp, Crystal Jean Dejaegher

BRINGING INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS INTO THE CLASSROOM

NOM NOM NOM: TWO YEARS OF APPLIED FOOD SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING AS A CHEMICAL ENGINEERING ELECTIVE ...... 19144 Margot A Vigeant

ANALYSIS OF BIODIESEL PRODUCTION AND ITS DERIVATIVES FOR A COLLEGE CAMPUS ...... 19158 Emilia Golebiowska, Giovanni Kelly, Yassir M. Samra, James P Abulencia

INTERACTIVE PEDAGOGICAL TOOLS TO INTEGRATE PHARMACEUTICAL APPLICATIONS IN THE CHEMICAL ENGINEERING CURRICULUM: NEWS FROM THE ASEE 2012 SUMMER SCHOOL...... 19168 Zenaida Otero Gephardt, C. Stewart Slater, Stephanie Farrell, Mariano Javier Savelski

INTEGRATING RISK ASSESSMENT IN THE UNIT OPERATIONS LABORATORY...... 19183 Maddalena Fanelli, Daina Briedis, Dennis J. Miller, Martin C Hawley

INTRODUCING K-12 STUDENTS TO THE FIELD OF PHARMACEUTICAL ENGINEERING...... 19202 Daniel Lepek, Charmian Wu), Ryan Poling-Skutvik

USING STUDENT COMPETITIONS TO ENHANCE LEARNING

COMPETITION BASED LEARNING IN THE CLASSROOM ...... 19211 Chris Carroll

COMPETITION-BASED LEARNING ACTIVITIES WITHIN CIVIL ENGINEERING EDUCATION:...... 19231 Brock E. Barry, Col. Karl F. Meyer, Kevin P. Arnett, Major Berndt Spittka

THE GOETHALS INFRASTRUCTURE CHALLENGE: A PROPOSAL FOR A NEW STUDENT COMPETITION...... 19247 Steven D Hart, Johnette C. Shockley, Leah R Ellis, Berndt Spittka

NOVEL PEDAGOGIES 2

INVESTIGATING STUDENTS' SELF-REGULATED LEARNING WHILE LEARNING ELECTRIC CIRCUIT CONCEPTS WITH ENHANCED GUIDED NOTES...... 19261 Oenardi Lawanto, Harry B Santoso

INNOVATIONS IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING EDUCATION: AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF INTEGRATING ACTIVE LEARNING AND DESIGN-BASED LEARNING...... 19273 Liu Junhua, Yue Zhang, Justin Ruths, Diana Moreno, Daniel D. Jensen, Kristin L. Wood

A CASE STUDY EXPLORING THE INFLUENCES OF ENGAGING COMMUNITY COLLEGE STUDENTS IN UNDERGRADUATE BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH EXPERIENCES ...... 19318 Megan E. Faurot, Frederick Doe, Elana Rose Jacobs, Norman G Lederman, Eric M Brey

INVESTIGATING THE IMPACT OF MODEL ELICITING ACTIVITIES ON DEVELOPMENT OF CRITICAL THINKING ...... 19334 James A. Kaupp, Brian M Frank, Ann Shih-Yi Chen

PROJECTS IN ECE

CENTRALIZED PLATFORM PROJECT FOR MULTIPLE ECE CORE COURSES...... 19356 Lin Zhao, Nigel Yu

HIGH ALTITUDE RADIATION DETECTOR (HARD): INTEGRATION OF UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH INTO SENIOR DESIGN AND LESSONS LEARNED ...... 19368 Wookwon Lee, Nicholas B. Conklin

ELECTRIC VEHICLE CIRCUIT AND ELECTRICAL SYSTEM SENIOR LAB PROJECT ...... 19382 Steven G Northrup

DEVELOPING A STATE-WIDE ENERGY ASSURANCE PLAN: COURSE + WORK = SUCCESS ...... 19396 Peter Mark Jansson, Daniel Schmalzel, Robert R. Krchnavek, John L. Schmalzel

INTEGRATING ENGINEERING & LIBERAL EDUCATION

IMPLEMENTATION AND ASSESSMENT OF A CURRICULAR MODULE ON THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF REVERSE ENGINEERING IN BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS...... 19404 Dominic M. Halsmer, Hon Peter Wesley Odom, Jessica Fitzgerald, Taylor Gipson Tryon

CYBER SCIENCE - INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO CYBER STUDIES ...... 19420 Heath Tims, Krystal S Corbet, Galen E. Turner

A FRAMEWORK FOR LIBERAL LEARNING IN AN ENGINEERING COLLEGE...... 19433 Pradeep Kashinath Waychal, Anil Dattatraya Sahasrabudhe

INTEGRATING LIBERAL STUDIES AT THE ASSIGNMENT LEVEL - A CASE STUDY...... 19448 Bill D. Bailey

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