Conference Session

Knowing Our Students III

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Guili Zhang, University of Florida; YoungKyoung Min, University of Florida; Matthew Ohland, Clemson University; Timothy Anderson, University of Florida

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Educational Research and Methods

(GPA) in student decisions to remain in or leaveengineering is studied by comparing and contrasting the GPA distributions of engineeringstudents who withdrew from the university or changed majors from engineering (leavers) tothose of students who graduated in engineering (stayers). Student record data for 39,240engineering students at the nine SUCCEED universities from 1987 to 2002 are used to computethe distributions, determine GPA differences between the two groups of students, identify thetrends of each distribution, and study the difference between them over time. The cumulativeGPAs of leavers and stayers are compared after completion of the same number of semesters.The population includes first-time-in-college undergraduate students who

Conference Session

Curricula of the Past, Present, and Future

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yvonne Ng, College of St. Catherine; Lori Maxfield, College of St. Catherine

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Educational Research and Methods

, working with a paraplegic to create an adaptivetechnology exercises items c), g), h), and j). Building a Baja vehicle for competition is usuallydone by a team of engineering students. This expands the experience to include item d) andchallenge item g) in different ways.2.3.4 IDENTITY ParallelThe Curriculum of Identity capitalizes on the cognitive and affective development of learners bydeveloping their interests, expertise, strengths, values, and characteristics. In the early days ofuniversity education, students were assigned a preceptor or personal advisor. They would meetregularly with this mentor and discuss various intellectual topics. The advisor took an active rolein helping plan the students’ future and invariably would know if any

Conference Session

Knowing Our Students I

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heidi Loshbaugh, Colorado School of Mines; Tawni Hoeglund, Colorado School of Mines; Ruth Streveler, Colorado School of Mines; Kimberley Breaux

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Educational Research and Methods

spending a lot of time in the outdoors, a lot of time doing physical activity.” maleMT students recognize that there are whole-life issues and career factors associated withachieving personal and professional balance: “I always think about my aunt because she is a real people person, and she’s just an awesome lady. She graduated with science or computer-programming, something….But she got hired so much quicker, and she was at the top of a chain by her first year out of college because she can explain and talk to people. And she can solve these things that she actually understands and that she has made, but she can talk to the people not in this

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Turns, University of Washington; Jessica Yellin, University of Washington; Yi-Min Huang, University of Washington; Kathleen Gygi, University of Washington

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Educational Research and Methods

2006-2205: WHAT’S SO IMPORTANT ABOUT PEER REVIEW OF TEACHINGPORTFOLIO COMPONENTS? AN EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS OFPEER-REVIEW EPISODES WITHIN ETPPJennifer Turns, University of Washington Jennifer Turns is an assistant professor in the Department of Technical Communication at the University of Washington. She holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her interests include engineering education, learner-centered design, user-centered design, and audience analysis. Dr. Turns is currently working on multiple NSF grants dealing with engineering education including an NSF Career award exploring the impact of portfolio construction on engineering students

Conference Session

Curricula of the Past, Present, and Future

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University; Robert Pangborn, Pennsylvania State University; David Wormley, Pennsylvania State University

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Educational Research and Methods

across the different campuses. Leadership provided by the coordinators of the effortwas critical to the acceptance of the new course format. Workshops were organized that broughttogether key faculty members from all of the campus locations to decide on the majorcompetencies to be achieved by students, and a critical decision was made to focus on achievingthese learning outcomes rather than implementing exactly the same course at all locations. Thelatter decision allowed instructors to be creative and apply their best ideas for using the facilitiesand resources available to them, while maintaining common outcomes from the courses.5, 6 For Page

Conference Session

Curricula of the Past, Present, and Future

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy Banzaert, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; John Duffy, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; David Wallace, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Educational Research and Methods

this initiative with mini-grants, some TAassistance, and three faculty members in the mechanical and electrical engineering departmentsexperienced in S-L. At MIT, which had an existing initiative to support S-L campus-wide butlimited engineering experience, additional faculty support was provided by a faculty member inthe mechanical engineering (M.E.) department and an M.E. graduate student well-versed in S-L.Additional funding was set aside specifically for M.E. faculty and students applying to theexisting MIT S-L grants program.Student Research MethodologyBoth institutions used pre- and post-survey instruments for the S-L classes listed above and fivequestions were designed by the authors to be identical on attitudes toward service and

Conference Session

Building Communities for Engineering Education Research

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robin Adams, Purdue University; Philip Bell, University of Washington; Cheryl Allendoerfer, University of Washington; Helen Chen, Stanford University; Larry Leifer, Stanford University; Lorraine Fleming, Howard University; Bayta Maring, University of Washington; Dawn Williams, Howard University

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Educational Research and Methods

Stanford (d.school), an initiative lead by Professor David Kelley (co-Founder of IDEO Product Development). He has published in the areas of diagnostic electro-physiology, functional assessment of voluntary movement, human operator information processing, rehabilitation© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 robotics, design team protocol analysis, design knowledge management, and concurrent engineering. A member of the Stanford faculty since 1976, he taught product design, created the smart product design (mechatronics) curriculum at Stanford, and most recently teaches a graduate course in "Team-Based Design Innovation with Corporate Partners"; a Design Theory and