Collection

ASEE Middle Atlantic 2022 Fall Conference

Authors

Raymond K.F. Lam, The City University of New York, Queensborough Community College; Dugwon Seo, Queensborough Community College; Merlinda Drini; Guozhen Tony An, CUNY Queensborough Community College

before necessary knowledge was taught instead ofgiving a lecture first for required programming functions. Students were asked to team up withthree to four people in a group. It was an online class setting, thus the breakout rooms from themeeting platform (e.g., ZOOM©) were utilized for group discussion. The first day of the projectwas spent understanding and discussing the problem among the group members. The studentswere asked to write a note of their discussions and ideas. It was recommended to take a role foreach group member to distribute their responsibilities – team leader, programmer, reporter, andpresenter. In the next class, students shared their ideas of how problems could be solved. Thesolution was driven by student inquiries not by

Collection

ASEE Middle Atlantic 2022 Fall Conference

Authors

Shashi S. Marikunte, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, The Capital College; Saravanan Gurupackiam, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, The Capital College

recommendation was to have at least onemember in each concentration areas. The group leader was responsible to coordinate the tasksand to make sure they are completed on time. It was also the responsibility of the group leader toregularly organize meetings and report any personnel issues.Project Requirement • An interim report (one per group) along with the progress of your project is due mid semester. This short report (3 – 5 pages) should highlight your proposed recommendation along with the status of your project. Follow the guidelines provided by the technical writing experts from the Learning Center during writing workshop. • A bound copy of the final report is due at the end of the semester. It should include final

Collection

ASEE Middle Atlantic 2022 Fall Conference

Authors

Alexander John De Rosa, University of Delaware; Maxine Fontaine, Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Engineering and Science); Frank T Fisher, Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Engineering and Science); Ashley Lytle

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Stevens, as a part of a required sequential first-year writing course, all first-year students arerequired to participate in human subjects research. Alternative assignments are available to thosewho wish to opt out of participating in research studies, although only a small percentage (~2%)of students select this option. In Spring 2022, an adaptive expertise survey developed by Fisher& Peterson [7] (see Appendix 1 for survey items) was listed as one of the research studies in thesubject pool. A total of n=208 low-income first, second, third, and fourth-year STEM studentscompleted the AE survey, where low-income is defined by the Stevens Office of Financial Aid.Participant demographics for the low-income student survey population (such as