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Engineering Design: Implementation and Evaluation

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Layer, University of Evansville; Chris Gwaltney, University of Evansville

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AC 2009-922: INTERNATIONAL CAPSTONE DESIGN PROJECTS:EVALUATING STUDENT LEARNING AND MOTIVATION ASSOCIATED WITHINTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN PROJECTSJohn Layer, University of Evansville John K. Layer, Ph.D., P.E is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Evansville, Evansville, Indiana.Chris Gwaltney, University of Evansville Chris Gwaltney, P.E. is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Evansville, Evansville, Indiana. Page 14.785.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 International Capstone Design Projects: Evaluating Student

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ERM Potpourri

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bruce Murray, State University of New York, Binghamton; Roy McGrann, State University of New York, Binghamton

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Standards and Technology where he worked on computational modeling for problems in materials processing and thermal design. At SUNY Binghamton he teaches and conducts research in the thermal sciences and materials areas.Roy McGrann, State University of New York, Binghamton Professor McGrann is an Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Binghamton University. Dr. McGrann currently teaches the undergraduate courses: Computer-Aided Engineering and Mechanical Engineering Design. For fifteen of the years prior to accepting his academic position, he was engaged in steel production and fabrication. His responsibilities included production management, machine design, project

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New Learning Paradigms I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Margaret Huyck, Illinois Institute of Technology; Kristin Bryant, Illinois Institute of Technology; Daniel Ferguson, Ohio Northern University

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AC 2009-1032: THE IMPACT OF REFLECTIONS IN SERVICE LEARNING ANDOTHER UNDERGRADUATE TEAM PROJECT LEARNINGMargaret Huyck, Illinois Institute of Technology Margaret Huyck is Professor in the Institute of Psychology, Illinois Institute of Technology. Her areas of expertise include adult development and program evaluation. She has been working with the IPRO Program at IIT for many years. She was a co-PI on an NSF CCLI-1 grant for adapting an EPICS Service Learning Pathway at IIT; and is the PI for a collaborative project funded with an NSF CCLI-2 grant to measure and identify best practices in multidisciplinary teamwork and awareness of ethical issues.Kristin Bryant, Illinois Institute of Technology

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ERM Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dan Budny, University of Pittsburgh; Laura Lund, University of Pittsburgh

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. Page 14.1327.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Using Mobile Technology to Improve Course and Project Outcomes in a Service Learning Course for Freshman Engineering StudentsAbstract: This paper will discuss a project designed to advance a service learning course offeredto engineering honors students in the second semester of their freshman year. The course, whichis titled Engineering Applications for Society, is a unique learning experience through whichstudents develop valuable skills necessary to succeed as engineers by solving real problems ofvalue to local community organizations. Despite its many benefits to both the students and thecommunity, the course has proven very

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New Learning Paradigms II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Laura Hahn, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Alan Hansen, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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AC 2009-577: LEARNING OUTCOMES ASSESSMENT OF A PROJECT-ABROADPROGRAM IN SOUTH AFRICA: TOWARD "A BETTER ENGINEER IN THEREAL WORLD"Laura Hahn, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Dr. Laura Hahn is a specialist in education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She consults with faculty in the College of Engineering on curriculum, instruction, teaching assistant development, and learning outcomes assessment. She has helped develop two project-abroad programs for students in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering.Alan Hansen, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Alan Hansen received his PhD from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa, where he joined

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New Learning Paradigms I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Duffy, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Carol Barry, University Massachusetts Lowell; Linda Barrington, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Manuel Heredia, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

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engineerAbstractIn the fall of 2004 a college with five undergraduate academic programs decided to integrateservice-learning (S-L) projects into required engineering courses throughout the curriculum sothat students would be exposed to S-L in at least one course in each of eight semesters. Theultimate goal is to graduate better engineers and better citizens. Four of the degree programshave achieved on average one course each semester, with an actual coverage of 103 out of 128semester courses, or 80% coverage over the four years. Of the 32 required courses in theacademic year that had an average of 753 students each semester doing S-L projects related tothe subject matter of the course, 19 of the courses (60%) were considered engineering science,that is, not

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New Learning Paradigms I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Oakes, Purdue University

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direct contact with people through educational programs for children or theelderly to projects that are delivered to the underserved populations to address a need,such as a solar power system for a remote rural village. It can also take the form ofresearch, data analysis and interpretation and presentation of results, such as addressingan important environmental issue. This service might address a short term need that isfilled during a course or it could be part of a larger, on-going project or set of projects inan area.Academic Connection - The service students perform must provide reinforcement of andconnection with the subject material of an academic course. When looking to see if acourse would benefit from service-learning, the question of

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Engineering Design: Implementation and Evaluation

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gül Okudan, Pennsylvania State University; Alexander Yin, Pennsylvania State University; Saraj Gupta, Pennsylvania State University; Lisa Lattuca, Pennsylvania State University; Patrick Terenzini, Pennsylvania State University

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tasks/projects, designs the process that teaching will be based on, setsthe assessment/expectation standards, and forms the teams. Teams that are given the design taskinfluence team composition by providing feedback to the instructor, the design process theyfollow, and expectations. All these actors and their activities in this dynamic design learningenvironment are influenced by predominantly outside parties setting the desired outcomes fordesign learning (individual and team level learning, and grades), design outcomes (perceptionsregarding teaming, communication - design report and artifact performance), and long termeffects (retention, increased interest in engineering). Figure 1 depicts these relationships. In thefigure, arrows indicate

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Student Attitudes and Perceptions

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Farrokh Attarzadeh, University of Houston; Deniz Gurkan, University of Houston; Miguel Ramos, University of Houston; Mequanint Moges, University of Houston; Victor Gallardo, University of Houston; Mehrube Mehrubeoglu, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi; Reddy Talusani, Houston Community College System; Shruti Karulkar, University of Houston

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concepts. This paper focuses on the fundamental purpose of thisprogram and the preparation to implement it. The Motivation section describes the objectives ofthis program. It details the different tasks initiated to achieve the objectives. It states the variousassessment activities developed and implemented to track the progress of the project. The sectiontwo “Assessment” analyses the results of the surveys. It explains how the students were assessedin order to understand their academic background, their goals, their expectations from the lab andtheir idea of an ideal mentor. Extensive surveys have proved to be an appropriate groundwork forimplementation of the pilot program launched in Fall 2008. It compares skills reported by thestudents at the

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Student Attitudes and Perceptions

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Barbara Masi, MIT

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AC 2009-2312: ONE SIZE DOES NOT FIT ALL: IMPACT OF VARIEDFRESHMAN DESIGN EXPERIENCES ON ENGINEERING SELF EFFICACYBarbara Masi, MIT Dr. Barbara Masi is the Director of Education in the MIT School of Engineering. Page 14.933.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 One size does not fit all: Impact of varied freshman design experiences on engineering self-efficacyAbstractThis paper presents results of a two year pilot program in freshman design. Theprogram’s goal was to create a variety of project-based learning, or PBL, freshmanexperiences in design and complex problem solving as a means of energizing

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Modeling Student Data

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mark Urban-Lurain, Michigan State University; Jon Sticklen, Michigan State University; Daina Briedis, Michigan State University; Neeraj Buch, Michigan State University; Thomas Wolff, Michigan State University

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institution. The project is titled Engaging Early Engineering Students to ExpandNumbers of Degree Recipients (EEES).The major research challenge in this project is to understand the interactions among the variouscomponents of the project. Our engineering curricula are not lock-step, so students may elect toparticipate in various programs and the interactions among the interventions may vary by studentand the choices they make. These challenges make traditional statistical techniques difficult touse.Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) is a multivariate procedure that supports hypothesis-testingof causal models in observational studies without the need for random assignment of participantsto treatment and control groups. This paper outlines our project

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Measurement Tools

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elizabeth Cady, National Academy of Engineering; Norman Fortenberry, National Academy of Engineering; Malcolm Drewery, National Academy of Engineering; Stefani A. Bjorklund, Rankin & Associates Consulting

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relation to each other as well as their ideas onhow to best learn chemistry. The survey was given to both faculty and undergraduate students atall levels. The authors found their hypothesized difference between faculty and entry-levelstudents, although students in upper level courses had more realistic ideas about the process oflearning chemistry [4].The current project involved the development, testing and validation of the engineering versionsof the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) and its faculty version, the FacultySurvey of Student Engagement (FSSE). These engineering versions (E-NSSE and E-FSSE)assess the extent to which engineering students are being engaged by identified “bestinstructional practices” and are achieving certain

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New Learning Paradigms II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Jones, Purdue University; Peter Meckl, Purdue University; Michael Harris, Purdue University; Monica Cox, Purdue University; Osman Cekic, Purdue University; Martin Okos, Purdue University; Osvaldo Campanella, Purdue University; Neal Houze, Purdue University; James Litster, Purdue University; Nathan Mosier; Bernard Tao, Purdue University; Daniel Delaurentis, Purdue University; David Radcliffe, Purdue University; Kathleen Howell, Purdue University; Masataka Okutsu, Purdue University; Sean Brophy, Purdue University; Amy Penner, Purdue University; Alice Wilson, Purdue University; Leah Jamieson, Purdue University

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at Purdue University.Leah Jamieson, Purdue University Dean Leah Jamieson is the John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering/Ransburg Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Dr. Jamieson earned a BS degree from MIT and MA, MSE and PhD degrees from Princeton. She is co-founder and past director of Purdue's Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) program. Dr. Jamieson is the 2007 President and CEO of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineering and she is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Her research interests ;include engineering education,computer engineering and signal processing

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ERM Potpourri

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University; Julie Trenor, Clemson University

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understanding and integrating complex problem solving in undergraduate engineering education. This latter project is funded through her recent NSF CAREER award. Her other research interests lie in cardiovascular fluid mechanics and K-12 engineering education.Julie Trenor, Clemson University JULIE MARTIN TRENOR is an assistant professor of Engineering and Science Education at Clemson University. Dr. Trenor holds a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Virginia Tech and a bachelor's degree in the same field from North Carolina State University. Her research interests focus on factors affecting the recruitment, retention, and career development of under-represented students in

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Classroom Engagement

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sarah Zappe, Pennsylvania State University; Robert Leicht, Pennsylvania State University; John Messner, Pennsylvania State University; Thomas Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University; Hyeon Woo Lee, Pennsylvania State University

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Computer Integrated Construction Research Program at Penn State. He teaches courses in construction engineering and management; Building Information Modeling; and virtual prototyping. He recently led a project to construct the Immersive Construction (ICon) Lab, an affordable, 3 screen immersive display system for design and construction visualization, and is developing an interactive virtual construction simulation application for engineering education. He can be reached at jim101@psu.edu.Thomas Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University Tom Litzinger is Director of the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education and a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Penn State, where he has

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Measurement Tools

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Karen Alfrey, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Elaine Cooney, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis

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theassignments to practice critical thinking will also be complex. According to theliterature3, most assignments take one of two forms: reflective writing or solving open- Page 14.444.3ended problems. Since this project focuses on critical thinking in engineering andtechnology, solving open ended problems is a natural fit: problem solving is an objectiveof all accredited engineering and technology programs6,7. Many programs and coursesrequire some type of design or project that asks students to define a problem, posepossible solutions, select the “best” solution, then implement and test their solution.These types of projects may be done in a group or

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New Learning Paradigms II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cynthia Finelli, University of Michigan; Marie Kendall-Brown, University of Michigan

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AC 2009-749: USING AN INTERACTIVE THEATER SKETCH TO IMPROVESTUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS ABOUT AND ABILITY TO FUNCTION ONDIVERSE TEAMSCynthia Finelli, University of Michigan Dr. Cynthia Finelli, Ph.D., is Director of the Center for Research and Learning North and associate research scientist in the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan. She consults with administrators, faculty, staff, and graduate students, offers workshops and seminars on teaching and learning, and supports college-wide initiatives in engineering education. In addition, Dr. Finelli actively pursues research in engineering education and assists other faculty in their scholarly projects. She is PI on a multi

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Knowing Our Students, Faculty, and Profession

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kevin Anderson, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Sandra Courter, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Thomas McGlamery, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Traci Nathans-Kelly, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Christine Nicometo, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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to not only describe an element of engineering work, but also to connect it toimprovements in engineering education.Books: Vincenti, Davis and Vinck In his 1990 book titled, What Engineers Know and How They Know It, Walter Vincentiprovides a frequently referenced look at engineering work8. An aeronautical engineer andprofessor, Vincenti is arguably one of the premier engineering historians in the United States. Inhis book, he uses examples from the history of aeronautical engineering to detail how engineersapproach their work and learn through doing it. Vincenti argues that most engineers practice “normal design;” they simply modifysomething that already exists. Radical design, starting a project from scratch, happens much

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New Learning Paradigms I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rebecca Damron, Oklahoma State University; Karen High, Oklahoma State University

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students and teaching science to education professionals. Dr. High is a trainer for Project Lead the Way pre-Engineering. She initiated an engineering program at Stillwater Middle School. In the summer of 2008, Dr. High was part of a professional development workshop for 80 Northeast Oklahoma middle level teachers to develop integrated engineering curriculum. Page 14.1383.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Writing to Learn: The Effect of Peer Tutoring on Critical Thinking and Writing Skills of First-Year Engineering StudentsCritical Thinking

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Knowing Our Students, Faculty, and Profession

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ashlyn Munson, Colorado School of Mines; Barbara Moskal, Colorado School of Mines; Alka Harriger, Purdue University

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Computer Information Technology and Assistant Department Head. Professor Harriger's current interests include reducing the IT gender gap, web application development, and service learning. Since January 2008, she has been leading the NSF-ITEST SPIRIT project which is discussed in this article and seeks to rekindle enthusiasm for information technology disciplines as a career choice among high school students, especially young women. Page 14.1104.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Surprising Possibilities Imagined and Realized Through Information Technology (SPIRIT

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ERM Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen Snyder, Taylor University; Elise Romines, Taylor University; Rachel Dodge, Taylor University; Jason Kruegar, Taylor University; Travis Booth, Taylor University; Josh Gates, Taylor University

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14.907.2Background of Program For four years, Taylor University’s HARP program has been providing students withthe opportunity apply their technical science and math instruction to interesting and relevantproblems. The unique experience of a high-altitude balloon launch, including team-basedproblem solving, prototyping, construction and testing of experimentation, and the “hard”deadline of a launch, gives students a taste of real-world project experience, and has helpedTaylor students be competitive as they pursue education and career goals beyond theundergraduate level. A student participant in the HARP curriculum component of a 2006Introduction to Electronics class said, “Working on the balloon project was an excellentopportunity to put theory

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Knowing Our Students, Faculty, and Profession

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Janel Sutkus, Carnegie Mellon University; Donald Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University; Cynthia Finelli, University of Michigan; Trevor Harding

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U of M. She is a member of the Association for Institutional Research, the Association for the Study of Higher Education, and the American College Personnel Association.Donald Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University Dr. Donald D. Carpenter is Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at Lawrence Technological University (LTU). In this role, he is an instructor for several engineering courses (from freshman to senior level) that involve ethics instruction. Dr. Carpenter is also Director of Assessment for LTU and recently served as Founding Director for LTU’s Center for Teaching and Learning. Dr. Carpenter has conducted funded pedagogical research and development projects, has published

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Student Attitudes and Perceptions

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Debbie Chachra, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Deborah Kilgore, University of Washington

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-oriented projects, often carried out in teams,where feedback may not be given to individuals and may also include a larger subjectivecomponent. The relative uncertainty inherent in such an assessment of open-ended problemsolving skills may have a multiplicative effect when differences in confidence exist.These findings complement those found in previous research, and also demonstrate that not onlyare women less confident than men, the confidence gap persists from the beginning to the end oftheir engineering education. We recall that these seniors are high-performing, traditional studentswho have spent the last four years engaged in an intense educational experience that had moreinfluence on their transition to adulthood than perhaps any other

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ERM Potpourri

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alexandre Probst, Colorado School of Mines; Aarthi Krishnaswamy, Colorado School of Mines; Vinita Singh, Colorado School of Mines; Barbara Moskal, Colorado School of Mines; Cyndi Rader, Colorado School of Mines

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the internet but so do their teachers. Additionally, their teachers have years of experience teaching through a lecture format, reinforcing lectures as an established habit for instruction. Furthermore, many of the software programs currently available to support secondary instruction contain examples which are culturally irrelevant to Ugandan students. According to Hodson [12], efforts to make science education more learner-centered must build on knowledge and experiences of the learners, which requires an understanding of the impact of different perspectives and experiences of dissimilar cultural groups. The purpose of the project described here is to develop a simulated science laboratory experiment, as a pilot for future software

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Student Learning

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Prince, Bucknell University; Margot vigeant, bucknell; Katharyn Nottis, Bucknell University

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14.469.3Temperature Change tells you something about the rate or amount of energy transferred.5. Radiation Students are often confused about the effect of surface properties on the rate of radiative heat transfer.In the initial phase of this research project, a concept inventory was developed whichsought to measure conceptual understanding in each of these targeted areas.MethodologyPhase 1The concept inventory was composed of 28 multiple choice questions, several with open-ended segments which asked students to explain their thinking in more detail. Theseopen-ended questions were intended to provide both richer assessment of students’conceptual understanding and to provide possible distractors on multiple choice

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New Learning Paradigms I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Warren Hull, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Warren Waggenspack, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Lillian B Bowles, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; David Bowles, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Tiffany Walter Choplin, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge

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. This core groupof eleven faculty members prepared for a leadership role in the communication project byattending a CxC-sponsored Faculty Institute during the summer of 2005. The engineering teamreceived a comprehensive orientation to the campus-wide CxC program and explored how theirparticipation could lead to the integration of communication goals in the COE curriculum. Theyworked on their individual syllabi, as well as college-wide plans for a COE CommunicationStudio. They shared their ideas about an engineering graduate’s need for communication skillsand their newly-revised syllabi with faculty members representing all colleges, who provided aninterdisciplinary audience for their perspectives. In many cases, the necessary communication

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ERM Potpourri

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ming-Chien Hsu, Purdue University; Monica Cardella, Purdue University

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multiple approaches to deal with theuncertainty and we would like to investigate how engineering students respond to theuncertainty.We used a framework of mathematical thinking to examine how engineering students deal withuncertainty in design. Currently, in many engineering curricula, the first three years consist ofmathematics and science courses. In the fourth year, a capstone design project is added toprovide a chance for students to deal with complex real-world problems. Determining howstudents use mathematical thinking in this capstone design project will potentially informengineering educators on integrating engineering science and practical design tasks.Theoretical frameworkIn order to investigate how engineering students learn and use

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Using Technology to Enhance Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Chen, California Polytechnic State University

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-learning because of fears of poor learning, but in areview of 355 comparative studies across a variety of disciplines, Russell5 found no significantdifference in learning outcomes (as measured by common outcomes such as examination scoresor course grades) between traditional and e-learning courses.Project Design and ImplementationThe setting for this admittedly limited-in-scope study is a large, public, technical university.Even given the large student population on campus (>20,000), though, class sizes in this studyare relatively small (<40 students per section). This project was implemented in the fall 2008term in Applied Thermodynamics, a junior-level course for mechanical engineering students thatbuilds on the fundamentals learned in a

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ERM Potpourri

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michele Miller, Michigan Technological University; Leonard Bohmann, Michigan Technological University; William Helton, Michigan Technological University; Anna Pereira, Michigan Technological University

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. Teaming ability 4.42 0.69 The candidate has done many team projects and works well with others. Hands-on ability 4.35 0.88 The candidate has tinkered with machinery or electronics as a hobby or job, or grew up in an environment where these skills were required (such as a farm). Creative ability 4.13 0.70 The candidate “thinks outside the box”, has worked on inventions, or is involved in artistic pursuits. Leadership ability 3.90 0.82

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Knowing Our Students, Faculty, and Profession

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brent Jesiek, Purdue University; Maura Borrego, Virginia Tech; Kacey Beddoes, Virginia Tech; Miguel Hurtado, Purdue University

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-organizer of Virginia Tech’s Research in Engineering Studies (RES) group.Miguel Hurtado, Purdue University Miguel Hurtado is Ph.D. Candidate in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. He holds a B.S. in EE from Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, M.S. in Signal-Image Processing from ENST - Télécom Paris, M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics and M.S. in Management, both from MIT. His research is focused on statistical methods for sensor fusion in automotive applications (Fisherian and Bayesian approaches), project management, and lean enterprise. He is also interested in engineering education perspectives in social and global context