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Jacob Marszalek

Best Practices in Educational Evaluation and Assessment Jacob Marszalek, PhD Research Fellow UMKC Urban Education Research Center18/09/2018 Marszalek-2018 ASEE Midwest Section Conference 110 Helpful Hints (Teles, 2011)1. Identify an evaluator in advance2. Match the evaluation plan with the project goals • Objectives should be stated in measurable terms • Expected outcomes should identify specific observable results for each goal • development of measurable questions may take several iterations with your evaluator3. Design the evaluation to provide evidence about what is working and where adjustments and

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George Hunt; Herb Detloff

-longcapstonedesign Future Plans projectintheDepartmentofCivilEngineeringattheUniversityof Nebraska-Lincoln(UNL) Weplantocontinuethisinterdisciplinarycapstonedesign

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Heather McCain

of the students are working professionals. The students must balance their time betweenhomework, work, and family. For course homework, projects are typically assigned to teams ofstudents and the project spans the entire semester. The project required students to research atype of business and create a project plan to develop the business. The students were expected towork together over the semester to complete the project assignment. Students were made awareof the expectations for the project via the syllabus, class lectures, and Blackboard assignmentinstructions that include rubrics. In the face-to-face course, which is 16 weeks long, somestudents did not start on the project until near the middle of the semester and some waited untilthe

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Tony Mendes; Gregory W. King

, develop a Business Plan for a new venture• Example of successful projects from class • Eye Verify – early stage business plan developed - sold in 2016 for 350 million • My Heart Outcome – won 2016 RVCC - $10,000 • Other - http://info.ongandcompany.com/blog/client-spotlight-enduralock• Technology Commercialization – Full Time MBA program• Projects from community including; Children’s Mercy Hospital, Black and Veatch, Honeywell and others Mechanical Design Synthesis I• Fulfills university general education requirement• Focused on design process• In-class design activity • Ideation/brainstorming • Identify needs • Benchmarking • Concept generation• Assessment of prototyping/manufacturing costsMechanical Design Synthesis

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Jared Rainwater; Steve E. Watkins; Benjamin Cooper

object-oriented approach ● Users have more visibility of the ● It is a proven method in code running on their system implementation Next Steps Project Overview Challenges to integrate the Object- Overall demonstration project for Plan for Expanded Computing Environment Oriented VM with other systems an entire computing system with ● Hardware compatibility the following elements

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Paul N. Runnion; Barbara J. Wilkins

, Success for Calculus,to give these students a fresh start and the opportunity to reinforce their mathematicalpreparedness while also addressing many of their struggles with non-mathematical issues. Wediscuss how this course has evolved, its structure, and its impact on our students.Unclogging the Calculus PipelineIn 2013, the administration of Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T)released a new strategic plan. One goal stated in the strategic plan was, as a campus, to “modifyour conventional methods of teaching to accommodate current, new and advanced technologythat will enhance student learning and increase faculty productivity.” While this soundssufficiently general (as would befit a strategic planning document), the

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Edgar C. Clausen; James T. McAllister

environment, taken from a roundtable discussion at the 29th Annual IEEE/ASEEFrontiers in Engineering Conference. These suggestions for improvement, categorized assuggestions for planning the course and suggestions for conducting the course, are summarizedin Table 3. Along these same lines, Smith et al. (2005) outlined the pedagogies of successfulclassroom engagement, particularly for cooperative and problem-based learning. Finally, Gall etal. (2003) noted the importance of instructor accessibility to the classroom environment and, as abonus, as an important factor in obtaining good instructor ratings by the students. Table 3. Suggestions for Improving the Classroom Environment (from Finelli et al. 2001

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Hani Sait; Hamzah Raja

Design can trainstudents with practical skills and prepare them to real engineering life, if it is well managed bythe department and assessed through ABET criteria. Engineering Graduate Students suffer fromlack of practical experience. In this study, practical experience of the students is enhancedthrough Project based learning in Capstone Design Project. It is expected that by the end of thisstudy a well-structured design course that can prepare student well for the real engineeringenvironment will be developed. Six factors that affects the design courses are explained. Then, adetailed procedure that contains a work plan (described with the flow chart) and assigning theresponsibility of each contributor to the implemented process are fully

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analysis. Another video lesson thencovers a direct example of the concept to demonstrate its application. There are 13 learningmodules in total with different number of videos in each module depending on the conceptscovered. Each module has an associated quiz. Until now, the modules have been made availablea week before they are due. The plan for future is to provide all modules in the beginning of thesemester.During the first semester of testing the blended format, the quizzes were not assigned. Instead thestudents were expected to know the material learnt from video lessons to work on theirhomework and in-class problems. It was found that there was a very small population of self-motivated students who actually watched the assigned lessons

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Alexandra Kondyli

Engineering curriculum. Figure 1. Course sequence for Introduction to Transportation EngineeringAfter completing this course, students are expected to: (1) obtain an understanding of the factors influencing road vehicle performance; (2) be familiar with elements involved in geometric design and the safety concerns that motivate vertical curve length and horizontal curve design; (3) implement basic traffic flow and queuing principles and have the underlying basis for understanding complex queuing systems; (4) conduct highway capacity and quality of service analysis at freeways and multilane highways, (5) design signal timing and phasing plans at signalized intersections and perform

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2018 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Emmanuel U. Enemuoh; José Carrillo; Joseph Klein; Austin Cash; Drew Bergstrom

Design Corp. and AlionScience and Technology. His teaching interests include: Intro to Solid Modeling, Intro toEngineering, CADCAM, multidisciplinary senior design, machine design and engineeringprofessionalism.Joe Klein graduated from the University of Minnesota Duluth in May of 2018 with a degree inMechanical Engineering. His experiences as a project engineering intern at Polaris Industrieshave taught the importance of attention to detail and proper project planning. The fast-pacedenvironment exposed him to many different aspects of engineering during his 5-monthinternship including research & development, testing, manufacturing, quality control, anddesign.Drew Bergstrom is a senior studying mechanical engineering at the University of