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2017 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Laura Ford

Adding Reflection and Oral Communication to a Design Project – Work in ProgressReflection-in-action was encouraged in a junior-level design project by providing a competitor'sdesign to teams. Students then compared their designs to the competitor's design in an oralpresentation. The competitor's design had calculations errors and a different, less expensiveprocess than most of the students chose to use. Interesting questions developed as studentscompared their designs to that of the competitor. Methods, transferability, pitfalls, and futurestudies are discussed in the paper.IntroductionA colleague [placeholder for blind review] and I have taught similar junior-level courses atdifferent universities for a

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2017 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Rachel Mosier P.E.; Virginia Charter P.E.; Carisa Ramming; John Reck; Heather Yates

forfuture success even with low college entrance exams.These previous studies have provided the basic question for the new study; are learning stylescorrelated with discipline? Felder and Silverman (1988) sought to identify mismatches betweenlearning styles and the teaching styles of engineering faculty through a survey instrumentdeveloped from the learning style model from David Kolb (1984). The Felder and Silvermanmodel of learning styles is exemplified by a survey instrument developed called the Index ofLearning Styles (ILS) (1988). This instrument will be used as a basis for this study as well. TheILS includes active or reflective, sensing or intuitive, visual or verbal, and sequential or global.The survey instrument builds upon Kolb’s learning

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2017 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Khaled Mansy

overcast sky (100% cloud cover). • Ground reflection that may affect the reflected light components off the ground into bottom floors of the building. • Space orientation which determines which side of the sky dome the space may receive light from. For example, is the space facing the bright south sky or the less bright north sky (assuming a location in the Northern Hemisphere)? • Glass ratio, which is the area of glazed windows to the gross area of the exterior wall. • The visual task performed in the space, since different visual tasks require different intensities of light on the work-plane.All of the above-mentioned factors affect the performance of daylighting systems inbuildings because they

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2017 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Nicole Colston; Tyler Ley P.E.; Julie Thomas

the question categories and relevantthemes were devised. Structural coding aided a thematic analysis of responses (Guest,MacQueen, & Namey, 2011) using the following text segmentations: teacher preparation,educational technologies, and student learning outcomes. Teacher responses have beenanonymized and replaced with a numeric identification code. Rather than provide broadlygeneralizable conclusions, our findings are useful within the decision-making contexts ofcurriculum design and development (Flagg, 2013).FindingsFollowing a teacher workshop and classroom implementation of the E2 curriculum, weadministered an exit survey to participating teachers (n=4). This section summarizes thefindings. First, teacher reflections support the

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2017 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Suzanne Bilbeisi; John Phillips

resultant rhythms, to organize a series oflike elements or spaces should be demonstrated.Focus: In each scheme, attention should be directed to an area of visual interest – focus may beobtained through the use of contrast, color, size, complexity or simplicity of form, etc.Materiality: Each tower should also exhibit experimentation with basswood as the primarybuilding material. An accent material may be used to enhance the visual experience of theconstruct. These materials may explore issues of texture, color, visual weight, reflectivity, andsense of enclosure.Function: The human must interact with the construct; the entry and ascension sequence must beconsidered carefully. The tower should also be designed from overall form to the detail level;the

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2017 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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John Ciezki; Steve Watkins

ethics emphasize theresponsibility of engineers to consider the “safety, health, and welfare of the public” [2,3].Regulations, standards, laboratory practices, etc. reflect the importance of safety in engineeringwork. Also, the negative consequences associated with safety-related failures such as accidentsand product defects make such issues a priority for industry. Creating a safety culture isdifficult. It involves the performance of proper actions and the avoidance of improper actions.Any definition of safety must specify what is considered proper, what is considered improper,and what is an acceptable degree of risk.In engineering education, practical safety concerns are necessarily part of laboratory courses andsafety concepts are often

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2017 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Nathan Hutchins; Kaveh Ashenayi

ideas and findings inan engineering environment. This style of course has been shown to display “a definite andmeasurable increase in student awareness and understanding of the engineering profession2.” Thisone day a week class is set up in a laboratory structure where there is a lecture followed by someexperimentation with software or hardware.The evolution of this class is based on the changes to the curriculum at the University of Tulsa aswell as faculty and student feedbacks, and will continue to change to reflect changes in the subjectsand engineering tools used.Software Tools © American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 2017 ASEE Midwest Section ConferenceThe software tools that

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2017 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Nesreen Alsbou; Floyd Day; Daniel Oluebubechukwu

MicroSD card and uses only 20mA, around half thepower of other GPS devices. The HC-SR04 ping distance sensor emits an ultrasound wave at 40000 Hzwhich travels through the air and if there is an object or obstacle in its path it will reflect back to the module.Considering the travel time and the speed of the sound, the module can be programmed to calculate thedistance.The transmitter has a frequency range of 433.9 MHz, and input voltage of 3-12V. The transmitter usesAmplitude-shift keying (ASK) to modulate signals. ASK uses variations in the amplitude of the carrier waveto represent digital data which is considered an inexpensive solution for modulation. The receiver has afrequency range of 433.9 MHz and an input voltage of 5V. DC motors are found

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2017 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Becky DeGreeff; Kathy Brockway; Troy Brockway; Sue Guzek; Fred Guzek

at thehistory, tradition, and quality of the performance. In addition, adding communication courses andfaculty has helped the faculty team reflect on the importance of students’ ability to describeideas, projects, and experiences bringing additional focus and professionalism to students’ finalprojects and presentations.Faculty have learned that developing relationships with a network of providers is critical to boththe success and efficiency for travel with a short time on the ground, a desire to take localtransportation, stay in small hotels, and eat local food. Small hoteliers also tend to recommendgood restaurants in the neighborhood. During planning of the most recent trip, one hotelier founda second hotel a block away to accommodate a

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2017 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Nicolas Ali Libre; Jeff Jennings; Amy Skyles

could be attributed to the implementation of the strategy itself.Student’s engagement in the class activities not only resulted in a better performance in the finalexam, but also reflected in other assessment areas like homework assignments and midtermexams. Figure 2 demonstrates the course grade distribution for the investigated research period.Assessment areas of the course grade include homework, quizzes, and four midterm exams, asmentioned before. The implementation of the active learning technique has shifted the histogramgraph to the right side confirming that the proposed technique not only improved theperformance of students in the final exam but also in the other assessments areas. Spring 2016

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2017 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Ashlee N. Ford Versypt

andpharmaceutics and using computing and reflection in the classroom. She teaches chemicalreaction engineering, process controls, and an elective course on applied numerical computingfor scientists and engineers.

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2017 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Rajeev Nair; Yimesker Yihun; Muhammad Rahman

) outlineexplicit, significant, and assessable goals; 3) make creative ideas to solve the problem; (c)perform a patent/external search to corroborate the innovative nature of their ideas, (d) use adesign matrix with evaluation criteria based on the goals/expected functionality, and, (e) performan in-depth engineering analysis. The inclusion of a rigorous writing and presentation experiencewith critical feedback engaged students in a continuous reflection on the elements of thecomplete design process throughout the entire semester. All the student groups worked on thevarious facets of their respective projects with project topics aligning with the learning contentfor that particular period. These projects were designed to solve critical problems in the

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2017 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Virginia Charter P.E.

scores. The question then becomes how high do students need to score ontheir self-assessment of the learning outcomes to satisfy those employers reporting the skillsgap? How well does a student’s self-assessment correlate with that of the faculty assessment ofthe student?Conclusions Given that many engineering technology programs are accredited through ABET, thegeneral criteria 3, items a-k are all applicable to these programs. This study provides a look intothe student’s perspective of their personal achievement of the ABET Criteria 3 a-k. This could beuseful in the students’ own reflection of their learning as they prepare to enter the workforceupon graduation. This data and student perspective will give engineering technology