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2009 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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E. Carl Greco; Jim D. Reasoner

and their active participation level, itwas held that the practicum test grade reflected the laboratory skills and knowledge acquired bythe student. From the data presented, the performance of a student on the lab practicum wasdependent on his or her degree of active participation in the laboratory exercise. As a result ofthese preliminary findings, the basic circuits laboratory organization was changed from teamscomposed of multiple students (dual student participation) to individual-student lab participation(solo student participation). There were no corresponding changes implemented in the pre-labportion of the lab assignments.A follow-up study was initiated to evaluate the effectiveness of the change in the laboratorystudent organization

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2009 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Bruce Dvorak; Dennis Schulte; Mary Garbacz; Shari Aldrich; David Admiraal; Julia Soulakova

this study: • A writing attitude survey to assess engineering students’ perspectives, reflections, and opinions about writing skills; • A basic writing skills test based on a similar test created by the UNL College of Journalism and Mass Communications to determine students’ ability to recognize correct grammar, sentence structure and punctuation, • A writing sample assessment rubric and methodology to systematically assess engineering students’ writing samples; • A technical oral presentation assessment rubric, with both individual and group components, to assess senior-level capstone oral presentations.The writing assessment tools were applied to freshmen, juniors, and seniors in the twodepartments. The oral presentation

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Greg Stephens

method companies can use to embrace or reject acorporate culture. This can also apply to educational settings and the classroom. Teachers canshare informal stories that accurately reflect, encourage, and reinforce the values, environment,and behaviors they wish to foster, or the reverse can also happen and they can share stories ofdiversity failure to generate learning.To change culture, stories should focus on the desired culture. Stories can be collected andpublished, or told orally. Eventually individuals will begin to realize that this really is a priorityfor the organization.13The K-State at Salina Tilford Diversity Storytelling ProjectIn 2006, a team of six faculty at K-State at Salina applied and received a Tilford Diversity grantto

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2009 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Dennis Audo; Seth O'Brien

and blue. All the building members of the house are painted with one of fourcolors to reflect which team installs which piece of the house. The boss then reminds each groupabout how to handle the preframed walls in a safe and orderly manner, telling them never to walkbackward when carrying wall sections. The individual groups lift and secure the walls into placeone at a time until the entire outside wall frame is constructed. The walls are then screwedtogether at each corner with the importance of securing the walls together being explained to thestudents. Proceedings of the 2009 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education

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2009 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Ray A. Luechtefeld; Steve E. Watkins

, faculty may fail to reflect on their ownapproaches to teaching and building supportive relationships with students that fosterdeeper learning 8 (p. 40).Potential long-term erosion of intrinsic motivation by extrinsic motivators is supported bya meta-analysis that 8 (p. 29) indicates that these effects are persistent. This effectsuggests that a “recovery period” may be necessary for individuals to regain their senseof autonomy after experiencing controlling incidents.A Mathematical Model of Motivation and PerformanceThe desired characteristics of future engineers - passionate, driven by curiosity, able toinnovate and adapt, and eager for lifelong learning – describe individuals who areintrinsically motivated. The passive, dependent learners that

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Kaylea Dunn

workplace.Table 1 represents the mean response of each engineering department employers across all 26items that were rated in question 17 of the survey.Table 1: Mean Score and Standard Deviation Question 17Question 17: Reflecting on the future of your organization, what do you think on a scale of 1-5(1=very low importance; 5=very high importance) will be the most important skills and attributesneeded by the engineering graduates your organization will expect to be recruiting? Major Number Mean Standard DeviationElectrical 19 4.43 0.38Mechanical 27 4.21

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Nicholas C. Vanderslice; Thomas R. Marrero

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