Conference Session

SPECIAL SESSION: Educational Methods and Tools to Encourage Conceptual Learning I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dan Cernusca, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Daniel Forciniti, Missouri University of Science & Technology

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering, Educational Research and Methods

; 3) coaching through deliberate and planned feedback to guide students performance as they move from novice to expert level, and 4) fading of support, by removing the existing scaffolds as students become more competent;This redesign activity focused on both classroom activities and the development of supportingmaterials that students could use outside the classroom. The process started with identifyingclassroom activities that match various stages of the cognitive apprenticeship and, when neededredesign them to better address the goals of each stage. Page 22.891.3For some of these activities, we developed supporting materials

Conference Session

Teaching Statics

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey L. Newcomer, Western Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

-librium equations. For continuity, these two sections were given the same problems, but the ex-ams were carefully controlled, so students in the second class did not have access to exams fromthe first class.Linear regressions were conducted to see if any of the factors had statistically significant correla-tions with the grades on the final exam in the three areas. The plan was to use the model shownbelow: Page 22.974.4 y = μ + β1x1 + β2x2 + β3x3 + β4x4 + β5x5 + β6x6 + β7x7 + β8x8 + β9x9 + εwhere the terms are: μ is the grand mean βi are the regression coefficients x1 is the student GPA (normalized 0 to 1) x2 is WWU physics (0) or CC

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John J. Duffy, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Linda Barrington, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Manuel A Heredia, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

engineering skillsc. My interest in learning the subject matter of the courses.d. My commitment to being involved in community issues as an engineer.e. My ability to address complex, open-ended problems (typical of community projects)f. My ability to write and speak credibly as an engineer.g. My understanding of the value of teamwork in addressing community issues.h. My ability to plan and carry out a project for the community.i. My school pride.j. The likelihood that I would drop out of engineering.k. My view of the engineering profession in a positive way.21. Did your service-learning project(s) lead you to further action (for example,volunteering) with the community agency or organization your worked with, or thetopic/issue you worked on

Conference Session

Student Learning and Teamwork

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William J. Sawaya, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

trouble with gold stars, incentive plans, A's, praise, and other bribes. (Houghton Mifflin Co, New York, 1999).AppendixQuiz Sample I.Quiz #3, Tuesday, September 7, 2010 Score ____________Name_________________________________________________ Page 22.988.6 1. Why might different definitions of quality be problematic for an organization that is seeking to improve? 2. Among the various definitions of quality discussed thus far, what common threads are there among the various definitions? 3. Explain the tradeoff between the cost of quality failures and the cost of improving quality as described in class? What is the

Conference Session

Information Literacy: Theory and Practice

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jay J. Bhatt, Drexel University; Larry Milliken, Drexel University; Lloyd Ackert, Drexel University; Eleanor J. Goldberg, Drexel University Library

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

members teaching the course, involves a combination ofactivities, some already in place and some that may be implemented in future terms. In mostsections of the course, each student is required to write a paper on a project exploring the historyof a particular technology. A unique approach to integrate group learning among students isenvisioned even though students are not required to work in a group setting. Other sections of thecourse have an assignment involving group work, and a different mix of library learningactivities may be chosen for those sections. Below are brief descriptions of the planned activities.Current activitiesDirect instruction by librariansDuring each quarter when the course is taught, the humanities and social sciences

Conference Session

Experiential Learning in ECE

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth V Noren, University of Idaho, Moscow

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

or strongly agreed that the laboratory assignmentsadded value to the class and be kept as part of the class. Development of formal assessmenttools are planned for future courses.Present and Future workThere are several activities being conducted in the Spring Semester of 2011 to determine if andwhere the board will be useful in the EE curriculum at the University of Idaho. The board isbeing used in a junior level electronics class. Experiments utilizing the board are beingdeveloped for a introductory freshman level electrical engineering course. It is also being usedfor a senior design project for an engineering outreach student.Table I. Data from a classroom assessment.1 A total of 14 students participated in the survey

Conference Session

Innovations in Computing Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tao Xing, Tuskegee University; Legand L. Burge Jr., Tuskegee University; Heshmat A. Aglan, Tuskegee University

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

Blackboard Inc. helped the instructor to set upusernames and passwords for all students and resolved some technical problems on downloadingand running BML on different platforms since students’ personal mobile devices differsignificantly from each other. Before the instructor gave each lecture, he informed students onany updates on the BML and help students to resolve any problems they may have. Studentswent through the BML materials with the instructor together in class briefly. Students can accessthe electronic lecture notes, announcements, syllabus, and assignments with due dates. Due tothe difficulties of setting up the mobile technology environment, other functions in the BMLwere not used but planned for the Spring semester of 2011.Evaluation

Conference Session

Design Education I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dhananjay Kumar, North Carolina A&T State University; Devdas M. Pai, North Carolina A&T State University; Mainul Kader Faruque, North Carolina A&T State University; Kwadwo Mensah-Darkwa, North Carolina A&T State University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

been investigated include the pulsed laser deposition process and themagnetron beam sputtering process. University students as well as community participants havedirectly been involved in the fabrication of thin-film composites, multilayered structures andnanowires. Materials under investigation include magnetic nanoparticles, Ni-TiN-Nimultilayered structures, and TiN nanowires. The participants also gained experience withadvanced structural and property characterization techniques including X-Ray diffraction, fieldEmission Scanning Electron Microscopy and Physical Properties Measurement Systems.Graduate students and post-doctoral scholars have traditionally been trained and mentored by theauthors, but careful planning and grant-writing has

Conference Session

Developing International Engineering Research, Course Enhancement, Leadership of, and Online Engineering Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ali Mehrabian, Daytona State College; Walter W. Buchanan, Texas A&M University; Alireza Rahrooh, Daytona State College

Tagged Divisions

International

additional integrated applications. Since thesystem is using LogiCreate, many applications may be added to meet stakeholders’ needs while stillproviding a single sign-on environment (http://logicampus.sourceforge.net/). This would reduceredundancy and add flexibility to the system, while maintaining the ease of access to multipleapplications.3. Dokeos: Dokeos is the Open Source alternative for Enterprise Learning Management, Administrationand Education around the world. An DL and CMS web application, Dokeos development is aninternational, collaborative effort. It focuses on user friendliness, simplicity, and consistency. Dokeoshas many tools and is light and flexible. The 2.0 release (planned January 2011) will make us morestandard-compliant (W3C

Conference Session

Descriptions of Curricular and Model Development

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David E. Culler, Oregon Institute of Technology; Marcella K. Minster, Oregon Institue of Technology (Student); Irina Demesko-Prosnik, Oregon Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

. Culler, D.E., The Turning Assistant: Automated Planning for Numerical Control Lathe Operations, Ph.D. Dissertation, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, December, 1994.2. D. T. Ross: Structured Analysis (SA): A Language for Communicating Ideas. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, SE-3(1), pp. 16-34.3. Engineering Workforce Commission, Engineering & Technology Enrollments: Fall 2007 (Washington, DC, 2008). Viewed at http://ewc-online.org/data/enrollments_data.asp, on Jan. 12, 2011.4. Feldmann, Clarence G., The Practical Guide to Business Process Reengineering Using IDEF0, Dorset House Publishing, New York, 1998.5. Knowledge Based Systems, Inc., http://www.idef.com/, accessed on Feb. 15, 2011.6

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Thinking Outside the Box! Innovative Curriculum Exchange for K12 Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael K. Swanbom, Louisiana Tech University; David E. Hall, Louisiana Tech University; Heath Tims, Louisiana Tech University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Page 22.1117.11The teacher of the class also completed a survey that indicated she had positive feelingsregarding the module. She commented, “I love that students determined acceleration due togravity instead of just giving them another number to memorize – great way to derive the value!”Planned changes to the module include providing more guidance / training for the teachers in theuse of digital cameras to collect video.ConclusionsMost low cost, digital cameras on the market today allow for the collection of video and havesufficient capability to capture accurate position versus time data. Coupling these widelyavailable and easy-to-use cameras with free video editing software provides a method of dataacquisition that has a very low entry

Conference Session

Engineering Design in Pedagogy

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca N. Macdonald, University of Alabama; Beth Todd, University of Alabama

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education, K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

career choices.2 Theintegration of mathematics, science, and engineering is central to high school reform efforts thatstrive to prepare students for both college and career opportunities in engineering.17 This processcan be immediately applied following a science experiment without need to acquire lesson plans,expensive equipment or supporting materials. This paper discusses the development andimplementation of a scientific and engineering classroom activity and assesses the effectivenessof the activity by presenting response data collected from the participants.MethodologyIn this study engineering design is used in two high school science courses as a problem solvingtool that parallels the scientific method. A standard chemistry/physical

Conference Session

Assessment and Evaluation of K-12 Engineering Programs

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tao Hong, Purdue University; Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica E. Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy, K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

understanding of the 0.56 technical world16. My motivation for teaching science is to educate scientists, engineers and 0.56 technologists for industry17. In a science curriculum, it is important to include planning of a project 0.4718. How important should pre-service education be for teaching DET? 0.3819. DET has positive consequences for society 0.50Factor 2: Familiarity with DET20. How familiar are you with DET? 0.6621. Have you had any specific DET courses outside of your pre-service curriculum? 0.4822. How confident do you

Conference Session

Automation Subjects in Manufacturing Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Javad Shakib, DeVry University, Pomona; Mohammad Rafiq Muqri, DeVry University, Pomona

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

. Additionally, in a relatively dense network scenario, the maximum aggregatethroughput of 3 times 7.11/30.8 Mbps is likely to be seriously impaired. To aid the WLANperformance on a factory floor, it is thus advisable to take the following two measures: applymeans to combat the increased delay spread (in case of IEEE 802.11b) and (for all IEEE 802.11systems) carefully plan the frequency layout and access point placement.The newly emerging ZigBee technology has been designed specifically for sensor data andcontrol information at low data rates. ZigBee supports long battery lives. Nothing can be said yetabout the robustness and effectiveness of ZigBee. Yet for low-bit-rate applications in industrialenvironments, ZigBee seems to be a promising approach

Conference Session

Manufacturing Process Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Merwan B. Mehta, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

to use the floor spaceoccupied by the cost center if the common cost to be allocated is utilities, which is fairlyproportionate to the floor space occupied by the equipment.To do this, we look at the layout of the shop which is shown in Figure 6. Figure 7 shows how thetotal utility costs are allocated to each cost center or equipment based on the area occupied. Thetotal cost of maintaining the equipment is the total of the allocated utility cost plus the mortgagecost for each piece cost center as shown in Figure 8. To correctly allocate the total costs based onthe hours for which the facility is planned, we need to have come up with an estimate on the Taktrequirement for each cost center or piece of equipment, which is shown in Figure 9.Next

Conference Session

Students' Abilities and Attitudes

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kendrick T. Aung, Lamar University

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

GUI Interface of Vibrating String Demonstration from Wolfram Research These kinds of programs provide many benefits: improve the learning process of Page 22.1371.9students, facilitate the students in completing homework assignments and projects, enableinstructors to provide better learning environments, improve course delivery throughmore emphasis on modeling and interpretation of engineering problems, demonstrate keyprinciples and solutions interactively and visually, and many others. The author has alsostarted implementing these interactive tools and programs in the course delivery. Thefuture plan for the course include increasing usage of

Conference Session

Capstone Courses and Design Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bobby G. Crawford, U.S. Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

and fuel. It did requiresignificant planning and preparation on the part of the faculty advisors. It also required severaldedicated lessons out of the beginning of the capstone design. While the cost in time wassignificant, both the faculty advisors and the students agreed that it allowed the design team toachieve greater efficiencies of learning and produce a much better final product.The structured learning experience at the beginning was initially viewed by the students asencroaching on their design time. Once they became involved with working on the hardware,they quickly realized how valuable the experience was. The lab experience relieved some of theanxiety and later frustration that had been experienced in the past.This year, the

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

K. Hodge, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

students ask for additional information about assignments developedin the fashion explored in this paper. Many have visited the systems and are able toadd person experiences. Overall, the technique discussed in this paper is a usefulapproach and a good addition to an engineering educator’s tool kit.References1. http://www.enwave.com/downloads.html  2. http://www.enwave.com/district_cooling_system.html 3. http://maps.canurb.com/cases/toronto.pdf 4. http://www.toronto.ca/environment/initiatives/cooling.htm 5. http://www.canadianconsultingengineer.com 6. http://www.mytorontomeeting.com/Visitor/Plan-Your-Trip/A-Green-City.aspx 7. http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0830/p13s01-stgn.htm 8. http://www.toronto.ca/environment/initiatives/cooling.htm 9. http

Conference Session

Student Learning and Assessment II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anca L. Sala, Baker College; Raghu Echempati, Kettering University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

performance.- the large time gap between the two courses for a few of the students. It is known that in generalthe retention of course material by students is not great, so after a couple of years even if astudent did very well in a course, he/she might have difficulty applying the previously acquiredknowledge to a present course.To increase the reliability of the data interpretation we plan to continue collecting this data in thefuture. Having larger populations of students included in the study will allow for a better controlof the variables.The motivation of this study is to determine one approach that can contribute to increasedstudent learning in the upper level courses of “Vibrations” and “Dynamics Systems andControl”. Student grades are a

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching: Mechanics

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffery S. Thomas, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Richard H. Hall, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Timothy A. Philpot, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Douglas R. Carroll, Missouri University of Science & Technology

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

instructor’soffice. This office is adjacent to the laboratory, and the system was designed so that the camerascan be quickly repositioned for an experiment, while still being controlled and monitored fromthe office, and then moved back into the office. A combination of electrical, audio-visual, andmusical-instrument hardware was used to suspend the cameras, lights, and monitors. Certaincomponents from Pearl Drums and Gibraltar Hardware were found to be cheaper than similaraudio-visual hardware, still allowed for rigid but flexible positioning, and fit commonly availableEMT tubing and strut channel. The authors plan to use this setup for future recordings, and otherstudios on the campus are being modeled after it

Conference Session

Attracting Young Minds: Part II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey H. Rosen, Georgia Institute of Technology, CEISMC; Anna Newsome, Georgia Institute of Technology, CEISMC; Marion Usselman, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

the previous year and plans to dedicate more than six hours per week to FLL.Power Ratings by Type of Team and Percent Minority Page 22.1195.5Figure 3 shows the average power ratings of different types of teams in 2010. Not surprisingly,youth organization-based teams had the lowest power ratings, and independent teams had thehighest. Teams with the highest percent minority representation had the lowest power rating(Figure 4). These data held true for 2009 teams as well.Use of Power Rating to Assign Teams to Qualifying CompetitionsThe basic reason to assign power ratings was to give

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Technical Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa R. Lattuca, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Lois Calian Trautvetter, Northwestern University; Sarah L. Codd, Montana State University; David B. Knight, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Carla M. Cortes, Northwestern University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

. Page 22.1711.14A respect for disciplines outside engineering and interdisciplinary connections is furtherencouraged by the requirement that all HMC students plan a coherent program of study ingeneral education with the assistance of a humanities and social science advisor. The goal of thisrequirement, according to HMC’s 2003 Self Study, is to help students develop “breadth in aseries of courses from different [humanities and social sciences] disciplines and depth in aconcentration of courses in a single discipline [outside their field of study]” (p. 11).Cumulatively, the humanities and social sciences requirements comprise about one-third of aHMC student’s course work.At MIT, like Harvey Mudd, the college-wide general education curriculum also

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Technical Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Dettman P.E., Western Kentucky University; Walter L. Collett, Western Kentucky University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

planning must be used to find the best places for these types of opportunities to beintroduced into the curriculum to enhance the educational experience of the student withoutjeopardizing any of the existing university constraints.Efforts are being made to find commonalities in certain courses across all 3 programs to expandopportunities for cross disciplinary activities. For example, all 3 programs have a 2 credit hourcourse titled Freshman Experience. In this course, they are introduced to the engineeringprofession, taught study skills, computer skills, and engage in various project based activities tospark their creative engineering minds. Up until the Fall 2010 semester, each of the 3 programshad their own Freshman Experience course so all of

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Technical Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stacy Gleixner, San Jose State University; Patricia Ryaby Backer, San Jose State University; Elena Klaw, Ph.D., San Jose State University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

Center assists faculty in aligning the service projectwith the learning objectives of the class; maximizing learning opportunities; including residentinput in the planning, implemention and evaluation of the project; developing outcome measures;and documenting, analyzing and interpreting outcome data.Renewable Energy Engineering Class Service Learning Project DetailsThe students go through several milestones throughout the semester for the Renewable Energyservice learning project. First, the students are assigned to a renewable energy technology (suchas solar cells or wind power). Students are surveyed on their preferences and teams are assignedthat balance the student’s choice while also diversifying student majors and level(undergraduate

Conference Session

Assessing Students and Programs

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John K. Estell, Ohio Northern University; Nathaniel Bird, Ohio Northern University; Firas Hassan, Ohio Northern University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

student suggestions were addressable andwhich were not. University teaching involves a lot of time spent planning for classes alone. Thementoring helped to break me out of this vacuum and solicit and receive constructive feedbackfrom a seasoned professional based on actual student concerns. As someone new to theprofession this was appreciated, especially as not everything can or should be changed based onwhat students write on the cards.When presenting the index card procedure to my classes, I solicit feedback specifically on whathelps and what hinders their learning, and not just what they do or do not like. I have found thatsome mechanisms that I use in my course are not liked per se, but are acknowledged to help

Conference Session

Special Session Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the MATE International ROV Competition

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas R. Consi, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Tagged Divisions

Ocean and Marine

management is, therefore of paramount importance tomembers of a college-level ROV team. Time management is also, unfortunately, a struggle formost college students (hence the popularity of “all nighters”) so learning and practicing good Page 22.1480.4time management is one of the great benefits of ROV team participation. The first challenge isfor the students to realistically plan their work on the vehicle, this is most difficult for new teamswhere few may have hands-on building experience let alone experience with ROVs. The advisorcan help at this stage by encouraging the students to be realistic about the time they can devote tothe project

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Physics or Engineering Physics II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Baha Jassemnejad, University of Central Oklahoma; Wei Siang Pee, University of Central Oklahoma; Kevin Rada; Montell Jermaine Wright, University of Central Oklahoma, Robotics Research; Kaitlin Rose Foran, University of Central Oklahoma; Evan C. Lemley, University of Central Oklahoma

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

severalthe benefits of hands-on activities in promoting subprojects and areas as illustrated by thelearning in science courses relative to the traditional organizational chart in Figure 1.lecture-only approach at the elementary, middle andhigh school level [1][2][3][4]. Studies at theuniversity level have also suggested improvedlearning outcomes in engineering courses whenhands-on activities are a part of the lesson plan[5][6]. Moreover, these outcomes are in agreementwith what current theories of learning would predict[7]. Project-based learning involving hands-onactivities has been introduced into engineeringcourses to improve student motivation andengagement. A challenge has been to identifyprojects at the freshman level

Conference Session

WIED Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lorelle A. Meadows, University of Michigan; Denise Sekaquaptewa, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

, while male students were more often presenting moretechnical material. This observation led to the development of a research plan to assess whetherthis gender difference did indeed exist in student presentation groups, and what implications thismay have on active participation.Research MethodologyThere were two primary components to this research investigation. The first involved asystematic investigation of the roles adopted by students as a function of students’ gender andthe gender composition of their presentation group in the videotaped presentations. A codingscheme was developed for analysis of the archived videotapes of the group project presentations.Two independent judges were trained on the coding scheme and each judge evaluated each

Conference Session

WIED Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Silvia Carreno-Castillo, Universidad de las Américas, Puebla; Aurelio Lopez-Malo, Universidad de las Américas, Puebla; Enrique Palou, Universidad de las Américas, Puebla

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

“attribution of selected characteristics to an institution(i.e., to its practitioners, methods, stock of knowledge, values, and work organization) forpurposes of constructing a social boundary that distinguishes some intellectual activities asoutside that boundary.Faculty members expressed a clear idea about the types of intellectual and collaborative “work”done within their own department in order to contribute to the goals or expansion of their“disciplinary space”. A full professor described the strategic planning that his department hadengaged, and used in a first year class that works at the same time theory, modeling andlaboratory experiences by means of specific design projects: “At the beginning it was difficult to believe that students

Conference Session

Recruitment & Retention of Women I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew J Miller, University of Maryland; Robert Lent, University of Maryland, College Park; Paige E Smith, University of Maryland, College Park; Bevlee A. Watford, Virginia Tech; Gregory M. Wilkins, Morgan State University; Matthew M. Jezzi, University of Maryland; Kayi Hui, University of Maryland, College Park; Robert H Lim, University of Maryland, College Park; Nicole A Bryan, University of Maryland, College Park; Helena Mimi Martin, University of Maryland, College Park

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

underutilized as a wellspringfor STEM workforce development planning. Page 22.1209.2 While it is useful to test SCCT using nomothetic, quantitative methods, it is valuable tocomplement such research with idiographic, qualitative methods capable of elaborating specificself and environmental percepts that could inform educational interventions. For example, priorwork on SCCT has established that social supports and barriers generally have been linked topersistence in engineering majors (largely indirectly, through their relation to self-efficacy), butthe mostly nomothetic research on this issue has focused on global aspects of supports andbarriers