Conference Session

Certifying Teachers in Engineering or Integrated STEM

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yvonne Ng, St. Catherine University; Lori R. Maxfield, Saint Catherine University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Conference Session

WIED Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Natalie Fabert, Arizona State University; Marilyn Cabay, Ph.D., Argosy University, Phoenix; Melissa B Rivers, Arizona State University; Mary Lee Smith, Arizona State University; Bianca L. Bernstein, Arizona State University

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Women in Engineering

Page 22.660.2of their dropping out or dropping down is vital for planning ways of promoting retention andsuccessful degree completion.The background characteristics of students (such as grades and grade point average) have notproven to be helpful in predicting student persistence in graduate school.10 Claims that womendo not persist in STEM because of innate or inferior abilities are unfounded. [6, 11 for review]Researchers have turned attention to the role of the department and academic environment in thehigh attrition rates of doctoral students.[e.g. 12, 13]Isolation in graduate schoolThe limited literature on the graduate student experience depicts an academic and social climatethat is at best contradictory to female socialization, and at

Conference Session

Ethics in different disciplines

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marilyn A. Dyrud, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Engineering Ethics

level; whenfull of water for the hot summers, their weight doubled. To accommodate the extra weight, 10-inch concrete floor slabs were added. When area residents complained about excessive noisefrom the units, Lee simply had them pushed to the opposite side of the roof, causing large cracksthat indicated a degree of structural damage.36, 38 Altogether, these alterations to the fifth floorresulted in the building’s dead load being 35% more than the designed load.37, 39The loading problem was exacerbated by other building elements, as revealed by post-disasterinvestigations: the concrete for the flat-slab construction, while weak, was not substandard, but itwas missing about half of the rebar required by building codes; columns ed in design plans

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Potpourri I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Raghavi Merugureddy, Purdue University ; Amani Salim, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica E. Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Educational Research and Methods

professional experience2,3. The level of comfort and skill with which instructorscan engage in teaching through open-ended problems will greatly affect the potential for studentlearning4-6.Due to large course enrollments, finances, and retention concerns, first-year programs often useundergraduate teaching assistants (UGTAs) (also known as peer teachers or peer learningassistants) to support classroom instruction, where their duties include providing classroom aid,functioning as liaison between students and faculty, preparing lesson plans, grading andtutoring7,8. Undergraduates have served as TAs at undergraduate institutions, where there is nograduate student pool to draw from, and in large entry-level courses9,10. At these undergraduateinstitutions

Conference Session

Making Students Aware of Their World: Five Perspectives

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cherrice Traver, Union College; Douglass Klein, Union College; Borjana Mikic, Smith College; Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Steven B. Shooter, Bucknell University; Ari W. Epstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; David Gillette, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

with real-world impact in partnership with local community organizations. Union College (Hal Fried, Ron Bucinell): Engineering and liberal arts student form design teams based on engineering senior projects. Teams explore the potential for commercialization and social entrepreneurship, and participate in business plan competitions.18The integrated approach to capstone and extracurricular projects requires students to understanddifferent perspectives and apply them to solve complex problems. Students should alsodemonstrate interpersonal, leadership, and cross-disciplinary communication skills when theyinteract on diverse teams. Projects that focus on entrepreneurship require that studentsunderstand what it means to be an entrepreneur and

Conference Session

Topics Related to Telecommunications

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steve Hsiung, Old Dominion University; Walter F. Deal III, Old Dominion University; Lacides Agustin Osorio, Norfolk Ship Support Activity; Mathew Henderson, Tidewater Community College

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Engineering Technology

Graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School in 1983, enlisted in the United States Navy, and in 1984 reported to basic training in San Diego, California. I had plans of completing my four-year enlistment and separating from the navy, but things did not work out that way, and I retired from the United States Navy in 2009 after more than twenty-five years of active service, and achieving the rank of Senior Chief Petty Officer. Throughout my naval career I continued taking college courses with hopes of, one day, graduating with a bachelor’s degree. On my last tour of active duty, I was assigned to Mid Atlantic Regional Center, which was a shore duty for me, and I was able to complete my educational requirements for my

Conference Session

Design Communications & Cognition I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dirk Schaefer, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jitesh Panchal, Washington State University; Sammy Haroon, The RBR Group; Farrokh Mistree, University of Oklahoma

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Design in Engineering Education

degree to which you attained the identified competencies and learning objectives. 15. Analyze what you have written in Steps 10 through 14. Then, critically evaluate your performance (in terms of competencies and learning objectives) throughout the semester; be sure to use action words from Bloom’s taxonomy. Comment on the level of attainment in Step 14, what you would do differently if you had to do it over, and plans for the future.Grade for A0 End of Semester 16. Reflect on your performance in this class throughout the semester. In tabular form, please suggest a grade for yourself in the following categories and justify2: a. Contribution to the collective Question for the Semester. Justify

Conference Session

Understanding Students and Faculty

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Linda Vanasupa, California Polytechnic State University; Qiong Zhang, University of South Florida; James R. Mihelcic, University of South Florida; Julie Zimmerman, Yale University; Nina J. Truch, California Polytechnic State University

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Educational Research and Methods

Conference Session

Use of Technology in Civil Engineering Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Taylor Halverson, Brigham Young University; Rollin H. Hotchkiss, Brigham Young University

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Civil Engineering

information was to accomplish thefollowing things. First, we wanted to verify that the project-based learning, at least from astudent perception perspective, met the purposes for why we implemented it in the first place.Can team-based, project-based learning assignments that require learners to plan and design howto teach others the course concepts increase subject matter mastery, interest in the subject, andthe ability to see applications of the content in the everyday world? The survey data helped us toanswer these questions. Momentarily, we’ll share that data as evidence that according to thestudents the project assignment had the intended effect.Second, from an instructional design standpoint for the course, we wanted to learn what workedfor

Conference Session

Professional Identity

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Tech; Brock E. Barry, U.S. Military Academy; Kerry Meyers, University of Notre Dame; Rachel Louis, Virginia Tech

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Educational Research and Methods

Conference Session

Expanding the Borders of Engineering Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sandra Ingram, University of Manitoba; Anita H. Ens, University of Manitoba; Marcia R. Friesen, University of Manitoba

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

which long, informalconversations about issues not directly related to work would be considered appropriate, andwhere the initiative in the conversation would rest with the senior individual. His narrativeillustrates that in a short period of time, he had made the shift to planning for a focussed,efficient meeting in which he showed appropriate initiative in the North American low powerdistance, low context environment.Similarly, participants reported the PPEM course offered a head start on the networking process.A single class was devoted to the topic, and guest speakers including professors and othersexternal to the university came in and allowed IEEQ students to interact and exchangeinformation. Subsequently, a provincial engineering

Conference Session

Capstone Design I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter L Schmidt, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Daniel Hoch, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Nabila A. Bousaba, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; William F. Heybruck, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Deborah L Sharer, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Valentina Cecchi, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Gary Teng, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Elizabeth Sharer, Francis Marion University

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Design in Engineering Education

large. These projects provide students with the experience ofworking with established engineers. They also provide a marketing opportunity for the Collegeof Engineering (COE), as well as the capstone design program. In the last four years, coursepopulation has increased from 60 to 265. The solution described herein for the studentassignment problem allows projects to be staffed with students using a weighted coefficient foreach student/project combination. This course begins with an event where projectrepresentatives are present to answer student queries regarding project specifics andexpectations. The course timetable is such that project assignments need to be made quickly, sothat an initial planning meeting with student teams, faculty

Conference Session

K-12 Students and Teachers

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tirupalavanam G. Ganesh, Arizona State University

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Educational Research and Methods

Conference Session

Globalizing Engineering Education II: Best Practices

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregg M. Warnick, Brigham Young University

Tagged Topics

ASEE Global Programs

Mastery and the Stanford Advanced Project Management course Managing Without Authority for numer- ous fortune 500 companies throughout the world. He is a Certified Manufacturing Technologist (Society of Manufacturing Engineers) and is also certified in Planning and Managing Projects (BD University); Ethical Fitness (BD University); Lean Manufacturing (BD University); High Impact Facilitation (Lore International Institute); and Project Management (Saddle Island Institute). Page 22.748.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 GLOBAL COMPETENCE: ITS IMPORTANCE FOR

Conference Session

New Research & Trends for Minorities in Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maria M. Larrondo-Petrie, Florida Atlantic University; Ivan E. Esparragoza, Pennsylvania State University, Media

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Minorities in Engineering

Conference Session

Myths About Gender and Race

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jordana Hoegh, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Minorities in Engineering, Women in Engineering