Conference Session

Graduate Student Experience

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janet Y Tsai, University of Colorado at Boulder; Daria A Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado Boulder; Beverly Louie, University of Colorado, Boulder; Virginia Lea Ferguson, Mechanical Engineering; University of Colorado; Boulder, CO; Alyssa Nicole Berg, University of Colorado Boulder

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Graduate Studies, Student

Paper ID #6667Am I a Boss or a Coach? Graduate Students Mentoring Undergraduates inResearchMs. Janet Y Tsai, University of Colorado at Boulder Janet Y. Tsai is a doctoral student at the University of Colorado, Boulder, whose work examines and develops initiatives to encourage more students, especially women, into the eld of engineering. Currently, Tsai’s research focuses on understanding the dynamics of how status and prestige are constructed among novice engineers.Dr. Daria A Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado Boulder Dr. Daria Kotys-Schwartz is the Design Center Colorado Co-Director and an Instructor in the

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael L.W. Jones, PhD Candidate Faculty of Information, University of Toronto

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Student

facilitators of a student-led learning process [12]. Engineering educators have adapted similar PBL approaches such as capstone designprojects and engineering student design teams to complement the more traditional, basic-sciencebased engineering curriculum. Project-based learning (noted as PBL*) team opportunities arequalitatively different than traditional PBL efforts in one demonstrable way. Engineering projectteams tend to engage more complex design challenges over a longer period of time compared toin class PBL investigations commonly used in medicine[2]. This qualitative difference createstwo organizational challenges unique to engineering project-based learning teams. Student PBL* teams must sustain team motivation throughout a

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ruth E. H. Wertz, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Student

pedagogicaltheories into practice through the development of a new online engineering course. As a second-semester student in an engineering education doctoral program I was given the opportunity todevelop a new graduate-level course for an online Master of Civil Engineering (MCE) program.Concurrently, I was enrolled in an Engineering Education course, Content, Assessment, andPedagogy: An Integrated Engineering Design Approach (CAP) and a Curriculum and Instructioncourse, Advanced Issues in Distance Education (AIDE). This combination of coursework andemployment provided an ideal opportunity to immediately apply course concepts to a real-worldproblem.The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the process of translating theoretical course concepts toa new