Conference Session

Real and Virtual - "New" Approaches to Teaching "Old" Courses

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard L. Zollars, Washington State University; Christopher Hundhausen, Washington State University; Adam Scott Carter, Washington State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

conduct their material/energy balance class on different schedules with differentapproaches. Should significant differences in the results appear between programs theresults can be analyzed on a program by program basis rather than being pooled.Current StatusRepresentatives from the eight schools involved in this study have now attended twoworkshops, each held just prior to the annual ASEE meetings. The first of these, held onJune 25 – 26, 2011 served to introduce the participants to ChemProV, the IRBrequirements for the study, and the intended plans for the study. The second workshop,held on June 9 – 10, 2012, was used to introduce the participants to the SBL approach,work on assessement activities, and receive feedback about the prior year

Conference Session

Practical Teaching

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sangarappillai Sivaloganathan, United Arab Emirates University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

operating table. United ArabEmirates is developing fast and is planning to invest heavily in healthcare by building morenew hospitals. The motivation for this project came from the desire to build supportingtechnical capability. Following the identification by Frank [4] the first task carried out by thestudents was to visit a local hospital, learn the operating table in use and conduct a designinterpretation. This provided the level of knowledge required to embark on the design task.Though identifying clinical, health care staff, legal and the company requirements arefundamental in the planning stage this work was restricted to obtaining the requirements ofthe healthcare staff due to time constraints. The students followed a design process

Conference Session

...by Design

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy Wilson-Lopez, Utah State University - Teacher Education and Leadership; Emma R. Smith, Utah State University; Daniel L Householder, Utah State University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Conference Session

Best of DEED

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristina Elizabeth Krause, The Center for Engineering Learning and Teaching - University of Washington; Cynthia J. Atman, University of Washington; Jim L. Borgford-Parnell, University of Washington; Ken Yasuhara, Center for Engineering Learning & Teaching (CELT), University of Washington

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Design in Engineering Education

parking area where they’ll be coming from. So, it’ll be – they don’t have to drive all the Page 23.380.10 way around, go across parking lots or an entrance to a driveway/exit to get over to the gate.PeopleEric spent the least amount of time, of all the participants, thinking about people and their use ofthe playground. This seems to be the result of a rigid plan of action in his mind, which focusedon implementation of specific equipment and playground elements and stressed finishing thetask, rather than relating the context of playground space to the community that would use it.KnowledgeEric made six assumptions with the idea that

Conference Session

Issues in Engineering Technology Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher R Conty, Editor On Behalf of You

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Engineering Technology

responsibilities (only full-timer in dept., doing adjuncts’ lesson plans) orlost their job (for long hours, no summers off, back in industry), leaving no time to write a book.The biggest ET decline was at 2-year colleges. Junior/Senior-level ET enrollments also declinedper program at 4-year level, but the number of accredited ET programs has increased, since1990 especially – at both 2 & 4-year colleges. Some 2-year colleges replaced several technician-level programs with a single ET-level program. 39 As noted earlier, ATMAE colleges renamedtheir programs "technology" or "engr. technology," & increased course rigor. Several proprietarychains besides DeVry offered ABET-accredited ET degrees, as well as upgrading technician-level Certificates into

Conference Session

Issues in Advising and Mentoring

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen Zunkel, Iowa State University; Jason Pontius; Thomas J Brumm, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Conference Session

Capstone Design Courses and Tools in support of Systems Engineering Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pablo Biswas, Texas A&M International University; Runchang Lin, Texas A&M International University

Tagged Divisions

Systems Engineering

Figure 2. Agile development life cycleAgile development of ViTAS 2.0Agile system development is a group of software development methodologies based on iterativeand incremental development, where requirements and solutions evolve through collaborationbetween self-organizing, cross-functional teams. Figure 2 represents the Agile development lifecycle. Based on Ambler[3] and Cohn[7] the agile development process has the following stages inthe system development project which is similar to ViTAS 1.0 [Biswas et al.[6]]: 1. The scope of ViTAS 2.0 2. Iteration -1: initial planning of ViTAS 2.0 Page 23.710.8 3. Iteration 0: user stories for ViTAS

Conference Session

Study Abroad, International Experience, Exchange Programs and Student Retention

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keilin Tarum Deahl, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Eileen Walz, University of Illinois; Russell Korte, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Valeri Werpetinski, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Laura D Hahn, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Judith A Sunderman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; J. Bruce Elliott- Litchfield, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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International

. - Page 23.840.12Guatemala Trip ParticipantStudents often needed to discuss their design plans and the technology it included with people ofvarying levels of technical knowledge. For example, in Guatemala students were installingbiosand filters in people’s homes and needed to explain to the family how to use it and why itwould be beneficial to them. Students had to gauge which aspects of this technology the familiesunderstood, and how to explain the parts they did not. This task was complex because they wereworking across language barriers, cultural barriers, and technical levels. They recruited twosocial workers to assist in this process but were still struggling with how best to approach thissituation. This is discussed in quote 13 and 14. The

Conference Session

Novel Pedagogies 1

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arthur C Heinricher, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Paula Quinn, Quinn Evaluation Consulting; Richard F. Vaz, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Kent J Rissmiller, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Page 23.874.12 Desire to maintain involvement with a community 2317 18 that is not related to my universityLike Table 5, Table 6 conveys findings for survey items that are not directly linked to the ULOs,but items in Table 6 are directly linked to professional advancement, which is perhaps anunarticulated desired outcome of all undergraduate programs. Responses indicated that while justover 20% of respondents believed their project work provided them with professionallybeneficial connections, it provided approximately twice as many (38%) with knowledge orexperience that helped them change their minds about future plans—something of particularvalue when considering the importance of career satisfaction. Even more

Conference Session

Engineering in K-12 Science and Mathematics Standards

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University; Elizabeth A Parry, North Carolina State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

details.2. Engineering Design a. Use the engineering i. Identify and use theProcess design process to engineering design design things to process of ASK- solve problems or IMAGINE-PLAN- meet a need. CREATE- IMPROVE to design a specific product or way of doing something. ii. Work with a team to

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ashland O. Brown, University of the Pacific; Richard H. Crawford, University of Texas, Austin; Daniel D. Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy; Joseph J. Rencis P.E., Tennessee Technological University; Jiancheng Liu, University of the Pacific; Kyle A. Watson, University of the Pacific; Kathy Schmidt Jackson, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Rachelle Kisst Hackett, University of the Pacific; Paul Henry Schimpf, Eastern Washington University; Chuan-Chiang Chen, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Ismail I Orabi, University of New Haven; Firas Akasheh, Tuskegee University; John J Wood, U.S. Air Force Academy; Brock U Dunlap, University of Texas, Austin; Ella R. Sargent, University of the Pacific

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

current focus of Dr. Wood’s research includes the development of robotic ground and air vehicle systems using innovative design techniques using cur- rent technology implementations, as well as futuristic projections. Dr Wood also publishes research on advances in the methodology for creative electromechanical systems design.Brock U Dunlap, University of Texas, Austin Brock Dunlap is currently a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin studying active learning and prototyping methodology. He plans to graduate in May 2014 with a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering with a focus in design and manufacturing. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Brigham Young University.Ella

Conference Session

State of Manufacturing

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hugh Jack, Grand Valley State University

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Manufacturing

. There are signs that manufacturing practitionersare more positive than educators about manufacturing in general. This is reasonable given theongoing economic recovery.References1. Hugh Jack et al. “Curricula 2015: A Four Year Strategic Plan for Manufacturing Education,” June 2011.Available from http://www.C2015.com.2. Bennett, R., et al. “Workforce Imperative: A Manufacturing Education Strategy”, Society of ManufacturingEngineers, September 2012. Available from http://www.sme.org/WorkforceImperative/.3. Jack, H., "Perceptions in the Manufacturing Education Community", ASEE Annual Meeting, Louisville, KY,June 2010.4. Jack, H., “The 2011 State of Manufacturing Education”, ASEE Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, June 2011.5. Jack, H., “The 2012 State

Conference Session

"How Do We Compare?" - Students, Case Studies, and Learning Approaches

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joel J. Versypt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Ashlee N. Ford Versypt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

STEM fields collectively. We plan to expand ourmaps to include more states and also more STEM fields, particularly engineering disciplines,along with a control group of non-STEM majors. It could also be useful to perform a cross-sectional study of student enrollments before and after a campaign targeted towards increasingrural STEM students for a given university or geographic area. A large scale qualitative studycould provide insight into the rural pathways into STEM fields and various obstacles that ruralstudents face. Finally, while this paper focused on rural students, an equally interesting andimportant study using a similar methodology could consider the geographical distribution ofSTEM students in an urban region to assess whether

Conference Session

Assessment of Student Learning 2

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jesse Pappas, James Madison University

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Educational Research and Methods

Conference Session

Panel: Opportunities & Methods to Encourage More Women Toward Research Commercialization

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adrienne Minerick, Michigan Technological University; Babs Carryer, National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance (NCIIA); Mary Raber, Michigan Technological University; Abby Thompson, Mississippi State University ; Louise C. Dunlap, DunlapBrowder

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation, Women in Engineering

and innovation among faculty, staff, and students. Thomp- son assists faculty and student start-up companies with developing strategic business and marketing plans. Thompson manages the MSU Business Incubator and the MSU Entrepreneurship Center. Thompson also manages the Jack Hatcher Engineering Entrepreneurship Certificate program in the Bagley College of En- Page 23.955.1 gineering at MSU to enhance business skills in engineering students. Thompson received her Bachelors Degree in Industrial & Systems Engineering and a M.B.A. from Mississippi State University.Ms. Louise C. Dunlap, DunlapBrowder

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 1

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ravi T. Shankar, Florida Atlantic University; Don Ploger, Florida Atlantic University; Agnes Nemeth, Florida Atlantic University; Steven Alan Hecht Ph.D., Nova Southeastern University

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Mathematics

, competitionand cooperation. This paper will document our past and planned efforts to integrate robotics intohigh school math curriculum. Our goal is to build low-cost robots that can be purchased or builtincrementally to manage budgetary restrictions. These robots should be reliable, robust, andmost important of all, be customizable for the specific needs of the teacher and the student teams.Furthermore, we integrated the robots into math lessons.The results indicate that students in our robotics program benefited from the use of robots. Welooked at a problem that students solved using the Pythagorean Theorem and then analyzed theresults of the robotic simulation. The students correctly interpreted both the mathematicalproblem and the real world error

Conference Session

Issues of Outreach and Interest in Engineering

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susannah Sandrin, Arizona State University; Connie M Borror, Arizona State University West

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Women in Engineering

to major in physicalsciences and computer sciences at these campuses, but they could not major in engineeringwithout planning to transfer to a different university later in their college career. This populationhad a larger percentage of female students (57% female, 34% male and 9% unspecified). Thispopulation skew by gender is consistent with enrollment trends at these institutions (overallenrollment was 58% female and 42% male, and 59% female versus 41% male for the twoinstitutions in 2012, according to College Portrait of Undergraduate Education,http://www.collegeportraits.org/). During the second phase of survey administration, more than 6,000 middle and highschool students were surveyed from November 2007 to January of 2008. This

Conference Session

Undergraduate Student Issues: Persistence

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer A. Skaggs, American University in Cairo

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Women in Engineering

Formulas. This iswhen students believe they should follow the plans that have been laid out for them by externalvoices of authority. They allow others to define who they are, including parents, teachers, socialnorms and expectations, peers, etc. The second phase is Crossroads. This is when studentsrealize that following the plans others have set before them may not necessarily match their owninterests and desires and they become discontented with allowing others to define who they are,and they begin to create their own sense of self that is preferably more authentic. Yet, whilestudents want to become more true to themselves, at this phase, they are exceedingly concernedwith how others will react to their decisions and the effects on their

Conference Session

FPD 4: First-Year Engineering Courses, Part I: Multimedia, Large Classes, and TAs

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kimberly C. Huett, University of West Georgia; Barbara B. Kawulich, University of West Georgia; P.K. Raju, Mechanical Engineering Dept, Auburn University,Al; Chetan S Sankar, Auburn University

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First-Year Programs

. The engineering college offers at least three undergraduate degrees in engineering,including chemical, electrical, and aviation-related disciplines. Most students in the introductoryengineering course were seeking degrees in engineering, and a small number were pursuingbusiness degrees. The two-hour course sections were delivered in a traditional classroom setting(in contrast to the lecture theater/lab split at RU). Because students are in class fewer than twohours per week, course activities that were not completed during the class session were oftencompleted outside of class.Course Context: Major Assignments & Course ActivitiesIn spite of some contextual differences described above, the courses were planned together andsyllabi were

Conference Session

Outreach Along the K-12 Pathways to Engineering

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kelly Doyle P.E., University of Nevada, Reno; Lelli Van Den Einde, University of California, San Diego; Catherine W. French, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Heidi A Tremayne P.E., Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center; Sean P Brophy, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Conference Session

First-Year Programs (FPD) Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alyssa N Berg, University of Colorado Boulder; Janet Y Tsai, University of Colorado at Boulder; Virginia Lea Ferguson, Mechanical Engineering; University of Colorado; Boulder, CO; Beverly Louie, University of Colorado, Boulder

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First-Year Programs

mentees with well thought-out and level-appropriate projects appreciatedthat they liked being included in the research.The mentees with ill-defined projects mentioned that their project didn’t have a direction or agoal and criticized their mentor’s lack of a plan they could follow. Several studentsrecommended that future projects have more structure. Overall, while the mentees credited theirmentors for being understanding and having the ability to explain their research projects, thementees were of mixed opinions about their mentors’ abilities to create a well-structured projectfor them to accomplish in a short time frame. Not surprisingly, we found that the most effectiverelationships included those with a well-defined scope and mentor who

Conference Session

Two-Year College Division Transfer Topics Part I

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Catherine Mobley, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Clemson University; Catherine E. Brawner, Research Triangle Educational Consultants

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

programs to first-year college students than totransfer students. Wickert’s13 qualitative study of 16 transfer students showed that orientationwas only marginally useful for imparting information to students, as did Jacob, Busby andLeath’s14 study. A predominant theme, then, regarding transfer student orientation, is thattransfer students are often an “afterthought” when planning for orientation (p. 71).15In the context of two-year colleges, academic advisors play a key role in maintaining students’motivation and educational interest in transferring to a four-year institution. Providing accurateand timely information to students about academic credits, progress toward degree, and academicexpectations for the receiving institution is essential for

Conference Session

Grasping the "Concept"

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Debra Gilbuena, Oregon State University; Christina Smith, Oregon State University; Bill Jay Brooks, Oregon State University; Talia Sidne Finkelstein, Oregon State University; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

alert faculty of this tool? Confirmation Do you plan to use/continue using the CW?Questions devoted to teaching philosophy and the experiences that influenced that philosophywere asked to gain a better understanding of the culture and background of each interviewparticipant. These questions would help determine if the Concept Warehouse was an innovation Page 23.561.8that the participant would value and how compatible it was with their current practices.Logistical questions such as participant’s classroom environment, class size, and availableresources

Conference Session

Robots and K-12 Computer Applications

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey Laut, Polytechnic Institute of New York University; Vikram Kapila, Polytechnic Institute of New York University; Magued G. Iskander P.E., Polytechnic Institute of New York University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

to allow their teachers to develop and hone their skills to performrobotics-based activities. In this spirit, a series of demonstrations introduced some of theaforementioned activities to over 10 New York City middle school teachers during a TeachingSTEM with Robotics Workshop held in summer 2012 at the Polytechnic Institute of NYU. In a Page 23.583.13follow-up workshop, planned for summer 2013, participating teachers will be engaged toindividually perform all of the aforementioned activities to enhance their skills and confidence.Finally, to reach out to a broader audience of teachers, we will prepare and submit an activitylesson plan for

Conference Session

Mechanics, Hands-on Demo - Show & Tell!

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sinead C. MacNamara, Syracuse University; Joan V. Dannenhoffer P.E., Syracuse University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

engineeringculture.This paper describes a pair of statics courses taught to civil and environmentalengineering students at Syracuse University, both in the fall semester, for the past threeyears. These courses take a variety of approaches to inculcating engineering values andskills in the students. Issues such as the importance of understanding underlyingassumptions, the value of conservative assumptions, the value of sketching and diagramsin engineering communication, the difference between precision and accuracy, and basicknowledge about the products of the profession and its role in society, are all addressed.These courses have been taught for three. An evaluation team from the School Educationhas designed an evaluation plan to identify what if any effect the

Conference Session

Two-Year College Division Transfer Topics Part II

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael E. Pelletier, Northern Essex Community College; Linda A. Desjardins, Northern Essex Community College; Paul Chanley, Northern Essex Community College; Lori Heymans, Northern Essex Community College

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Two Year College Division

still be determined by project work assignments submitted and the presentations delivered; no tests would be administered.  All assignments would be submitted on-line through Blackboard.  Assignments would be shown to the instructor during the class meeting for a preliminary non-graded assessment.  Assignments would be due from each individual two to four days after the class meeting but no penalty would be assessed for late submissions.  The instructor would grade assignments within two days after submission.  Assignments could be resubmitted for re-grading until 24 hours before the next meeting.Why approach for fall 2012 was modifiedThe goals of the planned fall 2012 modifications

Conference Session

Software and Web-based Learning in ECE

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dileepan Joseph P.Eng., University of Alberta

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

of thecourse, defended procedural C++, the status quo in terms of language. Having been a party tointernal discussions at the time, the author can state that the ECE representative was simplyreflecting the preference of most ECE faculty who voiced an opinion. At one extreme, ECEfaculty felt that MATLAB was merely a “glorified calculator” and therefore unsuitable forteaching programming. Many agreed with this somewhat. A few disagreed.After considering multiple languages, the task force recommended keeping procedural C++ butmaking other changes to address student dissatisfaction, expressed most clearly in 4th year exitsurveys. This initial report was rejected by the faculty’s Academic Planning Committee (APC).Returning to work, the task force

Conference Session

Hands-on/Experiential Learning

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daria A Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado Boulder; Chiang Shih, Florida A&M University/Florida State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

experience. 9A key portion of the FIPSE-SEAEP model is the cross-institutional international Senior Page 23.643.2Capstone Design project course.9,10 Through this collaboration, FSU and the twoBrazilian universities develop Senior Capstone Design projects during the months ofJune, July and August. Select U.S. students travel to Brazil during the U.S. fall semester(the Brazilian spring term). These students participate in one of the international SeniorCapstone Design projects developed during the summer before their departure. U.S.students work with Brazilian students to undertake the design and planning of theprojects in Brazil.As the U.S. students travel

Conference Session

General Topics in Graduate Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mahnas Jean Mohammadi-Aragh, Virginia Tech; Lisa DuPree McNair, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

Likert-type scale. A 1 indicates a participant selected three traditional words, a 2 indicatesselection of two traditional words, a 3 indicates selection of a single word, or one traditionalword and one emerging word, a 4 indicates selection of two emerging words, and a 5 indicatesselection of 3 emerging words.ResultsThe survey response rate was 52%, which included 5 female PhD students and 7 male PhDstudents. Participants were enrolled in the program from as few as one semester to as many aseight semesters. Five participants created an ePortfolio prior to the departmental requirement;seven participants had not. Two participants were involved in the initial planning anddevelopment of the departmental ePortfolio requirement in Fall 2008.Research

Conference Session

Robots and K-12 Computer Applications

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christina Gardner-McCune, Human Centered Computing Clemson University; Darrryl Bryant DUPE McCune II, YES Beyond Limits; Chanteal Maria Edwards; Cedric Stallworth, Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Computing

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

exposing students to computer science through kinesthetic learning and physical computing. He is also certified to teach high school mathematics. In August 2011, McCune’s teaching portfolio was selected to be a model by which nontraditional teachers would be trained to develop their own curriculum plans in route to certification at Metro RESA. In April 2012, McCune was awarded an Outstanding Staff Perfor- mance Award. Outside of developing curriculum and programming for high school students, during the summer months McCune expands his audience to reach middle and elementary age students with summer camp topics that address topics such as adventures in animation, storytelling, animatronics, programming in java, game