Conference Session

Software Engineering Pedagogical Approaches

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John C. Georgas, Northern Arizona University

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Constituent Committee

learning concepts byproviding tangible representations of common software engineering idioms and activities asevents within the game, such as when a piece of string snapping is equated to an interrupted ordropped network connection—this engages students in the game without resulting in loss ofacademic rigor in the treatment of the subject matter. This game-centric approach: (a) deeplyadopts insights from active learning, making students an integral part of the learning process, (b)provides a dynamic, simulation-like context that is well suited to the dynamic nature of software,and (c) is modular and easily adoptable within existing curricular structures.Initial evaluation efforts examine student attitudes and perceptions about the game by using

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade II

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adrian Ieta, State University of New York at Oswego; Rachid Manseur, Oswego State University College; Thomas E. Doyle, McMaster University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

example of such a case is [33].AssessmentCapstone project deliverables are presented in Table 5 as an example distribution betweengraders for each component. This distribution is for the oral conference-style publicpresentation. For poster presentations the Moa and Mop would be combined.Table 5. Example Assessment Distribution for Capstone Projects Page 23.271.14Student feedback, engagement, and learning have been so positive to the Capstone Designexperience that XY University has implement cross-discipline projects and has begun work onvertical integration of design courses into the curriculum. The Capstone learning experience isso profound

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Liping Guo, Northern Illinois University; Jingbo Han, Northern Illinois University; Andrew Wasonga Otieno, Associate Professor

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

systems and automatic control. Dr. Guo is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the ASEE.Mr. Jingbo Han, Northern Illinois University Jingbo Han earned the M.S in Electrical Engineering from Northern Illinois University in 2010.Dr. Andrew W Otieno, Associate Professor Dr. Andrew W. Otieno is an associate professor in the Department of Technology at Northern Illinois Uni- versity. He holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Leeds University in the United Kingdom. Dr. Otieno has worked in various capacities at several institutions both in the United States and abroad. Since joining the Department of Technology, Dr. Otieno has actively participated in curriculum development. He has extensively revised and

Conference Session

Innovative IE Course Content

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Connie Gomez, Galveston College; Heidi A. Taboada, University of Texas, El Paso; Jose F. Espiritu, University of Texas, El Paso

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

Page 23.1251.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 To Be Green Or Not To Be Green? Ethical Tools for Sustainability EngineeringAbstractEngineers are increasingly being asked to design products and process that reduce the overallimpact society has on the environment as more people realize the rising need to developsustainable resources and to be responsible when using existing resources. In order to adequatelyprepare students to enter this ever increasing demand for sustainable engineering, students needto have an understanding of the technical needs of society as well as the human component indesign, be it the use of local resources, the lack of surplus

Conference Session

Ocean and Marine Tech Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lifford McLauchlan, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Mehrube Mehrubeoglu, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi; Jayson Durham, SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific (SSC Pacific)

Tagged Divisions

Ocean and Marine

Paper ID #7827Problem Based Learning Through Modeling and Simulation of UnmannedVehiclesDr. Lifford McLauchlan, Texas A&M University, Kingsville Dr. Lifford McLauchlan completed his Ph.D. at Texas A&M University, College Station. After spending time in industry, he has returned to academia. He is an associate professor at Texas A&M University - Kingsville in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department. His main research interests include controls, robotics, education, adaptive systems, intelligent systems, signal and image process- ing, biometrics and watermarking. He is the current chair of the

Conference Session

INTERACTIVE SESSION – Measuring the Impact on Communities

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca A Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Julie P Martin, Clemson University; Denise Wilson, University of Washington; Melani Plett, Seattle Pacific University; Tamara Floyd Smith, Tuskegee University

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

persistence in academic endeavors.7 Improvements in retention resultingfrom increases in connection to community are fundamentally supported by the higher educationmodel of social integration developed by Tinto, where student goals and commitments formed bypre-college attributes interact with their college experiences to indicate whether students arelikely to complete an academic program.8-10 Community also begets community; students whohave not experienced a strong sense of community (and belonging) in their undergraduateexperience are far less likely, in the long term, to take a critical community leadership role in Page 23.795.3industry. Moving

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Sarangan, University of Dayton; Joseph W Haus, University of Dayton; Surinder M. Jain, Sinclair Community College; Jamshid Moradmand, Sinclair Community College; Nick Reeder, Sinclair Community College

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

interactive video system to link thelaboratory to the classroom in real time. These tools are being integrated into junior and seniorlevel engineering courses, two community college courses and workshops for high schoolscience teachers.IntroductionLow enrollment and poor student performance in academic programs in engineering, science andmathematics support the somber conclusions recently published by The National Academies inRising Above The Gathering Storm, Revisited: Rapidly Approaching Category 5, an update to itsseminal 2005 publication of similar title [1]. The report raises the specter of an impending talentgap which could severely jeopardize U.S. industrial competitiveness. This is highlighted by thecomparison of the following trends in China

Conference Session

Intercollegiate and Cross-disciplinary Collaboration

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barbara Burks Fasse PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology; James William Schwoebel, Georgia Institute of Technology; Ethan James Craig, Georgia Institute of Technology; Anish Joseph, Georgia Institute of Technology; Ajit Vakharia, Georgia Institute of Technology; Steve M. Potter PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology; Kim Dooley, Texas A&M University; James DUPE Linder, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

following ten years in Georgia Tech’s College of Computing where she was a member of the NSF-funded Learning By DesignTM Problem-Based Learning curriculum de- velopment and research project. She also conducted an NSF-funded ethnographic study of learning in a problem-driven, project-based bio-robotics research lab at Georgia Tech. In addition to her duties in BME, she is an advisor to the interdisciplinaryScience Learning: Integrating Design, Engineering, and Robotics (SLIDER) project.Mr. James William Schwoebel, Georgia Institute of TechnologyMr. Ethan James Craig, Georgia Institute of TechnologyMr. Anish Joseph, Georgia Institute of TechnologyAjit Vakharia, Georgia Institute of TechnologyProf. Steve M. Potter PhD, Georgia

Conference Session

Beyond BS: Issues Affecting Graduate Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cole C McDaniel, California Polytechnic State University; Allen C Estes, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

, removing the logistical obstacles and ensuring the financial benefits of this requirement. The ARCE master’s program also needs to be integrated with the other master’s programs in the college and university. The college is considering an interdisciplinary master’s degree. The civil engineering and construction management departments are collaborating on a master’s degree in construction engineering. Both of these programs are looking at certificate options where the degree is a collection of certificates plus a culminating experience. Given the master’s classes taken at the undergraduate level by Architectural Engineering students, there should be opportunities to use these courses toward

Conference Session

Engineering Identity 1

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristen Hatten, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Tiago R Forin, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Robin Adams, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

University in 2008. While in the School of Engineering Education, he works as a Graduate Research Assistant in the X-Roads Research Group and has an interest in cross-disciplinary practice and engineering identity development.Dr. Robin Adams, Purdue University, West Lafayette Robin S. Adams is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. Her research is concentrated in three interconnecting areas: cross-disciplinary thinking, acting, and be- ing; design cognition and learning; and theories of change in linking engineering education research and practice. Page 23.89.1

Conference Session

Defining and Refining Technological and Engineering Literacy

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert M. Brooks, Temple University; Mehmet Cetin, Temple University; Jyothsna Kavuturu

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

implemented is specific, and does not allow for the "serendipititous" approach-making discoveries by accident.- often found in general database searching. Utilizing a generalsearch engines such as Web of Knowledge or Scopus or others often adds to the to the wideknowledge which can be found and integrate within the students' technological literacy.However, the reviewer’s comment will be implemented in the next study along with alternatetechniques of searching various databases to add to the technological literacy of students.There have been cases where eLearning appeared to have resulted in enhanced performance,when in fact the enhanced performance was due to the careful design of the curriculum anddelivery of it that led to it (Reviewer’s comment

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society (LEES) Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig J. Gunn, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

engineerswho are educated in traditional technical courses. Vast numbers of articles and books havesuggested ways to ensure that at least the outward look of a writer's effort conforms to acceptablenorms. Classes are required, papers are assigned, some comments are voiced; but in so many casesthe retention of communication skill is not assured and does not become an integral part of theengineer's existence. Engineers need to understand the bond between their technical knowledge andtheir communication skills. This bond must be accomplished in the most efficient amount of time sothat it creates a lasting awareness of technical communication and its importance in every engineer'scareer. This is especially important in an engineer's education where time

Conference Session

FPD 3: Research on First-Year Courses

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jess W. Everett, Rowan University; Maggie A Flynn M.A., Elizabethtown College

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

). Freshman interest groups: Partnership for promoting student success. New Directions for Student Services, 87, 37-49.14. Cabrera, A. A., & Castaneda, M. (1993). College persistence: Structural equations modeling test of an integrated model of student retention. Journal of Higher Education, 64(2), 123-136.15. Habley, W., & McClanahan, R. (2008, July). What works in student retention? Presented at the ACT Information for Life’s Transitions Seventeenth Annual Enrollment Planner’s Conference, Chicago, IL.16. NSF (2012) Science and Engineering Indicators, www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind12. Page 23.514.12

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering (ME) Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Juan C Morales, Universidad del Turabo; Michael J. Prince, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

having the students access a video outside of class. The videos may be prepared by each professor, or the professor may opt to use existingvideos from other sources; for example, the use of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC)platforms. The Coursera MOOC platform, for example, states the following13: Our (Coursera) platform offers universities the opportunity to move much of the traditional lecturing - required for conveying the necessary material - from inside to outside the classroom, in an online learning format that is, in many ways, more interactive and more engaging. By doing so, they open up space in the curriculum for the active learning strategies that are considerably more effective in increasing

Conference Session

Study Abroad, International Experience, Exchange Programs and Student Retention

Collection

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

Tagged Divisions

International

education tools andcurricula to be created. The results of this study communicate the value of such internationalexperiences and motivate the integration of these skills into domestic curricula. Further analysiscan be found at www.publish.illinois.edu/engineeringabroad.IntroductionInternational engineering experiences enhance the traditional engineering curriculum byimmersing students in an unfamiliar environment where the opportunity to learn is rich. Due tothe complex and often transformative nature of these experiences, such learning can bechallenging to quantify and qualify. However, qualitative data from students who have theseexperiences offer valuable insight into the impact of such learning opportunities. This studylooks at students who

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods (ERM) Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeremi S London, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

world incountries (e.g., Ethiopia, the Philippines). Key aspects of the Mobile Studio are its low cost, size,and flexibility in how it can be integrated into a course. Link: http://mobilestudio.rpi.edu/Molecular Workbench is an online environment for making models based on interactions ofmolecules and photons, and is useful for teaching and learning. Although it is hard to know thefull extent of Molecular Workbench’s impact, the developers do know it has been downloadedover 800,000 times. Ensuring that the science concepts were right is one of the key aspects ofthis resource. Link: http://mw.concord.org/modeler/On the Cutting Edge combines real and virtual professional development for geosciencefaculty, and allows them to learn the state-of-the

Conference Session

FPD 7: First-Year Engineering Courses, Part II: Perceptions and Paradigms

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammad Esmaeili, University of Dayton; Ali Eydgahi, Eastern Michigan University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

Paper ID #7138By the Students, for the students: A New Paradigm for Better Achieving theLearning ObjectivesMr. Mohammadjafar EsmaeiliDr. Ali Eydgahi, Eastern Michigan University Dr. Eydgahi is a professor in the school of Engineering Technology at Eastern Michigan University. He has supervised a number of graduate thesis and undergraduate projects in the areas of Unmanned Vehicle Design, Sensor Fusion, Speaker Recognition Design, Virtual Reality and Visualization, Digital Signal Processing, Control Systems, Robotics and Systems Automation. He has an extensive experience in curriculum and laboratory design and development

Conference Session

Teaching and Assessing Sustainability and Life Long Learning

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey C. Evans P.E., Bucknell University; Michelle Oswald Beiler P.E., Bucknell University; Akmal S Daniyarov; Christopher Adam Kulish

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

Paper ID #6288Using Innovative Topics to Attract Future Engineers: Liquefaction and Sus-tainability Modules for Engineering CampDr. Jeffrey C. Evans P.E., Bucknell University Dr. Jeffrey Evans has been professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Bucknell University since 1985. Prior to entering academia he was at Woodward-Clyde Consultants (now URS) and in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Reserves). He has been a visiting academic at the University of Nottingham and the University of Cambridge where he was an Overseas Fellow in Churchill College. He has a B.S. in Civil Engineering degrees from Clarkson University

Conference Session

Materials

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohamad Dyab, University of Maryland Eastern Shore; Payam Matin, University of Maryland Eastern Shore; Yuanwei Jin, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

23.1007.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Providing Learning Opportunities by Designing a Split Hopkinson Pressure BarSenior students are always challenged to apply their engineering knowledge and research skillsgained from an engineering curriculum toward design and implementation of challenging seniordesign projects. Split Hopkinson pressure bar is an apparatus that is used to study materialsbehavior under high speed deformation, where strain rate is very high. Hopkinson bars areusually custom made based on the needs of customers, who are mostly researchers in universitiesor research labs. In this work, the authors provided learning opportunities for

Conference Session

Defining and Refining Technological and Engineering Literacy

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Presentacion Rivera-Reyes, Utah State University - Engineering Education; Oenardi Lawanto, Utah State University; Raymond Edward Boyles, Technology and Engineering Education

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

where he worked training engineers and technicians in high-speed transmission system for backbone networks.Dr. Oenardi Lawanto, Utah State University Oenardi Lawanto is an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Utah State Uni- versity, USA. He received his B.S.E.E. from Iowa State University, his M.S.E.E. from the University of Dayton, and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before coming to Utah State, Dr. Lawanto taught and held several administrative positions at one large private university in Indonesia. In his years of teaching experiences in the area of electrical engineering, he has gained new perspectives on teaching and learning. He has developed and

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade I

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Marshall, University of Southern Maine

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

assignmentsthat require an on-line response or chat room discussion. Another method is to require eachstudent to find a hosting firm and develop a case study (relating to the content of the course) thatis presented to the class. One more strategy for maximizing outside of class behavior relates tothe time consuming activity of viewing audio visual materials such as DVDs. Require thestudents to view the materials on their own time and write a three paragraph “executivesummary” that is collected and serves as discussion points during class.Learning Technique Number 5 - Preparing to TeachDoyle in Integrating Learning Strategies into Teaching suggests that we give thought toenhancing student learning, by asking and answering the following seven questions

Conference Session

Crossing Boundaries - Service Learning and Interdisciplinary Teams

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James G Sullivan, University of Florida

Tagged Divisions

Construction

. The paper also reviews thecurriculum for which the project was integrated and how concepts from the house are used incurriculum lessons learned and suggestions for future competitions are given.IntroductionThe goal of this paper is to share the integrated nature of an international work service project ona university campus – specifically the 2010 International Solar Decathlon. It is also to reflectupon the different skill sets and various participation levels of students across the schematic,design development, and construction process. The Solar Decathlon Europe (SDE) Competitionwas developed in 2007 using the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon, held bienniallyin Washington D.C. ii. Like its predecessor, SDE calls for the designs

Conference Session

Capstone and Senior Design Projects Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martin William Weiser, Eastern Washington University; Hani Serhal Saad, Eastern Washington University; N.M. Awlad HOSSAIN, Eastern Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

tostructure both pedagogical materials and assessment rubrics to improve the capstone experiencesfor senior design students.Bannerot et al. [3] identified some of the issues and their resolution associated with thedevelopment and implementation of a new, one-semester, interdepartmental, multidisciplinarycapstone design course involving the seniors from four engineering programs at the University ofHouston. The revised course curriculum incorporated the usage of website to enhanceinformation transfer, use cohorts to modularize the large number of students and teams, use astudio/critique teaching format, integrate communications professionals into the teaching of thecourse, and allow students to be involved in establishing the final expectations for

Conference Session

Sustainability and engineering education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexandre David Wing, Colorado School of Mines; Cristal Hibbard, Colorado School of Mines; Jennifer Strong, Colorado School of Mines; Jörg E Drewes, Colorado School of Mines; Junko Munakata-Marr, Colorado School of Mines

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

School of Mines. While completing her M.S. in Environmental Science & Engineering, Cristal was a Lead Graduate Fellow for the Bechtel K-5 Educational Excellence Initiative, an element of the Trefney Institute at the Colorado School of Mines.Prof. Jennifer Strong, Colorado School of Mines Jennifer Strong is a Teaching Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statis- tics at the Colorado School of Mines (CSM). She is also the K-12 Outreach Program Manager for the Trefny Institute for Educational Innovation at CSM, whose goal is to strengthen on-campus endeavors in undergraduate and graduate education and strengthen CSM’s leadership role in education research, curriculum development, and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan L. Burkett, University of Alabama; David F. Bahr, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Shelley N Pressley, Washington State University; Kimberly R Schneider, University of Central Florida; John C Lusth, University of Alabama

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

information about the process of research. Many of the ideasand plans in place or in progress at the nation’s research institutions are based on ideas laid out inthe Boyer Commission report [6] that highlights an integrated education through undergraduateresearch opportunities.Many of the larger public research schools struggle with low retention rates in STEM. Forinstance, at Washington State University freshman to senior retention in engineering is 48%. Asnoted in the literature [7], many STEM fields use undergraduate research as a capstoneexperience, held until the end of the curriculum as a culminating experience. However, it has Page

Conference Session

Culture, Race, and Gender Issues

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Paper ID #6639”Learning from small numbers” of underrepresented students’ stories: Dis-cussing a method to learn about institutional structure through narrativeDr. Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette Alice L. Pawley is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering Education and an affiliate faculty member in the Women’s Studies Program and the Division of Environmental and Ecological Engineering at Purdue University. She has a B.Eng. in chemical engineering from McGill University, and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in industrial and systems engineering with a Ph.D. minor in women’s studies from the Uni- versity

Conference Session

New Concepts for Alternative and Renewable Energy Courses

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Radian G Belu, Drexel University (Tech.)

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

developments and trends, we believedthat it was important and timely to develop upper-level undergraduate courses and laboratorieson renewable energy systems, and to include renewable energy projects in senior project designcourses in our ET program. There is a well-documented demand and need in offering programstudy, courses and training in the areas of renewable energy5-10. Future engineers must be taughtto be creative, flexible and imaginative. Future engineering curriculum should be built arounddeveloping and increasing skills and technical knowledge. The topic of renewable energy is notonly relevant to a multitude of issues today, it is also an effective vehicle for developinginstruction that applies across a variety of content disciplines and

Conference Session

First Year Engineering

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Irene B Mena, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Sarah E Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Thomas A. Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

- sponsible for supporting curricular assessment and developing instructional support programs for faculty in the College of Engineering. In her research role, Dr. Zappe is interested in the integration of creativity into the engineering curriculum, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Dr. Zappe holds a doctorate in edu- cational psychology specializing in applied testing and measurement. Her measurement interests include the development of instruments to measure the engineering professional skills and using qualitative data to enhance the response process validity of tests and instruments.Dr. Thomas A. Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shane A. Brown P.E., Washington State University; Devlin Montfort, Washington State University; Nadia L. Frye, Washington State University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

allowresearchers to collect participants’ socio-cultural data. During each check-in interview, Cohort 1participants are also asked to work an example problem while explaining their reasoning. Theseproblems have either been taken from curricular materials (such as text books, homework sets orexams) from courses the participants are currently enrolled in or brought in by participants asexamples of problems that have been particularly challenging for them to work on. This ability to Page 23.1365.4help dictate the content of the interviews and work through problems that are currentlychallenging them creates an environment of reciprocity in the

Conference Session

Materials Science Education for the Future

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eunice Yang, University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown

Tagged Divisions

Materials

contents of the hybrid curriculum was administered at the end of the semester. To facilitatethe hybrid approach, a process oriented guided inquiry learning (POGIL) materials science text book wasused in this research. In addition, class instruction included active learning activities such as in-classdemonstrations, hands-on exercises and mini- presentations by students on various topics. The post- testresults of the MCI scores was 43% showing an average gain of 7% compared to the pre- test results.Student attitudes towards the hybrid curriculum were positive and very well received. Students found in-class demonstrations as a means of learning very helpful over POGIL, in-class discussions, homeworkassignments, and mini