Conference Session

It's Elementary

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chrissy Hobson Foster, Arizona State University; Jenefer Husman, Arizona State University; Christine Mendoza

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

moreaccurately reflect the work of scientists and engineers1,2. However, K-12 science education willalso have to reform and support the work of engineering education if improvements in thescience classroom are to be made.In response to this, A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts,and Core Ideas has been developed by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the NationalResearch Council and represents a new conceptual framework for science education. Theimpetus for this project stems from the growth of knowledge of science, increased understandingof the learning and teaching of science, and the need for scientific and engineering practices tobe represented in the science classroom. The framework is organized within three

Conference Session

Accreditation, Program Evaluation, and Education Resource's Impact in Latin America

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Erick Jones, University of Texas, Arlington; Vettrivel Gnaneswaran, University of Wisconsin-Platteville; Beatriz Murrieta, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Campus Queretaro

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International

data-collection, analysis and reporting. The sub-questionsalong with assessment methods and brief explanations were shown in the following discussions.Assessment sub-question #A: “To what extent does being immersed in a different cultureinfluence a student’s ability to conduct culturally competent undergraduate engineeringresearch?” Assessment methods for sub-question #A: (1) pre-survey and post survey ofstudents’ level of intercultural communication, sensitivity and expectations; (2) focus group withstudents at the end of their summer experience; (3) reflective journals and weekly meetings withfaculty. In assessment method #1, to better capture the information, students were given theIntercultural Development Inventory developed by Milton

Conference Session

Assessment

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lindsey Anne Nelson, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

quality of life. These components may help educators create stronglearning scaffolds to help students manage the complexity of designing for people living inpoverty.23 I found engineering design educators24, 25 who used reflection to identify learningneeds of their students developed these stronger scaffolds intrinsically. Furthermore, I wanted tooffer guidance to engineering educators assessing student work that targeted marginalizedcommunities around the world. Design as improving the quality of life has four components. 1. Design activities center on wellbeing objectives. 2. Critical knowledge to understand wellbeing objectives rests in diffuse communities. 3. Designers use social networks to manage design activities. 4. Assessing

Conference Session

A Challenge to Engineering Educators

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa DuPree McNair, Virginia Tech; Wende Garrison, Virginia Tech

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #7218Raze the Silos: Using Digital Portfolios to Increase Integrative ThinkingDr. Lisa DuPree McNair, Virginia Tech Dr. Lisa DuPree McNair is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she also serves as Assistant Department Head of Graduate Education and co-Director of the VT Engineering Communication Center (VTECC). She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Chicago and an M.A. and B.A. in English from the University of Georgia. Her research interests include interdis- ciplinary collaboration, design education, communication studies, identity theory and reflective

Conference Session

Statics - They can move at constant velocity!

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sirena C. Hargrove-Leak, Elon University

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Mechanics

is not simultaneously accompanied by (or occasioned through) an extension of the student‟s use of language. Through this elaboration of discourse new thinking is brought into being, expressed, reflected upon and communicated. This extension of language might be acquired, for example, from that in use within a specific discipline, language community or community of practice, or it might, of course, be self-generated. It might involve natural language, formal language or symbolic language.8” The language extension of engineers learning to solve problems includes some natural language, formal disciplinary language, and

Conference Session

Communication and Engineering Careers: Motivating Our Students

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John C. Anderson, Northwestern University; David W. Gatchell, Northwestern University; Barbara Shwom, Northwestern University; Stacy Benjamin, Segal Design Institute; John Andrew Lake, Segal Design Institute, Northwestern University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

-making process?The team used this list of questions to help them consider the issues they needed to communicateabout their design options, with the intent of revising the paragraph to reflect their thinking.Using the answers to the questions above, the team evaluated the trade-offs of their two designoptions, and came to the conclusion that one option was clearly better suited to the project thanthe other. The revised text is both clearer and a better statement of the team’s design direction. The pressure tank will connect to the Shedd’s water supply to ensure the water parameters are adjustable to the animals living inside. Since the Shedd always has at least one tank optimized for any species of seahorse, no

Conference Session

Special Initiatives and Programs at Two-Year Colleges

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

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Two Year College Division

not at all new and has been in practice for a very long time.Regardless, a problem based curriculum is significantly different from the traditional disciplinecentered curriculum. It is important that the aims and objectives of problem based learning arereflected in every aspect of the learning environment created. Scholars have identified fourfeatures that clearly separate a problem-based curriculum from a traditional, topic-basedcurriculum. It is important that the aims and objectives of problem-based learning are reflected inevery aspect of the learning environment created. Problem-based curriculum should documentaccomplishments at the upper levels of Bloom's Taxonomy Triangle. Scholars in the area ofcognitive science and educational

Conference Session

Implementing Active Learning in Mechanical Engineering Technology

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig Durwin Engle, Purdue University Calumet; Gregory P. Neff, Purdue University, Calumet (Tech)

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Engineering Technology

 To what extent did this course have a real world or applied context? To what extent did this course provide opportunities to meaningfully reflect on your experience? To what extent at the beginning of this experience were you provided an orientation appropriate to the content? To what extent were you provided feedback so you could improve how well you performed?  Page 23.900.3How well prepared were you to be successful in this course? To what extent were you provided information on how you will be assessed and evaluated in the course? languages and B & R Automation Studio software. The components are mounted on 8 by

Conference Session

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

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James P Abulencia, Manhattan College; Margot A Vigeant, Bucknell University; David L. Silverstein, University of Kentucky

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Chemical Engineering

will be arranged into groups of three to five, and assigned a topic from a prescribed list. Students will be asked to take the Thermodynamics Concept Inventory during the first and last week of the semester. Year 2 – Video Viewing Students will be asked to watch 3-5 minute videos that span the five topics covered in the Thermodynamics Concept Inventory. These videos will be selected from those generated in Year 1 of the study, and will be available after the video’s topic has been presented in class. After watching the video, students will be asked to perform a short reflection assignment on the concept. Additionally, students will be asked to take the

Conference Session

Faculty and Course Evolution: Teaching With Technology, Online Delivery, and Addressing Emerging Student & Industry Needs

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael J. Richards, U.S. Air Force Academy; Daniel D. Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy; Jason Daniel Christopher, USAFA/DFEM

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

the questions on the survey, the average response for the video recording wasnot substantially different from the average response for the faculty visitation program. Theparticipants’ comments also identify benefits that each program provides. A second conclusionis that both the faculty visitation program and the video recording seem to have certain strengths.This conclusion is born out in the questions where there was a large difference in the responsesas well as through the participants’ comments.McKenna, et al, describe the benefits to teaching provided by collaborative reflection.6 Each ofour participating instructors was invited to review their video with the school’s facultydevelopment center, though none took the opportunity. As was

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

student development acquired while working on internationalengineering projects abroad. These experiences presented a unique learning environment andopportunity to develop and implement a holistic engineering project. The findings from ourresearch indicate six areas of student development: technical knowledge, communication,personal growth, project management, community-based development, and interculturalawareness. These six categories are broken down into subcategories to further identify specificareas of student development.These findings are based on reflections collected from Engineers Without Borders studentmembers. The first round of data was collected through on site journals and discussions andpost-travel interviews with participants of

Conference Session

Engineering Leadership Development Division Technical Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chris Carlson-Dakes, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Gregory W Harrington, Dept of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Univ of Wisconsin - Madison

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Engineering Leadership Development Division

   In The Courage to Teach, Parker Palmer explores an approach to educational transformationby engaging in deep inquiry of fundamental questions of what, how, why, and who (Palmer1998). We often start out with content and curriculum – the what that is being taught. If wedig a bit deeper, we begin to consider pedagogical structures – the how we are teaching thewhat. Occasionally, we may ask why we are teaching what we teach. Rarely, however, dowe get to the point of reflecting and sharing the personal values present in our teaching andlearning endeavor – the root questions of who are we as teachers, and equally important,who are our students as learners? These three elements – curricular content (what),pedagogical structure (how), and personal

Conference Session

Teaching Materials Science Using Innovative Methods

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig Johnson P.E., Central Washington University; Charles O. Pringle, Central Washington University; Nathan Davis EIT, Central Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Materials

toevaluate an engineering report submitted by students completing the design activity (AppendixA).Since our intention was directed at comparisons of design abilities, and not the absolutemeasurement these abilities, we chose not to engage in a search for other assessment instruments.A cursory search reveals many instruments such as the CEDA, PCT, PSVT-R mentioned in arecent JEE article4.A constraint on this approach was that the activity primarily used teams. We targeted seniors, sothey had formal instruction in design. We chose to implement the activity with teams because itreflected typical work scenarios and because it was logistically prudent. So even if a singleengineering report reflected two to more students, the report itself could be

Conference Session

Instrumentation Technical Session II

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Akram Hossain, Purdue University, Calumet (Tech); Tanima Zaman, Ivy Tech Community College, Northwest

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

the figure below2: Page 23.1275.4 Figure 3: Single-Board Reconfigurable IO Components.The ultrasonic sensor integrated with the Robotic Starter Kit acquires data about obstacles bytransmitting a short pulse of ultrasonic energy (typically for 200µs with 40kHz)1. The sensorthen stops transmitting energy and waits for a reflected signal from the obstacle in front of it.Once the sensor receives the transmitted signal it provides an output pulse to the real-timeprocessor. Below the ultrasonic sensor with transmitted and reflected energy is shown: Figure 4: Ping ))) Ultrasonic Sensor.Based on the

Conference Session

Sustainability and engineering education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Woolschlager, Saint Louis University, Parks College of Eng.

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Environmental Engineering

, reflecting the evolving areas ofpractice in the professional field. More recently, many environmental engineering programshave begun to incorporate sustainability principles into the curriculum, reflecting the need toprepare future engineers to address complex and interdisciplinary issues that challenge oursociety. The purpose of this paper is to examine how sustainability principles have beenintegrated into environmental engineering curriculums. A national-level review of all sixtyABET accredited environmental engineering programs reveals that 73% have incorporatedsustainability concepts somewhere in their program educational objectives, student outcomes,courses, and/or in program descriptions posted on websites and in catalogs. However, few

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kirsten A Davis, Boise State University; Ross A. Perkins, Boise State University; R. Casey Cline, Boise State University; Sondra M Miller, Boise State University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

engineeringclassrooms across the United States2.In order to prepare our future engineers with competencies well beyond those expected of pastengineers, as the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and the NationalAcademy of Engineering (NAE) say we must, engineering education itself must change andbecome more effective and efficient3, 4. We must draw on available engineering educationresearch to improve our classrooms and our teaching both now and into the future. Page 23.252.2This is not a simple task, as there are many barriers to overcome. Some are barriers of individualfaculty members, and others reflect their work environment. Some examples of

Conference Session

Engineering Identity 2

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

based on an assessment of relatedliterature in other knowledge domains and with other research methods by a multidisciplinaryteam of experts in the fields of personal epistemology, student development, qualitative research,and civil engineering. Development of a protocol was necessary for this study in order to addressissues of domain specificity not covered by previous research and to fit the qualitative methodsutilized. The statements were designed specifically to elicit direct responses about students’domain-specific personal epistemologies. Participants were then asked to explain the reasoningbehind the acceptance or rejection of each statement in order to allow them to reflect upon theirbelief statement. Between the two extensive

Conference Session

K-12 Professional Development I

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bradley Bowen Ed.D, North Dakota State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

completes the new employee training, gains access to appropriate email and server files, and participates in any other activities deemed critical to a fully immersive experience. Once the work experience is complete, the teachers receive a $2,000 stipend, half of which is paid by the company and the other half is paid for by the local regional education association (REA).  Each week, the teacher participants must submit a weekly written reflection. This assignment gives the teachers an opportunity to reflect on what they learned during the week and how it will help them become a more effective teacher. It also provides documentation of their experience that can be included in their final

Conference Session

Rethinking Engineering Writing

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David M. Beams P.E., University of Texas, Tyler; Luke Niiler, University of Alabama; Beth Todd, University of Alabama; Marcus Brown, University of Alabama; Garry W. Warren, University of Alabama

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

: The writer demonstrates a command of professional language.Tables and Figures: The writer uses tables and figures appropriately.Organization: The writer's draft is properly organized.Detail: The writer uses an adequate level of detail.These criteria represent a version of the rubric used at UT-Tyler as part of the EngineeringWriting Initiative. Similar criteria have been used by engineering programs at the Universityof Arizona, the University of South Florida, and the University of Washington. 10, 11, 12Preliminary results: evaluation of laboratory reportsAt this writing, data analysis for the fall semester of 2012 is incomplete; data for UA havenot yet been compiled; the following results reflect the

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

Department. Her current re- search interests focus on technology in engineering education, human computer interaction, educational data mining, and scientific visualization.Dr. Lisa DuPree McNair, Virginia Tech Lisa DuPree McNair is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she also serves as Assistant Department Head of Graduate Education and co-Director of the VT Engineering Communication Center (VTECC). She received her PhD in Linguistics from the University of Chicago and an M.A. and B.A. in English from the University of Georgia. Her research interests include interdis- ciplinary collaboration, design education, communication studies, identity theory and reflective practice. Projects

Conference Session

Classes in Entrepreneurship

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zhang Fenzhi, Aalborg University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

questions were as follows: (1) how learning trajectories were related withconflicts and innovation competency from students’ perspective? (2) how learningtrajectories were related with conflicts and innovation competency from academic staff’sperspectives? (3) how students and academic staff’s perspectives were similar and differentfrom the literatures? Besides providing a brief literature review, we collected empiricaldata by one-year observation and 14 interviews in one engineering master program,Environment Management, at +++ University, Denmark. The empirical findings displaydiverse views on conflicts in relation to innovation competency from both students andacademic staff’s statement, which reminded educators to reflect the use

Conference Session

Novel Pedagogies 1

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Cutler, Virginia Tech; Maura J. Borrego, University of Texas, Austin

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

that are necessary for fidelity. In this study, we will refer to them as criticalcomponents.Mowbray and coworkers[12] reviewed the literature on fidelity of implementation to identifycommon steps used to establish, measure, and validate the fidelity criteria of an innovation.Author et al. developed a list of critical components using Mowbray et al. as a framework. Theliterature and a panel of experts with experience in the development and implementation of RBISwere consulted to create a list of critical components for each RBIS. A full list of RBIS andcritical components can be found in Appendix A (Note: Having students “Participate in activitiesthat engage them in course content through reflection and/or interaction with their peer

Conference Session

Novel Methods of Construction Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca N Macdonald, East Carolina University; Erich Connell, East Carolina University

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Construction

.    Page 23.259.3Figure 1: Assignment InstructionsThis assignment followed course textbook reading which provided a pragmatic historicalrationale of the evolution of construction from its origins to the present.5 In addition, emphasiswas placed upon understanding how residential construction evolved from the primary criteria ofsurvival to that of comfort, and adapted according to location.3 Drawing from this insight, theexercise was intended for pairs of students to propose a residence on the moon. This encouragedindividual reflection and a team situation requiring students to take their ideas, discuss, andultimately compromise on a final solution. The submittal was to include a materials list, methodof construction, design rationale and a

Conference Session

Basic Concepts in Entrepreneurship

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barbara A. Karanian Ph.D., Stanford University; Mona Eskandari, Stanford University; Jackie Liao, Stanford University; Zubair Ahmed

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

journey.To increase our base of shared moments, another set of stories were collected using this classprompt:Complete strategic storytelling. Write a strategic 5 sentence story that can be told in any order.a) Student reflects on her Chinese past. ● It’s Chinese New Year. Page 23.13.10 ● Red lanterns hang all along the streets, emanating warms and happiness. ● She could not draw herself away from the stall with steaming rice cakes, the ones just like her grandma used to make for her. ● A gust of piercing wind came by, she shivered in cold, tiny hands blue and purple. ● Squeezing tight on a bill of one, all

Conference Session

Trends in Engineering Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Junaid A. Siddiqui, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Robin Adams, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Educational Research and Methods

closely related to teaching conceptions and beliefs aboutknowledge, education and teaching47–50. It follows from such observations that changing beliefsand conceptions of teaching are critical for any substantive change in teaching51,52. Efforts toinfluence beliefs through courses and interventions that seek to challenge individual beliefs havemixed outcomes53,54. De-contextualized evidence-based teaching models that are prevalent inthe literature have also been shown to offer limited support for teachers to change theirpractice55. Many researchers consider reflective practice, in which a teacher frequently engagesin reflection on their ongoing practical experiences, as having more potential in helpingpracticing teachers change their

Conference Session

Undergraduate Student Issues II

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ann Sharon Lourens, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) Port Elizabeth South Africa

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Women in Engineering

reduce stress and anxiety and to provide moral support, WELA members receivedexamination survival packs 6 .In celebration of the successful first year of WELA, an Inspirational Students booklet waspublished featuring the first WELA members. Professional photographs were taken of the Page 23.1180.4WELA members, and each member wrote a self-reflective article on what it meant to be a part ofWELA, and of the engineering world, as well as what they had learnt and gained during theirfirst year as WELA members 6. Special awards were given to acknowledge and celebrateacademic and other achievements of WELA members.2.1.2 WELA Senior programmeThe WELA

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicole D. Berge, University of South Carolina; Charles E. Pierce, University of South Carolina

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

are EFFECTs?The Environments for Fostering Effective Critical Thinking, or EFFECTs, are modular inquirybased tools designed to stimulate critical thinking and collaborative teamwork while improvingthe transfer of core knowledge in engineering.1 The pedagogical framework for EFFECTs linkstwo critical elements, active learning and reflective writing, within the context of a realisticengineering design problem. Lipman2 defines critical thinking as “skillful, responsible thinkingthat facilitates good engineering judgment because it relies upon criteria, is self-correcting, andis sensitive to content.” The EFFECT framework is designed on the basis of this definition.EFFECTs begin with a driving question that is embedded in a decision worksheet

Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cyrus Habibi P.E., Minnesota State University, Mankato; Eric Diep, Minnesota State University, Mankato

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Biomedical

Virginia-Minnesota which promotes learning in the context of engineering projects, professionalism and reflection (metacognition). His research in the area of engineering education is focused on project-based learning, design and innovation, professionalism and self-directed learning.Mr. Eric Diep, Minnesota State University, Mankato Page 23.1388.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Works in Progress: Developing an Integrated Motion Capture and Video Recording System for Pediatric Biomechanical Studies1. Project OverviewA kinematic understanding of gait has numerous

Conference Session

Biological and Agricultural Engineering Education Technical Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chehra Aboukinane; Daniel N. Moriasi, USDA-ARS; Ann L. Kenimer, Texas A&M University; Kim Dooley, Texas A&M University; James DUPE Linder, Texas A&M University

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Biological & Agricultural

Page 23.613.31965 (as listed in Dacey, 1985). The model considers both personal and cognitive traits ofcreative people, characteristics of the products creative individuals often produce, and thereflexive reactions observers usually have to those products (Table1).Table 1-Jackson and Messick’s four characteristics of creativity Traits of the Person Traits of the Product Intellectual Personality Product Reflective Traits Traits Properties Standards Reactions 1.Tolerance of Original Unusualness Norms Surprise incongruity 2. Analysis and Sensitive Appropriateness

Conference Session

ABET Accreditation, Assessment and Program Improvement in ECE.

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diane T. Rover, Iowa State University; Douglas W. Jacobson, Iowa State University; Ahmed E. Kamal, Iowa State University; Akhilesh Tyagi, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

begins in a sophomore course, Program Discovery, and is continued in a juniorcourse, Program Exploration. Portfolios are a means to document and communicate student workfor faculty review and student outcomes assessment. The process of creating a portfolio alsogives students the opportunity to reflect on their academic program. The portfolio is submittedelectronically, typically as a link to a web site designed by the student. The main elements of aportfolio used for assessment by the portfolio review committee are: 1. Career objective and resume 2. General education component and reflection 3. Examples of prior work 4. Technical work experience 5. Senior design project 6. Cumulative reflectionThe general education