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Computers in Education (CoED) Engineering Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bill M. Diong, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Computers in Education

project was recently initiated to study these questions within the context of using videosand video podcasts as a teaching/learning tool specifically in engineering education. Chief amongthem is the question of how its use can improve the teaching/learning of engineering material. Areview of recent literature regarding this was performed, and a brief summary of the findings ispresented. Another major question relates to how these videos and video podcasts are producedand made available for dissemination, and how much time and effort this requires from an alreadyover-worked engineering educator. So the various approaches for doing so, and how muchtime/effort they require, are also described. In addition, this paper provides a few examples fromthe

Conference Session

Curriculum Development and Multidisciplinary Instruction

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Deborah Newberry, Dakota County Technical College; Marilyn Barger P.E., National Science Foundation ATE Centers

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

exponential notation; problem solving Table 5. HSTI ModulesIn a nation-wide survey near the end of the project, 74.5% of respondents sampled from the over Page 23.913.10300 teachers participating in HSTI professional training, felt that their students do not or onlysometimes make the connection between science, technology, and the objects they encounter ineveryday life and these modules could help them make those connections while reinforcing basicSTEM principles. Other results from this sample include demographic data and revealed thatthese modules were being

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Issues in Engineering Technology Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amy L Miller, University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown; Jerry W. Samples, University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown

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Engineering Technology

other degree4. Engineers, and engineering faculty in particular, should take every opportunity to be active leaders and, when possible, to enlist the help of students. There are many examples of this at the case study university. Professors run the regional MathCounts, have created Boy Scout Day, and help local high schools with First Robotics entries, just to name a few. All three events mentioned involve cross discipline coordination and student involvement. Even after graduation, students that had helped with projects will maintain ownership and when possible have returned to help with events.Recommendations / StudentsJust like with the faculty, critical mass in the student body requires an

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Ocean and Marine Tech Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Ocean and Marine

-11, June 24-27, 2007.7. M. Prince, “Does Active Learning Work? A Review of the Research,” Journal of Engineering Education, pp.223-231, July 2004.8. R. Pucher, A. Mense, and H. Wahl, “How to Motivate Students in Project Based Learning,” 6th IEEE AfriconConference in Africa, vol. 1, pp. 443-446, Oct. 2-4, 2002.9. J. Durham, M. Mehrubeoglu, D. Carter, R. McBee, and L. McLauchlan, “Support for Flight Trajectories andVideo Capture: Initial Results Using a Free Open Source Flight Simulator,” Earth & Space 2010 Conference – The12th ASCE Aerospace Division Biennial International Conference on Engineering, Science, Construction andOperations in Challenging Environment, Honolulu, HI, pp. 1941-8, March 14-17, 2010.10. J. Durham, M. Mehrubeoglu

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K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Farshid Marbouti, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Johannes Strobel, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

the comment card.Results and DiscussionThe overall reaction of the teachers to the software was positive. One of the teacherscommented, “This process elicits deep/broad (critical) thinking in participants.” Anotherteacher commented, “I like the problem solving conversations these projects would evoke.”The teachers as well as the MEA writing and research teams suggested adding the followingfunctionalities to the software to make it more useful for students: • Undo button: the ability to undo an individual step • Print function: printing the developed procedure • Save/Load: software being able to save a procedure and then load it again at a later time. • Editing a numerical value: the ability to edit an assigned value to a face or

Conference Session

Software Applications in ET Programs

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nikunja Swain P.E., South Carolina State University; Wanda Moses, South Carolina State University; James Allen Anderson P.E., South Carolina State University; Cynthia T Davis, SC State University

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Engineering Technology

. Studentscompleted the assignment easily RAPTOR. Many students encountered problems in comprehending theFOR Loop in the C programming solution. Page 23.1018.9  Figure 8 – C Programming solutionFigure 9 – RAPTOR Solution Page 23.1018.10Third Year Computer Science Course CS 300 – Digital LogicWe also used RAPTOR in our CS 300 course. The course prerequisite for this course is JAVAprogramming, the first programming course in our curriculum. The students are required to complete aprogramming project dealing with number system conversion and they use JAVA programming toachieve this

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Case Studies in Entrepreneurship

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zbigniew J Pasek, University of Windsor

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

- norming - performing -adjourning summarize the team evolution and progress through each stage.The students were allowed to work in groups and discuss the assigned issues. They were quitesuccessful in identifying the correct answers and these group discussions enforced the keynotions of entrepreneurship, which up to this point were rather theoretical; they also allowed thestudents to categorize their own effort (students work in teams on a term-long project involvingproduct development for a global market) as entrepreneurial. As one student wrote:“…the film is illustrating how quickly a design becomes obsolete, how competitors will work onimproving and capitalising on a new design, and how the market is rapidly changing. I believethe film is

Conference Session

Instrumentation Technical Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Thiruparan Balachandran, Middle Tennessee State University; Saleh M. Sbenaty, Middle Tennessee State University; Jeffrey Walck, Middle Tennessee State University

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Instrumentation

., Merritt, D. J., Renton, M. S., Dixon, K. W., “Seed moisture content affects afterripenig and smoke responsiveness in three sympatric Australian native species rom fire-prone environments”, Austral Ecology , 2009, 23, 866-877.10. Sweetman, H. L., “Studies of chemical control of relative humidity in closed spaces”, Ecology, 1933, 14, 40-45.11. Kate Gold and Fiona Hay, Equilibrating seeds to specific moisture levels, Technical Information Sheet_09, Millennium Seed Bank Project, www.kew.org/msbp .12. Shin, D. I., Shin, K. H., Kim, I. K., Park, K. S., Lee, T. S., Kim, S. I., Lim, K. S., Huh, S. J., “ Low-power hybrid wireless network for monitoring infant incubators”, Medical Engineering & Physics, 2005, 27, 713-716

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Programs in Support of Systems Engineering Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Valerie Maier-Speredelozzi, University of Rhode Island; Colleen Grinham; manbir sodhi, University of Rhode Island

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Systems Engineering

project work site was set uponline to allow the teachers to continue to communicate as they implement the activities in theirclassrooms, and provide further feedback and implementation assessment with different settings.Feedback after the workshop was very positive, and the organizers hope to repeat and expand theprogram.Introduction and FormatThe motivation for this workshop arose from a desire to introduce more K-12 educators toconcepts of systems engineering, in an effort to ultimately attract more students into this field.Previous research and experience has shown that if K-12 educators are not familiar with orconfident in basic engineering concepts or specific engineering disciplines, they will not be ableto effectively encourage their

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching in Architectural Engineering

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jill Nelson P.E., California Polytechnic State University; John W. Lawson, Architectural Engineering, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Architectural

Paper ID #7101Teaching Architecture, Engineering and Construction Disciplines: Using Var-ious Pedagogical Styles to Unify the Learning ProcessJill Nelson P.E., California Polytechnic State University Jill Nelson is an Assistant Professor for the Architectural Engineering Department at California Polytech- nic State University (Cal Poly), San Luis Obispo, CA. Professor Nelson came to Cal Poly with over 25 years of structural design and project management experience. She is a registered Professional Engineer and Structural Engineer in the states of California and Washington. Jill Nelson received a B.S. degree in Civil

Conference Session

Grasping the "Concept"

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katharyn E. K. Nottis, Bucknell University; Margot A Vigeant, Bucknell University; Michael J. Prince, Bucknell University; Ana Gabriela Aguilera Silva, Bucknell University

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Chemical Engineering

Paper ID #6993The Effect of Inquiry-Based Activities and Prior Knowledge on Undergradu-ates’ Understanding of ReversibilityDr. Katharyn E. K. Nottis, Bucknell University Dr. Nottis is an Educational Psychologist and Professor of Education at Bucknell University. Her research has primarily concentrated on meaningful learning in science and engineering education from the perspec- tive of Human Constructivism. She has authored publications and done presentations on the generation of analogies, misconceptions, and learning science and engineering concepts. She is committed to collab- orative research projects, finding them a

Conference Session

Retaining and Developing Women Faculty in STEM

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tamara Bush, Michigan State University; Laura J Genik, Michigan State University

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Women in Engineering

success by firstworking in such positions in professional and discipline societies as well as understanding theimpacts for early career faculty.Michigan State University was funded through the NSF ADVANCE program for an InstitutionalTransformation Grant. One of the components of this ADVANCE grant focused on women’sleadership. This leadership project had an overarching goal of understanding what factorsmotivated women faculty to become leaders. Within this overarching goal, the women’sleadership team also wanted to better understand the roles their disciplinary/professionalsocieties played in leadership development and advancement.As a beginning step to meet these goals, the women’s leadership team needed to first understandhow women participated

Conference Session

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

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brooke Morin, Ohio State University; Krista M. Kecskemety, Ohio State University; Kathleen A Harper, Ohio State University; Paul Alan Clingan, Ohio State University

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First-Year Programs

application assignments worth 20%Preparation Assignments 10% Lab Practical 3%Application Assignments 20% Weekly Quizzes (Not Preparation) 6%Extra Weekly Assignments (Bonus) 3% Midterm Exams 20%Lab Preparation & Reports 18% Final Comprehensive Exam 15%Design Project 5% Anonymous Journals 3%Results and DiscussionPerformance Compared to a Previous YearThe first evaluation of the effectiveness of the new

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Learning, Evaluation, and Assessment

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

K.S. Krishnamoorthi, Bradley University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

12 E 5 12 12About the Author Page 23.1223.10ReferencesABET (2011), Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs, 2012 – 2013, ABET.org.Chakravorty, S., (2010), Where Process-Improvement Projects Go Wrong, Wall Street Journal, January 25, 2010, N.Y.Deming, W. E., (1986), Out of the Crisis, MIT Center for Advanced Engineering Study, Cambridge, MA.Gabor, A., (1990). The Man Who

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Difference, Disability, and (De)Politicization: The Invisible Axes of Diversity

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erin A. Cech, Rice University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

inequality within science and engineering professions. Her current research projects focus on the recruitment and retention of women, Native Americans, and LGBT individuals, and the role of professional cultures in the inequality in STEM. Page 23.1243.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 The Veiling of Queerness: Depoliticization and the Experiences of LGBT EngineersAbstractThe ideology of depoliticization within the culture of engineering is the belief that “social” issuescan and should be bracketed from the more “technical” aspects of

Conference Session

Teaching - Best Practices

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Masud Salimian, Morgan State University; Yaseen Mahmud, Morgan State University; Avis L. Ransom, Morgan State University School of Engineering

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Manufacturing

. As staff for the Dean of the School of Engineering, she develops projects, plans and implements strategies and develops and documents reports, newsletters and proposals. Page 23.1245.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Theme-based Teaching / Learning: A New Approach in Teaching Manufacturing ProcessesIntroductionOne of the most challenging aspects of teaching manufacturing processes is the lack oflaboratory equipment for the vast variety of the processes and techniques involved. In fact,economically, it is impossible to acquire the vast

Conference Session

Outreach to K-12 Females

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jani M Pallis, Cislunar Aerospace, Inc.; Jill L McNitt-Gray, University of Southern California

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

and science content, two other sessions that have beentrademarks of our project have been the CEO/Executive Breakfast and Career Panel.CEOs or women executives from local technology firms are invited to breakfast with theGet SSET students. Students spend time with each executive and learn about theirbackgrounds, education, challenges and “how they got where they are today”.The Career Panel is held during one evening. Participants are women who havesuccessfully coupled sports and an aspect of STEM in their professional lives. Womenfrom a variety of STEM backgrounds form our career panel. Over the years this hasincluded: the manager of product design at an athletic footwear company with degrees inmaterial science and mechanical engineering, the

Conference Session

Institutional Perspectives and Boundary Work

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna M Riley, Smith College; Victoria Henry, Smith College; Lucia C Leighton, Smith College

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

project, as there are not existing surveys specific tothese research questions. Because the focus population was engineering thermodynamicsprofessors, it is unlikely that this survey is generalizable to any significant extent.Questions from the survey were organized into five cluster themes: 1) Attitude TowardsThermodynamics Textbooks, 2) Institutional Support of Innovation, 3) Innovation of teachingmethods, 4) Knowledge of Engineering Education, and 5) Institutional prioritization of teaching.Survey questions with directionally negative content were reverse coded and the clusters werethen measured for internal consistency using Cronbach’s alpha. Cluster 5, “InstitutionalPrioritization of Teaching Methods” revealed a poor alpha score of .419 and

Conference Session

Fresh Perspectives on Information Literacy

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ruth E. H. Wertz, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Michael Fosmire, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Austin Iglesias Saragih, Purdue University; Amy S. Van Epps, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Megan R Sapp Nelson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Brian G Dillman, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Engineering Libraries

…?CELT Item 15 is also a special case where it had a significant negative association with one itemof the CAT assessment. While there were several other items with a negative association, noneof the others were significant at the p < 0.05 level. In comparison to the item analysis of theCELT instrument, items 3 and 15 both had very low item discrimination values as determined bythe point biserial correlation, and thus were determined to be poor items11. More detaileddiscussion of the item analysis can be found in this separate study.Future WorkIn the next phase of our project, we will be looking more closely at the item to item analysis, andin particular categorizing the CAT items to identify sub-categories within the broad criticalthinking

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

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Educational Research and Methods

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Outreach to K-12 Females

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christina Kay White, University of Texas, Austin; Richard H. Crawford, University of Texas, Austin; Austin Bates Talley, University of Texas, Austin; Anthony J Petrosino Jr, The University of Texas at Austin ; Kristen Bland, University of Michigan

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

at a nearby university, Beyond Blackboards incorporates engineering design method andthe National Academy of Engineering (NAE) 21st Century Grand Challenges to immerse upperelementary and middle school students in design-based learning. During afterschool “InnovationClubs” throughout the 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 academic year and a summer camp followingeach year, middle school students worked in teams to design, build, and program robots usingLEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT robotics kits and the NXT-G programming environment. Teamspresented the functionality of their final design, and contextualized their project by describing areal world application they researched for their robot that may help to solve one of the 14 NAE21st Century Grand Challenges

Conference Session

Novel Pedagogies 2

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James A. Kaupp, Queen's University; Brian M Frank P.Eng., Queen's University; Ann Shih-yi Chen, Queen's University

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Educational Research and Methods

University Brian Frank is an associate professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, where he has taught courses in electronics and wireless systems. He is the DuPont Canada Chair in Engineering Education Research and Development, and the Director of Program Development in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science where he works on engineering curriculum development, program assessment, and developing educational technology. He is a co-founder of the Canadian Engineering Education Association and is currently coordinating the Engineering Graduate Attribute Development Project, working with National Council of Deans of Engineering and Applied Science and the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board, to develop

Conference Session

K-12 Professional Development II

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

So Yoon Yoon, INSPIRE, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Yi Kong, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Johannes Strobel, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

day. Teachers participating in the on-school-site academy, as part of theNSF funded research project, were expected to deliver “what is technology”, “what isengineering” activities, introduction to EDP, and the four EiE lessons contained in a single EiEunit during the school year.B. ParticipantsParticipants of this study are teachers either who attended the Summer Academy offered by theINSPIRE at Purdue University (National group) or the on-site Summer Academy held in a largeschool district located in South Central United States (On-site group) from 2008 to 2011. The Page 23.838.52008 to 2010 National group were volunteers from across the U.S

Conference Session

Engineering Identity 1

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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

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Educational Research and Methods

. Page 23.89.7 For this next interview, our focus is on learning more about “who you are” and the experiences that have shaped the way you think, act, and see yourself in the world and in relation to others. To do this effectively we will use pictures, that you own or collect from another source, that represent something important to you. These pictures may be in any form – self-portraits, graphic images, computer generated images, pictures of friends, family, homes, co-workers, projects, favorite places, etc. There are no right or wrong pictures. The pictures we will ask you to provide for this next interview will be held confidential and viewed only by the researchers of this study. The pictures will be used solely for the

Conference Session

Retaining and Developing Women Faculty in STEM

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ziyu Long, Purdue University; Patrice Marie Buzzanell, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Klod Kokini, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Robyn F Wilson, Purdue University; Jennifer C Batra, Purdue University ; Lindsey B. Anderson, Purdue University

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Women in Engineering

research questions: (RQ1) how do womenengineering faculty construct their mentoring networks? and (RQ2) what are engineering womenfaculty’s mentoring network configurations?Methods This paper is part of a larger project to assess the revised formal mentoring programsdesigned and offered by the College of Engineering at a large Midwestern (U.S.) university andto study the mentoring experiences of faculty members in the STEM discipline. Our paperfocuses on women faculty members’ mentoring experience from a network perspective. Seventenure-track women faculty members from the College of Engineering agreed to participate inour study (see Table 1). Participants represent five different engineering specialties in theCollege. Two of our

Conference Session

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

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Chemical Engineering

residential IllinoisMathematics and Science Academy and Kansas Academy of Mathematics and Science.Conversely, if just high school location was used without home addresses, the data may notadequately capture the locale background of students who attend schools in other locales.However, obtaining details on high schools attended and implementing a qualitative component Page 23.885.12where rural students are interviewed as part of the study would provide more information andpartially lessen this limitation.Because of the somewhat narrow scope of the project and the limitations, further research is stillneeded to assess rural students’ participation in

Conference Session

...by Design

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amber Kendall, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach; Merredith D Portsmore, Tufts University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

-paper planning than shedoes, but she was only observed noting this idea, never asking her students to expand on whythey felt the need to build before planning. Because it happened several times during theplanning time, this episode can be labeled a response, albeit a possibly unconscious choice, tocoerce her students into her ideal model of planning which might not be useful for this project orfor their style of problem solving. Her insistence during the lesson that planning was achievedby having a sufficient drawing and words on their worksheet ignored the diversity of planninggoing on in her own classroom.If teachers wish to emphasize planning, they need to consider what tools will actually be useful,if not essential, to their students for a

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching and Research in Physics or Engineering Physics I

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Teresa L. Larkin, American University; Jessica Uscinski, American University

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Engineering Physics & Physics

. They essentially describe the intended scope and expected results of ateaching activity, course, or program. Goals express intended outcomes in general terms andobjectives express them in specific terms2. A learning outcome refers to a statement thatdescribes what the learner is to have achieved and can reasonably and reliably demonstrate bythe end of a teaching activity, course, or program.Measures to assess student learning typically fall into one of two categories: direct or indirect.A direct measure is one that “directly” evaluates student learning3. Direct measures include theuse of actual student work and include items such as an  exam or quiz,  class assignment, project, report, etc.  work-related task,  interaction

Conference Session

Best of Computer in Education Division

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacob Bishop, Utah State University; Matthew A Verleger, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach

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Computers in Education

videos outside of class, and participated in interactive learning activities inside class.Students in the flipped environment scored significantly higher on all homework assignments,projects, and tests.In summary, of all the studies on the flipped classroom, there is only one (Day and Foley [11] ) thathas examined student performance throughout a semester. While the results from this study areencouraging, this is not sufficient evidence to warrant generalization far beyond that situation.Further, the solution was very specific, rather than being based on established principles to guideadaptation. Thus, additional research is needed to examine the influence of flipped classroominstruction on objective learning outcomes.6 Future Directions for

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Global Competency and What Makes a Successful Engineer

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kari Wold, University of Virginia; Stephanie Moore Ph.D., University of Virginia

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International

, Germany. It does so by focusing ontone U.S. student and one German student, Ben and Manuela, and using survey information,observations of class sessions, analysis of student projects, and interviews with them to illustratetheir experiences.Data indicate the U.S. student, Ben, adjusted the methods he used to communicate with Germanstudents and expressed an increasing awareness of the connection between engineering solutionsand cultural differences. The German student, Manuela, increased her participation levelsthroughout the simulations as well as increasingly expressed her curiosity to know more aboutother cultural engineering practices. It is hoped the findings from this study informs futurecourses on how to instruct students in how to display