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2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

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Ding Yuan; Nebojsa Jaksic; Jude DePalma

to be reserved for the instructors todevelop additional labs for higher level engineering classes. However, one EV3 brickmalfunctioned in late November. Consequently, the reserved set had to be used for the Spring2014 semester. It was later found that the brick needed a firmware upgrade only, whichalleviated the concern. Necessary third-party support for the EV3 is still under way. Forexample, the current LabVIEW for LEGO Mindstorms module doesn’t support the new EV3bricks. According to one of the product support engineers at the NI LabVIEW R&D section23,the new module is planned to be released in the first half of this year. Therefore, more advancedLabVIEW-based projects will have to wait until the supporting function blocks

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2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

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Manoochehr Zoghi; Hernan Maldonado; Syreeta Martinez

advising. A survey, conducted by LCOE in fall 2013,reported that one of the most useful services provided to them was thorough robust academicadvising. The Pathways program provides academic advising to an average of 15 students perweek throughout each semester. Over 240 students were provided academic advising servicesduring fall 2013 semester. LCOE advising includes help on academic plan development, courseenrollment, unit loads, program requirements, prerequisites, graduation requirement reviews, aswell as intrusive academic advising for students that are academically at-risk. Students that seekacademic advising through the Pathways program are more likely to make positive progresstowards graduation and graduate in a timely manner. The academic

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2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Gordon Romney; Pradip Dey; Mohammad Amin; Bhaskar Sinha

authors1,2,3,4,5,6. This has been an on-going process for seven years,and has made SOEC an agile “incubator”. The emphasis upon “Agility” in engineering andsoftware development was signaled by the Agile Manifesto in 2001. Seventeen industry softwareengineers declared a change in the software development process. Thomas, one of the group ofseventeen, became a noted Ruby on Rails evangelist and publisher8. Rails invites agility. Agilesoftware development, unlike the rigid, sequential “waterfall” model for software development,consists of development methods based on incremental and iterative steps. In agile development,project requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between cross-functional teams.It facilitates adaptive planning, development

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2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Brian Arnold; Jodi Reeves

use of each student’s name when calling on them (an easy task in an online chat where everyone’sname is displayed for easy reading) and even calling on the quiet ones when a question is presented tothe group can heighten engagement and risk taking. One of the primary keys to this method beingsuccessful is the instructor’s ability to read their students as individuals and as a group. The instructorwho can detect shyness, fear, discomfort or anxiousness in a student and address it in a way that allowsthe student to save face will win over the group and enhance participation. In the flipped classroommodel, if the instructor cannot deviate from their planned agenda for the meeting, it means that they arenot reading and adapting to their students

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2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Armineh Noravian; Patricia Irvine

problems allows studentsto gradually build the knowledge and skills that they need to deal with problems that aretechnically more sophisticated and ill-structured. Such a gradual approach provides students whodo not have a background with doing hands-on activities or tinkering (technical capital) andexperience in solving technical problems an opportunity to acquire it upon joining technical orengineering programs. Students in this study reported that technical content combined with theprocess of learning and applying knowledge to solve a problem was important. In fact, studentssaw processes such as planning, thinking in certain ways, learning how to learn on their own, anddoing research as important as acquiring technical knowledge. These kinds of