Conference Session

New ECE Courses

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Constance D. Hendrix, USAF Academy; Danial J. Neebel PE, US Air Force Academy; Ryan Jay Silva, U.S. Air Force Academy

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

and 4 seek to build intuition and curiosity in the students by providing a broadoverview of EE and CpE. These three goals work together to pique the students’ interest enoughto continue in the major. Conversations with advanced students in the major indicate that a fewwere frustrated by the lack of detail in the first course. Their comments indicate a hunger thatwill be fed as they move through the rest of the major.Another strong motivator for students choosing engineering as a career path is self-efficacy orthe belief in one’s ability to perform a task within a specific domain. If a student believes she orhe will succeed, then success is more likely. Jones and others [7] have shown there is a stronglink between self-efficacy and persistence

Conference Session

Assessment of Learning in ECE

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexander Ganago, University of Michigan; Sudarshan Sivaramakrishnan, University of Michigan; Robert Matthew DeMonbrun, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

, researchers explain that a student’s intrinsic motivation hasthe greatest effect on his or her potential to genuinely enjoy activities and careers, expandknowledge, and seek out new challenges2, 3, 4.While research has proven that grades and other external structures can motivate students toperform well in classrooms5, 6, the authors of this report examine extrinsic and intrinsicmotivations and their effects on students’ performance in this class. Pintrich7 points to fivegeneral constructs in understanding the motivations of students in the classroom. Additionally,he offers suggestions as to how classroom instruction might be designed to encourage studentmotivation.First, Pintrich7 notes that courses should be designed to encourage self-efficacy and

Conference Session

Flipping ECE Courses

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Micah Stickel, University of Toronto

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

Inventory Assessment Instruments for Electromagnetic Education,” in Proc., IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Int. Symp., San Antonio, Texas, 2002.13. Hake, R., “Interactive-engagement versus traditional methods: A six-thousand-student survey of mechanics test data for introductory physics courses,” Amer. J. of Phys., Vol. 66, No. 64, 1998.14. Camtasia Studio 8.0, TechSmith, available at http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.html, accessed January 3, 2014.15. Stickel, M., Liu, Q., and Hari, S., “The Effect of the Inverted Classroom Teaching Approach on Student/Faculty Interaction and Students’ Self-Efficacy,”, Proceedings 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Indianapolis, IN, June 2014