Conference Session

Classroom Management

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward F. Gehringer, North Carolina State University

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New Engineering Educators

more reflectively on that course.Reason #2: The rehearsal effect. The first time one makes a presentation, mistakes areinevitable. Practice makes perfect, and reflecting on what you did in one section willhelp you do a better job in another section. One caveat: More practice is not always anadvantage, as we will discuss in the next section.Reason #3: Questions from students in one section may help in another section.Presenting the material multiple times lets you observe the reactions of different sets ofstudents. A student in one class may ask a question that leads you to present the samematerial better to the other class. Page 24.961.4Category 3

Conference Session

Engineering Leadership Development Constituent Committee Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew C. Hurt, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Robert C. Deadman, Ivy Tech Community College; Jenny Daugherty, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Daniel O. Lybrook, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Engineering Leadership Development Division

technology students and then will be used todevelop/modify curriculum at the community college and university partner. Page 24.973.6Technology Leadership Certificate and CurriculumUtilizing the Technology Leadership competency model, we will develop the content for aTechnology Leadership certificate. Course content of the certificate will reflect those essentialcompetencies, allowing all students who complete to develop a technology leadership skill set.Further, we will use the working competency model to develop and refine courses in the AS /AAS programs at the statewide community college and the university program, with a focus onstudents

Conference Session

Principles of K-12 Engineering Education and Practice

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pamela S. Lottero-Perdue, Towson University; Elizabeth A Parry, North Carolina State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

or developed with persistence, effort, and focus on learning.”13 Dweck reflected on suchgrowth mindset individuals as follows: They knew that human qualities, such as intellectual skills, could be cultivated through effort. And that’s what they were doing – getting smarter. Not only weren’t they discouraged by failure, they didn’t even think they were failing. They thought they were learning.16The focus for these individuals was on learning and improving as they were challenged and evenas they failed.iii Research has suggested that students who have, are exposed to, or develop a growthmindset may experience a variety of positive outcomes. For example, middle school studentswith a growth mindset increased their

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vikram Kapila, Polytechnic Institute of New York University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

, microcontrollers,and robotics to prototype a variety of mechatronics projects. These activities illustrated real-world applications of fundamentals covered in introductory lectures to reinforce and impart agreater sense of understanding. Such a curriculum and instruction strategy exposed teachers tofundamental mechatronics design principles as they learned the core concepts through activitieswherein they built practical devices that integrated and illustrated their learning. The discussionportion of each session provided participants with an opportunity to reflect on the session’s workand to brainstorm ways of integrating these activities in K-12 STEM learning. On the last two days of guided training, an entrepreneurship module—consisting

Conference Session

Socio-cultural Elements of Learning through Service

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bowa George Tucker, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; David O. Kazmer, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Chris Swan, Tufts University; Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Kurt Paterson P.E., James Madison University; Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University; Greg Rulifson P.E., University of Colorado, Boulder; Linda Barrington, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

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Community Engagement Division

and McTighe (2005) identified three stages: (1) Identify desiredoutcomes and results, (2) Determine what constitutes acceptable evidence of competency in theoutcomes and results, and (3) Plan instructional strategies and learning experiences that bringstudents to these competency levels. They posit this approach will help faculty designinstruction that promotes understanding and fosters student engagement.Another important approach to curricular reform that called for improvement throughoutundergraduate education has been in service-learning pedagogy. Service-learning is a teachingmethod in which students participate in organized service activity for academic credit that meetsidentified community issues, and that reflection done by the

Conference Session

Research in Biomedical Pedagogy

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David W. Gatchell PhD, Northwestern University; Robert A. Linsenmeier, Northwestern University

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Biomedical

wereasked to rate these courses using a three-point scale: 1, this course should not be required of allundergraduate bioengineers; 2, it is uncertain as to whether this course should be required; 3,this course should be required. Responses from industry are shown by open bars, and thosefrom academia by gray bars. There were no differences (p ≥ 0.05 in all ten cases) in the meanratings of these courses by academia and industry. Another point of some interest is whether tracks are useful in the curriculum. Hereopinions varied widely, as shown in Table 4. Many individuals strongly supported the value oftracks, but others did not, reflecting the split within the actual programs. Table 4. Perceived value of tracks in BME undergraduate

Conference Session

Advances in CAD with Emphasis on Dimensioning

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Holly K. Ault Ph.D., Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Linjun Bu; Kejiang Liu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Engineering Design Graphics

am going to do is naming the features I make. I am also going to start using chamfers and rounds as a feature.” • “In the future, I will try not to group up different features in a mirror so that I could change the part if necessary.” • “After seeing how useful mirror is in the past few labs, I will certainly employ more use of that feature.”A few reflected on the situational aspects of modeling strategy: “I would certainly use differentmodeling strategies depending on the intended future of a particular part file.” Some of thesecomments may reflect the students’ inexperience with changing models, as it was observed thatmany students immediately opened the sketches to make simple dimensional changes rather

Conference Session

Laboratory Experiences with Signal Processing and Controls

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chad Eric Davis P.E., University of Oklahoma; Anh Mai, University of Oklahoma

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

sensor. Many additional sensorsare also available from LEGO. The LEGO Mindstorm NXT kit also includes an adequate supplyof LEGO pieces. The light sensors can be used in reflective mode with an internal LED sourceor in ambient mode, where a flashlight or other form of external lighting can be used to controlthe robot. The students are then required to install LabVIEW and the LEGO Mindstorm NXTModule on their laptops, both of which can be downloaded from NI.com. The LEGO MindstormNXT has proven to be a versatile platform as they have been used at our university in numerousways and for varying student levels. The same platform has also been used for hands-onactivities for high school outreach events and freshman orientation projects. Using the

Conference Session

Gainful Employment: Preparing Technicians to Satisfy the Needs of Industry

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary J. Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College

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Two Year College Division

serves. ABET presently lists14 twenty-three specific criteria for programs that have beenrecognized as viable technology disciplines. Even though ABET provides language to accountfor subtle name differences (e.g. Bioengineering Technology and Similarly Named Programs)the specific program criteria are very prescriptive in the definition of program graduates skillsets. ABET is constantly revising and updating the particular criteria to reflect changes withinthe technology. However, the twenty-three program criteria effectively form technology siloswith very little cross-over from one technology to another and to some extent discourage inter-disciplinary programs. Furthermore, the two-year college graduates of these programs typicallydeal with the

Conference Session

The Nature of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Session 4

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Michael Ferguson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University and Central Queensland University; Kathryn Jablokow, Pennsylvania State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

data gathered frominexperienced or non-innovative engineers (15, 16). The models of engineering innovativenessand non-innovativeness that were developed during this study come from the data collected or'grounded' in the interviews and descriptions of engineering innovators and non-innovatorsprovided by engineering innovators, not from any experimentally constructed data sources (15).Study participants described the characteristics of non-innovative engineers as they described thecharacteristics of innovative engineers and describing both innovative and non-innovativebehavior of engineers was a common approach to sharing insights and reflecting on ourinterview questions.Grounded theory was an appropriate methodology due to the confusion and

Conference Session

Curricular Issues in Computing and Information Technology Programs II

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Candido Cabo, New York City College of Technology/CUNY

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Computing & Information Technology

factors can be made easier byorthogonal factor rotation. We used the varimax rotation method with Kaiser normalization.2.3 Cluster AnalysisAfter the factors or components underlying the different conceptual categories have beenidentified, it is possible to derive scores for each student on each factor. We used hierarchicalcluster analysis, using the Euclidian distance as a proximity measurement, to classify students’factor scores and to group students in different clusters reflecting their responses to conceptualassessments. The number of clusters was determined by inspection of the dendrogram, a displayrepresenting visually the distances at which clusters are combined

Conference Session

New Teaching Pedagogies: Methods and Assessments

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan B. Swithenbank, US Coast Guard Academy; Thomas William DeNucci, U.S. Coast Guard Academy

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Mechanical Engineering, Mechanics

objectives for thispaper was to document the details of what we did to implement the flipped classroom, includingdetails such as software choices, video length, and topic used. Here are the things that we learnedand wished that we had known when we started this. 1. Do not be afraid to try new things. When Prof. DeNucci, first brought this idea to Prof. Swithenbank, she was not excited about this. It was new and different, but after further reflection, she thought “why not give it a try?” This may work for you and it may not, but it was definitely worth trying. We would use this method again after trying it while incorporating some of these lessons learned. 2. Preparation will reduce the amount of time it takes to produce the

Conference Session

Best of NEE

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen M. Williams P.E., Milwaukee School of Engineering; Robert W. Hasker, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Steven Holland, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Adam Redd Livingston, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Kerry R. Widder, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Josiah A. Yoder, Milwaukee School of Enginering

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New Engineering Educators

improve the teaching ability of engineeringfaculty members. Numerous programs to address faculty teaching skills are spelled out in theliterature.4, 5, 6, 7, 8 A variety of programs for preparing faculty to teach are detailed by Stice.9These include taking graduate courses on teaching, attending teaching workshops and seminars,mentorships, networking, consulting with on-campus teaching experts, and self-study.In their article on faculty mentoring, Bullard and Felder offered their experiences in a mentoringpartnership in which each taught a section of the same course.10 The two instructors, oneexperienced and one new to teaching, sat in on each other’s classes and met for debriefingsessions. Their article presented reflections on what they did

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew L. Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University; Donald D. Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University; Robert W. Fletcher, Lawrence Technological University; Eric G. Meyer, Lawrence Technological University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

testing a weekbefore final testing. This turned out to be an important aspect toward “persist through and learnfrom failure,” “act upon analysis,” and “apply systems thinking to complex problems.” Ingeneral, most teams did not appreciate these outcomes during this project, but realized by thefinal project how important they are. This was clearly reflected in the scoring results differencebetween the rainwater car and final projects, details of which are related in the conclusionssection. In other words, the students were much better prepared for interim and final testingduring the final project. The students’ car projects are judged on two tests. For the first test, thecar is to obtain maximum distance; for the second test, the car must land on a

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Research Technical Session 7

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessica Menold, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Kathryn Jablokow, Pennsylvania State University; Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Daniel Michael Ferguson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University and Central Queensland University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

cognitive style and potential level, both ofwhich are stable over time. Cognitive style (sometimes called preferred style or problem solvingstyle) is typically defined in terms of consistent individual differences in a person’s preferredways of organizing and processing information and experience4. Examples of cognitive styleinclude the Sensing-Intuition dimension of Jung’s psychological types and Kirton’s Adaption-Innovation continuum, which reflects an individual’s preference for structure4, 7. Research showsthat cognitive style is unchanged across a person’s lifetime, but coping behavior can be usedwhen needed (at an increased cognitive cost) to behave in ways that do not align with a person’scognitive style4, 7 – i.e., while style is fixed

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Programs and Courses Session 5

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael (Mick) J. Bates, Waynesburg University; Donald Ken Takehara, Taylor University; Hank D. Voss, Taylor University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Conference Session

WIED: Faculty and Gender Issues

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sharon Patricia Mason, Rochester Institute of Technology; Carol Elizabeth Marchetti, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Margaret B. Bailey, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Stefi Alison Baum, Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Women in Engineering

career success. Examining awardrecipients is one method of ensuring that evolving university values reflect the diverse facultycomposition and the university’s dedication to that diversity. 4This paper examines the faculty award structure at a large private university as an indicator ofevolving university values that esteem the achievements of faculty and support them in theircareer advancement.1 Data on university awards for faculty since the 1964-65 academic yearwere examined with regard to recipient gender. For the academic years 2007-08 through 2011-12, the percentage of awards received by female faculty is compared to a weighted percentage offemales in the faculty population (based on the number and type of awards and data provided

Conference Session

Green and Sustainable Manufacturing Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tzu-Liang Bill Tseng, University of Texas, El Paso; Richard Chiou, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.); Paras Mandal, University of Texas, El Paso; Eric D Smith, University of Texas, El Paso; Radian G Belu, Drexel University (Tech.); Oscar H. Salcedo, University of Texas, El Paso

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Manufacturing

maintain safe working environments. Social Responsibility d the principles, values, and standards that guide behavior in an organization. Sexual Harassment e business ethics model that includes values, norms, and expectationsthat reflect the concerns of multiple major stakeholders,including consumers, employees, shareholders, suppliers,competitors, and the community. f codified into law, incentives to reward organizations for takingaction to prevent misconduct.Select

Conference Session

Engaging Minority Pre-College and Transfer Students in Engineering

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stacie LeSure, Utah State University; Nathan Mentzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Kurt Henry Becker, Utah State University - Engineering Education

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Minorities in Engineering

24.146.3students poses many challenges to educators. According to Evans et al.: 2 The subject [of design] seems to occupy the top drawer of a Pandora’s box of controversial curriculum matters, a box often opened only as accreditation time approaches. Even ‘design’ faculty—those often segregated from ‘analysis’ faculty by the courses they teach—have trouble articulating this elusive creature called design 25.Human-Centered Design (HCD)Human-centered design (HCD) also known as participatory design, reflective design, andcooperative design, is a design approach which aims to actively involve the end users in thedesign process. The goal of HCD is to ensure that products are not only

Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hadi Ali, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Robin Adams, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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College Industry Partnerships

larger environment of which [a system] is a part” and theimportance of the “role it plays in the larger whole.”14 We use a semi-structured format withfollow-up probes to help the interviewee reflect on their insights, strategies, and basis fordecisions, judgments, or courses of action.15 Probes were used to ask participants to expand onthe meaning of certain ideas such as “broad background.” The interview lasted one hour and theprotocol had three sections: a section on background and influential experiences; a section on thecritical decision method; and a section on questions about experiences with developing andidentifying other big picture thinkers. Following the individual interviews, a second one-hourfocus group discussion was used to follow

Conference Session

SD Technical Session: Tricks of the Trade

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer A. Turns, University of Washington; Brook Sattler, University of Washington; Kathryn Ann Mobrand, University of Washington; Drew Paine, Human Centered Design & Engineering, University of Washington

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Student

” (p. 258).25 Further, it is valuable to note that students learn disciplinaryrhetoric in a reflective and intentional manner so that they may enter the conversation, makinginformed language choices and becoming thoughtful and proactive members of a disciplinarycommunity. As Bazerman notes: “Explicit teaching of discourse holds what is taught up forinspection, provides the students with means to rethink the ends of the discourse, and offers awider array of means to carry the discourse in new directions” (p. 76).26How can educators working with emerging scholars use our procedure to support emergingscholars? We see an opportunity to study exactly how the use of the procedure helps emergingscholars. Such future work could involve creating

Conference Session

Understanding our Students & Ethical Development

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Denise Wilson, University of Washington; Mee Joo Kim, University of Washington-Seattle; Rebecca A. Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Elizabeth Burpee

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Engineering Ethics

report an increasing writtencommunication workload over time.33 If supervised properly, Wheeler and McDonald reportthat writing allows students to develop and use critical thinking skills.34 While engineeringprograms typically incorporate ill-defined problems for capstone projects—another recognized Page 24.674.4tool for developing critical thinking, writing for reflection will also help develop skills forproblem identification, analysis, metacognition and the formation of value judgements.30,35Snyder & Snyder suggest essay questions rather than simple recall to encourage criticalthinking.25In addition to promoting the development of

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sigrid Berka, University of Rhode Island; Walter von Reinhart

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International

,” Christina Neidert emphasizes thatthe integrated course offerings make an additional learning outcome possible as a result of beingimmersed in a research group while simultaneously reflecting on the cultural values of the hostcountry. Thus learning takes place which goes far beyond just gaining technical and linguisticproficiency. To illustrate this point, Neidert summarizes the added value of an integratedcurricular design which benefits URI students studying in Braunschweig; her statement can beread as a synopsis of what has been discussed in the international engineering educationcommunity as getting exposed to different “engineering cultures.”25The third of the best practices Neidert lists at the end of her article is the “Focus on

Conference Session

Teaching Dynamics

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brianno Coller, Northern Illinois University

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Mechanics

hypothesizing, probing, and reflecting. Information is given to players/learners at justthe time they will be able to make sense of it and to use it. In a videogame, knowledge ispowerful because it can be put to productive use.I make no claim that Spumone measures up to the ideal playing/learning environment describedabove. However, it would be interesting to take a deeper look into how students are usingSpumone, and to look for affordances provided by the game that are benefiting the learningprocess. The study described in this paper is more exploratory in nature, with a goal of findingdiscernible patterns of play and patterns of learning within the “click stream” captured by thegame log files.Videogame Challenge: Spumone DropSpumone contains more

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wei Zheng, Jackson State University; Yanhua Cao, Jackson State University; Himangshu Shekhar Das, Jackson State University; Jianjun Yin, Jackson State University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

survey on students' online collaborative experience are shown in Table 8. They demonstrate that the students in the groups (B, C, and D) with scaffolding generally had higher level of perception or collaboration activities than those in the control group (A) without scaffolding on online collaborative learning. However, students in the cognitive cooperation-scaffolding group (C) showed lower levels when they were asked “the members in my group collaborate with each other effectively, ” “It motivates me to learn through the use of online discussion,” and “Team online discussion makes me reflect on the course content in a deeper level”. This result is in accordance to the finding by Weinberger 24, i.e., students following the cognitive scaffolding

Conference Session

K-12 Engineering Resources: Best Practices in Curriculum Design, Part 1 of 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Malinda S. Zarske, University of Colorado, Boulder; Madison J. Gallipo, University of Colorado Boulder; Janet L. Yowell, University of Colorado, Boulder; Derek T. Reamon, University of Colorado, Boulder

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

motivation. The students who enter the STEMAcademy reflect the diverse demographics of the area, which is a goal of the program.4The STEM Academy engages its students in challenging math, science, foreign language,computer science, and engineering design curricula. The structure of these high schoolengineering design courses is intended to develop the skills to be successful in a first-yearengineering program at the college level. Four years of fundamental engineering design coursesare required to earn a STEM Academy certificate at Skyline High School; each course isdesigned in collaboration with the University of Colorado Boulder’s College of Engineering andApplied Science.Students begin their engineering sequence with the Explorations in STEM

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Education Session 3

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anthony Joseph, Pace University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

the fourlearning outcomes items and the three course impact items at least 67% of the students agreed orstrongly agreed with these items. In fact 67% agreed or strongly agreed with course impact item,I discovered that team work helps get assignments completed quicker than working alone.Additionally, 100% and 83% of the students agreed or strongly agreed with the item: As a resultof taking this class I have a better understanding of entrepreneurs, and this item: The use of ajournal in this course helped me to better assess my learning, respectively.The journal was provided to students in a 14-item Microsoft Word template to help students withtheir learning of the course content through reflection upon it. It requested reporting on suchitems as

Conference Session

Software Engineering Constituent Committee Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gustavo Lopez, Universidad de Costa Rica; Alexandra Martinez, Universidad de Costa Rica

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

a staged approach from software engineering is applicableto software testing, and shows that incremental development is not well supported on severalcurriculums. Martinez et al.11 present their experience with two reflection mechanisms: alearning journal used in a Software Testing course, and a two-part reflection questionnaireused in a Software Quality Assurance course. Smith et al.19 explain how they used peer re-views to teach software testing within a Data Structures course, by encouraging collabora-tion and competition among students.The rest of the paper is organized as follows. Section 2 describes the context of the courses.Section 3 presents the labware used in the course. Section 4 mentions the implementationand assessment

Conference Session

Curricular Issues in Computing and Information Technology Programs II

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Reneta Davina Lansiquot, New York City College of Technology; Ashwin Satyanarayana, New York City College of Technology; Candido Cabo, New York City College of Technology/CUNY

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

different courses of the sametype. The lack of transfer is likely due to multiple factors. Students may have forgotten some of thematerial learned in a previous course; students may not perceive the connections; students may seethe connections but are unable to use the material in meaningful ways in a different context; or thepedagogical approach used by instructors may not be conducive to transfer.3Approaches used to facilitate transfer of learning include the use of reflective writings,contextualization of learning experiences, and application of learning to real life. Multiplestrategies have been suggested to encourage transfer 3: making the need for transfer of learningexplicit to students, advising students to take courses in the appropriate

Conference Session

Methodological & Theoretical Contributions to Engineering Education 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Stafford Sands II, Virginia Tech; Denise Rutledge Simmons, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

. Page 24.1355.3The original eight-vignette test was developed from ethical concepts that were found to be majorissues of the construction industry. The test embedded 14 issues of the construction industry intothe eight vignettes (i.e. 14 pilot test items). The 14 issues were: claims games, collusion, bidshopping, bid peddling, theft, abuse of client resources, unfair labor allocation through overtime,labor issues, frontloading, payment games, low competence of work performance, improperclient relations, use of joint ventures to increase satisfaction of prequalification requirements, andbid rigging.Response generation of the TESC requires students to read and reflect on the vignette andprovide 3 statements or questions regarding each vignette