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Research Informing Teaching Practice II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Flora P. McMartin, Broad-based Knowledge, LLC; Joseph G. Tront, Virginia Tech; Sarah Giersch, Broad-based Knowledge, LLC

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Educational Research and Methods

. Page 25.698.1414. Morgan, G. Wolf, A., Mcmartin, F., Iverson E., Manduca, C., & Morrill, J. (2007). What do faculty need and want from digital libraries? Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. June 18 – 23, Vancouver, B.C.15. NEEDS (1997). Archived history found at: http://www.engineeringpathway.com/ep/premier/2009/general.jhtml;jsessionid=LZTDQON3G2AZVABAVRS SFEQ.16. Orczyk, C. (1990). The effects of critical career events on self-efficacy and scholarly achievement. Report: ED325061. 15 pp.17. Regan M. & Sheppard, S. (1996). "Interactive Multimedia Courseware and Hands-on Learning Experience: An Assessment Study," ASEE Journal of Engineering Education. 85 (2), pp. 123-130.18. Shephard, K

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FPD IV: Innovative Curriculum Elements of Successful First-year Courses

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John C. Moosbrugger, Clarkson University; Jan DeWaters, Clarkson University; Melissa Carole Richards, Clarkson University; Elisabeth A. Chapman, Clarkson University

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First-Year Programs

instruments include (references 9-10); as well as the APPLES (Academic Pathways of People LearningEngineering Survey), created by the CAEE (Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education) project andavailable online at http://caee-aps.stanford.edu/phpESP/admin/manage.php; and the LAESE (Longitudinal Page 25.34.8Assessment of Engineering Self-Efficacy) survey versions 3.0 (copyright 2006) and 3.1 (copyright 2007), which areproducts of AWE (Assessing Women and Men in Engineering), available online at www.aweonline.org.Student responses to each item were entered into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet for analysis.Likert-type responses were

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Middle School Programs

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard H. Crawford, University of Texas, Austin; Christina Kay White, University of Texas, Austin; Chandra L. Muller, University of Texas, Austin; Anthony J. Petrosino Jr., University of Texas, Austin ; Austin B. Talley P.E., University of Texas, Austin ; Kristin L. Wood, University of Texas, Austin

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

toaddressing. The Beyond Blackboards model is based on a comprehensive community approachthat integrates informal, out-of-school, design-based learning experiences to inspire diversemiddle school students to advance in STEM courses and fields. We find that our three-prongedapproach fosters a strong community culture of understanding and supporting engineering Page 25.647.10education. From afterschool Innovation Clubs to hosting an FLL competition to family ‘EngineerIt’ nights to underwater summer camp on campus, our program impacted and improved STEMinterest and self-efficacy not only for participating students, but also for students across all of

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ana T. Torres-Ayala, University of South Florida; Geoffrey L. Herman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Student

are complementary (e.g., Dan Pink25 argues for a Page 25.949.6hybrid theory that incorporates value from expectancy-value theory into self-determinationtheory). Factors TAs should consider include, but are not limited to: task value, feeling of self-efficacy, competence, relatedness, autonomy, control, and types of goals.3 Tips for How TAs Can Motivate Engineering Students Because previous work on motivation theories in the classroom has focused on theactions of faculty, many teaching tips (e.g., create project-based courses) do not directly apply towhat TAs can change. We focus on providing attitudes and actions that engineering

Conference Session

Focus on Elementary

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth A. Parry, North Carolina State University; Emily George Hardee, Brentwood Magnet Elementary School of Engineering; Lizette D. Day, Rachel Freeman School of Engineering

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Health, Ms. Parry and colleagues from theCollege of Engineering and the College of Education have been conducting research on theefficacy of implementing engineering in elementary schools. Pre and post tests on teacher andstudent attitudes toward STEM and student competency and self-efficacy in engineering designand science were administered and an analysis of student STEM notebooks was done. Results ofthat work have been or are in process of being disseminated (Ernst, et al); pilot and field test dataindicate statistically significant gains in both science content knowledge (field test) andengineering design content knowledge (pilot test) as well as in student STEM self-efficacy.STEM notebooks are used by teachers for formative assessment. At

Conference Session

Epistemic Research

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ji Hyun Yu, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Johannes Strobel, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Educational Research and Methods

, S. (2007). The cognitive-situative divide and the problem of conceptual change. Educational Psychologist, 42(1), 55-66.36. Schraw, G.J. & Olafson, L.J. (2008). Assessing teachers’ epistemological and ontological worldviews. In M. S. Khine (ed.) Knowing, knowledge, and beliefs: Epistemological studies across diverse cultures (pp.25-44). Netherlands: Springer. Schunk, D. H. (1991). Self-efficacy and academic motivation. Educational Psychologist, 26. 207-232.37. Olafson, L., Schraw, G., & Vander Veldt, M. (2010). Consistency and development of teachers’ epistemological and ontological world views. Learning Environments Research

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Out-of-School and Informal Activities

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary L. Winn, West Virginia University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

. Washington, DC: AAUW Educational Foundation. 1998. 6. Lupart, J.L., Cannon, E., & Telfer, J. “Gender differences in adolescent academic achievement, interests, values and life-role expectations.” High Ability Studies, 15(1), 25-42. 2004. 7. Post-Kammer, P., & Smith, P. L. Sex differences in career self-efficacy, consideration, and interests of eighth and ninth graders. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 32, 551-559. 1985. 8. Reimer, M.S. "Gender, Risk, and Resilience in the Middle School Context." Children and Schools, 24, 35- 47. 2002. 9. Schaefer, A. C. "G.I. Joe Meets Barbie, Software Engineer Meets Caregiver: Males and Females in B. C.’s Public Schools and Beyond." Vancouver, BC: British

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Teaching and Learning Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathalie Duval-Couetil, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Michael J. Dyrenfurth, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

distinguished, distinctly addressed, or overlap within andacross programs is difficult to assess given the variety educational models that exist. For thepurposes of this paper, entrepreneurship will be associated with the process of establishing a newbusiness venture.There is evidence, however, that exposure to such education has a positive impact and betterprepares students for the contemporary workplace. A study of senior-level engineering students Page 25.1259.4found that those who had taken one or more entrepreneurship courses had significantly higherentrepreneurial self-efficacy than those who did not and were also more likely to get hands-onskills

Conference Session

Faculty Career Development

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Miraglia, Syracuse University ; Sharon W. Alestalo, Syracuse University; Shobha K. Bhatia, Syracuse University

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Women in Engineering

historical context of women in STEM, calls a ‘cult of masculinity,’assumes that science is the province of men and the extent to which women are capable of beingscientific is measured by their ability to assume a masculine posture.iv Thus, while women havemade gains, the climate continues to be “chilly” for STEM women faculty and industryprofessionals.vvivii Though policies may change, attitudes, norms, and values are not as pliable, asnoted by Mason et al: “…assumptions about the “ideal worker” prevail, including a de factorequirement for inflexible, full-time devotion to education and employment…”viii The Women inScience and Engineering Future Professionals Program (WiSE-FPP) recognizes the persistenceof challenging work norms and values in the

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Civil Engineering Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wei Zheng, Jackson State University; Huiru Shih P.E., Jackson State University; Gordon W Skelton, Jackson State University; Jianjun Yin, Jackson State University

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Civil Engineering

questionnaires with course quizzes and tests on the specified topics.Several types of instrument are adapted to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed instruction,including the pre- and post- test questionnaire for measuring change of students’ academicdispositions and the quality of students’ quizzes and exams. Through these deliberately designedprocesses, students have the opportunity to learn how to use different learning strategies, trackand assess more effectively their academic learning, make adjustment for improvement, andeventually enhance their self-confidence and self-regulation skills.In this paper, literature across cognitive science and education is first briefly reviewed. Relevantcognitive science development and educational practice

Conference Session

Curriculum Exchange II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sharie Kranz, Coronado High School; Catherine Tabor, El Paso ISD; Art Duval, University of Texas, El Paso; Kien H. Lim, University of Texas, El Paso; Amy Elizabeth Wagler, University of Texas, El Paso; Eric A. Freudenthal, University of Texas, El Paso

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

procedural fluency and enumerates three new attributes– conceptual understanding,strategic competence, and adaptive reasoning—that constitute conceptual depth in our math-computation proficiency framework (see Figure 4). Together, they can enable students todevelop productive disposition, an affective trait related to self-efficacy resulting from acombination of fluency at applying standard computational techniques with a deep understandingof how and why they can be applied.Stigler and Hiebert32 characterized current U.S. teaching as “learning terms and practicingprocedures”, as opposed to Japanese teaching’s “structured problem solving.” Ma’s study ofU.S. and Chinese elementary math teaching26 observed related phenomena. More than 60% ofU.S

Conference Session

Retention of Women Students

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gretchen L. Hein, Michigan Technological University; Kaitlyn J. Bunker; Nilufer Onder, Michigan Technological University; Raven Rachaun Rebb; Laura E. Brown, Michigan Technological University; Leonard J. Bohmann, Michigan Technological University

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Women in Engineering

to persist within a given major or switch to anotherare complex. The factors that affect student decisions can be broadly classified into three groupsas (a) academic resources, (b) internalization and perceptions of the major and career, and (c)climate and experiential effects. The academic resources include lectures, recitations, andlaboratories; faculty and teaching assistants; university services such as advisors and careerplacement; and academic services such as study centers and academic progress monitoring.Internalization refers to perceptions of the self including confidence, self-efficacy, anddetermination to succeed. Perceptions of the major and career include students’ interest inchoosing and retaining engineering as a major and a

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathleen L. Kitto, Western Washington University; Debra S. Jusak, Western Washington University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 The iCollaborate MSE Project – 2012AbstractThis paper describes the progress to-date on the various components of the iCollaborateMSE [Materials Science and Engineering] project, as well as the preliminary assessmentdata that has been collected. The overall objectives of the research are to measure ifimprovements in student learning outcomes, student engagement, and course completionrates are possible if the structure in a basic materials engineering course is transformedfrom primarily deductive practice to an Information Communication Technology (ICT)enabled inductive teaching and learning environment. There are two major componentsof this research project. The first

Conference Session

NEW THIS YEAR! - ASEE Main Plenary II: Best Paper Recognition & Industry Day Session: Corporate Member Council Speaker

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen R. Turns, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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ASEE Board of Directors, Corporate Members Council

these strategies also draws the attention of bothstudents and teachers to the importance of learning how to learn and solve problems. Studentswho attend to these processes are more likely to detect progress toward their learning goals andhave higher self-efficacy relative to their peers who attend to the quality of final products.39 Taken together, these instructional methods can be employed to help students acquiredeclarative, procedural, and conditional knowledge. In the remainder of this section, we shareideas on how this can be achieved in an introductory thermodynamics course. For our purposes,we define an introductory course to cover the content shown in Table 3. Table 3. Topics Covered in a Typical Introductory

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Ethical Issues II: Academic Integrity and Student Development

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela L. Minichiello, Utah State University; Laurie S. McNeill, Utah State University; Christine E. Hailey, Utah State University

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Engineering Ethics

improve the understanding of the learning and teaching of high school students and teachers as they apply engineering design processes to technological problems. She is also the Principal Investigator of the Influence of MESA Activities on Underrepresented Students, a program funded by the DRK-12 program at NSF. This exploratory study examines the influences that those MESA activities have on students’ perception of engineering and their self-efficacy and interest in engineering and their subsequent decisions to pursue careers in engineering. Page 25.330.1 c American Society for

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Creative and Cross-disciplinary Methods Part II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah E. Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Melissa Marshall, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Enrique D. Gomez, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Esther Gomez, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Angela D. Lueking, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

AC 2012-3009: USING STUDENT AMBASSADORS TO RELAY THEMESFROM CHANGING THE CONVERSATION IN ENGINEERING FIRST-YEAR SEMINARSDr. Sarah E. Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Sarah Zappe is the Director of Assessment and Instructional Support in the College of Engineering at Penn State University. In this role, she provides support to faculty in trying innovative ideas in the classroom. Her background is in educational psychology with an emphasis in applied testing and measurement. Her current research interests include integrating creativity into the engineering curriculum, developing in- struments to measure the engineering professional skills, and using qualitative data to enhance response process

Conference Session

The Best of Design in Engineering

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristin L. Wood, University of Texas, Austin; Rajesh Elara Mohan, Singapore University of Technology and Design; Sawako Kaijima, Singapore University of Technology and Design; Stylianos Dritsas, Singapore University of Technology and Design; Daniel D. Frey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Christina Kay White, University of Texas, Austin; Daniel D. Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy; Richard H. Crawford, University of Texas, Austin; Diana Moreno, Singapore University of Technology and Design; Kin-Leong Pey, Singapore University of Technology and Design

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Design in Engineering Education

Outgoing, Energetic Openness to experience Cautious, Conservative Inventive, Curious Agreeableness Competitive, Outspoken Friendly, Compassionate Conscientiousness Easy-going, Careless Efficient, Organized Emotional (Neuroticism) Secure, Confident, Calm Sensitive, Anxious Figure 5. Five Factor Model (http://intraspec.ca/images/eysenck.gif)There exist a number of other dimensional measures of personality, such as Webster and Kruglanski’s“Need for Closure” scale (Webster, 1994). These dimensional measures, e.g., Webster and Kruglanski’s,are known to be related to the Five Factor Model. One well known

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NEW THIS YEAR! - ASEE Main Plenary II: Best Paper Recognition & Industry Day Session: Corporate Member Council Speaker

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Betsy Palmer, Montana State University

Tagged Topics

ASEE Board of Directors, Corporate Members Council

underlying sets of items inorder to reduce the number of items necessary to adequately measure those constructs and toassess each factor‟s meaning. [18, 19] Principal axis factoring and direct oblimin oblique rotationwith Kaiser normalization were used to identify factors. Principle axis factoring was chosen inorder to establish the existence of the underlying theoretical constructs [18-20]. Oblimin obliquerotation was selected in the knowledge that any resulting factors may be correlated. [18]Examination of the factor correlation matrix to assess the level of correlation among the factorsand the justification for their independent existence [21] indicated no serious problems.Scales included only items with rotated factor loadings greater than .40