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First-year Programs Division Technical Session 5: Using Video, Games, and More in the First Year

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eliza A Banu, Auburn University; Sai Maharaja Swamidason, Auburn University; P.K. Raju, Laboratory for Innovative Technology & Engineering Education (LITEE); Pramod Rajan, Laboratory for Innovative Technology & Engineering Education (LITEE)

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Paper ID #12830Video Based, Game Integrated Concept Tutors – Effectiveness in FreshmanCoursesDr. Eliza A Banu, Auburn University Dr. Eliza Banu has a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnic University of Bucharest and completed her Ph.D. program in Mechanical Engineering at Auburn University in 2014. Dr. Banu’s research interests are in the dynamics of impact of rigid bodies and human with granular matter as well as developing innovative instructional materials. She has been working with LITEE (Laboratory for Innovative Technology and Engineering Education) at Auburn University since 2010.Mr. Sai

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First-year Programs Division Technical Session 12: Teaching and Advising Students in that Critical First Year

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carmela Cristina Amato-Wierda, University of New Hampshire; Robert M. Henry P.E., University of New Hampshire; Ernst Linder, University of New Hampshire (UNH)

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sabbatical period in the laboratory of Dr. Kurt Fischer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, she has spent the past several years developing a common language in order to bridge and translate the findings of developmental science to first year college engineering and science education.Dr. Robert M. Henry P.E., University of New Hampshire Associate Professor of Civil Engineering University of Pennsylvania - BSCE 1973, PhD 1981 Areas of interest: structural analysis, engineering educational software, engineering education, using Minecraft to teach engineering ideas to middle school childrenProf. Ernst Linder, University of New Hampshire (UNH) 2001 - present: Professor of Statistics, Dept. of Mathematics &

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First-year Programs Division Technical Session 12: Teaching and Advising Students in that Critical First Year

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jess W. Everett, Rowan University; Maria Perez-Colon, Rowan University

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Paper ID #12106Evaluation of a dual first year student advising programDr. Jess W. Everett, Rowan University Jess W. Everett has worked in four distinct areas: waste management operations research, contaminated site assessment and remediation, education innovation, and sustainable engineering. He has employed a wide variety of techniques, including computer modeling, laboratory experiments, field testing, and surveys. His current research focuses on energy conservation, alternative energy generation, engineering learning communities, and hybrid courses (courses with classroom and on-line aspects).Ms. Maria Perez-Colon, Rowan

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First-year Programs Division Technical Session 12: Teaching and Advising Students in that Critical First Year

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Iryna Ashby, Purdue University; Marisa Exter, Purdue University

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faculty andtextbooks to tell them what to do [9]. To transition towards independence and interdependence intheir learning and as a result in their ability to advance in their professional field, students needto gain such skills as persistence, positive attitude towards learning, ability to organize andmanage time effectively, seek resources and help with their learning, collaborate with peers togain new knowledge, assess their own work and work done by others, as well as develop and useeffective strategies to conquer new topics or deepen knowledge of familiar topics [16]. In otherwords, they need to develop self-directed lifelong learning skills.It is challenging to teach these types of competencies and skills in a classroom, and

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First Year Programs Division Poster Session: The Best Place to Really Talk about First-Year Education

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lindsay Corneal, Grand Valley State University

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c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 A Guided Approach to Technical Report Writing for Undergraduate Engineering StudentsAbstractLearning how to write technical reports can be difficult for undergraduate engineering studentsthat have had very little, if any, experience with technical report writing in their high schoolclasses. The laboratory course “Engineering Measurement and Data Analysis” is required for allundergraduate engineering students at Grand Valley State University, with a major focus of thiscourse being technical report writing.In order to guide the students in preparing technical reports, templates were designed to act as anexample of how to present their laboratory results in a

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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 1: It's All About Teams and Teamwork

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jess W. Everett, Rowan University; Jenahvive K. Morgan, Rowan University; Kaitlin Engle Mallouk, Rowan University

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Paper ID #11641Pre-defined roles and team performance for first year studentsDr. Jess W. Everett, Rowan University Jess W. Everett has worked in four distinct areas: waste management operations research, contaminated site assessment and remediation, education innovation, and sustainable engineering. He has employed a wide variety of techniques, including computer modeling, laboratory experiments, field testing, and surveys. His current research focuses on energy conservation, alternative energy generation, engineering learning communities, and hybrid courses (courses with classroom and on-line aspects).Dr. Jenahvive K Morgan

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First Year Programs Division Poster Session: The Best Place to Really Talk about First-Year Education

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tracy Jane Puccinelli, College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison; John Murphy, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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, and availability of the content to instructors, clients, and teammates.2LabArchives ELN was chosen due to the very successful implementation of the classroomversion in the Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) Design Courses, and the fact thatour university began a campus-wide contract with LabArchives to provide this technology toresearch labs and other courses. LabArchives was well-studied and compared with numerousother ELNs and deemed the best option currently available that provided both a research andclassroom edition.Electronic Laboratory Notebook FormatDue to considerable reluctance by many instructors teaching the freshman course,implementation of the ELN as a replacement for the paper design notebook was stronglyencouraged, but

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First-year Programs Division Technical Session 11: Curricular and Program Innovations

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jay A. Weitzen, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Md Mamunur Rashid, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Stephen Johnston, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Eric L. Maase, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; David J. Willis, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

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week. Each of the Page 26.65.24 lecture sections, with approximately 150-200 students each, was subdivided into laboratorysections run by a Teaching Assistant (TA) with a maximum of 19 students per lab section. Thelectures were a mix of topics ranging from how to get around campus, student clubs andactivities, time management, general engineering design concepts, engineering ethics,engineering economics, and talks from industry and faculty. Laboratory work consisted ofseveral team-based design projects generally using low cost elements such as Popsicle sticks orsoup cans and tried to teach general engineering design principles. Two full-time

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First-year Programs Division Technical Session 8: Project-based Learning and Cornerstone Courses

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James A Middleton, Arizona State University; Stephen J Krause, Arizona State University; Kendra Rae Beeley; Eugene Judson, Arizona State University; John Ernzen; Ying-Chih Chen, Arizona State University

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mostly lecture with pauses for questions inone of the physics classes, to shared problem solving in one of the mathematics classes, tostudent led activities in engineering. Student interactions with each other during class rangedfrom very little, particularly in the large lecture halls, to almost constant collaboration in classeswith laboratory formats. Implications for faculty development for the improvement of freshmanengineering programs are discussed.Introduction This study examines the relationship between the pedagogical beliefs and practices offaculty teaching required freshman courses for engineering students. Research shows that facultymay hold beliefs about teaching that, in the ideal, are learner-centered, but in reality

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First Year Programs Division Poster Session: The Best Place to Really Talk about First-Year Education

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chris Gordon, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; Hasan Sevim, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville

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instruction and twohours of laboratory per week. This paper presents the design of the course, including anassessment-based approach for selection and rotation of supplemental instruction work groups,explores results of the pre- and post-assessments for two semesters of Engineering Physics I, andpresents implications for this course as well as for interfaces with subsequent courses inengineering curricula.IntroductionEngineering programs in the School of Engineering at Southern Illinois University Edwardsvillerequire two semesters of University Physics, a calculus-based sequence with associated labs.These courses are taught in the Department of Physics and require a pre-requisite of Calculus Iwith a grade of C or better and a co-requisite of Calculus

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First-year Programs Division Technical Session 2: Design in the First Year: Challenges and Successes

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kevin Calabro, University of Maryland, College Park; Ayush Gupta, University of Maryland, College Park; Jackelyn Raquel Lopez Roshwalb, University of Maryland, College Park

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 data considered includes (1) a survey administered at the end of the semester to the ENES 100 instructional team of faculty, undergraduate teaching fellows, and undergraduate laboratory assistants, (2) end of the semester course evaluation results, and (3) the authors’ reflections on the project transition.  Each of the three authors was intimately involved with the course transformation, taught one or more sections of the course in the Fall 2014 semester, and participated in most faculty planning meetings and one or more student focus groups.  Despite a large number of students being invited to participate in these focus groups from each section, these were poorly attended and so a detailed analysis of the focus group results has been omitted

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First Year Programs Division Poster Session: The Best Place to Really Talk about First-Year Education

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sarah Jane Grigg, Clemson University; Elizabeth Anne Stephan, Clemson University

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first-semester course which has three mainobjectives: (1) to prepare students for the rigor of future engineering classes; (2) to providestudents with a solid foundation of basic engineering skills; and (3) to introduce students to thedifferent engineering majors available at Clemson and possible career options. In Fall 2014, theGE program enrolled 1215 new freshman and 177 new transfer students1.Promoting problem solving development in first year engineering courses is critical to ensuringstudents’ transition successfully into upper-division courses and ultimately to a practicingengineer2. Innovative approaches to teaching problem solving skills have the potential ofappealing to a broader range of students in engineering3. “Traditional

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First-year Programs Division Technical Session 16: That Important Decision - Which Engineering Major?

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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M. Jean Mohammadi-Aragh, Mississippi State University; James Warnock, Mississippi State University; Amy Barton, Mississippi State University; Rani Warsi Sullivan, Mississippi State University; Bill B Elmore, Mississippi State University; Jane Nicholson Moorhead, Mississippi State University

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and professional development.Mrs. Amy Barton, Mississippi State University Amy Barton (M.A. in English from Mississippi State University) is an instructor in the Technical Commu- nication Program in MSU’s Bagley College of Engineering. She teaches Technical Writing, a junior-level writing course required of all undergraduate engineering students. She has also taught high school En- glish, Freshman Composition, and Introduction to Literature. Through this varied teaching experience, she has learned to tailor instructional techniques to meet the needs of different types of learners. She focuses on implementing writing-to-learn strategies in engineering courses to keep students engaged and improve critical thinking

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First-year Programs Division Technical Session 16: That Important Decision - Which Engineering Major?

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert J. Rabb P.E., The Citadel; Jason Howison, The Citadel; Kevin Skenes, The Citadel

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Paper ID #12190Assessing and Developing a First Year Introduction to Mechanical Engineer-ing CourseDr. Robert J. Rabb P.E., The Citadel Robert Rabb is an associate professor and the Mechanical Engineering Program Director at The Citadel. He previously taught mechanical engineering at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the United States Military Academy and his M.S.E. and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. His research and teaching interests are in mechatronics, regenerative power, and multidisciplinary engineering.Jason

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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 1: It's All About Teams and Teamwork

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christopher Leslie, New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering (formerly Polytechnic University); Gunter W. Georgi, New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering; Alyssa Marie D'Apice, New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering

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- sultant for the Introduction to Engineering and Design course, and also teaches courses in Science and Technology Studies such as the international history of the Internet, the history of science and race, and science fiction.Prof. Gunter W. Georgi, New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering Gunter W. Georgi, a registered Professional Engineer, is an Industry Professor at the New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering in Brooklyn, New York. Prof. Georgi is the course director for the Introduction to Engineering and Design course. He received his B.S. from Cooper Union and his M.S. and professional M.E. degrees from Columbia University. He has worked many years in the aerospace industry in design

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First-year Programs Division Technical Session 9: Focus on Student Learning, Lifelong Learning, and the Whole Student

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nikitha Sambamurthy, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Catherine G. P. Berdanier, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica Farmer Cox, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jing Lv; Yukiko Maeda, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Syafiah Mahfuzah Johari, Engineering Education Department, Purdue University

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. Page 26.1124.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Making Meaning of Data: Exploring Representations of Classroom Activities from a First Year Engineering CourseAbstract Real-time, pedagogical feedback can be useful for instructors and graduate teachingassistants in assessing the effectiveness of their instructional activities. This is especially usefulin first-year engineering classes, where laboratory and team activities may be more common.The G-RATE, Global Real-Time Assessment Tool for Teaching Enhancement, is a tool toprovide research- based feedback for instructors about their classroom interactions across fourareas based on the “How People Learn” framework1

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First-year Programs Division Technical Session 6: Hands-on Projects and Spatial Skills

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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S. Patrick Walton, Michigan State University; Mark Urban-Lurain, Michigan State University; Amanda Idema, Michigan State University; Timothy J Hinds, Michigan State University; Daina Briedis, Michigan State University

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Paper ID #12230Spatial Visualization Skills Intervention for First Year Engineering Students:Everyone’s a Winner!Dr. S. Patrick Walton, Michigan State University S. Patrick Walton received his B.ChE. from Georgia Tech, where he began his biomedical research career in the Cardiovascular Fluid Dynamics Laboratory. He then attended MIT where he earned his M.S. and Sc.D. while working jointly with researchers at the Shriners Burns Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. While at MIT, he was awarded a Shell Foundation Fellowship and was an NIH biotechnology Predoctoral Trainee. Upon completion of his doctoral studies, he

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First-year Programs Division Technical Session 16: That Important Decision - Which Engineering Major?

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Corey Kiassat, Quinnipiac University; Nebil Buyurgan, Quinnipiac University; Julia Leeds

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traditionalmethods should remain as the major part of teaching. In Weisner & Lan[7] student learning iscompared in engineering laboratories on process control and monitoring. Computer-basedsimulation experiments are used as teaching tools for one group of students while another groupuses tactile experiments. The study reveals that student learning is not adversely affected bycomputer-based experiments. A similar comparison study is reported in Olin et al. [8], wheresimulation-based laboratory components are introduced a group of electrical engineeringstudents and their learning performances are assessed against a control group. The group thatused simulation-based environments outperformed the control group. The study in Fraser et al. [9]also reports

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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 1: It's All About Teams and Teamwork

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James E. Lewis, University of Louisville; Gerold Willing, University of Louisville; Thomas D. Rockaway, University of Louisville

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. Transform Teaching and Learning: Improved retention as a result of expanding our undergraduate teaching assistance (UTA) programs and institutionalizing a formal UTA training pedagogy. A working knowledge in best practices will enable them to be both effective and engaging in the laboratory and/or classroom. 2. Increase Faculty and Student Interactions: Improved retention as a result of implementing University-wide and discipline-specific (intentional) community building activities that foster STEM students’ sense of identification with STEM departments.This project’s conceptual framework is built around three mutually intersecting groups: STEMfaculty, STEM undergraduates, and STEM Undergraduate Teaching

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First-year Programs Division Technical Session 5: Using Video, Games, and More in the First Year

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel D. Anastasio, University of Connecticut; Malgorzata Chwatko, University of Connecticut; Daniel D. Burkey, University of Connecticut; Jeffrey Ryan McCutcheon

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Paper ID #12397A First-Year Project-Based Design Course with Management Simulation andGame-Based Learning ElementsMr. Daniel D. Anastasio, University of Connecticut Daniel Anastasio received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Connecticut in 2009. He is pursuing a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at the University of Connecticut while acting as a co- instructor for the chemical engineering capstone laboratory and the first-year foundations of engineering course. His research interests include osmotically driven membrane separations and engineering peda- gogy.Ms. Malgorzata Chwatko, University of

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First-year Programs Division Technical Session 4: The Best of the All: FPD Best Papers

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chao Wang, Arizona State University; Jennifer Mott, California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo

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solving activities. Theresponsibility of learning shifts from instructor to students. Benefits of TBL include a moreinteractive and engaged classroom, student practice of problem solving, teamwork, and life-longlearning skills. Assessment results showed that over 86% of students surveyed had favorableexperience with TBL. In addition, similar positive experience was reported from students indifferent gender and race, in different academic levels and with different academic performances.These results show that TBL is a teaching pedagogy that can benefit a wide range of students.IntroductionTeam Based Learning (TBL) has been shown to be an effective collaborative learning tool inhealthcare professional schools such as medical, pharmacy and nursing

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First-year Programs Division Technical Session 8: Project-based Learning and Cornerstone Courses

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James M Widmann, California Polytechnic State University; Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University; Peter Schuster, California Polytechnic State University

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Scholar.Dr. Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University Brian Self obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Engineering Mechanics from Virginia Tech, and his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Utah. He worked in the Air Force Research Laboratories before teaching at the U.S. Air Force Academy for seven years. Brian has taught in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo since 2006. During the 2011-2012 academic year he participated in a professor exchange, teaching at the Munich University of Applied Sciences. His engineering education interests include collaborating on the Dynamics Concept Inventory, developing model-eliciting activities in mechanical engineering

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First Year Programs Division Poster Session: The Best Place to Really Talk about First-Year Education

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Noah Salzman, Boise State University; Janet Callahan, Boise State University; Gary LeRoy Hunt, Boise State University; Carol Sevier, Boise State University; Amy J Moll, Boise State University

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1992 and 1994. Following graduate school, Amy worked for Hewlett Packard in San Jose, CA and in Colorado Springs, CO. She joined the faculty at Boise State as an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering in August 200. Along with Dr. Bill Knowlton, Amy founded the Materials Science and Engineering Program at BSU and served as the first chair. In February 2011, Amy was became Dean of the College of Engineering. Amy’s research interests include microelectronic packaging, particularly 3-D integration and ceramic MEMS devices. Amy especially enjoys teaching the Introduction to Engineering and Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering courses as well as engineering outreach activities

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First-year Programs Division Technical Session 4: The Best of the All: FPD Best Papers

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John K. Estell, Ohio Northern University; David Reeping, Ohio Northern University

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INSTRUCTIONAL ACTIVITIES SUPPORTING KOLB’S CYCLE. Concrete Reflective Abstract Active Experience Observation Conceptualization Experimentation Examples Brainstorming Analogies Case study Field work Discussion Lecture Field work Laboratories Journals Model building Homework Observations Logs Papers Laboratory Primary text readings Peer review Projects Projects Problem sets Rhetorical questions Simulations Readings

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First-year Programs Division Technical Session 6: Hands-on Projects and Spatial Skills

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer Ocif Love, Northeastern University; Susan F Freeman, Northeastern University; Kris Jaeger-Helton, Northeastern University; Richard Whalen, Northeastern University

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Freeman, Northeastern University Susan Freeman, is a member of Northeastern University’s Gateway Team, a group of teaching faculty expressly devoted to the first-year Engineering Program at Northeastern University. The focus of this team is on providing a consistent, comprehensive, and constructive educational experience that endorses the student-centered, professional and practice-oriented mission of Northeastern University.Dr. B. Kris Jaeger, Northeastern University Beverly Kris Jaeger, PhD is on the full-time faculty in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Northeastern University teaching Simulation Modeling and Analysis, Facilities Planning, and Human-Machine Systems. She has also been an

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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 1: It's All About Teams and Teamwork

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Fernando Garcia Gonzalez, Florida Gulf Coast University; Janusz Zalewski, Florida Gulf Coast University

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Paper ID #13106FAST learning: Follow Accomplishments of Senior TeamsDr. Fernando Garcia Gonzalez, Florida Golf Coast University Dr. Fernando Gonzalez joined FGCU as an Assistant Professor in the Software Engineering Program in the fall of 2013. Previously he has worked at Texas A&M International University in Laredo, Texas, the U.S. Department of Energy at Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico and at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida. Dr. Gonzalez graduated from the University of Illinois in 1997 with a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering. He received his Master’s degree in Electrical

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First-year Programs Division Technical Session 16: That Important Decision - Which Engineering Major?

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kerry L. Meyers, Youngstown State University; Gregory Warren Bucks, University of Cincinnati; Kathleen A Harper, The Ohio State University; Victoria E Goodrich, University of Notre Dame

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of the undergraduate curriculum and is still actively involved in the classroom, teaching over half of the First-Year Engineering Students each semester.Dr. Gregory Warren Bucks, University of Cincinnati Gregory Bucks joined the Department of Engineering Education at the University of Cincinnati in 2012. He received his BSEE from the Pennsylvania State University in 2004, his MSECE from Purdue Uni- versity in 2006, and his PhD in Engineering Education in 2010, also from Purdue University. After completing his PhD, he taught for two years at Ohio Northern University in the Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science department, before making the transition to the University of Cincin- nati. He has

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First-year Programs Division Technical Session 8: Project-based Learning and Cornerstone Courses

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mike Elmore, Binghamton University; Sharon B Fellows, Binghamton University; Koenraad E Gieskes, Binghamton University; Lee A Cummings, Binghamton University

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project-based curriculum to more fully Page 26.751.3engage first-year students.Project Descriptions The projects in spring 2013 were selected by the engineering Graduate Teaching Assistants(GTAs), who work within the first-year program. Each GTA represents one of the engineeringdisciplines within the Watson School: Mechanical, Electrical, Computer, Systems Science andIndustrial, and Biomedical engineering departments. Each GTA submitted three ideas andpresented them to the Engineering Design Division faculty, who made the final decisions. Theengineering faculty then wrote a brief summary of each project for the students. Each GTAserves as an

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First-year Programs Division Technical Session 10: Paying Attention to Retention

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gregory Warren Bucks, University of Cincinnati; Kathleen A. Ossman, University of Cincinnati; Jeff Kastner, University of Cincinnati; F James Boerio, University of Cincinnati

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a variety of classes ranging introductory programming and first-year engineering design courses to introductory and advanced courses in electronic circuits. He is a member of ASEE, IEEE, and ACM.Dr. Kathleen A. Ossman, University of Cincinnati Dr. Kathleen A. Ossman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at the University of Cincinnati. She teaches primarily freshmen with a focus on programming and problem solving. Dr. Ossman is interested in active learning, flipped classrooms, and other strategies that help students become self-directed learners.Dr. Jeff Kastner, University of Cincinnati Dr. Jeff Kastner is an Assistant Professor Educator in the Department of Engineering Education

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First-year Programs Division Technical Session 10: Paying Attention to Retention

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Steffen Peuker, California Polytechnic State University; Nova Alexandria Glinski Schauss, Oregon State University

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Paper ID #11270Improving Student Success and Retention Rates in Engineering: An Innova-tive Approach for First-Year CoursesDr. Steffen Peuker, California Polytechnic State University Dr. Steffen Peuker holds the James L. Bartlett, Jr. Assistant Professor position in the Mechanical Engi- neering Department at the California State University in San Luis Obispo. He is teaching courses, includ- ing laboratories, in the HVAC&R concentration and mechanical engineering including first-year courses. Dr. Peuker’s educational research focuses on increasing student retention and success in engineering through implementation of a