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Reimagining Engineering Information Literacy: Novel Perspectives on Integration, Assessment, Competencies & Information Use
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Laura Robinson Hanlan, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Evelyn M Riley, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Diversity
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Engineering Libraries
degrees. We sought to understandnot only how librarians teach students about information seeking and lifelong learning, but howfaculty instructors and advisors approach teaching these critical professional skills. In additionwe sought to understand what information sources students actually use by reviewing the workscited within five award winning project team reports per year of our study, for a total of 60projects and almost 3000 works cited. We learned that student teams, despite year, projectlocation, or discipline of study and faculty advisor use a broad range of sources, both peer-reviewed and not, and that these sources only partially correlate to the sources recommended byfaculty. Most advisors depend on the support of librarians to help
Conference Session
Data Analysis and Assessment
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Elaheh Molla Allameh, Purdue University; Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Seungwon Yang, George Mason University; Aditya Johri, George Mason University; Krishna Madhavan, Purdue University, West Lafayette
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Computers in Education
Anytime, Anywhere (DIA2) that attempts to characterize the impact of NSF and other federal investments in the area of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education using interactive knowledge mining and visual analytics for non-experts in data mining. DIA2 is currently deployed inside the NSF and is already starting to affect federal funding policy. Dr. Madhavan also served as Visiting Research Scientist at Microsoft Research, Internet Services Research Group. His research has been published in Nature Nan- otechnology, IEEE Transactions on Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, and several other top peer-reviewed venues. Dr. Madhavan currently serves as PI or Co-PI
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Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Digital Systems Education 1
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Mehran Mozaffari Kermani, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Reza Azarderakhsh, Rochester Institute of technology
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Diversity
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Electrical and Computer
skills including presentation of the results ofdeeply-embedded security research orally or in writing, team-work, decision-making, and thelike, and (c) hard technical skills for simulations and implementations of the fault diagnosisschemes for crypto-systems including those based on AES and ECC. Page 26.989.7 ECDH, ECDSA, ECIES One Q= k.P Point
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Civil Engineering Division Poster Session
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Michael J. Davidson, Wentworth Institute of Technology; James Lambrechts P.E., Wentworth Institute of Technology; Leonard Anderson, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Nakisa Alborz, Wentworth Institute of Technology
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Civil Engineering
facilitate collaborative, experiential, interactive engagement,and peer learning through small-group and individual real world work assignments. The DSLfaculty have used a variety of teaching styles including problem-based, project based, discoveryand just in time teaching which have been indicated to enhance student problem solving abilitiesby many researchers 3,4,5. Other research3,4,5,6,7 indicates non-traditional courses such as DSL canincrease students’ overall academic performance, develop their interpersonal skills and developtheir ability to frame and solve real world problems. Collaborative and integrative courseenvironments have also been shown to reduce overall student attrition, increase retention ofminorities and women, increase
Conference Session
First-year Programs Division Technical Session 3: Diversity and Multicultural Influences in the First Year
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Haolin Zhu, Arizona State University; Ryan J Meuth, Arizona State University
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Diversity
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First-Year Programs
Lego MazeRobot had significant impact with respect to the Autonomous Waste Sorter project. Thus, aftercompleting the Grand Challenges Project and the Lego Maze Robot Project, both groups ofstudents considered that their engineering related skills had improved compared to their peers,while students who completed the Autonomous Waste Sorter Project did not think that their skillsimproved compared to their peers. Page 26.259.8 Highest 10% Score Relative to Classmates Above Average Pre-Survey
Conference Session
Models and Practices of Community Engagement for Engineering Faculty
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Tamara Ball, UCSC Baskin School of Engineering; Michael S. Isaacson, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Diversity
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Community Engagement Division
than might be expected to attend thesame kind of event if it were hosted at the training center. As of Fall 2014, ASCENDsuccessfully hosted the first community public screening event “Seeding Innovation”showcasing four films at the Exploration Center. The event attracted over 100 viewers whoparticipated in post-viewing discussions, explored demonstration materials provided by projectteams and partners, and gave additional feedback by writing their responses to four prompts onpaper “leaves” that were fixed to the ‘branches” of a three-dimensional cardboard tree locatedjust outside the theater. This event was significant for attending VTC apprentices because theirwon work was being featured and because the Exploration Center represents a
Conference Session
Broadening Participation in Engineering
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Kevin O'Connor, University of Colorado Boulder; Frederick A. Peck, Freudenthal Institute, School of Education, University of Colorado; Julie Cafarella, University of Colorado, Boulder; Jacquelyn F. Sullivan PhD, University of Colorado, Boulder; Tanya D Ennis, University of Colorado, Boulder; Beth A Myers, University of Colorado Boulder; Daria A Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado Boulder; Beverly Louie, University of Colorado, Boulder
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Diversity
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Educational Research and Methods
naturalized trajectory of success in mathematics courses. This iswhere we find Peter. Calculus 1, a single-semester class on the flowchart, took him foursemesters. Peter has been at State U. for three years according to calendar time(accumulating student debt during this time), but according to “flowchart time” he is stillin his first year. Denied progress along the engineering flowchart, Peter finds himselftaking classes in the College of Arts and Sciences. Taking these classes does more thanadd to the amount of time and money Peter has given State University; it also distanceshim from peers in the College of Engineering while simultaneously pushing him outsidethe boundaries of the trajectory that the flowchart normalizes and legitimizes.Even inside
Conference Session
Engineering Management Division Technical Session 1
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Ali Hilal-Alnaqbi , United Arab Emirates University; Sangarappillai Sivaloganathan, United Arab Emirates University
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Diversity
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Engineering Management
the practice, and lead them into post-academia endeavors. Capstones differfrom regular courses since they are integrative. With respect to the Master ofEngineering Management program, the capstone course is a one-semester "putting itall together" course that gives students an opportunity to use their knowledge andskills, collaborate with their peers, practice their presentation and organizational skillsand ultimately, showcase what they have learned and achieved during their residencyin the Master Program. Peterson and Humble [2] studied the total undergraduate andmaster student intake for Engineering Management programs in USA during the year2004. They identified that 75% of the students were taken for master programs. Thereare a variety of
Conference Session
Women in Engineering Division: Strategies Beyond the Classroom
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Amy Elizabeth Dawson, Arizona State University; Bianca L. Bernstein, Arizona State University; Kerrie Wilkins, Arizona State University ; Jennifer M. Bekki, Arizona State University
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Diversity
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Women in Engineering
would remind myself of would remind myself of score of 3 or 4. the positive feedback I’ve the positive feedback I’ve received about my received about my writing in the past.”) writing in the past.”) OR OR  Krishna provides a  Krishna provides a thought that indicates that thought that
Conference Session
Curriculum and New Course Development in ET
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Fabian Hadipriono Tan P.E., The Ohio State University; Adrian Hadipriono Tan, The Ohio State University
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Diversity
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Engineering Technology
physical projects (manually made or 3-D printed) simulating an ancient device of their choice.Results from student and peer evaluations are consistently favorable.I. Introduction How many people know that the first 3-D image in the history of humankind was created34,000 years ago by a ‘paleoengineer’ on the rock ceiling of a cave in Italy? How many of usknow that about 12,000 years ago, hafted tools contributed to the discovery of farming on amajor scale, allowing ancient ‘agricultural engineers’ to invent more effective farming tools?What about 10,000 years ago, when Mesolithic ‘mechanical engineers’ were able to createhypermicroliths (extremely small stone tools) with skills comparable to present-day diamondcutters, except without a
Conference Session
First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 1: It's All About Teams and Teamwork
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
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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First-Year Programs
Paper ID #12690A Student-Led Approach to Promoting Teamwork in an Introductory Engi-neering PresentationDr. Christopher Leslie, New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering (formerly Polytechnic Univer-sity) Christopher Leslie is a Lecturer of Science, Technology and Media Studies at the New York Univer- sity Polytechnic School of Engineering in Brooklyn, New York, and he is codirector of the Science and Technology Studies program there. Dr. Leslie’s research considers the cultural formations that surround technology, science, and media in the 19th- and 20th-century United States. He is the head writing con
Conference Session
Making in Design
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Kim J Manner, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Frank E Pfefferkorn, University of Wisconsin, Madison
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Design in Engineering Education
purchased include the glass work cylinder (part 18), graphite piston (part19), o-rings, bearings, and fasteners. Starting in the Spring 2015 semester the displacer bushing(part 9) is being printed in the Student Shop on an FDM machine. In prior semesters, thedisplacer bushing was machined out of nylon. Figure 2: Flywheels designed by studentsAlso, the student must fully assemble the basic design of the Stirling Engine. Once completed,the engine is then tested to establish benchmark values of speed at a measured temperaturedifferential as well as build quality and aesthetics. The build quality and aesthetic evaluationsare performed as peer evaluations by the class as a whole. As an ancillary project during thecourse
Conference Session
Student Approaches to Problem Solving: ERM Roundtable
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Katherine G. Nelson, Arizona State University; Sarah Brem, Arizona State University; Ann F. McKenna, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Eva Pettinato, Arizona State University; Jenefer Husman, Arizona State University
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Educational Research and Methods
served as an external reviewer for doctoral dissertations outside the U.S. She publishes regularly in peer-reviewed journals and books. Dr. Husman was a founding member and first President of the Southwest Consortium for Innovative Psychology in Education and has held both elected and appointed offices in the American Psychological Association (APA) and the Motivation Special Interest Group of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction. Page 26.558.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Do you catch my drift? Identification of
Conference Session
Women in Engineering Division Poster Session
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Teresa J. Cutright, University of Akron; Lakiesha N. Williams, Mississippi State University; Linda T Coats; Debora F Rodrigues, University of Houston (CoE); Judit Eva Puskas; Frank "Fritz" J Claydon, University of Houston (CoE)
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Diversity
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Women in Engineering
sponsored projects, and Fellowships. Information pertaining to fellowshipsencompassed where to find the solicitation, how to complete the application, as well as theimportance of adhering to the instructions and deadline.Session 2: Future Faculty Forum: What is Assistant Professorship?Introducing the audience to the different aspects of the career will dispel any myths surroundingthe roles of an assistant professor, as well as to encourage them to consider pursuing this career.Key topic areas included: A guide to a successful academic job search; The 'hats' of a tenuretrack faculty member: teaching, research, and service; Grant funding options for engineeringfaculty; Proposal writing that yields results; The importance of dissemination of
Conference Session
Reflective & Critical Pedagogies
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Mania Orand, University of Washington ; Brook Sattler, University of Washington; Jennifer A. Turns, University of Washington; Lauren D. Thomas, University of Washington
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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society
, and to construct future actionsbased on these insights.[18]Currently, reflection is employed in the engineering curriculum in various ways. Reflectionessays, reflective journals, portfolios, end-of-course evaluations and feedbacks, surveys,reflective discussions, and peer evaluations are amongst the more standard reflective activities.However, studies show that incorporating reflective activities into a classroom can be verydifficult and students are often not inclined to engage in reflective activities or to developreflective thoughts.[18-21] For example in a study conducted at a medical school in the UK wherereflective learning is now a requirement for licensing of doctors, out of 232 students, only 20took the introductory Reflective
Conference Session
Learning Through Service
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Katherine Schmotzer; Ana Paula Valenca, Purdue EPICS
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Diversity
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Community Engagement Division
individuals based on theirprogress on the project in that semester as well as how they function as a team and communicatewith each other and their community partner. Peer evaluations facilitate the evaluation ofteamwork and help to delineate individual contributions.While most of the grading rubrics and core assessment process of EPICS was used in the samemanner as other sections, the team reporting documentation and requirements were taken mostlyfrom the requirements of EWB-USA. These met or exceeded the requirements for the EPICSprocesses and maintained the consistency with the EWB-USA students.Team StructureEPICS and EWB-USA both had student leadership roles and these were combined. We delayedhow these were split up until the first class and spent
Conference Session
Flipped Electrical and Computer Engineering Classrooms 1
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Kenneth A Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Dianna Newman, University at Albany/SUNY; Meghan Morris Deyoe, University at Albany, SUNY; Jessica M Lamendola, University at Albany/SUNY
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Electrical and Computer
. Completing the lab 2 0 0 0 5 5 7 12 79 82 7 1 write-ups.*Numbers represent the percent of students who selected the decision-maker for each activity on the post-survey. Fall 2013,n=59; Spring 2014, n=67. Student self-report was further supported by external evaluator observations thatrevealed, overall, most groups divided tasks amongst members to form a cooperative effort orthey completed each step as a collaborative team before moving on to the next. Documentationsuggests that often, collaboration in completing each step together more often occurred duringdyad work. Students interview responses confirmed observations, e.g., “As a team we would go
Conference Session
Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Evaluating Student Behaviors and Attitudes
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Daniel M. Ferguson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Kathryn W. Jablokow, Pennsylvania State University, Great Valley; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University; Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jessica Dolores Menold, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation
, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the University of Florida. His research on the longitudinal study of engineering students, team assignment, peer evaluation, and active and collaborative teaching methods has been supported by over $14.5 million from the National Science Foundation and the Sloan Foundation and his team received Best Paper awards from the Journal of Engineering Education in 2008 and 2011 and from the IEEE Transactions on Education in 2011. Dr. Ohland is Chair of the IEEE Curriculum and Pedagogy Committee and an ABET Program Evaluator for ASEE. He was the 2002–2006 President of Tau Beta Pi and is a Fellow of the ASEE and IEEE.Dr. Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette enay Purzer is an
Conference Session
Revitalization of Manufacturing Education
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Derek M. Yip-Hoi, Western Washington University; Jeffrey L. Newcomer, Western Washington University
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Diversity
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Manufacturing
Table 1. WWU MFGE CurriculumYear Qtr Prog # Course Name Crdts Year Qtr Prog # Course Name Crdts Fall ENG 101 Writing and Critical Inquiry 5 Fall MFGE 332 Introduction to CAM and CNC 4 MATH 124 Calculus and Analytic Geometry I 5 MFGE 341 Quality Assurance 4 CHEM 121 General Chemistry I 5 EE 351 Electronics for Engineering 4 Winter ENGR 104
Conference Session
Mathematics Division Technical Session 2
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Khalid El Gaidi, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH); Tomas Ekholm, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
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Mathematics
represent ideas and an awareness of the syntactic rules for writing symbols inan acceptable form”.Both procedural and conceptual knowledge may be deep or superficial and each of them maysupport the other. 19 A student with developed conceptual knowledge has the ability to understandmathematical concepts and apply them correctly to a variety of situations. She can also translatethese concepts between verbal statements and their equivalent mathematical expressions and”see” mathematical representations with her ”inner eye”. 15Although attempts have been made to develop conceptual understanding among universitystudents, the traditional procedure-oriented teaching to solve standard problems by fosteringprocedural learning widely prevails. 20 Faculty are
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Aerospace Technical Session 2
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Antonette T. Cummings P.E., Purdue University; William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette
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Diversity
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Aerospace
student will identify in-plane motion of the blade from the lead-lag hinge. The student will identify feathering motion from the pitch links.The student may choose to draw swashplate pictures showing a tilt change from neutral position,or an elevation from neutral position, as indicators of cyclic inputs or collective pitch inputs.The student may draw before-after pictures of blade coning, blade flapping, and blade feathering.The student may draw pictures of lift distribution and Mach number distribution across the spanof the rotor blade in hover. The student may write equations for the conservation of momentum,with the Coriolis Effect and rotor speed or RPM.Alternatively, the student may choose to use a physical model of an articulated rotor
Conference Session
Dynamics
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Jacob Michael Wild, James Madison University; Robert L. Nagel, James Madison University; Robert J. Prins, James Madison University
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Mechanics
the laboratory exercise created.The student was given the full Spring 2014 semester to develop the rotational mechanicslaboratory assignment as well as all of the equipment required to develop the assignment, the labassignment write-up, and a sample lab report representing what a student assigned the laboratoryassignment might ideally turn in as their report. The lab assignment write-up and the sample labreport are provided as Appendices 1 and 2, respectively.Coincidentally, it should be noted that the student was also enrolled in two technical electives,Introduction to Sensors and Solid Modeling & Prototyping. Through the student’s course workin Introduction to Sensors, the student was able to gain an understanding of how to work with
Conference Session
Research to Practice: STRAND 1 – Addressing the NGSS: Supporting K-12 Teachers in Engineering Pedagogy and Engineering Science Connections (Part 1)
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Katey Shirey, University of Maryland, College Park
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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering
. 410 E: And you have to assume that the person that gave you the design knew what the 411 heck they were doing and understood how to make this so that when you go to use 412 their plan that it's going, going to work. 413 K: Yeah 414 J: Yeah 415 [00:32:22.14] 416 E: That--‐--‐ that's that's the level I mean, that's the level of expertise that we didn't 417 have today. You know, we put stuff together and learned some things through each 418 iteration, but they really didn't, I mean, when we talked about writing stuff down 419 and those sort of things we we, I, we just seeing what they would write down is 420 important, and most of what they wrote down they could never repeat. Nobody
Conference Session
Cooperative & Experiential Education Division Technical Session 2
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Twila Ortiz, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Beth M Holloway, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Michael T. Harris, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Andrea R Pluckebaum, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Leah H. Jamieson, Purdue University, West Lafayette
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Cooperative & Experiential Education
AIChE Minority Affairs Distinguished Service Award (2009). . He is the author of 95 peer-reviewed publications and 10 patents. He received his BS in Chemical Engineering in 1981 from Mississippi State University, and both his MS (1987) and PhD (1992) degrees in Chemical Engi- neering from the University of Tennessee. Dr. Harris’s research is in the areas of nanomaterials, colloids and interfacial phenomena, transport phenomena, particle science and technology, microwave sensing of pharmaceutical powders, solidification of drug/excipient matrices, environmental control technology, and electrodispersion precipitation processes.Ms. Andrea R Pluckebaum, Purdue University, West LafayetteProf. Leah H. Jamieson, Purdue
Conference Session
Measuring the Impact of Community Engagement on Students
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Matthew Siniawski, Loyola Marymount University; Sandra G. Luca, Loyola Marymount University; Jeremy S. Pal, Loyola Marymount University; Jose A. Saez, Loyola Marymount University
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Diversity
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Community Engagement Division
toBarrington and Duffy (2010), general benefits to students include increases in subject mattercomprehension, GPA, retention, critical thinking skills, tolerance for diversity, writing skills, andcitizenship6. Specific gains in both professional and technical skills have been reported. Forexample, in a recent study by Carberry et al. (2013), engineering students on average identifiedthat 45% of what they have learned about technical skills and 62% of what they have learnedabout professional skills was gained through their engineering service experience7. Femalestudents credited service experiences as their source of both professional and technical skillssignificantly higher than male students, which was consistent across academic years7.Furthermore
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First-year Programs Division Technical Session 9: Focus on Student Learning, Lifelong Learning, and the Whole Student
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Stacie Edington, University of Michigan; Archie L Holmes Jr., University of Virginia; Petra Reinke, University of Virginia
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First-Year Programs
program continues to evolve we are looking to connect the Common Reading Experienceto courses taken by our incoming students. In 2014, the book selected was Ingenious: A TrueStory of Invention, Automotive Daring and the Race to Revive America by Jason Fagone.Through contacts within the faculty at UVa-SEAS we were able to invite the author to discussthe book and answer student questions in Science Technology and Society (STS) 1500: a coursedesigned to strengthen writing and speaking skills and provide students with an introduction tothe engineering profession, engineering ethics, and the social issues of professional engineeringpractice. A complete list of book selections from 1993-2014 is provided in Appendix A1.Additional RecommendationsWe
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Focus on the Classroom: Novel Approaches to Course Delivery
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Elaine L. Craft, Florence-Darlington Technical College; Donna Kay Chrislip; Rex Allen Parr; Victoria Alexandra Sauber, Arapahoe Community College
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Two Year College Division
, problem-solving, communication, knowledge of business processes, teamwork, and agood work ethic, that can leverage the technical skills for greater impact for both the companyand the worker. Likewise, through their survey of 200 companies (2006), the metro-DenverWIRED Initiative discovered a need for technical workers with a broader-than-expected range ofskills, i.e. a call for technical workers to have solid writing, marketing, leadership, or sales skills.When evaluating job applicants, businesses surveyed indicated they value experience and skills,most, and find that applicants do not have the required written and verbal communication skillsthey need to be viable candidates. Based on a 2007 study, the Indiana Business Research Centerpredicted
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Fundamental: Metrics & Assessment for K-12 Engineering Education
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Tamara J Moore, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Siddika Selcen Guzey, Purdue University, West Lafayette; James Holly Jr., INSPIRE Institute, Purdue University
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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering
disciplinesmeaningfully” (p. 2).Engineering education, at any grade level, cultivates competences that are useful beyond theacademic context. Ioannis N. Miaoulis5, founding director of the National Center forTechnological Literacy (NCTL), writes “I use my engineering training constantly to solveproblems far removed from engineering, such as dealing with personnel issues or fundraising”(p. 39). The content of engineering allows students to make connections between their academicstudies and their daily lives. Engineering education trains students to think analytically, and touse their knowledge base to make improvements. As Author4 states “Engineering requiresstudents to be independent, reflective, and metacognitive thinkers who can understand that priorexperience
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ECCD Applications
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Ahmed Cherif Megri, North Carolina A&T State University
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Energy Conversion and Conservation
on samples of work in three categories of students: those in the upper 75 percentile, those in the 50 – 75 percentile and those below the 50 percentile populations. Thus the assessment results compiled are based on course performances and grades, exams, projects, presentations of students, and writings as required in some courses. Furthermore, each course specifically addresses the learning outcomes and relation between the course and the program outcomes, the methods used for the evaluation of students’ performance and the relevance of the course materials to the program outcomes following the standards adopted for the assessment process.  Students will be provided with the course descriptions
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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 1
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
David A. Rogers P.E., North Dakota State University; Orlando R. Baiocchi, University of Washington, Tacoma; Paulo F Ribeiro, UNIFEI
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Diversity
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Engineering Ethics
are good examples). And the most important part of the course, and akey component of the grading, is a research paper where students choose their own themes. In thatpaper, for example on nuclear energy, students need to address the history of that technology, itsimpact on society, the future perspectives, and the ethical implications of that technology.Important parts of this research paper are peer-review before the final version of the paper is turnedin and presentation to the class at the end of the course.Below, is a list of topics chosen in the 2013-2014 academic year by students in the Global Honorsprogram: 1. Everyday Services, Complex International Politics 2. The Future of Printing: 3D Bioprinting 3. Genetically