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Women in Engineering Division: Student Issues as Related to Culture

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Julie Rojewski, Michigan State University; Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

Paper ID #11658Graduate Women ”Lean In”: Building Community and Broadening Under-standingJulie RojewskiDr. Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University Katy Luchini-Colbry is the Director for Graduate Initiatives at the College of Engineering at Michigan State University, where she completed degrees in political theory and computer science. A recipient of a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, she earned Ph.D. and M.S.E. in computer science and engineering from the University of Michigan. She has published more than two dozen peer-reviewed works related to her interests in educational technology and enhancing undergraduate

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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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Kyle G. Gipson, James Madison University; Justin J Henriques; Sancho Sequeira

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First-Year Programs

. 3) Professionalism and Ethics - Helping students understand the role of the engineer in our department and our profession.  Learning Communities    To facilitate the creation community, the class is divided into “families” of approximatelyten to thirteen first year students per family. Each of these teams is led by a pair of peer-mentors (students in the Madison Engineering Leadership Program).    Learning Activities    Students are instructed to share and document their process, sources of inspiration, andprototypes through sending tweets to the class Twitter account. The use of Twitter helpsus:   1) Create community within and across the department 2) Encourage students to think about their professional online

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 1

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bill D Carroll P.E., University of Texas, Arlington; Bob P. Weems, University of Texas, Arlington; Bahram Khalili, University of Texas, Arlington

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Engineering Ethics

personal commercial or sales pitch.  Term Essay – Students write a 500-word essay on a contemporary issue related to computing technology or a 500-word proposal for funding of a start-up company.Students are given letter grades in the course (A, B, C, D, F) rather than being graded Pass/Fail.There are two reasons for this. First, the College of Engineering policy requires it, and, second,it emphasizes the importance of the course. Currently, grades are based on student performanceon four assignments (10-points each) and three examinations (20-points each). The assignmentsare discussed in more detail below. Examinations are primarily objective (true/false, multiplechoice, and fill-in-the blanks) and given at the one-third and two-third

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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sushil Acharya, Robert Morris University; Priya Manohar, Robert Morris University; Peter Y Wu, Robert Morris University; Ali A. Ansari, Virginia State University; Walter W Schilling Jr., Milwaukee School of Engineering

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Ph. D. in Materials Engineering (1998) and Graduate Diploma in Computer Science (1999) from Uni- versity of Wollongong, Australia and holds Bachelor of Engineering (Metallurgical Engineering) degree from Pune University, India (1985). He has worked as a post-doctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon Uni- versity, Pittsburgh (2001 – 2003) and BHP Institute for Steel Processing and Products, Australia (1998 – 2001). Dr. Manohar held the position of Chief Materials Scientist at Modern Industries, Pittsburgh (2003 – 2004) and Assistant Manager (Metallurgy Group), Engineering Research Center, Telco, India (1985 – 1993). He has published over 55 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences including a 2007 Best Paper Award

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Problem-based and Active Learning

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dick Blandford, University of Evansville; Mark Earl Randall, University of Evansville

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Electrical and Computer

to one week. The typicaldivision of work for four students is: a) develop an algorithm and write the software; b) design Page 26.59.3and implement the circuit; c) design the power supply and the project packaging; and d) monitorprogress, write all reports, verify design, and provide a testing procedure. All team membersconsider safety and reliability.High Altitude Balloon Sensor Package: Students design and build a sensor package to go into ahigh altitude balloon that will soar to about 100,000 feet and parachute down to be recovered viaGPS signal. The sensor package monitors temperature which can be as low as -70o F. Thetypical division of

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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Keith A. Schimmel, North Carolina A&T State University; Ghasem Shahbazi, North Carolina A&T State University; Shamsuddin Ilias, North Carolina A&T State University; Lijun Wang, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Center significantly “improves” technical writing andpresentation skills. Suggestions students provided for improving their research experiencesincluded increasing their access to instruments and equipment, ensuring more opportunities topresent at conferences, emphasizing the need for students obtaining work or teaching experience,and providing more mentoring by faculty.Mentoring was recognized by both faculty and students as a critical way to develop graduatestudents' research knowledge and skills. Benefits noted by students and faculty on meetingwithin and across thrust areas include "cross-pollination" of ideas, general awareness of research,feedback and group discussion, and peer pressure to produce work, as well as an opportunity forthem to

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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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Christina H Paguyo, Colorado State University; Rebecca A Atadero, Colorado State University; Karen E Rambo-Hernandez, West Virginia University; Jennifer Francis, West Virginia University

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

Paper ID #12401Creating Inclusive Environments in First-Year Engineering Classes to Sup-port Student Retention and LearningDr. Christina H Paguyo, Colorado State University Christina H. Paguyo, PhD, is a postdoctoral fellow in the College of Engineering at Colorado State Uni- versity. Her research interests focus on mixed methods approaches for designing and examining educa- tional environments grounded in research, theory, and equity. She has co-authored peer-reviewed articles published in the Peabody Journal of Education and the Encyclopedia of Diversity in Education.Dr. Rebecca A Atadero, Colorado State University

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Self-efficacy and Emotion: ERM Roundtable

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ellen L Usher, University of Kentucky; Natasha Aniceto Mamaril, University of Illinois ; Caihong Li, University of Kentucky; David Ross Economy, Clemson University Department of Materials Science and Engineering; Marian S. Kennedy, Clemson University

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Educational Research and Methods

engineeringstudents. Some evidence suggests that social messages affect women more than men. Womenwho pursued careers in mathematics, sciences, and technology consistently reported that themessages sent to them about capabilities in these male-dominated fields served as crucial sourcesof their self-efficacy21, a finding echoed in interviews conducted by Hutchison et al.15 withsecond-year engineering students. Other researchers have shown more generally that beingencouraged by peers and faculty makes students more likely to put forth effort and persevere intheir majors4, 11, 15.Fewer studies have focused on examining the influential role of emotional and physiologicalstates on the students’ sense of efficacy in engineering. Hutchison et al.20 found that

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Nuclear and Radiological Division Technical Session 1

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Masoud Naghedolfeizi, Fort Valley State University; Sanjeev Arora, Fort Valley State University

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Nuclear and Radiological

and Online Teaching (MERLOT) is perhapsthe most centralized source of obtaining web-based learning and teaching resources for variousscience and engineering disciplines4. These resources include tutorials, simulations, lecturenotes, demonstrations, and/or online classes/labs. MERLOT also includes a peer-review ratingsystem to evaluate web-based resources based on content, quality, technical presentation, andease of use. Page 26.682.2The MERLOT site includes relatively rich amount of resources for engineering disciplines.However, the resources available for nuclear engineering are limited and only include onlineclasses from major universities

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Idea Generation and Creativity in Design

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Emily Ann Marasco, University of Calgary; Laleh Behjat P.Eng.; William Daniel Rosehart P.Eng., University of Calgary

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

component. A group specializing inengineering teamwork psychology also provided material for the students to appropriate handleteam conflict resolution. Teaching assistants were also engaged in ensuring that students werecontributing during lab time. Students reported that while it was difficult for four people to workon the code, peer-programming techniques allowed multiple team members to write code,alongside the work needed to complete the testing, documentation, and presentation deliverables.Students were also graded by their peers. Each team rotated around the room and attempted eachgame in their lab section, giving each other team an anonymously reported grade. The gameprototypes were graded on three main aspects: does the game satisfy the

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Curriculum Design and Evaluation

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paul Benjamin Crilly, U.S. Coast Guard Academy; Richard J. Hartnett P.E., U.S. Coast Guard Academy

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Electrical and Computer

document that describes the essential contentof the course (i.e. syllabus, learning objectives, outcomes, projects, sample exams, sample notes,etc.), assessment data and rubrics, and recommended changes. This EOCR package can then beused to (a) give the next instructor a suitable starting point for when they teach the course, (b)provide assessment information for program reviews and curriculum revisions, (c) provideassessment data to serve as a reference point for when the next time the outcomes are assessed,and (d) provide necessary and objective information to the person writing the accreditation self-study document. This latter point is especially important since in the case of ABET accreditedprograms, the EOCR contributes to a well-documented

Conference Session

Research to Practice: STRAND 3 – Principles of K-12 Engineering Education and Practice

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan R Zubarriain, Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology; Nicholas Kumia, Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology; Shouling He, Vaughn College of Aeronautics & Technology

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Diversity

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

their robot, their first assignment was to write a program to allow therobot to move forward for one meter, turn 180 degrees and then move forward for another meter.By gradually introducing new programming techniques, the level of programming difficulty wasincreased. During the 3rd week of the course, the students were introduced to functions whichmade repetitive code more efficient and programmer-friendly. By this time, the moreexperienced programmers were actively helping the less experienced. Peer work always workshand-in-hand with teacher instruction. In the 4th week, before students would begin their finalprojects, the final objective was to program the remote controller. The course was designed thisway to ensure that students would not

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Reimagining Engineering Information Literacy: Novel Perspectives on Integration, Assessment, Competencies & Information Use

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Farshid Zabihian, West Virginia University Institute of Technology; Mary L. Strife, West Virginia University; Marian G. Armour-Gemmen, West Virginia University

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Engineering Libraries

Paper ID #12574Integration of Information Literacy Skills to Mechanical Engineering Cap-stone ProjectsDr. Farshid Zabihian, West Virginia University Institute of Technology Farshid Zabihian, Ph.D., P.Eng. Assistant Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering West Virginia University Institute of Technology Education: Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering,Ryerson University, 2011 M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, 1998 B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Amir Kabir University of Technology, 1996 Authored or coauthored more than 70 papers in Journals and peer-reviewed conferences.Ms. Mary L

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Entrepreneurship Education in New Contexts

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark M. Budnik, Valparaiso University

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Diversity

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

there is no consensus at this stage, it is agreed that innovation isthe key and engineering is essential to this task….”Of the identified soft skills, engineering students are often most challenged to develop and honetheir skills in creativity and innovation. For engineers, creativity may be defined as developingnovel and original ideas with emphasis on their applicability to solving problems2, 3. This Page 26.748.2definition of creativity is more specific for engineering students than for students in other majors(i.e. art, music, creative writing, theater, etc.). For engineers to exercise creativity within theirdiscipline, they must emphasize

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Software and Programming

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Priya Manohar, Robert Morris University; Sushil Acharya, Robert Morris University; Peter Y. Wu, Robert Morris University; Ali A. Ansari, Virginia State University; Walter W. Schilling Jr., Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Diversity

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Computers in Education

at Carnegie Mellon Uni- versity, Pittsburgh (2001 – 2003) and BHP Institute for Steel Processing and Products, Australia (1998 – 2001). Dr. Manohar held the position of Chief Materials Scientist at Modern Industries, Pittsburgh (2003 – 2004) and Assistant Manager (Metallurgy Group), Engineering Research Center, Telco, India (1985 – 1993). He has published over 55 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences including a 2007 Best Paper Award by the Manufacturing Division of American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), three review papers and three book chapters. He has participated in numerous national and inter- national conferences. He is a member of ASM International, TMS, ACerS, AIST, ASEE, and a

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First-year Programs Division Technical Session 3: Diversity and Multicultural Influences in the First Year

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth A Adams, Chandler Gilbert Community College; Claire Louise Antaya Dancz, Arizona State University; Amy E. Landis, Arizona State University

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

sustainable systems with over 60 peer-reviewed publications. Dr. Landis is dedicated to sustainability engineering education and outreach; she works with local high schools, after school pro- grams, local nonprofit organizations, and museums to integrate sustainability and engineering into K-12 and undergraduate curricula. Page 26.915.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Improving engineering student persistence and diversity through conative understandingAbstractEngineering teaching strategies that engage students are desperately needed to recruit

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Qualitative Methodologies

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy E. Slaton, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.); Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

Paper ID #12048The Power and Politics of STEM Research Design: Saving the ”Small N”Prof. Amy E. Slaton, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.) Amy E. Slaton is a Professor of History at Drexel University. She write on issues of identity in STEM education and labor, and is the author of Race, Rigor and Selectivity in U.S. Engineering: The History of an Occupational Color Line .Prof. Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette Alice Pawley is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering Education and an affiliate faculty member in the Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies Program and the Division of

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Women in Engineering Division: Strategies Beyond the Classroom

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Evelyn R. Sowells, North Carolina A&T State University; Nina Exner, North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University; Sherry F. Abernathy, North Carolina A&T State University; Rajeev K. Agrawal, North Carolina A&T State University ; Brenda S. Faison Ph.D., North Carolina A&T State University

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

members within their program of study. What made this workshop design different is the participation from each entity in the alliance and their knowledge about technology programs. The objectives for the workshops are accomplished by the following activities: 1. The students joined American Toastmasters or similar organizations which assists them with soft skills and helps them with their writing skills and public speaking. 2. Students received job training through practical lab assignments and real life applications. The students then present discoveries and are evaluated by their peers, industry, faculty, and advisory board. 3. Increase students’ technical

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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

Authors

Angela Thompson P.E., University of Louisville; Patricia A Ralston, University of Louisville

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First-Year Programs

addition of the Grand Challenge-basedassignments on student learning outcomes. Thus, the assignments will be retained for futuresemesters but refined to enhance their effectiveness with respect to students’ critical thinkingdevelopment. Efforts should be made to assist students in recognizing the value in using the PEframework to improve and reflect on their own thinking. One possible improvement is givingstudents opportunities to revise their assignments after feedback, thus encouraging them to refinetheir own thinking. Additionally, students will be given opportunities in class to evaluate theirown writing and that of their peers using the PE framework. Like revision, it is hoped that thisactivity will enable students to reflect on their own

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Interest and Movitation: Formulating New Paradigms to Increase URM Participation in Engineering

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Christe, Drexel University; Arpit Shah, Drexel University; Jay J. Bhatt, Drexel University; Marisol Rodriguez Mergenthal, Drexel University; Linda Powell, Community College of Philadelphia; Antonios Kontsos, Drexel University

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering

highereducation environments have been repeatedly demonstrated to overcome these factors. The“Tinto Model of Student Retention”7 provides a useful framework for discussion of academicand social integration, adopted by existing successful programs such as National ScienceFoundation (NSF) funded Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP), whichaims to “build productive capacity and output within institutions having significant enrollment ofminority populations” 8 in STEM fields. Specifically, Tinto’s theory recommends tailoredintervention to meet the needs of specific cohorts (e.g. transfer students, academically “at risk”students, “non-traditional” students). Interventions take the form of undergraduate researchexperiences, faculty and peer

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International Division Technical Session 2

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kent A. Wayland, University of Virginia

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International

affective dimension of reentry shock, but the course offers a range ofactivities that help students to re-engage with their experience abroad and to integrate theirinternational experience into their career plans and professional self-presentation. Specifically,the course activities encourage students to participate in several activities that will encouragetheir global orientation, such as serving as an “ambassador”, mentoring a service-learning team,or interviewing a peer or a professional about their global experiences. Finally, the courseincludes structured reflection in the form of a final writing project.15Georgia Tech has long been a leader in international learning. Its International Plan serves as amodel for engaging, as Lohmann, Rollins

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Something New??? within Engineering Design Graphics Education

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Derek M Yip-Hoi, Western Washington University; Jerimiah Gabriel Welch, Western Washington University

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Diversity

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Engineering Design Graphics

haste to complete the exercises. The clarity of text-based exercises can often be an issue. Not every student interprets instructions in the same way. Students read and interpret instructions at different speeds. This results in challenges keeping the class moving through material together. This can exacerbate a weaker student’s understanding of critical concepts as they rush in an attempt to keep pace with their peers. Instructors and TAs are often by-standers when students are working on these exercises. In many cases they are relegated to assisting students understand the instructions rather than engaging them in deepening their understanding of the concepts. This is not the best use of their time and skill

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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

Authors

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

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First-Year Programs

consistency of grades, each grader is responsible for grading the same section for eachdeliverable for the entire semester. With this system in place, two instructors and two teachingassistants are able to grade deliverables for nineteen student companies in an afternoon. In orderto assure that students gain experience writing a variety of sections and graders, students are notallowed to write the same section for two consecutive deliverables. More importantly, thissystem actively encourages students to communicate the strengths and weaknesses of sectionsthey have already written to their teammates, enabling an atmosphere where students can teachtheir peers and reinforcing what they have learned. This communication is essential as it helpsall

Conference Session

Enviromental Engineering Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Veera Gnaneswar Gude P.E., Mississippi State University; Dennis D. Truax PE, BCEE, F.ASCE, Mississippi State University

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Environmental Engineering

) Division. His research over past 10 years has resulted in national and international recognition, industry collaborations, 5 patents/patent appli- cations and over 75 scholarly publications in highly regarded discipline specific journals, peer-reviewed conference proceedings and invited book chapters. He is a scientific and technical reviewer for over 50 in- ternational journals, book publishers, and several funding agencies. He is a licensed professional engineer in the state of New Mexico. His research interests include water and wastewater treatment, bioelectro- chemical systems, desalination, algae, biofuels, and sustainability. He enjoys teaching and mentoring undergraduate and graduate students in research

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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sheng-Jen Hsieh, Texas A&M University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

importantly, they all have the same goal: to learn howto do research. Second, at “brown-bag” lunch meetings, each REU student would present abouttheir project, progress, and difficulties. Third, they were required to write a paper step-by-stepthroughout the summer, including the literature review, conducting the experiments, performingdata analysis, and writing the conclusions. Last, they were required to (1) create a poster tosummarize their work, (2) present their findings at both a university-wide poster session and anengineering-oriented poster session, and (3) respond to their peers’ questions about their projects.In addition to working on a research project, participants would also attend workshops and fieldtrips related to imaging technology

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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Melody Baglione, Cooper Union

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

scoring rubric of teacher/assessor observations of student performance/behavior) and qualitative (semi-structured interviews and rapid ethnography) evaluation techniques. 3. It is performance assessment, since it uses a scoring rubric based on Bloom’s taxonomy to classify student cognitive understanding based on writing assignments and closely follows the design of the project from inception.6An external evaluator assessed the impact of the project by observing lectures, labs, and toursand by interviewing key informants. Initially, the course interventions were implemented by theprimary investigator (PI). In year 4, after the three-year implementation phase, the new courseinterventions were tested by a new lecturer and

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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

Authors

Natalie C.T. Van Tyne P.E., Colorado School of Mines; M Brunhart-Lupo, Colorado School of Mines

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

grades over the course of the semester?Final grades for the course were determined through two individual assignments (20% of thefinal grade), and five team assignments (40% of the final grade), where every team memberreceives the same grade. The remaining 40% consisted of a combination of individual- and team-based grades: reflective journal, peer evaluation, mentor evaluation, and engineering graphics.Because assignments in engineering graphics contribute 20% to the final grade, and were gradedon a pass/fail basis, we compared student performance both with and without the graphics Page 26.1740.2grades.On an overall basis, we have not found a

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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leyla F Conrad, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jill L Auerbach, Georgia Institute of Technology; Ayanna Howard, Georgia Institute of Technology

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Technology. She received her B.S. in Engineering from Brown University, her M.S.E.E. from the University of Southern California, and her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California in 1999. Her area of research is centered around the concept of humanized intelligence, the process of embedding human cognitive capability into the control path of autonomous systems. This work, which addresses issues of autonomous control as well as aspects of interaction with humans and the surrounding environment, has resulted in over 180 peer-reviewed pub- lications in a number of projects – from scientific rover navigation in glacier environments to assistive robots for the home. To date, her unique

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Engineering Physics & Physics Division Technical Session 1

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy J. Garrison, York College of Pennsylvania

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Engineering Physics & Physics

(mechanics) course has been completelyrestructured. Prior to the restructuring, the course had a traditional structure, consisting of aseparate lecture (3 hours three times per week), laboratory (3 hours once a week) and recitation(1.5 hours once a week). Beginning in 2009, the traditional structure was discarded in favor of asingle, blended class meeting 2.5 hours three times per week. Moreover, the new class wasdesigned to operate as an active learning course (i.e. with very little lecture) by making use ofseveral active learning methods including peer instruction (aka think-pair-share) and interactivepeer laboratories. The implementation of the active learning methods was done in phases overseveral years and each phase was assessed using the

Conference Session

Survey and Assessment Development

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David L. Little II, Oregon State University; Kathleen Quardokus Fisher, Oregon State University; Shane A. Brown P.E., Oregon State University; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University; Jana Bouwma-Gearhart, Oregon State University

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Educational Research and Methods

classmate) where the resulting learning or cognitiveengagement was not possible without another person's presence or input [1, 2]. Examples includeworking with peers to construct a deeper understanding of course material through group activityor interacting with the instructor in a way that augments understanding [1, 2].Constructive - Activities in which the cognitive load of students is heightened, and asks them to"produce outputs that contain ideas that go beyond the presented information" [1, p. 77]. Examplesinclude creating diagrams to organize course content, rephrasing the instructors lecture into thestudent’s own words, etc. [1, 2]Active - Activities in which students are only cognitively engaged at a basic level, such as note