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Works in Progress: Classroom Practice

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ada Hurst, University of Waterloo; Oscar G. Nespoli, University of Waterloo

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Paper ID #15239A Two-Dimensional Typology for Characterizing Student Peer and Instruc-tor Feedback in Capstone Design Project CoursesDr. Ada Hurst, University of Waterloo Ada Hurst is a Lecturer in the Department of Management Sciences at the University of Waterloo. She has taught and coordinated the capstone design project course for the Management Engineering program since 2011. She also teaches courses in organizational behavior, theory, and technology. She received a Bachelor of Applied Science in Electrical Engineering, followed by Master of Applied Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Management Sciences

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Works in Progress: Curricula and Pathways

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marcia Pool, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Rohit Bhargava, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; P. Scott Carney, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Dipanjan Pan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Andrew Michael Smith, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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evaluations, resource CSP mentors and peersresearchdesign requirements, and initial design process,  Participate in a summer industrial, including requirement and verification clinical, or research internshipcapabilities development. Students develop project (student’s choice) proposals suitable for either their senior Year Course Description (credit hour) Activities and Development capstone course.  Continue research throughout yearYear 4: BIOE 435 (2 credit hours) and 436 (2 credit  Interact with

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Assessment II: Learning Gains and Conceptual Understanding

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brian M. Frank, Queen's University; Natalie Simper, Queen's University; James A. Kaupp, Queen's University

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research project investigating the development and measurement of general learning outcomes. Natalie comes from an Australian Senior-Secondary/ Post-Secondary teaching background, with experience at the State-wide level in curriculum development, large-scale assessment, and evaluation and assessment of outcomes based education.Dr. James A. Kaupp, Queen’s University Assessment and Quality Assurance Coordinator (Msc ’06, PhD ’12) at Queen’s University, Kingston, On- tario, Canada in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science. Educational research interests include engineering education development, cultural change in higher education, higher-order thinking develop- ment and assessment, outcomes-based data-informed

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Works in Progress: Curricula and Pathways

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alma H. Rosales, Colorado State University; Andrea M. Leland, Colorado State University; Olivera Notaros, Colorado State University, ECE Department; Richard F. Toftness, IEEE High Plains Section; Thomas J. Siller, Colorado State University; Michael A. De Miranda Ph.D., Colorado State University; Alistair Cook, Colorado State University; Melissa D. Reese, Colorado State University; Zinta S. Byrne, Colorado State University; James Warren Weston, Colorado State University; Anthony A. Maciejewski, Colorado State University

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Engineering has worked for years to continuouslyimprove its approach to professional formation, relying heavily on input from constituentsranging from alumni and corporate partners to faculty and current students. The most influentialstakeholder group has been the department’s Industrial Advisory Board (IAB), and for the pastdecade the IAB has driven a number of initiatives designed to teach and build capacities forprofessional skills, often called “soft skills.” As shown in Table 2, the IAB’s recommendationshave been delivered in silos, mostly via the senior design capstone experience. ECE 202 CircuitTheory Applications – which now includes a project design component in the sophomore year –has served as the vital lower-level course for introducing

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Works in Progress: Assessment and Research Tools

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John K. Estell, Ohio Northern University; Heather Marie Sapp, Ohio Northern University; David Reeping, Ohio Northern University

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analytic rubric and having to provide freeformcomments upon a student artifact. The evaluation criteria are limited, through use of a rubric, tothose considered key for reviewing the assignment, but feedback can be easily provided in thosecases where student performance within a particular criterion is either above or belowexpectations. Projects of sufficiently long duration, such as term projects or capstones, are theassignments that would be the “best fit” for applying single point rubrics, as there would besufficient time for students to utilize the formative feedback to improve their project or theirperformance.In summary, the authors believe that there is considerable potential in adopting single pointrubrics for formative assessment purposes

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Works in Progress: Classroom Practice

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Emily Dringenberg, Kansas State University; Ruth E. H. Wertz, Valparaiso University

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to engage with. Improving undergraduateengineering education requires a better understanding of the ways in which studentsexperience ill-structured problems in the form of engineering design. With specialattention to the experiences of first-year engineering students, prior exploratory workidentified two critical thresholds that distinguished students’ ways of experiencing designas less or more comprehensive: accepting ambiguity and recognizing the value ofmultiple perspectives.The goal of current (work-in-progress) research is to develop and pilot a self-reportinstrument to assess students’ relation to these two thresholds at the completion of an ill-structured design project within the context of undergraduate engineering education

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Assessment II: Learning Gains and Conceptual Understanding

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Reid Bailey, University of Virginia

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students16-18, capstone students15, experts16,19, and elementary teachers19.The two streamlined methods are compared to actual behaviors observed as studentscomplete a design project. Students were given a weeklong design project to complete in ateam. The project focused on the problem of their professor needing to accommodate morestudents in his office during office hours. The exact wording of the prompt used in this study isincluded in the appendix.Whether the team engaged in problem formulation activities was measured simply by observingthe number of teams that came to his office to observe the environment for which they weredesigning (i.e., his office) or ask a key user (i.e., the professor) questions about his needs andwants. All other problem

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Works in Progress: Curricula and Pathways

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bingbing Li, California State University - Northridge; Robert G. Ryan, California State University - Northridge; Nancy Warter-Perez, California State University - Los Angeles; Yong Gan, Cal Poly Pomona; Hadil Mustafa, California State University - Chico; Helen Cox, Institute for Sustainability, California State University - Northridge; Li Ding, California State University - Northridge

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the CommunityCollege system for lower division courses.All campuses will develop a capstone which will comprise the design/development of a solutionfor a specific problem by a team of students from a variety of disciplines working together. Forexample, this could be a solution for a problem in the developing world which has the capacity toinclude many elements of liberal arts, humanities and social sciences such as historical context,anthropology, geopolitics, economics, sustainability, environment, politics and political structureand a complete understanding of the society’s culture and ethics. Engineering solutions are butone piece of the project solution, and students will work in teams with others from differentdisciplines.The minor will

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Works in Progress: Classroom Practice

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tracy A. Bibelnieks Ph.D., University of Minnesota Duluth; Kristen S. Gorman, University of Minnesota; Brian D. Gute, University of Minnesota Duluth; Joshua W. Hamilton, University of Minnesota Duluth; Elizabeth M. Hill, University of Minnesota Duluth; Alison B. Hoxie, University of Minnesota Duluth; David A. Saftner, University of Minnesota Duluth; Andrea J. Schokker, University of Minnesota Duluth; Pete Willemsen, University of Minnesota Duluth

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cohorts. The initialfaculty cohort team comprises five of the six facilitators of the new cohorts. Moreover, all sevenmembers of the initial faculty cohort continue to meet. This community of practice is leading thedevelopment of additional workshops, implementation of an assessment/evaluation framework todocument the effect of active learning as this continues and expands through SCSE, writing grantproposals to enable further dissemination of the multidisciplinary cohort model approach acrossa college of engineering and science, and supporting each other’s individual research endeavors.IntroductionThis paper describes Work in Progress (WIP) efforts to increase active learning in a college ofengineering and science. Motivation for this project

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Communication Across the Divisions I

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia; Judith Shaul Norback, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Proceedings, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, INFORMS Transactions on Education, and the International Journal of Engineering Ed- ucation, and others. She authored the book Oral Communication Excellence for Engineers and Scientists, published in summer 2013. Over the past 15 years Dr. Norback has given over 40 conference presen- tations and workshops at nation-wide conferences such as ASEE, where she has served as chair of the Liberal Education/Engineering & Society (LEES) Division. She has been an officer for the Education Forum of INFORMS and has served as Associate Chair for the National Capstone Design Conference. Dr. Norback has a Bachelors’ degree from Cornell University and a Masters and PhD from

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Faculty Development I: Attitudes Towards Teaching

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James J. Pembridge, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Kari L. Jordan, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach

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Paper ID #16509Balancing the Influence of Driving and Restricting Factors to Use ActiveLearningDr. James J. Pembridge, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach James J. Pembridge is an Assistant Professor in the Freshman Engineering Department at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. He earned a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, M.A. Education in Curriculum and Instruction, and Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech. His research has focused on mentoring as pedagogy for project-based courses and understanding the adult learning characteristics of undergraduate students.Dr. Kari L. Jordan, Embry-Riddle

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Student Success III: Affect and Attitudes

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paul M. Yanik, Western Carolina University; Yanjun Yan, Western Carolina University; Sudhir Kaul, Western Carolina University; Chip W. Ferguson, Western Carolina University

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response to self-reported vulnerabilities and concerns of engineeringstudents. This paper presents data from practical efforts to identify and mitigate anxiety amongengineering students. A group of twenty-seven engineering and engineering technology studentswho were part of a scholarship program was asked to submit journal entries in which theyreflected on their fears and anxieties related to their participation in their degree program.Prominent themes which emerged from student reflection included time management and itseffects on academics and social activities, the likelihood of degree completion and success inengineering-specific coursework (e.g. senior capstone projects), and aspects of life followinggraduation such as handling accumulated

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Works in Progress: Faculty Perspectives and Training

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eugene Judson, Arizona State University; Lydia Ross, Arizona State University; James A. Middleton, Arizona State University; Stephen J. Krause, Arizona State University; Casey Jane Ankeny, Arizona State University; Ying-Chih Chen, Arizona State University; Robert J. Culbertson, Arizona State University; Keith D. Hjelmstad, Arizona State University; Yong Seok Park, Arizona State University

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at Arizona State University. He teaches in the areas of introductory materials engineering, polymers and composites, and capstone design. His research interests include evaluating conceptual knowledge, mis- conceptions and technologies to promote conceptual change. He has co-developed a Materials Concept Inventory and a Chemistry Concept Inventory for assessing conceptual knowledge and change for intro- ductory materials science and chemistry classes. He is currently conducting research on NSF projects in two areas. One is studying how strategies of engagement and feedback with support from internet tools and resources affect conceptual change and associated impact on students’ attitude, achievement, and per

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Assessment I: Developing Assessment Tools

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Curtis Cohenour Ph.D., P. E., Ohio University; Audra Hilterbran, Ohio University

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Paper ID #14471Automated Grading of Excel Workbooks Using MatlabDr. Curtis Cohenour Ph.D., P. E., Ohio University Dr. Cohenour is an Assistant Professor in the Ohio University Engineering Technology and Management Department, in Athens, Ohio. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from West Virginia Institute of Technology in 1980, a Master of Science degree from Ohio University in 1988, and a Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering from Ohio University in 2009. He is a registered professional engineer in West Virginia, and Ohio. Dr. Cohenour has worked in Industry as an electrical engineer and project manager. He joined Ohio

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Student Success II: Self-Regulatory, Metacognitive, and Professional Skills

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Chen, California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo

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active learning work? A review of the research,” Journal of Engineering Education, 93(3), 223-231.7. Felder, R.M. and Brent, R. (2009) "Active Learning: An Introduction." ASQ Higher Education Brief, 2(4), August 2009.8. Aglan, H.A. and Ali, S.F. (1996) “Hands-on experiences: An integral part of engineering curriculum reform,” J. of Engineering Education, 85(4), 327-330.9. Dutson, A.J., Todd, R.H., Magleby, S.P., and Sorensen, C.D. (1997) “A review of literature on teaching engineering design through project-oriented capstone courses,” J. Engineering Education, 86(1), 17-28.10. Hotaling, N., Burks Fasse, B., Bost, L.F., Hermann, C.D., and Forest, C.R. (2012) “A quantitative analysis of the effects of a

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Assessment I: Developing Assessment Tools

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Wajid Hussain, The Islamic University in Madinah; Fong K. Mak P.E., Gannon University; Mohammad Faroug Addas, The Islamic University in Madinah

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Leadership Training at LSI Corporation and received an award LSI Corporation Worldwide Operations Review 1999 for his significant contributions to the Quality Improve- ment Systems. At LSI Wajid was the PE in charge of the world famous APPLE IPOD 2000-2001 proces- sor WW qualification/production. Over the years Wajid has managed several projects related to stream- lining operations with utilization of state of the art technology and digital systems. This has given him significant experience working with ISO standard quality systems. He is a specialist on ABET accreditation procedures and was appointed by the Dean of Engineering, KFUPM, Hafr Al Batin campus to lead the intensive effort of preparing the EEET program for the

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Works in Progress: Facilitating Student Success and Inclusion

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Saryn R. Goldberg, Hofstra University; Jennifer Rich, Hofstra University; Amy Masnick, Hofstra University; Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Tech; Cassandra J McCall, Virginia Tech; Benjamin David Lutz, Virginia Tech; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech

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communication and collaboration, design education, and gender in engineering. She was awarded a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to study expert teaching in capstone design courses, and is co-PI on numerous NSF grants exploring com- munication, design, and identity in engineering. Drawing on theories of situated learning and identity development, her work includes studies on the teaching and learning of communication, effective teach- ing practices in design education, the effects of differing design pedagogies on retention and motivation, the dynamics of cross-disciplinary collaboration in both academic and industry design environments, and gender and identity in engineering.Miss Cassandra Jo Groen

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Communication Across the Divisions I

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lori Breslow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Christina Kay White, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Daniel E. Hastings, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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. [4] Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. (2005). Definition and Selection of Competencies (DeSeCo) Project. Retrieved from http://www.oecd.org/education/skills-beyond-school/41529556.pdf [5] Williams, J. (2002). The engineering portfolio: Communication, reflection, and student learning outcomes assessment. International Journal of Engineering Education, 18(2), 199–207. [6] Boiarsky, C. (2004). Teaching engineering students to communicate effectively: A metacognitive approach. International Journal of Engineering Education, 20 (2), 251–60. [7] Gömleksi˙ z, M. N. (2007). Effectiveness of cooperative learning (jigsaw II) method in teaching English as a foreign language to

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Student Success III: Affect and Attitudes

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Casey Marie Williamson, James Madison University; Mariafé Taeví Panizo, James Madison University; Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University; Robin D. Anderson, James Madison University

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interdisciplinary research with the goal of improving engineering programs at the undergraduate level. Her research interests include cognitive theories, memory, problem solving, theories of the mind, and the role of identity and motivation in education.Mariaf´e Taev´ı Panizo, James Madison University Mariaf´e Panizo is a first year graduate student in JMU’s Graduate Psychology Doctoral program. She has been working on engineering education research projects for two and a half years, focusing on non- cognitive factors that impact engineering student academic success.Dr. Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University Olga Pierrakos is a Founding Faculty and Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering at James Madison