Conference Session

Engineering Physics Technical Session 1

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Courtney Hadsell, Cañada College

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Diversity

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Engineering Physics & Physics

who participate in Physics Jam are more successfulin physics than their peers who do not.This paper will discuss the successes, obstacles, and best practices in developing andimplementing this pre-semester physics preparation “bootcamp.”1. IntroductionThere is a large push from multiple directions to increase the number of students in the UnitedStates graduating with STEM degrees. Recent projections show that there must be a 34%increase of students graduating in STEM fields within the next decade to allow the US to remaincompetitive on the world stage. (1) There are numerous academic routes for students to enter aSTEM field. Due to the rising cost of traditional 4-year degrees, including a 40% increase intuition, room, and board between 2002

Conference Session

Engineering Physics Technical Session 4

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Teresa L. Larkin, American University

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Engineering Physics & Physics

Foundation ASEE Visiting Scholar. Dr. Larkin is the author of a book chapter pub- lished in 2010 entitled ”Women’s Leadership in Engineering” in K. O’Connor (Ed.) Gender and Women’s Leadership: A Reference Handbook (Vol. 2, pp. 689 – 699). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications. In 2013 her paper entitled ”Breaking with Tradition: Using the Conference Paper as a Case for Alterna- tive Assessment in Physics” received an award for best paper in a special session entitled Talking about Teaching (TaT’13), at the 42nd International Conference on Engineering Pedagogy (IGIP) held in Kazan, Russia. In January 2014 the Center for Teaching, Research and Learning at AU presented Dr. Larkin with the Milton and Sonia Greenberg

Conference Session

Engineering Physics Technical Session 4

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rodrigo Cutri P.E., Instituto Mauá de Tecnologia; Paulo Alexandre Martin, Instituto Mauá de Tecnologia; Nair Stem, Instituto Mauá de Tecnologia; Keiti Pereira Vidal Souza, Instituto Mauá de Tecnologia

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Diversity

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Engineering Physics & Physics

instructor is available once a week (8 h) tohelp the student solve exercises and explain physics concepts to clarify his/her doubts.Challenges and needs: It is important that the of instructor support schedule is is readily availablewhen help for the freshman student is needed. Moreover, students are sometimes ashamed and donot seek help. The results show that the best practice was attained when a specific topic wasscheduled for attendance instead of by ways of arbitrary advice.Video classesCharacteristics: The results show that the best practice was attained when short video lessons(about 5–10 minutes) were made available to students through video systems like YouTube6,7.Steps for implementing video classes: a short video about a specific Physics

Conference Session

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division: Engineering Alignment with Core Curriculum (Physics)

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Luke D. Conlin, Stanford University; Doris B. Chin, Stanford University

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Diversity

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Engineering Physics & Physics, Pre-College Engineering Education Division

areprepared to learn science principles from a new learning resource.In what follows, we present the design and analysis of a preliminary study with 76 sixth-graderson the impact of tinkering for learning. In a research design blending both informal and formallearning, students participated in one of two tinkering activities on a museum field trip, MarbleMachines or Wind Tubes, for approximately 45 minutes. Back at school, two weeks later, bothgroups had the opportunity to learn from a 20-minute instructional video, which containedsegments that explained scientific concepts relevant to both activities. We seek to answer thequestion of whether a relatively short experience with tinkering prepares students to better learnscience content from an