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Tips of the Trade: Best Practices, Expanded Advice, and Strategies for Implementable Course Improvement

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lauren Thomas Quigley, University of Washington; Mania Orand, Human Centered Design and Engineering ; Kathryn Elizabeth Shroyer, University of Washington; Jennifer A Turns, University of Washington; Cynthia J. Atman, University of Washington

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Paper ID #17117Tips & Tricks for Successful Implementation of Reflection Activities in Engi-neering EducationDr. Lauren D Thomas, University of WashingtonMania Orand, Human Centered Design and Engineering Mania Orand is a researcher in the field of Human Computer Interaction at the University of Washington. Her research interests are on using reflection in designing web and mobile technologies, user experience, and digital media.Kathryn Elizabeth Shroyer, University of WashingtonDr. Jennifer A Turns, University of Washington Jennifer Turns is a Professor in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering at the

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Faculty Unite! Effective Ways for Educators to Collaborate Successfully

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer Keshwani, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Krista Lynn Adams, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

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building near engineering class at the same time, weekly meetings between instructors ensures common message 3 5-7 4-5:1-2 Tissue Primary literature to guide club topics improves engineering w/ connection to biomedical engineering, weekly 3D printers, reflection questions on virtual community may be cardiovascular excessive, in-class work time is helpful, don’t mechanics neglect weekly instructor meeting!Year OneUndergraduate students worked on cross-disciplinary teams of ten to sixteen

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Faculty Unite! Effective Ways for Educators to Collaborate Successfully

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephanie Ann Claussen, Colorado School of Mines

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Teaching and Learning.1 One common argument againstsuch a system is that a single classroom visit is often not an accurate reflection of the learningthat occurs over an entire class, an argument which can also be made against peer evaluations,depending on the format of such programs. Expert evaluation can also be a very resource-intensive undertaking if it is to be done for all faculty at a university.Finally, some propose tracking student and student outcomes to assess teaching. This can bedone in a range of ways: following a student’s performance in more advanced courses to see theimpact of prior instruction; alumni surveys to ask which teaching they found impactful orparticularly instructive; or administering the same exam to all students to

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But I'm a Loner! Expanding capability and creativity by examining effective alliances

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shannon Ciston, University of California, Berkeley; Colin Cerretani, University of California, Berkeley; Marjorie S Went, UC Berkeley

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become experts in complementary areas, for example.—Individual and group accountabilityEveryone takes responsibility for their own work and the overall work of the team.Accountability can be promoted through milestone deliverables, frequent group communication,and a grading scheme that has a shared group element, for example.—Teamwork skillsEach member practices effective communication, decision making, problem solving, conflictmanagement, leadership. Instructors can promote the development of teamwork skills bymodeling and describing conflict management approaches, and guidelines for clear, directcommunication and effective leadership.—Group processingThe team periodically reflects on how well it is working, celebrates, and corrects. Providing

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Tips of the Trade: Best Practices, Expanded Advice, and Strategies for Implementable Course Improvement

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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J. Blake Hylton, Ohio Northern University; Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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to promote learning and reflection, makingthem a natural pair for standards-based grading.6 While the applications and structure of rubricscan vary greatly across the literature, a rubric in this context includes criteria for rating studentperformance as well as standards for attainment of those criteria. Rubrics of this variety may beholistic, meaning that they include a single rating scale for the entirety of the work, or analytical,meaning that several scales are used to assess different dimensions of the work. Perlman offers avaluable discussion of the thought-process that goes into developing a successful rubric, as wellas the different varieties which may be applied.9In this work, a system of analytical rubrics were applied to

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That's a Great Idea! Learning-focused Methods to Revitalize Your Courses

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rob Sleezer, Minnesota State University, Mankato, Twin Cities; Jacob John Swanson, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Rebecca A Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato

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students toembrace their failures, something they have been trained to avoid in the past. This paper presentsa case study where design students were encouraged to discuss failure in the context of designloops using reflection journaling and continuously evolving design requirements.IntroductionSuccess of undergraduate engineering design projects can be measured in many ways, fromquality of learning, to ability to engage in teamwork, to completion of all technical detailsspecified at the onset. While Twin Cities Engineering (TCE) students show a range ofdevelopment and were able to meet programmatic outcomes, only one of 13 design teams in thelast three semesters has completely met all measures of success. The faculty’s perceptions of thislow

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Size, Civility, and the Classroom Culture: Setting Class Tone with a Student-centered Perspective

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cheryl Allendoerfer, University of Washington; Denise Wilson, University of Washington; Melani Plett, Seattle Pacific University; Rebecca A Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Tamara Floyd Smith P.E., Tuskegee University; Nanette M Veilleux, Simmons College

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Diversity

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, and was predominantly Caucasian (55%) or Asian (24%), with ethnicdistribution varying across schools. Participants were predominantly African American at theHBCU, predominantly Caucasian and Asian at the Research institution, and mostly Caucasian atthe three remaining schools. The mean age of the sample varied between 19.7 and 22.1 yearsamong the five schools.After completing the survey, respondents were recruited to participate in follow-up focus groups.A total of 175 students participated in focus groups across the five campuses. Focus groupparticipant demographics closely reflected the survey participant pool at each institution. Focusgroup participants were recruited in the Fall 2010 and Spring 2011 terms, after surveys werecompleted. The

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Faculty Unite! Effective Ways for Educators to Collaborate Successfully

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gouranga Banik, Oklahoma State University

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solving, presentation, patience, persistence and reflections are noteworthy in their own right, but collectively, they are essential for success as an engineering educator. Planning. Perhaps planning is the first and most critical of the skills. It is the initial phase of preparation for any project. Most jobs and assignments can be considered as a project that need to be managed including teaching a course, running a committee, writing a research proposal or preparing curriculum. Planning involves every aspect of developing a project including a schedule or timetable right up until the actual work begins. It requires a careful thought process to include every aspect of the activity prior to starting its operation. It creates a calendar for the

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That's a Great Idea! Learning-focused Methods to Revitalize Your Courses

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vishwas Narayan Bedekar, Middle Tennessee State University; Ahad S. Nasab, Middle Tennessee State University; Walter W. Boles, Middle Tennessee State University

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number of views for uploaded videos and time in minutes spent by studentsviewing these videos. A total of 1014 minutes were spent by students watching the short videos.The number of views by students accessing the videos was found to be 349 times. These statisticsare evident that students did access the videos for self-learning and maximum number of viewsjust before the final exam indicated that it indeed helped students prepare better.Table 1 Questionnaire on Short Videos reflecting Student’s Feedback Sr. Question No. On the scale of 1 to 5; 5 being highest; how much did the uploaded videos help 1 you prepare for the comprehensive final exam? 1

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Listening and Negotiation

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Janet Callahan, Boise State University; Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Jenna P. Carpenter, Campbell University; Kim LaScola Needy P.E., University of Arkansas; Cheryl B. Schrader, Missouri University of Science and Technology

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ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity

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Continuing Professional Development, Engineering Leadership Development Division, New Engineering Educators, Student, Women in Engineering

few days later and included the two itemsshe had requested. The salary was not quite the level Sarai had hoped for, but given her interestin remaining in the region and her success in receiving funding for both of her requests, shedecided against negotiating for a higher salary. All in all, the negotiation workshop had, in hereyes, paid off. Without it, she reflected, she would have just accepted the verbal offer withoutarticulating what else she needed to help her succeed in this new position.Administrative Level NegotiationsCase 3: College level budget negotiationState U had just hired a new provost. He was a biologist and one of his platforms was to launch anew STEM program. The university had, however, been weathering budget crises for

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Tips of the Trade: Best Practices, Expanded Advice, and Strategies for Implementable Course Improvement

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Adam R Carberry, Arizona State University; Matthew Siniawski, Loyola Marymount University; Sara A. Atwood, Elizabethtown College; Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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that has the potential to revolutionize how weassess student achievement in higher education.    Acknowledgements    This work was made possible by a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF DUE-1503794). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation.        Bibliography    1. Postman, N. 1992. Technopoly: The surrender of culture to technology, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY.2. Sadler, D. 2005, “Interpretations of criteria-based assessment and grading in higher education,” Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 30(2), 175-194.3. Broad, B. 2000, “Pulling you hair out: Crises of

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But I'm a Loner! Expanding capability and creativity by examining effective alliances

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

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New Engineering Educators

goals and student learning, often referredto as educative assessment (8, 27) .This would include decisions on how to provideinformation on students’ strengths and their mastery of course material, as well asguidance on how to proceed with learning activities to insure compliance withdefined goals and how to improve students’ performance and their grasp of newmaterial. Students will eventually need reliable feedback on their performance thatallows them to move forward as learners and deepens their understanding of thesubject matter. This feedback could come from the instructor, their classmates, theirown self-reflection, or a combination of the three. (27, 28)Another important factor in the optimization process is to integrate the

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Tips of the Trade: Best Practices, Expanded Advice, and Strategies for Implementable Course Improvement

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gillian M. Nicholls, Southeast Missouri State University; William J. Schell IV P.E., Montana State University; Neal A Lewis, University of Bridgeport

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Diversity

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is completely constructed, the LMS has the ability to preview the questionand submit an answer. Figure A-5 shows what the question would look like if a student entereda response that was incorrect but got partial credit for an answer reflecting a standard conceptualmistake. Figure A-5 Previewing the Calculated Problem in MoodleBrightspaceBelow is an example of the editing screen for constructing calculated questions in Brightspace.The LMS has settings for labeling the question title, constructing the formula, setting tolerancelimits, adjusting the parameter value bounds between 0 and 100. The user has to decide if partialcredit will be awarded for getting the units of measure correct and whether the evaluation shouldbe

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Faculty Unite! Effective Ways for Educators to Collaborate Successfully

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christine S. Grant, North Carolina State University; Barbara E Smith, North Carolina State University; Louis A Martin-Vega, North Carolina State University; Olgha Bassam Qaqish, North Carolina State University

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. Examples of Open-Ended Responses from Participants Career opportunities after tenure. Possibly small group discussions focusing on pros and cons of each path. How to build a sustainable research program. Pitfalls of Industry/Academic Collaboration; How to build network across Industry R&D How to be an effective Academic Leader? Lab management as opposed to student management. Bridging the divide between secondary and higher ed. How faculty can best prepare for and serve disparate populations, gearing new students for success in college and beyond. More workshops on building community for underrepresented faculty.Table 3: Examples of open-ended responses from COE Faculty Development program participants7. Reflections and Lessons Learned

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That's a Great Idea! Learning-focused Methods to Revitalize Your Courses

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Debarati Basu, Virginia Tech; Walter McDonald, Virginia Tech; Daniel S Brogan, Virginia Tech; Darren K Maczka, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education; Vinod K. Lohani, Virginia Tech

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will help users engaged inenvironmental monitoring to access environmental data and perform analysis. This programmingwill include tracking these users and finding their navigational paths through the user interface.These REU projects are intended to extend the current system of the lab.AcknowledgementThe authors would like to thank various undergraduate and graduate students who assisted in thedevelopment and implementation of the LEWAS lab at Virginia Tech. We acknowledge thesupport of the National Science Foundation through NSF/REU Site Grant EEC-1359051. Anyopinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this paper are those of theauthor(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science

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But I'm a Loner! Expanding capability and creativity by examining effective alliances

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

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New Engineering Educators

Cooperation in the College Classroom,”Edina, MN: Interaction Book Company.10. Fairhurst, A.M., & Fairhurst, L.L. (1995), “Effective Teaching, Effective Learning,” Palo Alto, CA: Davies-black Publishing11. Dale, E. (1969), “Audiovisual Methods in Teaching,” (3rd ed.), New York: Dryden Press.12. Wankat, P.H. (1999), “Reflective Analysis of Student Learning in a Sophomore Engineering Course,” Journal ofEngineering Education, Vol.88, (no.2), 195 -203.13. Finelli, C., Klinger, A., & Budny, D.D. (2001), “Strategies for Improving the Classroom Environment,” Journalof Engineering Education, Vol 90, (no.4), pp. 491-497.14. Smith, K.A., Sheppard, A.D., Johnson, D.W. & Johnson, R.T. (2005), “Pedagogies of Engagement: Classroom-Based Practices

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Size, Civility, and the Classroom Culture: Setting Class Tone with a Student-centered Perspective

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ralph Ocon, Purdue University Calumet

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nature of work requires cooperation for organizational and career success. Civility can be instrumental in promoting the collaboration necessary for positive synergy. • Workforce composition: the American workforce has experienced a significant increase in diversity.21 Employment today reflects large numbers of women, minorities, persons with disabilities, immigrants, and people from different generations and with different education levels. Diversity and inclusion require civility in order for people to get along with each other and have equal career opportunities. Being treated in a respectful manner is a fundamental expectation of all employees.4. Laws and Policies Against Inappropriate