Conference Session

1st and 2nd Year Instruction in Design

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Irene B. Mena, University of Pittsburgh; William W. Clark, University of Pittsburgh; Ellen M. Moe

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Design in Engineering Education

Education: Teaching and Learning with Rube Goldberg. TechTrends. 47(5): p. 6-13.3. Jordan, S. & Adams, R. (2008). “…A Good Imagination and a Pile of Junk”. Paper presented at the 2008American Society for Engineering Education Conference & Exposition4. DeBartolo, E. A. (2002). Development of an Introduction to Mechanical Engineering Design Course. Paperpresented at the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Conference & Exposition5. DeBartolo, E. & Robinson, R. (2007). A Freshman Engineering Curriculum Integrating Design andExperimentation. International Journal of Mechanical Engineering Education. 35(2): p. 91-1076. Graff, R. W., Leiffer, P. R., Green, M. G., & Koblich, J. (2011). Thirty Years of Rube Goldberg Projects

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Development Opportunities for Diverse Engineering Students

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joanna Wolfe, Carnegie Mellon University; Elizabeth A. Powell, Tennessee Technological University; Seth Schlisserman; Alexandra Kirshon

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ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering, Women in Engineering

Kirshon is a Decision Science major at Carnegie Mellon University with an additional major in Professional Writing and a minor in Public Policy and Management. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Teamwork in Engineering Undergraduate Classes: What problems do students experience?AbstractWhile teamwork is commonly integrated into engineering programs, it often discourages womenand minorities. The purpose of the current research is to better understand what teamworkproblems women and minorities most frequently encounter and the resources they currently havefor solving these problems. The researchers report findings from a two-part study. In Part I, 677engineering

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Retention Programs for Diverse Students

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abbie B Liel P.E., University of Colorado, Boulder; Eva Leong

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ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering, Women in Engineering

aseither an undergraduate or graduate student, and asked respondents to rate their experiences on ascale of 1 to 4, where 1 indicates a “poor experience, decreased my overall confidence ofsucceeding in structural engineering” and 4 indicates a “great experience, increased my overallconfidence of succeeding in engineering”. The most popular courses (as reported in Table 8)among the survey respondents were structural analysis and earthquake engineering. Senior(capstone/integrated) design, finite element analysis and foundation engineering were given thelowest ratings. The finding that capstone design was unpopular was somewhat surprising, but thesurvey questions did not allow us to uncover reasons behind these responses.Table 8. Respondents’ ratings

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Capstone Design Courses I

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa M. Del Torto, Northwestern University; Bruce Ankenman, Northwestern University; Stacy Benjamin, Northwestern University; Trevor Harty, Northwestern University; Penny L. Hirsch, Northwestern University

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

Paper ID #15236Exploring Interdisciplinary Design in Relation to Workplace Success andCampus CommunityDr. Lisa M. Del Torto, Northwestern University Lisa Del Torto is an Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Bobbie & Stanton Cook Family Writing Program at Northwestern University. She teaches and coordinates Northwestern’s first-year design course, Design Thinking & Communication, a collaboration between the Cook Family Writing Program and the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. Del Torto completed her PhD and MA in Linguistics at the University of Michigan and her BA in Linguistics and Spanish

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacqulyn Baughman, Iowa State University; Lesya M. Hassall, Iowa State University; Nadia V. Jaramillo Cherrez, Iowa State University; Mathew Hagge, Iowa State University

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Design in Engineering Education

fact had questions after completing the learningmodules might have put the students in an uncomfortable position. Likewise, the cookie-cutterassignment instructions were not part of the learning modules, because the intention was tochallenge students and evoke their creativity, rather than dispatch the exact requirements for anexcellence performance. So, bringing some uncertainty and messiness to learning was by design;the flipped format was a process to ensure that, in the end, student struggles are simply a part oflearning.Productive learning in class. The students agreed that online modules, integrated self-evaluationexercises and a follow-up graded quiz prior to in-class time helped to plan for and anticipate in-class sessions before they

Conference Session

Best of DEED

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susannah Howe, Smith College; Sophia L. Poulos, Smith College; Laura Mae Rosenbauer, Smith College

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Design in Engineering Education

to their capstone design colleagues. The survey was officially open during the month ofFebruary 2015 and responses were accepted through mid-March. A total of 522 respondents, representing464 distinct departments at 256 institutions, participated in the survey.This paper focuses solely on the qualitative responses to the eleven open-ended questions at the end of thesurvey. Participants were asked to “please provide responses to as many of the following questions asyou choose; all information is welcome!” The collected responses represent a rich and extensive set ofqualitative data with 250-350 separate responses per question.The approach used for analyzing the responses followed an open coding and integration methodology.11For each question

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Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shahriar Shamsian, University of Southern California; Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California; Jeffrey Miller, University of Southern California; Michael Shindler, University of Southern California

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

as these and present solutions for such challenges through acombination of technology and approach to teaching.1. introductionA primary goal of engineering education is to provide students with requisite technicalgrounding along with practice and experience in the design and evaluation of real andpractical systems. This goal becomes increasingly difficult with the expanding body ofknowledge, integration of concepts across disciplines, and complexity of design toolsneeded in engineering industries.1 While an expert/apprentice model of education maybe more fitting to preparing engineers for professional practice, traditional instructionmodels include in-person lectures covering fundamental technical concepts with thebulk of practice and

Conference Session

Research on Design Learning

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jackson Lyall Autrey, University of Oklahoma; Farrokh Mistree, University of Oklahoma; Zahed Siddique, University of Oklahoma

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Design in Engineering Education

possibly inaccurate? His quest for answers to the key question are anchored in three projects, namely, Integrated Realization of Robust, Resilient and Flexible Networks Integrated Realization of Engineered Materials and Products Managing Organized and Disorganized Complexity: Exploration of the Solution Space His current education focus is on creating and implementing, in partnership with industry, a curriculum for educating strategic engineers—those who have developed the competencies to create value through the realization of complex engineered systems. Email URL http://www.ou.edu/content/coe/ame/people/amefaculty/mistree.html LinkedIN http://www.linkedin.com/pub/farrokh-mistree/9/838/8baProf. Zahed Siddique

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Innovative Graduate Programs and Methods, Developing Master's & Ph.D. Programs and Graduate Teaching Assistants

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

MD B. Sarder, University of Southern Mississippi

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Graduate Studies

mapping of identified universities (table 3)with identified best practices. Figures 3-5 show specific best practices adopted by USuniversities that offer master program in logistics & transportation related programs. Table 3: University mapping best practices List of best practices for graduate education Number of universities practicing best practices A, Best Practices Related to Program Content 1. Clearly stated program requirement 22 2. Well-rounded curriculum 19 3. Up-to-date and effective course content 27 4. Well integrated research 25 5. Continuous

Conference Session

UAV and other Team Projects in Aerospace Engineering

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael C. Hatfield, University of Alaska, Fairbanks; John Monahan, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Upward Bound; Samuel Vanderwaal; Carl H France; Logan Walker Graves, UAF

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

Paper ID #15656UAS Design in Active LearningDr. Michael C. Hatfield, University of Alaska, Fairbanks Michael C. Hatfield is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and Associate Director for Science & Education, Alaska Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration. He earned a B.S. in electrical engineering from Ohio Northern University; an M.S. in electrical engineering from California State University Fresno, and a Ph.D. in Electrical/Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Alaska Fairbanks.Dr. John Monahan, University of Alaska

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michele Putko P.E., University of Massachusetts - Lowell; Juliette Nicole Rooney-Varga, University of Massachusetts - Lowell

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

optimization under uncertainty. She is a member of the UMass Lowell Climate Change Initiative.Juliette Nicole Rooney-Varga, University of Massachusetts - Lowell Juliette N. Rooney-Varga is Director of the UMass Lowell Climate Change Initiative and Associate Pro- fessor of Environmental Biology. Her microbial ecology research has spanned diverse topics related to carbon cycling, climate change, and energy; from feedback loops in microbial production of methane in the Arctic and the climate system, to harnessing electricity produced by anaerobic microorganisms in soil. She recently led the NASA-funded Climate Education in an Age of Media (CAM) Project to integrate student-produced media and climate change science, while

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 3

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Larry G. Richards, University of Virginia; Susan K. Donohue, University of Virginia

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Mathematics

. Figure 15 shows a student about to launch the projectile.At the end of our scheduled visits to his school, we were asked if we could leave all our materialsand supplies for a few weeks. Several weeks later, we learned that four teachers had developedand taught an integrated curriculum. The teachers’ areas were English, History, Science andMathematics (Algebra). The students learned about the history of medieval warfare, the scienceand engineering involved in building different types of structures and weapons, the mathrequired to determine how to aim the projectiles and maximize the distance traveled, and theyconducted research and wrote reports on their results. Figure 14: Standard Catapult Design

Conference Session

Innovative Approaches to Ethics Instruction

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohamed B. Trabia, University of Nevada - Las Vegas; Julie A. Longo, University of Nevada - Las Vegas; Susan Wainscott, University of Nevada - Las Vegas

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Engineering Ethics

2015, the College of Engineering decided tocontinue the workshops for incoming graduate students. Current activity includes updating thecontent of future workshops based on continuing assessment of student learning and thecontent of participant questions for the panelists.IntroductionIncorporating ethics teaching within the graduate curriculum has been a topic of continuingand active studies since society has an extremely high level of expectations from practicingengineers. In 2015, one of the revisions of the criteria for accreditation of engineeringprograms in U.S. academic institutions proposed by Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology (ABET) included a change from the earlier, "understanding of professional andethical

Conference Session

CAPSTONE (SENIOR) DESIGN AND UNDERGRADUATE PROJECTS

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert McMasters P.E., Virginia Military Institute

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

Paper ID #15474Employing Computer Optimization in Powerplant DesignRobert McMasters P.E., Virginia Military Institute Robert L. McMasters was born in Ferndale, Michigan, in 1956. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis Md, in June 1978 and completed Naval Nuclear Propulsion Training in August 1979. He subsequently served as a division officer on the USS Will Rogers (SSBN 659) until 1982. Following a 2 year tour as an instructor at the S1W prototype of the Nautilus, the worlds first nuclear powered ship, he resigned his commission as a Naval Officer and began working as a design engineer at K.I. Sawyer Air

Conference Session

Promoting Engineering and Technological Literacy

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janet L. Gbur, Case Western Reserve University; Daniela Solomon, Case Western Reserve University

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

standards organizations, how could standards get integrated into theclassroom if not currently done and to consider adding other SDOs to the panel. In addition,many respondents commented on the enthusiastic presentations and interactions betweenpanel members and between the panel and audience during the first half of the workshop.Based on the survey questions and additional comments, the majority of the attendees wouldprefer an interactive workshop format that would be smaller in size. This would also allowthe ability to target more specific topics in standards education and implementation. How could future events be improved? Make the panels more interactive

Conference Session

Experiential Learning in Chemical Engineering

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lauren Sefcik Anderson, Lafayette College; James K. Ferri, Lafayette College; Ashley Danielle Cramer, Lafayette College

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Chemical Engineering

, ranging from pre-startup safetyprocedures to priming the feed pump to operating the packed electric configuration. Althoughstudents do not fully operate the columns in CHE 322, they must have an understanding of thefunction and operation of the different components in order to work with a given control loop.Students fully operate the column in the third laboratory course in the experiential sequence,CHE 412: Integrated Chemical Engineering.Table II summarizes the videos that were created to enable the flipping of CHE 322. As a note,the videos posted on June 25, 2015 have not yet been used in class by our students. Thus, thesignificant number of page views generated to date further demonstrates the utility of the videosto users outside of our own

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division: Sustainability and Hands-On Engineering Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paula Alvarez Pino, UAB Sustainable Smart Cities Research Center; Andrew J. Sullivan; Fouad H. Fouad, University of Alabama - Birmingham

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

, Construction, and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), and the Director of the UAB Sustainable Smart Cities Research Center. Dr. Fouad is a fellow of the American Concrete Institute (ACI) and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Dr. Fouad’s research interest is in the area of infrastructure design, maintenance, and rehabilitation with a focus on sustainable green building design and construction. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Sustainability Education in a Global EraAbstractWe live in an era of expanding globalization. The interconnectedness of the world has beenincreased in all aspects of life. The

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Nathan E Canney, Seattle University; Christopher Swan, Tufts University; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

the proportion of content related to micro- versusmacroethical issues. Only 30 ASEE conference papers returned from a search on “macroethics”,suggesting that macroethics is less commonly taught in courses and/or co-curricular activities.Ethical instruction methods in courses have been categorized into multiple types: ethics acrossthe curriculum; professional codes of ethics; humanist readings; ethical problem-solvingheuristics; groundings in theoretical ethics; case studies; debate; role-playing; and service-learning.27,29 Many programs teach ethics through a number of these methods. For example,Catalano16 at SUNY-Binghamton describes ethics integration that includes theory, case studies,and humanist readings. Two studies suggest that one of

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fu Zhongli, National University of Defense Technology; Huang Zhang, NUDT in China; Tong Wu, Center for National Security and Strategic Studies (CNSSS), National University of Defense Technology (NUDT); Lini ZHOU, Center for National Security and Strategic Studies, National University of Defense Technology; Jianchuan Li, National University of Defense Technology; Lian Lin, National University of Defense Technology; wang yang, Continuing Education College, National University of Defense Technolgy(NUDT)

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Diversity

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Engineering Leadership Development Division

face of constraints or obstacles, resourcefulness and flexibility, trustand loyalty in a team setting, and the ability to relate to others”8 (p.1). The CDIO Syllabusdefined engineering leadership as “the role of helping to organize effort, create vision, andfacilitate the work of others” (p.68)9. It is clearly stated that leadership is not orthogonal tothe remainder of the engineering curriculum, but rather there is an extensive amount ofoverlap between leadership skills and the other engineering skills9. More studyoperationalized leadership, change, and synthesis within the context of engineering education,it may help to define learning outcomes and competencies for engineering leadershipprograms3,10.Some research grouped three main themes

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division: Engagement, Experiential Learning, and Balance

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Luster-Teasley, North Carolina A&T State University; Sirena C. Hargrove-Leak, Elon University; Willietta Gibson

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

are an integral part of many engineering curricula due to theopportunity to provide hands-on experiences for students to learn how to collect and analyzedata. While laboratory experiences diverge from a formal classroom lecture to allow students toconduct experiments related to real-world disciplinary concepts, many engineering laboratoriesuse a “cookbook” and procedural based structure. These traditional laboratories, however, havebeen proven to only address the lower levels of knowledge and comprehension of BloomsTaxonomy as opposed to reaching the higher levels of application, analysis, synthesis, andevaluation.1-3 Therefore, even though students are engaged in hands-on activities during labinstruction, educators can question several key

Conference Session

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division Evaluation: Exploring the Impact of Summer Programs on K-12 Youth (Part 2)

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Victoria G. Bill, New York University; Yosef Skolnick, Cooper Union

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

beneficial.Specifically, reasons include using engineering design as a framework to design and organizeany curriculum and to integrate students’ studies in mathematics, science, and technology.5There has also recently been a push to include multidisciplinary open-ended design in first-yearengineering courses. Previously, many established first year engineering programs and most highschool summer STEM programs utilized robot projects or predefined problems to teachengineering design. However, assigning students a problem to solve diminishes some of theengineering design process, which often starts with a questioning, iterative brainstorming sessionto identify problems on a global or personal scale that can be solved by an engineered solution orproduct. From

Conference Session

Communication Across the Divisions I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yupeng Luo, California State University - Fresno; Wei Wu, California State University - Fresno; Zhanna Bagdasarov, California State University - Fresno

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Educational Research and Methods, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

’ acceptance and preferencesregarding various aspects of tablet technology. They can serve as an initial guide to help identifyand develop effective teaching strategies cultivating communication and critical thinking skills ina tablet-enhanced collaborative learning environment. A follow-up study with results from directmeasures would complement the analysis presented here and provide useful information forfuture implementation.Bibliography[1] Scardamalia, M., & Berieter, C. (1991). Higher levels of agency for children in knowledgebuilding: a challenge for the design of new knowledge media. Journal of the Learning Sciences,1(1), pp.37–68.[2] Koc, M. (2005). Implications of learning theories for effective technology integration andpreservice

Conference Session

Assessment I: Developing Assessment Tools

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leroy L. Long III, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach

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Educational Research and Methods

and ReliabilityValidity is “an integrated evaluative judgment of the degree to which empirical evidence andtheoretical rationales support the adequacy and appropriateness of inferences and actions basedon test scores or other modes of assessment.” 28 For the purposes of this study, a literaturereview, group of first-year engineering instructors, and panel of experts were used to establishface and content validity. This process was necessary to ensure that the assessment tool coveredconcepts related to the subject, with the appropriate coverage of the topic.29 The dissertationexamination committee for this study served as the primary panel of experts. In addition, thefirst-year engineering program director and two experienced graduate teaching

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Margaret Pinnell, University of Dayton

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Materials

Initiative Framework For Entrepreneurial Mindedness in Engineering Education,” Proceedings of the 2012 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, ASEE, 2012.12. Thoroughman, K., Hruschka, A., Widder, P., “Engineering Virtual Studio: KEEN Modules to Foster Entrepreneurial Mindset in an Integrative, First/Second Year Online Course,” Proceedings of the 2014 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, ASEE, 2014.13. Milton, D., Bridging the Knowledge Gap, KEEN’zine Issue 2, accessed Jan 22, 2015.14. Bloom, B.S. (Ed.). Engelhart, M.D., Furst, E.J., Hill, W.H., Krathwohl, D.R., Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, Handbook I: The Cognitive Domain. New York: David McKay Co Inc, 1956.15. Visioneering Center, https://www.udayton.edu/news/articles/2014

Conference Session

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division Poster Session: Works in Progress

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tasha Tiffany Tardieu, University of Michigan; Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education Division

engineering experience as part of their school curriculum. While students are aptlyprepared in the theory of Math and Physics, they are not allowed many opportunities to applythese concepts to design problems or to relate these ideas to real-world applications. Thisespecially seems to be an issue in all female secondary schools since 50% of peers suggested thatthere be a focus on teaching girls about engineering.According to peers, while a majority felt adequately prepared for the college level workloadbecause of their secondary school education, many felt that there could be a greater level ofpreparation by exposing students to the practical side of engineering. 27% of the students wantedto find out more about engineering, the different types of

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 3; The Best of All the FPD Papers

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Noel Kathleen Hennessey, The University of Arizona; Rebecca Primeau, University of Arizona

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

andcomplex problems,” can be achieved through educational practices, such as first-year seminars,learning communities, E-Portfolios, service learning courses, internships and capstone projects(7). Barriers that exist for integrative learning in higher education today often point to afragmented undergraduate curriculum (collections of independent classes in general education,specialized study, and electives) and the organization of knowledge into distinct and separatecolleges and departments, “even though scholarship, learning, and life have no such artificialboundaries” (p. 16) (7). Learning communities, capstone experiences, and service learningprojects can transcend these barriers by organizing around interdisciplinary themes, linkingcross

Conference Session

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division: Evaluation: Impact of Curriculum for PreK-12 Engineering Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marilyn Barger, Florida Advanced Technological Education Center of Excellence; Richard Gilbert, University of South Florida

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

. Utilizing a three-year Magnet School grant,DLJ established a Center for Mathematics and Engineering to developed and thenimplement its integrated, whole school curriculum with engineering as the core and theconnector. The results of this careful planning and meticulous attention to detailsproduced an elementary school environment that fosters student creative thinking withthe expectation of quantitative metrics to gauge that creativity. The merit of this totalemersion of engineering into an elementary curriculum is reflected in student scores onstandardized test as well as a plethora of awards and acknowledgements for the schoolincluding being named the top elementary STEM program in the nation by the 2015Future of Education Technology Conference

Conference Session

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division Poster Session: Works in Progress

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian Patrick O'Connell, Tufts University Center for Engineering Education and Outreach

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

focusing his research in engineering design, educational tech- nologies, and engineering education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Implementation of a Mobile Makerspace in a K-8 School - Work in ProgressThis paper describes a work in progress aspect of the Novel Engineering research project at TuftsUniversity, a maker cart developed for participant support. This research project provides anapproach for teachers to integrate engineering into their curriculum with greater ease. In thisprogram, students develop functional solutions to problems they’ve identified from variousliterary sources and then develop their solutions for, typically using found

Conference Session

Research on Diversification, Inclusion, and Empathy II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marissa H. Forbes, University of Colorado - Boulder; Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado - Boulder; Jacquelyn F. Sullivan, University of Colorado - Boulder

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

material,“but it is rarely politically expedient to remove material from a curriculum.”23 An “engineeringrenaissance” and cultural change are needed, wherein “the merits of material are debated in thecontext of priorities, lifelong learning, and the quality of experience rather than historicalbiases.”23While some engineering students desire more integration of liberal arts into their engineeringcurriculum,25 other engineering students find humanities, history, arts, communication, and/orculture classes “unnecessary and irrelevant” and a waste of their time.20 This sentiment has beenvoiced by a number of senior engineering students at one institution who bemoan the fact thatthey had to “waste” their time in humanities and social science courses

Conference Session

Student Success III: Affect and Attitudes

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cole H. Joslyn, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Morgan M. Hynes, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

,dialogue/discourse)—introducing such interventions may have contributed to significantchanges.Conclusion In this paper we take a first step toward addressing the culture of disengagement. Theresults of this study can serve to inform the larger research project and how to integrate CD intothe curriculum. First of all, the data we collected using the SSA were comparable to thenormative data and baseline data from the SCS-R and Measures of (Dis)engagement,respectively. Therefore, the absence of statistical significance is more than likely a result oflimitations of the data collected and the nature of the design project than an error on the part ofthe instrument. Moving forward, the larger research project will include additional steps to