Conference Session

Faculty Unite! Effective Ways for Educators to Collaborate Successfully

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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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Diversity

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New Engineering Educators

 Encouraging faculty  Engineer-to engineer peer  Senior faculty  Promotion/Career service at funding mentoring;  Non-tenure- development agencies (name of  Funding/publications/ service/ track faculty  Service positions) teaching  Emphasis in  Work/life balance  Proposal writing for  Retention, Promotion, Tenure diversity  Team building government (NSF, NIH,  Cross disciplinary collaborative (incudes  Collaborative & DoD, DOE, AFSOR) research; women and professional and industry funding  Building community

Conference Session

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division: Evaluation: Exploring the Impact of Programs & Professional Development for K-12 Teachers

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathleen A. Harper, The Ohio State University

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

workshops for area chemistry andphysics teachers since 2004, reaching almost 370 teachers during that time. For most of theprogram’s history, three concurrent workshops have been offered each summer: one inmechanics, one in introductory chemistry, and an advanced curriculum writing workshop. Thecurriculum workshop is open to any teacher who has completed an introductory workshop andimplemented the Modeling approach. The majority of participants maintain ties after theirworkshops to the local and national Modeling community via active listservs and, primarily onthe local level, special events. Almost one-third of the teachers have taken at least twoworkshops through the program. Given that the workshops consist of three intense weeks duringthe

Conference Session

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division: Fundamental: K-12 Student Beliefs, Motivation, and Self Efficacy

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer B. Listman, New York University ; Vikram Kapila, New York University

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education Division

andlabs were matched to align and maximize interests. Students also received formal collegeguidance and training in public speaking during the summer. The program ended with acolloquium, open to the university community and family members of students, whereparticipants gave short talks to present their work.The program includes two courses: Dimensions of Scientific Inquiry (DSI) and Basic Robotics toInspire Scientific Knowledge (BRISK). DSI, taught by a member of the NYU faculty, is adiscussion-based course that covers scientific methods and practice, including their social,cultural, political, and economic contexts; ethical questions surrounding science and technology;and writing, especially as it relates to college application materials and a

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paulina Z. Sidwell, McLennan Community College

Tagged Topics

ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity

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Engineering Economy

students, in teams, were asked to answer questions about how to handle renovation expenses. The students had to write a report and do a presentation while abroad. b. Videologs: The students were tasked with recording 1 to 2 minute long educational videos of various locations we visited. The objective of this project was to encourage students to research the places we were going to in advance. They had to prepare and memorize a script prior to departure, and film at the location using a GoPro camera. The students were told to briefly comment on something interesting, engineering-wise and/or engineering-economics-wise. After the students

Conference Session

Engineering Cultures and Identity

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hank Boone, University of Nevada, Reno; Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno

Tagged Topics

ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

engineering students who have made it beyond traditional exit points inengineering, and into upper division courses. This understanding will be developed throughaddressing the following research questions (RQ):RQ 1) What experiences, affective domain traits, and social capital resources explainengineering students’ development of engineering role identity and feelings of belongingness?RQ 2) In what ways are these experiences unique for first generation engineering students whencompared to continuing generation peers?This increased understanding will be further utilized by the research team in subsequentqualitative phases of the research project by exploring grounds for causation and thedevelopmental role of any significant factors play in development

Conference Session

Statics and Dynamics in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alan Bowling, University of Texas, Arlington; Ashley Guy; Frasier Jones, University of Texas, Arlington; Maria Adamuti-Trache, University of Texas, Arlington

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

illustrate how students write up a solution to this problem. Each sectionrepresents a module in Figure 1.2.1 Position and Orientation ^ XAThe first step in Figure 1, is to develop ^ Νa description of position and orienta- Y B xtion for all rigid bodies in the system. ^Students develop this description using X B z ^ YA

Conference Session

Institutional Capacity and Supportive Structures in Engineering Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yvette E. Pearson P.E., University of Texas, Arlington; Karen E. Crosby, Southern University Baton Rouge; Edgar R. Blevins, Southern University and A&M College; Beth R Isbell, University of Texas, Arlington; Andrew P. Kruzic, University of Texas, Arlington; Stephen P. Mattingly, University of Texas, Arlington; Lynn L. Peterson, University of Texas, Arlington; J. Carter Tiernan, University of Texas, Arlington

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

and analyzed at the time of this writing. By comparison, peers in theCollege of Engineering had first and second year retention rates of 50% and 38%, respectively, onaverage. Peers in other FIGs performed comparably to the FORCES cohorts. Overall, students inlearning communities were retained at higher rates than those who were not in learningcommunities. We note, however, that the results varied for each separate cohort, as did the levelof significance of the results. The FORCES retention rate was never significantly different fromthe other engineering FIG students. 70 61 59

Conference Session

Listening and Negotiation

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Topics

ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity

Tagged Divisions

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

Professor NegotiationsCase 1: Starting offer at a top-ten engineering research programDr. Taylor Smith, having completed a two-year international post-doctoral experience at a majorinternational laboratory – and having proved worth by already having several externally fundedgrants in addition to numerous peer-reviewed papers, applied for two top-ten engineeringprogram assistant professor positions. The candidate was selected for campus interviews at eachplace, and the interview experiences consisted of the typical two full days of interview, includingbreakfasts, lunches and dinners, with various combinations of faculty, graduate students and staff– rigorous interviews designed to vet future colleagues for their ability to take on the research

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 5A: Work-In-Progress: 5 Minute Postcard Session I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachel McCord Ellestad, University of Tennessee - Knoxville

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

covered in FYS 101-eng, these topics directly related toteaching the three major process points of SRL (forethought, performance, and self-reflection). The primary mode of instruction for FYS 101-eng was active learning. Most classmeetings started with a short lecture introduction by the instructor (5-10 minutes) and the rest ofthe class meeting was spent in small group discussions where students would answer discussionquestions and report themes of discussion back to the larger group. At the end of each classsession, several reflection questions were assigned based on the topic of the day and studentswere required to write a one page reflection on how they could apply the day’s topic personally.These reflections were collected and graded

Conference Session

Measuring Learning in Statics & Dynamics

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Roger G. Hadgraft, University of Technology Sydney; David Lowe, The University of Sydney; Justine Lawson

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

was no sense of cataloguing 2. Determining quality and relevance was time-consuming and a likely barrier to use 3. There was a preference for peer reviewed resources 4. Many respondents felt that they would refer the resources on to students or make them available as additional materials for students 5. Nobody indicated that they would replace their existing resources with any of these, opting instead to integrate or add to existing resources 6. Several academics commented that they develop their own resources and personalise the delivery of their courses. For this reason, they need online resources to be readily adaptable or easily modified.A couple of respondents identified the need to include involvement of

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 5A: Work-In-Progress: 5 Minute Postcard Session I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heidi Cian, Clemson University; Michelle Cook, Clemson University; Lisa Benson, Clemson University

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

solving the open-endedproblem wrote: “After some guess and check with various resistors that I failed to write down, Ifound that the best combination, or a possible combination was to use the 40 ohm resistor and the70 ohm resistor in parallel” (emphasis added). Additionally, strategies such as use of a textbookor peers for help would not be discerned through study of student written work. Even ifprofessors do not have access to software that allows recording and annotating of students’ work,or do not have the time themselves to review audio data, the think-aloud process itself could helpstudents develop metacognitive and problem solving strategies that will improve their taskperformance27. The results from this research suggest recommending

Conference Session

Homework, Learning, and Problem Solving in Mechanics

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward J. Berger, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Michael Wilson, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

) circumstances, andthat the problem had to be non-trivial. We also decided to make three simultaneous, real-timemeasurements of student actions: • Problem solving actions: student wrote their solution to the dynamics problem in a Livescribe notebook. We used an Echo smartpen system, which employs a small camera in the tip of the pen (along with specially printed paper) to record everything the student writes in a time-stamped way. • Thought process: we asked students to follow a think-aloud protocol and describe their thoughts and actions verbally during the experiment. These verbal expressions were audio recorded using the Echo smartpen, which automatically synchronizes the audio recording with the written

Conference Session

Enhancing Student Success in Two-Year Colleges

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Brown Bankhead III, Highline College; Tessa Alice Olmstead, Highline College; Judy Mannard PE, Highline Community College

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Diversity

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Two Year College Division

Engineering Course at a Two-Year CollegeAbstractFirst-year engineering students are often underprepared for success in preparatory core classes.To support aspiring student engineers on their path towards degree completion, student behaviorsand attitudes conducive to success as engineering students are developed through the use ofreflective teaching practices in an Introduction to Engineering course. With a progressive seriesof student assignments, in-class activities, and weekly retrospective writing assignments,students are guided to reflect on class experiences. These tasks help students to use classroomlearning to inform future decisions. Recognizing the diverse strengths and backgrounds of ourstudents, the assignments

Conference Session

First-Year Issues in ECE Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeremy N. Thomas, DigiPen Institute of Technology; Christopher Theriault, DigiPen Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

processing. He receives external support through grants from agen- cies such as the US Geological Survey. He has authored more than 25 peer-reviewed publications, often with DigiPen students.Mr. Christopher Theriault, DigiPen Institute of Technology Christopher Theriault earned his BS in Computer Engineering from DigigPen as the first graduate of the program in 2007. In addition to serving as a Lecturer for the program, he also serves as the Lab Manager for the ECE department, an opportunity which allows him to work with students to develop their projects. His own passions for engineering focus on the embedded system space, and his final student project consisting of a modular electronics platform was used by DigiPen to

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Perry Fizzano, Western Washington University; David Hartenstine, Western Washington University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

development and expanding awareness of opportunities. All of these activities have fostered a tight-knit learn- ing community and provided ample opportunities for peer mentoring and networking with alumnae. Because we focus on recruiting first-year students and retaining them through graduation, the program has grown from nine freshmen in the first year to over forty students now who range from fresh- men to seniors. Our recruitment efforts have become more successful as the program has grown which we attribute to the active involve- ment of current students in recruiting and a record of the programs accomplishments. Retention is higher than expected; moreover, re- tention rates are increasing. Students are excelling academically and

Conference Session

Homework, Learning, and Problem Solving in Mechanics

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kai Jun Chew, Stanford University; Helen L. Chen, Stanford University; Beth Rieken, Stanford University; Autumn Turpin, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

of reflections. Onecategory is students affirming specific things on which they made fewer mistakes. For example,on the HW3 and HW4 wrappers students offered such comments as: “Signs were not a problemanymore. Success!” and “I was organized with solutions, I answered specifically whathomework asked, my signs were on point.” Similarly, a student on her post-Exam 2 wrapperoffered: “Yes, I made no mistakes in regards to external vs. internal loads, or pin jointsspecifically.”The second category of open-ended wrapper responses is on identifying and implementingstrategies for successfully completing homework and for preparing for Exam 2. Examples ofsuch strategies are: being deliberate and writing more in presenting a solution, reviewing

Conference Session

Enhancing Student Success in Two-Year Colleges

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicholas P Langhoff, Skyline College; Eva Schiorring; Erik N Dunmire, College of Marin; Thomas Rebold, Monterey Peninsula College; Tracy Huang, Canada College

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Diversity

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Two Year College Division

program (NSF IUSE), three community colleges fromNorthern California collaborated to increase the availability and accessibility of theengineering curriculum by developing resources and teaching strategies to enable small-to-medium community college engineering programs to support a comprehensive set oflower-division engineering courses that are delivered either completely online, or withlimited face-to-face interactions. This paper focuses on the development and testing ofthe teaching and learning resources for Introduction to Engineering, a three-unit course(two units of lecture and one unit of lab). The course has special significance as agateway course for students who without the role models that their middle class peers sooften have readily

Conference Session

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

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph E. Michaelis, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Mitchell Nathan, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education Division

toanother student)) You're also. Okay, ((looks at Lucas)) and you're... I can talk you through Javalater.” Walter seems to be organizing the level of instruction each will need as they proceed.Evidence for this can be seen from the way that Walter then organizes activity for eachnewcomer. He helps Eli find the code for the visual display, called a smart dashboard, that isavailable to the robot operators during competition, and allows Eli and another student to readthrough that code and interpret what it does. This is another form of enculturation employed byWalter, which can be seen as an early form of scaffolding, because Eli depends on peer supportto make sense of a worked example of code, but is not expected to write any code himself

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade - Experiences Designing Courses and Communities

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Khalilullah Mayar, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Student

problems visual through report writing of the entiremultimedia representation, etc.) as application process and then presenting toclass activities, class assignment and Assessment the class while discussion theira multi stage class project Triangle Metacognition aspects as well.independently and in groups. (LO.1)  Every student can easily apply the basic mechanics principles to a real world engineering problem; a 3- stage class

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Efforts in Upper-level Courses

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael S Thompson, Bucknell University; Andrew Ciotola, Stadler Center for Poetry, Bucknell University; Daniel Mancusi, Bucknell University; Mark Yerger, Bucknell University; Adam B Gegg

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

Bucknell University’s professionalliterary arts center. Its mission is to foster in a wide and varied audience an appreciation for thediversity and richness of contemporary American poetry, and to provide support for professionalwriters. The Stadler Center’s programs include, among other offerings, an annual series ofreadings by visiting poets and writers, fellowships and residencies for emerging and establishedauthors, and a nationally circulated literary journal. The Center also serves as the seat of theEnglish Department’s Creative Writing program. Like many such university-based arts centers,the Stadler Center serves both an on-campus and an off-campus constituency, bridging the dividebetween the university and the wider literary culture. Its

Conference Session

PBL and Flipped Classrooms in Civil Engineering Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aliye Karabulut-Ilgu, Iowa State University; Suhan Yao, Iowa State University; Peter Tarmo Savolainen, Iowa State University; Charles T. Jahren P.E., Iowa State University

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

instructors. These benefits caninclude increased learning gain3,4, flexibility5-15, increased interaction with peers and theinstructor6,8,9,12,13,16-22, improved professional skills20,23, and increased student engagement andpreparation9,13,25,26. Based, in part, on the potential benefits identified in previous studies, ajunior-level transportation engineering course was converted into a flipped format. This paperaims to investigate student perspectives on various components of the course. In particular, thefollowing research questions will be addressed. 1. Are students prepared to take a flipped course? 2. What are student perspectives on a flipped transportation engineering course?Course DescriptionCE 355: Principles of Transportation

Conference Session

Classroom Practice I: Active and Collaborative Learning

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nancy K. Lape, Harvey Mudd College; Rachel Levy, Harvey Mudd College; Darryl H. Yong, Harvey Mudd College; Nancy Hankel, Cobblestone Applied Research & Evaluation, Inc.; Rebecca Eddy, Cobblestone Applied Research & Evaluation, Inc.

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

worked individually. The instructors walked around the roomto check on student understanding and ask and answer questions.For both Engineering 82 and Math 45, all PowerPoint slides and tablet writing shown in thecontrol section were contained in the video watched by the inverted section. For both courses,all students completed the same problems that students in the control section completed ashomework. In Engineering 82, students in the inverted section completed specified problemsduring class meeting time (and turned them in at the end of class) and turned others in ashomework. In Math 45, students in the inverted section used in-class time to work on anyproblems from the homework assignment and turned in all of their work as homework. As a

Conference Session

Software Engineering Constituent Committee Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J. Scott Hawker, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Robert Kuehl, Rochester Institute of Technology; Mehdi Mirakhorli

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

architecture design. This helps the students learn how requirements, especially non-functional quality requirements, drive architecture design decisions.In a recent Twin Peaks workshop3, participants found that “a major shortcoming was identifiedin that requirements and architectures are often taught independently and in a fashion thatresembles a waterfall process.” Our merged requirements and architecture course addresses thisshortcoming.Another driver of change impacting the merged requirements and architecture course was tomake this course a “writing intensive” course in support of the general education requirements atour university. Given the document and model-centric nature of the course, the requirements andarchitecture course was a natural

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Outreach and Early Transdisciplinary Courses

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pramod Rajan, Laboratory for Innovative Technology & Engineering Education (LITEE); P.K. Raju, Auburn University

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

-disciplinary class at Auburn University. Thegoals of the project were 1) To create awareness about the NAE grand challenges among thefuture engineering and business students and 2) To explore the feasible solutions for the chosengrand challenges and put it in simple way that a general audience can also understand thetechnology behind these potential solutions. The students were divided in six teams (4-5 studentsin each team) to make six two-minute educational videos. Each team was divided based on theDiSC personality assessment test and had a good mix of engineering and business students. Theproject involved aspects like researching potential solutions for the grand challenges,storytelling, script writing, and video production, editing and marketing

Conference Session

Virtual and Web Learning in Chemical Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J. Patrick Abulencia, Manhattan College; David L. Silverstein P.E., University of Kentucky; Margot A Vigeant, Bucknell University

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Chemical Engineering

large library of thermodynamics videos, suitable toact as “learning objects” for topic introduction or further study outside of class, enhanced studentengagement, student demonstration of the capacity to engage in lifelong learning. By the draftpaper due date, we will also be able to say whether or not it also resulted in a significant changein students’ thermodynamics concept inventory scores. In previous years of the study, simplywatching videos or generating a single video on a larger team did not improve student scoresover control.BackgroundPeer instruction has been shown to be a powerful tool for learning(1). The goal of this work wasto see if the benefits of peer instruction could be attained asynchronously via the medium ofvideo. In the

Conference Session

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

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Danilo Garbi Zutin, Carinthia University of Applied Sciences; Michael E. Auer, Carinthia University of Applied Sciences; Christian Kreiter MSc, Carinthia University of Applied Sciences

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

apositive impact on the usage and utilisation of Online Laboratories. After developing the userinterfaces based on the mock-ups they had the chance to discuss with their peers from otherpartner schools and try the online labs developed by their colleagues. The project runs untilNovember 2016. At the time of writing we are in the process of carrying out tests and asurvey where the students will test labs developed by their peers. Results are expected to beavailable during the summer break.In general, we value this self-paced student activity as a kind of inquiry and project-basedlearning. Students showed high engagement with the project objectives and clealy enjoyedparticipating. They had additionally the opportunity to work together with other

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kimberly Grau Talley P.E., Texas State University, San Marcos; Araceli Martinez Ortiz, Texas State University, San Marcos; Clara Novoa, Texas State University, San Marcos; Vedaraman Sriraman, Texas State University, San Marcos

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

increasingstudent retention as a part of an NSF IUSE grant, Texas State STEM Rising Stars. One of thesestrategies is to introduce a new first-year course, “Introduction to Engineering & EngineeringTechnology,” that was designed to support student retention through exploration of relevantacademic and career issues, early contact with faculty as mentors, and development of a learningcommunity with peers in the major. A special challenge for developing this new Introduction toEngineering course is that the state legislature implemented a law2 that limits the number ofhours that can be required for a college degree. As a result, a new course cannot simply beadded to the existing curriculum of the university’s engineering and engineering technologydegrees

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amelia Chesley, Purdue University; Nathan Mentzer, Purdue University - West Lafayette; Andrew Jackson, Purdue University - West Lafayette; Dawn Laux; Max Renner, Purdue Polytechnic Institute, Purdue University

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First-Year Programs

,” “innovative learning environments,” and “a context-richapplication of English, Communications and Technology” 1. Specifically, this project aims toimprove students’ writing skills, oral communication skills, and presentation skills by reinforcingthe importance of these skills in realistic, project-based design contexts. Administrators andinstructors within all 3 departments hope the integration will improve students’ learning in alldisciplines, increase academic engagement overall, and create a stronger sense of communityamong students. Large-scale integration on this level is an intervention in the traditional university model,which often times includes strict discipline-based divisions of coursework. In this newarrangement, students in each

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenni Buckley, University of Delaware; Amy Trauth, University of Delaware; Michael Chajes P.E., University of Delaware; Lori Pollock, University of Delaware; Kevin R. Guidry; Michael L. Vaughan, University of Delaware; Jeannie S. Stephens, University of Delaware

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First-Year Programs

, specifically, “Project Groups” of 4-5 students from multiple engineeringmajors; and (3) the NAE Grand Challenges for Engineering [11]. Technical and careerdevelopment topics, such as energy concepts, mathematical modeling, statistical analysis,prototyping, technical writing, and oral presentations were introduced through small groupactivities and 3 major (3-4 week) design projects. These activities were intended to scaffold theskills needed for three substantive engineering design projects centered on: (1) Joy of Living andUser-Centered Research; (2) Sustainability; and (3) Cybersecurity. Three of the four faculty members who redesigned the course served as course instructorsduring its pilot year in Fall 2015. These faculty members co-taught

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vann Priest, Rio Hondo College; Gisela Spieler-Persad, Rio Hondo College; Ryan Taylor Bronkar, Rio Hondo College

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

successful completion of certain prerequisite courses determineacademic merit. Students are to have a 2.7 GPA (on a 4.0 scale) in their mathematics and sciencecourses. This GPA was set there to encourage applications from students who would not qualifyfor highly competitive academic scholarships. Program staff chose to focus on those studentswho have the ability and potential to succeed, but who have faced obstacles in their lives.Students may show academic potential by being eligible to enroll in pre-calculus or the firstsemester of general chemistry.In the application, students write an essay in which they describe their professional goals, theirtransfer STEM major, special interests, participation in other programs and clubs, andachievements