Conference Session

Engineering Economy Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ted Eschenbach, TGE Consulting; Jerome P. Lavelle, North Carolina State University; Neal A Lewis, University of New Haven

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Engineering Economy

not translate to final costs, or where loanamounts are manipulated to include hidden fees or added interest. Mortgage lenders have beenknown to unlawfully demand high escrow balances in order to reap additional interest. The onlycourse where most engineering students get any information related to personal finance isengineering economy. We as instructors need to be mindful of that fact.Engineers tend to have a lower percentage of their college costs paid with borrowing than peoplewith other majors, and they are better positioned to pay off their loans. Even so, manyengineering students and recent graduates can be described by the following statistics. Studentloan debt is now over $1 trillion, and is the second largest form of consumer debt

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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Diversity

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Engineering Economy

context of the subjects of their coursework.Research indicates that if students understand the real-life context of a problem, they are morelikely to retain their knowledge. John Bransford chronicled this in his book, How people learn,Brain, Mind, Experience, and School.4 Real-life context, stories, and personal interactions helpframe this in engineering economy courses. Textbook author, William Sullivan, in his 2008 papersaid, “Developing examples and exercises that are interesting, engaging, and provide context is achallenging problem for courses with students enrolled from a variety of majors. Yet, we knowthat without proper context to their discipline, students will not find relevance or understand whythey should care to learn engineering

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Division Tech Session 2, IE-ing the Classroom

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nadiye O. Erdil, University of New Haven

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Diversity

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

Paper ID #19473Influencing Student Motivation Through Scaffolded Assignments in a Qual-ity Analysis Course and Its Impact on LearningDr. Nadiye O. Erdil, University of New Haven Nadiye O. Erdil, an assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering and engineering and oper- ations management at the University of New Haven. She has over eleven years of experience in higher education and has held several academic positions including administrative appointments. She has ex- perience in teaching at the undergraduate and the graduate level. In addition to her academic work, Dr. Erdil worked as an engineer in sheet metal