Conference Session

Make It!

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Jackson, Purdue Polytechnic Institute; Nathan Mentzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Hugh Jack P. Eng. P.E., Western Carolina University

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Manufacturing

compared totraditional robot design experiences. This development and study is contextualized in a courserequired of many 9th grade students called Foundations of Technology, which is the freshman-level technology and engineering education course provided by the Engineering byDesign coreprogram. It is taught in over 270 school districts across 23 states to about 100,000 studentsannually. The study will employ a design research framework to develop the 8-hour unit andstudy its implementation in 11 classrooms in two school districts. Measures include theSituational Motivation Scale and the Engineering Self-Efficacy Scale. In Year 3, the project willimplement an efficacy study to compare results of the soft robotics unit with the unitimplemented

Conference Session

Green and Susainable Manufacturing Practices

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tzu-Liang Bill Tseng, University of Texas, El Paso; Aditya Akundi, University of Texas, El Paso; Arturo Olivarez Jr., University of Texas, El Paso; Eric D. Smith, University of Texas, El Paso; Richard Chiou, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.)

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Manufacturing

presented at more than 100 international, national and re- gional research conferences. Some of his more general research areas of interest include teacher and student’s self-efficacy and motivation research, reading and mathematics education research, and quality of teacher preparation research. Recently, he concluded several educational program evaluations across Texas in the areas of reading, bilingual education and technology. Three of the most recent evaluations in- clude study on middle school students writing, evaluation of the impact of technology in schools, Reading First Grants, a bilingual education program, a nursing student training program funded by the NSF and a Department of Education grant in Green