Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Campbell Rightmyer Bego, University of Louisville; Il Young Barrow, University of Louisville; Patricia A. Ralston, University of Louisville

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

at longer success rates of students. Undergraduate engineering programs are rigorousthroughout, and students need to gain base knowledge in mathematics, the sciences, and problem-solving as well as specific field-based knowledge in order to have an engineering career. This doesnot occur in a single semester or even a single year. At the University of Louisville (UofL) J.B. Speed School of Engineering, the mathematicssequence includes three, 4-credit-hour courses of engineering-based calculus, (EngineeringAnalysis I, II and III), followed by a 2-credit-hour course in differential equations (DifferentialEquations for Engineering). Engineering Analysis I begins with an algebra review, progressesthrough limits, and then follows the

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hui Ma, University of Virginia; Gianluca Guadagni, University of Virginia; Stacie N. Pisano, University of Virginia, School of Engineering and Applied Science; Bernard Fulgham, University of Virginia; Monika Abramenko, University of Virginia; Diana D Morris, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

engineering courses [14][15][16], 2) Toincrease student engagement by introducing more active-learning elements in the classroom[17],and more importantly 3) To increase students’ retention of knowledge so that they are betterprepared to move forward for their advanced courses and their engineering career [18].How were students selected?Students were eligible to take the course if they had obtained approved college credit for SingleVariable Calculus II or if they had scored 5 on the Advanced Placement Calculus BC exam. Infall 2016, 26 first-year students were self-enrolled in this class.How were common gaps identified?During the early development of the course, we surveyed our Calculus instructors and certaintopics were identified as the common gaps

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shirley B. Pomeranz, The University of Tulsa; Peyton James Cook Ph.D., The University of Tulsa

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

semester I was happy (at first) when Idiscovered that I had saved all of my calculus notebooks from the late 1960s, when I was anundergraduate and took my first calculus courses. I was less happy when I also discovered somegraded homework and tests with comments such as “This work is not good”, which I suppose isa gentle was of saying “this is nonsense, tear it up and start again” (a comment which I didreceive on some graded graduate school homework later in my academic career). There wereColumbia University graded calculus tests from my four-semester calculus sequence; 1B, 2B,3B, and 4B; and some material with questions involving metric spaces and compact sets (which Icannot even imagine covering in the calculus courses that I currently teach

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gavin Duffy, Ohio State University; Sheryl A. Sorby, Ohio State University; Austin Mack, Ohio State University; Brian Bowe, Dublin Institute of Technology

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

, it is unusual to find resources made available to improve spatialskills. The findings of Wai et al. (2009) raise spatial skills development as a potentiallyfruitful way to make STEM education and careers more attractive and to improve grades andretention rates in engineering education.Figure 1. Analysis of Project TALENT data to show relative position of spatial scores toverbal and math scores for different disciplines; V = Verbal, S = Spatial and M =Mathematical ability; (Figure B1 taken from (Wai et al., 2009)).One of the most interesting findings from spatial ability research, and which is also veryimportant for engineering educators to be aware of, is the sizeable and significant gender gapin favour of males – on average, males get

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Guo Zheng Yew, Texas Tech University; Aimee Cloutier, Texas Tech University; Stephen Michael Morse, Michigan Technological University; Audra N. Morse, Texas Tech University

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

struggling to keep upwith the mastery of pre-college mathematical skills needed prior to pursuing their engineeringcore courses.BackgroundMathematics is an important tool by which the concepts of science and technology can beexplained and modelled on pen and paper. The mastery of mathematics allows for the study –besides pushing the frontiers – of science and technology. Students who wish to pursue a degreein a STEM-related field must have adequate knowledge and proficiency in mathematics to besuccessful in their STEM career. Therefore, STEM students are expected to have the adequatepreparation in mathematics prior to participating in a STEM degree program.The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) administers its Programfor