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Pre-College: Resource Exchange

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michelle Jordan, Arizona State University; Mia Delarosa; Rebecca Hooper; Jill Denman Murphy; Cody Anderson, Scottsdale Community College

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

not necessarily reflect those of NSF or DOE.

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Danyelle Tauryce Ireland, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Penny Rheingans, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Lee Blaney, UMBC; Marie desJardins, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; E. F. Charles LaBerge, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Susan Martin, University of Maryland; Carolyn Seaman, UMBC; Gymama Slaughter, University of Maryland Baltimore County; Anne Marie Spence, Baylor University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Leaders from Baccalaureate-Granting Institutions. 2011, College Board. 10. Hrabowski III, F., Fostering first-year success of underrepresented minorities, in Challenging & Supporting the First-Year Student, M.L. Upcraft, Gardner, J.N., and Barefoot, B., Editors. 2005, Jossey-Bass: San Francisco, CA. p. 125-140. 11. Jewett, S. and Martin, S. “STEM Transfer Success: The Value of Critical Reflection and Shared Responsibility.” Evollution. Published online, August 20, 2015.http://evolllution.com/attracting-students/accessibility/stem-transfer-success-the- value-of-critical-reflection-and-shared-responsibility/ 12. Jewett, S. and Martin S. “STEM Transfer Success: Reflecting on Lessons Learned.” Evollution

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen J Krause, Arizona State University; James A Middleton, Arizona State University; Keith D. Hjelmstad, Arizona State University; Eugene Judson, Arizona State University; Robert J Culbertson, Department of Physics, Arizona State University; Casey Jane Ankeny, Arizona State University; Ying-Chih Chen, Arizona State University; Lydia Ross, Arizona State University; Lindy Hamilton Mayled, Arizona State University; Elizabeth Lopez, Arizona State University; Yong Seok Park, California State University Fullerton; Bethany B Smith, University of California, Berkeley

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

)encouragemetacognitiontobuildhabitsofexpertlearnerswhodefinetheirlearninggoalsandmonitortheirownprogress.These principles were realized through student reflection, student engagement, andcontextualizationofconceptsbylinkingabstractconceptstoreal-worldconcreteexamples.Thepositiveimpactofthisapproachoffacultybeliefswasshownwithasurveytakenafterthreeyearsontheproject.Itfoundthateightoutofeightfacultysaid,inthelasttwoyearsof using JTF pedagogy, their classroom practice had "changed somewhat or changedsignificantly." One quote illustrating this was, "I teach using full engagement strategies....previousclassesweremuchmorelecture-centric."Anotherquestionshowedthat7of8feltthat their views about teaching had changed "somewhat or significantly." On an open-endedsurveyfacultywerequeried,"HowdoyouviewyourroleintheclassroomnowascomparedtobeforejoiningJTF

Conference Session

Assessing Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas P. James P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Craig G. Downing, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Diane Evans, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

, wheregraduates take jobs in finance (10-17%), consulting (7-11%), law (12-17%), and medicine (12-16%), or go on to graduate school (8-9%)3. If our best and brightest inspire to attend eliteschools and upon graduation take jobs, rather than create businesses, one may ask if ourinstructional approach to teaching entrepreneurship is changing mindsets. Upon reflection, wemust ask ourselves, “Does an educational experience infused with entrepreneurship create moreentrepreneurial minded people?”, and more specifically, “How can we assess if a change inmindset is occurring on our campus?”There are two macroscale approaches to conducting research on the subject of entrepreneurship,with one focusing on the impact of entrepreneurship in the economy and how

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Changing the Engineering Classroom

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rania Al-Hammoud P.Eng., University of Waterloo; Arshia Khan, University of Minnesota, Duluth; Ona Egbue, University of Minnesota, Duluth; Stephen Phillips, University of Waterloo

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Educational Research and Methods

materials. Roughly 56% indicated the same for the associated quiz. When comparedwith other active learning activities in the class, 100% of the students indicated that the debatesbetween students on concepts covered in the classroom were either effective or very effective inlearning the concepts covered in the class. In addition, 89% of students indicated that the caseanalysis and discussion were effective or very effective. These responses are also reflected inFigure 2, where the aforementioned activities are ranked higher than the quiz with studentcreated questions which students indicated are as useful as the lecture. On closer examination,feedback from students indicated that they felt that more time was needed to complete thisactivity

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 2

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven J. Burian, University of Utah; Manoj K. Jha, North Carolina A&T State University; Gigi A. Richard, Colorado Mesa University; Marshall Shepherd, University of Georgia; John Taber, Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology

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Environmental Engineering

  and  divided  engineering design and application   Evaluate potential measures to address extremes lectures  filled  with  discussion   Reflect on key elements of a resilient urban water questions  and  a  group  activity.  system Students will be working with time series flow data for statistical analysis of extreme events.  Lesson 9 (Planning and Decision Making) is a group activity that requires students to apply the material they have learned in Lessons 1–8 in an urban water system design project. Students are  presented  with  a  scenario  and  are  required  to  select  options  to  design  a  feasible  and sustainable

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Pre-College: Working with Teachers to Improve K-12 Engineering Education

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah E. Lopez, Utah State University; Wade H. Goodridge, Utah State University; Moe Tajvidi P.E., Utah State University; Kurt Henry Becker, Utah State University, Center for Engineering Education Research

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

, the question remains, howshould those programs be tailored to best match the needs of teachers in rural areas? Toanswer this, we identify notable areas of low confidence and high benefit from responsesof rural teachers to the survey.From section one, the area of least confidence among rural teachers was their ability toimplement the NGSS in their classrooms, as measured by agreement to the followingstatement: “I feel confident enough in my foundational engineering knowledge levels tobe able to develop and deliver engineering content focused on applications that satisfyengineering standards in the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).” (M = 3.8 on a7 point scale, centered at 4) This weakness was reflected across all demographiccategories

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Poster Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gina Navoa Svarovsky, University of Notre Dame; Scott A. Pattison, Institute for Learning Innovation; Monae Verbeke, Institute for Learning Innovation; Marcie Benne, Oregon Museum of Science and Industry; Pam Greenough Corrie MS, Mt. Hood Community College

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

% thought parents would be “interested” and28% thought parents would be “in the middle.” These differences across staff and parentsresponses may reflect staff members’ own hesitation about the topic as appropriate for earlychildhood education, as well as feelings that there are already many other content areas that theprogram must cover.Families and staff primarily associate engineering with building and constructionDespite their excitement and interest, both parents and staff members indicated a somewhatnarrow perception of engineering, although a large minority of respondents mentioned planningand problem solving. Table 1 highlights the most common coded response categories for eachgroup and the frequency of responses within each category

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicole Berge, University of South Carolina; Charles E. Pierce, University of South Carolina; Robert Petrulis

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

assigned to view three educational videos (produced as part of thisproject) on nanomaterial dimensions, uses, and manufacturing. The first exercise requiredstudents to draw, as individuals and in teams, a nanoscaled view of low-porosity and high-toughness Portland cement mortar incorporating multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs).Supplemental questions were designed to invoke student reflections on the shape and relativesize of MWCNTs and cement hydrates, and how those physical relationships affect relevantmechanical properties of the nanoreinforced mortar. Student teams worked on a set of threehands-on active learning exercises using more familiar physical objects, on a larger scale, torepresent MWCNTs, cement hydrates, and fine aggregate. These

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew A. Verleger Ph.D. (He/His/Him), Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

it was deemed too time intensive.Stage 3) Full evaluation of 5 samples with comparison to an expert evaluator. Participants werepresented with 5 sample MEA solutions and asked to complete a full evaluation of the workusing both the numeric and free response items. After each evaluation, they are shown theirreview next to an expert’s review of that same sample and asked to reflect on how they mightimprove their evaluation to more closely align with the expert.For peer review, the peers went through a similar, but much shorter training process to theteaching assistants, with Stage 3 being reduced to only a single training evaluation andcomparison to expert.ResultsFor each of the 7 rubric items shown in Table 1, the 6 non-expert evaluations

Conference Session

Biomedical Division Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexander J. Carroll, North Carolina State University; Andrew J. DiMeo Sr., UNC & North Carolina State University; Hatice O. Ozturk, North Carolina State University; James McCall, North Carolina State University

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Biomedical

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Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

R. Alan Cheville, Bucknell University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

-out which enableda richer view of the various inter-relationships between areas of the ecosystem, participants wereasked to reflect on their relationships with other parts of the ecosystem. The goal of this exercisewas to begin to elicit both the types of resources participants needed from others to thrive(inputs) as well how the results of their efforts were utilized by other sectors (outputs). Thiselicitation was scaffolded using the framework shown in Figure 3. This framework drew fromthe Crucial Conversations framework (Patterson, Grenny, McMIllan, Switzler, & Roppe, 2012)to identify areas where participants had, and were lacking, resources they might draw from orcontribute to other parts of the ecosystem. Messages were then developed

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pong P. Chu, Cleveland State University; Chansu Yu, Cleveland State University; Karla R Hamlen, Cleveland State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

engineeringcurriculum. Each theme grows in two dimensions:  Component complexity.  Design abstraction level.The component dimension represents the I/O devices and peripherals. Each theme uses an arrayof I/O components and modules. While all the components in a theme follow the same basicoperation principle and perform similar functions, their capabilities and complexities graduallygrow. The design abstraction dimension reflects the abstraction layers of an IP core shown inFigure 1(a). The construction starts at the gate level or register-transfer level and graduallyevolves to an IP core with software driver library.2.1 Components in each theme2.1.1 Video (image) theme A computer image is composed of a matrix of pixels. A pixel contains three

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth A Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Kathleen Meehan, University of Glasgow; Bonnie H. Ferri, Georgia Institute of Technology; Aldo A. Ferri, Georgia Institute of Technology; Deborah Walter, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

given to high school students who worked on FirstRobotics. Thus, the myRIO is better suited to students without a strong electrical engineering orcomputer engineering or computer science background.Best PracticesThe list of topics below reflect the discussion and general consensus of the workshop participantson the use of portable labs.1. Pedagogical approachThe level of open-endedness of the experiment or project depends on the purpose. Thepedagogical approaches observed by the practitioners can be categorized as: directedexperiments, open-ended programing tasks, and mobile labs. The best practices of experiencedpractitioners are summarized below.Directed experiments use straightforward labs that instruct students to explore and

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth R. Leitch P.E., West Texas A&M University; Byungik Chang P.E., University of New Haven; Erick Benjamin Butler, West Texas A&M University; J. Arn Womble P.E., West Texas A&M University; Nathan Howell, West Texas A&M University

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Diversity

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Civil Engineering

tocurriculum planning and teaching coursework for all courses with a civil engineering specificdesignation. ABET and ASCE prefer that civil and environmental engineering faculty to belicensed in order to teach any course with significant design content, typically reflected in thecourse title and catalog description. The civil engineering faculty members are currentlylicensed as professional engineers while the environmental engineering faculty members arelicensed or in process of professional licensure as of the start of the fall 2016 semester.The Need for New Engineering ProgramsCurrently, thirty-two public and private universities in Texas graduate approximately 10% of allengineering students in the USA, about 65,000 current students in total as of

Conference Session

Work-in-Progress Posters: Computers in Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Darren K. Maczka, Virginia Tech; Jacob R. Grohs, Virginia Tech

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Diversity

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Computers in Education

shaping), it is especially relevant when makingdecisions regarding how to synthesize these results into practice. Any changes to assessment mustalways be accompanied with reflection about how changes might affect different people, inparticular those who have been historically disadvantaged. In short, we caution against rushing toFigure 1: Screenshot of ELAN during data analysis. The large pane contains the screen capturevideo, the smaller window shows the front facing camera of a member of the research team fordemonstration purposes. These two video streams, and the audio, are played in sync using theplayback controls below the video panes. Below that we see the audio waveform and customdefined tiers, ELAN’s term for a single analytic layer of

Conference Session

Work-in-Progress Posters: Computers in Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ting-Ting Wu, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology; Yueh-Min Ray Huang, National Cheng-Kung University

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Computers in Education

. Fostering students' creative thinking and unleashing theirimagination thus develops their capacity for innovation, which is now essential inengineering education.IntroductionCompetitive market structures are changing, and industry is gradually demanding anincreasingly large number of cross-disciplinary and innovative employees. Therefore,engineering education should, in addition to teaching traditional skills, also focus ontraining students in the ability to solve engineering problems innovatively. Creativethinking and an integrated curriculum can be used to develop students' creativethinking, critical reflection, and adaptation skills.Creativity education curricula have traditionally differed because there are differentopinions and explanations

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design Projects

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David R. Mikesell, Ohio Northern University; John-David S. Yoder, Ohio Northern University; John K. Estell, Ohio Northern University; Ahmed Abdel-Mohti P.E., Ohio Northern University; Firas Hassan, Ohio Northern University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

total of six majors, has increased the number of multi-disciplinaryprojects to better reflect the environment in which most engineers will ultimately be employed.Involving students and advisors from multiple departments on the same project, though, oftenresulted in uncertainty from the varied course schedules and expectations.In the spring of 2016, the college faculty voted to create one college-wide capstone course toreplace the departmental courses. This course governs only the project-based portion of capstonedesign; each department still retains complementary senior-level lecture-based courses tailored toits discipline that cover project management and design process topics. The 2016-17 academicyear is the first offering for this new course

Conference Session

Assessment of Student Learning and Motivation in BME

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William H Guilford, University of Virginia; Brian P. Helmke, University of Virginia

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Biomedical

used by students for formative purposes. In fact,students in the formative assessment section were asked in class discussions to identify points ofconfusion when reviewing the exam solutions. Thus, formative assessments may themselvesinduce the testing effect.Alternatively, formative assessments may induce learning by causing students to recognize,evaluate, and react to the assessment or the course material [11]. That is, it is a reflectiveexercise. Detailed, but not superficial, reflection on learning has been associated with significantlearning gains [12]. The formative assessments were part of a broader educational strategy to enhance student thelearning experience of the student. For example, student feedback regarding

Conference Session

Pre-College: Teacher Impact on Student Mastery

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy Wilson-Lopez, Utah State University, Teacher Education and Leadership; Jared W. Garlick, Utah State University

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

English Language Arts (ELA)classrooms. Other researchers, however, have studied discourse in science classrooms todetermine what teacher discourse moves promoted dialogic spells in whole-class discussions.Zhai and Dillon, for instance, found that when teachers used storytelling and analogies to teachaspects of botany, their students were more likely to construct elaborate verbal explanations intheir subsequent discussions.11 McNeill and Pimentel’s research in urban high school classroomsin many ways reflected the findings of Nystrand and colleagues.6 They found that dialogicdiscourse was more likely to occur when science teachers made explicit connections to previousstudents’ comments and when they asked “open-ended questions,” or questions that

Conference Session

Awareness, Expectations, and Recognition of Ethics

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Geoff Pfeifer, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Kristen Billiar, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Engineering Ethics

disciplines, but they have provided us, the faculty involved inthe project, with a multi-year opportunity to discuss, think about, and reflect upon the respectiveviews that each of us has about the goals of the project, what topics in engineering ethics areimportant, and the role of ethics in engineering more generally. We think that this reflection iscritical for determining how to teach ethics across our curriculum. We think that case studies are good ways to teach ethics in technical courses and theyhave proven effective in some studies (Yadav, Shaver & Meckl, 2010). However, we also agreewith the literature that argues that using case studies that do not connect more closely to studentexperience, the content of a given course, and the

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Engineering Literacy: Champions of Engineering in General Education

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian P Kirkmeyer, Miami University

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

musical instruments that are used in heavy metal music function. 4. Students will explain how each instrument serves a musical need for specific subgenres of heavy metal. 5. Students will identify the worldwide influences and impact of heavy metal music. 6. Students will describe how heavy metal music serves as a vehicle to know about global culture and government function.This course serves to discuss engineering and technology through heavy metal’s creation andevolution. Additional discussions explore social perceptions of and responses by the culture ofmetal, and how its growth reflects politics and society worldwide. In these ways, the courserepresents many of the tenets of liberal education promoted at the host

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Engineering Management Division Technical Session 2: Curriculum and the Classroom

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew J. Czuchry, East Tennessee State University; James H. Lampley, East Tennessee State University; Addison Scott Karnes, East Tennessee State University; Leendert Menist Craig, East Tennessee State University

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Engineering Management

experience. Some professions may callthe experience hands-on learning or real-world projects, and “learning-by-doing” is a phraseoften heard in the trades or in technical education.Regardless of the name, the goal is the same - allow students to gain experience in solvingproblems. Experiential learning may include all these activities and more. There must be a finalcomponent, a self-evaluation by students about what went wrong and what went right in theirexperiential learning project. This reflective process is what elevates a hands-on experience toexperiential learning. * * * *Authors’ NoteHow does this article relate to Engineering Management Education? A special thanks goes outto the reviewers

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Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 5

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jani Kalasniemi, Aalto University; Joona Kurikka, Aalto University; Lauri Repokari, Politecnico do Porto

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Electrical and Computer

validation offered by this paper. The topics are: 1. How the time and the way coaches helped the teams reflects the team’s design outcome? 2. How much team members helped each other? From the pictures, it was clear that teams were asking each other for help during the challenge. How much the other team members helped and how much it helped, would be good questions for this kind of a study 3. How did the code written by the participants evolved during the different stages of the challenge and can this be reflected to measure what the participants learned during the challenge?References[1] R. Terry and J. Harb, “Kolb, Bloom, Creativity, and Engineering Design,” ASEE Annu. Conf. Proc., vol. 2

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Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 1

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Benjamin Crilly, U.S. Coast Guard Academy; Shane P. Corbett, U.S. Coast Guard Academy

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Engineering Physics & Physics

the antenna to vary. 2 We care about both the VSWR and the bandwidth because they tell us how our antenna will perform in the RF spectrum. VSWR is a measure of the reflected power from the antenna back to the hardware. The value is typically represented as a ratio of the max voltage in the line to the minimum voltage. Ideally, you would want a VSWR of 1, but any value below or around 2 is perfectly acceptable. When the VSWR becomes too high, on the order of 5 or so, the mismatch is too great to transmit signals over the antenna at that frequency. From the three design parameters we can calculate most characteristics of the

Conference Session

Edifying Engineering Education through Multidisciplinary Efforts

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hsiao-Wen Wang, National Cheng Kung University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

the domain of engineering. Communication skills: The content of the report used clear logic and appropriate content. Creative thinking: The project demonstrates fluency of thought, representing a number of appropriate concepts (identical to those evaluated in the ATTA creativity test). Problem solving: The proposed idea is feasible (effective) as well as demonstrating flexibility in thought and approach, addressing problem detection, solution, and prevention aspects. Critical thinking: Demonstrating a depth of thought and reflection in solving problems and making decisions.Table 4. Project Performance RubricsItems Questions 1. The extent to which the core questions were clarified. 2

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Tips and Tricks for Actively Engaging Students

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daria Gerasimova, George Mason University; Margret Hjalmarson, George Mason University; Jill K. Nelson, George Mason University

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New Engineering Educators

learning from their peers. One member who learned a teaching strategy fromanother member reflected, “That’s something I don’t think I would have ever been exposed to ifI hadn’t met in a group like this.” Learning from their peers was also valuable because itprovided opportunities to learn from first-hand experience (i.e., strategies that were already triedby others in the group). In addition to peer learning, participants were also learning from thebooks and articles they read as part of their group participation. While some of the learned ideas were not useful to participants (e.g., not applicable totheir classes), other ideas interested them as something they could try in the future in theirclasses. An interest in those ideas led some

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Pre-college: Blending Computers, Computational Thinking, and Engineering Education

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hoda Ehsan, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Chanel Beebe, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Monica E. Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

thinking competencies in the context of problem solving in children.  The computational thinking competencies which most frequently appeared in educational apps appropriate for K-2 aged children.Each of the two researchers engaged in this process first coded one app individually. Next, weshared our experiences and findings to come into agreement about what certain activities in theapps required users to do. We then were able to generate examples and non-examples ofcomputational thinking. As we developed a collaborative understanding, we modified thecodebook with examples and non-examples reflected in Appendix 2.Next we used the codebook from Appendix 2 to code all 41 apps. Researchers spent exactly 30minutes

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Innovations in Aero Curriculum and Program Level Administration

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathy Schmidt Jackson, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Mark D. Maughmer, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Aerospace

, stimulate intellectual discipline, and increase studentself-confidence and time management skills.2 Homework is notably part of the engineeringcurriculum for it “…unquestionably reflects the nature of engineering practice, wherein problemsare solved in an open setting in marked contrast to time-constrained and closed-book testconditions.”3 There are, however, some drawbacks to homework, the most notable being that it iseasy for students to find solutions on the Internet and copy and share them with classmates.Another drawback to homework may be students’ inability to manage their own learning. Thereis a body of knowledge around self-directed learning that is defined by Knowles4 as “a process inwhich individuals take the initiative, with or without

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Student Division Innovative Research Methods Technical Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anne Marguerite McAlister, The Ohio State University; Dennis M. Lee, Clemson University; Katherine M. Ehlert, Clemson University; Rachel Louis Kajfez, Ohio State University; Courtney June Faber, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Marian S. Kennedy, Clemson University

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Student

underGrant Number EEC-1531641. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendationsexpressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views ofthe National Science Foundation.ReferencesBenson, L. C., Kennedy, M. S., Ehlert, K. M., Vargas, P. M. D., Faber, C. J., Kajfez, R. L., & McAlister, A. M. (2016). Understanding undergraduate engineering researchers and how they learn. In Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2016 IEEE (pp. 1–5). IEEE.Cohen, J. (1960). A coefficient of agreement for nominal scales. Educational and Psychological Measurement, (20), 37–46.Creswell, J. W. (2013). Qualitative inquiry and research design: Choosing among five approaches (Third Edit). Los Agneles: Sage