Conference Session

IED Technical Session: Preparing Courses for the Future

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Javier Rubio-Herrero, St. Mary’s University, San Antonio

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

analysis is: when is the impact of SP felt the most? Inother words, when is Sb − Sa maximized? Note that any positive value of this difference indicatesa reversal, an occurrence of SP. For example, consider that the weights wm , wh , and the totalnumber of homework asigments n are given by the course syllabus and that a student has ahomework average ∑ni=1 hi /n after n assignments. Then, the effect of SP, if felt at all, will bedirectly proportional to the score of the dropped score and inversely proportional to the grade in −1his or her midterm exam. If we write ∑ni=1 hi /(n − 1) = (∑ni=1 hi − hn )/(n − 1), the functionSb − Sa is linear with respect to the worst homework hn and the midterm grade m

Conference Session

IED Technical Session: Preparing Courses for the Future

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gokhan Egilmez, University of New Haven; Ridvan Gedik, University of New Haven

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

StudentsFigures 8 and 9 demonstrate the assignment grades for graduate and undergraduate students,respectively. Histograms and the adjusted normal probability plots demonstrate that both cohortswere very successful in securing high grades. One student from each group did not turn in theassignment and therefore received zero.Table 5 summarizes evaluation results both the course and instructor received at the end of the Fall2017 and Fall 2016. In total, 23 students responded to the questions and filled out the online surveyout of 25 registered students in Fall 2017. On the other hand, 20 out of 27 students responded tothe questions at the end of Fall 2016 in which the IMSG was not offered as an activity to thestudents. The results indicate that the overall

Conference Session

IED Technical Session: Preparing for the Future Through Projects and Research

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janis P. Terpenny, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Catherine M. Harmonosky, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Amine Lehtihet, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Vittal Prabhu, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Andris Freivalds, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Elena M. Joshi, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Jose A. Ventura, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

University, University Park Amine Lehtihet is Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Penn State with teaching and research interests in Design and Manufacturing.Dr. Vittal Prabhu, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Vittaldas Prabhu is currently a Professor in the Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engi- neering at Penn State. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin- Madison. Professor Prabhu works in the area of distributed control systems with a focus on manufactur- ing and service enterprises consisting of discrete-events, physical processes, and service processes. He teaches courses in manufacturing systems, service systems, and