Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tristan M. Ericson, York College of Pennsylvania; Stephen N. Kuchnicki, York College of Pennsylvania

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advantages of pursuing an independent study with the interested students were: • More faculty involved with different expertise (especially valuable at an institution with fewer faculty and less specialization) • The fall semester after the Materials Science course permitted planning to begin the project in the spring and give the project more time with a two-semester option • Less time required for course design • Increase our department’s research experiencesThere were four students who expressed the strongest desire to learn more about materials afterthe junior course. Faculty thought that this was a good number for an independent study project;Friend and Beneat [5] note that undergraduate research teams should be reasonably

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert A Heard, Carnegie Mellon University; Christiaan Job Nieman, Universidad de los Andes

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used to establish the practice [9]: 1. Situating: Establish the exploratory experimental tasks within the context of the course and discipline, so that students see the relationship to other core concepts and practices 2. Modeling: The instructor models expert practice while describing and explaining each step of the process from planning (selecting materials/tools, organizing work space) through execution 3. Scaffolding: The instructor provides guidelines, steps, and parameters to structure student exploration. The student begins to conceptualize the task and begins planning. 4. Coaching: The instructor provides coaching and feedback while students engage in the exercise themselves. The student engages in the

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bartlett Michael Sheinberg, Houston Community Collelge; Amanda Smith Hackler, STEM Evaluations and Educational Consulting Services, LLC

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Diversity

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recruit underrepresented students who plan to major in one of the STEM areas. HCC is one oftwo community colleges in the six-member AMP Alliance. There is a great deal of synergyamong HCC AMP and REEMS objectives and activities. In addition to the required communityservice required of AMP students, HCC AMP students are encouraged to join the REEMSstudent cohorts in university tours, meeting university faculty, advisors, and administrators,participation in student development workshops. The REEMS PI also serves and the HCCprogram director for the HCC AMP program. Both AMP and REEMS students seek commonoutcomes: participation in programs that provide direction, structure, and motivation. Fourteenof the REEMS students from the 2015/2016 and 2016

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Megan Frary, Boise State University

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: participantsThere were 26 students enrolled in the course in the fall of 2016. For a student following atypical four-year plan, this course is taken in the fall of the third year. The demographiccharacteristics of the students are summarized in Figure 1. There were 20 males and 6 females.Of the students in the course, 14 graduated from high school in 2013 or later (i.e., were, at most,three years out from high school (HS)), 4 graduated from high school in 2010 to 2012 (i.e., were4 to 6 years out from HS), 1 graduated from high school in 2007-2009 (i.e., was 7 to 9 years outfrom HS), and 7 students graduated from high school in 2006 or earlier (i.e., were 10+ years outfrom HS). As a point of reference, in fall 2016 when the study was conducted, Boise

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xiao Zhang, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Andre Schleife, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Andrew Ferguson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Pascal Bellon, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Timothy Bretl, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Geoffrey L. Herman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Jessica A. Krogstad, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Robert Maass, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Cecilia Leal, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Dallas R. Trinkle , University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Jian Ku Shang, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Matthew West, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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additional MatSEclasses into the SIIP program. In addition, we also have in place a mechanism for continuous re-vision and improvement of the existing computational modules through an end-of-year debriefand planning session, in which the SIIP faculty and teaching assistant conduct a “post mortem”of the computational modules. By identifying aspects of the material, delivery, and student re-sponses that were positive and successful, and those that were less so, the team identifies how andwhere to improve the material and its dissemination for the following year.The student surveys provide valuable information, but their utility as an assessment instrumentcan benefit from further improvement. The sample sizes in the senior level computational