Engineering and Science (www.craftofscientificwriting.com) and the Assertion-Evidence Approach (www.assertion-evidence.com).Mrs. Melissa G. Kuhn, Old Dominion University Melissa G. Kuhn is a PhD Student in Educational Psychology and Program Evaluation at Old Dominion University. Additionally, she works at the Batten College of Engineering and Technology in educational projects and program coordination. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 1Work In Progress (WIP): Common Practices in Undergraduate Engineering Outreach Joanna K. Garner The Center for Educational
dimensions materials and the characterization and modeling of their material properties. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Work in Progress: The Attributes of a Prototypical Leader As Viewed by Undergraduate Engineering StudentsIntroductionThe professional development of leadership skills by undergraduate engineering students is keyto a successful long-term career. Increasing diversity and inclusion in leadership is also criticalfor technology companies as they become global enterprises. Within engineering education, theNational Science Foundation funded a multiyear research project lead by the American Societyof Engineering Education beginning in 2014 on “Transforming
semiclassical asymptotics, scattering theory and Maslov operator theory, as well as academic integrity in international engineering education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 The Moral Foundations of Chinese Engineering Students: A Preliminary InvestigationAbstractTechnology-related disasters and scandals have resulted in concerns regarding the safety and ethicsof Chinese companies and practitioners. Although China now graduates and employs more science,technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) majors than any other country in the world,ethics is not yet a central component of engineering education. Simply importing foreign curricula,however, would be
currently focuses on the development and implementation of modeling and control of renewable energy systems, characterization of nanomaterials, photovoltaics, and nanoscale integrated systems. He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and the Materials Research Society (MRS). c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Powering Internal Combustion Engines Using Cost Effective Synthesis Gas Driven from BiomassABSTRACT:Recent concerns over the security and reliability of the world’s energy supply has caused a fluxin the research and development of renewable sources. A leading renewable source
Paper ID #27773Design of a Laboratory Testbed for Modeling Industrial ExhaustDr. Gordon P. Smith, Western Kentucky University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Design of a Laboratory Testbed for Modeling Industrial ExhaustAbstractThere are a great many industries in the Kentucky and surrounding areas that utilize natural gasburners in their operation, typically on order of hundreds of thousands of cubic feet per month toliquefy and hold molten aluminum for their die operations. Much of the energy content of thisfuel is consumed in plant operation, but a significant amount of heat is released to the
Mechatronics Engineering student at Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technol- ogy. She is the President of Vaughn College’s Society of Women Engineers chapter and Secretary of the Robotics Team at Vaughn College. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Early Learning Braille Block Language SystemIntroductionFor people who are blind or visually impaired, it is a difficult task to learn how to read. There isequipment that is available for purchase to learn how to read. These devices can be expensiveand not easily accessible to all income ranges. Additionally, most of these devices are large andunaccommodating for children. The objective of
courses.Dr. Robin Fowler, University of Michigan Robin Fowler is a lecturer in the Program in Technical Communication at the University of Michigan. She enjoys serving as a ”communication coach” to students throughout the curriculum, and she’s especially excited to work with first year and senior students, as well as engineering project teams, as they navigate the more open-ended communication decisions involved in describing the products of open-ended design scenarios. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Experimental evidence regarding gendered task allocation on teamsAbstractStudent teams negotiate many aspects of collaboration, including task division on teams. Somestudies
implementation and outcomes of educational interventions at the K-12 and collegiate levels. She received her MS and Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Georgia Tech in 2009 and 2013, respectively. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 External representation design- for-sustainability intervention in engineering graphics courseIntroductionIntroduction to Engineering Graphics and Visualization is a freshman-engineering coursein many universities. In 1999, when Georgia Tech converted from quarter to semestercurricula, the College of Engineering created a three credit hour introductory engineeringgraphics course for undergraduates [1]. The fifteen-week course included
of Integrated Engineering at the University of San Diego. Her teaching and research interests include inclusive pedagogies, electronics, optoelectronics, materials sci- ence, first year engineering courses, feminist and liberative pedagogies, engineering student persistence, and student autonomy. Her research has been sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Dr. Lord is a fellow of the ASEE and IEEE and is active in the engineering education community including serving as General Co-Chair of the 2006 Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference, on the FIE Steering Committee, and as President of the IEEE Education Society for 2009-2010. She is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Education. She
women in engineering. Her technical work and research focuses on sustainable chemical process design, computer aided design, mixed integer nonlinear programing, and multicriteria decision making. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Epistemic Beliefs of Chemical Engineering Faculty (Work in Progress)This paper is a work-in-progress for proposed research. The purpose of this paper is to introducethe engineering education community to the field of epistemic beliefs research and to seekfeedback concerning a planned research study.BackgroundEngineering education researchers frequently call for improving students’ critical thinking as aprimary skill to
Honor Society.Natasha Smith, Virginia Tech Natasha is the Director of Enrollment Management for the College of Engineering as the Associate Direc- tor of Advising in the Department of Engineering Education, which is home to all General Engineering students. These dual roles allow Natasha the unique opportunity to understand and articulate viewpoints of both administration and students. Natasha strives to implement innovative and systematic technological advances to academic advising and enrollment management. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Institutional Change Efforts to Improve the Environment for Both Instructors and Students in Foundational Engineering
Paper ID #26502Board 84: Work in Progress: Development of Learning Skills Modules forFirst-Year Engineering StudentsDr. Lindsay Corneal, Grand Valley State University Lindsay Corneal is an Associate Professor in the Padnos College of Engineering and Computing at Grand Valley State University. She received her B.A.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Windsor, a M.B.A. from Lawrence Technological University, and a Ph.D. from Michigan State University in Materials Science and Engineering. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Work in Progress: Development of Learning
Studies at JMU. Her areas of research include assessment practice and engineering education research.Mr. Charles McDonald Cowan II, Wake Forest University Mack Cowan is a recent graduate of James Madison University’s Psychological Sciences M.A. program. His primary research interests are sleep and pharmacology using animal models, the psychology of learn- ing, statistical analyses in behavioral research, and more recently, engineering education.Mr. Justyn Daniel Girdner c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Measuring Change: Research Updates Helping Engineering Students Tackle Complex, Sustainability ProblemsExecutive SummaryReal-world engineering challenges are
Paper ID #26244Board 98: Lessons Learned from an Integrated Class-Lab Approach to a Me-chanics of Materials CourseDr. Michele Miller, Campbell University Dr. Michele Miller is a Professor and Associate Dean at Campbell University. Prior to joining Campbell in 2017, she was a professor of mechanical engineering at Michigan Tech. She received undergraduate and graduate degrees in mechanical engineering from Duke and NC State, respectively. Her research interests include engineering education and precision manufacturing. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Lessons Learned from an
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initial inductive coding ofthe pilot data from the DAETT completed on the first day of the semester, as well as describesnext steps of the project.Participant DemographicsThe instrument is being piloted with 71 pre-service elementary teachers at Montana StateUniversity who are enrolled in a K-8 science methods course during the 2018-2019 academicyear. Participant demographics are presented in Table 1. Students enrolled in the class were atleast Junior level standing and were required to have completed nine college level science credits(3 life, 3 physical, 3 earth/space) prior to enrollment in the methods course. Three of the studentswere classified as post-baccalaureate, one was an army veteran working toward her first degree,and the rest were
Consortium. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 A Nine Year Study of the Impact of Middle and High School Teachers’ Participation in Research Experiences for Teachers Programs: Connections Between Teacher Performance and Student Achievement Abstract Research identifies a national urgency to improve teacher performance and student achievement in science and engineering. This paper responds to this need and presents the results of nine years of Research Experience for Teachers (RET) programs funded by the National Science Foundation, in which engineering faculty collaborate with middle and high school teachers and their students. One program (4 years) is a comprehensive teacher professional
courses, feminist and liberative pedagogies, engineering student persistence, and student autonomy. Her research has been sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Dr. Lord is a fellow of the ASEE and IEEE and is active in the engineering education community including serving as General Co-Chair of the 2006 Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference, on the FIE Steering Committee, and as President of the IEEE Education Society for 2009-2010. She is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Education. She and her coauthors were awarded the 2011 Wickenden Award for the best paper in the Journal of Engineering Education and the 2011 and 2015 Best Paper Awards for the IEEE Transactions on Education. In Spring
Paper ID #26009Replacing Cheating with Metacognition – Reevaluating the Pedagogical Roleof Homework in Foundational Engineering CoursesDr. Derek Breid, Saint Vincent College Derek Breid is an assistant professor of Engineering Science at Saint Vincent College. His interests in- clude integrating active learning techniques into classic engineering courses, and studying the mechanical behavior of soft materials. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Replacing cheating with metacognition – reevaluating the pedagogical role of homework in foundational engineering
access and success of those traditionally under-represented and/or under-served in STEM higher education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Easing Students’ Transitions to University Via a Summer Bridge and Outdoor Experience ProgramIn this Complete Evidence-based Practice paper, we describe the development and evolution of acombined academic summer bridge program and outdoors experience program designed to support theacademic success and development of incoming STEM majors at Boise State University. First-time,first-year students’ transitions to university can be challenging for a wide variety of reasons, includingincreased independence, leaving behind parents and friends
assess- ment. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Work-in-Progress: Implementing an Open-Ended Laboratory Experience in the Unit Operations Laboratory with an Alternative CSTR ReactionSynopsisThis study focuses on the initial implementation of an open-ended final experiment that involvesa continuous stirred tank reactor (CSTR) in the unit operations laboratory at the University ofDayton. In this laboratory, senior undergraduate chemical engineering students were given theoption to choose certain topics for their final experiment. After obtaining students’ selection forthe given topics, four groups consisting of three or four students were selected by the instructorsto focus on a CSTR project. It
civil engineering from the University of Alaska Anchorage. After being employed in the construction industry, he returned to work with ANSEPTM as Pre-College Program Director in 2006 with the purpose of motivating and empowering more Alaska Native high school students to pursue a degree in science or engineering. Matt has now earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees and is the only Alaska Native in the world to complete a doctorate in civil engineering. He is now an assistant professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage and mentors engineering students while working with ANSEPTM . c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Revisiting Engineering Identity in a Common Introduction
American Society for Engineering Education ASEE . Fred Nitterright has been an engineer in the machining, electrical contact assembly, and plastic injection molding industries.Dr. David Clippinger, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College Dr. David Clippinger is a faculty member in Mechanical Engineering Technology at the Pennsylvania State University, Erie–the Behrend College. His interests are ship dynamics, measurement & instrumen- tation, and assessment, especially of student writing. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Semester-Long Project of a Part Failure for Freshman Mechanical Engineering Technology StudentsIntroductionFreshman Mechanical
American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 International Research Training: Investigating Public Transportation Commuting in Feira de Santana (Bahia), BrazilABSTRACT International Research Experiences are increasingly seen as important components ofhigh impact undergraduate activities. An International Research focused on Transportation wasdeveloped utilizing the design and distribution of a Comprehensive Transportation Survey (CTS)in Feira de Santana, Bahia state (Brazil). In collaboration with the State University of Feira deSantana, the CTS was developed in Summer 2016 by a team of three program scholars. A teamof ten students at State University of Feira de Santana was trained and engaged in
University of Texas at Austin and West Point respectively. His research interests include capstone design teaching and assessment, undergraduate engineering stu- dent leadership development, and social network analysis. He is also a licensed professional engineer in the Commonwealth of Virginia. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Catalyzing Engineering Student Identity Development through an Independent Design ProjectAbstract This paper examines the engineering identity development of an undergraduateengineering student through an auto-ethnographic look at an independent design project advisedby a senior faculty member (co-author) at the United States
. Environmental Protection Agency. He is also currently leading a project for the development of open access electronics laboratory materials, funded by the Board of Regents, University System of GA. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Development of Low-cost Remote Online Laboratory for Photovoltaic Cell and Module CharacterizationAbstract: Laboratory experiments are vital component of engineering education. In recent years,significant interest and shift of paradigm from in-class to online teaching is observed whichalthough offers many benefits but poses a great challenge to integrate lab experiments into onlinecourses and degree programs. Internet-based laboratories are a
online sections of CIVE 260 Statics and CIVE 261 Dynamics. He has a keen interest in active learning and has a particular interest in both physical and virtual interactive learning tools. Daniel has a PhD from Colorado State University and is a registered Professional Engineer in Colorado.Stephanie F. Pilkington, Colorado State University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Evaluating the Effect of Flipped Classroom on Students’ Learning in Dynamics- Relative Velocity and Instantaneous Centers of Zero VelocityAbstractFlipping the classroom is an instructional approach where students learn about a topic outside ofclassroom and then use class time for active learning. Our control-impact
mechanical objects. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Evaluation of Improvements in Visualization Test Scores Using Predictive AnalyticsAbstractSpatial visualization skills have been long identified as critical competence for success in STEMdisciplines, particularly in engineering and technology fields. Several initiatives to improve theseskills have been implemented at various academic institutions. This study aims to apply dataanalytics (DA) to generate a predictive model for improvement of scores in a commonly usedspatial visualization test. This model is based on pre- and post- scores by first-year engineeringstudents, and the objective is to identify the
Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rowan University. She received her B.S.C.E. from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, an MSCE from the Univer- sity of Arkansas, Fayetteville and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Her passion as an educator and mentor has been recognized by many professional organizations over the years. She is the recipient of the Gloucester County Women of Achievement Award, Lindback Foundation Teaching Award, the NJ ASCE Educator of the Year award, the Gary J. Hunter Excellence in Mentoring Award, the ASEE Environmental Engineering Division Meritorious Service Award, the ASEE Women in Engi- neering Division Sharon A. Keillor Award and the WEPAN Women
Research Triangle Educational Consultants. She received her Ph.D.in Educational Research and Policy Analysis from NC State University in 1996. She also has an MBA from Indiana University (Bloomington) and a bachelor’s degree from Duke University. She specializes in eval- uation and research in engineering education, computer science education, and technology education. Dr. Brawner is a founding member and former treasurer of Research Triangle Park Evaluators, an Ameri- can Evaluation Association affiliate organization and is a member of the American Educational Research Association and American Evaluation Association, in addition to ASEE. Dr. Brawner is also an Exten- sion Services Consultant for the National Center for