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ASEE TUESDAY PLENARY FEATURING BEST PAPERS & INDUSTRY DAY SPEAKER Sponsored by University of South Florida & University of Maryland

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Abisola Coretta Kusimo, Stanford University ; Marissa Elena Thompson, Stanford University ; Sara A. Atwood, Elizabethtown College; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University

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) was assessed with a 5-item self-report measure for anETSE Instrument which is defined as an individual’s belief in their ability to successfullyperform technical engineering tasks. The technical engineering tasks probed by the survey weremotivated by engineering and career outcomes in previous work [5]. The process of adapting theitems and selecting a representative five-item set from a more exhaustive list using factoranalysis is described in detail elsewhere [6-7]. This instrument asked participants "How confidentare you in your ability to do each of the following at this time?" The items on the survey wereranked on a 5-point Likert scale from 0 to 4 with five response options labeled: (0) not confident,(1) slightly confident, (2

Conference Session

DISTINGUISHED LECTURE: 2018 Best PIC and Zone Paper Presentations

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Madeline Polmear, University of Colorado, Boulder

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ASEE Board of Directors

to think about it.” These comments show the challenge ofteaching ESI when students are not interested in learning about it and/or they do notappreciate its value.ResistanceInterviewees also discussed challenges they encountered when students explicitly expressedresistance or pushback to learning about ESI. One professor who teaches a required one-credit professionalism course in industrial engineering mentioned “anything that’s not aformula or calculation, there are a few students who just think when we stray away fromthat, we’re somehow harming their potential career as an engineer.” Another professor whotaught ESI in both elective standalone ESI and core engineering courses encountered similarresistance from students, which stemmed from

Conference Session

ASEE TUESDAY PLENARY FEATURING BEST PAPERS & INDUSTRY DAY SPEAKER Sponsored by University of South Florida & University of Maryland

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sadan Kulturel-Konak, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus

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), Junior (njr = 154), and Senior (nsr = 146). Byexamining the development level within students’ class standing groups (freshman to senior), onecan gauge whether students over time perform at higher rates than previous years. Ideally, to testgains across a given span of time, data is collected longitudinally, tracking an individual acrosstheir college career. Because we assume that regardless of student ability and demographicbackground, as whole, students will have higher learning gains as they progress through theengineering program, we assert that by aggregating and averaging out values over different classstanding groups can provide insights similar to that of a longitudinal study.Figures 1 and 2, where average scores are examined across

Conference Session

DISTINGUISHED LECTURE: 2018 Best PIC and Zone Paper Presentations

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Thomas P. James P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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survey and primary investigations reveal that coursematerial, homework and even the entire class set up can change because of course evaluations.To faculty, it is clear that their preparation material changes from one school term to the next;alternatively, students do not seem to see (realize) the changes. Their experience isdiscontinuous, whereas faculty teach the same course many times in a career. One reason themajority of students do not agree with faculty on this statement could be because the changesthat do happen to the preparation material get smaller and smaller each year. Another facultymember noted “…Now that I’ve been teaching for a long time, course evaluations allow me tofiddle with the knob ever so slightly.” Everyone notices when

Conference Session

DISTINGUISHED LECTURE: 2018 Best PIC and Zone Paper Presentations

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Diane Constance Aloisio, Indiana-Purdue University

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the author of several technical publications, including 17 journal papers and two book chapters. She received an NSF CAREER award in 2014. Dr. Marais has worked in engineering for two decades, first in industry and then in academia. She holds a B. Eng. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Stellenbosch, a B.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of South Africa, and an S.M and Ph.D. from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT.Hanxi Sun, Purdue University Hanxi Sun is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Statistics of Purdue University. Her research focuses on nonparametric Bayesian statistics and applied statistics. Hanxi received a master degree in Statistics at