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2019 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Mohammed Al Awadh; Gamal Weheba

administrators. Theseperceptions are likely to affect the way e-learning programs are designed and delivered. Inachieving this objective, the study included 100 top-ranked e-learning programs in the U.S.Statements by administrators from these programs were analyzed for content. The analysisreviled that administrators’ perceptions are dominated by features and performance constructs.Factor analysis suggests that constructs reflecting engagement and trust are used to distinguishbetween different programs.Introduction The world is facing swift changes due to forward momentum in the technology ofinformation and communication transmission. With the emergence of computers and internetcommunication, information becomes easy to access. Information and

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Amardeep Kaur; Theresa Swift

reflect the change. Although the TAs made students aware of the changes, thattook away time and often led to confusion. As is good practice with any teaching tool, it wasobvious that there was a need to update the manuals to accurately reflect the equipment and toolsbeing used in the experiments.Survey resultsTwo surveys were designed, one to get feedback from current and past students as well as asecond for current and past TAs to understand the main points and determine the priorities of theredesign. The questionnaire used to survey the TAs is attached as Appendix A and thequestionnaire used to survey the students is attached as Appendix B. The survey questions listedin the appendices exclude the demographic type questions that were not related

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Christi Luks

. Ifthe answer was no, I asked them to review the video.Let me explain a bit about my process of writing and grading exams. In general, after I write anexam, I take the exam myself to be sure that it can be worked in the allotted time with theallowed materials and to develop a preliminary solution to the exam. I frequently find that I needto edit one or more problems before printing and administering the exam. This preliminarysolution is almost never ready for distribution at this time.After the exam, I begin the grading process by giving a quick read to all students work on aparticular problem and putting them into piles that reflect common errors and then I begingrading. As I mark their papers, I also make notes of how many points I took off or

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Roy Myose; L. Scott Miller; Elizabeth Rollins

-paced. Myose et al.7 found evidence suggesting that many students who found freshman coursessuch as Calculus-based Physics to be fairly easy find Statics to be much more difficult, as reflected intheir Statics grades that often were one or more letter grades lower than their Calculus-based Physicsgrades. These factors motivated the first author to video tape his Statics course so that students couldgo over difficult concepts multiple times by pausing and rewinding the videos. Another motivator wasthat the hybrid-style course allowed more classroom time dedicated to examples and review. Thecreation of the online material also dovetailed with the habits of the current generation of students, whoincreasingly desire study material to be accessible

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Tammy Lutz-Rechtin

working on the link between pigs and infectious diseases on a farm. Theresearch requires analysis of pig waste samples in order to assess the health of each pig farm.”Course gradesIt is essential that the students understand the importance of this course and integrate the safetyknowledge gained into their work. As a result, scoring in the course also reflected these broadgoals. Grades given in the course were based on technical understanding, ability to communicate,ability to contribute to the understanding of the objective, and ability to meet deadlines. Thecourse and final project requirements were communicated at the beginning of the semester andrepeatedly emphasized throughout the semester. The grade breakdown was as follows: In-Class

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2019 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Muhammad Khan; Mohamed Ibrahim

effectiveness of engineering modeling and design curriculum, it is important todetermine self-efficacy of both male and female students. In most of the engineering courses, thequality of students’ projects design is highly dependent on their design thinking and the cognitiveprocesses to reflect on their own designs during the process. One of the most used pedagogicalmodels for teaching modeling and design is through project-based learning (PBL). The logicbehind the use of PBL in design thinking is that students are exposed to the complex processes ofinquiry and learning that designers normally perform in a systems context. They make decisionsas they develop the project, work collaboratively with team members, and interact with theirpeers to complete

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Charles Baukal; Mark Vaccari; Thomas DeAgostino; Carter Stokeld; Courtney Baukal

significant. Failure to recognize this either means students do notunderstand the concept of significant digits or are not disciplined enough to apply it. Someactually appear to believe the answer is more accurate if they include more significant digits.Significant digits is an important concept that needs to be ingrained before starting full-timeemployment. A supervisor accustomed to working with real data will view results with too manysignificant digits as a poor reflection on the employee and potentially on the employee’s alma-mater as well.Students are normally taught about measurement uncertainty, but either fail to understand theconcept or forget it when reporting experimental results. Some seem to believe theirmeasurements are much more

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2019 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Roy Myose; Elizabeth Rollins; Klaus Hoffmann; Kimberly Engber; Sarah Myose

, the University Registrar reported that the grade of A was themost prevalent grade at WSU.5 Over the next several years, the Faculty Senate commissioned a studyon the use of a plus-minus grade system in lieu of the current whole-letter grade system and conducteda faculty survey on the issue. Advocates for the change focused on how the new grading system wouldprovide a more accurate reflection of student performance. The proposal to change to a plus-minusgrade system was ultimately approved by a single vote during the university’s General FacultyMeeting,6 and the university transitioned to this new grading system during the 2009-2010 academicyear. Since the implementation of the plus-minus grading system, many honors students haveexpressed

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2019 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Alana Gorski; Hannah Gross; Masoud Mojtahed Mojtahed

in the seat.According to the rules from the FSAE 2019 rule book regarding the seat [9]:  The driver’s seat must be protected by either having the lowest point on the driver’s seat no lower than the bottom surface of the lower frame rails, or a longitudinal tube(s) that meets the side impact tubing requirements passing under the lowest point of the seat.  There must be heat resistant, conduction isolation material with a minimum thickness of 8 mm between a source of heat and the driver of a 25 mm air gap.  Radiation isolation must be done with a metal heat shield or a reflective tape when combined with insulation material.According to the rules from the FSAE 2019 rule book regarding the firewall [9]:  Be

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Jonathan Kuchem; Nicolas Libre

average scores in thesections with the traditional format was 86.1% to 91.7%. All the sections with the new labformat fell in between this range. These results are promising as it shows not to have greatlychanged the overall grading distribution of the lab while improving the lab results. The scores donot reflect the level of knowledge and understanding of concepts between the two types of labformats as the scores were calculated over different types of assignments and tasks. Did you find any parts of the project too hard or too easy? 4% 15% Right Difficulty Level Calculations

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2019 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Brett Whorley; Camilo Giraldo; Arjun Kamath; Molly McVey; Meagan Patterson; Carl Luchies

course content and indicated higher confidence in their abilities to use the softwareto model real-world dynamics scenarios. Ongoing work aims to improve student motivationduring the “Absorb” phase of the learning units and to develop Absorb-Do-Connect modules fora second simulation tool used in the course.Acknowledgements This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under GrantNumber DUE1525775. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressedin this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NationalScience Foundation.References1) Bloom BS. 1956. “Taxonomy of Educational Objectives. Vol. 1: Cognitive Domain.” NewYork: McKay.2) Felder RM, et. al

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Kishore Chidella; Srikanth Gampa; Abdulrahman Almohaimeed

online, theycome to lab that highlights ideas, allows to think in diverse, experimenting in a satisfactoryapproach to complete the lab. To enrich the student’s interest, several discussions are conductedin teaching class and lab. The students are always encouraged to participate with more effort andenthusiasm. These approaches not only help individual, it also reflects the improvement as ateam.In Fall 2015, at the start of every lab, students as a team were asked few questions randomly tomake sure the students follow the course as well as labs. The other tasks by the students are asusual. For the first lab, lab instructor demonstrates about the IDE68K tool, basically how to runand debug the programs. The programs in this tool can be simulated

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2019 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Md. Nizam Uddin; Fenil Desai; Arvind Murali; Andrew Swindle; Eylem Asmatulu

nanocomposite fibers. The FTIR spectra of untreated PAN+PMMA fibers are shown in Figure 2. In the spectrumof untreated fiber, the absorption peaks of C-O groups were reflected at the vibrational stretch of1130-1150 cm-1 and weaken gradually with the addition of Al micro particles and TiO2nanoparticles. Moreover, the band range of 1400-1450 cm-1 is related to -C-H group but notchanged with the addition of Al micro and TiO2 nanoparticles. The absorption peak at 1700-1720cm-1 of C=O weaken gradually with the addition of Al micro and TiO 2 nanoparticles. After that,PAN+PMMA fibers were carbonized at 850°C for 1hr in an argon atmosphere, and then the FTIRanalysis was performed on the samples (Figure 2b). The intensity bands at all peaks