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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division Technical Session 2 - Development, Assessment, and Impact of Experiential Education

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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John H. Callewaert, University of Michigan; Joanna Mirecki Millunchick, University of Michigan; Cassandra Sue Ellen Woodcock, University of Michigan; Kevin Cai Jiang, University of Michigan; Stacie Edington, University of Michigan

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graduationrequirements. The goal of the initiative (the Experiential Learning Framework) is to providestudents with a framework to intentionally explore learning opportunities, engage meaningfullyin experiences, reflect on what they have learned, and communicate the value of the corecompetencies they have developed. As most Michigan Engineering undergraduate studentsparticipate in experiential activities, the framework aims to provide students with richer andmore meaningful experiences and more intentional engagement and reflection. This paperprovides an overview of activities to date, key challenges, and possible paths forward.Introduction and OverviewNumerous institutions are focusing on expanding experiential learning opportunities (e.g., client-based

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division Technical Session 2 - Development, Assessment, and Impact of Experiential Education

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Rachael E. Cate, Oregon State University; Donald Heer, Oregon State University

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deployment of 15+ courses used at over 10 universities. In addition he leads the technical content for the Electrical and Computer Engineer capstone projects course at OSU. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Longitudinal Study to Develop and Evaluate the Impacts of a“Transformational” Undergraduate ECE Design Program: Study Results and Best Practices ReportAcknowledgement: ​The authors are grateful for support provided by the National ScienceFoundation grant DUE 1347817. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendationsexpressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of theNational Science Foundation

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division Technical Session 1 - Skill and Competency Development through the Co-op Experience

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Katherine M. Ehlert, Clemson University; Marisa K. Orr, Clemson University

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viable solutions, we determined the most reasonablesolution comprised of four unique groups. After the four-group solution was selected, therepresentative sorts, distinguishing statements, and interview data were used to develop thegroup profile.There were some overall trends in the data. First, the specific co-op role and the dailyresponsibilities heavily influenced student views on learning. Students who were working asintegral part of a team ranked statements related to teamwork higher than those who wereoperating more independently. The influence of role on learning is to be expected as learning isoften context specific.Additionally, many of the participants disagreed with statements that included the phrase “whenI reflected and thought

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division Technical Session 3 - Co-op Recruitment and Factors Affecting Success

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Dennis Rogalsky, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Bart M. Johnson, Itasca Community College; Ronald R. Ulseth, Iron Range Engineering

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; apply engineering principles to multiple open-ended problems; and use reflection andmetacognition as ways to promote technical knowledge transfer [12].Professional learning happens across multiple domains. Professional responsibility is modeledand practiced throughout as timeliness, respect, appropriate dress, appropriate language are allmade explicit with continuous feedback coming from faculty and staff. Teamwork skills areprovided in seminars and practiced in design teams. Multiple workshops per week address topicssuch as: inclusion, ethical action, leadership, reflection, management, happiness, life-workbalance, overcoming adversity, and communication. Each week during the EDP students writethree one-page learning journal entries, most of

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division Technical Session 1 - Skill and Competency Development through the Co-op Experience

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Nassif E. Rayess, University of Detroit Mercy; David Pistrui, University of Detroit Mercy; Ron Bonnstetter, Target Training International; Eric T. Gehrig, Target Training International

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intimate survey underduress. Regardless, the survey participation for freshmen students who competed the coursewas 98%.The TTI survey was administered again in the junior year in the context of Professional Practiceof Engineering, which is a required lecture-based course that students take after completion of aminimum of one co-op semester. The survey was required and was used in a significantassignment in which students reflect on their strengths and weaknesses and on how to leveragethe former and mitigate the latter. The survey participation for junior students who completed thecourse was 100%.In order to compensate for the change in the student make-up, a pairwise longitudinalcomparison was conducted on the twenty engineering students (14 males

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division Technical Session 3 - Co-op Recruitment and Factors Affecting Success

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Amy Huynh, University of California, Irvine; Helen L. Chen, Stanford University; Krishnaswamy Venkatesh Prasad, Ford Motor Company; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University

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in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. She has been involved in several major engineering education initia- tives including the NSF-funded Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education, National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation (Epicenter), as well as the Consortium to Promote Reflection in Engineering Education. Helen holds an undergraduate degree in communication from UCLA and a PhD in communication with a minor in psychology from Stanford University. Her current research and scholarship focus on engineering and entrepreneurship education; the pedagogy of portfolios and reflec- tive practice in higher education; and redesigning how learning is recorded and

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division Technical Session 1 - Skill and Competency Development through the Co-op Experience

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Haaniyah Ali, York University; Jeffrey Harris, York University

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must complete 2 courses, oneduring their first term of co-op experience and the other in the last 4 months of their finalterm. Students also must write a report at the end of each term. The courses are centeredaround reflection and portfolio management, while the term paper is a description of their joband is reflective in nature. Similar to other schools, there is a fee associated with both of thesecourses for access to the portal, much like other co-op programs. Students also choose to do internships outside of the co-op program. Although theseinternships are within their field of study, they are not registered with the coop program.There are various logistical and personal reasons for this decision and are not fully discussedin this

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division Technical Session 2 - Development, Assessment, and Impact of Experiential Education

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Beata Johnson, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Joyce B. Main, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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andidentity, and encouraging career-related reflection. This review provides insight into the nuance ofthe breadth of students’ experiences in student organizations to inform future work examining thecontextual influence of experiential learning on engineering students’ professional development.IntroductionEngineering education programs aim to prepare graduates to transition into the 21st centuryworkforce as professional engineers with a breadth of technical and interpersonal skills and a senseof professional responsibility. Multiple competing influences have contributed to engineeringeducation’s current overcrowded curriculum, which largely focuses on technical knowledge [1].This technical focus is increasingly being questioned amidst calls for

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division Technical Session 4 - Innovating Engineering Education through Industry and Community Partnerships, Maker Spaces, Competitions, Research Initiatives, and Experiential Education

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Jeremy Straub, North Dakota State University

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process [22].Kolb’s model draws heavily upon the concept of learning styles and several of the forgoingsuppositions have elements of learning style doctrine within them. According to Healey andJenkins [24], learning styles reflect a diversity of environmental considerations including thoseattributable to gender and cultural differences. Willingham, et al. [25] and others [26]–[28],however, contend that there are inherent problems with the learning styles theories and that theylack scientific rigor.Kolb’s model suggests that experiential learning can be characterized as a four-phase cyclicmodel. Under this model, learners (1) have an experience, (2) reflect on the experience, (3)conceptualize what they have experienced into a model or theory and

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division Technical Session 4 - Innovating Engineering Education through Industry and Community Partnerships, Maker Spaces, Competitions, Research Initiatives, and Experiential Education

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Kyle Dukart, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; David John Orser, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Ben Guengerich, University of Minnesota - Anderson Student Innovation Labs

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media presence. 3. Develop technological currency in the student body.The first priority was identified as the most important with the other two priorities to be carriedout with an eye toward the first. A couple challenges affect the primary goal. First, unlike mostU.S. research institutions with a seperate college of engineering, CSE grants degrees in thephysical sciences, math, computer science, and engineering. Students in science and math areless encouraged by their course curriculum to seek out the use of design and prototypingresources so those students need additional programming and attention if the Anderson Labs is tomore closely reflect the diversity of the college as a whole. Second, the primary space is locatedin the Mechanical