in engineering, after they completed a two-semester introduction toengineering sequence, along with related courses in math, sciences, and humanities. Thesequalitative interviews were part of a larger mixed methods study exploring identity, stereotypethreat, motivation, retention, and persistence in first-year engineering students10,11. Interviewparticipants were selected based on the results of a survey of first-year engineering students in alarge general engineering program at a mid-Atlantic university. Page 23.924.3SampleBecause stereotypes typically pose the greatest threat for individuals who are highly identifiedwith the domains in
significantemployee benefit. All of these positive factors contribute to the persistence and desirability ofonline courses. There are also challenges to online learning, and these challenges are whatmotivates the desire to increase engagement. Even more so, the past two and a half years havemotivated many universities to temporarily transition from traditional in-person instruction tomostly virtual instruction. This transition involved developing new approaches to pedagogy aswell as student assessment. During this same time period, there has been an unprecedented growthin student usage of online support materials and support services. This paper focuses on howVirginia Tech, a large mid-Atlantic university is developing a signals and systems course in online
. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017Work In Progress: The Design of a First-Year Engineering Programming CourseAbstractThis work in progress study concerns the design and implementation of a first-year programming coursefor engineering students at a large public university in the Mid-Atlantic United States. Mid-AtlanticUniversity (MAU) accepts approximately 800 first-year engineering students annually, and has anenrollment of approximately 1200 students in its fall and spring Introductory Programming Class (IPC),taught in MATLAB. The IPC is currently under redesign through the process of Backward Design[1].The research around this redesign attempts to answer the following question: How can theimplementation of non-traditional
undertaken during the spring semester 2019 at a large public university in theMid-Atlantic region. The main goal of the research was to explore whether undergraduatestudent participation in an interdisciplinary service-learning collaborative project resulted in anincrease in their teamwork effectiveness.ParticipantsSeventy-six undergraduate students were recruited to participate from two colleges: PreserviceTeacher Students (PST, N1=34) and Undergraduate Engineering Students (UES, N2=42) at aUniversity in the Mid-Atlantic region. Their participation was associated with courses they weretaking as part of their degree programs. Table 1 and Table 2 show the distribution of participantsby gender and ethnicity respectively for each degree program.Table 1
projects from National Science Foun- dation (NSF) and VentureWell. She is currently an academic member elected to the College Industry Council on Material Handling Education (CICMHE). Previously, she served as the president of the Insti- tute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Forum on Women in Operations Research and Management Science (WORMS), chair of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Mid Atlantic Section, and chair of the Facility Logistics Special Interest Group of the INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics (TSL). sadan@psu.edu.Mrs. Kathleen Marie Hauser P.E., Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus Kathleen Hauser is an Assistant Teaching Professor of
Education, 2021Exploring the Evolution of Engineering Students’ Feelings of Inclusion in Their Collegeand the Broader Scientific Community.AbstractThis complete research paper discusses how students’ feelings of inclusion change throughouttheir undergraduate career. Student responses acquired through focus groups and one-on-oneinterviews were examined to determine how included the students felt in their engineeringcollege and also the broader scientific community.A small group of non-calculus ready engineering students enrolled in a large land grantinstitution in the Mid-Atlantic region consented to participate in the study. The student cohortparticipated in an NSF S-STEM funded program aimed at fostering a sense of inclusion inengineering by
. D., & Miller, M. L., & Barron, J. (2020), Efficacy of Learning with Course-provided Equation Reference Sheets in Engineering Education Paper presented at 2020 Fall ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Meeting, Virtual (hosted by Stevens Institute of Technology). 12 Agarwal, P. Karpicke, J., Kang, S., Roediger, H. & McDermott, K. (2008), Examining the Testing Effect with Open- and Closed-Book Tests. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 22, 861-876. 13 Smith, R. L., & Lester, H. D. (2019), Instructor and Student Perceptions of the Authorized, Self-prepared Reference Sheet for Examinations Paper presented at 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Tampa, Florida. AuthorsStephanie LaughtonStephanie Laughton is an Assistant
Page 23.559.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Examining the Experiences and Perceptions of First-Year Engineering StudentsAbstractThe College of Engineering at a mid-Atlantic research University is working on a multi-yearstudy that seeks to understand the undergraduate engineering experience and how engineeringundergraduates are being prepared to become engineers of 2020: engineers who are goodcommunicators, creative, and ethical, and who have the skills to work in global andmultidisciplinary teams. One of the components of this study consists of understanding the first-year engineering experience.The purpose of this paper is to describe the first
provided more accurate and detailed explanations than ChatGPT in some cases.This has prompted us to consider integrating these tools into future iterations of the study.Moving forward, we plan to develop more structured and clearly defined activities for students,with the aim of repeating the study in the following year. By then, we anticipate that universitieswill have clearer instructions and policies regarding the use of AI in classroom settings, whichwill help us refine the design and execution of the study.References[1] R. Subramanian and S. M. Vidalis, “Artificial Intelligence tools: Boon to Engineering Education or a threat?,” in 2023 Fall Mid Atlantic Conference: Meeting our students where they are and getting them where they
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2015 ASEE Zone III Conference (Gulf Southwest – Midwest – North Midwest Sections) Educational Adaptation of Cargo Container Design Features Christopher M. Moore1, Semih G. Yildirim2, Stuart W. Baur3 1 Undergraduate Student, 2 Visiting Scholar, 3Assoc. Prof.AbstractCargo container homes have become increasingly popular around the world in the last 30 years.Because cargo containers are modular in design, they can be used to create efficient, cheaphomes. Repurposing cargo containers into homes is a sustainable construction practice due to themajority of the structure coming from recycled materials. Many design
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17.4% (15) Greatest priority 0% (0) In terms of effort, what priority do you assign to writing courses compared to engineering courses? Answer Responses (n=85) No priority 2.4% (2) Low priority 22.4% (19) Some priority 47.1% (40) High priority 27.1% (23) Greatest priority 2.4% (2)4-2. Mid-term EvaluationsResponses to the mid-term evaluations have not yet been analyzed for differencesbetween team-taught and non-team-taught sections. Some
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the use of many visual examples of actual production andexperimental aircraft. Additional discussion on the advantages of the Mystery Aircraft techniquebriefly cover topics such as applying the Dual Coded Theory of Redundancy and Reinforcementfor cognitive learning, enhancing student cultural literacy within the field of aeronauticalengineering, and support of institutional program outcomes and ABET criterion. Theeffectiveness of the technique in capturing students’ attention, generating interest, and improvingmotivation is assessed through the use of student mid-course and course-end surveys. A listingof the aircraft examples and their associated topics is also presented in the appendix.Introduction For the last two years, instructors
large mid-Atlantic institution. As described at 2023 ASEE Annual Meeting, we spentthe past few years increasing the response rate to the end-of-course survey and aim in the longerterm to increase the proportion of students who self-report their attainment of the course learningobjectives as either “Good” or “Excellent.” After reflecting upon these results and learning lessonsfrom previous course offerings, we are now introducing strategies to increase student engagementfurther and attain department metrics for the course. Starting in Fall 2023, 13 activities wereintroduced to improve the course. The activities can be grouped into three categories: (A)Demonstrating the worth of the course to the students; (B) Making class fun; and (C
multi- ple ASEE conferences. His work placed third in the 2019 Annual Conference Fall ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section student poster competition and also placed third in the 2020 Annual Conference Spring ASEE Northeast Section student paper competition. His research for the 2021 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Con- ference was conducted while he was a student at SUNY New Paltz. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 A Pilot Interdisciplinary Robotics Mentorship Project to Study Engineering Soft Skills DevelopmentAbstractAs the complexity and diversity of general engineering practices continues to increase, it isbecoming apparent
An Exploratory Study of the Research Mentor Experience in a Novel Undergraduate Aerospace Engineering CourseAbstractThis study looks at the experiences of seven graduate/postdoctoral research mentors in a novelaerospace engineering course that introduced undergraduate students to research at a mid-Atlantic research University. In this course, groups of (typically) three undergraduate studentswere mentored by one graduate student. The undergraduate students worked with and were ledby these research mentors in various aerospace engineering research projects. In many cases, theundergraduate students were working on a project related to the research mentors’ theses orresearch work. Previous studies looking at the undergraduate
understand how itinfluenced their sense of belonging on campus. The data for this study are a collection of semi-structured interviews with eight students spanning chemistry, chemical engineering, andbiochemistry at a large public Mid-Atlantic university. While the dataset contains thirty-twointerviews—one each year for four years across eight participants—the bulk of the discussion ofpre-college experiences occurred in the first- and second-year interviews. As noted above, abetter understanding of how students pre-emptively form their picture of the universityenvironment and how they fit into it would allow for better design and implementation ofsupport and interventions for students who are struggling to adjust. Addressing the challengesthat
Systems. Through this startup experience, Jack has initiated problem based learning pilot programs enabled through interdisciplinary experiences, in engineering education and entrepreneurial training (e.g. The StartUp Class). Jack is also a Co-PI for the NSF I-Corps Mid Atlantic Regional Node (DC I-Corps) and is an instructor for both the Na- tional and Regional training programs guiding technical professionals through the Lean Startup approach. Jack serves on the Executive Board for the GEM National Consortium and on the Boards of Directors for The Commonwealth Center Advanced Manufacturing (CCAM) and the Roanoke-Blacksburg Technology Center. c American Society for Engineering Education
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user having to utilize paper reports and enter the information manually into the DBMS,this process is still time consuming. The user must have a paper copy of the progress report, theDBMS application open, and the spreadsheet application to create reports and graphs.The shared view of the group is to move forward with creating a desktop user-application whichwill contain the functionalities involved currently within one application. This would include dataentry, progress report generation, exporting progress reports, and data analyzation. Building atopof the previous model yet again.Lessons Learned / Self-ReflectionsThe ASEE Mid-Atlantic conference Call for Papers both encourages students to present theirschool projects, and identifies as a
arise in usfeelings of disgust or distain.This approach to understanding the foundational value orientations that individuals bring to ethical issueshas had little reception within engineering. One exception was Harold Walker’s essay for the 2016 ASEEMid-Atlantic Section conference, in which he argues that some of Haidt’s “elements of morality” but notothers are privileged in “a number of engineering texts” [31]. Thus, this distinction between frameworksand foundations remains grossly understudied in the context of engineering ethics.Of course, the importing of moral foundations theory into engineering ethics brings with it somecompelling critical questions. Thinking back to what we identified above as the lines of inquiry a focus onfoundations
and evaluation. DBR parallels principles of design as we teach them in our technologyand engineering classes: “Design has its own distinct ‘things to know, ways of knowing them,and ways of finding out about them’” so it investigates “the man-made world” through“modelling, pattern-formation, [and] synthesis” toward values of “practicality, ingenuity,empathy, and a concern for ‘appropriateness’” (p. 221-222)11. DBR leverages the complexity ofeducational environments; opportunities for iteration in different contexts (to see what works,when); and product-based nature of curriculum design. We have partnered with EngineeringbyDesign (EbD), a K12 engineering curriculum provider, and seven high-school teachers in ruraland suburban Mid-Atlantic