Conference Session

Biology in Engineering

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Schreuders, Utah State University; Brian Rutherford, Utah State University; Katrina Cox, Utah State University; Susan Mannon, Utah State University

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

leakage from the pipeline appears to be similar for male and femalestudents. Female students in engineering programs did not fall behind in the pipeline. They, ac-tually, were slightly more likely than male students to complete an engineering degree and lesslikely to switch to non-engineering programs. Although women are less likely than men to enteruekgpeg"cpf"gpikpggtkpi."yqogp"yjq"gpvgt"uekgpeg"cpf"gpikpggtkpi"Ýgnfu"ctg"nkmgn{"vq"fq"ygnn"and graduate 21-24.Despite the hundreds of projects and huge expenditures used to increase recruitment and reten-tion of women in engineering, low enrollment with disappointing results still prevails 24. Why isengineering less responsive to these social forces that have otherwise successfully affected gen-der

Conference Session

Biology and Engineering

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ramana Gosukonda, Fort Valley State University; Masoud Naghedolfeizi, Fort Valley State University; Sanjeev Arora, Fort Valley State University

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

(problem-based, tool-based, cases) Pedagogical goals Targeted course Targeted student audience, Prerequisite(s) Lecture notes (e.g. slides). Reading materials for the instructor (e.g. list of references) set of exercises and/or projects Instructor solution manual for the provided exercises Evaluation of module for potential curriculum impact assessment rubricsFaculty Training

Conference Session

Biological & Agricultural Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ann D. Christy, Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

communicate effectively; (h) the broad educationnecessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic,environmental, and societal context; (i) a recognition of the need for, and an ability toengage in life-long learning; and (j) a knowledge of contemporary issues. Often thesenontechnical skills do not receive as much emphasis in undergraduate engineeringeducation and instead must be learned on the job, learning "soft skills the hard way" 2.Opportunities do exist in current engineering curricula to better integrate the developmentof these nontechnical skills into students' experience. These include team projects incapstone design and freshman design courses, engineering study abroad courses, servicelearning projects in both

Conference Session

Biology and Engineering

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ernest Tollner, University of Georgia-Athens; Caner Kazanci, Univ. of Georgia

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

structuredseminar that seems appropriate. The syllabus is summarized as follows: • Gain a qualitative understanding of terminology, the first law, the second law from an introductory text (We used Whalley, 1992). We also focused on worked examples of first and second law analyses found in Cengel and Boles (2002). • Spend two days per week covering fundamentals in ecological thermodynamics (Jorgenson and Svirezhev, 2004) and spend one day per week analyzing papers of Ichiru Aoki and other leaders in the field. • Students tackled a project based on the papers for a detailed energetics analyses as a final project The course considered the laws of thermodynamics in the classical sense andinvestigated some models

Conference Session

Biological and Agricultural Engineering Education Technical Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Danielle Bellmer, Oklahoma State University; Mary E. Rezac, Kansas State University; Danielle Julie Carrier, University of Arkansas; Daniel Humburg, South Dakota State University

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

Commercialization (3 cr.) Introduction to the concepts involved in feasibilityand commercialization of biofuel and biobased products. Participants will gain an understandingof issues and processes in moving a project from pilot scale into commercialization.Sustainability Seminar (1 cr.) Topics in environmental sustainability, green engineering, lifecycle analysis, sustainable development, and sustainability science. Prerequisites: Freshman-level College Chemistry or permission of the instructor. Page 25.453.6Table 2. Schedule of course offerings for the Bioenergy and Sustainable Technology GraduateCertificate Program. Each course is offered at one of the four

Conference Session

Biological and Agricultural Engineering Education Technical Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Evan T. Curtis, Univeristy of Nebraska, Lincoln; Abby M. Kelly, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Johnathan Ian Edward McCoy, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; David Jones, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Dennis D. Schulte P.E., University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

. Thistype of system did not lend itself well to use when an exam, project, or other assignment wasused to satisfy multiple ABET outcomes. In view of this challenge, the department desired toestablish a paperless system for ease in both data collection and outcome analysis. Furthermore,while the previous assessment system provided an excellent method of concentrating direct andindirect evidence from both external and internal sources, it did not lend itself to the feedbackprocess that is essential to good continuous improvement practices. As a result, data collectionand feedback utility became the priority of assessment system refinement. However, our department has not been alone in attempting to developing better evidencestorage and

Conference Session

Biological & Agricultural Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Josue Orellana, Washington State University; Fabiola Quiroa, Washington State University; Ala' Ibrahim Abu-Lail; Nehal I. Abu-lail, Washington State University

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

Aerospace Club at WSU and has worked as an undergraduate research assistant at Dr. Abu-Lail’s laboratory for one year. fabiola.quiroa@email.wsu.eduAla’ Ibrahim Abu-Lail Ala ’ Abu-Lail is a Junior Biomedical Engineering Student at Jordan University of Science and Technol- ogy, Irbid , Jordan . She joined WSU past summer for an internship and worked on this project along with other students. 011-962-799-567596, alo2a13789@hotmail.comNehal I. Abu-lail, Washington State University Nehal Abu-Lail is an assistant professor of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering at Washington State University . She did her M.S. at Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid Jordan , her Ph.D. at Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Conference Session

Biological and Agricultural Engineering Education Technical Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George E. Meyer, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Kim Cluff, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Jeyamkondan Subbiah P.E., University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

. stashed dry erase markers)for such loss occurrences. Depending on the classroom size, traditional whiteboards should havesufficient real estate to allow for students to visually see more of the delivered material at a giventime. If the classroom does not have a fixed projection system, then there was the addedinconvenience of arranging, transporting and setting up projection equipment.Tront (2007) found that electronic homework submission was typically difficult for engineeringstudents since much of what was to be submitted consisted of not just text but mathematicalscript and sketches intermingled with text along with the occasional picture. He noted thatseveral tablet-based tools available do offer students more flexibility in producing

Conference Session

Outreach, recruiting, and retention

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

D. Raj Raman, Iowa State University; Amy L. Kaleita, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

Paper ID #18536Enhancing Student Success by Combining Pre-enrollment Risk Predictionwith Academic Analytics DataDr. D. Raj Raman, Iowa State University Raj Raman is Professor in the Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering (ABE) Department at Iowa State University, where he is also University Education Program Director and Testbed Champion for the NSF Engineering Research Center for Biorenewable Chemicals (CBiRC), Director of Graduate Education for the Interdepartmental Graduate Minor in Biorenewable Chemicals, and Education Programs Co-Leader for the USDA-AFRI project CenUSA Sustainable Production and Distribution of

Conference Session

Biological and Agricultural Tech Session I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stacy Klein-Gardner; Rick Williams, East Carolina University; Stephanie Sullivan, East Carolina University; Loren Limberis, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

effectiveness of their teaching. Finally, a learning environment mustbe community-centered, one in which students are provided opportunities to learncollaboratively.There are many efforts underway within STEM education to move away from traditional lecturemethods of delivery towards more novel methods designed to engage the students in the learningprocess.9-12 In many cases, these methods are taking the How People Learn concepts fromtheory to practice. The highlights of two specific programs, Project Galileo11 and VaNTH12follow.Project Galileo has developed two novel pedagogical approaches: Peer Instruction and Just-in-Time Teaching. These approaches are designed to provide students “with greater opportunity forsynthesizing concepts while instructors

Conference Session

Biology in Engineering

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kurt Rosentrater, USDA-ARS; Kasiviswanathan Muthukumarappan

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

Australia Project. Available online: http://data.brs.gov.au/mapserv/biomass/factsheets/Atlas_006.pdf.5. Abbas, C. A. and M. Cheryan. 2002. Emerging biorefinery opportunities. Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology 98-100: 1147.6. Audsley, E. and J. E. Annetts. 2003. Modeling the value of a rural biorefinery – part I: the model description. Agricultural Systems 76: 39-59. Page 11.278.137. Annetts, J. E. and E. Audsley. 2003. Modeling the value of a rural biorefinery – part II: analysis and implications. Agricultural Systems 76: 61-76.8. Gravitis, J., J. Zandersons, N. Vedernikov, I. Kruma, and V. Ozols-Kalnins

Conference Session

Biological & Agricultural Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

lourdes gazca, American University, Puebla, Mexico; Aurelio Lopez-Malo, American University, Puebla, Mexico; Enrique Palou, American University, Puebla, Mexico

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

section). EI-100 goal isto introduce students to the Engineering Method, this is accomplished by focusing on six courseobjectives: self-regulation, communication, working cooperatively and collaboratively, problemsolving, modeling, and quality. The “Modeling” section initiates students in the process ofengineering modeling, using several software including spreadsheets. “Concepts” introducestudents to the engineering design process, problem-solving techniques, working in teams,engineering as a profession, and planning for success that students then apply in “Laboratory” ontwo actual design projects. The “Concepts” section uses quizzes given in nearly every session toascertain whether students have understood the material in their pre-class

Conference Session

Biological & Agricultural Technical Session II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael E. Manoogian, Loyola Marymount University

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

just beginning at the time that the article was submitted.Resources included a large classroom, projection system, laptop and an Internetconnection.Course Goals Assessment Using a scoring rubric consisting of proficiency scores from 1 to 4, the coursegoals were assessed using an assignment from the 2010 class with a score of 3 serving asthe benchmark. Table 1 shows the scoring rubric and corresponding levels ofproficiency.Proficiency DescriptionScore 4 Clear on concept, few minor errors 3 Minor conceptual errors 2 Major conceptual errors, some understanding 1 No conceptual understanding Page

Conference Session

Strategies to enhance student learning

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Josh Ramey, Colorado School of Mines; Judy Schoonmaker, Colorado School of Mines; Sarah M. Ryan, Colorado School of Mines

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

SummerInstitute, the American Academy of Colleges and Universities Project Kaleidoscope and ourinstitutional framework of Engineering Learning (Figure 6) were key to moving forward. Inthese settings, we found supportive colleagues with similar pedagogical philosophies whovalidated our desire to change and offered many concrete ideas for achieving that change.Further, the excellent series of essays titled Transformations (Allen and Tanner, 2009) hasserved as an outstanding resource, with guideposts and specific examples of how to move one’spedagogy toward active learning. We heartily acknowledge that change is an ongoing process.While we have implemented physical design changes to the classroom and we have laid thegroundwork for student-centered learning

Conference Session

Biological and Agricultural Engineering Education Technical Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

Mills suggested four categories that seemed to identify most students’ learningbehavior. The author has previously worked on a similar project and has presented hisinitial findings in a paper entitled “Assessment of Perceptual Modality Styles” at the2007 ASEE National Conference at Honolulu, Hawaii. In this, follow-up presentationhe presents his latest findings and compares them with the data he had procuredpreviously. Hunter R. Boylan is the Chairperson for American Council ofDevelopmental Education Associations. In his book, What Works: Research-BasedBest Practices in Developmental Education, Dr. Boylan gives tips for accommodatingdiversity through instruction. His tips are to train faculty in alternative forms ofinstruction if they are

Conference Session

Biological & Agricultural Division Technical Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carmine C. Balascio P.E., University of Delaware

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

exam was administered. Improved security measures haveprevented additional problems. Development of new problem resources puts considerabledemands on instructor time. During the initial implementation period for the surveying coursesand BREG 321, the author’s time was allocated for LON-CAPA resource development. Oncethe project was underway, all conventional homework problems in those courses were convertedto online delivery through LON-CAPA. Page 26.37.7Table 1. Information about courses in the study. # of Course Title and Notes

Conference Session

Strategies to enhance student learning

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tim Foutz P.E., University of Georgia; Christopher Ward

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017Design of argumentation techniques for learning engineering staticsThis manuscript reports the progress of a project investigating collective argumentation as astrategy to help students understand the various concepts taught in statics and to develop learningmodules that incorporate this learning strategy. The intent is to reduce the number students whorepeat statics, thereby enhancing the efficiency of time and resources dedicated to the course thatis critical at the University of Georgia where the engineering undergraduate student body hasgrown from 400 students in 2012 to approximately 2000 students. Indirect impacts includeaffecting how students approach material taught in upper division