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Pay It Forward: Critical Thinking, Reflection and Faculty Engagement Promote Success in Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary R Goldberg, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology; Rory A. Cooper, University of Pittsburgh; Dan Ding, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology; Alicia Koontz, Human Engineering Research Laboratories

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

Laboratories Page 22.1615.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Using Experiential Learning to Inspire, Educate, and Empower Underrepresented Undergraduates in STEMAbstractThe vision of the Quality of Life Technology Engineering Research Center (QoLT ERC) is totransform the lives of people with reduced functional capabilities due to aging or disabilitythrough intelligent devices and systems. Through the ERC mechanism, a comprehensiveeducation and outreach program has been developed to inspire, educate, and empower

Conference Session

Comparing Different Aspects of the Cooperative Education Experience

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig J. Gunn, Michigan State University

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

Page 22.863.3 EGR 100 – Freshmen Design Resumes, email, short engineering focused reports, engineering writing demands, problem solving, speaking, ethics, and orientation to the university/college/majorsSoph.Year ME 201 – Thermodynamics Student communication survey, refresher for past grammatical expertise Tools: MS Word, Email, WWWJuniorYear ME 332 – Fluid Mechanics ME 371 – Machine Design I Laboratory Reports: (Approx. 9 @ 4-6 pages each) Short Technical Reporting Brief narrative of procedure, measured data, deduced and Design Analysis Reports (2 @ 4-6 pp. analyzed data, plotted results with

Conference Session

Assessing, Developing, and Enhancing the Engineering Experiential Education Experience

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dean C. Millar, University at Buffalo, SUNY

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

employers about the Page 22.1173.7value that co-op students contributed to their organizations: Co-op Success Stories; Valuable Results from UB Student Employees4Northrop Grumman - Eric used Visual C++ to automate laboratory test procedures on newcomponent devices in order to speed up the production of these devices. As a result of theimproved test procedures time spent on testing has decreased by 68%.BOC Edwards/Precision & Vacuum Parts - Hilbert came up with a very good substitute vanematerial for vacuum pumps. This reduced the cost of these vanes by over 90%.BMP America - Tomasz's analysis of our oil roller productions process allowed him

Conference Session

Post Graduate Experiential Programs and Insights

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David W Schmueser, Altair Engineering Inc.; Charbel Philippe Saleh, Altair Engineering Inc.; Prakash C. Shrivastava, Oakland University; Lori Lin Crose, Oakland University

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

, higher education certification courses, and sponsorship of engineering team competitions. Schmueser joined Altair in 2007, after working for the Research Laboratories and Advanced Product De- velopment Divisions of General Motors and at the Battelle Columbus Laboratories. He has published numerous papers on CAE applications to lightweight structures, composite materials, and vehicle joint design. Dr. Schmueser has been an Adjunct Graduate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Depart- ment at Wayne State University since 1993. Schmueser holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Applied Mechanics from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, and a doctorate degree in Mechanical Engineering from the

Conference Session

Assessing, Developing, and Enhancing the Engineering Experiential Education Experience

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ralph Ocon, Purdue University, Calumet; Shoji Nakayama, Purdue University, Calumet; Opal McFarlane, Purdue University, Calumet

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

variousindustries. During an accident investigation of the Plutonium Spill at National Institute ofStandards and Technology (NIST) on June 9, 2008, investigators reported a lack of safetytraining and inadequate laboratory procedures led to this particular accident (U.S. Houseof Representative, 2008). A similar concern was also identified in the taxi business wherethe National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) identified a lack ofsafety training among taxi drivers often causes drivers to be victimizes (2009). Providingadequate safety training is essential to various businesses and industries20, 21. a. Application of Creativity Concept/Technique: Verbal brainstorming Because workplace injuries can sometimes result from a lack

Conference Session

Assessing, Developing, and Enhancing the Engineering Experiential Education Experience

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Emilia Andreeva-Moschen, FH Joanneum University of Applied Science, Graz; Adrian J. Millward-Sadler, FH Joanneum University of Applied Science, Graz

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

language (English),and a large practical component. Neither the industry nor the alumni expected thatBachelor’s degree graduates would be able to operate in research and development.Instead, they would act as assistants, laboratory or test bed supervisors, ordesigners; to be responsible for technical documentation or customer care. Only aMaster’s degree would qualify them to become fully fledged engineers who couldbear project responsibility and work autonomously on new technological researchand development.Two further questions were also significant in the design of the new curricula: How important and useful was the knowledge gained in a diploma degree of study for the graduates when starting their career? How important and useful was the

Conference Session

Expanding the Borders of Engineering Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Farris, Grand Valley State University; Paul Merritt Lane, Grand Valley State University

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

majoring in engineering Live, learn and work in a culture at the base of the economic pyramid. Page 22.947.3 3. Provide an opportunity for students majoring in engineering to design products for people living at the base of the economic pyramid. Pre-departure Activities and Orientations To prepare students to work safely in Nicaragua, each student will complete a machine shop qualificationbefore departure. Every student in the engineering school is required to take this short safety and machine operationcourse before they are allowed to work in The University’s shops. The Engineering Laboratories

Conference Session

Comparing Different Aspects of the Cooperative Education Experience

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul D. Plotkowski, Grand Valley State University; Jann Joseph, Grand Valley State University

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

of Liberal Arts and Sciences (and a biologist), has been the slow time to graduation bystudents in the STEM fields at GVSU. This was identified to be particularly problematic amonghigh financial need students.It is well documented that programs of study in the STEM fields include: • More credit hours to graduate than liberal arts programs Page 22.618.6 • Extensive structure and prerequisite requirements that limit flexibility • Extensive laboratory components that increase the number of contact and study hours expected of students and leading to very long school daysIn addition, it was identified that the demographics of the

Conference Session

Educating Students for the 21st Century: History, Reflection, and Outcomes

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Swaminathan Balachandran, University of Wisconsin, Platteville

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

AC 2011-275: STUDENT REFLECTION IN EXPERIENTIAL LEARNINGPROJECTSSwaminathan Balachandran, University of Wisconsin - Platteville Bala has more than 35 years of teaching, five years of industrial and about 10,000 hours of consulting experience. He is a fellow of IIE and senior member of SME, ASQ, APICS, HFES, INFORMS, INFOMS, ASEE, and IIE. He is a life member of Phi Kappa Phi, Alpha Pi Mu, and SME. He was the chair of the Department of Industrial Engineering at UW Platteville from 1986 to 1995, established the IE laboratory facilities and secured the accreditation of the program by EAC of ABET in 1987 and 1993. He serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Production Planning and control. He is a

Conference Session

Expanding the Borders of Engineering Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paige Davis, Louisiana State University; Summer Dann Johnson, Louisiana State University; Emma M. Allain, Louisiana State University; Harald Thomas Leder, Louisiana State University; Warren N. Waggenspack Jr., Louisiana State University

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

to functionglobally. This is especially true for engineers. Working individually or in small groups within acorporation is not how engineering is conducted in the 21st century. From design, to prototypingto production requires many of today’s engineers to work across the continent or around theglobe. “Cultural diversity is a fact of professional life. Engineers are being employed in ever greater numbers by multinational and transnational corporations and are routinely working across national and cultural boundaries. Engineering projects may take them, for varying periods of time, out into the field--which might be any corner of the globe--or into design workshops, laboratories or head offices which may also be

Conference Session

Assessing, Developing, and Enhancing the Engineering Experiential Education Experience

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

Utilize Simplify Lectures Discussion & Study Groups Audio-Visual Aids & Demonstrations Laboratory & Practice Cooperative Learning LEARNING PYRAMID Approve Assessment Assignment Select W.S.U. Continuous Rubric Improvement Procedure Summarize and Analyze Draw Significant Followed by DataConclusions the Author

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Pay It Forward: Critical Thinking, Reflection and Faculty Engagement Promote Success in Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Annette Mallory Donawa, Independent Consultant

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

cognitive connections needed19 (Stark &Lattuca, 1997).Purpose The researcher was motivated to conduct the research study as a result of her work withhigher order thinking skills (HOTS) 25 years ago at a regional educational laboratory in Chicago,Illinois. The purpose of this research study was to examine whether a critical thinkingintervention would increase students’ critical thinking skills. This study was conducted over athree-year period as a mixed methods, quasi–experimental design examining STEM students’critical thinking skills at a Historically Black College and University (HBCU). A standardizedcritical thinking test, the Cornell Critical Thinking Test, was administered to students enteringthe Pre-Freshmen Accelerated Curriculum