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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies: Best Papers

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anahid Behrouzi, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Daniel Kuchma, Tufts University

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) undergraduate classrooms when activeand collaborative instructional strategies are utilized; these are commonly referred to as inductiveteaching methods as compared to traditional lecture and discussion (deductive). However, thisdocument indicates that for more systemic change across STEM instruction, researchers need todevelop/evaluate pedagogical innovations that do not require substantial external funding ortime, and therefore can be easily adopted by other educators.1 This was one of the motivationsfor undertaking the study presented in this paper.The inquiry-based learning activities described in this paper address the necessity for engaging,student-centered experiences in the freshman civil/structural engineering curriculum with arelatively

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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Khaled Sobhan, Florida Atlantic University; Edgar An, Florida Atlantic University; Ryne A. Sherman; Nancy Romance, Florida Atlantic university ; Nicolas A. Brown, Florida Atlantic University

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Session at the ASEE 2014 Annual Conference, anddescribes a recently funded project (October 2013) under the Research Initiation Grant inEngineering Education (RIGEE) program. It is hypothesized that there is disconnect betweenthe principles outlined in Self-Determination Theory (SDT) and the actual classroomenvironment, thus creating a barrier to intrinsic motivation needed for student learning. Theproposed work is an empirical investigation to explore this disconnect in the context ofundergraduate engineering education. The primary tasks will be to (i) assess the Facultyknowledge of SDT; (ii) develop a measurement framework to assess the classroom environmentas it relates to SDT; and (iii) determine the association among Faculty knowledge of SDT

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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wei Zheng, Jackson State University; Yanhua Cao, Jackson State University; Himangshu Shekhar Das, Jackson State University; Jianjun Yin, Jackson State University

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Nussbaum et al. show that note starters could encouragestudents to disagree and explore alternative perspectives in comparison to the collaborativelearning without this interface design 21.Weinberger conducted experimental research on effects of both social and epistemic (cognitive)cooperation scripts on cyber-enabled collaborative learning through web-based discussionboard24. Subjects in this research are colleague students of Educational Science. The socialcooperation script adopted in this research specified two roles for each of three students in thecollaborative learning team: (a) analyst, who is responsible for the preliminary and concludinganalysis of one learning case and responding to criticism from the learning partners (Weinberger

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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jianyu Dong, California State University, Los Angeles; Huiping Guo, California State University, Los Angeles

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design the project sequence to build up student skills, but leave room for exploration and invention; Don’t underestimate the students’ ability and creativity. • Strategy #4: Focus on Learning Process, not the Results! Do incorporate as many key learning factors in project design; Don’t set the goal to be just completing the project. • Strategy #5: Provide guidelines to foster collaboration Page 24.454.5 Do use team-building activities and provide guidelines; Don’t assume students can work well in teams naturally. • Strategy #6: Build an online community to provide scaffolding Do build a learning community to provide

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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Steven W. Villachica, Boise State University; Donald Plumlee, Boise State University

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(including their administration, faculty, and students), government, and industry to optimize thesystem for preparing and ramping up freshout engineers in the workplace. This initiative alsogoes beyond existing efforts to provide cooperative learning experiences and internships. Whilethese learning experiences are valuable, they are only one component of a larger system todecrease rampup time to competent workplace performance.MissionThe mission of this coalition is to reduce the time to competent performance and reduce thedropout rate for new freshout engineers by fostering collaboration among academic, government,and industry stakeholders in ways that create, implement, maintain, and continuously improvesystemic solutions

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DELOS Best Paper Nominations

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Drushel, Case Western Reserve University; John Gallagher, Wright State University

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.Key:Participants: Numbers are given as undergraduates/total students, except for Classes 1–3, which had a graduate-only listing, though both undergraduates and graduate students were enrolled.Course Structure:A All students: 6 first-half exercises with checkouts or brief lab reports; second-half project (did not have to be Egg Hunt robot), design notebook for project only.B All students: 7 first-half exercises, no lab reports; second-half project is Egg Hunt robot; design notebooks kept throughout the semester.C Like B except, for graduate students only, 7 first-half lab reports and a 10-page design paper about the final Egg Hunt robot were required, in addition to the semester-long design

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Innovation in Laboratory Studies and Outreach Programs

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Douglas Sugg, United States Navy; Bruce Galloway, United States Navy; John Fishell, STEP

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(TIMSS), the USranked 18th among 21 industrialized nations also per TIMSS, surpassing only Lithuania, Cyprusand South Africa5. New information from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Page 14.856.6Development which consists of 30 member countries shows that American 15 year olds haveactually lost ground in math and science compared to other member countries. In theorganizations latest studies, the highest achieving U.S. students were either at or below itsaverage across member nations. Almost 25 percent of U.S. students demonstrated very lowproficiency in science and 28 percent scored below the minimum level in mathematics. In math

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Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning through Laboratory Experiences

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Cardenas, Harvey Mudd College

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. These functions allow users to store,manage, and share files online. File types can include documents, videos, and images. Citationlists can also be created in Sakai. Files ‘dropped’ into folders on Sakai are timestamped; facultycan also set assignment deadlines, and Sakai will report if a submission was turned in late. Thestudents used Sakai to turn in work related to their lab notebooks; faculty and teaching assistantsused Sakai to access the students’ work in order to grade and release comments back to thestudents.The primary reason for switching from PLNs to ELNs was because we believed that electronicrecording would be the typical format students would be expected to use in industrial or researchcontexts, once they have graduated. We

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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kemper Lewis, University at Buffalo, SUNY; Deborah A. Moore-Russo, University at Buffalo, SUNY; Ann F. McKenna, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Phillip M. Cormier, SUNY - University at Buffalo; Amy M. Johnson, Arizona State University; Adam R. Carberry, Arizona State University; Wei Chen, Northwestern University; David W. Gatchell PhD, Northwestern University; Timothy W. Simpson, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Conrad Tucker, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Gül E. Okudan Kremer, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Sarah E. Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Steven B. Shooter, Bucknell University; Charles Kim, Bucknell University; Christopher B. Williams, Virginia Tech; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech; Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Tech; Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University

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physically dissect theproduct and perform appropriate research to develop well-reasoned answers to specific design-related questions. The evaluation phase provides opportunities for students to activelyexperiment and abstract meaning from their research and concrete dissection experiences.Finally, they articulate their findings during the explanation phase to describe the global,societal, economic, and environmental impact of the product.The descriptive nature of our framework provides the flexibility to create hands-on, inductivelearning activities for all levels of undergraduate education. We have used our framework toexpose freshmen in their introductory design courses to these contextual factors39-40, inspiresophomores in their project-based

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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Montasir Abbas P.E., Virginia Tech; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech

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, roads, decision making, algorithms).Transportation students can gain deep understanding of these subsystems with well-designedgames and educational modules. Our experience indicates that students’ learning is improvedwhen the material taught is stimulating to students’ curiosity and competitiveness. Past researchhas recognized the need to deliver transportation engineering education in appropriate ways for anew generation of students, including the development and implementation of summerworkshops [14] and games [15]. This research showed the potential of outreach through theincrease of interest among high school students in transportation careers and the increase ofawareness of traffic engineering issues. However, these efforts focused on

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Pedagogical Innovations in Laboratory Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Douglas Sugg, United States Navy; Elizabeth Gentry, National Institute of Standards and Technology; John Fishell, STEP Conference

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secondary school scored well below the internationalaverage in mathematics and science according to the Third International Mathematics andScience Study (TIMSS); and, the US ranked 18th among 21 industrialized nations also perTIMSS, surpassing only Lithuania, Cyprus and South Africa [5]. Information from theOrganization for Economic Cooperation and Development which consists of 30 membercountries shows that American 15 year olds have actually lost ground in mathematics andscience compared to other member countries. In the organizations studies, the highest achievingU.S. students were either at or below its average across member nations. Almost 25 percent ofU.S. students demonstrated very low proficiency in science and 28 percent scored below

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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gregg L. Fiegel, California Polytechnic State University; James L. Hanson, California Polytechnic State University; Nazli Yesiller

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addition, the research mentors provide more regularguidance and feedback on post-visit presentations, publications, and graduate schoolapplications.Research ProjectsThe GWRI fosters collaboration among participants from the colleges of Engineering, Science,Agriculture, and Business. Experts from complementary disciplines within these colleges worktogether to develop innovative and sustainable solutions to existing and emerging problemsassociated with waste and byproduct management. Entrepreneurship is encouraged throughvarious programs and projects. The GWRI has baseline funding (through 2018) and numerousexternally funded projects supporting research and graduate students in three primary areas:pollution prevention and waste management; waste to

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Louis Everett, University of Texas-El Paso; Elsa Villa, University of Texas-El Paso

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available to help the team succeed. The objective is tomake sure the strong students realize they can get the instructor to help the weakerstudent. Since oftentimes the weaker student may not seek help, the stronger student canencourage the weaker one to get help. The incentive virtually forces the strong students toseek out the weaker ones. If a student has a reputation among peers for being hardworking, and that student has a poor grade on an exam, they become a much valuedpartner. This encourages all students to be positively interdependent, a key element offunctioning cooperative groups.Assessment Instruments Since one objective of this project is to increase the success rates of students indynamics, the class grades are monitored. To see

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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anirudh Roshan Sriram, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica E. Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Karthik Ramani, Purdue University

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their design behavior and to explore different design options at an early stage, even before the detailed designs are made. In the future, students and graduates will have the capability to design better and innovative products and reason collaboratively at higher levels in the conceptual stages. We hypothesize the nature and type of question asking by the students to the instructor will change. IDEA-Pen also aims to improve engineering learning by providing students (especially in Mechanical and Civil Engineering disciplines) with a natural and an intuitive interface to Page 24.683.12 learn and explore