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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Garret Nicodemus, University of Colorado, Boulder; John L. Falconer, University of Colorado Boulder; Will Medlin, University of Colorado, Boulder; Janet L. de Grazia, University of Colorado, Boulder; Katherine Page McDanel, Dept Chemical & Biological Engineering University of Colorado Boulder

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the techniques. In an effortto reduce these hurdles and encourage more faculty to use these methods, we have created adigital, open-access course package for two chemical engineering courses, thermodynamics andmaterial and energy balances. These course packages can also be used as templates for facultywho want to develop other courses that are student-centric and involve active learning. Many ofthe resources within the package stem from our online inventory of over 1,400 ConcepTests and1,000 screencasts. These encompass topics in core chemical engineering courses, but manytopics are also common to other engineering disciplines (i.e., fluid mechanics, heat transfer,thermodynamics, material science, and computing). The course packages use

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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth Reid, Ohio Northern University; David Reeping, Ohio Northern University

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objectives, an Internet search ofweb sites from universities, colleges and programs was conducted for courses entitled“Introduction to Engineering”, “Engineering 1”, or courses with similar titles. A team ofundergraduate research assistants was tasked with executing this Internet search and summarizingresults in cooperation with the principal investigator during the 2012 spring semester. Researchersused common search engines to search for “introduction to engineering” and similar terms. Whensuch a course was identified, an additional search for the course syllabus was completed. Eachsyllabus found was reviewed to ensure that the course was meant to apply as a commonengineering course rather than a technically oriented, discipline specific course

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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Angela Minichiello, Utah State University; Joshua Marquit, Utah State University ; Jim Dorward, Utah State University; Christine E. Hailey, Utah State University

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engineering, diversity issues in engineering, and distance delivered engineering education. She is member of ASEE, ASME and IEEE.Dr. Joshua Marquit, Utah State University Joshua Marquit is an Instructor in the Psychology Department at Utah State University. He has a doctoral degree in psychology, with an emphasis on applied and experimental methodology. He teaches under- graduate and graduate research methods and statistics courses on campus, online, and through distance broadcast learning formats. He has previous research experience with the U.S. National Parks Service, NASA, and Utah Department of Environmental Quality. His research interests include computer-mediated communication, Internet infidelity, online medical

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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Garrick A. Aden-Buie, University of South Florida; Autar Kaw, University of South Florida; Ali Yalcin, University of South Florida; Ram Pendyala, Arizona State University

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participation, while examination grades are a stronger measure of mastery ofthe topics studied. Three examinations were given throughout the semester and collectivelycover all of the topics in the syllabus. Thus, a student's performance on the in-courseexaminations can be directly compared to their performance on the final examination. Averagedin-course examination grades are moderately correlated with student's previous academicperformance as measured by PGPA, with an average correlation coefficient of 0.486. The mean,median and standard deviation of averaged in-course examination grades are presented inTable 5.Treatment Mean Median SDSpring 2012 77.19 78.75 10.17Spring 2013 74.57 76.00 12.30Summer 2013 75.03

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Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning through Laboratory Experiences

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary Cardenas, Harvey Mudd College

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receive thegrades and instructor comments. Chat, blog, and forum functions are usually a part of a CMS.Woerner used a combination of common academic software and the Blackboard online coursemanagement system as an ELN in an advanced undergraduate Chemistry lab at DukeUniversity11. The students used Microsoft Word and graphing software to ‘create’ their labnotebook components. Once their work was written, the students submitted their electronic filesinto the dropbox of Blackboard. Woerner reported that the students found typing equations to betime-consuming, and noted that pre-lab work went very well using the course managementsystem.Hesser and Schwartz12 described a General Chemistry course at the University of New Haventhat used iPads in

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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mahender Mandala, HERL/VAPHS; Mary R. Goldberg, University of Pittsburgh; Jon Pearlman, Human Engineering Research Labs

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split into two competing or complementary teams or like in thecase of REV/T 2013, work on two different projects. The teams are mentored by faculty, otherAT ‘lead users’ and graduate students who themselves have successfully completed thedepartment’s product realization courses and training.The initial session of the REV/T that focuses on AT coursework covers product design anddevelopment with a particular emphasis on AT. The textbook “Product Design & Development”by Ulrich and Eppinger serves as the primary text for the course. The course work is deliveredthrough a series of online multi-media lectures and homework followed by a weekly two to threehour in-class session where the teams work through the principles or methods learned from