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Educational Research and Methods Division Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joshua M. Cruz, Texas Tech University; Noa Bruhis, Arizona State University; Nadia N. Kellam, Arizona State University; Suren Jayasuriya, Arizona State University

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engineering education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 WIP: Epistemologies and Discourse Analysis for Transdisciplinary Capstone Projects in a Digital Media ProgramAbstract: This work in progress explores the epistemologies and discourse used byundergraduate students at the transdisciplinary intersection of engineering and the arts. Ourresearch questions are focused on the kinds of knowledge that students value, use, and identifywithin the context of an interdisciplinary digital media program, and exploring how theirlanguage reflects this. Our theoretical framework for analyzing epistemology draws uponqualitative work in STEM epistemology [1]–[3], domain specificity [4], [5

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Educational Research and Methods Division Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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William E. Lee III P.E., University of South Florida

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Undergraduate Engineering Education – WIPThis work-in-progress investigates the applicability and relevance of Harvard professor HowardGardner’s theory of multiple intelligences (MIs) to undergraduate engineering education.Gardner developed the theory of multiple intelligences in the early 1980’s, initially identifyingseven distinct intelligences (also referred to as learning styles in the MI literature): 1) visual-spacial; 2) bodily-kinesthetic; 3) musical; 4) interpersonal; 5) intrapersonal; 6) linguistic; and 7)logical-mathematical. Subsequent researchers have sought to add to this list (for example,“naturalistic”), but only Gardner’s original seven MIs will be addressed within this investigation.According to

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Educational Research and Methods Division Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jean Felix Ndashimye, Universty of Missouri-Columbia; Rajeev Darolia, University of Kentucky

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. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 College Engineering Attainment among Rural Students (Work-In-Progress)IntroductionAttracting more and diverse students into science, technology, engineering, and mathematics(STEM) majors has been identified as one of the strategies for achieving the overall national goalof increasing the number of STEM graduates needed in the United States workforce [1].However, research shows that barriers to entry and high dropout rates for students in engineeringprograms pose a challenge to achieving this goal [2]. Although much attention has been given tothe gap in engineering degree attainment across racial and gender groups (for example, see [3],[4], [5

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Educational Research and Methods Division Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jason Tedstone, Clemson University; Karen A. High, Clemson University

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epistemic beliefs is to lay the groundwork for future studies toexplore a potential link between epistemology and teaching practices and to suggest ways toimprove pedagogy and increase self-awareness for faculty and graduate teaching assistants.ReferencesBaxter Magolda, M.B. (1992). Knowing and Reasoning in College. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.Belenky, M. F., Clenchy, B. M., Goldberger, N. R., and Torule, J. M. (1986). Women’s Ways ofKnowing: The Development of Self, Voice and Mind. New York: Basic Books.Bendixen, L. D. & Rule, D. C. (2004). An Integrative Approach to Personal Epistemology: AGuiding Model. Educational Psychologist, 39(1), 69-80.Benson, L, Becker, K., Cooper, M., Griffin, H., & Smith, K. (2010). Engineering

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Educational Research and Methods Division Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joseph C. Tise, The Leonhard Center; Sarah E. Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Esther W. Gomez, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Manish Kumar, Pennsylvania State University; Rachel Miriam Vriend Croninger, Pennsylvania State University; Stephanie Cutler, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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to the steps of thecreative process (Mumford, Medeiros, & Partlow, 2012), which serves as the theoreticalframework guiding the study. We argue that the research process or the scientific method isanalogous to the creative process, as illustrated in Table 1. Creativity “requires the production ofnovel, socially-valued products” (Mumford, Mobley, Reiter‐Palmon, Uhlman, & Doares, 1991,p. 94). As with other creative endeavors, quality research makes a unique contribution to ourunderstanding of a phenomenon and has social value. Creative pursuits, such as research, beginwith problem construction (identification of a research question), rely on information gathering,and ultimately result in idea evaluation, implementation, and monitoring

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Educational Research and Methods Division Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Taylor Tucker, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Saadeddine Shehab, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Emma Mercier, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Mariana Silva, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2009. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 WIP: Evidence-based analysis of the design of collaborative engineering tasks IntroductionIll-structured tasks are important in engineering courses because they are similar to the problemsthat students will encounter in their future work. These tasks are motivating and requirecollaboration because they stimulate problem-centered interactional activity [1]. Thecollaboration aspect is significant for engineering students because engineers typically do notwork alone, and rely on input from other

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Educational Research and Methods Division Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dina Verdin, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Allison Godwin, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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engineering (EE) student who said, “I never said, ‘I’m not going to finish itor I’m going to do business instead of EE.’ … No, that was never an option for me ... I think thosewho do change their major I think they’re weak or not committed ... commit, just do it, nothingcomes easy, nobody gives you anything for free, you need to work for it” [1, p. 276]. A first-generation college student is also Bianca, whose aspirations to study engineering were altruisticand rooted in supporting students from her community. She said, “I wanted to do something thathad to do with education, helping the students, bringing more Hispanics into science … if I doengineering I can … be a role model for other students …” [2, p. 11]. Bianca’s aspirations to be arole model

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Educational Research and Methods Division Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yonghui Wang, Prairie View A&M University; Suxia Cui, Prairie View A&M University; Wei Zhan P.E., Texas A&M University; Bugrahan Yalvac, Texas A&M University

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environments informed by the How People Learn framework. Dr. Yalvac’s research has been funded by NSF, IES, and NIH. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 WIP: Cultivating the Maker Culture through Evidence-Based PedagogiesThis is a work in progress paper.1. IntroductionScience, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields are essential to America'seconomic growth and global competitiveness. However, there is a mismatch between the supplyand growing demand for STEM-skilled workers. According to the 2016 White House Report [1],there were over a million unfilled jobs in information technology across all sectors of theeconomy. The STEM workforce has grown

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Educational Research and Methods Division Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kristen B. Wendell, Tufts University; Douglas Matson, Tufts University; Hernan Gallegos, Tufts University; Luisa Chiesa, Tufts University

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members of course instructionalteams [1], [2], [3]. Under this model, undergraduate students receive a stipend or course credit toserve as facilitators of student thinking for a course they have already taken. When interactingwith students during class sessions, learning assistants (LAs) typically focus on asking open-ended questions to prompt sense-making [4], [5]. They focus on supporting the learning processrather than on tasks typically associated with traditional teaching assistants, such as providinghomework solutions or grading exams. LAs are trained in student-centered pedagogy through aweekly “pedagogy seminar” offered specifically for them and led by an instructor with expertisein science or engineering education [6].Empirical studies

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Educational Research and Methods Division Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Denise Wilson, University of Washington; Emily Parry; Joanna Wright, University of Washington; Lauren Summers, University of Washington

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medicine, climate change, urban infrastructure, and nuclear conflict [1]. In order tocomprehensively address these grand challenges, it is essential for engineers to be invested in thesocial good. To this end, many engineering students recognize their disciplines may have asignificant impact on society [2] and report being moderately motivated by social good to enterengineering [3]. However, previous research has also shown that many students enterengineering majors for reasons other than the social good, including flexibility of major andcareer opportunities [4], interest in math and science, desire to build things [3], inherentenjoyment [3], and financial benefits [3]. Not surprisingly, once in the workforce, manyengineers are subsequently

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Methodological & Theoretical Contributions to Engineering Education 2

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth Stafford Sands II, Virginia Tech; Denise Rutledge Simmons, Virginia Tech

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, is tainted by prevalent acts that are considered unethical,” adding that it is “tainted byillegal acts”2.As a part of the effort to curb unethical behavior, the mandate of construction related accreditingbodies have instituted requirements for literacy of ethics in the curriculum. The AmericanCouncil for Construction Education (ACCE) requires ethics integration in constructioncurriculum (at least 1 semester hour). The ACCE also states: In addition, oral presentation, business writing, and ethics must be integrated throughout the construction-specific curriculum. Example courses in this division include: Human relations, psychology, sociology, social science, literature, history, philosophy, art, language, political

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Methodological & Theoretical Contributions to Engineering Education 2

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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So Yoon Yoon, Texas A&M University; P.K. Imbrie, Texas A&M University; Joe J.J. Lin, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Kenneth Reid, Ohio Northern University

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theoretical frameworks from the literature. The nine constructsmeasured by the SASI are intrinsic motivation, academic self-efficacy, expectancy-value, deeplearning approach, surface learning approach, problem solving approach, leadership, teamworkskill, and major indecision, each using a five-point Likert scale (strongly disagree, disagree,neutral, agree, and strongly agree).Table 1 shows characteristics of the SASI, in terms of origins of items, the number of items, andsub-factors of each construct if any. Several studies supported the solid evidence of reliabilityand validity of the SASI9,10. For example, Reid (2009)10 provided validity and reliabilityevidence of each construct measured by the SASI using multiple factor analyses and

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Methodological & Theoretical Contributions to Engineering Education 2

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Danielle Almetria Smalls, Engineering Education Department at Virginia Tech; Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Tech; Rachel McCord Ellestad, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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about the effectiveness of extra-curricularacademic programs and surveys related to educational research. Unfortunately, response ratesare typically low as is the case with surveys in general 1. Low response rates make it challengingto draw meaningful assessment and/or research-based conclusions. Our research focuses onincreasing the likelihood of students responding to surveys and in particular to surveys groundedin real-time data collection methods. Real-time data collection means gathering informationabout experiences within the context of the current situation. This approach is also calledExperience Sampling Methods (ESM) 2. ESM are different than standard interview and surveymethods in that they aim to capture the essence of an experience

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Engineering Student Experiences

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Louis Nadelson, Boise State University; Dee K. Mooney, Micron Foundation; Janine Rush-Byers, Micron Technology Foundation, Inc.; Nathan Dean, Boise State University

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of Mathematics. He earned his B.S. in Earth Science Education from Boise State University in 2011 with a minor in Physical Science and was a NSF Robert Noyce Scholar. Nathan’s research interests include STEM education, grading and assessment practices, self-efficacy, and student conceptions of science. Page 24.1379.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Why I Am an Engineering Major: A Cross-Sectional Study of Undergraduate StudentsAbstractAccording to a recent report 1 K-12 students tend to like mathematics and science. Further, in

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Applied Frameworks

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Katherine G. Nelson, Rowan University; Jenefer Husman, University of Oregon; Katherine C. Cheng, Arizona State University; Judith M. Harackiewicz, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Professor of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017“I want to be an engineer, why should I study biology:” Using future time perspective tounderstand students’ beliefs about foundational courses. Literature ReviewWith attrition being a major concern in engineering programs nationwide [1], efforts to recruitand retain students in engineering have emerged. Coupled with the need to not only getengineers, but also to train them well, practices that promote student success and learning havebeen emphasized. One major hurdle that engineering students face is getting through their earlycourse work [2,3,4]. The primary challenge for

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Engineering Identity

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Walter C. Lee, Virginia Tech

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largerproportion of women answered the survey, 33% of responses, than the overall femaleengineering population, 21%. The distribution of respondents across years at university are asfollows: 34.6% (203 students) in the first year, 21.2% (124 students) in the second year, 19.8%(116 students) in the third year, and 24.4% (143 students) in the fourth year or beyond. Thisdistribution provides a large enough sample size to examine differences by year. We have alsoreported racial and ethnic composition as self-identified by participants in Table 1.Table 1. Racial and ethnic composition of sample compared to College of Engineering. Some demographics may be reported more than once. Percentage of Percentage in

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Engineering Identity

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anita Patrick, University of Texas, Austin; Nathan Hyungsok Choe, The University of Texas, Austin; Luis L. Martins, University of Texas, Austin; Maura J. Borrego, University of Texas, Austin; Meagan R. Kendall, University of Texas, El Paso; Carolyn Conner Seepersad, University of Texas, Austin

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our scale development, e.g. “analysis andsynthesis” in engineering design, “appropriate experimentation and testing procedures,”“analyze and draw conclusions from data,” communicating with “a range of audiencesthrough various media,” and language around project management and teamworkincluding “manage risk and uncertainty” (Flaherty, 2015).Step 1. Item generation. We used an inductive method to generate survey items toassess affect toward the 11 elements of engineering practice, and we compared them todeductively-derived items generated in parallel by an engineering member of the researchteam who is blind to the inductive process, as described below. We used the extantdefinitions of the elements of engineering practice, and the literature

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Project-Based Learning

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paul M. Yanik, Western Carolina University; Chip W. Ferguson, Western Carolina University; Sudhir Kaul, Western Carolina University; Yanjun Yan, Western Carolina University

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valuable in professional life (96%), improved their leadershipskills (92%), and had gained appreciation for the value of project planning (100%) and technicaldocumentation (96%). It is anticipated that lessons learned from the project sequence willprovide the framework for cross-disciplinary freshman and sophomore assignments in hostinstitution’s PBL curriculum in the future.Keywords: Project management, Rube Goldberg machines, Project Based Learning1. IntroductionAccreditation of engineering programs has long provided a means of quality control of graduatesin the United States.1 In recent years, this practice has come to reflect an emphasis on theoutcomes of student learning rather than on restrictive earlier notions centered on what is

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Reflection

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amber Dale Levine, Stanford University; Tua A. Björklund, Aalto University Design Factory; Shannon Katherine Gilmartin, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University

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andunderemphasized aspect of an engineer’s education. CPREE defines reflection as“exploring the meaning of experiences and the consequences of the meanings for futureaction” and emphasizes the importance of taking action as a result of ascribing meaningto experiences.1 Surveys may be one of several tools that may create opportunities forreflection; others include “exam wrappers” and “homework wrappers” that encouragestudents to explore how they feel about an assignment or task as part of making meaningof it2,3 (and stimulating the kind of reflection that can lead to action).The current study bridges these two frameworks of behavioral interventions andreflection to consider the “extra-ordinate” dimensions of survey-taking and explores howsurvey participation

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Graduate Education

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nathan Hyungsok Choe, The University of Texas, Austin; Maura J. Borrego, University of Texas, Austin; Luis L. Martins, University of Texas, Austin; Anita Patrick, University of Texas, Austin; Carolyn Conner Seepersad, University of Texas, Austin

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is relatively sparse, and thephenomenon has been investigated mostly using qualitative studies. Furthermore, researchidentity development has been studied with non-engineering doctoral students, but very fewresearchers have investigated engineering graduate students’ research identity, even thoughengineering graduate students engage in research and develop research proficiency during theirgraduate studies. In this quantitative study, we incorporate findings from previous qualitativestudies of engineering identity and researcher identity to 1) assess engineering identity andinvestigate its relationships with key factors affecting engineering identity development and 2)investigate researcher identity development among other graduate programs

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Applied Frameworks

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Darren K. Maczka, Virginia Tech; Jacob R. Grohs, Virginia Tech

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successful flight, but rather as a daunting set of dials, knobs, and buttons to learn. New flightstudents, after all, do not start their studies in a Boeing 747.In a study by McNeill et al., students identified the Internet and software as “resources that couldbe consulted to help find information”.7 This suggests that understanding how students interactwith these computer-based resources is important for understanding the entire process. In fact,given that computing technology shapes both practice27 and thinking28 we know that these digitalresources are more than just a knowledge repository. Computer use interacts with the problemsolving process in at least three ways: 1. By shaping epistemic beliefs and emotion - Jonassen argues that both

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Assessment of Student Work

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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S. M. Mizanoor Rahman, New York University; Vikram Kapila, New York University

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Jacobs Excellence in Education Award, 2002 Jacobs Innovation Grant, 2003 Distinguished Teacher Award, and 2012 Inaugural Distin- guished Award for Excellence in the category Inspiration through Leadership. Moreover, he is a recipient of 2014-2015 University Distinguished Teaching Award at NYU. His scholarly activities have included 3 edited books, 8 chapters in edited books, 1 book review, 59 journal articles, and 133 conference pa- pers. He has mentored 1 B.S., 21 M.S., and 4 Ph.D. thesis students; 38 undergraduate research students and 11 undergraduate senior design project teams; over 400 K-12 teachers and 100 high school student researchers; and 18 undergraduate GK-12 Fellows and 59 graduate GK-12 Fellows

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Instrument Development

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eugene Judson, Arizona State University; Lydia Ross, Arizona State University; Stephen J. Krause, Arizona State University; James A. Middleton, Arizona State University; Casey Jane Ankeny, Arizona State University; Robert J. Culbertson, Arizona State University, Department of Physics; Keith D. Hjelmstad, Arizona State University

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. Purpose and Research QuestionsThe intent of this study was to pinpoint expectations and attitudes about specific teachingstrategies and, in turn determine the relationship of those dispositions with the actual use of thestrategies. VECTERS was constructed to enable achieving this goal and to address these researchquestions in the context of undergraduate engineering courses: 1. What is the relationship between the value placed on a student-centered teaching strategy and use of the strategy? 2. What is the relationship between the expectation of success with a student-centered teaching strategy and use of the strategy? 3. What is the relationship between the cost associated with implementing a student- centered teaching

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Changing the Engineering Classroom

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rania Al-Hammoud P.Eng., University of Waterloo; Arshia Khan, University of Minnesota, Duluth; Ona Egbue, University of Minnesota, Duluth; Stephen Phillips, University of Waterloo

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EngineeringAbstractThis Evidence-based practice paper describes a learning process developed and used in severalSTEM courses. Learning is a process unique to each individual and can be accomplished bywatching, reading, doing, experiencing, repetition and even teaching. Learning according to [1]is a two-step process where the first step is to receive information and the second is to process.This study is an active learning method that combines these two steps in a repetitive process thatencourages engagement and collaboration in the classroom. Memory related research hasidentified and confirmed the power of repetition on the recall ability. Repetition has a profoundimpact on the event related brain potential eliciting a longer recall period and has been

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Retention

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Niranjan Hemant Desai, Purdue University Northwest; George Stefanek, Purdue University Northwest

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broadlyclassified as falling within some common themes. Some representative examples of retentionapproaches falling within these themes, or within an overlap of these themes are presented in thisoverview. The most commonly occurring themes underlying the implemented retentionstrategies that were encountered were:1) Strategies focused on improving math, specifically calculus, and physics skills of incoming freshman.2) Strategies focused on enhancing the sense of community and support, both academic and social, for incoming freshman students to create a strong identity among students as engineers, and to provide encouragement and support to underrepresented groups.3) Strategies focused on improving the teaching techniques employed in engineering

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Assessment of Student Work

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Leanne Petry, Central State University; Morris M. Girgis, Central State University

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oral presentations and betterquality discussions of data as presented in final written reports.IntroductionFor more than 20 years, chemistry faculty have been proponents of Problem-Based Learning(PBL) as a means to bridge the gap between what students learn in the classroom and whatstudents’ experience in the laboratory.1 Traditional assessment measures such as formativefeedback on problem sets or draft laboratory reports enable students to improve learning prior tosummative assessments such as unit, midterm or final exams.2 However, students who performwell on exams may not possess the skills required to excel in the workforce environment such asa chemical production laboratory or manufacturing engineering plant.3 Senior undergraduateresearch

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Applied Frameworks

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lori C. Bland, George Mason University; Margret Hjalmarson, George Mason University; Jill K. Nelson, George Mason University; Anastasia P. Samaras, George Mason University

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STEM FacultyAbstractChanging teaching strategies in engineering education to become more interactive is important,though difficult. Intentional design of faculty development to engage faculty to make small,incremental changes within the context of a supportive, like-minded community, is important. Inthis paper, we merged two different methods to examine the PIs design decisions, and evaluatethe program’s implementation and outcomes. For the first method, the grant evaluator appliedconjecture mapping,1 a design-based research method, to examine the design and theoreticalconjectures, the mediating processes, and outcomes of implementation of a faculty developmentproject. The high level conjecture was that faculty who participate in a supportive

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Mentoring Practices and Project Teams

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Emily Miller, University of Virginia; Reid Bailey, University of Virginia

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not universally held and can be driven by attributes of the judger, the individualbeing judged, the relationship between the two, and/or the group at large. Furthermore,behaviors considered unacceptable to students come in a myriad of varieties – previous worklists eleven distinct types. [1] This study uses a newly-created survey called the TeamBehaviors and Attitudes Survey to assess the subjective perceptions of teammates’ behaviorsusing a Social Relations Model to explore the potential underlying sources of variance ofthese perceptions.BackgroundEducators’ care toward their students is exhibited not only by supporting a student’s learningand performance, but also by optimizing their experience within the classroom. In theirseminal work

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Practice II: Curricular Innovations

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sarah Hug, Colorado Evaluation & Research Consulting; Suzanne Eyerman, Fairhaven Research and Evaluation

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regardingengineering. The research questions that drive this in-depth study of one K-12 outreach activityare:1. What instructional moves do afterschool youth educators use to support successfulengineering design with elementary youth? And2. What evidence suggested students did (or did not) come to understand scientific concepts asthey related to balloon-powered car design?Context of the studyThis study is part of a five-year research project with a non-profit organization called TechbridgeGirls, focused on the design, development, and deployment of engineering activities in all-girlsafterschool settings. In a Techbridge afterschool program, a series of activities takes place overan extended time-period, at least 12 weeks, with the same group of girls

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Practice II: Curricular Innovations

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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George Stefanek, Purdue University Northwest; Niranjan Hemant Desai, Purdue University Northwest

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: Alan H. Yorkdale Memorial Award, 2014. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Integration of Research Topics into Undergraduate Information Technology Courses and ProjectsIntroductionUndergraduate information technology, computer science and software engineering courses oftenrequire that software projects be completed in courses that allow students to gain experienceworking on real-world-like problems. Senior technology projects (Capstone projects) requirestudents to work on real-world projects that may require collaborating with companies. Research[1], [2], [3] has shown the advantages of using real-world-like projects in courses. Courseprojects, however, can also