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ERM Technical Session 23: Courses and Research on Communication

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ellen Zerbe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Catherine G.P. Berdanier, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Natascha Trellinger Buswell, University of California, Irvine; Joana M. M. Melo, Pennsylvania State University

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our larger research project was conducted in Spring 2018 viaemail with administrative assistants in engineering departments at ten research-intensiveuniversities across the United States. While over 800 participants completed a portion of the study,a total of N= 621 completed graduate students completed the entirety of the survey. Because thesurvey was long, completion was incentivized with a $5 Amazon.com gift card. A majority ofparticipants identified men (61.0%), 37.8 % identified as women, and 1.1% of participantsidentified as another gender or did not wish to answer. 49.3% of participants identified asWhite/Caucasian; 35.8% identified as Asian/Pacific Islander; 8.1% identified as Hispanic or LatinAmerican; 2.4% identified as African

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Student Motivation and Faculty Development

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jessie Keeler, Oregon State University; Bill Jay Brooks, Oregon State University; Debra May Friedrichsen, Unaffiliated; Jeffrey A Nason, Oregon State University; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University

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his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, all in Chemical Engineering. He currently has research activity in areas related engineering education and is interested in integrating technology into effective educational practices and in promoting the use of higher-level cognitive skills in engineering problem solving. His research interests particularly focus on what prevents students from being able to integrate and extend the knowledge developed in specific courses in the core curriculum to the more complex, authentic problems and projects they face as professionals. Dr. Koretsky is one of the founding members of the Center for Lifelong STEM Education Research at OSU

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Physics Education Research (PER) Relevant for Engineering Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sanjay Rebello, Kansas State University; Lili Cui, University of Maryland Baltimore County

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examples, although theycovered the same concepts. Again, students pointed to the lack of concrete examples in physicsas making it more difficult to apply what they had learned in physics to engineering. In additionto the differences between the types of problems that students were asked to point out, at leastone student strongly alluded to what he believed to be another important difference, i.e. thedifference in the culture of the two disciplines. He went on to point out that in their engineeringcourses students were often required to work on projects in small groups. Thus they developed asense of camaraderie which helped them get together to solve problems and prepare for the classin general. He contrasted this with his experiences in physics

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Student Recruitment and Retention

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer VanAntwerp, Calvin College; Rachel Reed, Calvin College; Crystal Bruxvoort, Calvin College; Neil Carlson, Calvin College

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Ph.D. in Political Science from Duke University in 2004. Research methods, technology and project management are central to his work, along with substantive interest in social capital, organizational politics and collective decision-making. The CSR recently completed data collection for the Kent County Congregations Study, a mixed-mode survey of the leaders of 583 local religious congregations. Page 13.522.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Engineer ing Student Retention: Development of a Validated, Quantitative Instr ument for Explor ing the Role of Per sonal and

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SPECIAL SESSION: Describing the Engineering Student Learning Experience Based on CAEE Findings: Part 2

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kristyn Jackson, Stanford University; Tori Bailey, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University; Helen Chen, Stanford University

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.] http://www.pge.utexas.edu/current/newbsms.cfm.7. Educating the Engineer of 2020: Adapting Engineering Education to the New Century, ISGN 0-309,09649-9,2005.8. J. Duderstadt, Engineering for a Changing World: A Roadmap to the Future of Engineering Practice, Research,and Education, The Millennium Project, The University of Michigan, Draft 8.0, Dec, 2007.9. S. Sheppard, C.J. Atman, R. Stevens, L. Fleming, R. Streveler., R.S. Adams, T. Barker, Studying the engineeringexperience: Design of a longitudinal Study. In Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering EducationAnnual Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2004.10. M. Clark, S.D. Sheppard, C.J. Atman, L. Fleming, R. Miller, R. Stevens, R. Streveler, “Academic PathwaysStudy: Processes and

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Problem Solving and Misconceptions

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew Verleger, Purdue University; Heidi Diefes-Dux, Purdue University

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interested in the innovations of biomedical science. Recently a physicistfrom University of Alabama, Birmingham accidentally produced smooth diamond. The array ofdiamond created was smooth and adhered very easily to metal. Because diamond is durable, itmakes a very good candidate for coating artificial hip replacements. The current coatings weardown or loosen from constant use after about 10 years, which could mean more surgery for therecipient. The diamond coating is projected to last around 40 years which would improve thecomfort and health of the patient.Liguore Laboratories would like to expand our product line to include diamond coatings for hipjoints. The research laboratory is working on replicating the smooth diamonds. In order for

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Modeling Student Data

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gillian Nicholls, University of Pittsburgh; Harvey Wolfe, University of Pittsburgh; Mary Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Larry Shuman, University of Pittsburgh

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. Page 14.966.1516 National Center for Education Statistics, National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988, Project Officers: Peggy Quinn and Jeffrey T. Owings (Washington, DC), http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/nels88/index.asp.17 Allison, Paul D., Survival Analysis Using SAS: A Practical Guide, SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, 1995, pages 61- 109. Page 14.966.16

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Knowing Our Students I

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Heidi Loshbaugh, Colorado School of Mines; Tawni Hoeglund, Colorado School of Mines; Ruth Streveler, Colorado School of Mines; Kimberley Breaux

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Research Associate Professor in Academic Affairs. Dr. Streveler holds a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Master of Science in Zoology from the Ohio State University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from Indiana University at Bloomington. She is co-principle investigator of three NSF-sponsored projects: Developing an Outcomes Assessment Instrument for Identifying Engineering Student Misconceptions in Thermal and Transport Sciences (DUE - 0127806), Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education (ESI-0227558), and Rigorous Research in Engineering Education: Creating a Community of Practice (DUE-0341127).Kimberley Breaux, KIMBERLEY R. BREAUX

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Undergraduate Students' Development of Computational and Programming Skills

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Geoffrey L. Herman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Sofia Meyers, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Sarah-Elizabeth Deshaies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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this research has focused only on students' difficultiesand only after some formal instruction [1], [2]. Constructivist theories encourage us to considerhow we can help students construct their own knowledge with the experience and knowledgethey bring to our classrooms [3]. The overarching research project had many goals, however,this paper will focus on just two main data-driven goals. The first is to understand whatproductive knowledge experienced students (students who had taken at least threeprogramming courses) bring to code reading that complete novices (students who have neverprogrammed or studied programming before) may not have yet as measured through code-reading accuracy, total reading times, and fixation heatmaps. The second goal

Conference Session

Curricular Innovations 1

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicole Johnson-Glauch, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Geoffrey L. Herman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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diagrams are usually tested in classrooms via sketching and not multiple choice. Second,part of the broader study is to describe the range of student’s knowledge and reasoning. Whilegeneralizability was not the goal of the project, we did find saturation of unique knowledge andsketching behaviors after a relatively low number of participants (N=15). This is good news foreducators of small and big class sizes who wish to do a similar exploratory analysis since thepool we recruited from was typical of a large research-focused university (>300 per semester).Third, constant comparative analysis allows us to build a robust theory by using broad (problemsolving strategies) and narrow (specific knowledge pieces) scopes that complement each other

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Faculty Development

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Staffan Andersson, Uppsala University; Arnold Neville Pears, Uppsala University

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assessment instrumentsavailable. Furthermore related work by colleagues in Finland2 had already used the ATI fora similar evaluation exercise. Prosser and Trigwell developed the ATI to provide insight intohow University teaching staff view teaching and learning activities associated with their roleat the University.Our initial project developed and validated a Swedish language version of the ATI.3 The firststudy using our Swedish ATI survey was conducted in the Faculty of Technology and NaturalSciences at Uppsala University in 2009-2010. That study identified existing approaches andattitudes among the PhD students and academic staff.This paper reports on both studies with an emphasis on a comparison between the findingsfrom 2009 and a those of a

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Diversity and Inclusion

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dan Haskett, Georgia Southern University; Jonathan C. Hilpert, Georgia Southern University; Jenefer Husman, University of Oregon

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Engineering Education, and is a member of the editorial board of Learning and Instruction. In 2006 she was awarded the U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER grant award and received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from the President of the United States. She has conducted and advised on educational research projects and grants in both the public and private sectors, and served as an external reviewer for doctoral dissertations outside the U.S. She publishes regularly in peer-reviewed journals and books. Dr. Husman was a founding member and first President of the Southwest Consortium for Innovative Psychology in Education and has held both elected and appointed offices in the American

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ERM Technical Session 5: Assessment

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aaron W. Johnson, University of Michigan; Jessica E. S. Swenson, University of Michigan; Max William Blackburn, University of Michigan; Cynthia J. Finelli, University of Michigan

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2003 and served as its Director for 12 years. Prior to joining U-M, Dr. Finelli was the Richard L. Terrell Professor of Excellence in Teaching, founding director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, and Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Kettering University. Dr. Finelli’s current research interests include student resistance to active learning, faculty adoption of evidence-based teaching practices, the use of technology and innovative pedagogies on student learning and success, and the impact of a flexible classroom space on faculty teaching and student learning. She also led a project to develop a taxonomy for the field of engineering education research, and she was part of a

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ERM Technical Session 10: Understanding Student Experiences

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chris C. Martin, Georgia Institute of Technology; Joseph M. LeDoux, Georgia Institute of Technology; Wendy C. Newstetter, Georgia Institute of Technology

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inclusion and train students to create inclusive teams. Optimaldistinctiveness theory (ODT) is the psychological theory that we initially deemed useful forunderstanding belonging and inclusion in groups [1], [2]. ODT posits that people feel satisfiedwhen the groups they identify with fulfill both their need for inclusion and their need fordifferentiation [1], [3].Based on faculty experiences supervising team projects, we hypothesized that some students whoare marginalized on the basis of race, gender, or other forms of identity often have unbalancedneed fulfilment due to excessive distinctiveness and minimal similarity [4], [5]. This situationthwarts their need for inclusion, and triggers the unpleasant feeling of not belonging [6]–[9

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Motivation, Attitudes, and Beliefs

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heather Lee Perkins, North Carolina State University; Mary Wyer

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Paper ID #23047Fitting In Across STEM: Comparing Science/Math and Engineering/TechnologyStudents’ Perceptions of Their Fields and FuturesHeather Lee Perkins, North Carolina State University Heather entered the Applied Social and Community Psychology program in the fall of 2014, after com- pleting her Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Cincinnati. She has participated in various research projects examining the interaction between stereotypes and science interest and confi- dence, their influence upon womens’ performance in school and the workplace, and their presence in the media and consequences for

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Research Methods

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Catherine G.P. Berdanier, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Natascha Trellinger Buswell, University of California, Irvine; Zixuan (Victoria) Zhao, Purdue University

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first or second year graduate students as per the applicationrequirements for NSF GRFP, and are U.S. domestic students. We used pseudonyms to protectparticipant identities.In the results and discussion sections of this paper, we focus on one participant, Fred, as heprepared his NSF GRFP application materials over ten hours of real-time screen-capture data. Weelected to focus on one participant in order to highlight the methodological aspects of the dataanalysis and presentation. The data represented is ten hours worth of real-time writing data. Infuture work, we will compare the real-time maps across multiple participants. B. Data CollectionAfter consenting to participate in the research project, all participants were given two licenses

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Understanding the Discipline of Engineering

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregory L. Heileman, University of New Mexico; Michael Hickman; Ahmad Slim; Chaouki T. Abdallah, University of New Mexico

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Educational Research and Methods

object oriented programs. In Conference on Object- Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA), 1987. 4 D. Bland and D. Kumar. Patterns of curriculum design. In L. Cassel and R. Reis, editors, IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology: Informatics Curricula and Teaching Methods. Springer, 2003. 5 J. J. Duderstadt. Engineering for a changing world: A roadmap to the future of engineering practice, research, and education. Technical report, The Millennium Project, The University of Michigan, 2008. 6 P. D. Galloway. The 21st-Century Engineer: A Proposal for Engineering Education Reform. ASCE Press, Reston, VA, 2013. 7 E. Gamma, R. Helm, R. Johnson, and J. Vlissides. Design

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Practice I: Academic Success

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cynthia Jane Wilson Orndoff Esq., Florida Southwestern State College; Elizabeth W. Schott, Florida Southwestern State College

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://www.asee.org/retention-project/best- practices-and-strategies/ASEE-Student-Retention-Project.pdf.[11] P. Arenaz, W. Fisher and C. K. Della-Piana, "CircLES: A Retention PRogram for Engineering Students in Engineering, Mathematics and Science," in Frontiers in Education Conference, 199.[12] K. Rodgers, S. Blunt and L. Trible, "A Real PLUSS: An Intrusive Advising Program for Underprepared STEM Students," NACADA, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 35-42, 2014.[13] M. Meyer and S. Marx, "Engineering Dropouts: A Qualitative Examination of Why Undergraduates Leave Engineering," Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 103, no. 4, pp. 525-548, October 2014.[14] S. Haag, N. Hubele, A. Garcia and K. McBeath, "Engineering Undergraduate Attrition and

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Educational Research and Methods Division Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jinjushang Chen, Florida State University; Jeannine E. Turner, Florida State University; Min Tang, College of Education, Learning and Cognition Program,Florida State University

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, beliefs, self-regulation, and achievement.Min Tang, College of Education, Learning and Cognition Program,Florida State University The research interests of mine are: 1) to understand teachers’ pedagogical practices and the potential effects of those practices on students’ critical thinking and epistemic beliefs in engineering domain, 2) to quantify epistemically-related emotions that occur during the epistemic activity, 3) to explore the best pedagogical practices to improve the efficiency integrating classroom project-based learning and students’ real-world problem-solving practice. I have MS degree from Florida State University in Curriculum and Instruction and BA degree from China Nanchang University in English

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Faculty Development I

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martha Cleveland-Innes, Athabasca University; Stefan Stenbom, KTH Royal Institute of Technology; Stefan Hrastinski, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

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blended learning for teachers in K-12 and higher education.Dr. Stefan Hrastinski, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stefan Hrastinski is Associate Professor at the The School of Education and Communication in Engineer- ing Science, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and Visiting Professor with specialization in e-Learning, Mid Sweden University. His research focuses on online learning and collaboration in educational and or- ganizational settings. Stefan has conducted research and development projects across various contexts, including higher education, school settings, companies, municipalities and the public sector. He teaches courses in e-learning, and supervise theses on bachelor, master and Ph.D. level

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Methodological & Theoretical Contributions to Engineering Education 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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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, international engineering education research, education policy making, teamwork and leadership, and management of production systems. He has worked as a production control engineer in Taiwan, and taught industrial, manufacturing, and first-year engineering at Purdue University. He also participated in NSF funded projects on student success in engineering, and international engineering education. His passion is to develop world-class engineers that can collaborate and compete with the best engineers in the world.Dr. Kenneth Reid, Ohio Northern University Ken Reid is the Director of Engineering Education, Director of First-Year Engineering and Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Ohio Northern University. He was

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Development as Faculty and Researcher: ERM Roundtable

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claudia M Walter, DiZ - Center for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education; Christian H Kautz, Hamburg University of Technology

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., Development and use of the Approaches to Teaching Inventory, EducationalPsychology Review, 16, 409–424, 2004.15 King, A, From Sage on the Stage to Guide on the Side, College Teaching 41, 30-35, 1993.      16 Froyd, J. E., “Evidence for the efficacy of student active learning pedagogies” (Project Kaleidoscope, 2007), .www.pkal.org/documents/BibliographyofSALPedagogies.cfm17 Deslauriers, L., Improved Learning in a Large-Enrolment Physics Class, Science 332, 862-864, 2011. Page 26.1782.18Appendix APPROACHES TO TEACHING INVENTORYThis inventory is designed to explore the way that

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Examining "Big" Data

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Issam Wajih Damaj, American University of Kuwait; Ashley Ater Kranov, Washington State University

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Student Approaches to Problem Solving: ERM Roundtable

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine G. Nelson, Arizona State University; Sarah Brem, Arizona State University; Ann F. McKenna, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Eva Pettinato, Arizona State University; Jenefer Husman, Arizona State University

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the Director of Education for the Quantum Energy and Sustainable Solar Tech- nology Center - an NSF funded Engineering Research Center. Dr. Husman is an assistant editor of the Journal of Engineering Education, has been a guest editor of Educational Psychology Review, served on editorial board for top educational research journals, and currently sits on the editorial board of Learn- ing and Instruction. In 2006 she was awarded the U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER grant award and received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from the President of the United States. She has conducted and advised on educational research projects and grants in both the public and private sectors, and

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Golnaz Arastoopour, University of Wisconsin, Madison; David Williamson Shaffer; Naomi C. Chesler, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Wesley Collier, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Jeff Linderoth, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Paper ID #11437Measuring the Complexity of Simulated Engineering Design ProblemsMs. Golnaz Arastoopour, University of Wisconsin, Madison Before becoming interested in education, Golnaz studied Mechanical Engineering at the University of Illi- nois at Urbana-Champaign with a minor in Spanish. While earning her Bachelor’s degree in engineering, she worked as a computer science instructor at Campus Middle School for Girls in Urbana, IL. Along with a team of undergraduates, she headlined a project to develop a unique computer science curriculum for middle school students. She then earned her M.A. in mathematics education at

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Student Approaches to Problem Solving: ERM Roundtable

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benjamin James Call, Utah State University; Wade H. Goodridge, Utah State University; Christopher Green, Utah State University

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project-based teamwork and encouraging student entrepreneurship.Dr. Wade H Goodridge, Utah State University Wade Goodridge, Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering and Technology Education at Utah State University, has taught Solid Modeling, CAD, Introductory Electronics, Surveying, Statics, Assessment and Evaluation, and Introductory Engineering courses at Utah State University. Goodridge has been teaching for the Utah State College of Engineering for more than 15 years. He holds dual B.S degrees in industrial technology education and civil engineering from Utah State University, as well as an M.S. and Ph.D. in civil engineering from Utah State University. His research interests include metacog- nitive

Conference Session

Broadening Participation in Engineering

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacquelyn F. Sullivan Ph.D., University of Colorado, Boulder; Beth A Myers, University of Colorado Boulder; Kevin O'Connor, University of Colorado Boulder ; Frederick A. Peck; Tanya D Ennis, University of Colorado, Boulder; Nick A. Stites, Integrated Teaching and Learning Program, College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Colorado at Boulder; Beverly Louie, University of Colorado, Boulder; Julie Cafarella, University of Colorado, Boulder; Daria A Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado, Boulder

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. Tanya D Ennis, University of Colorado, Boulder TANYA D. ENNIS is the current Engineering GoldShirt Program Director at the University of Colorado Boulder’s College of Engineering and Applied Science. She received her M.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Her career in the telecommunications industry included positions in software and systems engineering and technical project management. Tanya most recently taught mathematics at the Denver School of Science and Technology, the highest performing high school in Denver Public Schools.Nick A. Stites, Integrated Teaching and Learning

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Student Success III: Affect and Attitudes

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Casey Marie Williamson, James Madison University; Mariafé Taeví Panizo, James Madison University; Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University; Robin D. Anderson, James Madison University

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interdisciplinary research with the goal of improving engineering programs at the undergraduate level. Her research interests include cognitive theories, memory, problem solving, theories of the mind, and the role of identity and motivation in education.Mariaf´e Taev´ı Panizo, James Madison University Mariaf´e Panizo is a first year graduate student in JMU’s Graduate Psychology Doctoral program. She has been working on engineering education research projects for two and a half years, focusing on non- cognitive factors that impact engineering student academic success.Dr. Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University Olga Pierrakos is a Founding Faculty and Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering at James Madison

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Works in Progress: Faculty Perspectives and Training

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Courtney June Faber, The College of New Jersey; Cheryl A. Bodnar, Rowan University; Alexandra Coso Strong, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Walter C. Lee, Virginia Tech; Erin J. McCave, University of Houston; Courtney S. Smith, Virginia Tech

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 a  number  of  times  that  it  was  reassuring  to  know  that  others  were  dealing   with   similar   issues.   A   couple   times   she   mentioned   that   she   was   struggling   with   a  graduate   student   she   was   working   with   and   how   to   create   incentive   to   have   that   student  contribute  to  her  project.  Walter  was  having  a  similar  struggle  in  terms  of  assigning  a  graduate  student  tasks  to  complete.  It  was  reassuring  to  her  that  she  wasn’t  alone  in  this  struggle.  She  also  got  ideas  about  how  to  fix  it,  which  aligns  with  one  of  our  other  areas  of  support.    Cheryl  talked  about,  nearly  every  week,  how  it  was  comforting  to  know  that  she  wasn't

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Motivation, Attitudes, and Beliefs

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Jackson, Purdue Polytechnic Institute; Nathan Mentzer, Purdue Polytechnic Institute; Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio, Yale University

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, theteacher transitions to think about how to design for those characteristics. As part of the researchstudy, teachers were provided kits for soft robotic fabrication, which can be arranged in a varietyof configurations with different motion [19, 20]. However, based on the materials available,some of the design ideas may not be feasible. Subsequently, the teacher leads a discussion aboutmaterials and processes, balancing between creativity and feasibility. Following a demonstrationof how to safely work with silicone rubber and the mold kits, students work in pairs on thedesign project. They are encouraged to learn through two main channels: 1) via research on theinternet (sites such as www.softroboticstoolkit.com) and 2) via hands-on prototyping