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Investigating Engineering Students’ Mathematical Modeling Abilities In Capstone Design

Conference Session: Engineering Design: Implementation and Evaluation
Collection: 2010 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Jennifer Cole, Northwestern University; Robert Linsenmeier, Northwestern University; Ann McKenna, Northwestern University; Matthew Glucksberg, Northwestern University
Tagged Divisions: Educational Research and Methods

. Fewstudents had taken any additional design courses before their capstone course. In the capstone,they were learning further aspects of the design process, and were organized into teams to workon different problems posed by actual clients. None of the teams were working on KMCphototherapy. Students were not informed about our conception of the stages of modeling. Theyperformed the activities for our study as regular activities for the course, for which they receivedcredit. They were informed that their work on these activities would be helpful to their owndesign project and that they would also be analyzed as part of a research project.Implementation StrategyIteration 1: This phase was designed to assess student ideas of what constitutes modeling

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Towards A Model Of Teaching Expertise In Capstone Design: Development And Validation Of A Preliminary Survey Instrument

Conference Session: Engineering Design: Implementation and Evaluation
Collection: 2010 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: James Pembridge, Virginia Tech; Marie Paretti, Virginia Tech
Tagged Divisions: Educational Research and Methods

AC 2010-806: TOWARDS A MODEL OF TEACHING EXPERTISE IN CAPSTONEDESIGN: DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF A PRELIMINARY SURVEYINSTRUMENTJames Pembridge, Virginia TechMarie Paretti, Virginia Tech Page 15.1269.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Towards a Model of Teaching Expertise in Capstone Design: Development and Validation of a Preliminary Survey InstrumentAbstractCapstone design courses seek to create a transitional environment between school and work byengaging students in collaborative, open-ended projects. These environments present a challengeto capstone faculty because the pedagogies used in such courses may differ significantly fromthose

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Special Session: Assessing Students’ Learning Outcomes During A Complex And Real World Problem Based Service Learning (Pbsl) Project In A Sophomore Engineering Design Course

Conference Session: Special Session: Impacts of Service in Engineering
Collection: 2010 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University; Eric Pappas, James Madison University
Tagged Divisions: Educational Research and Methods

sustainability characteristics 8) Effectively document and present the process used during this design projectAs can be seen from the problem statement and project objectives of this PBSL design project,this is not only a real-world problem with a “real” customer, but certainly one that is open-endedand fairly ill-defined. In fact, it is a project that some would find in a capstone designexperience. Our motivation in integrating such an authentic and complex problem in asophomore design sequence was to expose students to not only real-world problem solving butalso a project that enabled students to help a member of our university community. In assessingstudents’ learning outcomes during this PBSL design project, we were guided by the followingresearch

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Development Of An Assessment Plan For A New Sequence Of Design Courses

Conference Session: Educational Research & Methods Poster Session
Collection: 2010 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Robert Ryan; Nhut Ho; Shelley Bartenstein
Tagged Divisions: Educational Research and Methods

Excel environment, but also included a briefintroduction to Finite Element Analysis (FEA) using CosmosWorks. A detailed description ofthese courses and some preliminary assessment results from the 2005 time frame were given byRyan and Ho in 20061.After this new course sequence was offered for several years, and feedback was collected via theDepartment’s assessment process, it was felt that a more comprehensive approach towardrevision of the design sequence was required. In particular, it was noted that our students’readiness for senior design was still very non-uniform, which left some students unable tocontribute effectively to their capstone projects. A faculty committee was formed which included

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Maximizing Benefits Of Service Learning In Engineering

Conference Session: Special Session: Impacts of Service in Engineering
Collection: 2010 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Linda Barrington, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; John Duffy, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Tagged Divisions: Educational Research and Methods

-learning in the first year design courseis for all engineering students and uses different types of projects with local community partnersto appeal to different majors (Dutta & Haubold, 2007).A wide variety of institutions have service-learning in senior capstone design courses. Examplesinclude Tufts (Swan, Gute, Matson, & Durant, 2007), Michigan Tech’s International SeniorDesign (ISD) program (Paterson & Fuchs, 2008), and Rose-Hulman IT international seniordesign projects (Hanson, Houghtalen, Houghtalen, Johnson, Lovell, & Van Houghten, 2006).Rowan University has service-learning in mandatory Engineering Design Clinics throughout all4 years (Mehta, Jansson, & Dorland, 2007).As mentioned earlier, a number of faculty have

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Conflict Behavior And Its Influence On Engineering Design Teams

Conference Session: Engineering Design: Implementation and Evaluation
Collection: 2010 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Xaver Neumeyer, Northwestern University; Ann McKenna, Northwestern University
Tagged Divisions: Educational Research and Methods

student and faculty perceptions of productive conflict. Themain conflicts that were reported in our study included conflicts of commitment, differentideas about the project direction as well as different working styles.Results from this research will enable us to rethink common models of team conflict anddevelop direct and indirect intervention strategies that can help students to better integrateemotion and intellect in engineering design and innovation.IntroductionAlthough design projects and course structures may vary, there has been a consistentattempt to integrate team experiences into the engineering design curriculum 1-5. Whilethere has been significant work that describes instructional approaches for integrating andassessing teamwork

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In The Eye Of The Beholder: Defining And Studying Interdisciplinarity In Engineering Education

Conference Session: Educational Research
Collection: 2010 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Lisa Lattuca, Pennsylvania State University; David Knight, The Pennsylvania State University
Tagged Divisions: Educational Research and Methods

introductory engineering courses as multidisciplinary because they include studentsfrom all engineering majors.Similarly, study participants often described capstone courses in this manner. For example, aHarvey Mudd College faculty member’s description of a “Clinic” project suggested that he usesmultidisciplinarity as we defined it, referring to teams of students from within engineering: And clinic is where students have this, usually multidisciplinary problem that they are trying to deal with. So they draw from, I mean today you saw the mechanical engineering, structurally how do we make this not fall off our plane, and electrically, how do we make it communicate to the down station or base station. So I think that is it, they have to use

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Using Graphic Novels To Communicate Engineering Experiences In An Urban Middle School

Conference Session: Student Attitudes and Perceptions
Collection: 2010 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Jennifer Atchison, Drexel University; Dorothea Holmes-Stanley, St. Cyprian's School; Adam Fontecchio, Drexel University; Eli Fromm, Drexel University
Tagged Divisions: Educational Research and Methods

Scientist with the Legislative Office of Research Liaison of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. He has been Principal Investigator of a number of bioengineering research projects involving implantable transmitters and sensors and their use in physiologic measurements. He was the Principal Investigator of the Drexel E4 educational reform project, the Gateway Engineering Education Coalition and is currently PI of an NSF funded GK-12 project. He is member of the NAE and a fellow of the ASEE, the IEEE, and the AIMBE. He is the recipient of a number of other awards and honors including the Bernard M. Gordon Prize of the National Academy of Engineering

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Delivering Engineering Education Research Findings To The Practitioners: A New Workshop Model Approach

Conference Session: Educational Research
Collection: 2010 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Cindy Waters, North Carolina A&T State University; Helen Chen, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University
Tagged Divisions: Educational Research and Methods

Establish/develop study groups / offer courses with focus on analytical skills to 1) Get more faculty & industry support for senior capstone help students put together their basic course; 2) (**) Raise expectations for the quality of knowledge with requirements of theGroup 7 projects to industry standard. Group 16 problem.Group 8 Problem-oriented course earlier in the curriculum Group 17 no answer Identify a couple of courses that will Should implement this idea across the curriculum

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Representations Of Student Model Development In Virtual Laboratories Based On A Cognitive Apprenticeship Instructional Design

Conference Session: New Learning Paradigms I
Collection: 2010 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Kendra Seniow, Oregon State University; Eric Nefcy, Oregon State University; Christine Kelly, Oregon State University; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University
Tagged Divisions: Educational Research and Methods

. Page 15.1030.8Figure 5. Model Representation Component Key.Results and DiscussionModel Representations have been generated for the Virtual Laboratory projects of students of thesenior capstone laboratory course at Oregon State University in Fall 2008. The class consisted of55 students majoring in chemical engineering, 19 majoring in bioengineering and 6 majoring inenvironmental engineering, who worked in 27 teams of 2-3 students on either the Virtual CVDLaboratory (41 students) or the Virtual Bioreactor Laboratory (39 students).Instructional ContextOver the course of the 10 week term students complete three laboratories, each requiring aboutthree weeks. The first and third laboratories are physical laboratories (a heat exchanger and

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Special Session: Model Eliciting Activities Instructor Perspectives

Conference Session: Special Session: Next Generation Problem-Solving
Collection: 2010 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Ronald Miller, Colorado School of Mines; Tamara Moore, University of Minnesota; Brian Self, California Polytechnic State University; Andrew Kean, California Polytechnic State University; Gillian Roehrig, University of Minnesota; Jack Patzer, University of Pittsburgh
Tagged Divisions: Educational Research and Methods

Page 15.1080.1 Public Schools working to integrate technology into their classrooms. TEC will be extended to include teachers on the White Earth Reservation.Jack Patzer, University of Pittsburgh Jack Patzer is Coordinator of the Bioartificial Liver Program in the McGowan Institute for© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Regenerative Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. Page 15.1080.2© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Model-Eliciting Activities – Instructor PerspectivesAbstractAs part of a larger NSF-funded project to develop Model-Eliciting Activities (MEAs) inengineering courses (MEDIA), the

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Refining A Critical Thinking Rubric For Engineering

Conference Session: Measurement Tools
Collection: 2010 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Patricia Ralston, University of Louisville; Cathy Bays, University of Louisville
Tagged Divisions: Educational Research and Methods

Dr. Cathy L. Bays is the assessment specialist for the university’s regional reaccreditation Quality Enhancement Plan. In this role she provides leadership across the 8 undergraduate units by demonstrating a broad knowledge of assessment, facilitating unit-specific assessment projects and outcomes, providing faculty development on assessment topics, and supporting the scholarship of assessment. For 15 years she was a faculty member in the School of Nursing at the University of Louisville, serving as Director of the Undergraduate Nursing Program for 5 of those years. Page 15.1022.1© American Society

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Special Session: Assessing Morality, Identity, And Motivation In A First Year Materials Engineering Service Learning Course

Conference Session: Special Session: Impacts of Service in Engineering
Collection: 2010 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Trevor Harding, California Polytechnic State University; Lynne Slivovsky, California Polytechnic State University; Nina Truch, California Polytechnic State University
Tagged Divisions: Educational Research and Methods

Advancement of Teaching Faculty Fellow for Service-Learning for Political Engagement. She currently oversees two multidisciplinary service-learning programs: the Access by Design project that has capstone students design devices for people with disabilities to participate in adapted physical activity and Organic Twittering that merges social media with sustainability.Nina Truch, California Polytechnic State University Nina Truch is a lecturer in the Communication Studies and Materials Engineering departments at Cal Poly State University. She received the Cal Poly President's Community Service Award in 2005 for work pertaining to the Tsunami Relief Project

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Changing High School Stem Teacher Beliefs And Expectations About Engineering Learning And Instruction

Conference Session: ERM Potpourri
Collection: 2010 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Mitchell Nathan, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Amy Atwood, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Amy Prevost, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Allen Phelps, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Tagged Divisions: Educational Research and Methods

measured the impact that professionaldevelopment training for pre-college engineering had on these beliefs. We examined this in thecontext of a specific, well-regarded, pre-college engineering program, Project Lead the Way(PLTW). We measured teachers’ views before and after training and teaching their first PLTWcourse, as compared to changes observed with a control group of STEM teachers. Some pre-existing differences reached statistical significance: Prospective PLTW teachers were morelikely than control teachers to identify sources of support for engineering in their schools, reportthat science and math concepts were integrated with engineering instruction; and to supportgreater access to engineering. Over time, teachers from both groups were

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Methods For Exploring Engineering Design Thinking In High School Student Teams

Conference Session: Engineering Design: Implementation and Evaluation
Collection: 2010 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Cameron Denson, Utah State University; Matt Lammi, Utah State University; Kyungsuk Park, Utah State University; Elizabeth Dansie, Purdue University
Tagged Divisions: Educational Research and Methods

inform developers of teamdesign thinking measurements. Curricular and pedagogical efforts are currently in place to develop an understanding ofengineering design among high school students through formal and informal experiences.Engineering in K-12 Education 5 presented discussion of a variety of curricular efforts. Includedin these are The Academy of Engineering, Engineering: An Introduction for High School,Engineering by Design, Engineering Your Future: A Project-Based Introduction to Engineering,Engineers of the Future, The Infinity Project, INSPIRES, Learning by Design, Principles ofEngineering, TeachEngineering.org, TECH-Know, A World in Motion, Engineering the Future