Conference Session

ELOS Technical Session 3: Advancing Engineering Competencies: From Labs to Writing

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dave Kim, Washington State University-Vancouver; Charles Riley P.E., Oregon Institute of Technology; Sean St. Clair P.E., Oregon Institute of Technology; Olusola Adesope, Washington State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (DELOS)

community of practice focusing on engineering lab writing education. Thispaper presents the content, delivery, and results of the professional development workshop onengineering lab writing.2. Workshop Content and DeliveryThe workshop was designed for the participants to conduct the following in a small groupsetting: 1) develop engineering lab report assignments; 2) improve engineering lab reportassessment; 3) guide students in navigating writing with generative AI (ChatGPT-4); and 4) trainlab teaching assistants or lab report graders. Participants accessed the guides (available atengineeringlabwriting.org) to design and develop sample labs, discuss issues related to labwriting and how to deliver lab writing expectations, and provide feedback to

Conference Session

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (ELOS) Technical Session 3: Best of ELOS

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachel C. Childers, The Ohio State University; Sunny Kwok, The Ohio State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (DELOS)

to the question “Was there anything that you would take away fromthis experience and apply to future projects or group work? If so what?” in the survey wasanalyzed and validated in two ways. Salient themes were identified by the authors and thefrequency of those themes were tabulated to count the number of occurrences specific featureswere identified from students. Responses were coded into the following 8 themes:Communication, assigned roles, motivation, lab skills/course content, collaboration/teamwork,leadership, enjoyment, and delegation/group organization. In addition, the responses were inputinto an artificial intelligence natural language processing tool (ChatGPT, OpenAI) to identifythemes from responses in an unbiased manner. This