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FPD8 - Early Intervention & Retention

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mukul Shirvaikar, University of Texas at Tyler; David Beams, University of Texas at Tyler; Sagun Shrestha, University of Texas at Tyler

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from fall 2005 (95) to fall 2006 (73), but theprogram has graduated 11 more electrical engineers. This performance was not in line with thetargeted enrollment increases. The EE enrollment was significantly impacted by low enteringnumbers, which are based on recruitment. This reflects the general trend in the state of Texas andthe nation. The percentage of women and minority EE majors increased in the same timeframe:from 8.4% to 12.3% for women, 9.5% to 11.0% for BNH (black, non-Hispanic) and 4.2% to6.9% for A/PI (Asian/Pacific Islander) students.Encouraging women and minorities is a goal of B2B, and 2006-2007 tutoring records show 8women (17%) and 4 minority students (8.5%), 3 of whom were minority women. B2B tutors inthe 2006-2007 academic

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FPD6 -- Early Intervention & Retention Programs

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carrie Slater, Virginia Tech; Whitney Edmister, Virginia Tech; Bevlee Watford, Virginia Tech; Jean Kampe, Virginia Tech

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participating as mentees increased from 126 in 2004 to 384 in2005. In addition, the number of upper level students serving as mentors jumped from 32 in 2004to 79 in 2005.This paper will outline the design and implementation of a large-scale peermentoring program focusing mostly on the freshman programs of AHORA, BEST, GUEST andWEST. Lessons learned throughout implementation will be discussed as well as the firstsemester Grade Point Averages (GPAs) of first-year students participating in the program.This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under GrantNumber DUE – 0431646. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendationsexpressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the

Conference Session

FPD 7: First-Year Engineering Courses, Part II: Perceptions and Paradigms

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janaki Isabella Perera, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Brendan Thomas Quinlivan, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Yevgeniya V. Zastavker, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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: PjBL places emphasis on the application of knowledge over the learning of theory through one or more overarching projects. These projects often address real- world problems and are likely to have an interdisciplinary component and a group work orientation. To encourage student engagement in and ownership of the learning process, faculty act as guides, supporting acquisition of content knowledge and providing project scaffolding, while students exercise autonomy by carrying out independent open-ended projects. Students participating in projects create one or more significant tangible deliverables, often derived from the scaffolding provided by the faculty, but ultimately intended to reflect the

Conference Session

FPD VI: Presenting "All the Best" of the First-year Programs Division

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

S. Scott Moor, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne

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use writing with in various courses throughout the curriculum. Theseefforts have included short informal Writing-to-Learn assignments where students reflect on thematerial covered in journals, logs or short essays. They have also included longer Writing-in-the-Disciplines approaches such as this case of design reports where students are specificallylearning the writing conventions of their particular discipline.3Elbow4 argues that it is often particularly helpful to assign low-stakes writing, using assignmentswhere the level of critique and the grading weight are low. He notes that “Writing feels like aninherently high stakes activity.”4 The particular assignment sequence presented here allows thistype of lower stakes writing to take

Conference Session

FPD VI: Presenting "All the Best" of the First-year Programs Division

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christa R. James-Byrnes, University of Wisconsin, Barron County; Mark H. Holdhusen, University of Wisconsin, Marathon County

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experiencesand successes as the students in the traditional face-to-face section. Several assessments wereused to determine this. One assessment was a quantitative analysis comparing the grades of each Page 25.1002.8section. Also, two surveys were created for the students to take and reflect on their work on theprojects and the course. The first survey was given after the first design project and focused onteamwork on the project. The second survey was conducted at the end of the course focused onboth the final project as well as the course as a whole. Another assessment was an analysis ofhow students utilized the engineer interview videos for each

Conference Session

FPD 9: First-Year Projects

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

S. Scott Moor, Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne; Stephen Heindel, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne; Yanfei Liu, Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne

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micro-battery to their output of their charging circuitand measure the charging of the battery over time using a multimeter. Students are asked tocharge the battery for 30 minutes, stopping every five minutes to remove the battery and measureits charge. At the end of the projects students individually write a reflection memo.MATLAB Signal Analyzer DesignThe sound card analyzer is a simple MATLAB program with a graphical user interface. TheMATLAB code (.m and .fig files) are available on the project website.5 The initial screen thatopens is shown in Figure 1. It is organized into three sections based on the steps users shouldfollow. The first section (“1. Select Source”) allows users to choose the signal to analyze. Anew signal can be recorded

Conference Session

FPD 5: Transitions and Student Success, Part I

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

S. Patrick Walton, Michigan State University; Daina Briedis, Michigan State University; Mark Urban-Lurain, Michigan State University; Timothy J Hinds, Michigan State University; Carmellia Davis-King, Michigan State University; Thomas F. Wolff P.E., Michigan State University

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himself to the studentsat this event and describes the first-year courses and what students need to do to be successful inthem. Corporate partners provide advice from the “real world” on what skills students shouldfoster during their undergraduate careers to maximize their chances of achieving theirprofessional goals (described in additional detail in Wolff, et al6). The environment of theresource fair, in particular, with music and prize giveaways, encourages students to interact witheach other and seeks to dispel the often-held notion that engineering is not a welcomingenvironment. Students reflect the success of this approach in that fully 99.3% of surveyrespondents indicated that the Colloquium had at least “some value,” with 45% rating the

Conference Session

FPD IX: Research on First-Year Programs and Students, Part II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachelle Reisberg, Northeastern University; Joseph A. Raelin, Northeastern University; Margaret B. Bailey, Rochester Institute of Technology; Jerry Carl Hamann, University of Wyoming; David L. Whitman, University of Wyoming; Leslie K. Pendleton, Virginia Tech

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programs.IntroductionThis study is part of a larger research project, supported by a National Science FoundationResearch on Gender in Science and Engineering program grant, designed to determine the effectof self-efficacy and other factors on the retention of women in undergraduate engineeringprograms. These data represent the initial pre-survey of the study completed in the 2009-2010academic year. Students completed a 96-item survey (not included in this paper due to theproprietary nature of some components). This survey was administered mostly in class and inwritten form at the start of their sophomore year; thus their responses were a reflection on theirfirst year experiences. Data will be gathered at two additional points in years two and three of thestudy

Conference Session

FPD VI: Presenting "All the Best" of the First-Year Programs Division

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shelley Lorimer, Grant MacEwan University

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difficult to gauge whether or not this is detrimental to their grades. Examination of the literature regarding first year programs indicates that this activity is an essential part of an engineering education10.• StrengthsQuest – This educational activity is based on a personality assessment tool called StrengthsQuest that was developed by Gallup8. It came about as a result of participation of a faculty member in a leadership conference. There is a substantial amount of literature linking personality types of engineering students to their academic success9. At MacEwan, this tool was used as a reflective exercise for students in the introductory professional engineering courses (ENGG 100 and ENGG 101). At the same time

Conference Session

FPD 3: Research on First-year Programs and Students, Part I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diana Quinn, University of South Australia; Elizabeth J. Smith, University of South Australia; Syed Mahfuzul Aziz, University of South Australia

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7% Socialising 6% Relaxing 6% Meeting place 4% Using desks 3% Reading 3% Lock-down rooms 2% Not using 11%General responses to What are the best aspects about studying the first year of engineering?generated responses that reflected the re-energized curriculum and the new Experience 1 Studio: The first year engineering space - the relaxed atmosphere at the uni The first year engineering space the interesting

Conference Session

Administering First-Year Programs

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gretchen Hein, Michigan Technological University; Amber Kemppainen, Michigan Technological University; Susan Amato-Henderson, Michigan Technological University; Jason Keith, Michigan Technological University; Melissa Roberts, Michigan Technological University

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turbinecriteria that are listed in Table 3. The overall height of the design was to limit the materialsstudents must acquire, allow students to easily transport their design, and permit the design to betested in the IDEAS Center. Page 15.1372.9 Table 3. Wind Turbine Design/Construction Criteria Horizontal Axis Wind TurbineOverall Height: 3 ftTurbine Blade (minimum of 3 blades) that are 1 ft long with adjustable pitchAxis Hub must be non-reflective, black (for speed measurement)For testing, must be able to attach a string to the hub where the string will spool smoothly Vertical

Conference Session

FPD XI: Assessing First-Year Programs, Experiences, and Communities

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shannon Ciston, University of New Haven; Maria-Isabel Carnasciali, Ph.D., University of New Haven; Jean Nocito-Gobel, University of New Haven; Cory Carr

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, a scholarlyenvironment, and an ethos of relatedness among faculty, staff, and peers.” Another uniqueaspect of the work described in this paper is that we gauge the perceptions of students who haveparticipated in LLC program, as well as students who have not.Research in the area of engineering student specific LLCs is also somewhat limited, thoughprevious work has described LLCs for engineering students, finding that LLCs are effective forenhancing engagement, retention, and academic success.13-17 At Washington State University,student focus groups attribute positive gains to specific elements of the LLC including peer-facilitated study groups and seminars led by upperclassmen.14,15 Reflective essays were used toidentify common themes and

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Focus on Student Success I

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Matthew Cavalli, Western Michigan University; Anetra Grice, Western Michigan University

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the survey were entered into a drawing for one of three $50 gift cards. Threehundred fifty-seven eligible students were initially invited to participate in the study; elevenstudents requested a total withdrawal from their classes and these were removed from theanalysis, leaving a potential pool of three hundred forty-six students. Ninety-two FTIACstudents responded to the initial survey – a participation rate of 26.6%. Tables 1 and 2 show thedemographics of the FTIAC participants as well as the overall demographics of the Fall 2020CEAS FTIAC group, respectively. Female students were significantly overrepresented in therespondent group but the racial distribution was reflective of the overall population.Table 1: Demographics of Fall 2020 start

Conference Session

First-year Programs: Computation in the First Year

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Djedjiga Belfadel, Fairfield University; Michael Zabinski, Fairfield University; Isaac Macwan, Fairfield University

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. • Writing Assignments: Writing assignments (WAs) were chosen as an assessment method to demonstrate students’ improvements in technical writing. Individual writing assignments included topics ranging from “Explain how something works” to “Reflect on your speaking skills”. • Descriptive Statistics Activity: The topics covered in this lecture include mean, standard deviation, linear regression, significant figures, and measurement techniques.MATLAB workshops:The MATLAB workshops were conducted during the regular lecture meeting times and taughtby the instructor and a teaching assistant. The TAs were male or female, sophomore or juniorlevel engineering students, who took the course before. The lecture consisted of a

Conference Session

The Best of First-year Programs Division

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jenni Buckley, University of Delaware; Haritha Malladi, University of Delaware; Amy Trauth, University of Delaware; Marcia Gail Headley, University of Delaware

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be mitigatedthrough scaffolded assignments, regular peer evaluations, and more frequent opportunities forindividual and team-based self-reflection [2], [8], [12].The transition to online instruction due to the COVID-19 pandemic this past year onlycompounded the pre-existing logical and pedagogical challenges associated with engineeringdesign in FYE courses. The most pressing challenge for these courses in an online-onlyenvironment was ensuring students access to essential equipment and materials to design andconstruct a physical prototype. In general, programs responded to this challenge in one of threeways: (1) abandoning physical prototyping for an entirely “paper design” project; (2) requiringstudents to purchase third party construction

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jessica Belue Buckley, University of Louisville; Brian Scott Robinson, University of Louisville; Tom Tretter, University of Louisville; Alexandria Hammond, University of Louisville; Angela Thompson P.E., University of Louisville; James E. Lewis, University of Louisville

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in actual course design/redesign. The lead instructor forthe course has additionally participated in this project via assisting with qualitative dataassessment. To ensure safe spacing, students had designated days when they could attend class inperson, though students could opt to attend online at any time rather than in person.4.2. Data CollectionData included institutional demographic data for students, student survey responses, studentfocus groups, and course observations. Data were collected in the last few weeks of the course sothat students’ responses reflected a full-semester experience. For the written survey, the responserate was 54% (282/522). Missing data analysis pertaining to the four different demographicidentities under study

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Deana R. Delp Ph.D., Arizona State University

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assignments with due dates reflective of the workcompleted during that time. The students are still required to meet the rigor of the project bycompleting all the tasks; e.g. brainstorming, engineering drawing, Gantt chart, bill ofmaterials, proposal, prototype build and test, and final report and presentation. Within thiswork, a student with ASD may tend towards the details of the design, or the scheduling anddocumentation. The instructor must help the team with coordinating tasks and keepingeveryone involved. Some other academic accommodations the instructor can make are clearand direct classroom expectations, asking precise questions, hands on learning, performingvisual demonstrations, giving more time on essay type tests, using task analysis with

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Ashraf Badir P.E., Florida Gulf Coast University; Jeanette Hariharan, Florida Gulf Coast University

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Appendix summarizes the questions and how they are reflective of the sixcategories investigated as perceptions. Some questions overlap several categories.In relationship to Accessibility, students felt very comfortable using the tool and referring toexamples, repeating problems to prepare for tests and to gain mastery. The areas where they didnot feel that it benefitted them more as compared to the hard text learning method was in notetaking and in referring back to information. The note taking was very minimal using the onlineversion of the book and rereading was rarely done. Repeating practice problems was done withsignificance (91%) and produced slightly higher mastery as noted in the grade’s analysis sectionof this paper.Personal confidence

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: First-Year Experiences

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Ashish D. Borgaonkar, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Jaskirat Sodhi, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Roobini Vijayabalan; Athira Suresh Kumar Nair

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in groups,connecting to peers and the institution, self-reflection, and discipline, etc., are embeddedthroughout the course. The biggest challenge for this course is to give students some insight intomultiple engineering disciplines and to help them make an informed decision about their majorchoice. This course also heavily relied on hands-on and in-person activities until Fall 2019.Midway through Spring 2020, the course was moved to synchronous online mode. In Fall 2020,the common lecture portion of the course was offered in a hybrid/converged mode. Instructorstaught from a university classroom and the lecture was simultaneously broadcasted. A limitednumber of students (on a rotation basis) had an option to attend the class in-person while

Conference Session

First-year Programs: Teams and Teamwork

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Siqing Wei, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Rui Wang, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Gaurav Nanda, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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instructed to write constructive self-reflection and feedback to other team members based on a validated teamwork behavior modelthat was introduced and assessed via CATME [21].In our formulation, our problem is to determine whether a word in a sentence is the name of aperson. We can perform such analysis from two perspectives. One is a cloze-like task wheregiven the context of the word of interest, we can make predictions on the grammatical andsemantical representations, and the other is to perform classification on words with character-level information. To extract as much information as possible, we need to leverage both word-level and token-level information. We propose to use a machine learning model, an ensemble of5 models trained on different

Conference Session

First-year Programs: Core Skills

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Anthony T. Cahill, Texas A&M University; Andrea M. Ogilvie P.E., Texas A&M University; Mark Weichold, Texas A&M University

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, with additional members from the math department.The committee for the mechanics course (ENGR/PHYS 216) was comprised of faculty from thecivil, mechanical, and aerospace engineering departments, as well as members from the physicsdepartment. Likewise, the committee for the electromagnetism course (ENGR/PHYS 217)consisted of faculty from the electrical engineering department and physics department. Thedifferent faculty appointed to these committees took different levels of ownership of the work.These differing levels of involvement meant that the vision of some faculty members was morestrongly reflected in the committees’ final work.The implementation committees were formally independent of each other, save for the constraintthat the later

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Monday 5-Minute Work-in-Progress Postcard Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Teresa Lee Tinnell, University of Louisville; Jaqi C. McNeil, University of Louisville

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Engineering. London, November 10-12, 2008.14. Creswell, J. W. (2013). Research design: Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methodsapproaches, 3rd edn, Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA, 76.15. J. Walther, J., Sochacka, N. W., and Kellam, N. N. (2013). Quality in interpretiveengineering education research: Reflections on an example study, Journal of EngineeringEducation, 102(4), 626-659.16. Cross, N., & Cross, A. C. (1995). Observations of teamwork and social processes indesign. Design studies, 16(2), pp. 143-170.

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First-Year Programs: Sunday 5-Minute Work-in-Progress Postcard Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie Chiki, Ohio University; Braden Vale Jay Robinson, Ohio University

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% 52.17% Going to college was the next logical step 46.40% 34.78% I've always been good at math and science 41.10% 41.30% Someone suggested it to me 16.10% 10.87% Other (Qualitative) 5.40% 2.17% I'm not sure 0.00% 0.00%In keeping with the appreciative model, students were also asked to reflect on their personalstrengths before considering their academic failures. When asked what kept them from reachingtheir full potential in the previous semester (Table 3), students most commonly selected “anxiety,depression, or stress” (58.9%) and “poor time management

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Work in Progress Postcard Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Baker A. Martin, Clemson University

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disciplines availableat the university and are free to change their major during the first year without the consequenceof a delayed graduation timeline.Path ForwardThe survey will be distributed approximately two weeks after the college’s primary majorexploration event during the fall and spring semesters, approximately the middle third of thesemester. The required event introduces students to the college’s 11 engineering majors andstudents submit a reflective assignment as part of their first-year engineering coursework. Wehope to have some preliminary data to present at the conference.AcknowledgementsI would like to thank Rachel McCord for helping shape this project, reviewing this paper, anddirecting this study. I would also like to thank Marisa

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Work in Progress Postcard Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Soundouss Sassi, Mississippi State University; Abigail Clark, Ohio State University; Jane Petrie, Ohio State University ; Rachel Louis Kajfez, Ohio State University; Mahnas Jean Mohammadi-Aragh, Mississippi State University

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examine how intended student development goals for first-year engineering that are set by instructors, faculty, and administrators align with thestudent experiences as described by students.AcknowledgementsThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation underGrant Nos. 1664264 and 1664266. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions orrecommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do notnecessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.References[1] R. A. Ellis, “Is U.S. Science and technology adrift,” Washington, DC: Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology., 2007[2] M. Borrego, R. Brawner, “Preparing Engineering Educators for Engineering Education

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First-Year Programs: Work in Progress Postcard Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ariana Gabrielle Tyo, Michigan Technological University; Michelle E. Jarvie-Eggart, Michigan Technological University; Nathan D. Manser, Michigan Technological University

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teach should reflect in higher participantperformance. The observation was the opposite however, perhaps due to grade inflation or lackof grading consistency, and indicates that a more controlled experiment is needed to linkparticipant impressions to performance. For this study, student performance on assessment itemssuch as quizzes and homework were used for comparison.In terms of course design, an important takeaway is identified as it relates to developing moreconsistent grading within the section between instructional staff. Using assessment points thatare purely objective and quantitative in nature will provide better detail and help determine therelationship between perception, engagement and overall performance and retention in

Conference Session

FPD10 - Freshman Engineering Introduction to Design

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Swanbom; David Hall, Louisiana Tech University; Kelly Crittenden, Louisiana Tech University

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support for this work was provided by the National Science Foundation’s Course,Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) program under Award No. 0618288. Anyopinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those ofthe authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.References1. Splitt, F.G., “Systemic Engineering Education Reform: A Grand Challenge.” The Bent of Tau Beta Pi, Spring 2003.2. Sheppard, S. and Jenison, R., “Examples of Freshman Design Education.” International Journal of Engineering Education, 13 (4), 1997, 248-261.3. Weggel, R.J., Arms, V., Makufka, M. and Mitchell, J., “Engineering Design for Freshmen.” prepared for Drexel University and

Conference Session

FPD10 - Freshman Engineering Introduction to Design

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Phil Schlosser, Ohio State University; Michael Parke, Ohio State University; John Merrill, Ohio State University

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software (Autodesk Inventor 2008©). They then develop initial energy models oftheir coasters using Excel, use their results to find design problems, and revise their design. Oncethey have approved revisions, they begin to build their coasters. Upon completing the coasterrequirements, students document their final design, including a revised Excel energy model. Inorder to validate their designs, students use eight custom-made speed sensors that they attach tothe coaster track to measure the speed of the coaster car at critical locations along the track.Speed measurements are captured in LabVIEW, analyzed, and submitted in a final report asevidence of how well the Excel design model reflected the actual behavior of the roller coaster.The project

Conference Session

Goal Specific First-Year Courses

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Srikanth Tadepalli, University of Texas, Austin; Mitchell Pryor; Cameron Booth, University of Texas, Austin

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unnecessarily large use of human Page 14.398.7resources. The worst case scenario is considered in the final rankings.Asserting PresenceWith the new CMS in place we reevaluated the existing presence elements andbrainstormed how to improve, replace or augment them. We started by reworking theexisting styles and menus to give them a more updated feel. At this point the advantagesof the CMS became readily apparent when, after making changes to the layout and styleit was reflected through the site (see Figure 4). Figure 4: Revised Design Concept for WebsiteThe use of a blog style front page that lists updates to the site, information on

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First-Year Advising and Transition

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jay Brockman, University of Notre Dame; Lynnwood Brown, WikiRing Partnership; Michael McDonald, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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size of an entry in the list reflects how often that tag is used, so thatthe most commonly used tags stand out. If a user wishes to apply a tag that is not already in thecloud, he or she may simply type it into the tags text box, and the tag will automatically be addedto the cloud. Page 14.817.9 Figure 6: Form for assigning metadata to a resource.One of the more powerful features of the IntroEngineering wiki is a facility for buildinghomework assignments. Figure 7 shows a query form where the instructor searches forProblems applicable to “Chapter 4,” with the Learning Objective “Fundamental PhysicsTheories,” and