have been shown to have similar efficacy inimproving programming skills as writing the programs themselves [11], [12].Parsons Problems have been implemented into a first-year engineering course that teachesintroductory computer programming through MATLAB and C/++. The problems, firstimplemented in Autumn 2019, were designed to be completed in person in the classroom. Thestudents were provided slips of paper and asked to rearrange them into the correct order.Previous student feedback provided some areas of improvement for the next iteration includinglooking at the length and difficulty of the problems [13]. This process is described in thefollowing section, Background.While these challenges were being addressed, an additional challenge
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co- Investigator on an Office of Naval Research Grant. She is currently the director of Alavi FTIR Spectroscopic Imaging Lab (AFISIL) and supervises multiple undergraduate students in their research. Her research interests includes characterization of biological samples by employing FTIR Spectroscopic Imaging techniques and developing novel digital image pro- cessing and analysis algorithms to process the collected FTIR-spectro-microscopic data. Additionally, Dr. Alavi is a member of IEEE, ASEE and she has been an active member of McLeod Institute of Simulation Science. Dr. Alavi pursues research in advanced control systems and simulation. Additionally, she con- ducts research in promoting electrical engineering
New Hampshire in 2018.Dr. Sudarshan T. Kurwadkar, California State University, Fullerton Dr. Sudarshan Kurwadkar is a Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at California State University, Fullerton. He is a licensed Professional Engineer and a Board-Certified En- vironmental Engineer. During his academic career, he has received numerous awards, scholarships, and fellowships. He won the Teaching Excellence Award, 2018 Excellence in Scholarly and Creative Activ- ities Award, Faculty Advisor of Distinction 2020, 2019 ASCE Outstanding Faculty Advisor in the State of California, and 2020 L. Donald Shield Award for Excellence in Scholarly and Creative Activities. He was awarded numerous summer
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issues such as global climate change, recycling, and so on.Acknowledgment The authors are grateful to the faculty members who administered surveys in their coursesections.References1. G. Nossoni, J. Nocito-Gobel, and R. S. Harichandran, “Relationship between personality types and topical interests of engineering students, if any: A work in progress,” Proceedings, ASEE Annual Conference, Tampa, FL, Paper 25217, 2019, 12 pp.2. https://www.mbtionline.com/3. M. H. McCaulley, et al., “Applications of psychological type in engineering education,” Engineering Education, pp. 394-400, 1983.4. M. H. McCaulley, et al., “Myers-Briggs type indicator and retention in engineering,” International Journal of Applied Engineering Education 3(2
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, and R. Davies, “A Longitudinal Study of Social and Ethical Responsibility Among Undergraduate Engineering Students: Comparing Baseline and Midpoint Survey Results,” presented at the 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, 2018.[9] D. R. Berg and T. Lee, “Incorporation of Liberal Education into the Engineering Curriculum at a Polytechnic,” presented at the 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, LA, 2016.[10] D. R. Berg, “Impacts of Engineering: An Introductory Course in Engineering Featuring Social Justice,” engrXiv, Mar. 2019, doi: 10.31224/osf.io/mqwdb.[11] J. A. Leydens and J. C. Lucena, Engineering Justice: Transforming Engineering Education and Practice. Wiley-IEEE Press, 2017.[12] J. Hess, S
currently linked with amid-summer new student orientation, creating an extended orientation experience for mostparticipants (participation in the linked new-student orientation is not required). Students spenda total of four nights on campus in a residence hall, followed by a three-day rafting and campingtrip on a river that is about 2 hours from the university. The structure and activities of theprogram were described in more detail in the previous ASEE paper [4] mentioned above. TheRAISE program is also a required component of an NSF S-STEM scholarship program, which isa part of the Redshirting in Engineering consortium [5].RAISE offers students the unique experience of building a diverse STEM community. Programlearning outcomes include
Smart Cities Technology with a focus on transportation. His primary focus is developing curriculum, mentoring students, and engineering education research, particularly for project-based cur- riculum, first-year engineering, and transportation. He is active in the American Society for Engineering Education and is the Webmaster for the ASEE First-Year Programs Division and the First-Year Engi- neering Experience Conference. He is affiliated withthe Transportation Engineering program in the NYU Civil and Urban Engineering Department. He is the advisor for NYU student chapter of the Institute for Transportation Engineers. American c Society for Engineering
since 2015. FabLabUC is a fabrication laboratory located at the Innovation Center, PUC . Currently she is pursuing a PhD in Computer Sciences with a research focus on Engineering Education at PUC. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Teaching Human-Centered Design to Engineers: Continuous Improvement in a Cornerstone CourseIntroductionThis evidence-based paper describes the continuous improvement process of a first-yearcornerstone (Project Based Learning) course which took place between 2014 and 2019 at anEngineering School. This improvement process has been based on data from the Department ofEngineering Education, and
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-intensive state university in the US. The course, Introduction toEngineering, is a 2-credit hour, 14-week course taken in the first (fall) semester by all incomingengineering students across all majors. The course is taught in two identical, large-enrollmentsections of ca. 350 students per section. For the face-to-face (F2F) version of the course, whichhas been offered in a consistent format from 2016-2019, each section met twice weekly for 60minutes of lecture and active learning exercises in a large auditorium. In Fall 2020, due to theCOVID-19 pandemic, the course was offered in an entirely online format that will be describedin more detail in a later section. For both F2F and online versions, the course was co-taught bytwo faculty instructors
Library Association (JMLA) and is a Senior member of MLA’s Academy of Health Information Professionals (AHIP). His research interests include information seeking behaviors and data practices of STEM researchers and improving information literacy instruction for students in the sciences; he has published on these topics in journals such as College & Research Libraries, portal: Libraries and the academy,The Journal of Academic Librarianship, and theJournal of the Medical Library Association. His work in these areas has been recognized by the ALA Library Instruction Round Table with ”Top Twenty” awards in 2018 and 2019.Dr. Joshua Daniel Borycz, Vanderbilt University At Vanderbilt University I help graduate and
Paper ID #26828Work in Progress:The Development of a First-Year Engineering Program As-sessment FrameworkDr. Cory Brozina, Youngstown State University Dr. Cory Brozina is an assistant professor and the Director of First Year Engineering at Youngstown State University. He completed his B.S. and M.S. in Industrial & Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech, and his PhD is in Engineering Education, also from Virginia Tech. His research interests include: Learning Analytics, First-Year Engineering, and Assessment. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Work in Progress: The Development of
the course progresses.” We modified this from our previous prompt in Fall 2019: “Dosome initial research: use whatever sources that you would generally use to start exploring atopic. Find at least 3 of these sources.” We modified the prompt to reduce the potential impact ofstudents’ perceptions of the instructor’s expectations on this assessment for learning and avoidprompting students to select specific search methods or kinds of sources.The first prompt to find three sources enabled us to ask, “What kinds of sources did the studentsselect on their own?” We elected not to measure whether students selected paper vs. internetsources, since the pandemic made it difficult for students to access libraries. We sorted thestudents’ sources into the
-programs-2017-2018/#outcomes[5] Engineering Accreditation Commission. (2011). Criteria for Accrediting EngineeringPrograms. Baltimore, MD: ABET[6] Siegel, C. Putting the Pieces Together: Linking Learning Outcomes, Assessment, andCurriculum. Center for Academic Excellence: Summer Institute on Integrative Learning.Fairfield University.[7] D. Belfadel, R. Munden, M. Arambulo, M. Zabinksi, and James Cavallo. Use of the ArduinoPlatform in Fundamentals of Engineering. ASEE: Annual Conference and Exposition, Tampa,Florida. June 2019.[8] R. Munden, M. Arambulo, D. Belfadel, and M. Zabinksi. Assessment of Critical Thinkingand Design practices in Fundamentals of Engineering. ASEE Annual Conference andExposition, Salt Lake City, Utah. June 2018.[9] M. Eodice
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- trollers and the MSP430 (Springer 2014). From 2013 to 2018 served as Associate Dean of engineering at UPRM. He currently directs the Engineering PEARLS program at UPRM, a College-wide NSF funded initiative, and coordinates the Rapid Systems Prototyping and the Electronic Testing & Characterization Laboratories at UPRM. He is a member of ASEE and IEEE.Dr. Luisa Guillemard, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus Luisa Guillemard is a psychology professor at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayag¨uez Campus. She has a M.S. in Clinical Psychology from the Caribbean Center of Advanced Studies in Puerto Rico [today the Carlos Albizu University] and a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from Texas A&M University, post
the ethical principles andfederal regulations for the protection of human subjects approved by the UCSD InstitutionalReview Board. Some of the data was compared between three quarters: Fall 2019 for in-personteaching, Spring 2020 when the class was taught remotely for the first time and which presentedthe most challenges, and Fall 2020 when the class was taught remotely for the second time,implementing the changes developed during summer 2020. A. Student performance and instructor observationsClock ProjectThe final deliverables of the clock project assess Cognitive Learning Objectives 1 and 4.Students from both the in-person and remote quarters demonstrated a high level of proficiencywith hand-sketch graphics and CAD modeling for the clock
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, teen pregnancy prevention/positive youth development programming, and public health eval- uation.Dr. Ann Saterbak, Duke University Ann Saterbak is Professor of the Practice in the Biomedical Department and Director of First-Year En- gineering at Duke University. Saterbak is the lead author of the textbook, Bioengineering Fundamen- tals. Saterbak’s outstanding teaching was recognized through university-wide and departmental teaching awards. In 2013, Saterbak received the ASEE Biomedical Engineering Division Theo C. Pilkington Out- standing Educator Award. For her contribution to education within biomedical engineering, she was elected Fellow in the Biomedical Engineering Society and the American Society of
Academic Operations at The Citadel, Charleston, South Carolina. Dr. Bower’s teaching research interests are in improving active learning environments and the development of classroom pedagogy to improve moral development in engineering students. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 A Systematic Review of Models for Calculus Course InnovationsAbstractEngineering programs employ a variety of approaches for improving student retention. Often,students leaving engineering cite difficulties in their calculus courses as a major contributor totheir attrition. Specifically, students cite that early calculus classes lack practicality and seemdisconnected from their engineering majors
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