Conference Session

Innovations in Materials Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cindy Waters, North Carolina A&T State University; Stephen Krause, Arizona State University; Jacquelyn Kelly, Arizona State University

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enhance development of students' mentalmodels and are exciting advances for those teaching in this area because of ease ofimplementation and adaptation for different student populations. Implementation of theseactivities has the potential to lower the barrier to faculty participation in active learning. Themedia slogan “It’s so easy, a caveperson can do it” is the guiding principle behind thedevelopment of these activities. This paper will also present reflections of a diverse cross-section of teaching faculty and students for these classroom methods to highlight how thesepedagogical efforts may increase student self-efficacy for their technical learning. The researchquestion for this work is; "To what extent do student engagement activities

Conference Session

Innovations in Materials Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Cottrell, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Chung-Suk Cho, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Na Lu, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Robert Swan, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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graphically the highly favorable student assessments forselected areas of interest. This subjective survey solicited student and faculty input on a scale of1 – 5 where ―1‖ correlated to little or no support and ―5‖ indicated strong agreement.  Increased Student Engagement: This outreach initiative was rated nearly 4.4 and reflected a perceived increase in the student engagement by providing many with their first hands-on experience with construction techniques and procedures; it provided an opportunity for them to witness how their chosen field can benefit not just an individual family in need but a whole community. In fact, during the deployment at the job site, local community groups arrived at the site to express

Conference Session

Innovative Pedagogies for Teaching Introductory Materials

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Krause, Arizona State University; Elliot Douglas, University of Florida; Cindy Waters, North Carolina A&T State University; Michael Prince, Bucknell University; Trevor Harding, California Polytechnic State University

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skillsfor becoming autonomous, life long learners. The emphasis here is shifting the pedagogicalparadigm from recall based teaching and learning to teaching and learning for development of aconceptual framework through reshaping classroom environment. The general research questionaddressed here is, "What types of pedagogy can more effectively graduate engineers who cansucceed and lead in the modern day engineering environment?" The panel will introduce fiveresearch based innovate pedagogies. The breakout session will have group tables which willmodel various approaches and the reflect upon them to discover what barriers and opportunitiesare present for each of the various approaches.Inductive Teaching MethodsEngineering and science are

Conference Session

Clearing up Student Misconceptions in Materials

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Krause, Arizona State University; Jacquelyn Kelly, Arizona State University; Dale Baker, Arizona State University; Sharon Kurpius-Robinson, Arizona State University

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effectiveness of differing pedagogies in achieving conceptualchange. Ranked from highest to lowest, the order of pedagogy effectiveness, as measured byincreases in conceptual change, was found to be: 1) team discussions with hands-on activitiesand concept sketching in 2007; 2) team discussions with contextualized concept mini-lecturesand activities in the Spring of 2009; 3) team discussions, contextualized concept lectures andactivities, plus pre-post topic assessments and daily reflections in Fall 2009; 4) lecture with somediscussions in 2003 and; 5) lecture only with no team discussions or activities in 2002. It wasfound that all pedagogies using student engagement achieved greater conceptual changecompared to passive learning and lecture-only

Conference Session

Materials Selection & Design

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yaomin Dong, Kettering University; Jacqueline El-Sayed, Kettering University; Henry Kowalski, Kettering University

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able to make engineering and project management decisions, and perform project cost analysis.The corporate sponsors of Kettering University co-op students include: U.S. Army, GeneralMotors, Ford, Daimler-Chrysler, aircraft companies and their suppliers such as UnitedTechnology, Moog, Vickers-Airequip, the computer manufacturer IBM, the appliancemanufacturer Whirlpool, and over 600 other companies. It is seen that the companies thatsponsor Kettering University co-op students represent a diverse cross section of US industries.The changes that have been taking place in these industries, industry needs, and currentchallenges are immediately reflected in the classrooms since the students bring their valuableexperience into class

Conference Session

Clearing up Student Misconceptions in Materials

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Heckler, Ohio State University; Rebecca Rosenblatt, Ohio State University

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. Like manymisconceptions, the use of a common word can lead to difficulties in understanding the properscientific concept. In everyday usage, “strength” usually refers to force, whereas normally whenan expert speaks of a strong atomic bond, it is meant in terms of a large binding energy. Thisconfusion is reflected in student responses. For example, in a free response version of thequestion in Figure 1, comparing melting temperatures of materials with different densities, a Page 15.1124.8student wrote:S8: “[The higher density material has higher melting temperature] because there are moreatoms packed closer together which will require more

Conference Session

Innovations in Materials Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathleen Kitto, Western Washington University

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and considering student learning styles in developing effective teachingstrategies25-37. We used the Felder/Soloman ILS to understand student-learning styles in ourmaterials engineering course. The ILS evaluates four dimensions: active-reflective, sensing-intuitive, visual-verbal, and sequential-global; and the reliability and validity of the instrumenthas been investigated30,39,40. While the ILS may or may not be a perfect instrument, it iscertainly widely used to investigate student-learning styles and much research work has includedstudent data obtained from the ILS28-38. Felder and Spurlin suggest two principal applications forthe ILS39. “The first use is to provide guidance to instructors on the diversity of learning styleswithin their