Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Vandenbussche, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Mathematics

anintensive precalculus course for the second half of the semester8. At North Carolina StateUniversity9, students in a Calculus course identified as at-risk early in the semester were invitedto participate in a program in which they met with an academic advisor and developed anaction plan for improvement.The incentivized remediation program discussed in this paper bears strong resemblance to twoprevious studies. One study involved a “Success Enhancement Program” in a Physics forEngineers course at the University of Tennessee3. Students were able to earn back lost pointson their first exam by completing various requirements based on their performance on theexam, including completing corrections, working extra problems, attending study sessions

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Murray Teitell, DeVry University, Long Beach; William S. Sullivan, DeVry University, Long Beach

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Mathematics

(proposal, design, construction, testing, and preparation of final report, presentation anddemonstration. Assign a 1 if there is enough time to complete all tasks, otherwise assign a zero.The scoring for T is shown in Table 3 using the columns labeled Estimated Time and EstimatedTime.Skill metric (Sk): possess all skills (SP) needed =1 missing skills = 0Scoring Procedure: For each task list all the skills needed (e.g. microprocessor hardwaredesign, software design, assembly language programming, C programming, testing,organization, project planning, leadership, research writing, presentation design, speaking,record-keeping, scheduling, and all other required skills) Assign a number of 1-10 for each skillto each team member. Add all the skill

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca Bourn, Tribeca Flashpoint Media Arts Academy; Sarah C. Baxter, University of South Carolina

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

approach suggestedby Polya in How to Solve It8. Polya boils problem solving down to four simple steps thatprovide an algorithm to approaching any type of complex problem. These are: 1) understand theproblem; 2) devise a plan; 3) carry out the plan; and 4) look back and evaluate your results andprocess. The emphasis on evaluating progress against goal is helpful, in particular, for lessexperienced students when dealing with larger-scale problems. However, students still haveissues with evaluating the correctness, or reasonableness of their answers, often because theyhave not developed the often estimation- based skills necessary to support the development ofmathematical intuition, which would guide their judgment. Consequently, we knew we needed

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ryan Boyd Cartwright, General Electric; Autar Kaw, University of South Florida; Ali Yalcin, University of South Florida

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Mathematics

Teaching (CFAT), and the 2011 ASEE National Outstanding Teaching Award.Dr. Ali Yalcin, University of South Florida Prof. Ali Yalcin received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Rutgers University, New Brunswick New Jersey in 1995, 1997 and 2000. He is currently an Associate Pro- fessor at the University of South Florida, Industrial and Management Systems Engineering Department, and an Associate Faculty member of the Center for Urban Transportation Research. His research interests include systems modeling, analysis and control, production planning and control, information systems, data analysis and decision support in healthcare, and engineering education research. His work has

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James E. Lewis, University of Louisville; Jeffrey Lloyd Hieb, University of Louisville

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Mathematics

. Theresults of this analysis are consistent with instructors’ assumptions about attendance. Whilemore data needs to be collected from multiple semesters, the results support continuing toencourage attendance. This and additional data may prove useful in convincing students of theimportance of attending class.Future plans include on-going collection of attendance data and exploring when and how topresent the analysis results to students. While this study looked at using MyMathLab in-classproblems to record attendance, the mid-semester feedback from students indicates that theadditional practice in MyMathLab had value on its own, and the department plans to investigatethis in greater detail in the future. Part of the motivation for encouraging and

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael R. Allen, Department of Mathematics; Dale A. Wilson, Tennessee Technological University

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Mathematics

test anxiety. I felt it acouple of other times during my plan of study. I had worked all the homework assignments and hadstudied the night before the exams, yet I felt unprepared in some cases and just not ready. I realizedsomething was missing. In the Math classes I have taught, I was the one to visit for assistancewith homework and to clear up any misconceptions. The reason I could help was because I wasmathematically confident. I knew what I was doing. But mechanical engineering was, in manyways, new material to me. I had to gain confidence. But confidence comes with competence. Iknew I had to become proficient in the material to the point I could teach it. Here is where all ofHigher Education could take a lesson from Engineering. Because

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ravi T. Shankar, Florida Atlantic University; Don Ploger, Florida Atlantic University; Agnes Nemeth, Florida Atlantic University; Steven Alan Hecht Ph.D., Nova Southeastern University

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Mathematics

, competitionand cooperation. This paper will document our past and planned efforts to integrate robotics intohigh school math curriculum. Our goal is to build low-cost robots that can be purchased or builtincrementally to manage budgetary restrictions. These robots should be reliable, robust, andmost important of all, be customizable for the specific needs of the teacher and the student teams.Furthermore, we integrated the robots into math lessons.The results indicate that students in our robotics program benefited from the use of robots. Welooked at a problem that students solved using the Pythagorean Theorem and then analyzed theresults of the robotic simulation. The students correctly interpreted both the mathematicalproblem and the real world error

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Grossfield P. E., Vaughn College of Aeronautics & Technology

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Mathematics

calculus.This, the first in a set of three papers, is planned to provide the concepts of pre-calculus visuallyand intuitively in order to reveal the intrinsic ultimate simplicity of calculus and spare a studentfrom having to read the entire 500 pages of conceptually cluttered verbose, disorganizedconventional text in order to acquire an overview. My hopes are that by providing a focus ofstudy, specifically algebraic and transcendental curves, and by providing intuitive and visualdefinitions, while maintaining an organized topic structure and by delaying the proofs, we cancreate a conceptual environment where more students and teachers will gain insight relativelyquickly into the nature of calculus. The plan is to interpret the concepts of calculus

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hassan Moore, University of Alabama, Birmingham

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

components, like units and dimensional analysis, tying mathematics andengineering together. The course added more of an engineering appeal to the traditionalmultivariable calculus and differential equations material with the use of engineering-basedhomework problems, test questions, and projects. The projects typically tackle problems inmechanics, electrical systems, population dynamics, optimizations, etc. designed to address themajor focal areas of the course. This paper includes projects that tackle first-order ordinarydifferential equations (ODEs), second order ODEs, and multivariable calculus.IntroductionWith a year of planning between the School of Engineering and the Mathematics Department, anew four-hour course was developed to incorporate

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregory Richard Baker, Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

mathematical terms and then use theirproblem-solving skills to understand the consequences. Based on my experiences inteaching ordinary differential equations to engineering students, students see theirmathematical education as simply a vast collection of specific procedures. The questionraised here is whether better coordination of the content in first-year math and physicscourses could improve student ability to use math in subsequent engineering courses. Ifthis is so, then the mathematical content used in the physics course must be documentedbefore changes in the content in the math course can be planned. At the same time, thephysics course might benefit from a better illustration of important mathematicsconcepts, helping students to appreciate

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kendrick T. Aung, Lamar University; Ryan Underdown, Lamar University; Qin Qian, Lamar University

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Mathematics

department at Lamar University. Since joining Lamar in 1998, he has taught over 12 different courses including management, quality and economics. His research interests include six sigma, facility layout and risk management. Dr. Underdown is the academic advisor of the Industrial Technology academic program at Lamar. He has been a member of the Institute of Industrial Engineers since 1996. Dr. Underdown consults small businesses in the areas of strategic planning, process improvement, and lean manufacturing.Dr. Qin Qian, Lamar University Qin Qian EDUCATION Ph.D. Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Feb., 2008 Dissertation: Solute exchange with sub-aqueous sediments: hydrodynamic interactions with