Conference Session

Classroom Strategies – New Engineering Educators Division

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kaela Martin, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott; Jonathan Mark Gallimore, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott

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influencesstudents’ learning relative to a more “traditional” classroom. In an earlier study, we examinedstudent performance across two sections of an upper-level space mechanics course where onesection was flipped, and the other section was a traditional structure.20 Here, we continue thatstudy with two additional sections of an upper-level space mechanics course with a flippedclassroom design taught in the fall of 2017 by the same instructor. By extending this project foranother semester, we can determine if our previous study was a coincidence, and we can providestrong evidence to support the effectiveness of the flipped class design.MethodsThe previous study was conducted in the spring 2017 semester with two sections of an upper-level space mechanics

Conference Session

New Engineering Educators Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Faisal Shaikh, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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projects in the program. He is also keen in engaging students in his classrooms using a variety of methods while developing some. Page 26.934.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 In-class anonymous student feedback and interactivity at the speed of light!AbstractDespite their utility, traditional approaches to gauge student understanding and collecting theirresponses in class have multiple shortcomings. This paper discusses the shortfalls of thesetraditional methods (student raising hand, use of clickers, etc) and compares them with a newmethod

Conference Session

New Engineering Educators Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald P. Visco Jr., University of Akron; Dirk Schaefer, University of Bath

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scholarly publications in journals, books, and conferences, 60 presentations at national and international events, and $4M in external funding for research, development and technology transfer. In addition, he has supervised ap- proximately 60 research students on Ph.D., M.S, B.S., and other research and development projects. Dr. Schaefer is a registered Professional Engineer in Europe (Eur Ing), a Chartered Engineering (CEng), a Chartered IT Professional (CITP), and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) in the UK, as well as registered International Engineering Educator (Ing-Paed IGIP). From 2013 to 2014 he served as IGIP’s Founding President for the US region. Dr. Schaefer serves as a peer reviewer for approx

Conference Session

New Engineering Educators 3 - Grading: Grate or Great

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Derek Breid, Saint Vincent College; Tara Gupte Wilson, Ohio State University; Ann D. Christy P.E., Ohio State University

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on course projects (in Statics) has improved. These projects require students to essentially create their own engineering problem from a real-world example, and to perform a parameter study of the important aspects of their chosen system. While this improvement cannot be definitively linked directly to the use of MHP, it is plausible that having students work more independently on their homework may improve their ability to formulate a new problem.At OSU… - Overall, students seemed to appreciate a homework policy where they had to support their answers with written work, as compared to a policy that only required entry of the correct answer into the online system. Several of the students

Conference Session

Women, Minorities and the New Engineering Educator

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cheryl Allendoerfer, University of Washington; Sharon Jones, Lafayette College; Jaime Hernandez, Texas State University-San Marcos; Rebecca Bates, Minnesota State University-Mankato; Robin Adams, Purdue University

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studies linked to the ongoingscholarship in CAEE, created resources for dissemination, and refined leadership skills.The 2006 ISEE participants, or Scholars, were relatively new to engineering education researchwhen they began their ISEE year. Eighteen Scholars were selected from a competitive, nationalpool of candidates based on the strength of each Scholar’s application – including a proposedresearch project focusing on diversity issues – and the capacity of the proposed project to meetthe ISEE goals of 1) contributing to engineering education scholarship, 2) enhancing learningand local change, 3) facilitating coherence and expansion of the existing community, and 4)demonstrating engineering education scholarship as a professional endeavor

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade in Teaching II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Reisel, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

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questions by the student.Another factor to consider is your needed availability may vary during the semester. When thedue date for a project is approaching, or when a test is near, students will often be seeking moreassistance. In those cases, you should try to increase your availability, and let the students knowthat you will be available at additional times.2. Be Organized in Your Lectures and Course MaterialsWhen a teacher is not devoting adequate time to a course, often the first thing to suffer is theorganization of the lecture material. This is something that can show up in many ways. Ateacher who is teaching a course for the first or second time and is working on developing lecturenotes may run out of time and find that he or she is heading

Conference Session

Best of NEE

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Melani Plett, Seattle Pacific University; Denise Wilson, University of Washington; Rebecca A. Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Cheryl Allendoerfer, University of Washington; Diane Carlson Jones Ph.D, University of Washington; Tamara Floyd-Smith, Tuskegee University; Nanette M. Veilleux, Simmons College; Caitlin Hawkinson Wasilewski, Seattle Pacific University

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performance (how well you do) in a class/lab? How does it change your participation/engagement in the class/lab?Classroom Observations: A total of 407 classes were observed during Years 3 and 4 of the project,including nine cohort observations (same class, different year). During Year 4, all quantitativeobservation data were entered into SPSS files (one per institution) and data cleaned and checkedby at least three different researchers to ensure accuracy. Once completed, these classroomobservation items (12 student engagement items, 20 instructor activity items, and 7 classcharacteristic items) were analyzed using exploratory factor analysis to arrive at aggregateconstructs (containing more than one item); single-item

Conference Session

Working Together: Approaches to Inclusivity and Interdisciplinarity

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Tawfik Elshehabi, University of Wyoming

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Diversity

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, realism, experimentalism, and existentialism. These philosophies were correlated tofive teaching styles: expert (who is interested in knowledge transfer), formal authority (whonever hesitate to give negative feedback), personal (who encourages students to follow theirway), facilitator (who present alternative and encourage students to take the initiative andresponsibility to construct knowledge), and delegator (who expects students to studyindependently in projects). Saritas argued that teachers mostly adapt a facilitator teaching styleand prefer experimentalist philosophy [12].Typically, we develop TPS with administrators and promotion committees in mind. However,Brinthaupt et al. debated that there is an exclusion of the students’ feedback in

Conference Session

NEE 1 - Innovative Teaching & Learning Strategies

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Alexander Mendoza-Garcia, University of Florida; Heather Maness, University of Florida

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facilitate this. Alearner-centered approach requires that students are engaged and become responsible for theirown learning process and that the instructor becomes a facilitator of their learning, instead ofbeing the center of their learning process. When I taught using the flipped-classroom learningenvironment, my students watched videos outside of the classroom and took online quizzes totest their understanding. In the classroom, students applied their learning by completingindividual or team activities and projects, with my guidance, on their own chosen topics ofinterest.The main problemThe main problem when you transition from one paradigm to another is that, as explained at thebeginning, your expertise and previous success in one paradigm, does

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade I

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adrian Ieta, Murray State University; Thomas Doyle, McMaster University; Arthur Pallone

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AC 2008-2427: EFFECTIVE TEACHING: THE STUDENTS’ PERSPECTIVEAdrian Ieta, Murray State University Adrian Ieta holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (2004) from The University of Western Ontario, Canada. He also holds a B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Timisoara, Romania (1984), a B.E.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnical University of Timisoara (1992), and an M.E.Sc. from The University of Western Ontario (1999). He worked on industrial projects within the Applied Electrostatics Research Centre and the Digital Electronics Research Group at the University of Western Ontario and is an IEEE member and a registered Professional Engineer of Ontario. He taught at the

Conference Session

Been There, Done That: Advice for NEEs

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ralph Ocon, Purdue University, Calumet

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process byproviding additional experience, with different audiences and forums. For example:1. Develop presentation skills:Through industrial training, the author has developed his presentation skills, including how to: ≠ Adapt his teaching/training approach to match the characteristics of the audience (i.e. experience, age, gender) ≠ Project his voice (speak with passion and clarity) ≠ Provide work related examples of industry concerns and solutions to promote interest, participation and learning ≠ Expertly respond to student questions dealing with industry concerns ≠ Speak with confidence on his area of expertise ≠ Improve his speech fluency ≠ Use of humor to defuse tension and promote interest2. The importance

Conference Session

New Engineering Educators Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward F. Gehringer, North Carolina State University

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this form of instruction is becoming commonplace in K-12education. A site with similar resources, but oriented toward higher education is “OLT:Flipped Classroom Project” from the University of Queensland. It has case studies inseveral disciplines, including Engineering Design. It has synopses of various ways to useclass time, including case studies, peer learning, problem-based learning and project-basedlearning. It gives some advice on how to measure learning gains. Flip It! Consulting hasa blog with posts on various aspects of flipping that will be useful to educators in manydisciplines. A notable collection of links and references to other resources is provided byRobert Talbert at Grand Valley State University. His intention is to turn it

Conference Session

Classroom Strategies – New Engineering Educators Division

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elif Miskioglu, Bucknell University

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Diversity

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. In fact, implicit biases can directly conflict with our explicitly held beliefs.This makes implicit bias a sensitive subject by nature.To introduce students to common implicit biases and spark reflection on their own potentialimplicit biases, each student takes an online Implicit Bias Assessment from Project Implicitdesigned at Harvard University [15]. This is done in class, and each student is given an implicitbias worksheet to guide their reflection and keep them engaged in the process. This worksheetincludes questions such as: (1) What assessment did you choose to take?; (2) Without sharingyour results [to protect student privacy and avoid discomfort on this sensitive topic], did yourresults surprise you at all?; (3) Based on your

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade II

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Walter W Schilling Jr., Milwaukee School of Engineering

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. There is obviously a need for formalprograms for future training. However, with the ever shortening relevancy of technical skills, tobe successful in the workplace, students also must be strongly motivated self-learners.4,5 Page 23.764.2Many techniques have been tried to improve the ability of students to be self-directed learners.Mandatory attendance at professional society meetings, service functions, free-form labactivities, and project based learning all aid in this process6. For these activities to be successful,however, students need to learn how to differentiate the quality of sources by being exposed todifferent forms of media. The

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade in Teaching I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Gehringer, North Carolina State University

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changes in how the class was run based on the results ofthe surveys. The question that provoked the most useful responses was, “Name one thingthat is still not clear from today's class.” In the undergraduate class, feedback caused me tospend more time describing—and answering questions on—a programming project, and toexplain Java interfaces a second time, I also discovered that an active-learning exercise thathad worked well the semester before did not work at all in this year’s class; though Icouldn’t revisit it this semester, I will be sure to modify the exercise before using it again.In the graduate class, I learned that I needed to provide further explanation on why we weredeveloping a rubric in class to use for evaluating student

Conference Session

Best Methods for NEEs

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert A. Chin, East Carolina University; Michael Behm, East Carolina University

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New Engineering Educators

conversations, draftsof manuscripts circulated among friends and colleagues, discussions at meetings and seminars,and private correspondence. Reports on the current status of projects or other works in progress,dissemination of ideas through formal outlets such as a series in a journal that reports on worksin progress, copies of speeches delivered at conferences, or summaries of studies are examples ofsemiformal means of disseminating findings. Works offered for general circulation throughmediums such as journals and other periodicals and books complete the formal process.Redmond, Sinclair, and Brown’s (1972) rationalization curve (see Figure 1) illustrates theresearch process and the manner in which new knowledge is disseminated and archived.3

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade in Teaching II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rungun Nathan, Pennsylvania State University, Berks

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isabout “Fill-in Worksheets”, a tool that was developed to increase student engagement inclassroom and allows for incorporating PBL, AL and CL along with Peer Instruction (PI).The paper describes the steps and thought process that was used in developing the fill-inworksheets over the past several years. The worksheets have enabled the author toincrease student engagement, include AL, CL and implement PI in the classroom.Introduction“Educators, researchers and policy makers have advocated student involvement forsometime as an essential aspect of meaningful learning.”1 To engage students, educatorshave used techniques like active2 and cooperative learning3, 4, inquiry and problem basedlearning, team projects, service learning and undergraduate

Conference Session

Tips and Tricks for Actively Engaging Students

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Clifton B. Farnsworth, Brigham Young University; Donna Harp Ziegenfuss, University of Utah; Matthew W. Roberts, Southern Utah University

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STEM teaching workshop, the workshoppurpose and goals were met. The short- and mid-term outcomes of this project to develop abroader awareness on campus of alternative teaching strategies for STEM classrooms andincrease comfort level in using alternative teaching strategies, such as active learning, wasachieved. Participants demonstrated alternative teaching strategies in their individual short peerreviewed teaching demonstrations. However, the goals to develop relationships and increasecommunication between the multiple STEM departments at SUU were less successful. The post-survey data is somewhat contradictory. The lowest Likert-scale numbers indicate that some ofthe participants are less likely to follow-up with the peers they met at the

Conference Session

New Engineering Educators: Tricks of the Trade II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen Benitez, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; Juan Jimenez, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; Yesenia Cruz, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; Marta Rosa, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; Alexandra Medina-Borja, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez

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method Page 12.1159.5Before choosing a strategic teaching method, faculty need to understand the way the brain solvesmost design engineering problems. Within any strategic plan for engineering, various tactics areavailable including design methods such as brainstorming, morphology, evaluations, finiteelement analysis (FEA), features-based modeling, rapid prototyping, etc. But according to Eder,engineering tactics can be applied as learning techniques for anyone.Eder9 also proposed that problems are a constituent part of a design project. The simplestproblems have essentially one solution and are well-characterized by the mathematicalhomework

Conference Session

Tips of the Trade: Best Practices, Expanded Advice, and Strategies for Implementable Course Improvement

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J. Blake Hylton, Ohio Northern University; Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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toassign scores, meaning that the assessed learning tied to a given point may even fluctuate.As the latest pedagogical trends have shifted in the direction of a more holistic, experientialapproach to education through methods such as project-based and active learning, the educationcommunity has sought alternative ways to assess student learning in these systems. Thechallenges faced by such a reform are formidable, not least of which being a pervasive mindsetthat the primary function of grading is differentiating between students, rather than assessing aparticular student’s achievement or competency.4 However, there is a building momentum forchange, as researchers and practitioners have begun to question the ability of a traditional,summative

Conference Session

New Engineering Educators 1: Learning Aids

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Mariana Silva, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Eric G. Shaffer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Nicolas Nytko, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Jennifer R. Amos, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Paper ID #29449A case study of early performance prediction and intervention in acomputer science courseProf. Mariana Silva, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Mariana Silva is a Teaching Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has been involved in large-scale teaching innovation activities, such as the de- velopment of online course content and assessments for the mechanics course sequence in the Mechanical Science and Engineering Department and the numerical methods class in Computer Science. Silva is cur- rently involved in two educational projects

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

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,and striving to form symbiotic partnerships between local industry and academiathrough: capstone projects, theses work with practical overtones, and applied researchprojects in selected domains, is extremely desirable and beneficial. Today, with theengineering profession undergoing dramatic changes on many fronts - there is realneed for faculty and students, to become involved with practical problems and toshare in providing solutions. We owe it to our students to prepare them to meet thechallenges ahead by focusing on real issues derived from tangible situations. Thesurest road to having a working college-industry relation is to come to a mutualunderstanding that both parties would gain from such a relationship.The discussion noted above may

Conference Session

Technology for Faculty Development and Classroom Management

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kaela M Martin, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott; Dina M. Battaglia, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott

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that were previously present.Humans process information and remember through language.2 By incorporating discussionsinto the classroom, students are forced to confront their assumptions, implement collaborativelearning, and improve their synthesis skills.3 Furthermore, classroom talk increases studentlearning and understanding4 to potentially move students from novices (blindly following rules)to experts (using intuition to find a solution).5One common “learning by talking” technique historically used is the oral examination, which hasbeen shown to increase student knowledge and cognitive learning.6-8 With the advancements oftechnology, today’s students learn by talking through the creation of videos for projects whichhave also shown to

Conference Session

Encouraging Students to Think Critically

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aaron W. Johnson, University of Michigan; Cynthia J. Finelli, University of Michigan

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attending to student thinking than about analyzing or responding to student thinking.McCormick, Wendell, & O’Connell (2014) showed video of students engaged in engineeringdesign to five in-service teachers (i.e. practicing elementary school teachers) new to engineeringand then interviewed the teachers about what they noticed and how they might respond to thestudents. The researchers categorized four themes of teacher noticing and three themes ofhypothesized responses. The results suggested that while these teachers were new to engineering,they still exhibited productive beginnings of responsive teaching in engineering. In another studyas a part of the same project, Johnson, Wendell, & Watkins (2016) categorized what in-serviceteachers who

Conference Session

But I'm a Loner! Expanding capability and creativity by examining effective alliances

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

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locale, andeventually have a mutually beneficial relations with the industrial sector; not so muchto supplement their income, but, principally, to be able to reach the broader goal, i.e.,to gain valuable experience and be truly involved in real engineering.iii) Third, reaching out to the industrial sector and engineering services in the Region,and striving to form symbiotic partnerships between local industry and academiathrough: capstone projects, theses work with practical overtones, and applied researchprojects in selected domains, is extremely desirable and beneficial. Today, with theengineering profession undergoing dramatic changes on many fronts - there is realneed for faculty and students, to become involved with practical problems and

Conference Session

Tips of the Trade: Best Practices, Expanded Advice, and Strategies for Implementable Course Improvement

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lauren Thomas Quigley, University of Washington; Mania Orand, Human Centered Design and Engineering ; Kathryn Elizabeth Shroyer, University of Washington; Jennifer A Turns, University of Washington; Cynthia J. Atman, University of Washington

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 an array of active learning approaches that pique their interest and spark excitement about the possible outcomes for their students. After initial exposure to new activities, contextual questions naturally arise for educators, and a clear understanding of the essential features for successfully implementing a teaching strategy becomes necessary. Reflection activities represent one approach for active learning that educators reasonably have questions about before adopting the approach.  Reflection is a topic that can have various meanings. For this project, reflection was conceptualized with the following definition: looking back on the past experience(s), to interpret and make meaning of those experiences in order to plan for the future [1

Conference Session

Assessments, Assessments, and Assessments

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

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. Nonetheless, if we are pragmatic anddesire to do a better job in equipping our students with the “tools of the trade” thenwe need to alert our graduate students( the future engineering teachers) to the need ofdeveloping proper and enduring connections with industries in their locale, andeventually have a mutually beneficial relations with the industrial sector; not so muchto supplement their income, but, principally, to be able to reach the broader goal, i.e.,to gain valuable experience and be truly involved in real engineering.iii) Third, reaching out to the industrial sector and engineering services in the Region,and striving to form symbiotic partnerships between local industry and academiathrough: capstone projects, theses work with practical

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade in Teaching II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Beverly Jaeger, Northeastern University; Corey Balint, Northeastern University; Christopher Wishon, Northeastern University; Colleen Fritze, Northeastern University

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Corey Balint is a junior Industrial Engineering major at Northeastern University who volunteered to assist with this research project after experiencing it first hand. He has been active in FIRST Robotics since his freshman year of high school as both a student and mentor. He also has served on the Executive Board of the Institute of Industrial Engineers since 2007, as well as serving as a peer mentor for the College of Engineering.Christopher Wishon, Northeastern University Christopher Wishon is a junior Industrial Engineering student at Northeastern University (NU). He has been a member of NU's Institute of Industrial Engineers since 2007 and has served as the Vice President. Also while

Conference Session

Best of NEE

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Shepard, University of St. Thomas; Alison B. Hoxie, University of Minnesota Duluth; Matt Anderson, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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. Alternativesto homework including projects or portfolios can improve student learning, but require moretime and are harder to evaluate.Trying to use homework problems for which students cannot find a solution becomes an armsrace between the instructor and the students. This may require a significant amount of time fromthe instructor which could be better spent improving curricula or conducting research.Transitioning away from homework and adopting a newer pedagogical strategy would alsorequire significant effort on the part of the instructor which may or may not be beneficial in thelong term.Finally, catching cheaters is typically stressful, time consuming and can create a tension betweenthe student and instructor making it less likely for a student to

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade in Teaching I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barry Dupen, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne

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New Engineering Educators

print some of the slides larger than the rest. 2. Line thicknesses appropriate for a projection screen were too thick on the printed page, so graphs and engineering diagrams looked like cartoons. These lines should be thinner because 1200 dpi laser printing can resolve much finer detail than a standard LCD projector. Slides are designed to be legible from the back of a lecture hall, whereas handouts are designed to be legible from half an arm’s length. 3. Colors did not always translate well into contrasting gray levels. A case in point: the center left slide in Figure 1. In the original slide, yellow “Oil” and “Screen” labels contrast well with the red oil in the tank; in the black-and-white laserprinted handout