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Active Learning Techniques and Online Tools Applied to the Educational Experience of 2nd Year Materials Science and Engineering Students

Conference Session: Tricks of the Trade
Collection: 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Jennifer L.W. Carter, Case Western Reserve University; Brian Yuhnke Jr, Case Western Reserve University
Tagged Divisions: New Engineering Educators

phase needed for each PMC to obtain the desired Modulus design criteria? Page 24.134.13 5. What is the minimum volume fraction of reinforcement phase needed for each PMC to obtain the desired Strength design criteria? 6. If modulus and strength were your only design criteria, what would be the minimum volume fraction of reinforcement needed to meet both criteria? Why? 7. How would you calculate the cost ($/cm3 ) from volume fraction? 8. Which PMC(s) satisfy all three design criteria? Table 2: Tabulated Data Modulus Tensile Strength Density Cost τc d

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Creating Small Interactive Teaching Development Groups

Conference Session: Tricks of the Trade
Collection: 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Margret Hjalmarson, George Mason University; Jill K. Nelson, George Mason University
Tagged Divisions: New Engineering Educators

: Contributions of Faculty to Student Engagement in Engineering. J. Eng. Educ. 97, 339–353 (2008).4. Shulman, L. Those who understand: Knowledge growth in teaching. Educ. Res. 15, 4–14 (1986).5. Loucks-Horsley, S., Stiles, K. E., Mundry, S., Love, N. & Hewson, P. W. Designing professional development for teachers of science and mathematics. (Corwin Press, 2010).6. Laurillard, D. Teaching as a design science: Building pedagogical patterns for learning and technology. (Routledge, 2012).7. Wenger, E. Communities of practice  : learning, meaning, and identity. (Cambridge University Press, 1999).8. Hjalmarson, M. et al. Developing Interactive Teaching Strategies for Electrical Engineering Faculty. in Proc. 120th ASEE Annu. Conf. (2013).9

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People Matter: The Role of Peers and Faculty in Students' Academic Engagement

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
Tagged Divisions: New Engineering Educators

students engage in course content and motivatethem to try harder, but faculty also have the power to weaken student engagement. Thefollowing are possible implications for faculty as a result of our analyses. a. To facilitate students’ sense of belonging and motivation to participate in class, an instructor can implement the following ideas that require minor effort on the part of the instructor: i. Learn student names or simply recognize if students have been attending class, asking questions, working hard, etc. ii. Tell students explicitly during class that s/he cares that students learn the course material. iii. Encourage students to attend office hours if/when they need

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Best Practices in Classroom Management for Today’s University Environment

Conference Session: Tricks of the Trade
Collection: 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Jumoke Oluwakemi Ladeji-Osias, Morgan State University; Anita M. Wells, Morgan State University
Tagged Divisions: New Engineering Educators

Managing Challenging Classroom Situations,” Currents in Teaching and Learning, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 418, Spring 2009.7. D. McCabe, “Classroom Cheating Among Natural Science and Engineering Majors,” Science and Engineering Ethics, vol. 3, pp. 433445 , 1997.8. H. J. Passow, M. J. Mayhew, C. J. Finelli, T. S. Harding, and D. D. Carpenter, “Factors Influencing Engineering Students’ Decisions to Cheat by Type of Assessment,” Research in Higher Education, vol. 47, no. 6, pp. 643684, 2006. DOI: 10.1007/s111620069010y9. C. R. Nordstrom, L. K. Bartels, & J. Bucy, “Predicting and curbing classroom incivility in higher education,” College Student Journal, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 7485, 2009.10. M. A. Kitzrow, “The

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What Can Reflections from an "Innovation in Engineering Education" Workshop Teach New Faculty?

Conference Session: Potpourri
Collection: 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Emily Dringenberg, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Mel Chua, Purdue University
Tagged Divisions: New Engineering Educators

"gain knowledge," “ideas,” and “techniques” to take back as externalartifacts "portable to a variety of campuses." Change happens when I take the right things home -- things like "tools to help in the curriculum change process" or "ways to get students doing morestuff in class.” I’ve heard that “active learning” and “group dynamics” are examples of things Imight pick up at the workshop.My implementation of these good-teaching artifacts will change my students into betterstudents. "I want my students to be invested in their education" and "care about my specialty"enough to "pursue further learning.” Even the “quieter wallflower[s]” and the ones who “runaway from the STEM fields” should be “craft[ed] into good, effective, & happy

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Students' Persectives on Homework and Problem Sets in STEM Courses

Conference Session: Potpourri
Collection: 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Lea Marie Eaton, Stanford University; Sheri D. Sheppard, Stanford University; Helen L. Chen, Stanford University
Tagged Divisions: New Engineering Educators

researchers and were generated based on experiencewith homework in STEM courses, both from a teaching and a student perspective. The surveywas composed of five main sections:1. General questions about the student’s school, year of study, major, and average number of problem sets assigned per week.2. Positive Homework Course. Questions relating to a homework experience in a STEM course that the student would describe as “positive.” a. Initial questions asked for the name of the course, and the type(s) of homework utilized in the course. The name of the professor was asked, but was optional. b. Then students were asked to rate on a scale from Never, Rarely, Sometimes, Often, to All of the Time, the amount to which they felt

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Scaffolded Structuring of Undergraduate Research Projects

Conference Session: Best of NEE
Collection: 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Dirk Colbry, Michigan State University; Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University
Tagged Divisions: New Engineering Educators

[Internet]. New York, NY, USA: ACM; 2004 [cited 2012 Feb 14]. p. 135–42. Available from: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/985692.98571014. McGilly K. Cognitive science and educational practice: An introduction. Classroom lessons: Integrating cognitive theory and classroom practice [Internet]. MIT Press; 1996 [cited 2014 Jan 4]. Available from: http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=YyiywUE- M0YC&oi=fnd&pg=PR7&dq=%E2%80%9CCognitive+science+and+educational+practice:+An+introduction, %E2%80%9D+mcgilly&ots=hsx7tDRdU7&sig=FZDyQ2fop4CST7tDfGlULVprYYo15. Olson S, Loucks-Horsley S. Inquiry and the National Science Education Standards: A guide for teaching and learning [Internet]. National Academies Press; 2000

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Optimizing Your Teaching Load

Conference Session: Classroom Management
Collection: 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Edward F. Gehringer, North Carolina State University
Tagged Divisions: New Engineering Educators

preventstudents from finding out answers from those who took the exam earlier. But, if sectionsare taught back to back, the danger is minimized. If out-of-class common exams arescheduled, it is eliminated. Then a single exam can be used, which will save severalhours in creating the exam, and save grading time as well, due to lower startup overhead.Reason #4: Less web site/LMS overhead. Teaching one class means only one course website, and only one course to set up in a learning management system. The sameassignments, grade weights and policies apply to all sections.Reason #5: Fewer meetings of course staff. In most courses, it’s necessary to meet withTA(s) once a week, and this meeting may last an hour. In multi-section courses, a singlemeeting

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Taking the Leap: Moving from Industry to the Academy

Conference Session: Potpourri
Collection: 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: William J. Schell IV P.E., Montana State University; Paul J. Kauffmann P.E., East Carolina University
Tagged Divisions: New Engineering Educators

aspirations for the types of administrative positions that will take one away from thework that likely provided the draw into the academy. This is one of the other issues which comesup as one transitions into academic life- what will satisfy you and what compromises are youwilling to make?References 1. Terkanian D. Occupational Outlook Quarterly2006. 2. Kanchier C, Unruh W. Factors influencing career change. International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling 1989;12:309-21. 3. Holmes T, Cartwright S. Mid-Career Change: The Ingredients for Success. Employee Relations 1994;16:58-72. 4. Muja N, Appelbaum S. Cognitive and affective processes underlying career change. Career Development International

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Mentoring Engineering Students: Challenges and Potential Rewards

Conference Session: Potpourri
Collection: 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Waddah Akili, Iowa State University
Tagged Divisions: New Engineering Educators

Medicine, Advisor, Teacher, Role Model, Friend, Washington, DC,1997.2. Vesilind, P.Aarne, “Mentoring Engineering Students: Turning Pebbles into Diamonds,” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 90, no.3, 2001, pp. 407-411.3. Mentor, National Mentoring Relationship, “Become a Mentor”, www.mentoring org/ Alexandria, VA, Accessed Dec.2012.4. Markie, P., A Professor’s Duties, Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, MD, 1994, pp.74 -77.5. Cahn, S., Saints & Sinners: Ethics in Academia, Rowman and Littlefield, Totowa, NH, 1986, pp.33-38.6. Baker, R., jr., “Ethics of Student-Faculty Friendship,” in Ethical Dimensions of College and University Teaching: Understanding and Honoring the Special Relationship between Teachers and

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I Did Not Anticipate This: Experiences from the Early Years

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
Tagged Divisions: New Engineering Educators

instructor, and student motivation27.A recent paper by Gehringer and Peddycord outlines various strategies for dealing with the issueof students having access to textbook problem solutions28. The following alternatives to usinggraded homework problems from the course textbook were presented:Reduce the weight of homework and:  increase the weight of exams  give weekly/frequent graded quizzes  increase the weight of projectsUse questions from other sources such as:  new editions of textbooks  automated testing system that randomizes parameters for each student  self-made problems (i.e. write your own)  swap problems with instructors at other schools  take problems from a different textbook(s)  have an

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Improving Student Engagement in Online Courses

Conference Session: Tricks of the Trade
Collection: 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: M.D. B. Sarder, University of Southern Mississippi
Tagged Divisions: New Engineering Educators

Be Done?. In P. Barker & S. Rebelsky (Eds.), Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2002 (pp. 1479-1483). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.13. Tinto, V. (2006). Research and practice of student retention: What next? Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 8(1), 1-20.14. Truluck, J. (2007). Establishing a mentoring plan for improving retention in online graduate degree programs. Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, X(1).15. Huett, J. K., Kalinowski, K. E., Moller, L. & Huett, K. C. (2008). Improving the motivation and retention of online students through the use of ARCS-Based E-Mails. The American Journal of Distance

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Please Play with your Phones – Using Student-Owned Personal Electronics to Enhance In Class Activities

Conference Session: Classroom Management
Collection: 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Bridget M. Smyser, Northeastern University
Tagged Divisions: New Engineering Educators

previous terms, and in-classparticipation grades improved by 4 percentage points. These and other measures showedimproved understanding and engagement from incorporating carefully designed cooperativelearning activities that took advantage of student-owned electronics. Engineering educatorsshould be encouraged to find activities and problems that will benefit from students’ constantelectronic connectivity. In short, there are many benefits to allowing the students to use classtime to ‘play’ with their phones.i Richtel, M., Digitally Aided Education, Using the Students’ Own Electronic Gear, New York Times, March 22,2013.ii Emery, S. Factors for Consideration when Developing a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Strategy in HigherEducation, Masters

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On the Role of the Professor in Creating a Positive Learning Environment

Conference Session: Classroom Management
Collection: 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Waddah Akili, Iowa State University
Tagged Divisions: New Engineering Educators

the Dun and Dun Learning Style Model. (11)The MBTI, based on Jung’s theory, has been popular in explaining differences inlearning for normal people. The dimension of most interest for learning is sensing (S)versus intuitive (N) type. (12) The sensing person prefers a straightforward, logical, step-by-step approach to learning. The sensing person, often learns by solving problems, andtends to find theory difficult. The intuitive individual, on the other hand, will skip stepsand follow hunches. He /she learns from theory and tends to do a minimal number ofproblems because they think they understand without having to solve problems. (13)Perry’s Model of College Student Development (14) can also be used to monitor studentlearning. According to

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Subscribing to WII-FM: When Will We Begin to Function as a Team?

Conference Session: Classroom Management
Collection: 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Andrew E. Jackson, East Carolina University; Sherion H. Jackson, Grand Canyon Univeristy
Tagged Divisions: New Engineering Educators

teammember’s efforts throughout the project. Originally these peer evaluations were merely used forfeedback purposes to the instructor, but over time, it became clear that some team members werenot contributing their fair share to the required project activities, therefore, based on theircontribution to the final product(s), the author felt that these students should not receive the samegrade on the project deliverables as other high-performing members of the project team. Withinthe past year, the results of the required Peer Evaluations are now being incorporated directly intothe grading structure for the project.In order to assess the quality and scope of each team member’s efforts within the project, studentsare asked to provide a fair and

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Using Shadowing to Improve New Faculty Acclimation

Conference Session: Best of NEE
Collection: 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Stephen M. Williams P.E., Milwaukee School of Engineering; Robert W. Hasker, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Steven Holland, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Adam Redd Livingston, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Kerry R. Widder, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Josiah A. Yoder, Milwaukee School of Enginering
Tagged Divisions: New Engineering Educators

billing. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Dr. Steven Holland, Milwaukee School of Engineering Steven S. Holland (M ’13) was born in Chicago, IL, in 1984. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE), Milwaukee, WI, in 2006, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, in 2008 and 2011 respectively. From 2006 to 2011, he was a Research Assistant working in the Antennas and Propagation Laboratory (APLab), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst. He was then a Senior Sensors Engineer with the

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Second-Year Enhancements to a Summer Faculty Immersion Program

Conference Session: Classroom Management
Collection: 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Juan C. Morales, Universidad del Turabo; Michael J. Prince, Bucknell University
Tagged Divisions: New Engineering Educators

serves as the framework on which to transformthe course. It forces each faculty member to take a broad and comprehensive view of the coursesthat they will address in the SFIP. At this stage there is no innovation. Setting the panoramicoutline as a prerequisite leaves more time for innovation, a lesson learned during the 2012 SFIPsession. Table 2: Template used to create a panoramic outline of 30 sessions of 1.5 hours each (a prerequisite to start the SFIP in June) Course: Professor: Session Topic(s) Instructional Objectives – By the end of this session students shall be Real-World

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Initiation of Summer Camp Program as Outreach and Recruiting Tool

Conference Session: Potpourri
Collection: 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Amber L. Genau, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Tagged Divisions: New Engineering Educators

professors on the tenure track, balancing research, teaching and servicecommitments is an ongoing challenge. Organizing and running a program like MaterialsCamp falls in the service category, which is generally considered the least important areafor tenure and promotion decisions. Any camp program requires a significant amount oftime and effort from the organizing faculty member(s), and will inevitably decrease theamount of time available for proposal and paper writing, research activity, and coursepreparation.Feedback from several UAB faculty members in administrative positions with P&Tcommittee experience was collected informally, regarding their impressions of theMaterials Camp program, and its potential impact on the author’s career

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Preparing Your Teaching Portfolio

Conference Session: INVITED PANEL: Preparing your Teaching Portfolio
Collection: 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Kay C Dee, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Glen A. Livesay, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Tagged Divisions: New Engineering Educators

expressing the things they believe about teaching,learning, and their role(s) in the teaching/learning processes. For example, “What are yourbeliefs about teaching? What are your aims for students, and why are these aims important toyou? How do your actions as a teacher reflect your beliefs about teaching and learning?”3Portfolio authors could also adapt guidance intended to help students creating learning portfoliosto their situation, and utilize prompts such as “What have I learned? Why did I learn?”4 (aboutteaching); “What difference has the learning made in my intellectual, personal, and ethicaldevelopment?”4 (as a teacher); “How does what I have learned fit into a full, continual plan forlearning?”4 (for teaching, for professional development