Conference Session

New Engineering Educators Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexandra Coso Strong, Georgia Institute of Technology; Mary Katherine Watson, The Citadel; Donna C. Llewellyn, Boise State University

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New Engineering Educators

undergraduate classrooms, according to graduatestudents’ perceptions, for the purpose of designing effective instructional environments. Tocapture the characteristics of the impactful courses, graduate engineering students from theGeorgia Institute of Technology participated in an online survey. Participants reflected on theinstructional environment that best described their most impactful undergraduate learningexperience. Open-ended questions provided students with the opportunity to further justify orclarify their responses. The analysis indicated that students’ most impactful classes wererequired, in-major, non-design courses. Furthermore, these courses were characteristic ofinstructor-centered philosophies, including essentialism and perennialism

Conference Session

New Engineering Educators Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vishwas Narayan Bedekar, Middle Tennessee State University; Ahad S. Nasab, Middle Tennessee State University; Walter W. Boles, Middle Tennessee State University

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New Engineering Educators

become a successful teacherand an effective mentor. “Introduction to Metals and Metallurgy” being a freshman course,demands certain expectations from the instructor teaching this course. He/she must haveMaterials Science (for this course) background and the ability to effectively communicate withfreshman students who are just out of high school. Modern day teaching methods include use oftextbooks, multimedia, online lectures, and classroom interaction. An instructor needs to use some or all of the above tools to enhance students’ classroomlearning experience. However, to the authors’ best knowledge there is not much literatureavailable on how soon an instructor should connect to students in order to help them succeed intheir course and

Conference Session

New Engineering Educators Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Juan C Morales, Universidad del Turabo; Michael J. Prince, Bucknell University

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New Engineering Educators

EannPatterson’s use of Everyday Engineering Examples in the classroom and the use of the Five E’s:Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, Evaluate [3, 4]; presentation of new textbooks andworkbooks that take into account innovative teaching techniques, for example, references [12]and [13]; innovation of grade distributions in engineering courses to include the“comprehension” cognitive level in Bloom’s taxonomy; discussion on how to prepare exams andhow to assist students in preparing for them; the use of innovative Massive Open Online Courses(MOOCs) as a potential complement to the class; gamification techniques to maintain theclassroom motivated and engaged [15] – [20];. The last three weeks are dedicated to the transformation of two courses by each

Conference Session

New Engineering Educators Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Ranalli, Pennsylvania State University, Hazleton; Jacob Preston Moore, Pennsylvania State University, Mont Alto

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New Engineering Educators

attached to the original graded assignment. Resubmissions were graded and returned to students as in step 2. 4. Students were permitted to continue the resubmission cycle until all problems were correct, or until two-weeks had passed from the initial due date. Only the final scores on assignments were used in computing final grades, meaning that students were not penalized for initially incorrect answers that were corrected on resubmission. Page 26.1187.5During the first course meeting, the method detailed above and in the course syllabus wasdescribed verbally to the students. During this description, the