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Dirk Colbry, Michigan State University; Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University

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undergraduate education through hands-on learning. As a volunteer for Tau Beta Pi, the Engineering Honor Society, Luchini-Colbry facilitates interactive seminars on interpersonal communications and problem solving skills for engineering students across the U.S. Page 24.1068.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Scaffolded Structuring of Undergraduate Research Projects Dirk Colbry, Katy Luchini-Colbry Michigan State University East Lansing, MI, USAIntroductionMentoring

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Andrew E. Jackson, East Carolina University; Sherion H. Jackson, Grand Canyon Univeristy

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where anunderstanding of group dynamics, team organizational, and communication skills come into play.Students and faculty face a particularly difficult task when working in academic teamenvironments. Most students realize that several artificial constraints are in play for these student-centered projects. These artificial elements include – but are not limited to: 1) the short-termnature of the team assignments, 2) the final objective of the project assignment [usually a reportor an artificial product] which is generally never developed into a sustainable design or functionalproduct that will ultimately be manufactured, distributed, and maintained throughout a typicallifecycle, 3) the low probability that their individual long-term success is

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Margret Hjalmarson, George Mason University; Jill K. Nelson, George Mason University

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GroupsAbstract: This paper describes two aspects of an ongoing faculty development model thatuses small interactive teaching development groups. We used the model with engineeringfaculty at five institutions. The groups focused their work on the design andimplementation of research-based, interactive teaching strategies.The focus of this work is using ongoing faculty development as a means to broaden theuse of research-proven instructional practices in engineering courses. Jamieson andLohmann explain the need for pedagogical research to connect with the needs ofinstructors 1. There is a long-standing gap between research about interactive teachingstrategies and the implementation of those strategies in classrooms. In our project, weattempted to bring

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Lea Marie Eaton, Stanford University; Sheri D. Sheppard, Stanford University; Helen L. Chen, Stanford University

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fields. Students were asked to choose their ideal grading ratio for STEM courses by distributing the total percentage of their grade (100%) into the following categories as they choose: Homework, Midterm Exam(s), Final, Class Attendance/Participation, Projects/Lab, and Other. Students were allowed to leave categories as 0% if they did not feel that any of their grade should be determined by that category. After, there were two questions asking students if they felt that grades were a good motivation to learn and if receiving grades hurts their educational process more than it helps it.5. Homework Completion Strategy. The final section of questions was related to each student’s homework completion process. The questions listed

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Edward F. Gehringer, North Carolina State University

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aclass, you may be the only instructor teaching the course. Then you are responsible forall the homework, exams, and labs. To make matters worse, multiple-section coursestend to be introductory courses, where students need to be given more complete guidanceon how to do the projects, and are less prepared to deal with ambiguity. Any mis-specification can lead to mass confusion. If problems arise, you cannot rely on acolleague to help fix them as you could if the colleague were teaching another section.In summary, these guidelines can be gleaned from the responses. • If the course you are teaching is new (to you), then multiple sections of the same course is definitely, overwhelmingly, less work than teaching two new courses. • If

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William J. Schell IV P.E., Montana State University; Paul J. Kauffmann P.E., East Carolina University

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summarizes several of these key points, matching the literature and theexperience of the authors.Table 1: Career Change Factors Career Change Literature Influence on Career Change of Authors FindingCareer Changes Occur Often P.Kauffmann: Single company for 21 years, positions always engineering oriented, transitioned from engineering design to engineering management after four years. W.Schell: Four companies in 15 years, starting in traditional engineering roles and moving into engineering, project, program, and technology management.Job and career mobility

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M.D. B. Sarder, University of Southern Mississippi

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delivery that offers students a variety oflearning styles and preferences in interactive ways. In this research project, we implemented atleast two techniques of increasing faculty-student interactivity in alternate educationalenvironments. It engaged students in the online class discussion by interjecting frequentquestions from the covered contents and providing audio/video repository of answered questions.Online students appear to be successful when provided ample opportunities to interact with theinstructor, other students, and the course content. In this project we designed interactive coursecontent for online students and codify them. We then use this as a basis for an “EducatingEducators” program to help online faculty become more effective

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Emily Dringenberg, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Mel Chua, Purdue University

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a decade of teaching and curriculum development experience and a track record of leadership in Free, Libre, and Open Source Software (FLOSS) communities, including the One Laptop Per Child project and most recently as Red Hat Inc’s. educational liason. Now part of Purdue University’s School of Engineering Education, Mel’s work bridges academic research on successful learning and making communities with deep personal experience in building them. Page 24.1366.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 What Can Reflections From an "Innovation in Engineering Education

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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

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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

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Bridget M. Smyser, Northeastern University

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those activities are properly designed.BYOD in the Measurements and Analysis CourseMeasurements and Analysis with Thermal Science Application is a required junior level coursefor mechanical engineers at Northeastern University. The course consists of three lectures andone lab section per week. It covers topics such as statistical data analysis, experimental design,and measurement of engineering quantities such as pressure, temperature, strain, fluid flow, andheat transfer. Seven lab experiments are performed in teams of 3-4 students during the course ofthe term. Each team is also required to do a term project in which they design, execute, andreport on a measurement experiment of their choosing. These projects have ranged frommeasurements of

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Jumoke Oluwakemi Ladeji-Osias, Morgan State University; Anita M. Wells, Morgan State University

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 individuals.● A student in Dr. May’s online course just complained to her that it was not fair that other students are texting each other for help during their online quizzes.● The student Dr. Lin is advising for the senior capstone project provided some new source­code that seems impossible to have been completed since their code review last week.● Dr. West, a newly hired assistant professor had a male student who was openly defiant and disrespectful to her in class. Another student comes to her defense and a scuffle ensues.● A student in Mr. Singh’s course just posted in the online discussion a response to another student that included threats of violence. Additionally, some portions of the post appeared to be unrelated.● A student comes to

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Amber L. Genau, University of Alabama at Birmingham

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-residential program, so students areresponsible for their own transportation to and from campus each day. And exampleschedule of a camp week is shown in Appendix A. During the course of the program,participants experience a variety of tours, speakers, hands-on activities, and field trips. Alarge component of the week is a group project where teams of students design, build andlaunch a model rocket made from high-tech engineering composites. During all of theseactivities, camp participants are able to interact with faculty, graduate and undergraduatestudents, and representatives of local industry. Images of the campers in action are shownin Figures 1 and 2. Additional information about the first year of the program can befound in the 2012 paper by

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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

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Division of the American Society for Engineering Education; chair of a new IEEE program on Early Career Faculty Development; editorial board of IEEE/HKN The Bridge magazine; and ABET EAC program evaluator.Dr. Robert W. Hasker, Milwaukee School of Engineering Rob is a professor in the software engineering program at Milwaukee School of Engineering, where he teaches courses at all levels. He was recently at University of Wisconsin - Platteville, where he taught for 17 years and helped develop an undergraduate program in software engineering and an international master’s program in computer science. In addition to academic experience, Rob has worked on a number of projects in industry ranging from avionics to cellular

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Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

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Students, Linc. Fisch (ed.), “New Directions for Teaching and Learning,”no.66, Summer, 1966, pp.30-40.7. Organiz. for Economic Cooper. & Development (2003), “International comparison of math, reading, and science skills among 15-year olds” OECD, (http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0923110.html). Sept. 2005.8. Balfanz, R., and Legters, N., “How many central city high schools have a severe dropout problem, where are they located, and who attends them?” Harvard University Civil Rights Project, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass, 2001.9. Barnett, L., and Greenough, R., “Regional needs assessment 2000.” Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, Portland, Ore., www.nwrel.org/planning/ rna2000.html Accessed Sept

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Steven Chene Chetcuti, United States Military Academy; Hans J. Thomas P.E., U.S. Military Academy; Brent J. Pafford, U.S. Military Academy

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goals of the Thayer 2.0 method was to level the time survey data[Figure 1] so that students perform as well or better as previous semesters with decreased timespikes and more consistent and predicable preparation. It was understood that regardless of themethodology used, spikes would always occur before exams when students increase study andprior to the submission of lab reports and projects for which students were not afforded classtime. However, the authors hoped that, with Thayer 2.0, homework spikes would be eliminated.Unfortunately, this method was unable to eliminate spikes in time spent outside of the classroomfor homework; despite the fact that it allotted classroom time for homework completion. (Figure23) In some cases, students did

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Ralph Ocon, Purdue University Calumet

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performance.Table 7: Opportunities for Implementing the 8 Leadership Behaviors 1. Assignments: the author gives two types of assignments (1) in-class and (2) outside projects requiring in-class presentations. In-class assignments are done by individual students and in group/teams 2. Class Exercises: the author gives students a number of class activities and exercises. Class activities and exercises are done by individual students or in groups or teams 3. Student Presentations: throughout the semester, students give presentations with various assignments, either individually or as the spokesperson for a group/team 4. Exams: three exams are given during the semester 5. Student Class Participation: throughout the semester, students are

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

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released in minimum snippets to guide you through a multi-stage task).. Wu is essentially describing methods to accomplish the progression loops. The user would start with an easy task and would progressively build up while within the flow channel. The triggers are represented by classroom activities that would induce the students to continue climbing the steep path of knowledge. The activities should provide positive feedback. The activities (one-minute papers, short quizzes, formal exams, projects) must be given at exactly the right time in terms of students’ ability and motivation to serve their intended purpose. Overview of MOOCs One of the hardest challenges that is faced by the faculty