Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yue Bi, University of Virginia; Reid Bailey, University of Virginia; Michael C. Smith, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Systems Engineering

―enhancement of student learning by means of reflection, analysis, anddiplomatic criticism‖. Other benefits include the increased amount of more immediatefeedback12 and the potential of extending learning to a public domain13. More recently, online peer review has become popular. DiGiovanni and Nagaswami14conducted a study on online peer review in two English-as-Second-Language classes andobserved that ―when our students were online, they remained on task and focused‖.According to DiGiovanni and Nagaswami, other advantages, compared to face-to-face peerreview, include closer monitoring of student interaction and independence on students’memory to revise draft based on peer feedback. Effects are not only seen in writing classes;Tseng and Tsai15, in

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pablo Biswas, Texas A&M International University; Runchang Lin, Texas A&M International University

Tagged Divisions

Systems Engineering

found that incorporating new technologies to establish great relationshipsamong the professor and students are a part of the interactive teaching. Warschauer and Healey30provided an overview of current teaching practices and research related to the uses of computersin the language classroom. Lu and Bol20 found that peer review has become commonplace incomposition courses and the results of their research from both semesters showed that studentsparticipating in anonymous e-peer review performed better on the writing performance task andprovided more critical feedback to their peers than did students participating in the identifiable e-peer review. Lowes et al.19 studied the online professional development courses with thediscussion forums and

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

S. Gary Teng, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Tagged Divisions

Systems Engineering

leadership and collaborations is emphasized during their project work. In additionto the technical part of project tasks, students also need to work on their skills for leadership,project management, communications, and collaborations.The project requirement calls for all students to present at least once or twice among threerequired team presentations. Students evaluate other team’s presentations, and perform peerevaluations on their own teammates’ contribution to their project. Peer reviews done at proposaland progress report milestones include providing each team member’s percentage of contributionto the project work to date. Peer review at the final report milestone includes a seven categorycomprehensive evaluation of all project team members

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Madeleine C Brannon, George Washington University ; Zoe Szajnfarber; Thomas Andrew Mazzuchi, George Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Systems Engineering

Engineering course forfirst semester freshman at George Washington University. Herein is described the planning andimplementation of the course, the student feedback, and the lessons learned.II. Curriculum DesignIn planning for the course, a review of what peer universities were attempting was conducted. Alist published by INCOSE in July 2013 of the Systems Engineering programs was used to deriveprograms for undergraduate students. Several universities were contacted from the INCOSE list,Table 1 represents the information obtained from these universities on methodologies. Inaddition to the responses below, 6 universities reported that they did not have an introduction toSystems Engineering course. The list is by no means comprehensive but gives a