Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gypsy Denzine, Northern Arizona University

understanding how college students’ achievement goalsrelate to such outcomes as academic self-regulation, affect, task value, interest, self-efficacy,learning, and achievement. In my preliminary review of the STEM literature I found littleattention given to the topic of goal theory. Although there are various models, in general, most educational psychologist distinguishtwo major types of achievement goals39,42,45,82,83,85; performance goals and learning goals.Students with performance goals strive for competence in order to demonstrate their abilities toothers. A performance goal orientation frequently involves normatively based standards andstudents may appear competitive as they strive to outperform their peers. In contrast, studentswho adopt

Conference Session

Marketing Engineering to Minority Students

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Linda Barrington, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; John Duffy, University of Massachusetts-Lowell

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

found to impact positively: tolerance for diversity,personal development, interpersonal development, and community-to-college connections.Students reported working harder, being more curious, connecting learning to personalexperience, and demonstrated deeper understanding of subject matter. The quality of placementsin the community and the degree of structured reflection were found to be important inenhancing the positive effects, significantly so for critical thinking increases. They found thatthe "students who participated in service-learning differed significantly from those who did notparticipate on almost every outcome we measured." 26 They summed up effective S-L principlesin: connection (students, peers, community, faculty; experience

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention Topics

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Godfrey, University of Auckland

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

mathematics and computing, particularly by authors writing from outsideengineering such as Hacker17, did not take account of the role and contexts in whichmathematics and computing were used. It is suggested as more helpful to look forexplanations in linking concepts of separate and connected knowing18, 19with the disciplines.The much quoted Belenky et al.19 hypothesised that more women than men may be“connected knowers” (where the relationship between the self and the knowledge is important– being able to link topics to personal experience) and that more men than women operated as“separate knowers”. Separate knowing, they suggested, was more like the traditional,objective, rule-seeking ways of evaluating, proving or disproving truth – reflected in

Conference Session

Issues of Diversity

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fonda Swimmer, Northern Arizona University; Karen Jarratt-Ziemski, Ft. Lewis College

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

STEM disciplines. Her other interests include, Native American Self-Determination, Native Peoples, and Native Americans and Higher Education. Ms. Swimmer is a member of the Navajo Nation.Karen Jarratt-Ziemski, Ft. Lewis College Karen Jarratt-Ziemski received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Northern Arizona University. She is currently a visiting faculty member of the American Indian Studies Program at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. Dr. Jarratt-Ziemski is also the advisor to the Fort Lewis Chapter of AISES, and writes and works on many American Indian issues, including American Indian Self-Determination and Environmental Justice and Native Peoples. Dr. Jarratt-Ziemski is also

Conference Session

Best of the NEE

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wendy James, Oklahoma State University; Stacee Harmon, Oklahoma State University; Richard Bryant, Oklahoma State University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

into causing particular classes to be a part of degreerequirements or lead to inclusion of topics in a course’s content goals. On the micro level,instructors’ plans are influenced by the decisions at the macro level, but they still make thechoices of specific lesson plans, contents of daily/weekly/monthly instructional objectives,activities for students, methods of instruction, and forms of evaluating students.4 In analyzingcurriculum planning, Colin J. Marsh and George Willis write Teachers are, of course, the final planners, and, in practice, many daily lesson plans are not written out but remain in the heads of experienced teachers. In fact, many of the numerous decisions made daily by classroom teachers are the

Conference Session

Knowing Our Students, Part 2

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Russell Korte, University Of Minnesota; Karl Smith, University of Minnesota

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

the general education program Ø A student body that values altruism and social activismFactors Negatively Associated with Positive Student Outcomes Ø Hours spent watching television Ø Institutional size Ø Use of teaching assistants Ø Full-time employment Ø Lack of community among students Ø Living at home and commuting Ø Participating in inter-collegiate athletics Ø Peers oriented toward materialismIn short, Astin4,5 said it appeared that how students approach their general education and how thefaculty actually deliver the curriculum are far more important that the formal curricular structure.More specifically, the findings strongly support a growing body of research suggesting that oneof the crucial factors in the

Conference Session

Introductory Materials Science for the 21st Century

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathleen Kitto, Western Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Materials

Page 12.1469.15student is so engaged in a course that they spontaneously do a mini-research project. Sevenstudents have volunteered to work on undergraduate research projects in this area. Ten to fifteenpercent of the students in the class write about some aspect of materials and music for theirrequired research papers. This is only a three percentage points lower than the students whowrite about materials used in cars. The approach described here seems to reach out to a differentand wider student population.Perhaps the most surprising outcome of the active and conceptual learning modifications to thecourse was that the students are able to successfully complete a much more difficult designproblem on the second mid-term and on the final exam

Conference Session

FPD5 -- Placement & Early Success

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Beverly Jaeger, Northeastern University; Susan Freeman, Northeastern University; Richard Whalen, Northeastern University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

Indicator on incoming collegestudents. These results show that 60% of the students have a practical rather than theoreticalorientation toward learning, and that this percentage is growing. Other research has shown thatstudents prefer concrete active learning activities to abstract reflective learning by a ratio of 5 to112. The general conclusion is that active modes of teaching and learning create the best matchfor today’s students. These can include: small-group discussions and projects, in-classpresentations and debates, experiential exercises, field experiences, simulations, and case studies.Silberman also discusses the social side of learning, “[Students] tend to become more engaged inlearning because they are doing it with their peers. Once

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ChE: Innovations in the Classroom

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Marlin, McMaster University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

• Report writing • Good design requires a cost estimating • Oral presentation mastery of chemical engineering sciencesThe profession has nearly unanimous agreement that these learning goals are important andshould be achieved by performing a project within the undergraduate chemical engineeringcurriculum. Examples of design projects are available in many textbooks and from CACHE2. Page 12.1366.32.2 Learning Goals for Operability This paper presents an argument for an enhancement in the curriculum by providingadditional operability topics to achieve the following learning goals