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Revitalization of Manufacturing Education
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Niaz Latif, Purdue University, Calumet; Steven Wendel, Sinclair Community College; Mohammad A. Zahraee, Purdue University, Calumet; Aco Sikoski, Ivy Tech Community College; Ronald J. Bennett F.ASEE, F.ABET P.E., University of St. Thomas
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Manufacturing
Page 26.1056.5integrate the Four Pillars with methods that apply to each learning style, using the Corvette tourfor examples to plan a learning session. Participants then were asked to identify leaders theyhave known and reflect on the traits and leadership qualities of those individuals. Each wrotetheir own definition of leadership and discussed with the group. Prior to Module 4, participants were asked to do an assignment using their characterstrengths identified in the VIA survey. In Module 4, participants shared their stories andcompared VIA results, identifying their own personal signature strengths. This was followed bya presentation and discussion on energy managementxii and the high performance pyramid. In thefinal phase of this
Conference Session
Broadening Participation in Engineering
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Coleen Carrigan, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo; Eve A. Riskin, University of Washington; Jim L Borgford-Parnell, University of Washington; Priti N Mody-Pan, University of Washington; Dawn Wiggin, University of Washington; Sonya Cunningham, University of Washington
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Diversity
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Educational Research and Methods
Agent award, the 2006 Hewlett-Packard Harriett B. Rigas Award, and the 2007 University of Washington David B. Thorud Leadership Award. She is a Fellow of the IEEE.Dr. Jim L Borgford-Parnell, University of Washington Dr. Jim Borgford-Parnell is Associate Director and Instructional Consultant at the Center for Engineering Learning & Teaching at the University of Washington. He taught design, education-research methods, and adult and higher education theory and pedagogy courses for over 30 years. He has been involved in instructional development for 18 years, and currently does both research and instructional development in engineering education. Jim has taught courses on the development of reflective teaching practices
Conference Session
Make It!
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Sangarappillai Sivaloganathan, United Arab Emirates University; Hayder Zulafqar Ali, University Instructor; Iman Abdulwaheed, United Arab Emirates University; Sayeda Abboud Al Ameri, United Arab Emirates University
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Diversity
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Manufacturing
followed by thedrilling of a hole and gluing a tower of the University Logo. The university wants to make1000 pieces of this. It wants to contract this job out. You are a group of mechanicalengineering graduates just graduated from UAEU and are in the process of forming aproduct design and manufacturing company. You want to have this contract to launch yourcompany. But the competition is very high. Eighteen companies including yours haverecorded interest in bidding for the contract. Make a bid on the specified format given andmake a presentation to the interviewing board to convince them to choose your bid.The students were told that the product should have the emotional appeal reflecting thecharacteristic character of the region and product
Conference Session
Shaping the Future: Structured Mentoring for Today's Diverse Engineering Student Populations
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Joi-lynn Mondisa, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Cordelia M. Brown, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Robin Adams, Purdue University, West Lafayette
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Diversity
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Minorities in Engineering
tapping into pools of underrepresented populations such as African-Americans1,2 . To address the call, it is critical to examine the African-American science, technology,engineering, and mathematics (STEM) undergraduate experience and to understand how theexperiences of underrepresented populations influence decisions to go into and persist in STEMmajors 3-5. But what do we really understand about the African-American STEM collegeexperience? What can we learn from the experiences and reflections of African-AmericanSTEM PhD mentors about the African-American college experience and how to navigate it? Inthis paper, we examine the reflections and insights of an African-American STEM mentor usinga narrative analysis method. This research study
Conference Session
Qualitative Methodologies
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Robert Matthew DeMonbrun, University of Michigan; Cynthia J. Finelli, University of Michigan; Prateek Shekhar, University of Texas, Austin
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Educational Research and Methods
resistance to activelearning methods and the ways faculty respond to this challenge. Since trained observers who arenot involved parties in the classroom (i.e., neither students nor instructors) are conducting ourobservations, we have had to continually reflect on the precise detection, perception, recognition,and judgment of certain events to ensure our observations are accurately capturing what isoccurring in the classroom. This experience is much different than training observers to obtaininter-rater agreement, used often by researchers to ensure that observations are reliable acrossmany different observers. Instead, we have examined ways in which we can confirm the eventswe are recording are a valid depiction of classroom behaviors.In this paper
Conference Session
NSF Grantees’ Poster Session
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
John L. Falconer, University of Colorado Boulder; Janet L. de Grazia, University of Colorado, Boulder; Garret Nicodemus, University of Colorado Boulder; Katherine Page McDanel, Dept of Chemical & Biological Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder; Michelle Medlin, University of Colorado
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NSF Grantees Poster Session
organized. For courses with over 100screencasts, we created separate, course-specific YouTube channels where screencasts areorganized into playlists by topic. Playlists are shorter, making it easier for users to navigate. Wealso added more textbook table of contents and linked screencasts to chapters in the textbooks,and simplified the existing links from textbooks. Because the FE exam form was revised since we created the links to screencasts usefulfor FE exam review, we have updated our website to reflect these changes. An FE exam playlistwas created on YouTube as well as a specific YouTube channel.Active learning materials An active-learning course package for chemical engineering thermodynamic was addedto the instructor resource
Conference Session
Engineering Physics & Physics Division Technical Session 2
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Daniel Ludwigsen, Kettering University
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Engineering Physics & Physics
engineering driven by thespace race, introductory laboratories tended to be expository in style and focused on verifyingrelationships or concepts in a deductive approach. In this type of laboratory, instructions tend tobe direct, the manual often has space to record the data gathered by students as they execute thesteps, and the analysis also proceeds according to instructions. Usually, there are post-labquestions for reflection and interpretation of results. On the other hand, inquiry basedlaboratories tend to use an inductive approach in which students arrive at the general principle bygathering evidence. In an open inquiry activity, the students create the method for gathering dataand perhaps even the question to be addressed. The outcome is
Conference Session
Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 3
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Greg Bartus, Stevens Institute of Technology; Frank T. Fisher, Stevens Institute of Technology
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Systems Engineering
individual roles for focused attention on targetedcomponents or subsystems. These subsystems primarily focused on blades, generator and theelectric grid. Training was provided to theboth teams in the following engineeringconcepts: constraints, requirements, trade-offs, optimization, and prototyping. The SEswere provided with more detailed training andresources such as the Vee model which theyshared with the rest of their team. That beingsaid, we wanted the students to experiencesystems engineering and componentengineering first and reflect on theterminology later. Teams started out with twolarger teams to kick off designing blades and generators and then later evolved into smallergroups with 2-3 ‘rovers’ to assist on other tasks.Instructors were
Conference Session
Capstone Design
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Ben David Lutz, Virginia Tech; Mike Ekoniak, Virginia Tech; Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech; Courtney S Smith-Orr, Virginia Tech
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Diversity
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Design in Engineering Education
Design EngineeringEducation (TIDEE) project has yielded assessment tools intended to measure engineering designlearning outcomes, including communication, teamwork, and design outcomes. 4, 8, 9Missing from these measures of student outcomes, however, are reflective accounts from thestudents themselves, though Pierrakos et al. did explore student perceptions of learning using a Page 26.1425.350-item survey instrument. 10 But capstone design is a complex instructional environment thatoften results in a diverse array of learning experiences; surveys or rubrics may overlookadditional or unanticipated outcomes. To address this gap, we present an
Conference Session
NSF Grantees’ Poster Session
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
J. Patrick Abulencia, Manhattan College; Margot A Vigeant, Bucknell University; David L. Silverstein P.E., University of Kentucky
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NSF Grantees Poster Session
 perceived  learning  on  the  part  of  the  students  during  video  production,  as  well  as  qualitative  evidence  of  learning  in  students’  written  reflections  on  the  video  making  process.    However,  it  is  also  evident  that  perhaps  too  much  effort  was  devoted  by  students  to  making  videos  look  and  sound  good.    We  hypothesize  that  the  cognitive  load  devoted  to  this  takes  their  concentration  from  the  underlying  thermodynamics.    Further,  in  a  team  of  3-­‐4  students,  individuals  can  specialize.    Observations  suggest  that  some  students  concentrated  nearly  exclusively  on  video  editing  and  acting  and  did  not  participate  meaningfully  in  understanding  the  concepts
Conference Session
Communication Across the Divisions III: Writing as Social–Technical Integration
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Vukica M. Jovanovic, Old Dominion University; Megan McKittrick, Old Dominion University; Pilar Pazos, Old Dominion University; Daniel Richards, Old Dominion University; Julia Romberger
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Diversity
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Computing & Information Technology, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society
and texts as resulting from typified behaviors, knowledge, and actions of agiven community of practice: “[T]o write, to engage in any communication is to participate in acommunity; to write well is to understand the conditions of one’s own participation with thatcommunity and determine the success or failure of communication”11. As such, genres reflect thevalue systems of individual organizations (e.g., a stand alone business) and also large scalecommunities (e.g., engineers). Being a proficient writer means becoming intimatelyknowledgeable of the conditions of participation in a given community of practice. According toJames Dubinsky, “our work [as professors] involves more than teaching our students strategies orforms; it also
Conference Session
Student Approaches to Problem Solving: ERM Roundtable
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Catherine D. McGough, Clemson University; Adam Kirn, Univeristy of Nevada, Reno; Courtney June Faber, Clemson University; Lisa Benson, Clemson University
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Educational Research and Methods
. A description of how strategies areidentified using student’s written work and audio reflections will be included to promote futurework in problem solving research.Theoretical FrameworksProblem Solving StrategiesAlthough there are many frameworks in place for problem solving strategies, for the context ofsophomore and junior level engineering students we selected Nickerson’s framework as the mostapplicable7. Previous research indicates that Nickerson’s framework of problem solvingstrategies are applicable to undergraduate engineering students’ problem solving approaches8.Nickerson divides problem solving strategies into nine types: subgoaling, working backwards,hill climbing, means-end analysis, forward chaining, considering analogous
Conference Session
NSF Grantees’ Poster Session
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Geoffrey L Herman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Irene B. Mena, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Matthew West, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Jose Mestre; Jonathan H Tomkin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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NSF Grantees Poster Session
changed only throughmutual reflective engagement about communal practices11,12 such as teaching practices orcurriculum design practices. CoPs provide a place for this mutual reflective engagement, invitingfaculty to engage in continuously deeper levels with RBIS, from the periphery to the core1.At research-intensive universities, faculty primarily engage in research CoPs. The primary markof membership within these CoPs is recognized depth of understanding in a field of study, asdemonstrated by key cultural artifacts such as dissertations and research articles22. Thesecommunal practices create a central identity of faculty as researchers and as experts. In contrast,the practices promoted by most RBIS do not value faculty as researchers or as
Collection
2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting
Authors
Susan Wainscott; Julie Longo
making the transition from student to independent scholar12.Compounding the apparently common composition anxiety among graduate students in general,there is a prevalent stereotype that engineers are poor communicators. A very pervasive culturalbelief related to communication skills, particularly written communication, exists amongengineers; this is reflected in a currently popular T-shirt, as shown in Figure 1. Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 532 Figure 1. A popular T-shirt reflecting a
Conference Session
Mathematics Division Technical Session 2
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Patricia Salinas, Tecnologico de Monterrey (ITESM); Eliud Quintero, Tecnologico de Monterrey (ITESM); Pablo Guillermo Ramirez, Tecnologico de Monterrey (ITESM); Eduardo González Mendívil, Tecnologico de Monterrey (ITESM)
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Mathematics
the development of adidactic toolkit AR_Dehaes that aim to improve spatial ability in freshmen engineering students.These authors state that spatial ability is something that cannot be taught but instead needstraining (development and improvement). Within these considerations, testing of tool promise itsrelease.Our perspective in Mathematics Education, always grounded in the classroom as a collegeteachers, makes us aware of the difficulties when dealing with spatial visualization. The teachingof solids of revolution in Calculus II has been a crucial issue in this reflection. When teaching inCalculus I the graphs of functions of a single real variable, graphs visualization stays in a 2Dplane perception. These curves, compelled in 2D, could be
Conference Session
Materials Division Technical Session 1
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Richard E Eitel, Stevens Institute of Technology
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Materials
on the outcome of the“Concept Checks,” further team based discussion, whole class discussions, or a mini lecture maybe used to address any specific areas of misunderstanding. Typically 3-5 cycles of POGILactivities, concept checks, and review/discussion are conducted during each class meeting.Class sessions are occasionally broken up by short (5-10 minute) in-class experiments ordemonstrations (preferably once per week). Example activities include: making Elmer’s gluesilly putty, super conductor levitation, zinc electroplating and inter-diffusion to make a “gold”penny, or observing the work hardening behavior of a paper clip. Finally, at the end of most classsessions students are asked to reflect on the material covered by completing an exit
Conference Session
Mathematics Division Technical Session 1
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Janet Callahan, Boise State University; Judith A. Garzolini, Boise State University
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Diversity
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Mathematics
levelwhich significantly exceeded the fall, 2013 female STEM enrollment figure (26.5%). In addition,13.4% of awards went to underrepresented minority students. These also significantly exceededthe fall, 2013 URM STEM enrollment figures which reflect a student body consisting of 9.2%URM. When awards were evaluated in terms of student enrollment category we found that 40%of awards went to first-time, full-time students, 28% went to transfer students, 22% to returningstudents and 10% to second degree seeking students.When the retention of FTFT students who received awards was examined, we found that 71.4%of awardees were retained in STEM one year later, and 81.6% were retained here in any major.This favorably compares with STEM FTFT retention figures
Conference Session
Dynamics
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Yan Tang, American Society of Mechanical Engineers; Haiyan Bai, University of Central Florida
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Diversity
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Mechanics
Page 26.483.5Given/Find, Strategy, Governing Equations, Numerical Solutions, and Reflection, commonly usedin advanced mechanics courses and upper-division engineering courses at ERAU. In Given/Find,students are required to use appropriate variables and notations to represent what is given and whatis to be found. By relating given information to relevant principles, tentative strategies along withthe associated rationale are presented in Strategy, followed by governing equations. When a systemof independent equations for the equal number of unknowns is obtained, Matlab is used to findnumerical solutions. Finally, the problem solving is concluded by students’ reflection on theproblem by verifying the correctness of the solution and discussing
Conference Session
Innovation in Engineering Leadership Education
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia
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Engineering Leadership Development Division
, professionalism, dynamism, agility, resilience, flexibility, and Page 26.631.4capacity for lifelong learning (pp. 54-56). The emphasis on these attributes reflects anassumption that engineers of the future will no longer be able to rely solely on a core body ofexpertise throughout their careers. Perhaps more importantly, it reflects a desire to see engineersand engineering exercise appropriate influence for the public good and to attract talentedstudents to a profession that both pays well and provides personal fulfillment.Engineering leadership programs as they are portrayed through their websites appear focus oncurricula, requirements, and the benefits
Conference Session
Aerospace Division Technical Session 1
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Elizabeth Scott Fleming, Georgia Institute of Technology; Amy Pritchett, Georgia Institute of Technology
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Diversity
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Aerospace
information sharing has demonstrated a need to examine theeffects of the relevancy and newness of the information exchanged among teams and teammembers to support group decision-making and overall performance of the team.32Beyond formal meetings and tag-ups, continuous, informal communications across immediateworking groups increase design team effectiveness and synchronous reflection on goalaccomplishment.3,24 Unprompted design discussions stimulate peer review opportunities andcontemporaneous sharing of design tasks.24 Moreover, these informal gatherings promotecontinuous awareness of and reflection on design issues, increasing response time to addressingand solving these challenges.24Previous research has investigated the exchange of information
Conference Session
Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 2
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Kirsten S Hochstedt, Penn State University; Sarah E Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Thomas A. Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Tricia Bertram Gallant, University of California, San Diego; Robert G. Melton, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Shiyu Liu, Pennsylvania State University
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Engineering Ethics
.)On the other hand, there was an increase on the post-assessment in several responses, mostnotably for the following coding categories: needed for future career (to obtain, do well in) (pre- Page 26.1542.10assessment: 13%, n = 7; post-assessment: 29%, n = 16) and needed for safety, legitimacy, beingqualified in engineering (pre-assessment: 7%, n = 4; post-assessment: 18%, n = 10). To a lesserextent, coding categories accurately reflect what you know, academic record (pre-assessment:13%, n = 7; post-assessment: 20%, n = 11) and to recognize those who deserve credit (pre-assessment: 7%, n = 4; post-assessment: 13%, n = 7) were also more often
Conference Session
Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 3
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
A. J. Hamlin, Michigan Technological University; Valorie Troesch, Michigan Technological University; Amber Kemppainen, Michigan Technological University; Jonathan T Riehl, Michigan Technological University; Douglas E. Oppliger P.E., Michigan Technological University; Mary A. Fraley, Michigan Technological University
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Engineering Ethics
Engineering CourseAbstractAt Michigan Technological University, a phenomenological approach has been used to teachengineering ethics in a one-credit semester long course taken primarily by 3rd and 4th yearstudents for the past three years. In this course students examine what it is to be an ethicalengineer through a series of readings about ethical engineers, personal interviews with engineers,and their personal reflection about their own character and values. From these experiences,students begin to encounter the “essence” of an ethical engineer. They were asked to experience,as much as possible in a classroom setting, the phenomenon of being an ethical engineer. Pre-and post-test results of the Defining Issues Test-2 (DIT-2, a validated and
Conference Session
Women in Engineering Division: Curricular Programs
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Claire Lynne McCullough P.E., University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
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Diversity
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Women in Engineering
Tool in Addressing Gender BiasAbstractAfter decades of addressing the gender bias in engineering and computer fields, there areexpectations, particularly by women in these fields, that the biases would have been eradicated 1long before 2014. However, an Implicit Association assignment addressing the Gender Gap inmultiple recent semesters of a Computer Ethics class produced results which the author foundboth surprising and disturbing in the biases reflected, and justified, by current students. As astrategy in dealing with this, Problem Based Learning (PBL) was used as the basis of a moreextensive, team-based project in the Spring 2014 iteration of the class. The three
Conference Session
Mathematics Division Technical Session 3
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Emre Tokgoz, Quinnipiac University; Gabriela C. Gualpa, Quinnipiac University
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Mathematics
operation... • When an action is repeated and the individual reflects upon it, he or she can make an internal mental construction called a process which the individual can think of as performing the same kind of action, but no longer with the need of external stimuli... • An object is constructed from a process when the individual becomes aware of the process as a totality and realizes that transformations can act on it... • A schema is a ... individuals’ collection of actions, processes, objects, and other schemas which are linked by some general principles to form a framework in individual’s mind...In this theory, every concept can be constructed on different concepts and schemas. For example,if a researcher
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2015 ASEE Workshop on K-12 Engineering Education
Authors
Larry G. Richards, University of Virginia
development and skill levels forstudents in those grades. Teams will report out on their experiences at the end of the workshop.• Concluding activities and discussionsParticipants will reflect on how these activities and materials can be used in their classes. Wewill review "engineering habits of mind" and 21st Century skills; how the engineering designprocess can integrate topics from science, math, history, and communication arts, and engagestudents via project-based learning.StandardsApplicable national standards for the selected ETKs appear at the end of this application as percommunication with Ms. Hurd. Please note that all of the ETKs are grounded in Virginia'sStandards of Learning in math and science; many also match to standards in other
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2015 ASEE Workshop on K-12 Engineering Education
Authors
William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette
links people and design. Discussions will include how to use this connection to motivate STEM learning and encourage pathways into engineering. The highly interactive workshop will use a varied instructional approach with brief presentations, large and small group discussions, building and testing prototypes and reflections included in the workshop. The facilitator has conducted over 100 presentations and workshops on STEM and engineering education. He is a professional engineering with industry experience in design and a faculty member in engineering education. Participants should be ready for active engagement to cover a lot of material in our brief session
Conference Session
Concurrent Paper Tracks - Session II
Collection
2015 ASEE International Forum
Authors
Patricia A. Sullivan, New Mexico State University; Delia Valles-Rosales, New Mexico State University; Marcelo Augusto Leal Alves, University of São Paulo; Brendan P. Sullivan, New Mexico State University
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International Forum
to complete undergraduate degrees in STEM programs. Page 19.22.2The importance of a transferrable innovative learning system model that is focused on aninclusive, integrative, experiential, and dynamic STEM undergraduate degree training is greatlywarranted. Studies have demonstrated that learning is a lifetime process that supports a student’sacquisition of knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviors towards success not just while employed(Gardner, 1994; Fink 2003). One way to address this learning process is through experientiallearning, which provides concrete experiences (i.e., laboratories, field works, problem sets),reflecting
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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference
Authors
Stephen N. Kuchnicki
) using a predetermined set of stresses.Later in the term, a different problem that also requires evaluation of stresses from loads beforeapplication of a stress transformation or principal stress relation could be given. In this way, theact of evaluating stresses can be assessed separately and in contrast with the application ofstandard principal stress relations.Performance on both the midterm and final examinations using each schedule is compared,testing both for students’ ability to demonstrate knowledge of new concepts as they are taught,reflected in midterm performance, and their ability to retain these concepts on a cumulative finalexam. It is found that student performance on the midterms is improved when there are moremidterms rather
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2015 Northeast Section Meeting
Authors
Moses Tefe; Tara Kulkarni
ill prepared to be teachers. If our engineering educators areineffective, they are not helping build a strong foundation for new engineers.This paper identifies four programs; ExCEEd, organized by ASCE; project Catalyst at BucknellUniversity; the National Effective Teaching Institutes (NETI) program, and the NSF SUCCEEDprogram. All of these have an underlying mission of providing additional training to develop andretain new engineering professors and help them become effective teachers. This paper providesan overview of these programs, and reflections of the authors’ experiences as ExCEEd graduates.KeywordsNew Faculty; Effective Teaching; ExCEEd Model, Project Catalyst 1. IntroductionAccording to Brent and Felder (2003)1 “ College
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2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting
Authors
Hasmik Gharibyan
other hand, it allows the instructor to provide more help and give more attention tostudents, since there are fewer entities to oversee. Also, from the academic administration’spoint of view, pair programming is cost-efficient, since it makes it possible to increase thenumber of students in each class without major impact on student learning.In introductory programming courses, lab scores are usually included in the overall gradecalculation and thus become a component of student assessment. However, lab scores may notaccurately reflect student knowledge. It is important to note that in pair programming theevaluation of individual student’s performance is not straightforward and has some challenges4,9.The common practice in introductory courses