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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Kiran George

in the ComputerEngineering program at California State University, Fullerton is used as an example. However,the proposed methodology for instruction development can be applied to other courses inengineering as well. Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference  Copyright © 2013, American Society for Engineering Education  400       +++ (a) Implementation Process1) As and when topics are covered during the course of a semester, the instructor for EGCP 281course assigns a project that involves a literature review on

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Milica Markovic

ideal transmission lines is taught by following a similarsequence of three step set up, as shown in Figure 13. After these exercises, students easilyrecognize different configurations of impedance matching networks and make lumped element,transmission line matching circuits or a combination with ease.Initially, ideal transmission lines are used, and they are subsequently replaced by microstriptransmission lines to investigate how real-life parameters affect the circuit design, as well asdesign restrictions for specific application or implementation of impedance matching network. Atthe end of this sequence students undertake a patch antenna project, where they design, simulate,fabricate and measure a square- patch antenna. (a)Three step

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2013 GSW

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Lex Gonzalez; Gary Coleman; Eric Haney; Amit Oza; Vincent Ricketts; Bernd Chudoba; Paul Czsyz

(MGS), has been conducted as part of a joint researchactivity between NASA and DARPA in order to assess technology development and investmentby both agencies. The goals of the MGS study are technology, concept, and architectureassessment/forecasting for manned servicing missions within the next 5 to 10 years.The MGS research project is decomposed into five constituents; Team 1 - Hardware to GEO,Team 2 - Crew to and from GEO, Team 3 - Human Presence, Team 4 - Human/RoboticsSynergy, and Core Team - Project Definition and Synthesis. As a member of Team 2, theAerospace Vehicle Design Laboratory (AVD Lab) is responsible for the assessment oftechnology/vehicle requirements to transfer crew to and from GEO. This article summarizes the

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2016 Rocky Mountain Section Conference

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Reza Kamali-Sarvestani; Ephraim Nielson; Jared Laufiso

the drop diameter6,7.For this project we used Diamond Jet Silver Nano Ink printed on to Epson paper. Usingthe DMP-2800 fiducial camera the drop diameter was measured to be 30 µm. If the dropspacing is to close, then the ink tends to pool up causing inconsistent print quality. If thedrop spacing is too large then the ink may not be continuous. We found that using a dropspacing of 25 µm provided sufficient overlap and avoided pooling up of the ink. In one ofthe samples it was observed that the resistivity was not uniform on the x and y axis. Inthe x direction the resistivity measures about 0.5 Ω/cm, however in the y direction itmeasured 100 KΩ. This is due to drop spacing being too large and the tendency of theink to flow in the direction of

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2016 Rocky Mountain Section Conference

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Angela R. Bielefeldt; Daniel Knight; Christopher Swan; Nathan Canney

, % discipline, % Professional practice issues Curricular 18 Societal impacts of engineering and technology Engineering decisions in the face of uncertainty Chemical 64 Computer 39 Safety Chemical 72 Computer 37 Engineering code of ethics Curricular 14 Civil 59 Biomed 41 Sustainability and/or sustainable development Civil 63 Biomed 24 Ethical failures/disasters Curricular 17 Chemical 54 Mech 43 Ethics in design projects Environmental protection issues Chemical 57 Computer 16 Responsible

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Rebeca G. Book; William Pfannenstiel

Committee provides a link to Ethics Resources and Organizations. __ IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology http://radburn.rutgers.edu/andrews/projects/ssit/default.htm “The scope of the society includes such issues as environmental, health and safety implications of technology; engineering ethics and professional responsibility; history of electrotechnology; technical expertise and public policy; peace technology; and social issues related to energy, information technology and telecommunications.”Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Midwest Section Conference __ The ASME Professional Practice Curriculum

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Ramazan Asmatulu; Mehmet B. Yildirim; Waseem Khan; Adebayo Adeniji; Humphrey Wamocha

industry, nanoelectromechanical systems,microelectromechanical systems and nanotechnology applications for fuel and solar cells. In the Introduction to Nanotechnology course which is offered in Fall 2007, the similartopics will be covered at introduction level. There will be homework, term project, exams andlaboratory sessions. A nanotechnology laboratory is being developed in the Department ofMechanical Engineering at Wichita State University, and dedicated to do a number ofnanotechnology experiments for students. We plan to have undergraduate students work on theelectrospinning method in the nanotechnology laboratory. Students will produce nanofibersusing the described electrospinning method and then characterize properties such as

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Ossama Elhadary

research interests includeElectronic Commerce, Adoption of technology, project Management, and best practices inmanagement of IT. 232 Using Internships and Input from Businesses to Guide the development of a Computer Technician CourseAbstractThis paper discusses the process of developing a computer technician’s course for the Associatedegree program in computer systems. The paper discusses how the faculty perceived a need todevelop such a course, and the process used to develop it. Students who had internships wereasked to list the activities they did in their internships. And then this list was used to develop asurvey that was then sent to department’s advisory board, as well as to

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Dennis Silage

, synchronization, source coding, and multiplexing for the undergraduate student2.Employing a computational script in MATLAB, as some texts do, merely verifies the analyticalequation. Even a short inclusion of simulation techniques with a block diagram interface as ademonstration does not seem to imbue the undergraduate student with the same level ofconfidence that PSD, Pb and BER measurements and audio .wav file verification madethroughout the course and laboratory can provide.The digital communication system laboratory or projects using MATLAB/Simulink thataccompany the lecture course allows the exploration of topics in simulation which are not in thetext and whose results are more experiential1,4. The incalculable value for the undergraduatestudent

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Br. Henry Chaya

. The motivation of the students is the most important reason for this. This project hasdemonstrated that it is quite feasible to give undergraduate students the benefit of expert teaching skillsthat are otherwise unavailable to them. It is indeed the author feels privileged to have had thisopportunity.AcknowledgementsThe author wishes to thank Dr Saleem Zoughbi, coordinator for the CAIS program for giving him theopportunity to offer this course, and the support of Dr Gordon Silverman and Dr Richard Heist for theirencouragement and the released time to prepare this course.Br Henry Chaya is a De La Salle Christian Brother and an Associate Professor of Computer and ElectricalEngineering at Manhattan College. From fall 2003 to spring 2004 he was

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division (WIED) Technical Session 8: Leadership and Persistence

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kavitha Chandra, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Susan Thomson Tripathy, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Sumudu Lewis, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; nadia sahila, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

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Nadia Sahila is a dedicated doctoral student at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, specializing in research and evaluation in education. She holds a Master of Education in Curriculum and Instruction and a Bachelor of Arts in Marketing and Management. Currently, Nadia is a graduate research assistant with the River Hawks Scholarship Academy and a teaching assistant for the Fulbright Teaching Excellence and Achievement program, as well as the Research, Academics, and Mentoring Pathways program. Her research interests focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion, particularly in educational settings. Recent projects have explored culturally responsive education and gender equity. Nadia has presented her research at

Conference Session

DSA Technical Session 8

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paula Francisca Larrondo, Queen's University; Brian M Frank P.Eng., Queen's University; Julian Ortiz, Queen's University

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Data Science & Analytics Constituent Committee (DSA)

entity recognition [33]. While early automated feedback systemsrelied on domain-expert rules and were limited in addressing the diversity of open-endedassignments [34-36], data-driven approaches, though promising in highly semantically diverseresponses, often face challenges due to the lack of extensive training datasets [4, 37, 38].AFS based on LLMs holds the potential for a more effective and efficient solution. Applicationsrange from personalized hints for programming assignments [39] to reflective writing [40],including feedback on the appropriateness of the topic of a data science project proposal and thedescription clarity of goals, benefits, novelty and overall clarity of the report [41]. Despite thepromising results from studies like Dai

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Michael Korostelev; Ning Gong; Ralph Oyini Mbouna

class exercises,work is always done with this scenario as the foundation. In classes for majors, this is usually thereverse; students learn the tools first and apply them to real problems as capstone projects. Wefind our approach for the course yielded greater outcomes than the approach that is usuallyeffective for majors. Even though this reverse strategy seems sensible, students can still getdiscouraged or disengaged with some bland material. To address this and assure sustainableengagement in lessons, we use strategies we described in active learning: gamification and two-way teaching.4.1 Assignment Design based on GamificationThe gamification case study we present is a group assignment that focuses on protocol design.Through its completion

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2012 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Todd Holden; Vazgen Shekoyan; Sunil Dehipawala; George Tremberger Jr; David Lieberman; Tak Cheung

. Copyright ASEE Middle Atlantic Regional Conference Delaware April 20-21 2012ConclusionsThis explorative project shows that structural equation model is capable of providingquantitative information on the causative hypotheses/elements such as pre-requisites in asequence of courses. The LISREL software is fairly easy to implement and it is hopedthat the presented results would popularize the application of SEM in engineering andtechnology program pedagogy.AcknowledgementsPartial supports from several CUNY grants are gratefully acknowledged.References1. Bollen KA, Noble MD 2011, “Structural equation models and the quantification ofbehavior”, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Sep 13;1082. LISREL softwarehttp://www.ssicentral.com/3. Taasoobshirazi, G. and

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Brian Linhares; Sharifa Happy; Hossein Rahemi

illustrate the various benefits that the components of the robot, such as sensorsand moving mechanisms, power sources, and the composition of green elements can benefit afield of crops (Figure 2). With the use of laser sensors, we will accurately measure the height ofthe crops by scanning the crops in an angled projection. This then allows for the robot to selfadjust its height to the height of the crop.The ultrasound sensor will be detecting if there is something in front before mechanisms areactivated. Controls will be using GPS guidance systems. Pullers, blades, and a conveyor belt willbe the rotating systems, grabbing, cutting, and extracting the crops inside the robot. The soilsensor will be a panel collecting and analyzing the soil components

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Sandeep Dilwali

technology continues to be a national issue. It is projected that there will be shortfallof the people needed to fill positions in science, technology and engineering and math(STEM) related disciplines for the next several years. Unless some significant steps aretaken to address this issue, this shortage will continue to grow to undesirable levels. Students coming out of high schools have major decisions to make in terms ofchoice of careers, and many postpone that decision to while at college or later. A largenumber of students begin college with a choice of major as “Undecided”, and hope thatfew years of college education will place them in a better position to be able a make aninformed decision. Also many students are concerned that the

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2009 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Robert M. Brooks; Berk Ayranci; Keerthi Takkalapelli

, building peer network for group study and design projects, obtaining a mentor, and becoming an ASEE chapter officer were ranked 1 to 4 respectively, among the activities. 2. The student membership improved by 144% because of the top 4 activities. 3. t-tests and ANOVA tests indicated that the top 4 activities increased interest on ASEE at a statistically significant level of 0.01.RecommendationsEach year, student interest may be changing. Therefore, a preliminary survey needs to beconducted for adding new interests and removing insignificant interests from the list. Programsshould be scheduled and implemented representing the issues. Energies and resources should bespent according to the weighted priorities of the

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2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

David A. Rogers; Orven F. Swenson

an established course in optical signal transmission.Students with majors in physics and engineering have learned professional optics techniquesfor evaluating the characteristics of optical fibers and obtained hands-on experience with opticalcommunications.IntroductionThe primary objective of the National Science Foundation (NSF) optics education project atNorth Dakota State University has been the development of an undergraduate optics laboratoryto serve the needs of a general optics course (Physics/ECE 411/611) that is the jointresponsibility of the Departments of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering. Thiscourse includes ten experiments in a lab that was established with the support of NSF andadapted from work done at New Jersey

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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

John Mirth; David Kunz

Asking Better Questions – Making Connections Through Developing Inquisitiveness John Mirth, Ph.D. David Kunz, Ph.D. Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering University of Wisconsin – Platteville Platteville, WI 53818 “Could it be the questions tell us more than the answers ever do?” – Michael CardAbstract: The nature of engineering education tends to put students in a problem-solvingenvironment. Given a particular challenge, the student becomes focused on obtaining asolution to some homework problem, exam question, lab experiment, design project or othertask. Such exercises provide

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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Anoop K. Dhingra; Al Ghorbanpoor; Joe Rauter

et al. (1997)describe the Manufacturing Engineering Education Partnership project that was sponsored byDepartment of Defense’s Technology Reinvestment Program. They show that all constituentsinvolved in the program: students, faculty and industrial partners, benefited from theacademic/industrial interaction. The impact of the interaction described was essentially on thecurriculum, but it suggests benefits to the industrial partners beyond the involvement ofundergraduate students.The Graduate Internship Program (GIP) discussed in the paper is different from the partnershipsdiscussed above in the sense that we do not transfer research results from academia to theindustry. Instead, we are uniquely developing the research technology at the

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2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Paul Blowers

be built asadvisors bridge their own experiences to what the students will soon be experiencing.Questioning the student about why they are choosing their major also allows the advisor to selectappropriate exploration routes. If a student says they are choosing a discipline like engineeringbecause they love math and its applications, then the advising can direct students to findindependent research projects or summer programs where they will be exposed to these types oflearning. Finally, a complete student background can be done by filling in information about thestudents academic background on grades, extracurricular activities, courses taken, and workexperiences. Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education

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2009 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Robert M. Brooks; Berk Ayranci; Keerthi Takkalapelli

, building peer network for group study and design projects, obtaining a mentor, and becoming an ASEE chapter officer were ranked 1 to 4 respectively, among the activities. 2. The student membership improved by 144% because of the top 4 activities. 3. t-tests and ANOVA tests indicated that the top 4 activities increased interest on ASEE at a statistically significant level of 0.01.RecommendationsEach year, student interest may be changing. Therefore, a preliminary survey needs to beconducted for adding new interests and removing insignificant interests from the list. Programsshould be scheduled and implemented representing the issues. Energies and resources should bespent according to the weighted priorities of the

Conference Session

Innovations in Materials Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacquelyn E. Kelly, Arizona State University; Andrea Marta Eller, Arizona State University; Stephen J. Krause, Arizona State University

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Materials

engineering. His research interests are evaluating conceptual knowledge, miscon- ceptions and their repair, and conceptual change. He has co-developed a Materials Concept Inventory for assessing conceptual knowledge of students in introductory materials engineering classes. He is cur- rently conducting research with NSF sponsored projects in the areas of: Modules to Promote Conceptual Change in an Introductory Materials Course, Tracking Student Learning Trajectories of Atomic Structure and Macroscopic Property Relationships, and Assessing the Effect of Learning Modes on Conceptual Change. Page 22.232.1

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Teacher and Counselor Professional Development

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Reeves, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Julia Ross, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Taryn Bayles, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

engineering education, outreach and curriculum development. Page 15.68.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 A Novel Approach to Professional DevelopmentAbstract The INSPIRES project (INcreasing Student Participation, Interest, and Recruitment inEngineering and Science) stemmed from an NSF-IMD grant and focuses on developingengineering curriculum to introduce high school students to the engineering design process.Curriculum features include professionally produced video segments, a large culminating open-ended engineering design challenge, online content with interactive animations, an

Conference Session

Best Practices in Existing College-Industry Partnerships

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

G. Marshall Molen, Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems at Mississippi State University; Matthew Doude, Mississippi State University

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College-Industry Partnerships

the dSPACE software, including ControlDesk and MotionDesk,and were given a demonstration model to practice on. Page 15.1301.3Students have also been trained through a Model Based Systems Design class offered atMississippi State University. In this class, the students were trained using tools offered by TheMathWorks, such as Matlab and Simulink. These programs are the basis for the dSPACEsoftware suite. In this class, students were given projects which required them to developcomponent models and integrate them into an HIL simulation. For example, one group modeledan electric traction motor by setting up and instrumenting the motor on a

Conference Session

Energy Education and Industry Needs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Darrell Wallace, Youngstown State University; Brian Vuksanovich, Youngstown State University; Michael Costarell, Youngstown State University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

production automation in the existing facilitywas minimal and management sought the help of YSU faculty to augment their technicalabilities. As the scope of the project grew, so did the ambitiousness of the project. What beganas a small plant expansion grew into a vision for an environmentally friendly world-classmanufacturing facility. The new plant was to be the first privately owned building in the countyto comply with the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and EnvironmentalDesign (LEED) certification criteria. The plant was to serve as the centerpiece of the company'senvironmentally responsible public image. To that end, the design team was challenged to pushthe boundaries of what is currently considered state-of-the-art within

Conference Session

Women in K-12 Engineeering & Outreach Programs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carolyn Vallas, University of Virginia; Wraegen Williams PhD, University of Virginia; Ping Guan, University of Virginia

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

this paper are the ExxonMobilBernard Harris Summer Science Camp (EMBHSSC) for rising sixth, seventh, and eighth graders,Introduction to Engineering (ITE) for rising high school juniors and seniors, and the Leadership,Education, and Development Summer Engineering Institute (LEAD-SEI) which is also gearedtowards rising high school juniors and seniors.Each of these curriculums consists of hands on activities, lectures and presentations given byUniversity professors and graduate students, team building exercises, field excursions and toursof both faculty laboratories and the campus. In addition to these traditional enrichment activities,the LEAD-SEI program initiated a group research project strategy, which was highly praised byvisiting sponsors

Conference Session

Track 3 - Session 2 - Faculty Development

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2012 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Prasad Edamana, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT M), India; Ajit Kumar Kolar, Indian Institute of Technology Madras; Pramod S. Mehta, Indian Institute of Technology Madras; Sujatha Srinivasan, Indian Institute of Technology Madras; Jefferey E. Froyd, Texas A&M University

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Track 3 - Faculty Development

enthusiastic participant in the activities of the Teaching-Learning Centre at IIT-M.Dr. Jefferey E. Froyd, Texas A&M University Jeffrey E. Froyd is a TEES Research Professor and the Director of Faculty Climate and Development at Texas A&M University. He served as Project Director for the Foundation Coalition, an NSF Engineering Education Coalition in which six institutions systematically renewed, assessed, and institutionalized their undergraduate engineering curricula, and extensively shared their results with the engineering education community. He co-created the Integrated, First-Year Curriculum in Science, Engineering and Mathe- matics at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, which was recognized in 1997 with a

Conference Session

Track 3 - Session 2 - Faculty Development

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2012 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Kang SoYeon, Yonsei University

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Track 3 - Faculty Development

. However, after Brain Korea 21 Project (1999~2005), at themany research based institutions, the focus of evaluation has become to move fromundergraduate education to research. Most professors in Korean engineering colleges have beenmainly concerned about research productivity, while showing indifference to the quality ofteaching because they were largely evaluated on publications in SCI-rated research journals inorder to be successful in tenure or promotion. If a professor's research performance is competent,students’ poor rating won't be an issue. The faculty evaluation of teaching has not beenconsidered as important as research. Moreover, it used only rating scale of number of lecture andstudents’ course evaluations using quantitative assessment

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2015 ASEE Workshop on K-12 Engineering Education

Authors

Cheryl Farmer, University of Texas, Austin

websiteand program materials.1) Cheryl Farmer is the founding program director of UTeachEngineering. In this role she hasled the successful development and launch of the design-based high school engineering courseEngineer Your World and has overseen the creation of degree programs for pre-service and in-service teachers of engineering at The University of Texas. Ms. Farmer is co-leading ongoingnational efforts to define standards for professional development for K-12 teachers ofengineering.2) Arnie Leslie is an educator at the Tesla STEM High School in Lake Washington SchoolDistrict (Redmond, Washington). His 26 years of secondary teaching experience includetraditional and project-based instruction in Physics, Environmental Science, and Engineering