Conference Session

Assessment & Continuous Improvement in ET: Part I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alberto Gomez-Rivas, University of Houston-Downtown; Lea Campbell, University of Houston, Downtown; George Pincus, University of Houston, Downtown

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Engineering Technology

assessment.Course-Embedded AssessmentAn interesting aspect of the new assessment criteria is that old dependable grades are not asufficient acceptable measure of performance because they are not related directly to theachievement of specific program outcomes. However, instructors must continue grading as usualwhile at the same time being involved in development and implementation of assessment plansthat include performance measurements. C. A. Palomba and Trudy W. Banta in their bookAssessment Essentials state: “In a move that is all too rare in higher education, faculty at RivierCollege is working to integrate goals described in the institution’s mission statement and thestandards on which grades are based. That is, individual college grades should reflect

Conference Session

Past and Future of Manufacturing Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Wells, North Dakota State University

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Manufacturing

life of the ASEE Manufacturing Division, education in manufacturing engineering and manufacturing engineering technology has faced more-or-less continuous challenge. It has always been difficult to convey the excitement and fulfillment of a manufacturing engineering career to young students -- and to the choice as an undergraduate major. It has always been difficult to make the case for the value proposition of expensive laboratories with university administrators. It has always been difficult to forge and maintain meaningful and effective linkages between campus and industry. Over the years, these challenges have been framed to reflect the crucial focus of the time -- of a particular year. At several key points in the past

Conference Session

IT-based Instructional Technologies

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yi-Cheng Chen, Meiho Institute of Technology; Yi-Chien Lin, Meiho Institute of Technology; Ron Chuen Yeh, Meiho Institute of Technology, Taiwan; Kuo-Hung Tseng, Meiho Institute of Technology

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Information Systems

EC related course topics among overall importance, education and current known. Inorder to make the study more complete, we conducted a series of follow-up interviews with 12responding software engineers with most knowledge “learned in education”, and 12 respondentswith most knowledge “learned on the job”. Also, we compared the curriculum of IT departmentof a well-know vocational college in the southern part of Taiwan and interview the relevantfaculty of the IT department who are currently teaching the related EC-related topics torigorously justify our research results.All of the interviewees including the relevant faculty members asserted that the findings in thisstudy regarding the knowledge levels of each course can accurately reflect the

Conference Session

Critical Issues in IT and IET: Focus Group

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gabriel Harley, IUPUI; Daniel Baldwin, IUPUI; Wanda Worley, IUPUI; Tresler Thurston, IUPUI; Stephen Hundley, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis

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Engineering Technology

• Dating networksStudent Engagement: Definitions and MeasurementsWhile most college instructors have heard the term “student engagement” and would likely agreethat engaged students are a positive reflection upon their teaching strategies, a consensus on itsdefinition is difficult to determine. A common definition of student engagement, however,evolves beyond the mere transmission of information from instructor to student and moves intothe realm of active learning. As Williams and Chen write, Common characteristics associated with active learning include the use of higher level thinking and engagement of students in activities that encourage exploration and subsequent evaluation of their involvement. The emphasis on skill

Conference Session

ADVANCE Grants and Institutional Transformation

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Canan Bilen-Green, North Dakota State University; Elizabeth Birmingham, North Dakota State University; Ann Burnett, North Dakota State University; Roger Green, North Dakota State University

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Women in Engineering

described by the American Council on Education16 — atransformation that: “(1) alters the culture of the institution by changing select, underlyingassumptions and institutional behaviors, processes, and products; (2) is deep and pervasive,affecting the whole institution; (3) is intentional; and (4) occurs over time.” Therefore, NorthDakota State University Advance FORWARD’s approach to such institutional transformationinvolves multiple interventions which take into account (1) the effects of institutional policies andpractices; (2) campus climate, reflecting attitudes and behaviors that diminish women’sadvancement; and (3) knowledge and skills for success in teaching, research, and leadership.Institutional ContextNorth Dakota State University, a

Conference Session

Emerging Information Technologies

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J. Wey Chen, Southern Taiwan University

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Information Systems

higher level.The Cognitive TheoryIt is widely known that programming, even at a simple level, is a difficult activity to learn. Why isthis so? Are novice difficulties really inherent in programming or are they related to the nature ofthe programming tools currently given to novices? Bonar and Soloway11 presented evidence thatcurrent programming languages do not accurately reflect the cognitive strategies used by noviceprogrammers. Instead, Bonar and Soloway11 have found that novice programmers possessknowledge and experience with step-by-step specifications in natural language. This knowledgeand experience gives them powerful intuitions for using a programming language. Programminglanguages, however, are not designed to appeal to these

Conference Session

Educational Research & Methods Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Ryan; Nhut Ho; Shelley Bartenstein

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Educational Research and Methods

Page 15.413.8higher scores for only three criteria (one criteria was the same, and R1 had to leave thepresentation early and was not present for the Q/A session, and thus did not respond with respectto Criterion 7). This is consistent with scores from the HPV presentation, and appears to reflect asystematic difference between these two reviewers.With respect to the comparison of faculty and alumni scores, the most significant differencesoccur for Criteria 1, 7, and 9 (Organization, Questions and Answers, and Problem Definition).The alumni’s familiarity with the FSAE competition may help to explain their more generousevaluation of Criteria 1 and 9. The higher alumni score given to the Question and Answercriterion is consistent with the student

Conference Session

Communication in Design

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia Mellodge, University of Hartford; Fouad El Khoury, University of Hartford

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Design in Engineering Education

technology in a professional setting.Within engineering education, wikis have been used in several ways at several different levels.One example is the creation of ePortfolios in a freshman engineering design course8. Thestudents were given writing assignments in which they reflected on the human implications ofdesign. Another example can be found in a team-based capstone design project in which thewiki was used to document social knowledge and assess group performance9. A third example isa student-written online textbook5. In a senior level chemical engineering process controlscourse, an open-source text was written, edited, and reviewed by the students to allow them tolearn the course content though teaching it.This paper describes the use of a

Conference Session

Computational Tools and Simulation III

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Crown, University of Texas, Pan American; Arturo Fuentes, University of Texas, Pan American; Robert Jones, University of Texas, Pan American; Rajiv Nambiar, University of Texas, Pan American; Deborah Crown, San Jose State University

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Computers in Education

thisinteractive online learning environment is to encourage students to think reflectively on coursefundamentals. Although providing students with access to a complex artificial intelligencefocused on course fundamentals is a valuable byproduct, the greatest value lies in the studentmotivation and engagement associated with development of the knowledge base. Studentinvolvement in the process of building Anne's knowledge base has proven to be instructional andfun. The knowledge base is built from individual and cooperative student interactions. As part ofassigned coursework students formulate questions based on their perceptions of coursefundamentals and attempt to provide responses that are consistent with their own knowledge andin a way that other

Conference Session

Launching Successful Academic Careers

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Fleishman, Western Washington University; Janet Braun, Western Washington University

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New Engineering Educators

, which has many aspects that are new tothose coming from industry. The process requires development of teaching skills, as reflected incourse evaluations provided by the students and peer evaluations, scholarly activity, as reflectedin research and publication of professional documents, and service at the community, universityand departmental levels. The tenure requirements were listed in an informal prioritized order, asunderstood by the authors. As previously indicated, the task of developing course content can bechallenging in areas that are not immediately within the area of industrial expertise. Add to thisthe challenge of having to present the material in a sound pedagogical approach, the need toquickly adapt to the classroom environment

Conference Session

Design in the ECE Curriculum

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bill Yang, Western Carolina University; Phillip Sanger, Western Carolina University; Patrick Gardner, Western Carolina University

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Electrical and Computer

not have well-defined requirements initially or the requirements can changeover the course of the project. For such projects, requirements management can be essential. Allthese complex features of project management reflect the dynamic and complex nature of thereal world. While the teaching and learning of project management in an undergraduatecurriculum can only focus on the fundamentals, appreciation of these complex facets of realworld project management is valuable and can be attainable through more open-ended seniorcapstone projects such as an undergraduate research project.A Stage-Gate Structure of Engineering and Technology Capstone ProjectsProject management should be introduced early in the student’s development so that the

Conference Session

Issues and Directions in ET Education & Administration: Part II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kim Nankivell, Purdue University, Calumet; Jana Whittington, Purdue University, Calumet; Joy Colwell, Purdue University, Calumet

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Engineering Technology

. (2008, October). Chief Academic Officers' demographics and educational backgrounds [Electronic version]. Community College Review, 36(2), 116-132. Page 15.1281.1013. Langer, A. (2001). Fixing bad habits: Integrating technology personnel in the workplace using reflective practice [Electronic version]. Reflective Practice, 2(1), 99-111.14. Marquis, H. (2006, December). ITIL: What it is and what it isn't [Electronic version]. Business Communications Review, 36(12), 49-52.15. McLaughlin, G. W., Montgomery, J. R., & Malpass, L. F. (1975). Selected characteristics, roles, goals, and satisfactions of department

Conference Session

Construction Classroom Development

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dennis Audo, Pittsburg State University; Seth O'Brien, Pittsburg State University

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Construction

discussed to make the students aware of how to manage their time so thatthey can be productive. Measuring floor joists After the subfloor is completely attached, the students are assigned to four groups. Each groupconsists of five or six students. Groups are assigned a portion of the house based on four colors:red, green, yellow and blue. All the building members of the house are painted with one of fourcolors to reflect which team installs which piece of the house. The boss then reminds each groupabout how to handle the preframed walls in a safe and orderly manner, telling them never to walkbackward when carrying wall sections. The individual groups lift and secure the walls into placeone at a time until the

Conference Session

History, Program Design, and even a Journal Club

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Farison, Baylor University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

of theirfirst accreditation. Clearly, that number is growing quite steadily.Expanding on the historical data in Table 1, Table 2 gives considerable data about each of theinstitutions: the institutional name used by ABET, the multidisciplinary engineering program(s)offered, the year of their first accreditation, the number of other ABET-accredited engineeringprograms at the institution, and the date of the next general accreditation review. Table 3provides a numerical summary of the more detailed data in Table 2, highlighting the anticipatedvisit workload over the next six-year cycle that would be predicted from Table 2, by year andprogram area. Clearly, there is a wide variation reflected by those data in the anticipatedworkload from year to

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experience

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Vaccari, Stevens Institute of Technology; Siva Thangam, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Graduate Studies

dissertation must show that the candidate is fully aware of the pertinent published material and the dissertation must be written in a satisfactory literary style, free from typographical and other mechanical errors.No criteria are given for the oral presentation except as follows: “The purpose of the oral examination is to examine both the content of the dissertation and the candidate’s ability to defend it. “Holbrook6 quotes Kouptsov8 for Ph.D. criteria obtained by a survey of European academics asfollows: Belarus: '…Must reflect research on a disciplinary or interdisciplinary, theoretical, or applied problem, the results of which will constitute an original contribution to knowledge in the discipline or

Conference Session

Measurement Tools

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lindsey Nelson, Purdue University; Alice Pawley, Purdue University

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Educational Research and Methods

Page 15.1343.2investigated the culture of design firms,10,16-17 global partnerships within high-tech industry,18and socialization of professional engineers19 all with the goal of making recommendations forpractice. The purpose of this paper is to use techniques from applied anthropology to illustratehow domain analysis2 can be used to advance research in engineering education.As a methodology, domain analysis is well suited to answer complex questions. Complexquestions feature “a community” as a crucial element of study, and reflect activities within asocial environment. Different people can answer these very open-ended questions differently.Moreover, complex questions connect together with other questions. Indeed, the benefit toconducting

Conference Session

Outreach and Beyond: New Roles for Librarians

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jim Miller, University of Maryland; Bob Kackley, University of Maryland, College Park; Nevenka Zdravkovska, University of Maryland

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

these ninth to twelfth grade students werebeing heavily recruited to attend the University of Maryland upon matriculation from theirrespective high schools.Upon later reflection we realized how many opportunities the Maryland Libraries, includingEPSL Librarians, have taken advantage of to enhance the University of Maryland in the eyes ofnewcomers. For example, every year on the last Saturday in April, Maryland Day occurs oncampus with as many as 75,000 visitors, many below the age of 18. For several years forMaryland Day, the UM Libraries have sponsored a well-known children’s TV celebrity, Bob theVid Tech, from Maryland Public Television fame in a tent crammed full of youngsters. The otherinitiatives include "History Day", put on by the UM

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education and Industry

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Roger Olson, Rolls-Royce Corporation

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Graduate Studies

required for Engineering Levels [1-3]; b) Part II addresses theOrganizational Leadership Skills and Actions required for Engineering Levels [4-6], and; c) Part IIIaddresses the Strategic Leadership Skills and Actions required for Engineering Levels [7-9]. The overallanalysis sets the foundation for building a coherent professional graduate curriculum and dynamiceducational process reflective of how experienced engineering professionals learn, grow, and create newtechnology in industry. This paper addresses Part II: the Organizational Leadership Function, Skills andActions that engineers must learn and develop from Group Leader, Functional Area Manager, SystemsEngineer through Technical Program Manager Levels [4-6

Conference Session

Educational Research

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cindy Waters, North Carolina A&T State University; Helen Chen, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University

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Educational Research and Methods

based learning as well as co-op and internship experiences that students have had by their senior year. The perceivedimportance of these skills was comparable for each group.Local Findings:The local findings seem to contradict the national results because all of the students either agreeor strongly agree that their skills have improved since coming to the university. The manyopportunities for teamwork and collaboration in the engineering curriculum and in outsideinternships made possible through university–industry collaborations at North Carolina A&Tappear to have bolstered the students’ initial strong confidence in this area. A sample ofstudents’ free responses to a reflection question is shown in Table 6. These responses

Conference Session

Innovation and Measuring Success in Graduate Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joy Watson, University of South Carolina; Jed Lyons, University of South Carolina

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Graduate Studies

do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.Bibliography1. Akay, A., A Renaissnce In Engineering PhD Education. European Journal Of Engineering Education 2008, 33 (4), 403-413.2. National Science Board Science and Engineering Indicators. National Science Foundation: 2008; Vol. 1.3. Hogan, R.; Hogan, J., Assessing Leadership: A View From The Dark Side. International Journal Of Selection And Assessment 2001, 9 (1/2), 40-51.4. Hunt, C., Careers In Chemistry: Keys To Success...Beyond Hard Work! American Chemical Society Graduate Education Newsletter 2007, 6 (1), 1-3.5. Sekhon, J. G., The PhD Education of Industrial Mathematicians in Australia. Bulletin Of The Australian

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Physics or Engineering Physics

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Radian Belu, Drexel University; Alexandru Belu, Case Western Research University

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Engineering Physics & Physics

? Page 15.46.94. A change in the planet's reflectivity can change its effective temperature. For a onepercent increase in reflectivity (that is 0.34 rather than 0.33 for the albedo), how muchdoes the ground temperature decrease with NO change in optical depth.5. Venus has an effective temperature of 240K, but its surface temperature is 700K!Find the atmospheric optical depth that is required to accomplish this.Extra Credit Calculation: To make our calculation easy, we have divided theatmosphere into layers of equal optical depth. In the real atmosphere, these layers wouldhave different thickness since the optical depth depends on the mass of the layer and thedensity of air decreases with altitude. The density of air in the Earth's atmosphere, d

Conference Session

Post BS Entrepreneurship Education Needs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jerome Schaufeld, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Gretar Tryggvason, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; McRae Banks, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

interest in the subject matter Figure 5. The results of student assessment of the course for both the first and the second offering.3.1.3 GradesThe grading of the course consisted on several components: Homework (15%); Projectpresentation and report (35%); Quiz (30%) and class participation (20%).Homework, due in every lecture challenged students to reflect on the reading for the upcomingclass. The write-up was limited to one page and had to provide a synopsis of the material readand a few points for the class discussion of the material. The students initially had somedifficulty with the concept, including limiting it to a page, but after the first weeks there was anoticeable improvement

Conference Session

Design in BME Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alyssa Taylor, University of Virginia; Katelyn Mason, University of Virginia; A. Leyf Peirce Starling, The Fletcher School; Timothy Allen, University of Virginia; Shayn Peirce, University of Virginia

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Biomedical

encompass a variety of benefits a senior undergraduatestudent can receive as a result of their Capstone design experience. Besides benefiting thestudent in terms of advancing their careers, building their resumes, and preparing them for post-undergraduate endeavors such as graduate school, the success metrics examined in this study (i.e.grant applications and publications) also benefit the advisors, department, company, etc. Perhapsan outcome more immediately relevant to undergraduate students would be the end-of-yearevaluation score of their design project, which is reflected by their spring semester grade. Thus,we examined the end-of-year grades to determine whether any trends in advisor demographics orteam formulation were discernable.The

Conference Session

Special Session: Impacts of Service in Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University; Eric Pappas, James Madison University

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Educational Research and Methods

ones that I knew would not be practical.”and Creativity “I’ve learned more about the design process and problem solving and have developed more cognitive skills that help with creativity.” “I learned about some of my strengths and weaknesses, especially in comparison toSelf-awareness my peers.”Students were also asked to reflect on what aspects of the project were most and least valuable.Overall and in agreement with responses on learning outcome gains (Table 1), students felt thatthe most valuable aspects during the project were learning and applying the design process (e.g.,developing ideas, meeting customer needs, generating concepts, sketching and drawing concepts

Conference Session

Design in the ECE Curriculum

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Shey, United States Naval Academy; Ryan Rakvic, United States Naval Academy; Thomas Salem, United States Naval Academy; Samara Firebaugh, United States Naval Academy

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

Fairchild SemiconductorQRB1134 Phototransistor Reflective Object Sensor. Using this sensor, allows the students tomake a line following robot by properly selecting resistors to properly bias the sensor as shownin Figure 2. This sensor also covers signal conditioning because it outputs a digital signal, butthis requires the students to evaluate whatvoltages are evaluated as a logical “0” and alogical “1” by the controller. VSourceThe second sensor used is the MaxSonar EZ0 Current Pull-upUltrasonic Range Finder. This sensor offers Limiting Resistormultiple output

Conference Session

Computer Education Innovations I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Ahlgren, Trinity College; Igor Verner, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology

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Computers in Education

competition_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________3. StrategiesPlease reflect on matching of the assistive robotics competition goals by the current RoboWaiter contest. Suggeststrategies that can improve the RoboWaiter._______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________4. ReasonsThe first of the tables below is intended for contestants and the second (reverse side) for supporters. Please answerin the proper table. The tables are similar: the first column includes a list of possible reasons for participation in orsupport of the RoboWaiter. In the second column please estimate the

Conference Session

Enhancing K-12 STEM Education with Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Hunter, Tennessee Technological University; Jessica Matson, Tennessee Technological University; Margaret Phelps, Tennessee Technological University; Roy Loutzenheiser, Tennessee Technological University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

proficiency levels on the TennesseeComprehensive Achievement Program (TCAP) test were collected and analyzed. For highschool students, proficiency levels on their most recent state achievement test were used for thebaseline. Proficiency levels for the various Gateway (required pass for graduation) and end-of-course tests that each student had taken were collected and sorted by subject.The data in Figures 2 and 3 are reflective of student outcomes for the project. The data show thatthe greatest gain by students was in moving from proficient to advanced. This result is indicativeof raising the bar of content and problem-solving within the existing science and math curricula. 100 90 80 % Advanced

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erika Murguia, Arizona State University; Erin Kube, Arizona State University; Jennifer Bekki, Arizona State University Polytechnic; Bianca Bernstein, Arizona State University

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Women in Engineering

the CareerWISE office. Page 15.263.5Participants completed a 12-item questionnaire about their experiences as part of the CW project.Participants reflected and described what they had gained as participants in a largeinterdisciplinary project as well as the challenges that they had faced. Participants responded toquestions about the changes in their knowledge and skills related to: interdisciplinary teams,disciplinary cultures, gender issues in educational and career settings (topic of the CW project),and the creation of instructional materials for online use (topic of CW project). They were askedhow they had used these skills in external

Conference Session

Enhancing K-12 STEM Education with Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tirupalavanam Ganesh, Arizona State University; John Thieken, Arizona State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Settings, NationalScience Foundation. Opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NationalScience Foundation (NSF).References[1] National Research Council. (2000). How people learn: Brain, mind, experience, and school: Expanded edition. Committee on Developments in the Science of Learning with additional material from the Committee on Learning Research and Educational Practice. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.[2] National Research Council. (2001). Knowing what students know: The science and design of educational assessment. Committee on the Foundations of Assessment. Pelligrino, J., Chudowsky, N., and

Conference Session

Special Session: Next Generation Problem-Solving

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Larry Shuman, University of Pittsburgh; Mary Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Brian Self, California Polytechnic State University; Ronald Miller, Colorado School of Mines; Tamara Moore, University of Minnesota; John Christ; Eric Hamilton, Pepperdine University; Barbara Olds, Colorado School of Mines; Heidi Diefes-Dux

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Educational Research and Methods