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Conference Session
Measuring the Impact of Community Engagement on Students
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Matthew Siniawski, Loyola Marymount University; Sandra G. Luca, Loyola Marymount University; Jeremy S. Pal, Loyola Marymount University; Jose A. Saez, Loyola Marymount University
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Diversity
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Community Engagement Division
toBarrington and Duffy (2010), general benefits to students include increases in subject mattercomprehension, GPA, retention, critical thinking skills, tolerance for diversity, writing skills, andcitizenship6. Specific gains in both professional and technical skills have been reported. Forexample, in a recent study by Carberry et al. (2013), engineering students on average identifiedthat 45% of what they have learned about technical skills and 62% of what they have learnedabout professional skills was gained through their engineering service experience7. Femalestudents credited service experiences as their source of both professional and technical skillssignificantly higher than male students, which was consistent across academic years7.Furthermore
Conference Session
First-year Programs Division Technical Session 9: Focus on Student Learning, Lifelong Learning, and the Whole Student
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Stacie Edington, University of Michigan; Archie L Holmes Jr., University of Virginia; Petra Reinke, University of Virginia
Tagged Divisions
First-Year Programs
program continues to evolve we are looking to connect the Common Reading Experienceto courses taken by our incoming students. In 2014, the book selected was Ingenious: A TrueStory of Invention, Automotive Daring and the Race to Revive America by Jason Fagone.Through contacts within the faculty at UVa-SEAS we were able to invite the author to discussthe book and answer student questions in Science Technology and Society (STS) 1500: a coursedesigned to strengthen writing and speaking skills and provide students with an introduction tothe engineering profession, engineering ethics, and the social issues of professional engineeringpractice. A complete list of book selections from 1993-2014 is provided in Appendix A1.Additional RecommendationsWe
Conference Session
Focus on the Classroom: Novel Approaches to Course Delivery
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Elaine L. Craft, Florence-Darlington Technical College; Donna Kay Chrislip; Rex Allen Parr; Victoria Alexandra Sauber, Arapahoe Community College
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Two Year College Division
, problem-solving, communication, knowledge of business processes, teamwork, and agood work ethic, that can leverage the technical skills for greater impact for both the companyand the worker. Likewise, through their survey of 200 companies (2006), the metro-DenverWIRED Initiative discovered a need for technical workers with a broader-than-expected range ofskills, i.e. a call for technical workers to have solid writing, marketing, leadership, or sales skills.When evaluating job applicants, businesses surveyed indicated they value experience and skills,most, and find that applicants do not have the required written and verbal communication skillsthey need to be viable candidates. Based on a 2007 study, the Indiana Business Research Centerpredicted
Conference Session
Fundamental: Metrics & Assessment for K-12 Engineering Education
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Tamara J Moore, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Siddika Selcen Guzey, Purdue University, West Lafayette; James Holly Jr., INSPIRE Institute, Purdue University
Tagged Divisions
K-12 & Pre-College Engineering
disciplinesmeaningfully” (p. 2).Engineering education, at any grade level, cultivates competences that are useful beyond theacademic context. Ioannis N. Miaoulis5, founding director of the National Center forTechnological Literacy (NCTL), writes “I use my engineering training constantly to solveproblems far removed from engineering, such as dealing with personnel issues or fundraising”(p. 39). The content of engineering allows students to make connections between their academicstudies and their daily lives. Engineering education trains students to think analytically, and touse their knowledge base to make improvements. As Author4 states “Engineering requiresstudents to be independent, reflective, and metacognitive thinkers who can understand that priorexperience
Conference Session
ECCD Applications
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Ahmed Cherif Megri, North Carolina A&T State University
Tagged Divisions
Energy Conversion and Conservation
on samples of work in three categories of students: those in the upper 75 percentile, those in the 50 – 75 percentile and those below the 50 percentile populations. Thus the assessment results compiled are based on course performances and grades, exams, projects, presentations of students, and writings as required in some courses. Furthermore, each course specifically addresses the learning outcomes and relation between the course and the program outcomes, the methods used for the evaluation of students’ performance and the relevance of the course materials to the program outcomes following the standards adopted for the assessment process.  Students will be provided with the course descriptions
Conference Session
Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 1
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
David A. Rogers P.E., North Dakota State University; Orlando R. Baiocchi, University of Washington, Tacoma; Paulo F Ribeiro, UNIFEI
Tagged Topics
Diversity
Tagged Divisions
Engineering Ethics
are good examples). And the most important part of the course, and akey component of the grading, is a research paper where students choose their own themes. In thatpaper, for example on nuclear energy, students need to address the history of that technology, itsimpact on society, the future perspectives, and the ethical implications of that technology.Important parts of this research paper are peer-review before the final version of the paper is turnedin and presentation to the class at the end of the course.Below, is a list of topics chosen in the 2013-2014 academic year by students in the Global Honorsprogram: 1. Everyday Services, Complex International Politics 2. The Future of Printing: 3D Bioprinting 3. Genetically
Conference Session
First-year Programs Division Technical Session 4: The Best of the All: FPD Best Papers
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Genevieve Hoffart, University of Calgary; Nicole Lynn Larson, University of Calgary; Tom O'Neill, University of Calgary; Matthew James Walter McLarnon, University of Western Ontario; Marjan Eggermont, University of Calgary; Bob Brennan, University of Calgary; Bill Rosehart, University of Calgary
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Diversity
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First-Year Programs
peer evaluations, and leading teamwork training sessions. She is currently conducting research on team learning processes in engineering student project teams. Additionally, she has co-developed a framework for measuring and in- terpreting an array of team dynamics. An online assessment tool has been created based on this framework which allows teams to diagnose and improve the ”health” of their team. She is passionate about her area of research and plans to continue conducting research on factors that contribute to effective teamwork.Dr. Tom O’Neill, University of Calgary Tom is a Professor of Industrial/Organizational Psychology and leading expert in the areas of team dy- namics, virtual teams, conflict management
Conference Session
ECCD Applications in Energy and Thermodynamics
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Ahmed Cherif Megri, North Carolina A&T State University
Tagged Divisions
Energy Conversion and Conservation
acontrast between two conditions: Condition of Desires and Actual Condition”. The successful design ofan item transforms a condition of “Desire” (or need) into one of “Actuality”. These definitions aresupported by Jonassen (2004) when he writes “First, a problem is an unknown entity in some context”,and “Second, finding or solving for the unknown must have some social, cultural or intellectual value”.He then adds one vital ingredient, “someone believes that it is worth finding the unknown”. Jonassen(2004) in his book has focused on the following three types of problems: story problems, troubleshootingproblems, and case and system and policy analysis problems.A problem-solving method describes a reasoning process that efficiently achieves a goal by
Conference Session
Evaluation: Technology and Tools for K-12 Engineering Education
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Jeff Gregorio, Drexel University; David S Rosen, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.); Brandon Gregory Morton, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.); Alyssa M Batula, Drexel University; Michael Caro; Jeffrey Scott, Drexel University; Youngmoo Kim, Drexel University; Kara Martine Lindstrom, Drexel University, ExCITe Center
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Diversity
Tagged Divisions
K-12 & Pre-College Engineering
thestudents to explore an area they find interesting in greater depth than the time constraints of theactivities allow. This gives students the opportunity to experiment and come up with ideas of theirown to implement. Utilizing information, skills, and engineering vocabulary acquired in theactivities, each student interactively designs a final project which is presented and demonstratedfor their peers, parents, and instructors. A point of emphasis is for students to explicitly discusskey decisions and incremental developments throughout the week with regard to the iterativeengineering design process: planning, analysis and design, testing, and evaluation.Projects fall under one of four main categories, and within each group, students are encouraged
Conference Session
Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 2
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Sanjay Jayaram, Saint Louis University; Michael A. Swartwout, Saint Louis University
Tagged Divisions
Systems Engineering
Paper ID #12760Systems Engineering Entrepreneurship Modules Across Aerospace Engineer-ing CurriculumDr. Sanjay Jayaram, Saint Louis University, Parks College of Eng. Dr. Sanjay Jayaram is an associate professor in the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department of Saint Louis University. He obtained his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Central Florida in 2004. He teaches control systems/mechatronics, space systems engineering and astronautics related courses as well as engineering sciences courses. He has published several peer reviewed journal and conference papers in these areas. His research areas
Conference Session
Research to Practice: STRAND 3 – Principles of K-12 Engineering Education and Practice
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Bassant Mohamed Yasser, Qatar University; Mahmoud Abdulwahed, Qatar University; Rashid Alammari, Qatar University; Saud A Ghani, Qatar University; Mazen O. Hasna, Qatar University
Tagged Divisions
K-12 & Pre-College Engineering
instruments (HPLC, UV,TOC,GC, KF—etc.) and also monitoring drug shelf life through both accelerated and shelf life stability programs. After which started at GlaxoSmithKline Beecham Egypt in which i was a laboratory senior analyst an- alyzing all dosage forms as finished products dealing with all laboratory instruments with very good experience on HPLC and GC in addition of GLP and GMP knowledge, SOP writing and audits carry out internally then i was promoted to a section head of validation and quality assurance for the pharmaceuti- cal industry for both Lactam and non-Lactam areas in which i was responsible for sterile and non-sterile areas qualification, validation and periodic verification dealing with process
Conference Session
Dynamic Systems and Control
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Estelle M. Eke, California State University, Sacramento
Tagged Divisions
Mechanical Engineering
ofmore kits. One solution might be for students to buy the NXT microprocessor, known as thebrick, and for the department to supply the other LEGO pieces. Another suggestion was that theNXT be more fully integrated into the course by starting simple projects in the third week whensystem parameters are discussed in the lectures; plans are underway to do this beginning in thespring semester 2015. Table 6 shows the table of contents for technical writing that is distributedto the students and used as the project grading rubric.ConclusionsThe LEGO NXT project has been effective in helping students to better understand and apply theprinciples of automatic controls. Observing students (i) engage in group discussions as theyattempt to convince others of
Conference Session
Curricular Issues in Computing and Information Technology Programs I
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
John Pickard, East Carolina University; Annie Y. Patrick, East Carolina University; Dustin Stocks
Tagged Topics
Diversity
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Computing & Information Technology
Page 26.1292.2university.IPv4 exhaustionThe last remaining public IPv4 addresses were allocated by the Internet Assigned NumbersAuthority (IANA) to the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) on February 3rd, 2011. Four of thefive RIRs have depleted their IPv4 address pools and are currently operating under final IPv4address depletion policies. At the time of writing, only the African Network Information Center(AFRINIC) has IPv4 address space remaining for general allocation and assignment. IPv4 is nowa legacy protocol and all future Internet growth will occur over IPv6.If an organization, such as a university, desires to maintain competitiveness, interoperability, andgrowth, that institution must become proactive in adopting IPv6. However
Conference Session
Engineering Physics & Physics Division Technical Session 1
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Stephen W. McKnight, Northeastern University; Christos Zahopoulos, Northeastern University
Tagged Divisions
Engineering Physics & Physics
3. The usefulness of quantitative problems (and particularly numerical worked examples which 79% found helped them learn, as noted previously) in understanding material is characteristic of engineering students in our experience. The importance of examples and applications of theory for engineering students was one of our guiding principles in writing the book to feature concrete applications and phenomena that arise from the scientific principles.Figure 2  Response of Engineering Leadership students on difficulty of problems based from draft text.  Page 26.1357.9 The "x" problems in the book help
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Technical Session: Professional Development Opportunities for Students
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Rebecca Marie Reck, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Anastasia Marie Rynearson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Matthew William Priddy, Georgia Institute of Technology
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Student
knowledge base and professional network. The constantadvance of technology and the emergence of engineering education programs across the U.S.have changed the playing field for graduate students seeking to discuss engineering educationwith their peers. Every few years, there is an analysis of the needs of graduate students involvedin engineering education.3-5 This study is a look at the current landscape of ASEE’s StudentChapters.Students have a long history as members of ASEE. Jim Jones, a Mechanical Engineeringprofessor, was the adviser for the creation of the first Student Chapter at Purdue University in1993.6 Student Chapters expanded to other institutions with strong student membership in ASEE.During the 2000s, student membership increased
Conference Session
NSF Grantees’ Poster Session
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Kyoung-Yun Kim, Wayne State University; Carolyn E Psenka PhD, Wayne State University; Kathy Schmidt Jackson, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Karl R Haapala, Oregon State University
Tagged Topics
NSF Grantees Poster Session
manufacturing challenges, including life cycle engineering methods, manufacturing process performance modeling, and sustainable engineering education. He has received funding from DOE, NIST, NSF, the U.S. Army, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Oregon Metals Initiative, and industry. His work has appeared in more than 60 peer-reviewed proceedings and journal articles. Page 26.398.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015Constructionist Learning for Environmentally Responsible Design Page 26.398.2 Constructionist Learning for Environmentally
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Industrial Engineering Division Technical Session 1
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Mary J. Meixell, Quinnipiac University; Nebil Buyurgan, Quinnipiac University; Corey Kiassat, Quinnipiac University
Tagged Topics
Diversity
Tagged Divisions
Industrial Engineering
no previous programpractice exists. In practice, colleges often look to their accrediting bodies, such as ABET forengineering programs, for guidance on curriculum, which requires external input fromemployers. Engineering programs ask their advisory board or council for input, and also rely ontheir internal panel of faculty experts, as well as exploring practice at peer university programs.Methodology-wise, industrial engineering faculty have used system theory[1], domain analysis[2]and structural models[3] as an aid in curriculum development. Likewise, methods from the qualitymanagement and product development domain, specifically the House of Quality (HOQ) andQuality Function Deployment (QFD), have also been deployed in this particular
Conference Session
Research to Practice: STRAND 3 – Principles of K-12 Engineering Education and Practice
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Todd France, University of Colorado, Boulder
Tagged Divisions
K-12 & Pre-College Engineering
teachers may appear to permitlaziness and irresponsibility. Yet it is challenging to evaluate the level of knowledge or skillsstudents have attained during a group project, placing a burden on teachers.24 Of the commonlyutilized assessment strategies in group-based settings, all possess drawbacks. These include self-assessments (over-inflated grades), peer assessments (heavily influenced by social relationshipswith classmates), situational judgment tests (questions about various scenarios; objectivity isdifficult), behaviorally-anchored teacher-rating scales (difficult to observe all students), and teaminterviews (prohibitively time intensive).24,25,26To model professional work, project-based methods often utilize authentic assessments
Conference Session
Aerospace Technical Session 3
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Hank D Voss, Taylor University; Jeff F Dailey; William A Bauson, Taylor University; Bill Chapman, Taylor University
Tagged Divisions
Aerospace
prepare graduates well. Traditional“small stepping” lab and project classes serve a real purpose but can be limited and geared morefor workforce literacy (“Cubicle” engineers). Challenging projects give students freedom andownership while driving and amplifying their problem solving skills with some failure andcreative feedback solutions. Appropriate and inspiring big projects better prepare students foradvanced leadership by doing advanced engineering and “swimming with the Big Boys” innational competitions, peer reviewed publications, and selective job interviews.AdvantagesReal world and challenging experiences for students have many advantages: • improved student resume and career opportunities • are significant for attracting top students
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Research to Practice: STRAND 4 K-12 Engineering Resources: Best Practices in Curriculum Design (Part 2)
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Ayora Berry, Boston University; Don DeRosa, Boston University
Tagged Divisions
K-12 & Pre-College Engineering
of non-STEM education standards English Language Arts (ELA) 22 (96%) Common Core ELA Speaking & Listening 19 (83%) Common Core ELA Reading 18 (78%) Common Core ELA Writing 18 (78%) Social Studies 7 (30%) Visual Arts 7 (30%)There were eight units at the K-5 level, twelve units at the 6-8 level, and three units at the 9-12level. All units targeted education standards from multiple
Conference Session
Integrating Social Justice in Engineering Science Courses
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Juan C. Lucena, Colorado School of Mines; Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines
Tagged Topics
Diversity
Tagged Divisions
Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society
given dataand engineering and math alone vs. also factoring in related bodies of knowledge andassumptions.We are not suggesting here that faculty have to re-write all the problem statements they assign intheir ES classes. These interventions can be made gradually—first, for example, by assigningextra-credit opportunities for those students re-writing problems, then by allowing problemrewriting sessions (with a TA) every other week, then incorporating them in exams. It is clearthat initially, integrating SJ may provoke discomfort and seem outside any given instructor’s areaof expertise; however, with time and gradual integration, along with examples of suchintegration like those below, instructors should notice greater comfort and, more
Conference Session
Reflective & Critical Pedagogies
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Prashant Rajan, Iowa State University
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Diversity
Tagged Divisions
Liberal Education/Engineering & Society
to develop a critique of the epistemologicaland axiological assumptions and privileges of educators, scholars and studentswho engage with communities that exist on the margins. I argue that asstudents, teachers, and researchers, we equate the minds of those who occupyeconomic and social margins with the possession of marginal intellect whenwe set out to help or aid them without recognizing the validity of andvalorizing their ways of knowing. Learning how members of socially andeconomically marginalized communities apply their minds, mouths, handsand feet to solve locally occurring problems may help us interrogate ourscholarly, pedagogical, and ethical objectives in a more reflexive manner.  Drawing on ethnographic research and writing
Conference Session
Women in Engineering Division: Faculty and Gender Issues
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Canan Bilen-Green, North Dakota State University; Jenna P. Carpenter, Louisiana Tech University; Stacy Doore, University of Maine; Roger A. Green, North Dakota State University; Karen J. Horton P.E., University of Maine; Kristen L. Jellison, Lehigh University; Sharon Melissa Latimer, West Virginia University; Marci J. Levine, Lehigh University; D. Patrick O'Neal, Louisiana Tech University
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Diversity
Tagged Divisions
Women in Engineering
Purdue University.Dr. D. Patrick O’Neal, Louisiana Tech University D. Patrick O’Neal is an associate professor in the Biomedical Engineering program which is part of the College of Engineering and Science at Louisiana Tech University. Prior to moving to academia in 2005, he served as PI on industrial nanomedicine-based development projects supported by NSF, NIH, and NIST funding. Given a research focus in biomedical optics, he has published peer-reviewed articles in basic and clinical cancer research, nanomedicine, and applied electro-optic instrumentation. Based on experiences instructing courses like Biomedical Engineering Senior Design and his ongoing involvement with the medical device industry, he has developed a
Conference Session
Innovation in Engineering Leadership Education
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Richard J. Schuhmann, The Landing School; Andrew Michael Erdman, Pennsylvania State University; Jack V. Matson, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Dean H. Lang, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Jeffrey G. Soper, Montreux School of Business; Donald H. Horner Jr., Jacksonville University
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Engineering Leadership Development Division
case studies. Lastly, the ability to effective communicate verbally, in writing andvia presentations, as well as providing candid constructive feedback – both positive and negative– was stressed in each of the courses and became somewhat of a hallmark of the programamongst employers. Page 26.633.6Early attempts were made to assess the impact of the program. The first attempt was to utilizethe Perry Scheme of Intellectual Development which was based on student's attitude towardsknowledge. Our idea was that students in the Minor would trust more their "inner voices" andnot external authority and come to understand there were no right answers to
Conference Session
Interactive Panel on Perspectives and Practical Skills for Men as Advocates for Gender Equity
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Lawrence J. Genalo, Iowa State University; Roger A. Green, North Dakota State University; Beth M Holloway, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Archie L Holmes Jr., University of Virginia; Brian P Kirkmeyer, Miami University; Klod Kokini, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Daniel Lopresti, Lehigh University; Adrienne Minerick, Michigan Technological University; Beena Sukumaran, Rowan University
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Diversity
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Engineering Leadership Development Division, Minorities in Engineering, Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering, Women in Engineering
Sukumaran, Rowan University Beena Sukumaran has been on the faculty at Rowan University since 1998 and is currently Professor and Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Under her leadership, the Civil and Environmental Engi- neering Program has seen considerable growth in student and faculty numbers. Her area of expertise is in micro-geomechanics and has published over 100 peer reviewed conference and journal papers including several papers on engineering education and the unique undergraduate curriculum at Rowan University, Page 26.1006.2 especially the Engineering Clinics. She has been involved in
Conference Session
Evaluation: Diversity in K-12 and Pre-college Engineering Education
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Katherina V Tarnai-Lokhorst P.Eng., FEC, Camosun College
Tagged Topics
Diversity
Tagged Divisions
K-12 & Pre-College Engineering
practices prevalent in high school and introductory university physics and math courses, and developing recommendations to increase gender diversity in engineering education and the engineering profession. Kathy is an elected Councillor for APEGBC (the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia), has served on several educational and governance committees at Camosun College, and is a qualified restorative justice facilitator, peer coach and liturgical musician. Page 26.1734.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Where are the women
Conference Session
K-12 & Pre- College Engineering Division Poster Session
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
John Ernzen, Arizona State University; Eugene Judson, Arizona State University; Ying-Chih Chen, Arizona State University; Stephen J Krause, Arizona State University; James A Middleton, Arizona State University; Kendra Rae Beeley
Tagged Divisions
K-12 & Pre-College Engineering
first research strand concentrates on the relationship between educational policy and STEM education. This provides policymakers and the educational community an improved understanding of how changes in educational policies impact STEM teaching and learning. His second research strand focuses on studying STEM classroom interactions and subsequent effects on student understanding. He is a co-developer of the Reformed Teaching Observation Protocol (RTOP) and his work has been cited more than 1200 times and his publications have been published in multiple peer-reviewed journals such as Science Education and the Journal of Research in Science Teaching.Dr. Ying-Chih Chen, Arizona State University Ying-Chih Chen is an
Conference Session
NSF Grantees’ Poster Session
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Seda McKIlligan, Iowa State University; Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan; Colleen M. Seifert, University of Michigan; Richard Gonzalez, University of Michigan; Colin M. Gray, Iowa State University
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NSF Grantees Poster Session
because itis founded on evidence. Past studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of the DesignHeuristics method in concept generation [25, 32]. We have also conducted preliminary studieson the use of Design Heuristics in the engineering classroom, and demonstrated its effectivenessas pedagogy 23, 24. This research base provides a solid foundation for our project because it isbased on peer-reviewed, scientific studies. Many professions have advocated the use ofevidence-based practice in their fields, including medicine, psychology, and education 41-44. Ourproposed project provides an application of “evidence-based practice” in engineering educationto benefit students by providing state-of-the-art education in design
Conference Session
Faculty Development I
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Martha Cleveland-Innes, Athabasca University; Stefan Stenbom, KTH Royal Institute of Technology; Stefan Hrastinski, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
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Educational Research and Methods
. Asindicated by Cohen, Manion, and Morrison (2007)19, “Qualitative data analysis involvesorganizing, accounting for, and explaining the data; in short, making sense of data in terms of theparticipants’ definition of the situation, noting patterns, themes, categories, and regularities” (p. Page 26.764.6461).At the time of writing, only open coding of data sources is complete. According to therequirements of authenticity and verifiability required in qualitative data analysis (Neuman,2011)20, only themes that 1) respond specifically to the research question and 2) were referencedin at least two of the four data sources are reported. Four themes met
Conference Session
ECCD Innovations in Energy Engineering & Technology
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University (Tech.); Michael G Mauk P.E., Drexel University
Tagged Topics
Diversity
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Energy Conversion and Conservation
. The lessons learned are presented and the ways that the experiential framework mayimpact our ET curricula are discussed. Our senior design project course is a 3-term core courseusually taken by the students during their terminal year in the ET program.Project Overview, Design Selection and SolutionSenior Design Project is a capstone sequence of three-quarter project-oriented design coursesrequired for all the BSET concentrations in Drexel University ET department, and is focused onplanning, development, and implementation of an original, innovative engineering projectincluding formal report writing, project documentation, group presentations, and projectdemonstrations and testing of working prototypes. The goal of these courses is for