Conference Session

K-12 and Bridge Experiences in Engineering Education

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Sabina Anne Schill, University of Colorado, Boulder; Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

Boulder Angela Bielefeldt is a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Department of Civil, Envi- ronmental, and Architectural Engineering (CEAE) and Director for the Engineering Plus program. She has served as the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Education in the CEAE Department, as well as the ABET assessment coordinator. Professor Bielefeldt was also the faculty director of the Sustainable By Design Residential Academic Program, a living-learning community where students learned about and practice sustainability. Bielefeldt is also a licensed P.E. Professor Bielefeldt’s research interests in en- gineering education include service-learning, sustainable engineering, social responsibility, ethics, and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees: Design

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Andrew O. Brightman, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Patrice Marie Buzzanell, University of South Florida; Sean Eddington, Kansas State University; Danielle Corple, Wheaton College; Memoria Matters, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Virginia Lynn Booth-Womack, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

with a design thinking approach, we involved key stakeholders from eachdepartment including students, faculty, staff, and administrators, in the research and design processto co-create solutions that addressed our three interrelated objectives in their specific department.The research study was guided by the following questions: RQ1. How might we make engineering more inclusive? RQ2. How might we better prepare engineering graduates for practice? RQ3. How might we use design thinking to address complex issues in engineering education?In this paper, we provide an overview of the multi-year project and discuss emerging findingsand key outcomes from across all phases of the project. Specifically, we will showcase how theresearch has

Conference Session

Engineering Professional Development for K-12 Teac

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Morgan, Texas A&M University; Luciana Barroso, Texas A&M University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

)techniques for motivating students unsure of “why they need…”, and (4) a better understandingof where their future students are coming from.The North Texas-STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) center is a partnership ofour university and a Dallas Independent School District (DISD) that establishes a center forSTEM education that will research, create, and provide information on best practices forinnovative teaching and learning. Our strategy is to create campus design teams, bringingtogether school administrators, teachers, students, STEM professors, STEM business partners,community-based informal STEM institutions such as museums and existing science networks inorder to provide opportunity for interaction between all of these

Conference Session

Professional Skills and the Workplace

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Betty Harper, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Patrick Terenzini, Pennsylvania State University

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Educational Research and Methods

, DC: American Society for Engineering Education.5 p. 124 in Baldwin, R. G., & Chronister, J. L. (2001). Teaching without tenure: Policies and practices for a new era. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press.6 Lattuca, L. R., Terenzini, P. T., & Volkwein, J. F. (2006). Engineering change: A study of the Impact of EC2000. Baltimore, MD: ABET, Inc.7 Pascarella, E. T., & Terenzini, P. T. (1991). How college affects students: Findings and insights from twenty years of research. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.8 Pascarella, E. T., & Terenzini, P. T. (2005). How college affects students, Vol. 2: A third decade of research. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.9 Casella and Brougham (1995

Conference Session

Knowing Our Students III

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Guili Zhang, University of Florida; YoungKyoung Min, University of Florida; Matthew Ohland, Clemson University; Timothy Anderson, University of Florida

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Educational Research and Methods

Engineering and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs at the University of Florida. He received a Ph.D. at the University of California-Berkeley in 1980. Tim is currently editor of Chemical Engineering Education, member of the editorial advisory board J. SMET Education, and served as director of the SUCCEED Engineering Education Coalition. His discipline research interests involve electronic materials processing. Page 11.1324.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 The Role of Academic Performance in Engineering AttritionI. AbstractThe role of cumulative grade-point average

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching and Assessment Tools

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald McEachron, Drexel University; Fred Allen, Drexel University; Elisabeth Papazoglou, Drexel University; Mustafa Sualp, Untra Corporation; David Delaine, Drexel University; David Hansberry, Drexel University

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Educational Research and Methods

been designed to bridge this gap by distilling significantamounts of medical and patient data into an accessible and useable format.Similarly, a close mentor-student relationship, developed over extended periods of time, isperhaps the best way to facilitate student learning. This is why such approaches are still prevalentin medical education after medical school and in graduate programs. However, the modernengineering faculty faced with large classrooms and brief educational experiences bracketed into15-week semesters or 10-week quarters cannot get to know each student well enough to facilitatea personalized mentoring approach. In addition, the various draws on faculty time for researchand scholarly activity makes it difficult to spend the

Conference Session

Technical Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anna Friesel, Technical University-Copenhagen; Sergey Dubikovsky, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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Diversity

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International

, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Sergey Dubikovsky is an Associate Professor at Purdue University in the School of Aviation and Trans- portation Technology. He teaches advanced aircraft materials and processes and advanced manufacturing and design process courses. His research focus is in immersive learning, problem- and project-based learning, international engineering education, globalization, lean Six Sigma. He worked previously in industry as a Design, Product, and Project Engineer. He has undergraduate and graduate degrees in Me- chanical Engineering from South Ural State University (formerly Chelyabinsk Polytechnic Institute) in Russia and a PhD in Engineering Education from

Conference Session

Project and Model-Based Mathematics

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dennis Berkey, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Bogdan Vernescu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Mathematics

the applications. As they learn more about theproblems, the students often realize the need to re-formulate them, or the need to ask morequestions or obtain more data. They also realize that in industry one needs the best possibleanswer in the time frame dictated by design and production constraints. Students who are used toworking individually on math problems discover the need for teamwork. In meetings with the Page 12.67.4sponsor, students often learn that their analysis will be used to make a real decision, in somecases expensive decisions. This has an impact that homework and tests cannot imitate. Finally,they learn to communicate their

Conference Session

Teaching Interventions in Biomedical Engineering (Works in Progress) - June 22nd

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jessica Dare Kaufman, Endicott College

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Diversity

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Biomedical Engineering

participated in lab andcomputational CURE (Both) and students who only in computational CURE (Computational).A Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxon test was used to compare the Likert scale results from each surveyquestion by CURE group. None of the results were significantly different with the following p-values: Relevance (0.2085), Scientific Practice (0.5708), Collaboration (0.5611), Iteration(0.7405), Discovery (0.7909), and Feel Prepared for own Research Projects (0.9601). Thispreliminary result supports the hypothesis that there would be no significant difference betweenthe groups. Further study of the impact of this computational CURE is needed to examine therole of project design, student major, year of study, and other confounding factors.References[1] C

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susannah Howe, Smith College; Ron Lasser, Tufts University; Katie Su, Smith College; Sarah Pedicini, Smith College

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Design in Engineering Education

capstone engineering courses.The long-term motivation for this research is to identify and develop pedagogical methods toimprove the proficiency of engineering students completing a capstone engineering designprogram, specifically, to make them more innovative, entrepreneurial, and able to meet the needs Page 14.364.2of their future careers. Additionally, the essential objective is to determine the best practicesover the long term that improve the design proficiency of engineering students so that institutionscan graduate students who are productive, highly skilled, and exceed performance expectations.The philosophy in conducting this research was

Conference Session

Assessment Issues in 1st-Yr Engineering

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Evans; Sandra Spickard Prettyman; Helen Qammar

short answerresponses indicates that both experiences generate a positive attitude toward engineering but thatSL first-year students engaged in higher levels of metacognition and acquired a more completeperception of effective teams.PurposeEducators must fully prepare students in the best practices and attributes of teams. Our graduateswill be expected to contribute in a collaborative environment such that their efforts yield successeither for a competitive advantage or in civic engagement2. Engineering students must acquirethese skills in addition to discipline-specific technical expertise. Unfortunately, a typical studentexperiences a learning environment with high rewards for individual achievement and little or noemphasis on critical skills

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Carter; Catherine Brawner; Miriam Ferzli; Eric Wiebe

graduate teaching assistants. Since 2000, LabWrite materials havebeen piloted in institutions ranging from Research I universities to community colleges. Ourexperiences and research have demonstrated the importance of lab reports in undergraduateeducation but have also pointed up the difficulties in successfully integrating lab reports backinto courses.IntroductionCommunicating scientific, engineering, and technical knowledge with clarity and understandingis a critical skill all future engineers need to have. To be able to do so is a literacy benchmarkinstructors strive to have all undergraduate and graduate engineering students meet. Perhaps themost important means for developing this literacy is the writing of lab reports. However, labreports

Conference Session

New Learning Paradigms II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Jones, Purdue University; Peter Meckl, Purdue University; Michael Harris, Purdue University; Monica Cox, Purdue University; Osman Cekic, Purdue University; Martin Okos, Purdue University; Osvaldo Campanella, Purdue University; Neal Houze, Purdue University; James Litster, Purdue University; Nathan Mosier; Bernard Tao, Purdue University; Daniel Delaurentis, Purdue University; David Radcliffe, Purdue University; Kathleen Howell, Purdue University; Masataka Okutsu, Purdue University; Sean Brophy, Purdue University; Amy Penner, Purdue University; Alice Wilson, Purdue University; Leah Jamieson, Purdue University

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Educational Research and Methods

of 2020 Seed Grant program is designed to provide seed funding for faculty to tryout new and innovative strategies that foster these target attributes. The first round of grants wassolicited in fall of 2007, and these first grants were awarded in February 2008. A total of 19proposals were submitted, of which 5 were selected for funding at a level of $40,000 each. Thecriteria upon which the proposals were rated included: 1. Significance of the proposed project in relation to current knowledge 2. Grounding of the proposal in current theories and knowledge on teaching and learning 3. Potential impact of the work (its ability to embed the new attributes in all CoE graduates) 4. Potential to gain significant funding beyond the seed

Conference Session

Trends in Engineering Education 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Khairiyah Mohd-Yusof, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia; Fatin Aliah Phang, Faculty of Education, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia; Aziatul Niza Sadikin, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia; Syed Ahmad Helmi, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia; Mohd Johari Kamaruddin, Centre of Lipids Engineering & Applied Research (CLEAR), Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 UTM Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia.

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Educational Research and Methods

improve quality Development of life. We as future engineers must practice the principles of sustainable development during the design, manufacturing, construction, production and operation stages in order to meet the need for economic growth of our country without compromising the need for future generations. (Team 3) Engineers also need to consider through analysis and research on the significant impact on their products or ideas towards the society and

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yongming Tang, Southeast University; Jiahua Lu, Xilinx; Yanfang Deng, Nanjing Integrated Circuits Industry Service Center; Susan M. Lord, University of San Diego

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Diversity

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International

, graduate students, post-docs, and young researchers [13]. The focus of these schools is typically on education on thelatest technology rather than projects.The project described in this paper is a university-industry-government collaboration in China.The partners worked together to offer a summer school as an alternative to an internship forundergraduate and graduate engineering students throughout China. The summer schoolincludes education as well as practical experience with current FPGA technology. Thisinnovative partnership can serve as a model for other programs with similar aims.Context of ChinaTo better prepare students for the fourth industrial revolution including big data, cloudcomputing, and intelligent manufacturing, the Chinese

Conference Session

Engineering Identity

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Justin Charles Major, University of Nevada, Reno; Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno

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Educational Research and Methods

solving processes, and cultural fit. His education includes a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, a M.S. in Bioengineering and Ph.D. in Engineer- ing and Science Education from Clemson University. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Engineering Identity and Project-Based Learning: How Does Active Learning Develop Student Engineering Identity?AbstractThis purpose of this research paper is to understand how the use of evidence-based pedagogicalmethods, such as active learning, for teaching engineering design concepts, influence students’engineering identity growth and increase retention in engineering programs. Students in a staticscourse (n

Conference Session

Design Teams 2

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Joseph Towles, Stanford University; Jeff Wood, Stanford University

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Design in Engineering Education

of 2 students, we found that: (1) the structure of the course doessupport healthy team practices; (2) students may benefit from a team assessment tool, inaddition to CATME, that requires structured, written feedback from everyone to be shared; (3)the student design teams were more healthy than not.INTRODUCTIONBeing a member of a team is a common experience for many people, e.g., during athleticendeavors, as students in school, or as colleagues in the workplace. The idea, however, thatany team will function at a high level (i.e., productively and constructively) without purposefuland well-informed effort is not true. The literature on forming teams supports the notion thatteams thrive when team members feel psychologically safe, are engaged

Conference Session

Curricular Transformation

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicholas D. Fila, Iowa State University; Seda McKIlligan, Iowa State University; Steven Joseph Abramsky, Iowa State University

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Educational Research and Methods

impacts c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 How Engineering Educators Use Heuristics When Redesigning an Undergraduate Embedded Systems CourseIntroductionUnderstanding the strategies instructional designers use in practice can help to identify thefactors that influence how courses and learning environments are designed and suggest methodsto improve practices. Prior research has shown that educators use heuristics, models, andframeworks1–5, as they design their courses. Although prior work has contributed to ourunderstanding the practices expert instructional designers use to develop new instructionalmaterials, this work is often not based on authentic course design or redesign

Conference Session

Faculty Development Medley

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pradeep Kashinath Waychal, Western Michigan University; Om Prakash Jain, Independent Consultant

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Faculty Development Constituency Committee

members by leveraging careerand motivation management practices established by organizational behavior researchers. Thatcan nurture a symbiotic relationship between faculty development and institution building. This paper presents a framework called CCAARR (Choosing, Conditioning, Assessing,Allocating, Realizing, and Recognizing) for nurturing such a symbiotic relationship betweenfaculty development and institution building (Figure 1). Its use can help in identifying potentialleaders among college faculty members to successfully carry out institution building activities.Faculty development activity and institution building activities, in that sense, support each otheror have a “symbiotic relationship” between them. The framework is derived

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI) Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aidsa I. Santiago-Roman, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Christopher Papadopoulos, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Nayda G. Santiago P.E., University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Lourdes A. Medina; Ivan J. Baiges-Valentin, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI)

research and educational activities – reflecting the values, beliefs, and ways ofthinking that lead toward sustainable development in the context of engineering and engineeringeducation. The Minor will be highly informed by best practices for user-centered design,introducing opportunities for self-reflection, trial and error, and action-taking through a student-centered project-based learning approach that recognizes that students are in transition toadulthood. A robust stakeholder engagement process will be undertaken to align activities withgoals, involving three undergraduate mentors per year as co-designers and co-facilitators.Although the Minor will be open to all students with basic qualifications, unlike traditional minorsthat require

Conference Session

Engineering, Ethics, and Leadership

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michelle Marincel Payne, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Kenneth W. Lamb P.E., California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Seth Claberon Sullivan, Texas A&M University

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS), Engineering Leadership Development Division (LEAD)

, creating training that helps students learn how to best support each other when they make mistakes, creating training on respecting and appreciating differences among team members, and encouraging them to ask for help when needed. RHIT – At RHIT, opportunities include creating a learning experience to improve how teams handle mistakes, talk about tough issues, and take small risks. There are certainly opportunities for students to develop these skills because the students surveyed here were freshman design students—they will receive additional training and practice opportunities as they progress through their college careers. CPP – At CPP, opportunities include creating learning experiences

Conference Session

Works in Progress: Faculty Perspectives and Training

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sam Spiegel, Colorado School of Mines; Stephanie Ann Claussen, Colorado School of Mines; Renee Falconer, Colorado School of Mines; Allison G. Caster, Colorado School of Mines

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Educational Research and Methods

science education includes experiences as both a middle school and high school science teacher, teaching science at elementary through graduate level, developing formative as- sessment instruments, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in science and science education, working with high-risk youth in alternative education centers, working in science museums, designing and facilitating online courses, multimedia curriculum development, and leading and researching profes- sional learning for educators. The Association for the Education of Teachers of Science (AETS) honored Dr. Spiegel for his efforts in teacher education with the Innovation in Teaching Science Teachers award (1997). Dr. Spiegel’s current

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jane Lehr, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Dominic Dal Bello, Allan Hancock College; Daniel Almeida, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Eva Schiorring; Erica Garcia; Fred Depiero, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Jamie Bettencourt; John Oliver, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Lizabeth Thompson, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Jeff Jones, Class4me.com; Victoria Siaumau, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

department of Computer Science & Software Engineering; and the Science, Technology & Society Program. Dr. Lehr previously served as elected co-chair of the Science & Technology Taskforce of the National Women's Studies Association (NWSA), and as a Postdoctoral Research Officer at the Centre for Informal Learning and Schools (CILS) at King's College, University of London. Her graduate training is in Science & Technology Studies and Women's Studies at Virginia Tech and her teaching and research focus primarily on the complex relationships between gender, race, culture, science, technology, and education.Dominic J Dal Bello (Professor) Awardee, Outstanding Teaching Award, ASEE/Pacific Southwest Section, 2022

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Division (ARCHE) Technical Session 2

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ignacio Guerra P., Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ; MiguelAndres Andres Guerra P.E., Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ

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Architectural Engineering Division (ARCHE)

perceived benefits of mind mapping beforeexams and whether it had any impact on students' performance during these assessments.The research focused on two main questions: the first explored how mind maps aid inarchitecture students' learning, and the second investigated how they connect studio-based,practical skills with theoretical lecture-based knowledge. The teacher responsible for thecourses also designed the exams, ensuring consistency in terms of difficulty, pedagogy, andthematic content. All exams consisted of five descriptive questions and three application-based questions, testing both theoretical understanding and practical problem-solving skills.The exams were individual, closed-book assessments, each with a 120-minute time limit.To

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Technology Curriculum Innovations.

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vassilios Tzouanas, University of Houston, Downtown

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Engineering Technology

skills and practice communication and presentation skills.Classroom teaching is combined with laboratory exercises. Heavy emphasis is placed onteamwork. At the end of the semester, the students must present a team project. The project is ofsufficient complexity and workload that it is very difficult for one student to complete it alone ina semester’s time frame.To illustrate the teaching approach, the topic of distillation will be presented. In this typicalsession on distillation process design and operation, the students learn about the concept ofdistillation, how to design a distillation to achieve desired product specifications, simulate adistillation process and consider the impact of certain operating variables on its operation.By

Conference Session

Teaching and Learning Strategies I

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aliye Karabulut-Ilgu, Iowa State University; Charles T. Jahren P.E., Iowa State University

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Educational Research and Methods

Institute ofTechnology." In Elements of Quality Online Education: Practice and Direction, edited by J. Bourne and J. C.Moore, 261-78. Needham, MA: Sloan Consortium, 2002. 7. Collis, B., “Course Redesign for Blended Learning: Modern Optics for Technical Professionals,”International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Lifelong Learning, 13 (2003): 22-38. 8. Kaleta, R., Skibba, K. and Joosten, T., "Discovering, Designing, and Delivering Hybrid Courses." InBlended Learning: Research Perspectives, edited by A. G. Picciano and C. D. Dziuban, 111-43. Needam, MA: TheSloan Consortium, 2007. 9. Peercy, P. S. and Cramer, S. M., “Redefining Quality in Engineering Education Through HybridInstruction,” Journal of Engineering

Conference Session

Knowing our Students, Faculty, and Profession

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tershia Pinder-Grover, University of Michigan; Chris Groscurth, University of Michigan

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Educational Research and Methods

. Her current research interests include the effect of instructional technology on student learning and performance, effective teaching strategies for new graduate student instructors, and the impact of GSI mentoring programs on the mentors and mentees.Chris Groscurth , University of Michigan Christopher R. Groscurth is an instructional consultant in the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT) at the University of Michigan. At CRLT Chris promotes excellence in teaching and learning through individual consultation, professional development programs, and applied research. He has a Ph.D. from the Department of Speech Communication at the University of Georgia, and his research

Conference Session

Computers in Education Division (COED) Poster Session (Track 1.A)

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susannah Cooke, ANSYS, Inc.; Kaitlin Tyler, ANSYS, Inc.

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Diversity

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Computers in Education Division (COED)

Paper ID #47781BOARD #476: Work in Progress: Combining Python and Simulation to OfferEasy Visualization in Early Years TeachingDr. Susannah Cooke, ANSYS, Inc. Susannah Cooke is a Senior Product Manager at Ansys, managing Ansys Academic software. She works with universities to ensure that Ansys tools can be deployed to best effect in teaching and research. She holds an MEng and DPhil in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Oxford, where her doctoral thesis focused on fluid flow around tidal turbine arrays. She is excited by the overlap between industry engineering and pedagogical practices, especially where these

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE) Technical Session 3: Let's Get Thinking on Design

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Povinelli, Syracuse University

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE)

an emphasis on broad integratedtransdisciplinary knowledge.Furthermore, this paper describes an experiential college preparatory program for high schoolseniors embedded in an engineering company and reports the outcomes of a longitudinal studyover four and half years. The study gathered feedback from three secondary graduate cohorts onwhat knowledge content and learning practices in their secondary program were most helpful intheir success at the postsecondary level. Forty-eight secondary students entered the program,with forty-two completing it. The study also discusses the impact of low student-to-teacher ratiosand teacher experiences in transforming experiential knowledge into acquirable studentknowledge.The research offers insights on

Conference Session

Examining "Big" Data

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Loken, Pennsylvania State University; Zita Oravecz, Pennsylvania State University; Conrad Tucker, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Fridolin Jakob Linder, Pennsylvania State University

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Educational Research and Methods

tools available to students. Therehas been a tremendous amount of work on best practices for instruction in college courses, andresearchers have identified the value of formative assessments to help students and instructorsidentify strengths and weaknesses and adjust instruction. We add to this discussion byundertaking a psychometric analysis of classroom tests. In particular, we will focus on themeasurement precision when tests are analyzed using Item Response Theory (IRT), a non-linearlatent variable model that evaluates the student’s probability of responding to items correctlyconditional on ability level. A useful byproduct of IRT analysis is that measurement uncertaintyis quantified conditional on ability level, and it often reveals that