Conference Session

ETD Design II: Mechanical Engineering Technology

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Roelof Harm deVries, University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

changingCADD environment. This method could also be applied effectively by other schools that areupdating drawing classes, as well as other types of courses.Reconfiguration MethodA disciplined method for reconfiguring the drawing course is necessary for several reasons.First, the methods employed need to ensure continued support of the established goals of thecourse. Second, the linkage between goals and methods needs to be documented in order toprevent a gradual drift away from the goals as incremental changes are made to lesson plans. Atransparent methodology supports the process of collaboration as colleagues discuss courseobjectives and redesign lesson plans. Finally, a clear methodology can assist in communicatingthe effectiveness of the

Conference Session

Lessons for New Engineering Educators

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Faizal Karim, University of British Columbia

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New Engineering Educators

the facilitators. This method encouraged discussion and sharingof experiences while learning the material. The room was also arranged to facilitate discussionamong smaller groups and the TA trainees are asked to move locations between sessions to meetfellow trainees. A schematic of this setup is shown in Figure 2.Figure 2. Schematic of room to facilitate group discussion Page 22.1439.4Each section follows the same basic lesson plan, which is discussed in the section onteaching/presenting. The four core areas within M1 and M2 are described below along with asummative table highlighting the key components in the facilitator’s lesson plan.TA

Conference Session

Assessment and Evaluation of K-12 Engineering Programs

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gisele Ragusa, Ph.D., University of Southern California

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy, K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

viaformation, nurturance and sustaining an important targeted school-university urban educationalpartnership. Our university has partnered with large urban school districts to plan, deliver andsustain a targeted inservice teacher professional development and a middle and high schoolSTEM curriculum intervention. The partnership goals are to assist inservice middle and highschool science teachers in: (1) designing and implementing integrated science and engineeringcurricula and (2) development of instructional methods and strategies that enable teachers toeffectively (a) teach challenging content and research skills in middle and high school asdemanded by state/national science standards; (b) generate knowledge and transform practice inhigh school STEM

Conference Session

The Best of Design in Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eckehard Doerry, Northern Arizona University; Bridget N. Bero, Northern Arizona University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

disciplines. This paper reports on the iCubed project, a pilot effort exploringtraining in engineering entrepreneurship, in which project and course are modeled oncommercial product development. A massively interdisciplinary team design project at thesenior and graduate level was developed and executed with a team spanning seven disciplines inengineering, business, and architecture. We report on project planning, design, and outcomes,and offer a set of best practices distilled from this experience.1.0 IntroductionThe past several decades have seen fundamental changes in the way engineering is practiced inindustry and consequently, the skills and capabilities needed by the modern engineer. Steadilydecreasing time-to-market timeframes, globalization

Conference Session

Using Web-Resources and Literature to Teach Engineering in P-8

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aikaterini Bagiati, Purdue University, West Lafayette; So Yoon Yoon, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Demetra Evangelou, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Garene Kaloustian, Lebanese American University; Osman Cekic, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University; Jiabin Zhu, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Alejandra J. Magana, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

University Osman Cekic holds a Ph.D. in higher education and student affairs from Indiana University at Blooming- ton and a master’s degree in secondary school administration from the University of Arkansas at Fayet- teville and a Bachelor’s degree in educational administration and planning from Ankara University in Turkey. He previously worked at the Indiana Education Policy Center, Project on Academic Success (PAS), as a graduate assistant to the vice president for enrollment services for Indiana University, and as a postdoctoral researcher at Purdue University, West Lafayette. Dr. Cekic’s research interests include higher education policy, finance and the linkages between budget and organizational culture, and col

Conference Session

Why Industry Says that our Engineering Students Cannot Write

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William K. Durfee, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Benjamin Adams, University of Minnesota; Audrey J. Appelsies, University of Minnesota; Pamela Flash, University of Minnesota

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Mechanical Engineering

three-phase WEC process is (1) to develop awriting plan based on discipline-specific writing outcomes desired for graduating majors, (2)implement the plan and (2) assess the plan and revise based on the assessment. The plan formechanical engineering defined nine attributes of mechanical engineering writing and 14 desiredwriting ability outcomes for graduating majors. Stakeholders agreed that problem sets were thenumber one form of writing for engineering students and that attention paid to writing a problemset would help students to learn the material. The plan was implemented by targeting three corecourses for explicit writing instruction and raising the awareness of writing in other requiredcourses in the program. Assessment is on-going and

Conference Session

Software Engineering Projects

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Reichlmayr, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Constituent Committee

softwareproducts. When used in an academic setting it provides the opportunity to introduce and practiceproject management skills involving planning, estimation, tracking and identifying opportunitiesfor continuous process improvement. As the ideal number of team members on a Scrum projectis 5-9 developers, Scrum maps well from a size perspective for the typical student teamcollaborating on a course or capstone project. While Scrum has specific project roles andceremonies, it is intentionally non-prescriptive on the development practices to be used in theexecution of the project. In a software development project these practices are realized in thefamiliar software engineering life-cycles activities of requirements-analysis-design-code-test-deploy. In an

Conference Session

Research Related to Learning and Teaching Engineering in Elementary Classrooms

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pamela S. Lottero-Perdue, Towson University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

participants, largely due to logistical challenges, yet most teachers perceived of co-teaching as an effective and helpful teaching strategy. Recommendations for futureclassroom/enrichment co-teaching emphasize co-planning and co-teaching the hands-on- andminds-on-intensive engineering design process lessons within STE units.Introduction Co-teaching is when teachers work together to prepare to teach, teach, and reflect onteaching and learning. This paper describes the extent and nature of co-teaching by 28 classroomand 8 enrichment teachers from 7 elementary schools as they taught integrated science-technology-engineering units (STE units) of instruction for the first time. The first section of thepaper briefly highlights the need to support

Conference Session

Software Engineering Projects

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Massood Towhidnejad, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Thomas B. Hilburn, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Joseph E. Urban, Texas Tech University; Gregory W. Hislop, Drexel University; Richard Stansbury, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

vertical integration approach ofInspireCT; it shows all the InspireCT constituents and shows how they are related to the projectactivities. InspireCT information and material is available at http://www.inspire-ct.org/. InspireCT 2009-2010 ActivitiesIn 2009-2010, the InspireCT participants engaged in the following activities: Definition of evaluation instruments and detailed process; Planned for vertical integration across computing courses in the major; Began collaboration with non-computing courses; Secured pre-college partners for InspireCT; Developed and delivered an undergraduate InspireCT workshop; and Planned and designed pre-college activities

Conference Session

ABET Accreditation, Assessment, and Program Improvement in ECE

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tammie Lea Cumming, New York City College of Technology, CUNY; Iem Heng, New York City College of Technology; Rachel Tsang, New York City College of Technology, CUNY

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

assessment. The assessment process developed for the program not onlyincluded the traditional summative approach, but also included formative assessment within theoverall Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) model. The inclusion of formative assessmentwithin the overall CQI model provides an opportunity for early intervention for program-levelattrition. Specifically, this paper provides information regarding assessment planning, theassessment process, the development of assessment instruments, and the challenges encounteredby the department and should provide information that will benefit other engineering andengineering technology programs seeking accreditation or re-accreditation.1. IntroductionColleges and universities across the nation value the

Conference Session

Student Learning and Assessment I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald Wroblewski, Boston University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

CAT-related content or activities, and provided a 15-minute introductory talk, describing the concept of CATs. • All problems, examples, etc., were “branded” with the CAT logo (see upper left corner of Fig. 2), so students could easily identify a thread-related activity. • More hands on activities were planned, focusing on several mini-wind turbines that could be operated inside using room fans. • A new website was planned for coordinating CATs, aimed at providing a more engaging on-line presence, though this was not developed until the summer of 2010, after the first year. • Meetings would be held at the beginning of each semester with all faculty who teach courses with CAT-related

Conference Session

Integrating Technical Research into Professional Development and K-12 Classrooms

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John D. Carpinelli, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Howard S. Kimmel, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Linda S. Hirsch, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Levelle Burr-Alexander, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Kwabena A. Narh, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Rajesh N. Davé, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

engineering principles and design into existing science classes that can becontinued year after year and last through and beyond the training period 6. Some of the keyfactors identified for effective professional development include: engaging teachers in practicingconcrete tasks related to teaching, assessment, and observation of learning; drawing uponteachers' questions, inquiry, and experiences; including time for collaboration, sharing andexchange of ideas and practices; building on teachers' current work with students; and providingmodeling, coaching, and problem-solving around specific areas of practice.The planning of professional development programs that effectively lead to desired teachingpractices is not a simple process. Too often, short

Conference Session

Best Practices in K-12 Engineering: Assessments of Participant Outcomes

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan E. Walden, University of Oklahoma; Eugene F. Brown, Virginia Tech; Malinda S. Zarske, University of Colorado, Boulder

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Engineering EducationAnnual Conference and Exposition in June 2011.Presenters from the 2011 ASEE K-12 and Pre-College Engineering program with outstandingassessment practices will be invited to sit on a panel to share their strategies and methods. Partof the K-12 Division’s mission is to promote building a professional community and advancingscholarship. Through this special session, the Division will promote those objectives.A representative from each paper selected will be invited to be a panel member during thisspecial session of the conference. During the 1.5 hour session, each representative will have tenminutes to describe their project's assessment plan. The remaining time will be for discussionswith the audience about their plans, assessment

Conference Session

High School Engineering Programs, Curriculum, and Evaluation

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David R. Shields P.E., University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Krishna Prasad Kisi, University of Nevada Las Vegas

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Construction. He also serves on the Temporary Construction Structures Committee of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He was Co-Chair of the ASCE Civil Engineering in the Oceans V conference. He is currently a nominee for the Cornerstone Award in the Associated General Contractors’ Skill, Integrity and Responsibility Awards Program. He has served on the Long-Range Planning Committee of the American Council of Construction Education. He is a member of the Associated General Contractors’ Manpower, Education and Training Committee. He is active in the local chapter of the Construction Management Association of America. He has participated in research with the Construction Industry Institute, Center for Construction

Conference Session

WIED Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mara R. London, Gonzaga University; Jillian Rae Cadwell, Gonzaga University; Alexander Maxwell, Clarkson University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

toolis three-fold, (1) women in engineering study abroad at approximately twice the rate of men4, (2)a desire to support the university’s mission to provide service in remote parts of Africa5, and (3)the opportunity to incorporate into the curriculum a direct connection between engineering andpublic service.Program DevelopmentDevelopment of a quality study abroad program, let alone one in a remote area, requires asubstantial amount of planning and navigation. During the summer of 2010, two civilengineering faculty, one recent alumnus, and one staff member spent five weeks traveling andresearching in communities throughout Zambia, Africa, to investigate program potential. Anassessment of program feasibility was made at three potential sites: the

Conference Session

Novel Entrepreneurship Programs

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dan Ewert, Iron Range Engineering; Ronald R. Ulseth, Iron Range Engineering; Bart M. Johnson, Itasca Community College; Jeff Wandler, Iron Range Engineering; Andrew Lillesve, Iron Range Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

meetings with eitherinternal or external clients. The engineering students also begin developing a business planusing a template from a business plan competition as a guide. Regional economic developmentoffices help the team with rudimentary business plan development. In our region the ArrowheadGrowth Alliance – a consortium of various governmental and business groups – offers assistanceto the student teams in the development of the business plan15. Through weekly reviews andexternal advice, the student team moves the concept through technical and business developmentcycles that culminates in a submission to a business plan competition. In our region, our targetbusiness plan competition is the Minnesota Cup's student division16

Conference Session

ABET Accreditation, Assessment, and Program Improvement in ECE

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sandra A. Yost, University of Detroit Mercy; Elizabeth Roberts-Kirchhoff, University of Detroit Mercy; Pamela Zarkowski, University of Detroit Mercy

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

22.1725.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 “We’re All in the Same Boat” Promoting an Institutional Culture of AssessmentAbstractThis paper is the first of two that will explore the application of principles of organizationalchange theory to the problem of achieving valid and sustainable assessment processes in a privateuniversity. In particular, it addresses the coordination of the assessment of the general educationcore with the assessment needs of several externally accredited professional programs at amedium-size Master’s comprehensive university. In this first paper, the authors present thebackground, theoretical framework, and the plan for design

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Manuel Enrique Hernandez, University of Michigan; Xinran (Maria) Xiang, University of Michigan; Ye Eun Park, University of Michigan; Ivan Goenawan; Freda Yawson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

-learning experience. Additionally, care must be taken toprovide sufficient resources for their success under highly constrained conditions, in addition to athrough review of literature and/or case studies involving similar efforts to avoid the shortfallscommitted by other groups in the past.IntroductionIntegrated Product Development (IPD) is a cross-disciplinary project development concept heldas a full semester course in various academic settings. This concept most commonly bringstogether students from various disciplines such as engineering, business administration and thearts. Students are divided into teams that would plan, design, construct and market productsbased on a common theme. Team diversity is emphasized in order to give each member

Conference Session

Design Communications & Cognition II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Caleb DeValve, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Richard M. Goff, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

proposed course includenanorobotics, fuel cells, thermal energy storage, biotechnology, and piezoelectric energyharvesting. As various engineering fields and technologies progress, the details of the designcourse are structured to be adapted accordingly.The ideas and materials presented in this report are relevant to departmental administrators,potential instructors, and faculty involved with planning and directing engineering coursecurriculums. While the course proposed in this document is based on many references, threeresources form the primary core of the course's development: engineering education principlespresented by Dr. Goff in ENGE 5024: Design in Engineering Education and Practice at VirginiaTech [11], course development resources

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Technical Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Meg Krudysz, City College of New York; Ann Wittig P.E., City College of the City University of New York

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

information informs the program’s continuousimprovement practices. Progress towards meeting SOs is typically assessed by having facultystrategize, collect and evaluate data that document student performance. While there are noparticular requirements regarding data quality, the data should be of high enough quality (i.e.,consistent, complete, statistically significant) to demonstrate achievement of SOs and thedevelopment of continuous improvement plans. Generally, directly acquired data are morecommon2 than indirectly acquired data, and are also considered to be better indicators ofperformance.Progress towards meeting SOs is generally assessed through several steps. First, direct andindirect evidence of student performance is identified, usually by

Conference Session

Evolving Engineering Libraries: Services, Spaces, and Collections

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Megan Sapp Nelson, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

set. Thefourth is to perform a data audit for the entire department or academic unit. Each of the methodshas its positive and negative attributes, which may influence which type of interview is best for agiven department or researcher. Each of these tools simultaneously allow the librarian to get toknow the researcher’s individual scientific process and help the researcher to learn the breadthand depth of the issues involved in curating scientific data. They also provide openings for thedevelopment of relationships, both with the individual and with the department as a whole.In the wake of the NSF data management requirement, speaking to a department faculty meetingabout data management plan requirements and the contribution information

Conference Session

Student Entrepreneurial Skills and Mindset II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Randall Brouwer, Calvin College; Aubrey Sykes, Calvin College; Steven H. VanderLeest, Calvin College

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

business or anexisting business (intrapreneurship). In the Engineering Department, we have allied ourselveswith Business Department faculty such that all engineering students develop business plans fortheir projects. Furthermore, business students in an upper-level strategies course work withspecific engineering design teams. This year we have also begun an emphasis on identifying thecustomer and responding to the customer’s needs. Alumni, Business Department faculty, andEnterprise Center personnel are involved in assessing the initial ideas that each senior designteam is proposing. In addition, specific lectures have been prepared and given to the class thatintroduce the concept and value of having an entrepreneurial mindset.This paper will

Conference Session

Global Education in Construction Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Enno "Ed" Koehn, Lamar University

Tagged Divisions

Construction

. Page 22.378.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 CONSTRUCTION WORK WITH EQUIPMENT: INDIAIn India, the majority of the residential buildings are constructed on a contract basis. Here, anowner who wishes to build signs an agreement with a contractor, taking specific requirementsunder consideration. Generally, a permit, house plan, structural design and a contractor arerequired for construction. Here, the work is usually labor intensive and a great number ofworkers are utilized on the site. Nevertheless, industrial and other large projects tend to usemodern construction techniques with the application of large equipment19, 20. This approach isdiscussed in the paper.Construction is

Conference Session

Public Policy in Engineering Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tom C. Roberts P.E., Kansas State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

AC 2011-2826: AN EVALUATION OF THE PARTICIPATION OF THE CIT-IZEN ENGINEERTom C. Roberts, P.E., FASEE, FNSPE, Kansas State University Assistant Dean, Recruitment and Leadership Development, College of Engineering, Kansas State Uni- versity Tom has more than 35 years experience in planning, organizational development, and leadership training programs. He worked for Black & Veatch for 16 years, formed Upward Consulting in 1989 and has served as a learning organization and process improvement consultant for a number of manufacturing and service companies, and educational institutions. Tom is past KSPE president, has assisted in sev- eral political campaigns, helped facilitate several citizen engineer workshops, and

Conference Session

Research and Models for Professional Development

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cher C. Hendricks, Georgia Institute of Technology; Barbara Burks Fasse, Georgia Institute of Technology; Donna C. Llewellyn, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

://www.cetl.gatech.edustudents/step/overview.htm). STEP Fellows partner with metro area high school teams led by masterteacher-coordinators. STEP Fellows participate in summer training workshops where they learnabout inquiry-based learning pedagogy, classroom management, effective teaching skills, andappropriate uses of educational technologies. Fellows also work with K-12 personnel to developa needs assessment and action plan for the school. During the school year, Fellows work in teams(typically two of our students) with their partner school, engaging in activities such as (a)instructing students, (b) assisting with teacher professional development, (c) providing studentenrichment and mentoring, (d) creating and implementing classroom websites, (e) assisting

Conference Session

Sustainable Energy Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Liping Guo, Northern Illinois University; Mansour Tahernezhadi, Northern Illinois University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

design and implement alternative energy systems.Oral Presentation Towards the end of the workshop, each participant was given a topic to research on andthey made an oral presentation to the class. Some of the topics are “Application of solar power”,“Application of wind power”, “Electric safety”, “History of solar power and wind power”, “Solarand wind power hybrid systems” and “Helpful websites for experiments and lesson plans relatedto solar and wind technology”.Lesson Plans Each participant wrote an inquiry-based lesson plan in solar and wind power technology,and electricity after attending the ETI institute. Inquiry-based learning incorporatesinterdisciplinary study, critical thinking skills, and structured research considering

Conference Session

Manufacturing Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig T. Evers P.E., Minnesota State University, Mankato

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

-Based Graduate Course in Advanced Quality ToolsAbstractThis paper examines in detail the development of a graduate-level ManufacturingEngineering Technology course in advanced quality tools. All areas of modern industryhave adopted a standardized set of tools and methods used in designing processes andcommunicating their performance. These cover a wide range of individual tools, fromProcess Failure Mode Effect Analysis (PFMEA) and Control Plans through the AdvancedProduct Quality Planning (APQP) and Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) totechniques such as 8 (or 9) Disciplines (8D or 9D) and related tools. These, combinedwith project management elements defined by the Six Sigma methodology such asDefine

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah A. Rajala, Mississippi State University; Robert A. Green, Mississippi State University; Rayford B. Vaughn, Mississippi State University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

institutions. Demographic data is being collected to betterunderstand exactly where these students would be transitioning out of military service and wherethey are likely to enroll in higher education. A consortium of geographically distributedindustrial and academic partners was developed to forge the necessary articulation agreementswith participating partners, conduct a needs assessment, develop head start curricula, andimplement pilot projects from which we can gain lessons learned in this overall effort. Thispaper describes the authors’ efforts to date in implementing these projects.IntroductionThe National Science Foundation’s Directorate for Engineering (Engineering Education andCenters) awarded an 18-month planning granti to the authors of

Conference Session

SE Capstone Design Projects, Part I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Stansbury, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Massood Towhidnejad, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Jayson F. Clifford; Michael P. Dop, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering, Systems Engineering

disadvantages of modified process are discussed.We hope this paper serves as a guideline for course instructors who are considering going agilefor a capstone design course for computer engineers, software engineers, or multi-disciplinaryteams.Crystal Clear ProcessCrystal Clear is designed specifically to work with small to medium sized teams. Some of theproperties of this process include: frequent delivery via 2–4 week iterations; processimprovement via reflection workshops at the end of each iteration; osmotic communication byco-locating teams, and utilizing charts and boards to share information; personal safety; focusthrough a flexible plan that identifies fixed deliverables per iteration; and a technicalenvironment capable of supporting automated

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research in K-12

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brenda M. Capobianco, Purdue University; Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Irene B. Mena, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods, K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

design process. Once the teachers completed the summer workshop,they developed a six-week unit that included grade appropriate, standards-based engineeringlearning modules they would instruct during the school year.Data collection and analysisData were collected via teacher interviews (n = 2 interviews per teacher; 6 interviews total),implementation plans (n = 1 plan per teacher; 3 plans total), informal classroom observations (n= 10), and supporting documents (e.g., lesson plans, teacher-developed lesson materials, andstudent work). Data analysis entailed the use of grounded theory and content analysis. The firststep entailed open coding of the data, specifically transcripts from interviews and field notes andteachers‟ implementation plans