Conference Session

K-12 & Pre- College Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rosalyn Hobson Hargraves, Virginia Commonwealth University; LaChelle Monique Waller, Virginia Commonwealth University

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Diversity

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

and come up with potential designs that would then be presented to their peers at variousstages for feedback and critique. In one week students identified an idea, researched existing andpotential solutions, developed a design, built a prototype and presented their solution. Theprocess included competencies such as ideation and brain storming, team forming and roleassignment, project planning, critical thinking, evaluation and reflection, constructive critique,verbal and written skills, visual sketching, engineering design, prototyping and debugging,entrepreneurship, and innovation. The students were given the opportunity to work in a group orindividually. Even if students chose to work individually, they were required to participate in the

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Approaches for Enhancing Non-technical Skills

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Wuerffel, Valparaiso University; Jeffrey Dale Will, Valparaiso University

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

complex activity with skills ranging from motivational psychology, intricate repertoire, rehearsal and logistical planning, to score reading and error perception required for success. The conductor's demeanor and physical appearance are important in building and maintaining rapport with the performers, and as such are important aspects of the conductor’s physical performance. However, the critical information about when to perform – tempo and its modifications, cuing and ensemble entrainment, and how to perform – interpretation of dynamics and changes of dynamics, attack and release variables, what we lump under the word "style," are communicated largely independent of demeanor and physical

Conference Session

Fundamental: K-12 Students and Engineering Design Practices (Part 2)

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amber L. M. Kendall, Tufts University Center for Engineering Education and Outreach

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

station consisted of two chairs,with a gap in between the bridges must span, and a small, medium, and large goat represented byone, two, and four rolls of pennies, respectively. In the 3rd-grade classroom, students were asked Page 26.688.6to select a sport, and design a shoe with appropriate characteristics for that sport (from a guidedworksheet, including stability/flexibility, and slipperiness/traction). After completing theworksheet describing the characteristics of their shoes, the groups first planned their shoes on alarge sheet of paper, and then constructed the shoe from common craft materials (includingribbon, cardboard, foam

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Trevelyan, University of Western Australia

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

project report Minimum Basic Level Developing Proficient Advanced (40%) (55%) Level (65%) (75%) (100%)Technical Report presents and, includes a and includes a and, includes a and, includes adetails of the relevant bill of materials description of preliminary risk assessmentdesign technical details (BoM) listing special project plan for andsolution with of the design in all major manufacturing procurement, management text descriptions components, steps and the construction

Conference Session

Reimagining Engineering Information Literacy: Novel Perspectives on Integration, Assessment, Competencies & Information Use

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura Robinson Hanlan, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Evelyn M Riley, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Diversity

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Engineering Libraries

studies widely. 3. Educational ContextWPI has long been a leader in project-based STEM education, since the establishment in theearly 1970s of an innovative curriculum that is today called The WPI Plan. Students at WPIenroll in four seven-week terms during each academic year. The Plan allows students openchoice in course work and requires them to complete three significant undergraduaterequirements: the Inquiry Seminar which is a humanities and arts course with a significantwriting requirement, typically completed in the second year, the Interactive Qualifying Project(IQP), which is the subject of our work here, typically completed in the third year, and the MajorQualifying Project (MQP) which is a project completed in the students’ major area

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael J. Davidson, Wentworth Institute of Technology; James Lambrechts P.E., Wentworth Institute of Technology; Leonard Anderson, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Nakisa Alborz, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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Civil Engineering

interest and understanding of students in STEM fields andincrease students’ pursuit of advanced degrees in STEM fields 3, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. These were allissues that the initial developers of the DSL course tried to incorporate in the individual labcomponents and the overall concept of the course.Course structure, scope and scheduleThe primary goal of the DSL course was to develop and perform Civil Engineering experimentsto supplement lecture content in the individual fundamental engineering courses (structuralanalysis, soil mechanics, fluid mechanics, and environmental engineering) being takensimultaneously with the DSL course. The course uses site specific data (site plan and building)with the option for Civil Engineering faculty to add

Conference Session

Innovation in Engineering Leadership Education

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Logan Oplinger, Arizona State University; Micah Lande, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Shawn S. Jordan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus

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Engineering Leadership Development Division

Systems Model significant changes, new ideas, experiments, problem solves, adaptable • Broker: Sells ideas, influences decisions at higher levels, acquires needed resources, strong negotiatorManaging Processes • Monitor: Clarifies policies, expects accurate work, controlsInternal Process projects, monitors progress, develops measures andModel checkpoints • Coordinator: Brings order, plans schedules, provides stability, control and continuityProducing Results • Producer: Focuses on outside competition, emphasizes speed,Rational Goals Model

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Leadership Development in Change: A Panel to Explore Experiences, Skills, and Learning in Change Management for New Engineering Educators

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ella Lee Ingram, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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New Engineering Educators

, introductory biology, ecology and environmental studies, evolution, evolutionary medicine, and research practices in science.Dr. Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Dr. Julia M. Williams is Executive Director of the Office of Institutional Research, Planning, and Assess- ment & Professor of English at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Her research areas include technical communication, assessment, accreditation, and the development of change management strategies for fac- ulty and staff. Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Engineering Education, International Journal of Engineering Education, IEEE Transaction on Professional Communication, and Technical Communi- cation Quarterly, among

Conference Session

Teaching & Learning in Graduate Programs

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Quintana M. Clark, Purdue University, West Lafayette Indiana; James L. Mohler, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Alejandra J. Magana, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Graduate Studies

, ormathematics (STEM) 6. And less than 40 percent of students pursuing undergraduate degrees inSTEM majors completed their program6. The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)Digest of Education Statistics (2001) reported that of the four million ninth graders in the US,less than half graduated from high school7. And of those high school graduates, one third had nocollege plans and 56 percent of them were not ready for college7. As Figure 1 illustrates, thestudy found that the STEM pipeline leaked 96 percent of potential STEM graduates.Figure 1: Illustration of the leaky STEM pipeline. Data is from the NCES Digest of EducationStatistics & Science Engineering Indicators, 20087.Effective personalized learning may have the potential to greatly

Conference Session

Assessment of Engineering Leadership Skills

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William J. Davis P.E., The Citadel; Dimitra Michalaka P.E., The Citadel

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Diversity

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Engineering Leadership Development Division

Paper ID #12205Teaching and Assessing Professional Skills in an Undergraduate Civil Engi-neering CurriculumDr. William J. Davis P.E., The Citadel William J. Davis is a professor in Civil & Environmental Engineering at The Citadel in Charleston, SC. He received his Ph.D. in civil engineering from Georgia Tech and is a registered professional engineer. His research interests focus on transportation infrastructure planning and design, highway safety, and active living by design. He teaches courses in engineering management, transportation engineering, geographic information systems, and land surveying.Dr. Dimitra

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Focus on the Classroom: Novel Approaches to Course Delivery

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary J. Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College

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Diversity

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Two Year College Division

billion Life Sciences Initiativeenacted by the Massachusetts Legislature in June 2008, put out a request for proposals atapproximately the same time (2013) for initiatives to enhance the life science’s workforce for thestate of Massachusetts. The college’s Grants Office applied for and received a relatively modestplanning grant to develop curricula and plan out capital equipment and facility needs for threeidentified tracks that were related to the biomedical/life sciences industry. The three tracks weretentatively named: Biomedical Instrumentation Technology, Biomedical ManufacturingTechnology, and Biotechnology. The first two tracks would be for new programs that had beentopics of discussion with the Beacon Alliance for the last two years while

Conference Session

Promoting Engineering and Technological Literacy

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William R. Loendorf, Eastern Washington University; Terence Geyer, Eastern Washington University

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

aregeographically distant” (Moore, Dickson-Deane, & Galyen27, 2011).The literature contains numerous definitions of distance education. However, they all stress theremote aspect separating the student from the educational opportunity in some manner. Threerepresentative definitions are presented below. “Distance education includes the various forms of study at all levels which are not under the continuous immediate supervision of tutors present with their students in lecture rooms or on the same premises, but which, nevertheless, benefit from the planning, guidance and tuition of a tutorial organization” (Holmberg11, 2003). “Distance education is the offering of educational programmes designed to facilitate a learning

Conference Session

Design as a Social Process: Teams and Organizations

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

R. Keith Stanfill, University of Florida; Shari Ann Robinson, University of Florida Counseling and Wellness center

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Design in Engineering Education

, business, and law students identify market opportunities, develop business plans, and produce prototype systems. Each ITV team is led by an experienced entrepreneurial CEO and features hands-on guidance from engineering, business, and law faculty. Prior to joining UF, Dr. Stanfill spent ten years with United Technologies where he designed fighter air- craft gas turbine hardware for Pratt & Whitney, served as a key resource to the Carrier Corporation New Product Development Council Steering Committee, facilitated Design for X (DFx) workshops internation- ally, developed business process linkages between new product development and lean manufacturing, and developed and implemented manufacturing systems software

Conference Session

Evaluation: Technology and Tools for K-12 Engineering Education

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph D. Steinmeyer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

. In this paperwe will discuss the coursework infrastructure we developed along these lines for threeseparate summer STEM enrichment programs: a six week program, a one week program,and a three hour workshop. We follow this with some preliminary student feedback,plans for expansion, and plans for quantitatively assessing the efficacy of the curriculumin the long term.The OEOP at MIT has run its Minority Introduction to Technology, Engineering, andScience (MITES) program for the past forty years, serving rising seniors from across thecountry coming from traditionally underserved and underrepresented backgrounds.MITES is a six-week residential program where students take a number of coursesincluding calculus, physics, life sciences, humanities

Conference Session

First-year Programs Division Technical Session 3: Diversity and Multicultural Influences in the First Year

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Maritza Paz, The University of Texas at Austin, Cockrell School of Engineering; Margo Cousins, University of Texas, Austin; Cindy D. Wilson, University of Texas, Austin; Mia K. Markey, The University of Texas at Austin

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

seminar sections; as previously stated, 311 (94%) gave consent to use their academicrecords data for the study. The response style varied significantly per student as some wrote verylittle content and didn’t use the time allotted for the activity, while others provided longer Page 26.1338.6responses and used most or all of the time given. Further analyses are planned to find if theamount of writing has any relation to other variables, such as generational status and GPA.The DEI student panel activity was conducted in a subsequent class period, as soon after the VAIas was feasibly possible. Due to scheduling constraints, the time elapsed between

Conference Session

Assessing URM Programs Targeting the K-16 Continuum

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pablo Biswas, The Mercer University; Rohitha Goonatilake, Texas A&M International University; Gerardo Javier Pinzon P.E., Texas A&M International University; Mahmoud Khasawneh, Texas A&M International University

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering

flyer and application materials of the TRP and SEW workshops weredistributed to all students enrolled in the two-year Pre-Engineering Program, the B.S. SystemsEngineering Program and LCC students who intends to transfer to TAMIU Engineeringprograms at the beginning of the spring 2014 semester. All applicants were asked to submit a200 to 300 word typed essay describing their educational goals and career plans; their collegetranscripts were also requested. Apart from the carrier plan essay, completion or in-progress ofthe following courses were needed: Foundations of Engineering I and II, Calculus I, II, and III,and University Physics I and II, became the focus of consideration for their applications being

Conference Session

Student Approaches to Problem Solving: ERM Roundtable

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benjamin James Call, Utah State University; Wade H. Goodridge, Utah State University; Christopher Green, Utah State University

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Educational Research and Methods

processes and strategies involved in engineering design using solid modeling, spatial thinking, and conceptual and procedural knowledge interplay in novice engineering students.Christopher Green, Utah State University Christopher Green is a senior in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering program, with an Aerospace Emphasis and a minor in Computer Science. He plans to finish his undergrad in Dec. 2015, and continue to earn his MS in Aerospace Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering Education. In addition to school, he researches common misconceptions students struggle with in engineering and develops ways to overcome them. After graduation, his career goals include working in the industry of unmanned aerial vehicles and

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Denny Davis, Ohio State University; Peter Rogers, The Ohio State University

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

feedback, and (d) plan personaldevelopment.AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENTFor assessment to be authentic, performances must be conducted and observed in contexts that are similarto those in which future performances will occur5,6. Therefore, students must be assessed in the context ofrealistic engineering projects, which are often found in capstone design courses. To match professionalpractice, most projects should be the responsibility of a team of students with backgrounds suitable for theproject, typically requiring multiple engineering disciplines and students or consultants with businessand/or social science expertise. Projects should have real stakeholders with whom students interact andsome to whom students are accountable. Suitable projects will be

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division: Strategies Beyond the Classroom

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Beverly Louie, University of Colorado, Boulder; Amanda S. Parker, University of Colorado, Boulder; Beth A. Myers, University of Colorado Boulder

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

workflow process has its origins in manufacturing,when flow charting enabled engineers to follow the measured or monitored variables. It now isalso applied to business processes when complex activities or plans involve decision-making, Page 26.203.4infrastructure and human tasks36.Using flow chart software, a detailed profile can illuminate the scale, scope and decisions of anorganization’s diversity actions37. A simple workflow process is typically linear, without muchbranching into other process avenues. As shown in Figure 1, a basic, general workflow processdiagram shows an action or intervention designed to meet stated goals and which follows

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Larry J. Shuman, University of Pittsburgh; Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California; Cheryl Matherly, The University of Tulsa; Lisa Benson, Clemson University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

also research about engineering global preparedness and engineering innovation. She also has research expertise in STEM K-12 and in STEM assessment. She chairs USC’s STEM Consortium.Dr. Cheryl Matherly, The University of Tulsa Dr. Cheryl Matherly is Vice Provost for Global Education at The University of Tulsa, where she has responsibility for the strategic leadership of the university’s plan for comprehensive internationalization. Dr. Matherly’ directs the NanoJapan program, funded by the National Science Foundation in order to expand international research opportunities for students in STEM fields. She is the recipient of two Fulbright grants for international education administrators (Germany and Japan.) She has an

Conference Session

Pipeline and Performance in BME Education

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dianne Grayce Hendricks, University of Washington; Lucy L. Pick, University of Washington; Alyssa Catherine Taylor, University of Washington

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Diversity

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Biomedical

scholarship, a student’sfamily contacted the camp director with their request (formal documentation of financialinformation was not required).Only local students were selected for admission to the camp, as we plan to follow up with thesestudents in the future and desire to use the summer camp program to build relationships withlocal high schools for possible mentoring and outreach opportunities.InstructorsA core instructional group of the camp director (staff program coordinator) and two instructors(faculty lecturer and graduate student) gave introductory lectures and led activities throughoutthe camp. In addition to the core instructors, guest instructors (including faculty, undergraduateand graduate students, and research scientists) facilitated

Conference Session

Moving the Needle: The Complexities of Race and Gender in Engineering Education

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leroy L. Long III, The Ohio State University; Joseph Allen Kitchen, The Ohio State University; Trevion S. Henderson, The Ohio State University

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering

the Outreach Chair of the OSU American Society of Engineering Education Student Chapter. His research interests include: (a) technology use, (b) diversity and inclusion, and (c) retention and success, with a particular focus on students in STEM fields. To contact Dr. Long, e-mail long.914@osu.edu.Dr. Joseph Allen Kitchen, The Ohio State University Dr. Joseph (Joey) A. Kitchen is a postdoctoral researcher and program coordinator with the Center for Higher Education Enterprise (CHEE). Dr. Kitchen manages CHEE’s longitudinal, mixed-methods study of college outreach and academic support programs. He earned a Ph.D. in Higher Education and Student Affairs, a Master’s of City and Regional Planning, and a Bachelor’s in

Conference Session

Student Recruitment and Retention in ET Programs

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura E. LeMire, The Community College of Baltimore County

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Diversity

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Engineering Technology

overlapping curriculum was developed for elementary, middle and high schoolcounselors that encompassed: STEM skill sets and job opportunities; micromessaging;neuroscience; ―all about STEM;‖ and the EbD articulation initiative.The original plan was to conduct a two-day 16-hour workshop for counselors, but afterdiscussions with the BCPS Coordinator of the Office of School Counseling, it was decided tocondense the training into one-day sessions targeted for the three school levels. As a part of thePD, counselors are connected to the Baltimore County Division of Workforce Development(DWD). The DWD, in concert with the county’s Department of Economic Development, acts asa broker for initiatives designed to develop a skilled workforce. Similar

Conference Session

Sustainability and Hands-on Engineering Education

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan E. Powers, Clarkson University; Jan DeWaters, Clarkson University; Stefan J. Grimberg, Clarkson University; Daqing Hou, Clarkson University; Mary Margaret Monica Small, Clarkson University

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Environmental Engineering

difficult due tothe limited understanding by the students in the class of the complexities of the physical systemsand vast quantities of data available.Assessing the Value of CLICSThe assessment plan for this project focuses on evaluating the feasibility and effectiveness ofintegrating place-based or real world data into course assignments by measuring threefundamental aspects: the accessibility and quality of the data; the impact of the project onparticipating students’ sustainability literacy, personal competencies and attributes, includingcritical thinking skills; and the students’ and instructors’ perceived value of the experience. Theapproach is quasi-experimental, using a combination of quantitative and qualitative

Conference Session

First-year Programs Division Technical Session 4: The Best of the All: FPD Best Papers

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christina H Paguyo, Colorado State University; Rebecca A Atadero, Colorado State University; Karen E Rambo-Hernandez, West Virginia University; Jennifer Francis, West Virginia University

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

professional and personal backgrounds.Engineering schools and departments play a very important but often implicit role in thedevelopment of an engineering identity by students. By giving deliberate attention to theengineering identity development of our students we can help participate in these three processesin ways that result in the more inclusive attitudes and practices that are needed in modernengineering. We plan to shape our students’ perceptions of engineers and engineering byshowing them that in order to do their work engineers must learn a variety of skills. This showsbeginning engineers that technical knowledge alone is not enough to design high qualitysolutions. We want to teach our students how to interact with each other in ways that

Collection

2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Amelito Enriquez; Nicholas Langhoff; Wenshen Pong; Nilgun Ozer; Hamid Shanasser; Cheng Chen; Hamid Mahmoodi; Ed Cheng; Kwok-Siong Teh; Xiaorong Zhang

project are supervised during project time by either a graduate student, oran upper-division SFSU student who acts as the project mentor. Each project mentor worksclosely with SFSU faculty in designing the project and planning daily activities. The computerengineering project involves the design and creation an iPhone App that has an academicapplication (e.g., unit conversion, math formulas). The Civil Engineering project involves the useof computer applications and simulations to design a truss bridge and build a model of the bridgeusing available materials in the PASCO Scientific kit (http://www.pasco.com/). The ElectricalEngineering group project uses the BASIC Stamp Activity Kit from Parallax, Inc.(http://www.parallax.com/) to design, build

Conference Session

Cooperative & Experiential Education Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bhavna Hariharan, Stanford University; Sneha Ayyagari, Stanford University; Jonathan Edward Pang, Stanford University; Paul Dwight Watkins II, Stanford University; Aravind Arun, Stanford University

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Diversity

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

accountof the unfolding of their actions and the reactions they elicit.MethodsThe primary question guiding the research in this paper was to understand studentexperience of working with underserved communities. This inquiry was conducted bycollaborating with the students to understand their experiences in their own words. Theresearch plan was to author cases of student experiences of the class and determine whataspects (if anything) from the class were helpful outside the class context. The secondpart of the inquiry was added to identify if the class could satisfy ABET criteria 3h thatrequires that students “to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global,economic, environmental, and societal context”16.GEE has been offered twice so

Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chris Geiger, Florida Gulf Coast University; James D. Sweeney, Oregon State University

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Biomedical

otherwise would not havebeen covered to the same degree, if at all, in the courses described here. Even though everystudent in these courses didn’t explore every topic in detail, the fact that students aredisseminating their results through oral presentations provides everyone in the class additionalexposure to these topics. In addition to providing significant breadth within each course, these“mini project” assignments promote information literacy and life-long learning, important piecesfor our curriculum not only in regards to ABET assessment, but also for our University’s new 5-year Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP), an integral part of regional reaccreditation. Bydemonstrating the ability to find, analyze, synthesize and appropriately cite current

Conference Session

Technical Session: Pedagogical Strategies and Classroom Techniques for Teaching Assistants

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Ilkhanipour Rooney, University of Pennsylvania; Julie Schafer McGurk, University of Pennsylvania; Emily R. Elliott, University of Pennsylvania; Ursula J. Williams, University of Pennsylvania; Leann Dourte Segan, University of Pennsylvania

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Student

, In-Class Learning Environment as a Teaching AssistantIntroductionActive learning techniques, when properly implemented, have been shown to improve learningcompared to traditional lecture. A review of active learning by Prince found broad support foractive, collaborative, cooperative, and problem-based learning.1 Specifically, a meta-analysisrevealed that small-group work, one form of active learning, promotes enhanced academicachievement, more favorable attitudes toward learning, and increased persistence in STEMfields.2 Despite the strong evidence, many college engineering courses uphold the status-quo,lecture-only format because changing the structure of a course takes considerable time, planning,and foresight

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division: Retaining and Developing Women Faculty in STEM

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Quincy Brown, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Renetta G. Tull, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Lourdes A. Medina, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez; Michelle Beadle Holder, University of Maryland, College Park; Yarazeth Medina, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

were able to create strategies with family, such as understanding the academic calendar, plans for help with work at home, and recognition from partners for all of the hard work  Desires: More opportunities to mentor and progress toward improving isolation felt due to the perceived need to separate personal life from work lifePromotion and Prizes: Pursuit of  Pursuit of prizes enables women to feel empowered, andExcellence and Recognition in celebrate successHonorific Organizations (Christine Awards beget other