Conference Session

Measurement Tools

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen Alfrey, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Elaine Cooney, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis

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Educational Research and Methods

themselves enoughtime to write up all of their observations and conclusions. In addition, slightly loweraverage scores on “Proposing Methods of Solution” (average 2.2) and “Applying Methodto Generate Results” (average 2.2) reinforced observations from instructors of ourprogram’s Senior students that our students do not understand the process of writingrequirements and using them to guide the design and testing process. Both of theseweaknesses are being addressed in the Spring 2009 session of this course: students willgo through a separate exercise in requirements-writing before confronting thisassignment, and the assignment itself will be due earlier in the semester, with anopportunity for re-writing and re-submitting after peer feedback. The

Conference Session

Building Diversity in Engineering Graduate Programs

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ashley Johnson, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jill Auerbach, Georgia Institute of Technology; Adrianne Prysock, Georgia Institute of Technology; Leyla Conrad, Georgia Institute of Technology; Gary May, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Minorities in Engineering

literature reviews andannotated bibliographies.During the workshops students were divided into groups based on their major to focus their talksto their research interests. During the first workshop, group discussions focused on how tosynthesize many texts to follow a particular research theme and how to then describe andevaluate the text for an annotated bibliography. The students discussed potential problems withtheir literature reviews and ways to overcome the pitfalls. By organizing the students by major,the group dynamics allowed the participants to have more detailed conversations regarding theirspecific research projects. Participants were given materials from Writing at the University ofToronto5 and the Purdue OnLine Writing Lab (OWL) 6 on

Conference Session

New Trends in CHE Education I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Hanyak, Bucknell University; Timothy Raymond, Bucknell University

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Chemical Engineering

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathy Schmidt, University of Texas, Austin; Juan Garcia, University of Texas, Austin; Michael Webber, University of Texas, Austin

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Mechanical Engineering

-directed education is a podcast, which is an audioor video file distributed to an appropriate media player over the Internet. Our students ina multidisciplinary mechanical engineering class were able to go beyond being aconsumer and instead became creators of podcasts and active participants through blogs and aclassroom response system (clickers). With the use of new technologies and software tools,students were given the opportunity to create and post podcasts of their own research. Becausethe assignment was optional (students had a choice of writing a paper or creating a podcast ontheir original research) not all of the students created podcasts. Both types of completed projects(papers and podcasts) were uploaded to the class blog. In class

Conference Session

Sustainability in Engineering Curricula

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cliff Davidson, Carnegie Mellon University; Chris Hendrickson, Carnegie Mellon University; Scott Matthews, Carnegie Mellon University; Michael Bridges, Carnegie Mellon University; David Allen, University of Texas, Austin; Cynthia Murphy, University of Texas, Austin; Braden Allenby, Arizona State University; Yongsheng Chen, Arizona State University; Eric Williams, Arizona State University; John Crittenden, Georgia Tech; Sharon Austin, EPA

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Environmental Engineering

in 2007) for engineering professors tohelp them enhance the sustainability content of their courses. Two more workshops have beenscheduled for summer 2009. There has also been one planning workshop held in 2008 to discussthe long-term goals of the Center. In addition, the CSE Electronic Library has been establishedfor peer-reviewed educational materials that are accessible at no cost to engineering educatorsaround the world. In this paper, we discuss the four faculty workshops in 2006-7, evaluations ofthese workshops, and the Electronic Library. For additional information, the reader is referred toDavidson et al.1WorkshopsEach workshop has roughly 30 faculty member participants plus another 15-20 individualsincluding speakers, staff members

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wael Mokhtar, Grand Valley State University

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Mechanical Engineering

project and competed in the SAE mini-Baja in summer 2008. Thepaper describes the objectives and the structure of the course and the project stages through thetwo semesters. It also discusses the tools used to guide the students through the project such asweekly meeting, design review sessions, peer evaluation, and design and budget reports.IntroductionEngineering is building equipment, this how freshman students view it. As they start theirengineering education, they need to develop a solid foundation in mathematics and sciencesbefore reaching core engineering courses. At this stage, some students are not mature enough to Page 14.798.2understand

Conference Session

Improving the Teaching Skills of Graduate Students

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anna Fox, Drexel University; David Delaine, Drexel University; Adam Fontecchio, Drexel University

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Graduate Studies

satisfying the department that oversees the course. This type of nontraditionalgraduate education has the potential to strongly improve graduate student communication andleadership skills while teaching important educational development tactics and can contribute inthe decision to pursue an academic career. Implementing a Ph.D. student teaching program is animprovement to the traditional doctoral curriculum and will strongly enhance studentcommunication and mentoring skills.Past approaches to educating graduate students in undergraduate engineering curriculum designand instruction have been offered in the form of classes focusing on this topic1. Anotherapproach uses teaching assistant peer mentors for helping in the growth and development of the

Conference Session

Panel: Forming an Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie Mills, University of South Australia; Judith Gill, University of South Australia; Suzanne Franzway, University of South Australia; Rhonda Sharp, University of South Australia

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Women in Engineering

in researchprojects related to women in engineering, in both the professional workplace and educationcontexts. What is unusual about this particular research group is the widely varying disciplinebackgrounds of the members. The group comprises professors in feminist economics, sociology,education and civil engineering. The collaboration has faced numerous challenges in terms ofgeography, methodology, availability, finding a common language and understanding, differingpractice in the various disciplines with respect to writing for publication and what grants count.This paper identifies four inter-related themes that have emerged from our reflections on ourexperience of gender-based multidisciplinary research.IntroductionMultidisciplinary

Conference Session

Embedded System Design

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zaydoun Rawashdeh, Wayne State University; Syed Masud Mahmud, Wayne State University

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Electrical and Computer

. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. During the last 20 years, he has been working in the areas of hierarchical multiprocessors, hierarchical networks, performance analysis of computer systems, digital signal processing, embedded systems, in-vehicle networking, performance analysis of networking protocols, secure wireless communications, and privacy protected vehicle-to-vehicle communications and simulation techniques. He has supervised a number of projects from Ford Motor Company and other local industries. He also served as a Co-PI on two NSF funded projects. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal and conference proceeding papers. He

Conference Session

Beneficial Case Studies in AEC Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edmond Saliklis, California Polytechnic State University; Robert Arens, California Polytechnic State University; Joseph Hanus, United States Military Academy

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Architectural

architecture critique, many of the issues brought up by jurorsand by the student peers appeared to touch on relatively high level concepts in Bloom’sTaxonomy of Learning. The taxonomies are a language that is proposed to describe theprogressive development of an individual’s cognitive understanding of material.Thus, this paper began as an exploration of the thesis that Architecture faculty are comfortablemoving up and down the continuum of Bloom’s Taxonomy, whereas Civil Engineering facultytraditionally move up from the lowest levels of the taxonomy and they are challenged to reachthe higher levels with their students.The purpose of this paper is to review the literature that might support this thesis, and torecommend how Civil Engineering faculty

Conference Session

Developing Young MINDS in Engineering: Part II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ruba Alkhasawneh, Virginia Commonwealth University; Rosalyn Hobson, Virginia Commonwealth University

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Minorities in Engineering

. They also improved several skills they need as engineeringand science students such as writing and mathematical skills. The self-confidence of theparticipants also improved by being placed in a higher math level compared to their peers in thesame major. The supportive environment during the summer program played an important rolefor students which encouraged to work hard and get higher grades.Compared to the non-STP participants group, STP students were well prepared for the transitionfrom high school to the new college life. They earned six additional credit hours; and theiraverage performance in the math class was comparable to if not better than the non-STPstudents. STP students were well prepared for the laboratory work. They overcame the

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tonya Saddler, Northwestern University; Elizabeth Creamer, Virginia Tech

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Graduate Studies

) the student’s researchinterests1 . Still others contend that these limitations in the training of doctoral students are notlikely to change because they have worked well for tenured faculty members in the past14 .Conceptual Framework The Graduate and Professional Student Socialization Model7 offers the mostcomprehensive framework for understanding the socialization process for doctoral students. Itsuggests that graduate students are socialized in their departments and respective fields as theylearn the knowledge and skills needed to be successful in their programs and fields, interact withfaculty members and peers, and become involved in various activities within their fields7. Figure1 displays the conceptual model. One of the core

Conference Session

Projects and Problems in First-Year Courses

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Senay Purzer, Purdue University

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First-Year Programs

potential ability whenguided by an adult or more capable peers. In a peer discussion setting, discourse andargumentation can provide learning opportunities within students’ zone of proximal developmentand hence support learning.Findings from Prior ResearchThis paper presents the third stage of a larger study that uses a three-stage sequential mixed-methods approach (qualitative quantitative qualitative). The first and second stagesinvolved the coding of student talk and correlation analyses between self-efficacy, achievement,and discourse type (Yaşar-Purzer, Baker, Roberts, & Krause, 2008). The goal of the third stage isto further investigate and explain what led to the results revealed through the previous stages ofthe study.Results

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Gehringer, North Carolina State University

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New Engineering Educators

… he has a Ph.D.! Or, ifthe TA is an international graduate student, they assume, All international students are good atscience. But if they see another undergraduate who can explain the work to them, they realize,Hey, if she can do the problem, so can I! Such a TA is a “peer model,” and peer models areeffective in promoting “self-efficacy,” the belief that, by performing in a certain manner, one canachieve certain goals.There is also an advantage to hiring the best student you can find who has taken the course fromyou. This is because that student understands the material as you have taught it, and thus isbetter able to answer student questions on your lectures and assignments. As a TA, (s)he is alsoqualified to grade papers; if the student’s

Conference Session

Assessment and Curriculum Development

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Godfrey, University of Auckland; Rosalind Archer, University of Auckland; Paul Denny, University of Auckland; Margaret Hyland, University of Auckland; Chris Smaill, University of Auckland; Karl Stol, University of Auckland

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First-Year Programs

on by Baillie10 in 1998, collated from a survey of over 100 institutions in12 countries, could be viewed as the “combined wisdom about best practice” at that time.She identified six major categories in approaches to first-year engineering programs. These Page 14.736.3were: creating a short introductory course, additional help with one aspect of the course,developing a new or overhauled subject, introducing an entire curriculum change,mentoring/tutoring by staff and peer tutoring. At that time, Baillie identified that the mostcommon way institutions were addressing first-year issues was by the introduction or changeof an existing subject with an

Conference Session

Gender and Minority Issues in K-12 Engineering

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tirupalavanam Ganesh, Arizona State University; John Thieken, Arizona State University; Monica Elser, Arizona State University; Stephen Krause, Arizona State University; Dale Baker, Arizona State University; Chell Roberts, Arizona State University; Sharon Kurpius-Robinson, Arizona State University; James Middleton, Arizona State University; Jay Golden, Arizona State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

. Student learning was assessed using pre and post assessments; brief write-ups andsketches describing their circuit designs; white board presentations to peers, parents, and adultfacilitators on what they have learned; and demonstrations of their chain reaction creation.Urban Heat Island UnitStudents were engaged with the notion of the urban heat island phenomenon in the area wherethey live by going on a field trip to the local research-intensive university’s green building andexploration of various areas on the university’s campus on one of two trails to find the best placefor having lunch outdoors. Students measured humidity, temperature, and wind at designatedlocations on the trail and recorded data. Average measures were computed for the group

Conference Session

Mentoring and Development of New Faculty

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna Llewellyn, Georgia Institute of Technology; Marion Usselman, Georgia Institute of Technology; Richard Millman, Georgia Institute of Technology

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New Engineering Educators

, University of Kentucky’s NSF GK-12 program. Dr. Millman has co-authored four books in mathematics, co-edited three other scholarly works. He has published over 40 articles about mathematics or mathematics education. He received an Outstanding Performance Award of the National Science Foundation and, with a former student, was awarded an Excel Prize for Expository Writing. Page 14.429.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Designing Effective Educational Initiatives for Grant ProposalsAbstractThe National Science Foundation requires that grantees make an effort to extend the reach ofacademic

Conference Session

Engineering and Technology for Everyone

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia Carlson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

AC 2009-1307: INSTRUCTIONAL BENEFITS OF A COURSE MANAGEMENTSYSTEM IN K-12 EDUCATIONPatricia Carlson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Patricia A. Carlson has taught a variety of professional writing courses at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and has held ten ASEE Summer Research Fellowships. She is on the editorial board of three professional publications for advanced educational technology and has served as a National Research Council Senior Fellow at the Air Force Human Resources Laboratory. Email: patricia.carlson@rose-hulman.edu Page 14.745.1© American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Freshman Experience in Engineering Technology

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janet Meyer, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Stephen Hundley, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; H. Oner Yurtseven, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

whatthey need to do to reach their educational goals.Pedagogic Practices and Approaches to Engineering and Technology Learning CommunitiesStudents in all learning communities are given guidance on study skills and introduced to thevarious services on campus that support student success. These include our Math AssistanceCenter as well as the Writing Center, the Speaker’s Lab and other relevant tutoring resources. Inaddition, there are other template topics common to every learning community at IUPUI. Theseare detailed in the Template for First-Year Seminars at IUPUI and some of them include thefollowing: understanding the structure of higher education, developing basic communicationskills important in an academic setting, understanding critical

Conference Session

Robots in Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Computers in Education

. For the team tosucceed, one or more students must develop mastery of each subject. Moreover, the team canprovide a learning environment and a social setting that promote peer instruction and offeropportunities to develop mastery.In this paper we describe a two-year program aimed at promoting self-efficacy amongundergraduate engineering students at Trinity College. The goal of this work was to develop andevaluate a new framework for developing mastery, to test and evaluate our framework, and tosuggest areas for further investigation. In our study, the independent variable is the teachingmethod, and the dependent variable is self-efficacy. As a method to address the self-efficacyissue, we propose individual or small group mastery projects that

Conference Session

Issues and Direction in ET Education and Administration: Part II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shekar Viswanathan, National University, San Diego; Howard Evans, National University, San Diego; Lal Tummala, San Diego State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

6students prepare a paper projects (e.g. experiments,for presentation) field studies, literary research)Student Analyzing research Professionalsupervision/Coaching. information/data. Performing development work.Supervising students (e.g., mathematical or statistical Participating in the field ofreviewing and editing analyses, studying/analyzing expertise by supportingstudent papers) and samples, artifacts, documents, professional organizations,counseling/advising these or other research writing/peer-reviewingstudents on academic information/data journal articles/reviewingmatters as required

Conference Session

Faculty and Program Exchanges: Internationalizing, Collaborations and Interactions

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fanyu Zeng, Indiana Wesleyan University; Chao Liu, Southeast University; Xiaodong Zhang, Southeast University

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International

. Page 14.9.4According to “Transferable Skills Survey”, published by Knowledge Management Center atUniversity of Minnesota,4 over the years a student develops many skills from coursework,extracurricular activities, and his/her general life experiences. A student uses these skills whileresearching, writing, editing, and presenting papers for various classes. More importantly, thisset of skills is not limited to any academic discipline, knowledge area, or college study, but isbuilt up and applied to professional career. A prospective employer expects a graduate to be ableto apply all the skills that he/she has learned in college to the work environment. This survey hasbecome the foundation for identifying and selecting needed knowledge and human

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jianyu Dong, California State University, Los Angeles; Nancy Warter-Perez, California State University, Los Angeles

. Worksheets included step-by-step instructions for implementing the projects. Using the Tablet PCs, students were required to illustrate their designs, capture and paste their Verilog code and simulation waveforms, and write their observations. At the end of each worksheet more in-depth questions were provided to probe the students understanding of the project and their knowledge of the underlying digital design fundamentals. The class projects were designed to be completed within one 100-minute class period. Afterwards students had one week to submit their worksheets. During the five class periods, students worked on their designs independently but received help from the professor and their peers. If students needed

Conference Session

Programmatic Issues in Physics or Engineering Physics

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Ross, University of Detroit, Mercy; Eswara Venugopal, University of Detroit, Mercy; Daniel Maggio, University of Detroit, Mercy; Meghann Mouyianis, University of Detroit, Mercy

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Engineering Physics & Physics

University of Detroit Mercyhas offered a summer out-reach program for local high school students. The UNinitiatesIntroduction to Engineering (UNITE) program is designed to resemble a university freshmanengineering curriculum. The goal is to introduce students to the subjects and skills necessary tosucceed as an engineering student. Classes involve hands-on activities emphasizing team work.Students take five classes daily - Persuasive Speaking, Computers, Mathematics, Physics, andCollege Writing - all taught by University professors. All UNITE students are registered asUniversity students and receive an official grade in each of their five classes. Students can earntwo college credits per course provided they earn at least a C. Applicants to the

Conference Session

Critical Thinking and Creative Arts

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bill Genereux, Kansas State University, Salina; Elena Mangione-Lora, University of Notre Dame

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Liberal Education

AC 2009-2124: ENHANCING STUDENT LEARNING WITH VIDEO PROJECTSBill Genereux, Kansas State University, SalinaElena Mangione-Lora, University of Notre Dame Page 14.572.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Enhancing Student Learning with Video ProjectsAbstractThis paper will explore the use of digital video as a teaching tool in college courses. Two verydifferent courses of potential interest to engineering educators are cited as examples. The first isa foreign language course offered at the University of Notre Dame which uses video technologyto encourage students to write, produce, and star in original Spanish language "telenovelas" orday-time dramas

Conference Session

Integrating Design into the BME Curriculum

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia Mellodge; Brad Deschenes

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Biomedical

design tools, technical writing, intellectual property,and ethics. Figure 1: Organization of the Engineering by Design course.Grades are determined by assessing student performance in both the project section and commonlecture, with the majority based on the project. In the project section, grades are based onattendance, peer evaluation, writing assignments, and presentations. In the common lecture,grades are based on attendance and quizzes.Further details of the course, its history, and how it supports the curriculum have been previouslypublished2.Digital HealthDigital health is the monitoring, diagnosis, and treatment of chronic and acute health conditionsthrough the use of medical devices, remote sensing technologies, local

Conference Session

Preparing Engineers for the Global Workplace & Successful Graduates for a Flat World: What Does It Take?

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aisling O'Sullivan, University of Canterbury; Thomas Cochrane, University of Canterbury

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International

(team-based) research project 1 Generate a detailed budget, timeline and project management strategy 1 Write and present a mini research proposal examined by programme academics 2,3 Generate, collate and critique data for a defined problem. Perform necessary statistical analyses/modelling 2,3,4 Design a sustainable solution for the defined problem incorporating triple- bottom line considerations (integrated ecological, economic and cultural facets) 3,4 Produce sound conclusions and a substantial literature review Page 14.973.5 4 Deliver final technical report, oral

Conference Session

Biological and Agricultural Tech Session I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stacy Klein-Gardner; Rick Williams, East Carolina University; Stephanie Sullivan, East Carolina University; Loren Limberis, East Carolina University

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Biological & Agricultural

effectiveness of their teaching. Finally, a learning environment mustbe community-centered, one in which students are provided opportunities to learncollaboratively.There are many efforts underway within STEM education to move away from traditional lecturemethods of delivery towards more novel methods designed to engage the students in the learningprocess.9-12 In many cases, these methods are taking the How People Learn concepts fromtheory to practice. The highlights of two specific programs, Project Galileo11 and VaNTH12follow.Project Galileo has developed two novel pedagogical approaches: Peer Instruction and Just-in-Time Teaching. These approaches are designed to provide students “with greater opportunity forsynthesizing concepts while instructors

Conference Session

Understanding Students: Recruiting, Retention, Enrichment

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Bumbalough, Kettering University; Jennifer Aurandt, Kettering University

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Environmental Engineering

2008. Presently GEO is responsible forcollection of all paper recycling in the student common areas but has drop offlocations that are maintained by the university. In April of 2008 GEO received a grant from the National RecyclingCoalition and the Coca-Cola Company to purchase beverage container recyclingbins. Thirteen bins were placed in July 2008. A staff member maintains the binsand tracks the numbers of cans and bottles being recycled in exchange forMichigan’s 10 cent bottle refund. The number of cans that were recycled arerecorded for the grant, but due to the 10 cent refund, many of the cans werestolen. Therefore, GEO placed a sign-up sheet on all of the bins so that if peopletook the cans they could write down how many they took

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design Constituents

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Phillip Wankat, Purdue University; Kamyar Haghighi, Purdue University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

. Because of the large number of concentrations withinMDE, it is difficult and perhaps impossible to write a single performance objective for the MDEprogram. Thus, objective II is phrased as meeting “one or more of the following milestones.”For objectives II.2 and II.5 we will count degrees, certificates, and so forth. For objectives II.1,II.3 and II.4 we have carefully defined terms and will use them to determine if the objectiveshave been satisfied. The performance target is that 75% of graduates will satisfy Objective II. Aplan was developed to determine if graduates are meeting the program objectives listed in Table4. Because MDE had only one graduate at the time of the ABET visit and will not have a largenumber of graduates before the next