Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 7: The Transition from High School to College

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Caitlin Cairncross, University of Portland; Sharon A. Jones P.E., University of Portland; Zulema Naegele, University of Portland; Tammy VanDeGrift, University of Portland

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First-Year Programs

Page 26.300.6on campus, and participated in workshops on topics such as effective writing and “survivingengineering.” These co-curricular activities were intended to introduce students to differentresources on campus that could be valuable to them, and to call attention to some of the commonchallenges that students face during their first year. Students also went on site visits to localengineering companies, in order to familiarize them with the local engineering community, andgive them an overview of the various career opportunities available within the field.Throughout their time in the program, participants stayed in a residence hall together and had thesupport of a peer mentor, a sophomore engineering student who provided assistance

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer-Part I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Simin Hall, College of Engineering at Virginia Tech; Catherine Amelink, Virginia Tech; Sam Conn, Virginia Tech

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Mechanical Engineering

motivation and achievement, are unwilling to do mindful work, such as executinghigher level cognitive processes. Learners in the collaborative problem solving process receivefeedback and comments from peers, and from the teacher on the steps of planning,implementing, and executing problem solving processes rather than only receiving feedbackfrom the teacher on their performance. Therefore, peer pressure, as a motivating factor, may pushstudents to perform higher level cognitive functions. In addition, social constructivism3 suggeststhat the exchange of critical feedback among peers as well as from the instructor can encouragestudents to modify their work. Research is needed that will provide insights for engineeringdepartments in design

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jasper L Steyn; Tobia Steyn

intended to enable them to assess their own writing as an engineer. Marking, grading and feedback are done by the lecturer and a language assessor but have proved to be very demanding tasks. During 2001 a "buddy system" was introduced whereby students worked in pairs and marked each other's writing assignments prior to submission for grading by the language assessor. This gave them the opportunity to scrutinize peer writing and it seemingly had a beneficial effect on improving their own writing.Student performanceIn order to ascertain the real value of the effect of the support in a developmental approach asdescribed above, the 2000 and 2001 students will have to be followed up and an analysis ofgraduation tendencies made. Comparing first

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Teodora Shuman; Greg Mason

following criteria: a) the mechanism needs to assess the student experiences inthe light of course specific educational objectives, b) it needs to be easy to implement, since itwould be used several times a term, and c) it needs to guarantee student anonymity.The mechanism used consisted of three in class surveys and one in class peer review. The peerreview was an oral class evaluation conducted by an outside professor without the teachingprofessor present. A flow chart of the assessment mechanism is shown in Figure 1 and discussedbelow.Step one in the assessment process is to formalize the educational objectives for the course.Educational objectives include: a) learning objectives for the course, b) learning objectives forthe class projects, and c

Conference Session

Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 5: Skill Development in Graduate Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michelle C. Vigeant, Pennsylvania State University; Vikash Gayah, Pennsylvania State University; Andrea Paola Arguelles, Pennsylvania State University

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD)

.” • “Literally seeing this information at any point in time is amazing. Practice writing some of the statements was very good as well.” • “The written assignments along with the feedback from peers and teachers helped quite a lot. It was especially helpful to get feedback from the instructors as they have more of a sense as to what the application materials should contain. Guest lecturers were also helpful because they provided different perspectives from which we could learn.” • “Discussions, assignments targeted towards real-application material. Broadened understanding of job roles, responsibilities and how to apply as a graduate student to these jobs. Examples of application materials shared…helped to

Collection

2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

Authors

Sara E. Wilson

Student Learning and Development in the Context of Dissertation Research Sara E. Wilson University of KansasAbstractAt the University of Kansas, the Bioengineering Graduate Program has undertaken a process todevelop objectives, outcomes, and measures of student learning and development in thedissertation research of PhD students. Two measures of student learning, the graduate learneroutcomes dissertation rubric and peer-reviewed publication of graduates, are presented in thispaper. It was found that assessing peer-reviewed publications, particularly in relationship to theyear of graduation, yields information on the

Conference Session

Student Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Nathalia De Souza, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Michaella Ochotorena, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Lauren Anne Cooper, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Student

head, craft an academic honesty contract as a class that all students sign together at the beginning of the course. • A workaround for requiring audio to be on is recommending that students turn their volume down, so the sounds of others aren’t distracting. • If you choose to assign a quarter-long project instead of regular exams, consider having intermediate turn-ins and peer review. • If employing timed tests on Canvas™, write different versions of questions (question banks) and/or use different numerical values. • Weight and keep grades up to date on Canvas™ so students are aware of their current grade in the course.ConclusionThrough this study, we have identified how emergency online learning

Conference Session

Teamwork: Priming, Empathy, and Metacognition

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Andrea L. Schuman, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; David Gray, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Desen Sevi Özkan, Tufts University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

. Provide at least one change that the team could make to improve its performance moving forward. Free Write 6 10/29/20 Please submit a 5-minute free write entry in your journal. Set up a 5-minute timer on your phone/computer and write freely for the allotted time. Use the time to reflect on what you’re learning (and/or frustrated by) in this class, or other classes. Suggested Prompt: How do you feel that the Lerman Technique is working out for us? Free Write 7 11/12/20 How has participating in the in-class peer critique process

Conference Session

Engineering Education Culture: Mental Health, Inclusion, and the Soul of Our Community

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jessica R. Deters, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

practice-based knowledge and writing knowledge andemphasized the importance of visualization tools in learning certain concepts.An Engineering Way of DoingAn engineering way of doing appeared most frequently across the interviews, and three relatedcodes emerged: being a student; hardness, rigor, and quality; and how classes should be taught.First, being a student captures participants’ beliefs about how engineering students should act,including approaches to classes, as well as reflections about their experiences being anengineering student during the pandemic. Each participant reflected on their approach to classesduring the pandemic. For example, participant 1001M described his work style as “get ahead,stay ahead” and did not feel his peers were

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard J. Aleong, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada; David S Strong P.Eng., Queen's University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Page 26.742.7their possible selves5,19. In this way, the personal statement may serve to position and prepareparticipants to engage in self-regulated learning by setting a foundation for goal setting,establishing the standards for comparison, and providing the means for motivational andbehavioural monitoring5.Although the personal statement is to be written outside of the workshops, the workshopexercises were designed to support students in writing their personal statement by offering thetime and space for reflection, discussion, and peer feedback. The specific workshop exercisestarget elements of the personal statement to inspire participants with ideas and content forformulating their personal statement. We posit that participants’ personal

Conference Session

Investigating Fuel Cells and Alternative Fuels in the Classroom and Lab

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cortney Martin, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Brandy Bratton, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; David Dillard, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Michael Ellis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Maggie Bump, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

suggested other applications forthe study. Figure 3. Students participating in a lab tour.Throughout the phased, summer-long paper-writing process, the students posted drafts andpaired off to peer review one another’s papers. More difficult issues and questions were broughtto the lunches for discussion with peers and the research group facilitator. Students had varying Page 13.726.5levels of experience with technical writing and were able to help one another which reinforcedtheir own understanding. The facilitator met with student/graduate mentor pairs at least once todiscuss project and paper progress.Students suggested a

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Keith Johnson; Mark Rajai

the work for the publication is already done. It is wiseto have publication commitments for papers during graduate school so that editorialcompletions can be done your first year as a faculty member. Writing manuscripts to besubmitted for publications in peer reviewed journals are also critical. The process of gettingmanuscripts published in journals usually takes longer than getting manuscripts published inconference proceedings. However, both options are great for junior faculty.There is an effort at many institutions of higher education to promote interdisciplinaryresearch. Interdisciplinary research involves the collaboration of faculty who are employed in

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Research

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Albert Lozano

totheir institutions.However, these faculty members account for only a small percentage of the authorship of scho larlypublications in their field. After informally talking with them, we can identify the main reasons thatlead them to withdraw themselves from publishing. First, some ET faculty members have only aMaster’s degree. ABET recognizes the Master’s degree as the appropriate terminal degree inengineering technology. Some of them are employed by their institutions through contractualprocesses, thus not being subjected to the extensive peer-review process that happens to facultymembers in tenure-track appointments. Second, the nature of the tenure-track appointment for mostof the ET faculty members tends to be mostly bi-partite (teaching and

Conference Session

Multi-disciplinary Design

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Byron Newberry

for students to submit draft copies to their peers for review and editing.· Description Writing: Since design reports require detailed descriptions, prior to the first project formal instruction is given on writing a description of a device or syste m. Students are then required, individually, to write a detailed description of a simple device (a stapler, for example). As with the executive summaries, students are required to submit draft copies for peer editing.· Instruction Writing: The Phase 2 project typically requires a set of written instructions, or owner’s manual, for the finished device. Therefore, prior to the start of Phase 2, students are given formal instruction on instruction writing. They then are

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Professional Skill Development

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leila Keyvani, Northeastern University; Kathryn Schulte Grahame, Northeastern University

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First-Year Programs

skills for our first-year engineering students. Although this skill can betaught and assessed, the results of past surveys show that engineering students are inadequatelyequipped to meet this need.This need is addressed by teaching and assessing the three pillars of engineering communication:written, oral and graphical through a series of lectures, activities and group assignments. Forinstance, a series of biweekly group assignments, designed to assess and improve the three pillarsof engineering communication are woven into the project-based curriculum, culminating with afinal project exhibition and written reflection. These assignments, not only assess thepresentation, graphical communication and writing skills of the teams but also their

Conference Session

Service Learning in Engineering

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Chandler; dean fontenot

engineering curriculum andprofessionalism. Service learning is easily implemented in engineering communicationscourses because the nature of the courses lend themselves to written and oralpresentations to a professional audience, and, in the case of service learning, acommunity audience. In the IE Communications for Engineers course, students developprofessional written and oral communication skills by writing technical documents,giving oral presentations on those documents, and writing and delivering professionalemails. However, the team projects for the course are geared toward teaching studentsabout civic responsibility by having them design, develop, and deliver exercises geared topublic schools that demonstrate and teach elements of engineering

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Jenkins; John Kramlich

…………... - Faculty (course self evaluation, annual review, collegial evaluation) v) Participation in professional societies…………………………… - Students vi) Benchmarking w/ peer depts….. - Faculty v) Writing evaluation……………... - StudentsPaper Science and i) Coursework (homework, quizzes,Engineering exams, lab manuals, lab reports)…..- Students ii) Capstone design……………….. - Students

Conference Session

Technical Capacity Bldg for Developing Countries & Service Learning

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Jordan, Baylor University; Glenn Blalock, Baylor University; Walter Bradley, Baylor University; Cynthia Fry, Baylor University; Anne Grinols, Baylor University; Brian Thomas, Baylor University

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International

AC 2008-1421: USING TECHNICAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND SERVICELEARNING TO PROMOTE AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE IN ANUNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING PROGRAMWilliam Jordan, Baylor University WILLIAM JORDAN is the Mechanical Engineering Department Chair at Baylor University. He has B.S. and M.S. degrees in Metallurgical Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines, an M.A. degree in Theology from Denver Seminary, and a Ph.D. in mechanics and materials from Texas A & M University. He teaches materials related courses and does research concerning appropriate technology in developing countries. He also writes and does research in the areas of engineering ethics and engineering education.Glenn Blalock

Conference Session

LEES 2: Stories of Intersectionality and Institutional Marginalization

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janelle Grant; Stephanie Masta, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI); Darryl Dickerson, Florida International University; Alice Pawley, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Matthew Ohland, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

transcribeddiary entries and interviews. Once transcripts were assembled, the research team began dataanalysis by first readings through the entirety of the artifacts. Then, the team reviewed all data,highlighting and writing down significant statements, quotes, and ideas that provided context toBlack and Brown student experiences of racial marginalization in teams. The researchers tookanalytic memos identifying how each participant described peers’ marginalizing behaviors. Weread for an overview of their teaming experiences with marginalization and instances ofmicroinsults, microassaults, and microinvalidations. We then began the coding process ofhighlighting for experiences of coded language, overt expressions of racism, invalidatingexperiences, back

Conference Session

Undergraduate Students' Professional Skills and Reflection

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Gloria Washington, Howard University; Marlon Mejias, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Marlon Mejias; Legand L. Burge III, Howard University

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Educational Research and Methods

normally implementedoutside of computing academic programs may not be enough to provide the “fail-fast”; fast-paced environment context for implementing SEL skills.Mentorship and having representative examples of persons succeeding in a field is importantto a computing student’s sense of belonging [5] – [6], self-confidence, and success ofundergraduate students as well as high school students. Mentorship by older generationssuch as professors, departmental leadership, or advisors helps college students avoid thepitfalls of repeating mistakes in undergraduate education. However, there are times whennear-peer mentorship, or mentorship from slightly older students, may be more helpful thanreceiving mentorship from older individuals [4]. These cases

Conference Session

Physics in the K-16 Classroom

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Budny Dan; Teresa Larkin

a different form of writing tocommunicate with their peers. The online chats have also proven to help students elicit andconfront their misconceptions [38]. The most common use of the chats was for the discussion ofhomework questions. During the semester, chats were routinely scheduled for a day or two priorto the date that a homework assignment would be collected. The chats were typically set up ondifferent days of the week and at different times each week so as to allow more students anopportunity to participate. The chats were not required, but rather were advertised as anadditional way for students to get assistance on their homework when they needed it. Onefeature of Blackboard allowed the instructor to prohibit anonymous postings

Conference Session

Student Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emily Jane Kilpatrick, Iron Range Engineering; Emmy Sue Stage, Iron Range Engineering

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Student

teaching, students become self-motivatedlearners.Being in a self-motivated learning atmosphere enables students to develop strong professional skills. Ways in whichthe IRE model promotes professionalism are: practicing professionalism, practicing teamwork, and working alongside peers and superiors.Practicing everyday professionalism that one would experience in the work place. Including social aspects, 40-hourworkweeks, business attire, and every day ethics.Practicing teamwork on teams of multi-disciplined engineering students. This allows students to gain differentperspectives of a shared focusWorking along side peers and superiors. Students are members of semester long project teams that are led byfaculty mentors.Freedom within this program

Conference Session

A Global Engineer: International and Domestic Engineer

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Isaac W. Wait, Marshall University; Andrew P. Nichols, Marshall University; Wael A. Zatar, Marshall University

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International

instruments have been developed to help classifypreferred learning styles, and among the most widely-used is the VARK test, which profileslearning preferences according to degree of utilization in four categories: Visual (V),Aural/Auditory (A), Read/Write (R), and Kinesthetic (K). In responding to a series of questionsabout situations where information is to be communicated, takers of the VARK test are classifiedaccording to how strongly they prefer to rely on each style when learning. Results vary from apreference on a single learning style (typically rare), to learners who utilize all four learningstyles with approximately equal preference (more common).The VARK test was administered to undergraduate engineering students in both the Middle Eastand

Collection

2007 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

Authors

Deborah Tihanyi; Margaret N. Hundleby

tooffering written feedback (along with a grade) on assignments. Students have access to agraduate student mentor early in the process who works with them to clarify content questionsand assess the viability of the project. Many students, on their own initiative, contact faculty inthe department for additional guidance in their research. Although the projects are individual,students form working groups—based on related interests—early in the course; regular workinggroup meetings provide a forum for sharing research strategies and challenges, as well as acomplementary peer assessment process.Revising Assessment StrategiesWe take as our starting point that “writing in the disciplines is founded on an integrativerelationship between writing and knowing

Conference Session

Statics Fanatics 1

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adam Powell, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Kimberly Lechasseur, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Sarah Wodin-Schwartz, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

we drive toward 100% renewables. The primary tool for achieving these goals is mathematical modeling of metal processes, particularly electrochemical processes, validated by key experiments. I currently teach Materials Processing, Analytical Methods, and Statics. All of my classes use tests with two sittings, a practice which appears to improve learning outcomes via peer learning between the two sittings, as described by a paper at ASEE 2022. And drawing from 50 years of project based learning scholarship at WPI, most of my classes include a team project, though I haven't yet figured out how to scale this to classes larger than 50 students.Kimberly Lechasseur (Research & Evaluation Associate) Kimberly LeChasseur

Conference Session

FPD 3: Research on First-Year Courses

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jess W. Everett, Rowan University; Maggie A Flynn M.A., Elizabethtown College

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First-Year Programs

likely to recognize or talk about academic benefits. Page 23.514.8The most commonly mentioned relevant words used in response to the question “What value doyou think your ELC brings to students?” were community (or similar) (41), academic (14),support (or similar) (13), faculty (11), relationships (or similar) (9), service (or similar) (9),campus (9), study (9), career (8), experiences (7), tutoring (7), connected (7), peers (6), success(6), retention (5), transition (4), classes (4), writing (3) lab (3), advising (3), and mentors (3).Community was again the most common term. Academic, support, and faculty were alsomentioned by at least 11

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON) Technical Session 3 - Innovative Pedagogy

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anu Singh, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Grace Panther, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Logan Andrew Perry, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

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Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON)

Paper ID #42483Students’ Metacognitive Regulation Strategies in Written Reflections withinThird-Year Introductory Environmental Engineering CourseAnu Singh, University of Nebraska, Lincoln Anu Singh is a Ph.D. student in Engineering Education Research at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She completed her M.Tech in Digital Communication and her B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering in India. Her research interests include self-regulation, metacognition, reflection, and argumentative writing in engineering.Prof. Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, University of Nebraska, Lincoln Heidi A. Diefes-Dux is a Professor in

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division (WIED) Technical Session 5

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Milonas, New York City College of Technology

Tagged Topics

Diversity

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED)

Alaskan Native, Asian, black or African American,Hispanic/Latino, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, faces unique challenges that candiscourage them from continuing with a STEM degree including the lack of writing and degreereadiness skills such as mathematical and computational thinking [2]. Minority female studentsare also faced with economic challenges and family commitments which can hinder ordiscourage them from continuing in a degree program [2]. In addition, minority females lackfemale role models in academics and industry. They are influenced by the stereotypical beliefthat white males dominate the computer field and that certain groups do not belong in this field[3]. These prejudices and stereotypes can be reinforced in the home

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI) Technical Session 9

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jamie R. Gurganus, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Mark Berczynski, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI)

effective teaching ● Peer and Instructor Feedback ● Bring An Inclusive Mindset to Your Teaching ● Active Learning ● Ethical/Social Responsibility in the classroom ● How do we assess learning? ● Graduate Student lead Workshop - Peer Assessment ● Writing a Effective Teaching PhilosophyEngineering 397 (ENES 397): Advanced Topics of Teaching Fellow ScholarshipThis course is designed to continue to elevate the undergraduate teaching assistant knowledgeand understanding of the scholarly practices of teaching, learning and research. Throughout thesemester, students attend workshops and seminars that focus on the researched and applied bestpractices in the field of Engineering and Computing education.As more of a practitioner course, students

Conference Session

ChE: Curriculum Reform & Assessment

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey Froyd; Jean Layne, Texas A&M University; Lale Yurttas, Texas A&M University; David Ford, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

semiconductor fabrication semiconductor fabrication b.4 Analyze and evaluate - Written and oral applications of conceptual framework chemical engineering systems - Opportunities to write and receive peer review on critical elements to be using an entire systems approach integrated (for example - use of Calibrated Peer Review™ software) b.5 Use framework and systems - Assign problems over a range of scales in which students demonstrate approach to encompass length and application of the conceptual framework. Use peer critique and correction time scales with consistent - Assign complex and highly varied systems “cases” and grade approach comparative analyses. Desired Outcome c