Conference Session

Military and Veterans Constituent Committee Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven F. Barrett, University of Wyoming; Cameron H. G. Wright P.E., University of Wyoming; Marty Martinez

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Military and Veterans

: establishment of a multi-use veteran space, creation of an informed communitycognizant of the challenges facing the student veteran, building and maintaining a dedicatedveterans informational website, and establishing a learning community consisting of severalveteran specific courses [1].As a result of the Task Force findings, Barrett and Wright were contacted by Vice PresidentAxelson about interest in establishing a Veteran’s Transition Course. They were honored to beasked to serve fellow veterans in this capacity. Although veterans themselves, with over 50years of combined military service between them, and also seasoned educators, they had littleexperience in working with student veterans. To begin development of the course, they elicitedthe

Conference Session

The Best of the Computers in Education

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert L. Avanzato, Pennsylvania State University, Abington

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Computers in Education

virtual world orientation exercises. In one exercise,students practiced customizing their avatars, selecting a nametag and experimenting with avatarnavigation. At the completion of the exercise, students took a screenshot “selfie” of their avatarwith nametag in a virtual “mirror.” Extra credit was awarded if the image contained multipleavatars. In the second orientation exercise, each student was instructed to place a “sticky note”text message with his or her name and intended major, and post it on a wall in the virtualenvironment (see Figure 1). This ability was later used to generate and display notes in-world toallow students to leave comments on team project displays at the conclusion of the course. Figure 1: Sticky

Conference Session

CoED: Computer Science Topics

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mahmoud K Quweider, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley; Fitratullah Khan, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

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Computers in Education

acceleration, to computer science algorithms that can havedifferent complexities and speeds.When building instructional material for STEM courses, a professor, even when not aware of theprocess (see Figure 1 to compare educational model and software development model), is usuallyfollowing the “the systematic process of translating general principles of learning and instructioninto plans of instructional materials and learning,” by applying a model such as the ADDIE model,which consists of five interrelated phases—Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, andEvaluation. Incidentally, the educational model is similar to the model that is used and taught inSTEM courses such as Software Engineering, Project Management, and Quality Assurancecourses

Conference Session

Curricular Issues in Computing and Information Technology Programs II

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vetria L. Byrd Ph.D., Purdue University; Camilo Vieira, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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Diversity

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Computing & Information Technology

Experiences Purdue UniversityAbstractEvidence of the importance of visualization can be seen in the role visualization continues toplay in informed decision making [1-4], data analysis [5], explanations of complex data sets [6-8], detection of trends and patterns [9], and storytelling [10-12]. The need to diversify a fieldwith such far-reaching influence is imperative [13]. Visualization is the process of transformingraw, complex data into a visual representation that provides insight. In order to prepare the nextgeneration of researchers and scientists to make transformative and innovative discoveries in adata-driven world, exposure to the process, tools and techniques of data visualization must beginearly. Many

Conference Session

Engineering Physics & Physics Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Guenter Bischof, Joanneum University of Applied Sciences; Christian J. Steinmann, HM&S IT-Consulting

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Engineering Physics & Physics

of the kinetic theory of gasesConsider an ideal gas consisting of a large number N of identical particles, each of mass m,inside a container of volume V. The number of particles per unit volume is then N/V. Theparticles collide elastically with each other and the walls of the container. Pressure isexplained by the kinetic theory of gas as arising from the force exerted by the particlesimpacting on the walls of the container. According to Newton’s laws the time rate of changeof the momentum of a colliding particle is equal to that force dp d (mv ) F= = . (1

Conference Session

The Big Picture in Engineering Education

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Quiles-Ramos, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Donna M. Riley, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, continue to draw concern from the EngineeringEducation community as well as from other member professional societies, most notably theAmerican Society of Civil Engineers.1 Criterion 3 covers the familiar “a-k” student learningoutcomes in engineering, while Criterion 5 covers the overall structure of the curriculum (e.g.,relative amounts of math and science, engineering fundamentals, and humanities and socialscience content). ABET’s seemingly abrupt departure from a common ideal of a liberallyeducated engineer—after two decades of alignment among ABET’s EC2000 “a-k” learningoutcomes and goals articulated in numerous blue ribbon reports from the National Academiesand the professional societies2-5—raises a number of questions.The process has offered

Conference Session

Technical Session 2: Improving Information Literacy Programs

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Qianjin Zhang, University of Iowa; Kari A. Kozak, University of Iowa

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Engineering Libraries

byproviding instruction and activities on the left-hand of the screen 1. Recognizing that not allexisting video tutorials were often used, we saw the necessity of conducting a usability study ondifferent tutorial formats: video tutorials versus Guide-on-the-Side tutorials. This usability studyhad two purposes. One was to determine the effectiveness of tutorials and which tutorial formatwas more effective. The other was to discover the students’ preference for which tutorial format.In addition, the captured qualitative information on the database search process from this studywould help us better understand students’ database search behavior.Literature ReviewOnline tutorials including text-and-image and video are commonly used to provide

Conference Session

Horizontal and Vertical Integration

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrea L. Welker, Villanova University; Kristin M. Sample-Lord, Villanova University; Joseph Robert Yost, Villanova University

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Civil Engineering

partnership with the Kern Family Foundation in 2007. That firstgrant supported implementation of the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN)initiative. Subsequent grants from the Kern Family Foundation have supported intrapreneurshipdevelopment and intercollegiate entrepreneurship opportunities, faculty training to attain the goalof including EML into at least half of the engineering classes in the College, and creation of anEngineering Entrepreneurship minor that can be attained during the school year or through asingle summer-intensive program.The training workshops for faculty at Villanova University are held each summer.Approximately eight faculty members from all four departments participate each year. At thetime of writing about 1/3 of

Conference Session

CoED: Potpourri

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Varun Agrawal, Georgia Institute of Technology; Amit Shashikant Jariwala, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

Capstone Designcourse which provides an opportunity for senior engineering students to synthesize practicalsolutions for real-world, open-ended design problems. Every year more than 1500 students inover 300 teams from the Georgia Institute of Technology participate in the semi-annual GeorgiaTech Capstone Design Expo to showcase their work from the Capstone Design course, with teamsize varying from 4-6 students upto 11 students each.Past research 1 2 3 4 5 shows the positive impacts of these Capstone Design experiences and projects,thus proving the utility of such a course not just for students but for the community and industryat large. To enable the student teams for success, it is critical to ensure that the team formationprocess is student

Conference Session

Learning Environments for Statics, Dynamics, and Mechanics of Materials

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Allen Evenhouse, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Rohit R. Kandakatla, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Nick A. Stites, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Nimit Patel, McKinsey & Company; Austin Zadoks, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Taylor Prebel, Purdue University; Claudio Cesar Silva de Freitas, Purdue University; Charles Morton Krousgrill, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Edward J. Berger, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Jeffrey F. Rhoads, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Jennifer Deboer, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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Mechanics

one, and only one,of these instructional activities. These activities are further clarified using two other sets of codesdescribing which instructional practices (A, B, C, or P to indicate Passive instruction) are beingemployed by the instructor, and how many (None, Some, or All) of the students the instructor isintending to draw into Active learning. These codes and their relationships to one another arefurther defined in Table 1 below. In the Characterization and Degree of Engagement columns, wealso lay out what relationships, if any, have been built into the coding scheme in order to facilitategreater reliability between the coders. The word “Forced” indicates codes that are forciblyactivated when the given event is selected. Likewise

Conference Session

Life After Graduation

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aisosa Ayela-Uwangue, Arizona State University; Micah Lande, Arizona State University

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Educational Research and Methods

Evans (2016) have developed this activity aspart of a course for undergraduate and graduate students. (The second author has participated inthese class as a section facilitator.) The Odyssey Plan activity is adapted from this course.Research DesignThis study was guided by the research question: § How do undergraduate engineering students project their conceptions of what personal and professional success may look like?To guide the research design, Crotty’s four elements of a research study was used. Detailed inTable 1, the rationale explains how the theories and methodologies come together to build themethods in which the study was conducted.Table 1: Elements of a Research Study (Crotty 2012) Definition

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heather Lysbeth Henderson, West Virginia University; Karen E Rambo-Hernandez, West Virginia University ; Christina Paguyo, Colorado State University; Rebecca A Atadero, Colorado State University

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

“personal identification with the duties, responsibilities,and knowledge associated with a professional role” (Eliot and Turns, 2011, p. 631).Development of an engineering identity thus requires students to (Stevens, O'Connor, Garrison,Jocuns & Amos, 2008 ; Trede, Macklin and Bridges2011): (1) understand the roles of engineersand acquire the necessary disciplinary content through doing; (2) interact with others in theprofession and be recognized as an engineer (identities are inherently social), and (3) engage insensemaking to reconcile the beliefs and identities the student brings with them to engineeringwith the expectations placed on them by the profession. The process of developing a professionalidentity is impacted by the socialization

Conference Session

Student Division Development of Professional Skills Technical Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marissa Capobianco, The College of New Jersey; Courtney June Faber, University of Tennessee

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Student

questions for our initial pilot study were 1) What are the processes that preserviceteachers use to write lesson plans?, 2) What challenges do preservice teachers face when writinga lesson plan?, and 3) What strengths do preservice teachers have when writing lesson plans? Wecollected four different types of data: screen capture videos, logs of the lesson planning process,the written lesson plans, and a reflection on the lesson plans. The screen capture videos and thelogs aimed to answer our first research question concerning the lesson plan development process.The lesson plan and the reflection aimed to answer the second and third research questionsconcerning challenges and strengths. Because of the nature of our data collection for this study,we

Conference Session

Nontraditional Teaching Approaches

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eugene Rutz, University of Cincinnati

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International

copy from one another is diminished (Varble, 2014).Student Performance and EvaluationPerformance of students is presented below for the spring semester of 2016 and summersemester of 2016. In both terms one section of the course was administered to students in the USand a distinct section to students in China. Final grades were dependent on participation (thediscussion board posts), homework (written papers), and tests. The average scores for thoseareas and the final course grade are presented in Table 1 for the various sections of the course.The number of students in each section is also indicated. Table 1 Student Performance in Course Spring 2016 Summer

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leroy L. Long III, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach; Trevion S. Henderson, University of Michigan

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering

for helping current “buoyant believers” maintain ahigh level of resilience and confidence, the present investigation uncovered detailed informationabout how Black male students in engineering and engineering-related fields developed suchtraits. 12,29 Research participants identified attributes such as a) childhood adversity, b) a refusalto quit, and c) prior academic success, which ultimately led to their collegiate achievements.Attribute 1: Childhood adversitySeveral research participants who were labeled as “buoyant believers,” described childhoodadversity which helped them learn how to focus on and fight for academic opportunities evenwith limited resources and outside discouragement. For example, Charles, a senior aerospace

Conference Session

ETD Learning Approaches

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rex C. Kanu, Purdue Polytechnic Institute

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

time. But on the average, the class lectures anddiscussions, may last about 30 minutes to 1 hour in a 2-hour lecture period. To reinforcedmaterials covered in the videos and the class lectures, the students work in teams consisting ofthree to four students per team on questions and calculations problems on the topic underconsideration.A unique feature of the flipped classroom is the videos used in this process. They were off-the-shelf videos obtained from different sources. This is important because Schmidt and Ralph6observed that “the most successful flipped classrooms report that they utilize videos of the content that they have gotten from a variety of places. By obtaining videos from other sources the students indicate

Conference Session

Pre-College: Perceptions and Attitudes on the Pathway to Engineering (4)

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J. Chris Carroll, Saint Louis University; Shannon M. Sipes, Indiana University ; Jacob W. Benton, Primoris Services Corporation; Traci Aucoin, GEAR UP; Gloria E. de Zamacona Cervantes, Saint Louis University; Adam O'Neill, Saint Louis University; Sana M. Syed, Saint Louis University

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

Education designed to increasethe number of low-income students who are prepared to enter and succeed in postsecondaryeducation [1]. It provides states and local community-education partnerships with six-to-sevenyear grants to offer support services to high-need, middle and high schools. State grants arematching grants including multiple school systems that must include a scholarship component,while partnership grants focus more on collaborations among a school system, institutions ofhigher education, local and state education entities, businesses, and community-basedorganizations. The support services include critical early college awareness and activities liketutoring, mentoring, academic preparation, financial literacy, and career education to

Conference Session

Pre-College: Robotics

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John M. Mativo, University of Georgia; Roger B. Hill, University of Georgia; Theodore J. Kopcha, University of Georgia; Jennifer McGregor, University of Georgia; Seungki Shin, University of Georgia; Ikseon Choi, University of Georgia

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

will present a mixed methods research approach thatincludes interviews with students and teachers and analysis of data based on students’ solutions.IntroductionThe National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) supports elementary school science. Amongthe factors stated by NSTA that help students learn best include: a) involving them in first-handexploration and investigation; and b) when mathematics and communication skills are integralpart of science instruction [1]. The aforementioned factors are an integral part of the engineeringdesign process as in research “Brainstorm” to for possible ways to address a problem and“calculating” for optimal solution. Engineering design process can be a very useful tool inlearning science, however, in many

Conference Session

Student Division Diversity and Persistence Related Technical Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine Elfer, Tulane University; Anastasia Marie Rynearson, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Nathan M. Hicks, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Elizabeth Marie Spingola, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education; Kaitlin Fair, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Student

professional development and community, creatingASEE Student Chapters unified through the national Student Division.1 The purpose andeffectiveness of these Student Chapters have been reviewed every few years by studentsinvolved in these Chapters.1-5 Further discussion of professional development communities in thebroader field of discipline-based educational research (DBER) have also been discussed withinthe engineering education community, specifically for those who would like a graduatecommunity focused on professional development but are not at an institution with others who areinterested in engineering education.6 This paper takes a broader look at graduate communities,sharing experiences from graduate students who have developed and led graduate

Conference Session

Developing and Establishing Graduate Study Programs - Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexa Kottmeyer, Pennsylvania State University; Stephanie Cutler, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

programs is Mohr et al.1, who exploredstrategies to effectively recruit students into these innovative programs, including how studentsdiscovered the programs and how different recruiting materials influenced students’ decisions toenroll in the program. However, the study focused on the strategies used to recruit students overthe student’s motivation for entering a one-year Master’s program in general and how studentsviewed the program compared to a traditional Master’s degree. Additional articles explore thedevelopment and implementation of one-year programs2,3,4. Gross, Mohr, and Pessiki2 describethe development of a Structural Engineering professional, 10-month Master’s degree program.Initial assessment data from an alumni survey highlighted

Conference Session

Mechanics, Music, Meaning, and Mohr

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jakob C Bruhl P.E., U.S. Military Academy; James Ledlie Klosky, U.S. Military Academy; Joseph P. Hanus, U.S. Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

) has evolved sincethe institution’s inception in 1802 1: To educate, train, and inspire the Corps of Cadets so that each graduate is a commissioned leader of character committed to the values of Duty, Honor, Country and prepared for a career of professional excellence and service to the Nation as an officer in the United States Army.The Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering is one of 11 departments at USMA, andboth the civil and mechanical engineering programs are ABET accredited. The mission of thedepartment parallels that of the Academy, and focuses on educating and inspiring engineeringstudents 2: To educate, develop, and inspire agile and adaptive leaders of character who design and implement innovative solutions

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cassandra M Birrenkott, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Shaobo Huang, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Marius D Ellingsen, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Karim Heinz Muci-Kuchler, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Mark David Bedillion, Carnegie Mellon University; John Ziadat, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Systems Engineering

, the mechanical engineering occupation hadthe lowest female representation (6%), and a low non-white population (11%) [1]. This under-representation trickles down to populations of undergraduate students studying mechanicalengineering. Women and minorities make up more than two-thirds of the United Statesworkforce, yet only represent 23% of engineering graduates [2].Many groups’ research has indicated a number of items that work to deter women and minoritiesfrom pursuing and persisting in engineering. Johnson and Sheppard [3] found that women had ahigher potential for disillusionment with engineering and the assumed engineering lifestyle, aswell as being less interested in the often competitive engineering education. The ability to payfor

Conference Session

Educational & Professional Issues of Strategic Importance to the Civil Engineering Profession – and ASCE

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janey Camp P.E., Vanderbilt University; Leslie Nolen, American Society of Civil Engineers; Carolyn Sofman, American Society of Civil Engineers

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

, iPhone and Android platforms featuring animatedinfographics, videos and state-specific data and placement of stories to make the informationmost readily available and applicable to the American public, as was done in 2013. Figure 1: Sample of the displays of the 2017 Report Card on multiple devicesThe Failure to Act Economic Study SeriesASCE’s Infrastructure Report Card grades are a comprehensive assessment of infrastructureconditions across the United States. But what does D+ infrastructure mean for the nation’seconomy?In 2011, ASCE commissioned a series of economic reports called Failure to Act, to provide anobjective analysis of the economic implications for the U.S. on the current investment trends inkey infrastructure sectors. In 2016

Conference Session

Social Justice, Social Responsibility, and Critical Pedagogies

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yousef Jalali, Virginia Tech ; Christian Matheis, Virginia Tech

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

program of praxis and theory will be introduced. Then considering differentstages in a liberatory process, the role of critical thinking in liberation struggle will be discussedand evaluated. Finally, paper focuses on contribution of liberatory scholars and in particularPaulo Freire and Gloria Anzaldúa in addressing promising components of critical thinking suchas relation, communication, and imagination. This paper aims to raise awareness regardingliberation scholarship as a resource for researchers and practitioners in engineering education.IntroductionThe necessity of addressing critical thinking in higher education has been demonstrated by manyscholars. 1-4 Within the context of engineering education, changes in accreditation criteria are

Conference Session

Life After Graduation

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Houshang Darabi, University of Illinois, Chicago; Elnaz Douzali, University of Illinois, Chicago; Fazle Shahnawaz Muhibul Karim, University of Illinois, Chicago; Samuel Thomas Harford, University of Illinois, Chicago, PROMINENT Labs; Hereford Johnson, University of Illinois, Chicago

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Educational Research and Methods

measure beyond simple job statistics orequip students with a wide variety of necessary skills. After developing, piloting, andsynthesizing a more robust system, we determined that preparedness should be measured usingfive modules: Financial Planning, Effecting Job Hunting, Accelerating Your Career,Entrepreneurship, and Learning Never Stops. With the implementation of these modules,Professional Development Seminar (PDS) has three goals:1. PDS strives to better prepare graduating STEM seniors for their transition to the STEM workforce, and life in general.2. PDS aims to continually collect data for extensive evaluation to make departmental improvements for STEM underclassmen.3. PDS attempts to strengthen the link between the

Conference Session

Listening and Negotiation

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adjo A Amekudzi-Kennedy, Georgia Institute of Technology; Kevin D. Hall, University of Arkansas; Trevor Scott Harding, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Amy J Moll, Boise State University; Janet Callahan, Boise State University

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Minorities in Engineering, Women in Engineering

students for several years while the faculty securesexternal funding. It might contain details surrounding reimbursements associated with movingcosts. It might describe a certain square-footage laboratory. Such start-ups can run to hundreds ofthousands of dollars of support at research-intensive institutions, and future faculty membersshould be careful to understand what the “going rate” for a start-up might be at the institutionsthey are interviewing with. (Tactic #1: Do your homework – ground your request in facts.)1BackgroundAs described in “Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In,”2 which uses“Harvard Principled Negotiation,”2,3 any method of negotiation may be evaluated based on threecriteria: first, it should produce a “wise

Conference Session

Pedagogy and Its Impact on Faculty and Students

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julia F. Kerst, University of Michigan; Hanna Pfershy, University of Michigan, Engineering Education Research; Robert Matthew DeMonbrun, University of Michigan; Cynthia J. Finelli, University of Michigan

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Continuing Professional Development

evaluations are completed online voluntarily by the student before the grades are final.The evaluation questions vary from class to class, but every course has four required questionsand multiple other questions chosen by the faculty, department, and college. Students use arating scale of 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree) for all questions. For our analysis, weselected 12 questions that: (a) we believed measured the outcomes associated with the TeachingCircle and (b) had sufficient responses amongst all groups for use in the analysis. Thesequestions are listed in Table 1.We selected these 12 questions for the following reasons:• Question 1 gives an overview of what students thought of a course.• Question 2 is tied directly to our

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Tuesday Potpourri

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

So Yoon Yoon, Texas A&M University; Mark T. Holtzapple, Texas A&M University; Bonnie J. Dunbar Ph.D., Texas A&M University

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First-Year Programs

, the FC curriculumincluded the following four themes: integrated curriculum, active/cooperative learning,technology-enabled learning, and continuous improvement (Morgan & Bolton, 1998; Froyd &Ohland, 2005).Integrated curriculum. The FC curriculum is designed to integrate with both the freshman andupperclassman years. To support the freshman year, the curriculum reinforces physics,chemistry, and mathematics. To support the upperclassman years, the curriculum includesfoundational topics, such as thermodynamics, rate processes (e.g., fluids, heat transfer, andelectricity), and “engineering accounting,” which is discussed later. A detailed description of thetwo engineering foundational course content is provided in Table 1.Active

Conference Session

Motivation

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Benson, Clemson University; Catherine Mcgough Spence, Clemson University; Daniel Michael Kuzbary; Julia L. Sharp, Colorado State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

interview data36 .The validity and reliability of the MAE survey was tested and the survey was found to haveacceptable reliability with first and second year engineering students (item reliability (R2 ) wasgreater than 0.50, construct reliability was greater than 0.70, and average variance extracted wasgreater than 0.50). Survey factors included: Performance Approach, Mastery Approach, WorkAvoid, Expectancy, Perceptions of the Future, Perceived Instrumentality, and Metacognition,which includes both knowledge of cognition and regulation of cognition. A full description ofhow these items were developed and adapted from other sources is provided in our previouswork10 , and a summary of the meaning of each factor is shown in Table 1 below. While

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Audra N. Morse, Texas Tech University; Kayleigh Millerick, Texas Tech University; Kay J. Tindle, Texas Tech University; Lesley Cremeans, Texas Tech University; Stephanie J. Jones, Texas Tech University

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

issues.Despite these statistics and the national focus on diversity, work to improve diversity of facultyin institutions of higher learning, particularly in STEM, is questioned. Justifications for the needfor faculty diversity in STEM is usually justified by because (1) it is the right thing to do, (2)females represent at least 50% or more of the college population but the percentage is notreflected in STEM, (3) including females in the process of design adds dimensions to the design,improving the solutions ability to serve society, just to name a few. However, these reasons donot resonate with all members of an academic community and other theory based and evidencebased approaches need to be made to justify the need for diversity of faculty in STEM