Conference Session

Mechanics Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Davishahl, Whatcom Community College; Todd R. Haskell, Western Washington University; Jill Davishahl, Western Washington University; Lee Singleton, Whatcom Community College; Wade H. Goodridge, Utah State University

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Mechanics

exam provides evidence of the assessment’s validity as ameasurement instrument for representational competence. We found a positive correlationbetween students’ accurate and effective use of representations and their score on the multiplechoice test. We gathered additional validity evidence by reviewing student responses on anexam wrapper reflection. We used item difficulty and item discrimination scores (point-biserialcorrelation) to eliminate two questions and revised the remaining questions to improve clarityand discriminatory power. We administered the revised version in two contexts: (1) again as partof the first exam in the winter 2019 Statics course at WCC, and (2) as an extra credit opportunityfor statics students at Utah State

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 8

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mel Chua, Georgia Tech; Ian Smith, Project Alloy; Miriam Nathan Lerner, National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Rochester Institute of Technology; Sarah Jacobs; Rita Straubhaar M.Ed., Monroe Community College; Ruth Anna Spooner; Perseus McDaniel

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

"thing-inform"?: case studies in seeing engineering meaning differently through the process of technical ASL vocabulary creationAbstract(Note: A signed version of this abstract is available on ​http://aslcore.org​. Although this paper hasbeen written in English, the primary working language of this project is American SignLanguage. The English paper presented here should be treated as an explanation designed for anon-signing audience.)Engineering is a social activity where practitioners constantly use language in order tocommunicate. While not completely deterministic, the nature of the language we use influenceshow we think, communicate, and collaborate [1]. This paper draws from work on the engineeringbranch of

Conference Session

ERM Technical Session 19: Thinking about the Engineering Curriculum

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Greg L. Heileman, University of Kentucky; William G. Thompson-Arjona, University of Kentucky ; Orhan Abar, University of Kentucky; Hayden W. Free, University of Kentucky

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Educational Research and Methods

accompanymany of the courses in engineering programs, as well as the long prerequisite chains that tend toexist in these curricula.To gain a better understanding of the aforementioned factors, consider the electrical engineeringdegree plan shown in Figure 1, offered by a university in the southwest of the United States that hasa high curricular complexity score. The analysis provided in this figure was created by utilizingthe Curricular Analytics Toolbox, an open source framework created for the purpose of analyzinguniversity curricula.6 The complexity associated with a given course c is a function of the numberof courses that are “blocked” by c (i.e., the number of courses that cannot be attempted until cis successfully completed), and the longest

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Focused on Female Students

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary B. Isaac, HEDGE Co.

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education

studies from Old Dominion University in 2015. Isaac’s consultancy, HEDGE Co., focuses on working with formal and informal educators to grow the numbers of females pursuing engineering or technology careers. Additionally, she is a conferred Fellow of the Society of Women Engineers. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Does How Pre-College Engineering and Technology Role Models See Themselves Relate to Girls' Engagement in the Fields? [Research to Practice]IntroductionSince the Equal Pay Act in 1963, female participation in engineering has increased only eightpoints, from less than 5 to 13% [1], while, in the fields of medicine, female participation

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Focusing on Student Success

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Qudsia Tahmina, Ohio State University

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First-Year Programs

coursework difficult andoverwhelming especially during the first semester. In order to help students in overcoming theseacademic challenges, several learning pedagogies have been developed by instructors andimplemented in the classrooms. Many of these studies focus on strategies to improve studentperformance in a classroom. The assessment of the student performance in most of these studiesis limited to the overall student grade. This research study presents peer mentoring strategy thathelps students succeed in an introductory engineering course. The research objectives in thisstudy are: 1) to illustrate how peer mentoring helps improve the student performance and 2) toexplore the correlation between student participation in peer mentoring sessions

Conference Session

Student Learning and Success

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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J. Martin Chernosky, Texas A&M University; Sunay Palsole, Texas A&M University; Valentini A. Pappa, Texas A&M University; Jeffrey D. Sammons, Texas A&M University

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Diversity

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Biological and Agricultural Engineering

(grades) indicate there was no significant correlation between satisfaction andgrades and in fact the overall satisfaction for the courses decreased, but the grade distributionskewed more positive in the treated courses.Introduction According to the American Society for Engineering Education, the cumulative medianpassing rate of engineering degrees was only 47% [1]. In 2018, thousands of students studiedengineering courses comprised of technical abstract concepts requiring tangible applications [2].Chen [3] found many students encountered a course which was poorly designed resulting infeelings of frustration, distress, and disinterest. Due to the poorly designed course, students wereforced to focus on technology and navigation skills

Conference Session

It's All About the Student: Integration, Problem Solving, Critical Thinking, and Self-Efficacy

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maelle van Thienen, University of Auckland, New Zealand; Pablo Garcia, Xorro Solutions Ltd; Wyatt Banker-Hix P.E., California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo; Anahid Behrouzi, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; James Boon Piang Lim, University of Auckland

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Civil Engineering

and/or a laptop which can be eitherembedded into an instructor’s existing online course management system (CMS) webpage orsipmly linked to their CMS gradebook. The automatic grading and graphical feedbacksummaries have proven to be useful to support just-in-time teaching strategies. Before discussingthe specific benefits of Xorro-Q, specifically as it was utilized in the large enrollmentintroductory structural engineering course, it is critical to explore the state-of-practice in onlineteaching technologies for assessment and just-in-time teaching.Asynchronous Online Learning ToolsRockland et al.1 summarizes the benefits of utilizing online CMS, specifically Moodle, as being asingle repository for teaching materials and assignments

Conference Session

Manufacturing Division Technical Session 2

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Atif Saeed, Vaughn College of Aeronautics & Technology; Niki T. Taheri, Vaughn College of Aeronautics & Technology

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Manufacturing

this project is to develop an inexpensive, small,user-friendly braille cell learning device.Background ResearchBraille is a language that can be read by using fingers to touch a series of raised dots created byLouis Braille and is used by the blind community [1]. The symbols are formed inside braille cellswhich are made up of 6 raised dots in three parallel rows each having two dots. A cell can beused to represent either a letter, number or punctuation mark. An example of this can be seen inFigure 1. Figure 1. Braille Alphabet courtesy of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Braille_alfabet.jpgAccording to the National Federation of the Blind, 63,357 students have been reported blindthroughout

Conference Session

The Best of First Year Programs: Best Paper Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Noah Salzman, Boise State University; Ann Delaney, Boise State University; Catherine Rose Bates, Institute for STEM & Diversity Initiatives; Donna C. Llewellyn, Boise State University

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

, respected, valued by, and important to the group or others on campus” ​[1]​. Theimpact of belonging for engineering students has been explored by several authors ​[2]–[4]​, whogenerally concluded that belonging and identifying as part of a group (such a department or engineeringdiscipline) is important in retention for students in engineering majors. Strayhorn examined belongingrelative to the summer bridge program that he studied and while his survey results did not show astatistically significant change in belonging, interview data indicated that several aspects of the programdesign were noted by students as having increased their sense of belonging. These included an elaborateopening ceremony with high-level university administrators welcoming

Conference Session

Ocean and Marine Division Technical Session 2

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ismael Pagán-Trinidad, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Ricardo R Lopez P.E., University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez; Ernesto Luis Diaz MEM, Puerto Rico Climate Change Council

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Ocean and Marine

engineering students, university faculty and staff in principles ofresilience for both built and natural coastal infrastructure through formal education. The project alsohelps educate members of the community by teaching first responders and other professionals throughinformal education through conferences, workshops, seminars, lectures and short courses in resilientcoastal infrastructure. Educators also work with partners who focus on resilience of coastal andisland communities. All the island of Puerto Rico is considered coastal environment. Over 400,000people live within 1 km of coasts and 44 municipalities with over 60% of the island population areat the coast. A tremendous amount of the critical civil infrastructure like airports, seaports

Conference Session

Sustainability in Civil Engineering Education: Service Learning, Capstone Integration, Student Affect and Rating Systems

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Civil Engineering

knowledge to take sustainability into account, their attitudes ultimately determine the extentthat sustainability issues are thoroughly considered in their work. This philosophy of targetingaffective domain outcomes aligns with the global “education for sustainability” movement. TheCEBOK3 affective rubric indicates that upon completing undergraduate education individualsshould “acknowledge the importance of” and “comply with the concepts and principles ofsustainability in civil engineering” (levels 1 and 2). This research explored the attitudes of civilengineering (CE) students toward sustainability, both as incoming first-year students and asseniors at a single institution, including cross-sectional and longitudinal measures. The researchutilized

Conference Session

Faculty Development Round Table

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason FitzSimmons, Center for Instructional Excellence, Purdue University; Chantal Levesque-Bristol, Purdue University; Emily M. Bonem, Purdue University; Erica A. Lott, Purdue University; Loran Carleton Parker, Purdue University

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Faculty Development Constituent Committee

units responsible for implementing the IMPACT program.This partnership recognized that student-centered learning incorporates complex engagementswith information7.The overarching goals of IMPACT are to: 1. Refocus the campus culture on student-centered pedagogy and student success 2. Increase student engagement, competence, and learning gains 3. Focus course transformation on effective research-based pedagogies 4. Reflect, assess, and share IMPACT results to benefit future courses, students, and institutional cultureThe IMPACT program has been demonstrably effective in improving attainment of course-specific learning outcomes and improved degree completion, persistence, and graduation rates8.A recent external review of

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Work in Progress Postcard Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Oai Ha, Western Carolina University; Martin L. Tanaka, Western Carolina University; Sudhir Kaul, Western Carolina University

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First-Year Programs

role in students’ learning as their academicseniority grows. This will be investigated in the near future by continuing the study andcollecting data from different groups of students.Keywords: spatial visualization, solids mechanics education, statics, strength of materialsIntroductionStatics and Strength of Materials are two major engineering courses in solid mechanics (SMC)that are common in most of the mechanical and civil engineering and technology programs. At(name of university), both these courses are required in the four-year programs in engineering(ENGR) with a concentration in mechanical engineering as well as engineering technology(ENGT) with a concentration in applied systems technology. A previous study in engineeringmechanics [1

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sharon S. Wu, California State University, Fullerton; Yong Seok Park, California State University, Fullerton

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Diversity

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Mechanical Engineering

America’s Promise (LEAP) was able to identify many suchHIPs that are gaining attention [1]. In a subsequent report, Kuh found that students whoparticipated in these HIPs show that they were positively affected by these activities, asmeasured by the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE). It was found that these“deep approaches to learning are important because students who use these approaches tend toearn higher grades and retain, integrate, and transfer information at higher rates [2].” Thus,what we set out to do is to apply HIPs to a 300- level engineering course at a state collegelevel and gather data regarding its effectiveness, student reflections, and possible futureimprovements for better learning outcomes.HIPs in a Mechanical

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Focusing on Student Success

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nisha Abraham, University of Texas, Austin; Nina Kamath Telang, University of Texas, Austin

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First-Year Programs

collaborative learning strategies, marriedwith course material review, to help students be successful in the course. This report provides alongitudinal view of the effects of SI, an examination of aspects of the program that aresuccessful, areas for improvement, as well evidence for expansion to other courses. The studyutilizes a mixed-methods approach, incorporating quantitative data relating to grades andattendance with qualitative data relating to student perceptions about SI. An analysis conductedfor every semester starting in 2015 showed a minimum of 8 percent decrease in DFWQ% ratesfor SI attendees (students who attended 2 or more sessions) vs. non-SI attendees (students whoattended 0 or 1 session). In spring semesters, the difference was even

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 8

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lindy Hamilton Mayled, Arizona State University; Lydia Ross, Arizona State University; Casey Jane Ankeny, Northwestern University; Jay Oswald, Arizona State University

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Mechanical Engineering

classrooms. Flipped and alternative classroom models have gainedin popularity in recent years and while the engineering classrooms in higher education havelagged behind their non-STEM colleagues in this process, the trend has continued to gaintraction over the last decade [1]. Adoption of alternative course models is due in part to thepromise that the flipped classroom design holds for engineering faculty to find a compromisebetween the long-venerated lecture format and the research-based instructional practices ofactive learning. In its idealized form, the flipped design allows instructors to maintain delivery ofcritical theoretical and background information by presenting this material to the students outsideof the formal classroom setting, thus

Conference Session

Technical Session 12: Teaching and Learning

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nina Schiffeler, IMA - RWTH Aachen University; Valerie Stehling, RWTH Aachen University; Frank Hees, Cybernetics Lab IMA & IfU; Ingrid Isenhardt

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Computers in Education

their way into higher educationand thereby contribute to changing traditional teaching methods. One of these moderntechnologies is Augmented Reality (AR) that has currently found its way into universityteaching. Over the past years, a large number of AR applications and scenarios for variousdisciplines and use cases have been developed and implemented into the curriculum [1, 2, 3].These applications are e.g. used for presenting a car engine and its components in a lecturehall without having to bring a real engine into the lecture, decreasing cost and materialresources. The advantage of this technology, thus, particularly shows for large audiencessince each student is able to participate individually e.g. on their smartphones, laptops ortablets

Conference Session

Engineering Design Graphics Division Technical Session 3 - Spatial Visualization Topics

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hannah Budinoff, University of California, Berkeley; Audrey Ford, University of California, Berkeley; Sara McMains, University of California, Berkeley

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Diversity

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Engineering Design Graphics

engineering,spatial visualization ability is essential to many applications, beginning with engineeringgraphics. Engineering graphics courses are commonly introductory-level classes in engineeringprograms, creating challenges for women, who on average score lower on tests of spatialvisualization ability. Improved understanding of gender differences in engineering graphicsclasses could therefore help identify pedagogical areas to support women and increase theirretention in engineering programs. Although a gender gap exists in spatial ability andperformance in engineering graphics classes, female students still achieve positive courseoutcomes. We hypothesize that: 1) female students put more effort into engineering graphicscourses; and 2) that this

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Frank Pyrtle III P.E., University of South Florida

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Diversity

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Mechanical Engineering

of problem types tobe assigned. Student confidence is also built through access to immediate assignment feedbackfrom the learning system. Timely completion of homework assignments is necessary fordevelopment of skills needed to perform well on in-class exams that are used to assess abilities toapply those skills. This paper describes and compares online homework assignment policies andtheir effects on student performance in thermodynamics and heat transfer courses.IntroductionFor courses with large student enrollments, grading assignments is time-consuming work thatrequires considerable resources for instructors and teaching assistants to complete. Onlinehomework assignments are increasingly being used[1], allowing students to practice and

Conference Session

Technical Session 13: Digital Learning

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sang Myong Yim, United States Military Academy; Christopher J. Lowrance, United States Military Academy; Eric M. Sturzinger, United States Military Academy

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Diversity

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Computers in Education

notion that students can be classified into visual, auditory, or experientiallearners has been largely discredited by Pashler et al. 1 , there is no doubt that students certainlyhave preferences for the way they learn material. Students generally consider video content to bemore enjoyable and less time-consuming than written material; hence, video tutorials give themthe flexibility to focus their time on learning difficult concepts that require extra practice.Technical subject matter, such as the configuration and operation of sophisticated networkequipment, is challenging to teach by textbook alone. Though books contain vast amounts ofinformation, the effective operation of highly specialized equipment, (e.g., network routers andswitches

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Louis J. Everett, University of Texas, El Paso; Norman Love, University of Texas, El Paso; Md Moinuddin Shuvo, University of Texas at El Paso; Vishal Bhimrao Zade, University of Texas, El Paso

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Mechanical Engineering

researched for several years with its popularity significantlygrowing over the last 10 years [1-7]. This includes studies investigating the use of online toolsand their impact on student learning [1]. Wallace investigated the interactions among teachersand students in an online learning environment and recommended future research be done onhow social, personal, and interpersonal aspects are related to learning [2]. Rovai and Jordan haveshown that blended learning produces a stronger sense of community among students comparedto a completely traditional or online course [3]. There have even been studies done to investigatethe impact of web logging, better known as blogging, on student learning. Williams found thatblogging implemented in the classroom

Conference Session

Communication in Pre-College Engineering Education

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fatima Rahman, Tufts University; Chelsea Joy Andrews, Tufts University Center for Engineering Education and Outreach; Kristen B. Wendell, Tufts University; Nicole Alexandra Batrouny, Tufts University; Tejaswini S. Dalvi, University of Massachusetts, Boston

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Pre-College Engineering Education

feedbackto be productive for students’ engineering design learning rather than simply an exercise infollowing a protocol. We chose to have the third-grade students engage in a peer-to-peer mid-design feedback session for a number of reasons: (1) student groups were not getting productivefeedback from the limited physical testing they were conducting, (2) student groups wereenamored with their own designs but could perhaps be more critical when taking on the role of“user” for another team’s design, and (3) intentionally interacting with others’ designs mightgive teams new ideas for iterations of their own designs. Thus, while we hoped that teams woulduse the feedback given to them by other teams to improve their own designs, we expected thatthe

Conference Session

Computational Thinking in Pre-College Engineering

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dazhi Yang, Boise State University; Youngkyun Baek, Boise State University; Bhaskar Chittoori P.E., Boise State University; William H. Stewart, Boise State University

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Pre-College Engineering Education

-solving, and system thinking practices(Weintrop et al., 2016). Detailed information on various CT components are presented in Table1.Table 1: CT Components (Yang, Swanson, Chittoori, & Baek, 2018) CT Component Description Vocabulary and Such as variables, data, modeling, testing and debugging, iterative terminology (Brennan & Resnick, 2012; Lye & Koh, 2014) Reducing complexity to make sense of things. The abstraction Abstraction process allows building complex designs and large systems (An & Lee, 2014; Lee et al. 2011; Wing, 2006) CT Component Description

Conference Session

Technical Session 2: Embedded Systems

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yul Chu, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley; Jin H. Park, Computer Science Department, California State University, Fresno, CA

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Computers in Education

microcontroller (based on the ATmega328), which is a flexible and easy-to-use device for conducting various embedded systems projects. Those platforms have been used for many embedded systems projects, including home automation, IoT (Internet of Things), robots, games, and servers. Introduction: An embedded system consists of computer hardware and embedded software, which are different from the ones found in general purpose systems [1]. Thus, the embedded system can be described as a control/processing box (CPB) having microcontroller and other devices, and the CPB has inputs (i.e., receiving part) and outputs (i.e., sending part). In general, the goal of the CPB is making our daily-life comfortable and convenient as the forms of smartphones

Conference Session

Technical Session 2: Embedded Systems

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gabriel R. Burks, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Jennifer R. Amos, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Colin Widmer Castleberry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Diversity

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Computers in Education

are: 1) synthesis and characterization of functional polymeric materials, 2) polymer crystallization phenomena, and 3) pedagogical assessment of conventional and nontraditional STEM spaces.Dr. Jennifer R. Amos, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Dr Amos joined the Bioengineering Department at the University of Illinois in 2009 and is currently a Teaching Associate Professor in Bioengineering and an Adjunct Associate Professor in Educational Psychology. She received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering at Texas Tech and Ph.D. in Chemical En- gineering from University of South Carolina. She completed a Fulbright Program at Ecole Centrale de Lille in France to benchmark and help create a new hybrid masters program

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 6

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Macarena Zapata P.E., Universidad de Chile ; Sergio Celis, Universidad de Chile

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Diversity

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

, theneed for innovation and entrepreneurship increases [1]. However the calls for moreentrepreneurship in engineering education have a long history. Indeed, as early as 1952, TheCommittee on Evaluation of Engineering Education convened by the American Society forEngineering Education (ASEE), stated that engineering education should provide students withthe means and inspiration to grow on their own initiative, before and after graduation [2]. Alongthe same line, half a century later, the National Academy of Engineering of the United States [3]emphasizes (1) a creative process in engineering, (2) the embracement of creativity, inventionand interdisciplinary fertilization to create new fields of activity, (3) leadership in the movementtowards the

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald S. Harichandran, University of New Haven; Nadiye O. Erdil, University of New Haven; Maria-Isabel Carnasciali, University of New Haven; Cheryl Q. Li, University of New Haven; Jean Nocito-Gobel, University of New Haven; Aadityasinh Rana, University of New Haven

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Diversity

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

online or in-class discussions related to the modulecontent. Finally, instructors are expected to assess student learning through their performance inthe contextual activities and through exam questions related to the module content. Indirect assessment using content-specific surveys administered before and after studentscomplete modules showed that students learn entrepreneurial concepts effectively through theintegrated e-learning modules [1-2]. Feedback collected from faculty deploying the modules andstudents completing them also confirmed the value that these modules deliver [1]. Direct assessment of learning is much stronger than indirect assessment [3]. Directassessment is usually achieved by grading student work to determine how

Conference Session

Community Engagement in Diverse Contexts

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brandon S. Field, University of Southern Indiana; Adam Giles Tennant; David J. Ellert PE, University of Southern Indiana

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

were provided so the students could see sample labwork completed.The students enjoyed the course and a reversal in a declining course and student evaluation wasobserved between this most recent offering and the course evaluations from the previous fall,which was rewarding to the faculty member see Table 1. Table1: Course Evaluation and Student Evaluation for CE381 Soil Mechanics Pre and Post Minka House Project Material Incorporation Course Evlauation Student Evaluation CE381 (2017) 80% 80% CE381 (2018) 87% 88%Course evaluations are an important source of

Conference Session

Engineers and Communities: Critical Reflections of Challenges, Opportunities, and Practices of Engaging Each Other

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Reddy, Colorado School of Mines; Juan C. Lucena, Colorado School of Mines

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

Responsible Mining, ResilientCommunities (RMRC) Project and in collaboration with educators, researchers, students, andactivists primarily affiliated with a rural campus of Corporación Universaitaria Minuto de Dios(UNIMINUTO) and urban Universidad Nacional (UNAL) in Colombia. This partnership hasmade a series of activities possible for students, including 1) 400-level project-based HE coursein the fall of 2018, 2) a Global Social Innovation Challenge (GSIC) project-based competitionrun by University of San Diego’s Center for Peace and Commerce in the spring of 2019, and 3) afield trip to Colombia with the RMRC Project team in the summer of 2019. In these experiences,undergraduate engineers learned about artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM

Conference Session

Designing Opportunities for Youth Engagement in STEM

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yanjun Yan, Western Carolina University; Mary Anna LaFratta, Western Carolina University; Hugh Jack P. Eng. P.E., Western Carolina University; Lane Graves Perry III, Western Carolina University

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Community Engagement Division

of Community Engagementduring the 2017-2018 academic year. The team has obtained about $3500 of internal funds and$1000 external funding to fully materialize this interdisciplinary Service-Learning project. Thisproject will focus on 2D design, and hopefully lead to a future course on 3D interactive design.IntroductionResearch into the value and impact of service-learning as a pedagogical approach is robust. Ameta-analysis of 62 studies engaging nearly 12,000 students found that those involved in service-learning experiences demonstrated significant gains in key outcome areas including academicperformance as an indicator of learning, civic engagement and social skills, and attitudes towardsself-worth and personal growth [1]. While there are