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Distance Learning and Online Teaching Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aleksandr Sergeyev, Michigan Technological University; Nasser Alaraje, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

. Adesso CyberPad Digital Notebook: http://www.adesso.com/en/home/tablets.html32. U.S. Department of Education, Office of Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development, Evaluation ofEvidence-Based Practices in Online Learning; A Meta-Analysis and Review of Online Learning Studies.Washington, D.C., 2010. Page 23.1259.1333. Echo 360 Survey "The Student View of Blended Learning, " www.echo360.com34. Assessing Consumer Preferences for Continuing, Professional, and Online Higher Education. Eduventures,2011.

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K-12 Robotics

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mercedes M McKay, Stevens Institute of Technology (SES); Susan Lowes, Teachers College/Columbia University; Devayani Tirthali, Institute for Learning Technologies, Teachers College, Columbia University; Elisabeth W McGrath, Stevens Institute of Technology (SES); Jason Sayres, Stevens Institute of Technology; Karen A DUPE Peterson, EdLab Group

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

were some similarities across all sites. Only 10 percent or less of the students at any sitereported that school was “Hard” or “Very hard” and almost all at each site planned on some formof post-secondary education. STEM subjects were listed among the subjects liked most at all thesites and math and English Language Arts among the subjects liked least, and over 80 percent ofthe participants at all the sites agreed or strongly agreed that they liked science. Most of theparticipants at all the sites reported that they had studied forces and motion, but only a few atthree of the four sites reported that they had studied buoyancy.But there were also additional differences that make comparisons of the two environmentsproblematic. The first was the

Conference Session

New Concepts for Alternative and Renewable Energy Courses

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mehmet Sozen, Grand Valley State University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

their design analysis. The students who had a wind energy projectsintended to use INLWind Energy program but due to the location of their feasibility study theycould not obtain wind data in the format required by this program, and so they had to developtheir own analysis programs. The author is planning to continue making the use of these softwaretools in the aforementioned course with some improvements. Valuable lessons were learnedfrom this trial as to what kind of difficulties the students have encountered and what kind ofadjustments need to be made in order to make the use of these software tools both enjoyable andbeneficial to the education and training of the students.References1. Sözen, M., “From a Traditional Combustion Course to an

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Engagement in Formal and Informal Learning Environments

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nesim Halyo, Hampton University; Qiang Le, Hampton University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

take less time than an actual real time lecture would without anyloss of information conveyed and with the potential of greater student learning by maintainingthe student’s attention on the subject.Second, it forces the instructor making the video to plan the lecture from the perspective of notonly including all the necessary technical material, but also for keeping the student’s attention onthe subject matter longer, enhancing the student’s enthusiasm on the subject being studied, etc.using new tools that are not always available in a classroom environment. Because the video isnot a real time recording, the instructor can modify and improve it as many times as desired untilall the points have been made with sufficient clarity, the concepts

Conference Session

Software Engineering Pedagogical Approaches

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jon A Preston, Southern Polytechnic State University; Sushil Acharya, Robert Morris University

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Constituent Committee

three energy software products (MEDEE-S/ENV, EFOM/ENV and DBA-VOID) which are in use in 26 Asian and 7 European countries by both governmental and non-governmental organizations. Acharya has a M.Eng. in Com- puter Technology and a D.Eng. in Computer Science and Information Management with a concentration in knowledge discovery, both from the Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand. His teaching involve- ment and research interest are in the areas of Software Engineering and Development (Verification & Validation) and Enterprise Resource Planning. He also has interest in Learning Objectives based Educa- tion Material Design and Development. Acharya is a co-author of ”Discrete Mathematics Applications for

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 4

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kendrick T. Aung, Lamar University; Ryan Underdown, Lamar University; Qin Qian, Lamar University

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

department at Lamar University. Since joining Lamar in 1998, he has taught over 12 different courses including management, quality and economics. His research interests include six sigma, facility layout and risk management. Dr. Underdown is the academic advisor of the Industrial Technology academic program at Lamar. He has been a member of the Institute of Industrial Engineers since 1996. Dr. Underdown consults small businesses in the areas of strategic planning, process improvement, and lean manufacturing.Dr. Qin Qian, Lamar University Qin Qian EDUCATION Ph.D. Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Feb., 2008 Dissertation: Solute exchange with sub-aqueous sediments: hydrodynamic interactions with

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

John Paulino; Jesús García; Joshua Lohse; Hector Prado; Atul Balani; Sridevi Lakshmipuram; Cheng Chen; Amelito G. Enriquez; Hao Jiang; Hamid Mahmoodi; Wenshen Pong; Hamid Shanasser

research internship program. Question: How much did you learn about each of the following? Average Response Scale: 1 – Nothing; 2 – A little; 3 Rating – Some; 4 – Quite a bit; 5 – A lot. Performing research 4.8 Designing/performing an experiment 4.9 Creating a work plan 4.8 Working as a part of a team

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Kurt McMullin; Thalia Anagnos; Jan Hustler; Nancy Thomas

in Fall 2004 and provided guidance on the Inquiry Spectrum, thevariation of learning environments from direct instruction to student defined inquiry. While theworkshop was successful and attracted approximately 25 IHE instructors and resulted inincreased use of inquiry and student-led discovery in several of the mechanical and aerospaceengineering courses3, the Project Management team subsequently refined their work plan. Anunderlying concept governing the Project Management decisions was that professionaldevelopment would generally require about 100 hours of training to make notable changes inclassroom practice. The IHE workshop strategy would have only provided about ten hours oftraining over several years and even when combined with a

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2013 GSW

Authors

Camille A. Issa

Institute of Technologyrecently started to offer classes. According to Howard Rollins, US universities are heading nowtoward becoming global universities. Georgia Tech a primer engineering university, is offeringdegree programs in France, Singapore, Italy, South Africa and China, and has plans for India.More and more universities are competing internationally for resources, faculty and the beststudents. Since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, internationalization has moved high on theagenda at most universities, to prepare students for a globalized world, and to help facultymembers stay up-to-date in their disciplines.Overseas programs can help American universities raise their profile, build internationalrelationships, attract top research

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2013 GSW

Authors

Gustavo Narez; Sarah Hussein; Bernd Chudoba; Amit Oza

design class project. In this experience, a development of individualeffort and studies lead to a very important process of collaborative effort (an essentialquality required in the industry). In aircraft design, a process is executed such that all thedisciplinary studies of aeronautics are applied to produce together one single concept fora vehicle to be built followed by more detailed planning phases. The design is first of allachieved by creating a conceptual shape of the aircraft made by a convergence ofvariables that best fit the subjected mission requirements. The following seven steps givean overview of the conceptual design for an aircraft: 1) Analysis, 2) Integration, 3)Iteration, 4) Convergence, 5) Solution Space Screening, 6) Solution

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Madhulika Srikanth; Abu S. Asaduzzaman; Ramazan Asmatulu

.Proceedings of the 2013 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 14. http://distancelearn.about.com/od/distancelearning101/a/Cheating-In-Online-College- Classes-A-Virtual-Epidemic.htm - accessed on 30th May 2013. 15. McCabe, Donald L., Kenneth D. Butterfield, and Linda Klebe Trevino. "Academic dishonesty in graduate business programs: Prevalence, causes, and proposed action." Academy of Management Learning & Education 5.3 (2006): 294-305. 16. Digital Exams on the ipad - http://speirs.org/blog/2012/2/6/digital-exams-on-the- ipad.html - accessed on 30th May 2013. 17. Harding, T. S., Mayhew, M. J., Finelli, C. J., & Carpenter, D. D., "The theory of planned behavior as a

Conference Session

K-5 Teacher Transformation

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pamela S. Lottero-Perdue Ph.D., Towson University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

received PD), or by co-planning or co-teaching with classroom teachers.18 Enrichment teachers were typically wellsuited to be resources for the engineering portions of the STE units based upon many of theircollective prior experiences with engineering design challenges in after school activities likeDestination Imagination, FIRST Lego League and the state’s Engineering Challengecompetition. Furthermore, enrichment teachers’ focus on engaging students in higher levelquestioning and critical thinking was consonant with the skills needed to move through theengineering design process.Research Questions and Null Hypotheses This study aimed to investigate pilot year teachers’ perspectives on their identities – aselementary teachers, broadly, and

Conference Session

Creating and Maintaining Effective Communication Learning in the Curriculum

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregg L. Fiegel, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

weaker team (bottom 25%) that would be doing considerable learning on our dime if this were a real-world situation.Table 7 summarizes average performance scores for the past six years, assuming the rubricdefined in Table 6. The data suggest improvement in team performance. This result seemsreasonable since the program has focused more on teamwork and team-building issues during thepast five years and since the instructors of the capstone course have worked to continuouslyrefine and improve the team building and interpersonal communication lesson plans. It isimportant to note that we carefully screen the team performance scores to identify any teamsexperiencing communication problems or personality conflicts during the

Conference Session

Mentoring Minority Students

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Frances Carter-Johnson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Patricia Ordóñez, University of Puerto Rico Río Piedras ; Renetta G. Tull, University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC); Miguel Alfonso Nino, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

the literature, we were not able to find papers about funding workshops or the evaluation offunding workshops, but we were able to find two extremely useful resources online that wewould like to share. The first resource was Dr. Robin Walker’s GRFP Essay Insights Website atthe University of Missouri (http://grfpessayinsights.missouri.edu/). At this website, we found arubric for students to self-evaluate the quality of their essays that we plan to incorporate to ourfuture workshops. The second resource is hosted on the website of Kappa Delta Pi, theInternational Honor Society in Education. It is a presentation by the Director of Retention andRecruiting at Texas A&M University, Megan Palsa, and can be found at the following website:http

Conference Session

Innovative IE Course Content

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie Ann Layton, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Thomas Reed Willemain, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

-eight out of thirty-nine possible participants had amajor within the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department, one being a MechanicalEngineer. Most students in QC are juniors and seniors with more than one prior course instatistics. By the end of this course students should have the ability to identify, formulate andsolve engineering problems, and model the stochastic nature of management systems andengineering relationships to the planning, organization, evaluation and control of human centeredsystems. The course places a heavy emphasis on control charting using Minitab 16. QC will becalled the Level 2 course for the remainder of this paper.At the start of the experiment, students provided various items of demographic information (e.g

Conference Session

FPD 7: First-Year Engineering Courses, Part II: Perceptions and Paradigms

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janaki Isabella Perera, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Brendan Thomas Quinlivan, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Yevgeniya V. Zastavker, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

. Research in Higher Education, 46(2), 153-184. 14. Corbin, J., & Strauss, A. (2007). Basics of Qualitative Research: Techniques and Procedures for Developing Grounded Theory. Sage Publications, Incorporated. 15. Cotten, S. R., & Wilson, B. (2006). Student-Faculty Interactions: Dynamics and Determinants. Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 51(4), 487-519. 16. Astin

Conference Session

Computer Hardware and Simulation

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Man Wang, Michigan Technological University; Jun Tao, Michigan Technological University; Chaoli Wang, Michigan Technological University; Ching-Kuang Shene, Michigan Technological University; Seung Hyun Kim, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

FlowVisual, along with tutorialand evaluation materials online at http://www.cs.mtu.edu/~chaoliw/2dflowvis.html. This willprovide other instructors with a useful teaching aid, allowing them to revise their curricula andteaching practices. Due to its simplicity of operation, we plan to further develop a tablet versionof this tool for use at museums, science centers and similar institutions to develop exhibits inscience and engineering.AcknowledgementsThis work was supported in part by the Dave House Family Foundation and the U.S. NationalScience Foundation through grants IIS-1017935, DUE-1105047, and CNS-1229297. The 2Dflow data used in this work are slices extracted from a 3D hurricane simulation data set. Wethank all students who participated in

Conference Session

Research on Learning, Performance, and Impact

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ananda Mani Paudel, Colorado State University-Pueblo; Sylvester A. Kalevela, Colorado State University, Pueblo

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

selectively random study groups with diverse members. In summary thisresearch was planned to include the following elements: Developing a frame work for collaboration Formulating a selectively random study group to enhance the interaction between students of different backgrounds and educational performances Breaking the cohort of like minded students or students of similar performance level Engaging and managing a big class in a small university context Improving the performance of minority students and fostering sense of belonging among the students of all kinds Investigating quantitatively as well as qualitatively the effectiveness of selectively

Conference Session

Engineering Identity 1

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine E Winters, Virginia Tech; Holly M Matusovich, Virginia Tech; Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Stanford University; Helen L. Chen, Stanford University; Ken Yasuhara, University of Washington, Center for Engineering Learning & Teaching (CELT); Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

important to be able to work in teams. … Usually problems are bigger [than] just one person [can] solve.” [Paige, SPri, Sophomore]By sophomore year, Paige had already learned that the scope of problems in engineeringrequired teamwork in order to adequately address them.The precipitous drop in the importance of teamwork among graduates was surprising. Paige, oneof the three participants that report teamwork as “not important” in her work, told theinterviewer: “One of the skills you need for this job is program management, just knowing how to plan out, how to get a team going” [Paige, SPri, EPS]This seems to contradict her survey response. Similarly, Nate said teamwork was not importantbut reported working with various teams on a

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries (ELD) Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janet Fransen, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

and appointments with peer researchconsultants. Access points related to consultations with archivists and media librarians wereadded in Spring 2012.Working with campus institutional research staff, we were able to correlate Fall 2011 library usewith higher term GPA and retention for first year students while controlling for other variablesrelated to student success.1 The Student Success line of inquiry is useful for demonstrating thatsuccessful students do find value in the library. However, as students move beyond their firstyear, the factors contributing to student success become increasingly complex and interrelated.Therefore, while we continue to collect first year data and plan to check the correlation strengtheach semester, we are not

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society (LEES) Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig J. Gunn, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

productioncan increase along with their knowledge. Professors can talk about the similar kinds of writing that Page 23.676.7they do and the ways in which they handle the writing tasks. Students should also be required tobegin the process of oral presentation early in their academic careers. Professors should give theirstudents every chance available to speak of the technical knowledge that they are learning. Asinterest grows, planned seminars and workshops can be provided that will emphasize theimportance of the engineering faculty as the catalyst for improvement.The structure of unified technical knowledge and communication skill can be

Conference Session

Accreditation, Program Evaluation, and Education Resource's Impact in Latin America

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edmundo Tovar, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, CIF Q2818015F; Jorge A. Lopez-Vargas, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja; Nelson O Piedra, Universidad Tecnica Particular de Loja; Janneth Alexandra Chicaiza, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja

Tagged Divisions

International

Paper ID #7837Impact of Open Educational Resources in Higher Education Institutions inSpain and Latin Americas through Social Network AnalysisProf. Edmundo Tovar, Universidad Polit´ecnica de Madrid, CIF Q2818015F Edmundo Tovar, Computer Engineering educator, has a Ph.D. (1994) and a Bachelor’s degree (1986) in Computer Engineering from the Universidad Polit´ecnica de Madrid (UPM). He is Certified Software Development Professional (CSDP) from the IEEE Computer Society. He has been Associate Dean for Quality and Strategic Planning in the Computing School of the Universidad Polit´ecnica de Madrid. From this last position he

Conference Session

Integrating Engineering & Liberal Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dominic M. Halsmer PE, Oral Roberts University; Peter Wesley Odom, Oral Roberts University; Jessica Fitzgerald, Oral Roberts University; Taylor Gipson Tryon, Oral Roberts University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, tinkerers do not plan out what they aregoing to do, nor do they use any type of process to come to a certain solution. Instead, they use aprocess of guess and check, and try different things until they find something that works—aprocess of elimination. Though Alon makes this claim, that evolution is much like a “tinkerer,”he does state that the “solutions found by evolution have much in common with goodengineering design.” He elaborates on three examples of these similarities between engineeredsystems and biological systems: modularity, robustness, and the use of recurring circuitelements.The first, modularity, Alon defines as “a set of nodes [in a system] that have strong interactionsand a common function.” In order for a set of nodes to be

Conference Session

Creating and Maintaining Effective Communication Learning in the Curriculum

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark W. Milke P.E., University of Canterbury; Creon Upton, Unaffiliated; Glen F Koorey, University of Canterbury; Aisling Dominique O'Sullivan Ph. D., University of Canterbury; Keith Comer, Chalmers University of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

the University of Canterbury. Prior to joining Canterbury in 2004, he worked for ten years as a transportation engineer and traffic researcher for Opus International Consultants. Dr. Koorey’s wide- ranging experience includes considerable research and consulting work on road safety modelling, speed management, sustainable transport planning, crash analysis, and the design and operation of rural two- lane highways. At Canterbury, he has taught professional design project courses since 2006. He has also delivered oral and written presentation skills to students for many years.Prof. Aisling Dominique O’Sullivan Ph. D., University of CanterburyDr. Keith Comer, Chalmers University of Technology

Conference Session

Communication and Engineering Careers: Motivating Our Students

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tristan T. Utschig, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jeffrey S. Bryan; Judith Shaul Norback, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

mostly disagreed whethera certain skill was hard or easy to rate, and other insightful comments. We used these commentsto modify the scoring system to make it more useful.In ongoing work, we are gathering one more round of stakeholder feedback from executives,faculty, TAs, and students. We plan to 1) use this input to make additional changes to thescoring system and 2) start to test the reliability of the revised scoring system. Results from thiswork—more comments about the scoring system and preliminary reliability data from twoengineering schools in Georgia Tech—will be included in the ASEE presentation. We will alsomake the newest version of the presentation scoring system available to our audience.References 1. Utschig, T. T., &

Conference Session

iSTEM

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

M. David Burghardt, Hofstra University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

learning of mathematical and science concepts.Although there was no comparison group, students who participated in the curriculum showed Page 23.797.5significant growth in both science and engineering. In another design based science curriculum,  Klein and Sherwood9 followed schools over three years to see if mathematics and science scoresrose. They found that students in the experimental group which used the design based sciencecurriculum demonstrated statistically larger increases on assessments of both science knowledgeand concepts.Informed engineering design pedagogy Effective use of engineering design pedagogy requires careful planning

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education I

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jia-Ling Lin, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Paul Imbertson, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Tamara J Moore, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

responded. Educators agree that thequality of engineering teaching needs to be improved, and the content and delivery of traditionallectures fail to motivate students to meet learning challenges and job requirements. TheDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota Twin Citieshas developed a comprehensive plan to revamp the electric energy systems core courses. 1 Thereformed curriculum has integrated the three sub-areas of electric energy systems, i.e. electricdrives, power electronics, and power systems, into a single focus area. The new curriculum isable to cover a broader range of topics with greater depths while allowing students to explorecomplimentary areas, such as control systems, mechanical systems, and

Conference Session

Computing in the classroom

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ryan R. Goyings, Civil & Mechanical Engineering Department at The United States Military Academy; James Ledlie Klosky, United States Military Academy, West Point; Bobby G Crawford, U.S. Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

in other classes? 9. Would you prefer having textbooks as eBooks on the iPad rather than a printed book?(Y/N) 10. Did you have an iTunes account before this course?(Y/N) 11. On the following scale, indicate with an “X” how you anticipate dividing your time between a laptop and an iPad for this course. Laptop iPad Page 23.833.14Post-Course Survey of Student Perceptions: 1. On a scale of 1 (no desire) to 5 (strong desire) how much would you like to use an iPad in a future course? 2. On a scale of 1 (gained no experience) to 5 (I now own one (or plan

Conference Session

Hands-on/Experiential Learning

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael J Benson P.E., United States Military Academy; Hans J Thomas, United States Military Academy; Shad A Reed, United States Air Force Academy; Bruce Floersheim, U.S. Military Academy; Steven J. Condly, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

arange of categories. In light of the background discussion above, the objective of this introductory effort is two-fold. First, we provide a broad overview of the results of the program with regard to ABEToutcomes. Second, we recommend potential best practices for internships of each type withinthe context of the two institutional types that generated the data, with implementation andassessment of these best practices planned as a future activity.Summer Internship Opportunities The summer internship opportunity, as defined within the context of this work, is anoptional, practical engineering experience afforded to students at the United States MilitaryAcademy (USMA, West Point, NY) and the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine Ehlig-Economides, Texas A&M University; Bugrahan Yalvac, Texas A&M University; Emily Binks-Cantrell, Texas A&M University; Don R Gilman PE, PMP, Texas A&M University; Mehmet Ayar, TUBITAK; Timothy Allen Robinson, Penn State University; Anthony R Kovscek, Stanford University; Reza Toossi, California State University, Long Beach; Sarma V. Pisupati, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Sukesh K Aghara, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

build anelectronic textbook that would be massively interactive featuring mini-games, puzzles, SCORMcompliant data collection, leader boards, and the expected assortment of videos, animations, andinteractive models.Research DesignTo assess the pedagogical impact of the newly developed online and dynamic textbook onstudent learning outcomes, we designed an iterative educational research study. Informed by theprevious grant work,8,9,10 we have planned to explore the following student learning outcomes:(a) content understanding, (b) attitudes towards engineering, (c) life-long learning skills, and (d)skills to locate resources pertaining to energy and its sustainability resources.To assess students’ content understanding, we developed a content