Conference Session

Two-Year College Division Transfer Topics Part I

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

MD B. Sarder, University of Southern Mississippi

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

to bolster the transition and retention of our students. It is worthyto mention that no other states in the US have the same level of desperate need as Mississippi toincrease its STEM degrees. A September 2011report published in Industrial Engineer Magazinereveals that Mississippi ranked the lowest in preparing STEM students.As part of the initiative, we implemented several programs such as Let ‘em Know, Inter-Institutional Visits, Portfolio Tracking, 2+2 consortium, and Peer Led Team Learning (PLTL).Our Let ‘em Know program, (which is similar to the Catch the Dream program implemented atLake Michigan College) focuses on increasing transfer rates from CC to our university. Let ‘emKnow program provides first year STEM students with four year

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Kauser Jahan; Douglas Cleary

simple. It simply asked each student to write their impressions of theirteammates and their contribution to the project. No guidelines were given to help studentscategorize the evaluation (e.g. no rating scale was provided) and it was not clear if they were torate technical ability or contributions and commitment to the team effort. Also, students did notreceive enough feedback following the submission of the forms. Some of the student who werenot performing to teammates’ expectations were probably not aware there was a problem.For the following year a new peer evaluation form and process based on the work of Felder wasadopted 13. This form clearly indicated that the students were to reflect on their teammates’efforts and contribution to the

Conference Session

Hunting for MINDs

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Liz Oshaughnessy; Barbara Goldberg

%. This represents an increase of approximately 6% in the pastfew years. Within the electronics program, however, the number is less than 10%. Womenfrequently find themselves enrolled in classes where there are 3 or fewer other women in a groupof approximately 40 students. Women enrolling in these programs enter with GPAs andentrance exam scores equivalent to their male peers. The impetus for the research was whether ornot they perceived that they were treated as equals once they were enrolled. Did they findthemselves accepted by their male counterparts? Did they perceive that faculty members had thesame expectations of success for them? Socially, did they feel comfortable? Did they perceivethat they were subject to gender discrimination or

Conference Session

Investigating Instructional Strategies

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eleanor Leung, Minnesota State University Mankato, Iron Range Engineering; Elizabeth Pluskwik, Minnesota State University, Mankato / Iron Range Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

, student andfaculty reflections and data received automatically by the game programs. Preliminary analysis ofstudent feedback and faculty reflections indicates increased learner motivation, enhanced reviewof technical content and an upbeat atmosphere to the classroom. Faculty reflections also notedthat the use of games that allow learners to answer the questions individually helped facultyidentify those students who had successfully mastered the concepts, which allowed the instructorto structure peer-to-peer active learning opportunities during class more effectively. Future workincludes analyzing test scores, and other measures of long-term retention of concepts. Overall,use of these gamification tools was found to be a significant addition to

Conference Session

Pedagogical Approaches for Software Engineering

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Clifton L. Kussmaul, Muhlenberg College

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Constituent Committee

, characteristics of and techniques topromote effective groups, and activity design tips. Gonzalez9 reported on CS1 sections whereeach session was roughly 1/3 discussion, 1/3 lecture, and 1/3 ACL, and students did significantlybetter in CS2 than peers from traditional sections. Beck and Chizhik3 reported a CS1 coursewhere students spent roughly half of class on ACL exercises, and did significantly better thanpeers in a traditional section; that effect was found for a variety of majors and both genders. Page 25.1069.2Sowell and colleagues20,21 described experiences with active learning in three courses, includingsample exercises, lessons learned, and

Conference Session

ETD Freshmen Students

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hossein Rahemi, Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology; Shouling He, Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology; Margaret Ducharme, Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

their load distribution, students applied these concepts to theirexamination of a basic Warren truss bridge. Finally, students participated in a Technical Writingseminar and workshop in which they learned how to revise their writing and how to make asuccessful oral presentation. Before the final program presentations, the students performedpractice versions of these demonstrations for their classmates. A scoring rubric was employed inorder for the students to benefit from peer evaluations of their classmates’ work.Each Friday, the speakers from the industrial seminar and workshop sessions introduced studentsto real-world engineering systems, and they provided them with the opportunity to work withengineering principles in a hands-on environment

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Merredith Portsmore; Chris Rogers

traditional lab has allowed students more freedom incompleting their assignments and allowed more hands-on challenges to be assigned. As a result,class time spent addressing data analysis. The course also addresses effective writing andpresentation issues through in class and peer reviews of work.IntroductionIn order for students to truly understand the physics concepts typically taught in junior-levelengineering classes (fluid mechanics, heat transfer, thermodynamics, vibrations, …), they needto touch and feel. Seeing water accelerate through a contraction or the damped vibration of abeam gives them a better understanding of the physics as well as motivation to learn the physics.Unfortunately, laboratory experiences are costly to setup and maintain

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Furth

. In addition,recruiters offer students a perspective on the working world that is rarely seen in theundergraduate curriculum. Thus, the experience of talking with recruiters is more real or relevantto their goal of obtaining employment, than, say, giving a 1-minute oral introduction for yourpeers and instructor.During the resume-writing workshop, I think it would not be too much trouble to address the firstsuggested improvement from Table 2, “how to talk with recruiters.” Several students in thecourse have already attended one or more career fairs. They might have some goodrecommendations for their peers. For example, students might start by introducing themselves,telling them their major and class standing. Next, students might ask questions

Conference Session

Professional Development and Scholarship

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sandy W. Feola, Sinclair Community College; Steven Wendel, Sinclair Community College

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

companyallow, tape recording the question responses is an excellent way to supplement notes. TheCareerME.org project and career profile worksheets provide a place for students to keep theirnotes organized and help feed into the template used to publish onto the site.Write: More readers than just my teacher!The questions were asked, notes were taken, a full day of listening and learning from the jobshadow mentor has completed. The end result of many student job shadow projects culminates ina written report to the teacher who in turn, grades and returns the report back to the student.Would the student’s effort and quality improve knowing their mentor and peers will be readingwhat they write? Writing skill is an important characteristics employers look

Conference Session

Innovative Instructional Strategies and Curricula in ECE I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

MaryPat Beaufait; Duyun Chen, University of Pennsylvania; Carl B Dietrich P.E., Virginia Tech; Cecile Dietrich; Garrett Michael Vanhoy, University of Arizona

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

developing software that supports cognitive radio reconfiguration, includingapplication of software engineering practices and tools, as well as experience in presentingresearch results to peers, university researchers, and other wireless communications professionalsand end users as part of the program.Following the program, these students transitioned to a role as research collaborators anddevelopers and maintainers of open source research infrastructure. The students‘ continuedcollaboration with each other and their mentor, resulted in availability of the students‘ softwareand documentation as an open source resource for further research and education at the hostinstitution and worldwide. This collaboration is described, as is their participation

Conference Session

Faculty Development for Distance Learning

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gene Dixon, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

. ≠ Left to discretion of the committees. ≠ OES-I publications are discounted and treated separately from technical publications. ≠ Peer review has no special context with respect to OES-I. It is simply applied across the board with respect to refereed publications and conference proceedings. It is a yes or no tick box. ≠ Peer Review in our institution is only by senior faculty at other institutions of published work. ≠ Peer review means anonymous review of your work by peers, with potential rejection by your peers. I would discourage my peers from writing papers focusing on outreach activities, if it means not writing a paper on their primary subject. ≠ Peer review means having someone who has

Conference Session

Student Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Alyson Grace Eggleston, The Citadel; Robert J. Rabb P.E., The Citadel

Tagged Divisions

Student

Engineering Education, 2020 Student Success Impacts in Communication and Professional Networking ContextsStudent-driven success in professional networking contexts is qualitatively surveyed andassessed in an engineering-specific technical writing and communications (TWC) course at TheCitadel – The Military College of South Carolina. This TWC course was designed in part toprovide pre-internship preparation for engineering students. Data captured from severalsemesters indicates a positive trend of industry partners’ selection of TWC students forinternships and employment. This data is corroborated by student- led surveying of peers whoidentify important connections between TWC course content and professional

Conference Session

Innovative Classroom Techniques

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Newell

Developing Metacognitive Engineering Teams: Preliminary Results James Newell1, Kevin Dahm1, Roberta Harvey2, and Heidi Newell1 1 Department of Chemical Engineering and 2College of Communications Rowan University Glassboro, NJ 08028AbstractStudent awareness and understanding of their learning own skills, performance,preferences, and barriers is referred to as metacognition. This paper describes efforts toinstill metacognition in engineering students at Rowan University, through writing andteam-building exercises. This study examines teams of students doing open

Conference Session

Enhancing CE Learning Through Use of Technology

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Luis Godoy, University of Puerto Rico

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

, granular flow, computational mechanics, and plates and shells, and results of his research have been published in more than 150 peer-reviewed journal papers. At present, he has been awarded an NSF-CCLI research grant. Page 15.1094.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Story-Centred Learning in a Computer-Based EnvironmentAbstract - This paper reports on implementations of active learning strategies carried out for thecivil engineering courses. Specifically, the activities are performed by students in a computer-simulated environment, in which they are assigned a role and follow a mission. As a

Conference Session

Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hur Koser; Dennis Freeman; Alexander Aranyosi; Aleem Siddiqui

drafts were used to give the studentsfeedback about both the technical and writing content to allow them to improve the final version.These drafts were circulated among the course staff and writing instructors. Students were alsorequired to peer-review another group's report. To ensure that these peer reviews were valuable,the reviews were themselves examined and counted toward the final grade. Both sets of reviews Page 9.64.9 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationwere returned to the students

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 9: Student Experiences in Laboratory Courses

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer R. Brown, Montana State University, Bozeman; Stephanie G. Wettstein, Montana State University, Bozeman; Douglas J. Hacker, University of Utah

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

University Press, 2014, pp. 601-632.[3] P. Sageev and C. J. Romanowski, "A Message from Recent Engineering Graduates in the Workplace: Results of a Survey on Technical Communication Skills," Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 90, no. 4, pp. 685-693, 2001.[4] C. A. Hubka et al., "A Writing in the Disciplines Approach to Technical Report Writing in Chemical Engineering Laboratory Courses," presented at the ASEE Annual Conference, Tampa, Florida, 2019. Available: https://peer.asee.org/32019[5] D. Miller and J. Williams, "Incorporating Peer Review Into The Che Laboratory," presented at the ASEE Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2004. Available: https://peer.asee.org/13191[6] K. Wright and P. E. Slaboch

Conference Session

Design in Freshman and Sophomore Courses

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Masten, McMaster University; Robert Fleisig, McMaster University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

. Table 1. Comparison of course assessments. 2005-06, 2006-2007 2007-2008 Academic Academic Years Year Number of Weighting Number of Weighting Assignments (%) Assignments (%) Technical Writing Essays 2 20 2 20 Excel Spreadsheet 1 10 - - Readiness Assessment Test 15 10 12 10 (in-class quizzes) Design Projects 2 40 1 20 Tutorial participation

Conference Session

Capstone and Senior Design in Engineering Technology

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ivana Milanovic, University of Hartford; Tom Eppes, University of Hartford

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Page 14.1051.7All capstones use peer assessment administered at the end of the semester during the finalpresentation. MET capstones employ an external panel of judges, a natural extension of industry-sponsored projects. The quality of assessment and interaction between the panel and the teamsduring the final presentation is good since some judges have been indirectly involved in theprojects. The peer and panel assessment data is both semantic (comments) and objective(numerical). The writing consultant provides input on the final grade to the instructor. EETcapstones do not use a judging panel therefore assessment of student work rests solely with theinstructor. Table 6 lists the pros and cons of assessment techniques. Peer

Conference Session

ERM Technical Session 5: Assessment

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathan M. Hicks, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Kerrie A. Douglas, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

finalstage, these analyses will be processed to create a set of recommendations to reduce variability.Context. This study is contextualized in a first-year engineering program at a large publicuniversity. Analysis is centered in the second course of a two-semester sequence of courses.This course typically has over a dozen sections of over 100 students each spring semester. Eachsection usually employs an instructor, a graduate teaching assistant, four undergraduate peerteachers, and two undergraduate graders. For any given assessment, each grader typically gradesone-third of the section responses and the peer teachers split the remaining responses. All of thegrading is generally overseen by the graduate teaching assistant, though specifics vary

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Willie E. (Skip) Rochefort

-5 students; laboratory and computer teaching assistants; and in all cases mentors for theunderclassman. In the freshman course they also assist with course development, scheduling ofactivities (OSU orientation, plant trips, library tours, etc.), writing instruction, computerinstruction, and as “big brothers or sisters” to the freshman students. In each course where thesementors have been used, evaluations are conducted such that the students evaluate the mentors andtheir group members (peer evaluation), and the mentors evaluate the students. These evaluationsare given a weighting in the final grade determination for both students and mentors.The results after ten quarters of use are encouraging, though not without some “glitches”. The “good

Conference Session

Student-Centered Information Literacy

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer (Cong Yan) Zhao, McGill University; Tara Mawhinney, McGill University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

theundergraduate level at McGill and elsewhere. Within our context at McGill University,providing support for undergraduate research is an increasingly important role for the library.Purpose of this study The first step in better serving this user group is to understand their challenges. Thisstudy investigates challenges related to information literacy that Chinese undergraduateengineering students face in comparison with their native English speaking peers in completing aresearch paper. Next, we hope to apply this knowledge to create increasingly relevantinformation literacy skills training for Chinese students and international students ingeneral. The current paper reports on preliminary findings from initial face-to-face interviewsand an online

Conference Session

First- and Second-year Design and Professional Development in BME

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christa M Wille, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Dalton James Hess; Jake Mitchell Levin, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Amit Janardhan Nimunkar, University of Wisconsin, Madison; John P. Puccinelli, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

module. The students are required to write a short reflection covering thefollowing three questions: What are the main points?, How is the material useful to you?, Whatmore information do you think should be included?.LaboratoryThe three-hour laboratory each week developes a diversity of hands-on skills covering the basicsof each discipline and associates the lecture and laboratory exercises toward the guided designproject, a physical prototype of a medical research device. Laboratory topics were developedthrough interactions with and input from our student advisory committee (BSAC), studentsurveys, industry including co-op and employer surveys and the external advisory board. Theskills that were utilized most frequently by students in their

Conference Session

Been There, Done That: Advice for New Faculty

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Garrick, Rochester Institute of Technology; Scott Anson, Rochester Institute of Technology; Mario Castro-Cedeno, Rochester Institute of Technology; Elizabeth Dell, Rochester Institute of Technology; Christopher Greene, University of Alabama; Carol Romanowski, Rochester Institute of Technology; Michael Slifka, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST); Larry Villasmil, Rochester Institute of Technology; James Lee, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST)

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

to meet other faculty and staff at your institution who may be interested in collaborating on research projects.≠ Apply for internal funding opportunities to support your research. These opportunities are effective ways for establishing a research program. They also provide experience writing grant proposals, managing a program budget and reporting on funded activities.Mentoring – To supplement mentoring from senior colleagues, UFAST provides peer mentoringthrough information sharing, collaboration and positive peer pressure. We meet weekly andtrack our progress on collaborative efforts and individual proposals such as internal fundingopportunities. Additionally, each untenured faculty member is required by the college to

Conference Session

Stories, Communication, and Convergence in Engineering Education

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joanna G Burchfield, University of South Florida; April A. Kedrowicz, North Carolina State University, Raleigh

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

calls withinengineering for civic engagement, diversity, equity, inclusion, and social and environmentaljustice.IntroductionAn engineering instructor recently told us, “For those of us who were trained as engineers in the1980's and have taught the past 20 years, there's a bit of a Pavlovian response thatcommunication means writing.” Indeed, “communication = writing” is a widely accepted proofamong engineering instructors and is confidently echoed by engineering students when asked,“What is communication?” Those with broader perspectives include “and presenting” to theequation, but even some of the most experienced and open-minded engineers and engineeringprofessors we have met stop there. Engineering students, becoming competitive in

Conference Session

Technological and Engineering Literacy - Philosophy of Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joshua Gross; Keyoni McNair

are important to identity, interests are part of identity formation, too. Byconsidering CS students’ interests in a broad range of activities, we can help potential students seethat students in CS share some interests with them, even if they struggle to find peers and mentorswho represent their race, gender, disability status, or other factors relevant to them. Exploring thiswill allow us to show diversity of interests, one of the few areas in which CS is diverse.Engineering is defined by the students who become engineers, and by the people who educate thosestudents. The question of “What is engineering?” cannot be answered without also answering“Who are engineers?” Our hope is that we can improve the discipline by providing a more

Conference Session

Research and Graduate Studies

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University; Korine Steinke Wawrzynski, Michigann State University; Rachel Mangiavellano, Michigan State University; Evan McCune, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

seminars covering topics in interdisciplinary Engineering research;(2) bi-weekly workshops on the graduate school application process; (3) writing assignments tohelp students clarify their interests and begin developing application materials for graduateschool; (4) individual and small-group outreach activities to encourage broader participation inSTEM (science, technology, engineering and math); (5) interdisciplinary networking events withundergraduates, graduate students, and faculty from across campus; and (6) presentation of theirresearch at a university wide research forum. These professional development activities wereimplemented as part of a 10-week summer research program for undergraduates sponsored bythe College of Engineering at

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade: Outside Class

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Marybeth Lima

state Board of Regents or other local/state source. Likewise, it is worth more to your dossier. Federal funding is almost a must for getting tenure in engineering colleges at Research I institutions. • A (not all, but “a,” as in one) Research I College of Engineering will say (unofficially of course) that to be in “safe” territory regarding promotion and tenure, you should have 1-2 refereed journal articles per year and $100,000 of funding per year.5. Stay positive around and about your colleagues and peers (don’t make enemies). • Corollary: Remember that e-mail is not secure. • Corollary 2: Remember that you can make enemies simply by drawing breath, even if you are positive around and

Conference Session

Track 3 - Session II - Faculty Development

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Richard F. Vaz, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Topics

Faculty Development

academic unit focused on local and regional sustainability in support of WPI’s interdisciplinary degree requirement, the Interactive Qualifying Project. Rick also oversees WPI’s Global Perspective Program, a worldwide network of 35 Project Centers to which more than 700 students per year travel to address problems for local agencies and organizations under faculty supervision. Rick’s teaching and research interests include service and experiential learning, engineering design and appropriate technology, and internationalizing engineering education. He has developed and advised hundreds of student research projects in the Americas, Africa, Australia, Asia, and Europe. Rick has published over 55 peer-reviewed or

Conference Session

Teaching Interventions in Biomedical Engineering (Works in Progress) - June 22nd

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Vignesh Subbian, University of Arizona; Daniel B. Whitaker, University of Arizona

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical Engineering

as availability of instructional resources to support this initiative.The course involves a 10-week project, along with weekly engagement and reflection activitiesthat are designed to promote critical thinking and collaboration. Students were required toparticipate in a moderated discussion forum at least twice every week.• Discussion Forum: Each student was required to initiate a new topic of discussion (initiation thread) related to the overall theme of the week as well as engage in a discussion with posts from one or more peers (engagement thread). Both initiation and engagement threads were meant to allow for weekly reflection among students and low-stakes assessment by course facilitators. Measures such as number of posts

Conference Session

Assessment of Student Learning and Skills

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy E. Allen, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical Engineering

of Virginia must take a coreyearlong integrative laboratory sequence, typically during their third year in the program.Students are randomly assigned into teams of 3-4 students in the first semester of this sequence,whereas they are allowed to self-select teams in the second semester. At the end of bothsemesters, students complete mandatory peer evaluations that are used in calculatingparticipation scores each term for every student in the course. Throughout more than a decade ofteaching this sequence, the instructors anecdotally observed that many teams remained togetherin the spring after having been randomly sorted into teams in the fall semester. However, arigorous quantitative analysis of the impact of team assignment method on team