Conference Session

SD Technical Session: Tricks of the Trade

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer A. Turns, University of Washington; Brook Sattler, University of Washington; Kathryn Ann Mobrand, University of Washington; Drew Paine, Human Centered Design & Engineering, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Student

” (p. 258).25 Further, it is valuable to note that students learn disciplinaryrhetoric in a reflective and intentional manner so that they may enter the conversation, makinginformed language choices and becoming thoughtful and proactive members of a disciplinarycommunity. As Bazerman notes: “Explicit teaching of discourse holds what is taught up forinspection, provides the students with means to rethink the ends of the discourse, and offers awider array of means to carry the discourse in new directions” (p. 76).26How can educators working with emerging scholars use our procedure to support emergingscholars? We see an opportunity to study exactly how the use of the procedure helps emergingscholars. Such future work could involve creating

Conference Session

Understanding our Students & Ethical Development

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Denise Wilson, University of Washington; Mee Joo Kim, University of Washington-Seattle; Rebecca A. Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Elizabeth Burpee

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

report an increasing writtencommunication workload over time.33 If supervised properly, Wheeler and McDonald reportthat writing allows students to develop and use critical thinking skills.34 While engineeringprograms typically incorporate ill-defined problems for capstone projects—another recognized Page 24.674.4tool for developing critical thinking, writing for reflection will also help develop skills forproblem identification, analysis, metacognition and the formation of value judgements.30,35Snyder & Snyder suggest essay questions rather than simple recall to encourage criticalthinking.25In addition to promoting the development of

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sigrid Berka, University of Rhode Island; Walter von Reinhart

Tagged Divisions

International

,” Christina Neidert emphasizes thatthe integrated course offerings make an additional learning outcome possible as a result of beingimmersed in a research group while simultaneously reflecting on the cultural values of the hostcountry. Thus learning takes place which goes far beyond just gaining technical and linguisticproficiency. To illustrate this point, Neidert summarizes the added value of an integratedcurricular design which benefits URI students studying in Braunschweig; her statement can beread as a synopsis of what has been discussed in the international engineering educationcommunity as getting exposed to different “engineering cultures.”25The third of the best practices Neidert lists at the end of her article is the “Focus on

Conference Session

Teaching Dynamics

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brianno Coller, Northern Illinois University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

hypothesizing, probing, and reflecting. Information is given to players/learners at justthe time they will be able to make sense of it and to use it. In a videogame, knowledge ispowerful because it can be put to productive use.I make no claim that Spumone measures up to the ideal playing/learning environment describedabove. However, it would be interesting to take a deeper look into how students are usingSpumone, and to look for affordances provided by the game that are benefiting the learningprocess. The study described in this paper is more exploratory in nature, with a goal of findingdiscernible patterns of play and patterns of learning within the “click stream” captured by thegame log files.Videogame Challenge: Spumone DropSpumone contains more

Conference Session

Accreditation and Outcomes-based Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sandra A. Yost, University of Detroit Mercy; Laurie A. Britt-Smith, University of Detroit Mercy

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Moving toward a system of learning outcomes assessmentDuring the 2009-2010 academic year, the English department drafted course and programoutcomes that reflected the then ongoing conversation about revising the core curriculum. Thegoal of drafting the new outcomes was to write them so that they both align with the newoutcomes based core document for eventual implementation into the new core curriculum, andcan also used to assess and improve the program in the meantime.The new learning outcomes for ENL 1310:Students will: • Demonstrate an ability to read actively, analyze, question, and respond to readings. • Recognize the importance of audience for their writing: identifying their audience, evaluating its needs, and applying those needs

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Anderson; Jeanine Casler; Bugrahan Yalvac; H. David Smith; Gulnur Birol; John Troy; Penny Hirsch

writing guidelines from their instructors and if so, in which courses these guidelines are distributedf) the courses they have taken in their majors and the written exercises these courses includeIn developing the faculty and the student surveys, two members of the research team, who arecommunication experts, led the discussions to categorize the communication skills that alignwith commonly held standards in the field, as demonstrated in leading technical communicationtextbooks3, 4; best practices from industry, gathered from the consulting firm of CommunicationPartners5; research in technical communication6, 7,8 and team members’ mutual agreement. Wesettled on eight categories of skills that reflect a well-written paper, as listed in Table 2

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Naomi Tillison; David Hand

and reflection” while the aim of theremaining two statements is to “…elicit responses from students as to their overall assessment ofthe instruction24.” This survey also provides students with an opportunity to state the aspects ofthe course the teacher should retain and those aspects he/she should change for the proceedingcourse.The students’ course work, which includes team laboratory reports and posters for the spring2004 session, was collected to be analyzed in order to assess students’ understanding of keycourse concepts. Unfortunately, a pre-test activity was not conducted at the beginning of the Page 10.683.9semester; therefore, the

Conference Session

Unique Courses & Services for Freshmen

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Thompson; William Oakes

Seminars. Bringing the community partners to campus for theirfirst meeting with the students was a significant benefit to the program. It allowed all of thestudents to hear first hand about the community partner and their expectations. Some of thecommunity partners used this class time for orientations, such as Head Start. Reflection on the projects and experiences was done through written reflections as part oftheir final reports in ENGR 106 and through the English and Communications classes. In theEnglish classes, this took the form of essays and class discussions. In the Communicationsclasses, this took the form of classroom discussions and a poster session where studentspresented their work and discussed with visitors the implications

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDs

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dara O'Neil; Gordon Kingsley; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationother. Thus, each partnership will have to be classified as high (negative) or high (positive) interms of embeddedness. In Table 1, low levels of embeddedness may signify that the twoorganizations have little history of working together. Similarly, all organizations have strategicneeds. The issue in this model is whether those needs are 1) strategically related to the objectivesof the partnership, and 2) congruent or complementary.Just because partnerships fall outside of quadrant IV does not predict that they will be a failure interm of process and performance outcomes. But it does indicate that the nature of partnershipneeds to be adapted to reflect these conditions. For example

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Hochstein

team. [This is evaluated by performance as part of a group while solving the semester long design project.] First Four Competency Areas sa a ad d sd a. These competencies were made clear to me at the beginning of the semester.b. I was tested on these competencies with straightforward exams. c. I had ample opportunity through multiple exams to demonstrate that I had successfully mastered each competency.d. My grades on the competency exams accurately reflect the knowledge I gained in each area. e. These competencies matched with what was taught in the course

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim Anderson; Marc Hoit; Richard M. Felder; Matthew Ohland; Guili Zhang

statistically significant difference. Page 8.718.13IMPEC dropouts for Reason 2 would reflect poorly on the program, dropouts for Reason 3 Session 2630would reflect well on it (since one of the objectives of the program is to give students a realisticpicture of what engineers do), and dropouts for Reasons 1 and 4 would not really reflect onIMPEC in either direction. The same can be said of non-IMPEC dropouts with respect to thestandard freshman curriculum. It would therefore be a mistake to draw any conclusions aboutprogram effectiveness from the lack of statistical

Conference Session

Design and Innovation

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Snyder; Mike Toole; Mike Hanyak; Mathew Higgins; Daniel Hyde; Edward Mastascusa; Brian Hoyt; Michael Prince; Margot Vigeant

7.399.6 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”· The ability to assess that the solution developed adequately addresses the given problem This is analogous to Woods' "evaluation" stage in his formal problem solving methodology. We have found that the evaluation stage provides rich opportunities to have students reflect on both the technical solutions proposed and on the problem solving process itself.Advanced Problem Solving CoursesAdvanced problem solving or P3 courses emphasize problems that require significant elementsof creativity. These might be the types of problems found in senior

Conference Session

First-Year Activities and Peer Review Strategies in Civil Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

to the Three Gorges Dam in China. In that way, all students were required to thinkabout an international project to some degree. This was another suitable model to teach studentsabout globalization. The older Three Gorges Dam assignments were no longer available forcontent analysis as part of this research. Final Reflective EssaysIn the first part of the final essay assignment, students were required to write about oneprofessional society meeting (such as ASCE, AGC, SWE, etc.) or professional developmentactivity (such as the career fair, design expo, civil engineering graduate seminar) that they hadattended during the semester. Of these options, EWB represents the opportunity that is the mostobviously global in nature. The percentages

Conference Session

Global Engineering Models: Curriculum Development, Improvements, and Partnerships

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jian Yu, Auburn University and Tsinghua University, China; Chetan S. Sankar, Auburn University

Tagged Divisions

International

all the questions are more than 4. The results are favorable andindicate that the LITEE Workshops were acceptable to the participants and were perceived tobe beneficial. We used SPSS 10.0 to do principal analysis. Through factor analysis, in the RotatedComponent Matrix as the Table 2 shows, there are 3 Components that are abbreviated Ci(i=1, 2, 3). C1 includes 29 VARs that are VAR 8-36, which can be called “Expectations toMIS” because from the meanings of these questions they reflect the expectations to MIS andhope to improve the skills from the learning of MIS; C2 includes 4 VARs that are VAR 2, 3,5, 6, which can be called “Attitude to MIS ” for the four questions show the perception oflearners about learning MIS and imply the difficulty

Conference Session

Reports from ADVANCE Institutions

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marisol Mercado Santiago, Purdue University; Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jordana Hoegh, Purdue University; Dina Banerjee, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

system comprised of these structures: ―And, if enoughpeople or even a few people who are powerful enough act in innovative ways, their action mayhave the consequence of transforming the very structures that gave them the capacity to act‖ (p.4).17The research question we focus in this paper is: how do institutionally generated texts shapeSTEM faculty and staff members’ experiences in ways that prescribe their ways of being? Theparental leave policy is our main social system, situated along with the other systems that worktogether with it (such as FMLA, sick leave, unpaid leave, etc.). These systems seem to be rigid,but actually they reflect a series of processes in a state of change.As an example, Kirby and Krone11 conducted a discursive study of

Conference Session

Extending a Hand Back: Older Students Inspiring Younger Students

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Noah Salzman, Purdue University; Johannes Strobel, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

. Page 22.1082.3Table 1: Characteristics of Mentoring Relationships (based on Jacobi6)Acceptance/support/EncouragementAdvice/guidanceBypass bureaucracy/access to resourcesChallenge/opportunityClarify values/clarify goalsCoachingInformationProtectionRole modelSocial status/reflected creditSocialization/”host and guide”Sponsorship/advocacyStimulate acquisition of knowledgeTraining/InstructionVisibility/exposureA commonly measured outcome, particularly of studies of peer mentoring, was increasedknowledge or academic performance in the tutoring content area7,8. In addition to benefitsgained from developing a relationship while mentoring, the act of studying and organizingknowledge with the expectation of teaching can also lead to measurable gains

Conference Session

SE Capstone Design Projects, Part I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elisabeth W. McGrath, Stevens Institute of Technology; Susan Lowes, Institute for Learning Technologies, Teachers College/Columbia University; Chris Jurado, Stevens Institute of Technology; Alice F. Squires, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering, Systems Engineering

per se and more of a way to provide both theproject team and the DoD advisors with information about project teams’ progress. It was alsohoped that the DoD advisors would use the blogs as one means of communicating with thestudents. The prompts for the final blog prompt, at the end of the course, were more elaborateand reflective. They were:  What were the most important system-level trade-offs you had to consider during this project?  If you were to start this project over again, what would you do differently?However, the only school to complete the project in one semester and therefore the first to finishwanted the final blog to be more comprehensive and so replaced the above with the following setof questions, which we may

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas A. Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Sarah E. Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Maura J. Borrego, Virginia Tech; Jefferey E. Froyd, Texas A&M University; Wendy Newstetter, Georgia Institute of Technology; Karen L. Tonso, Wayne State University; Peggy Noel Van Meter, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

Foundation under GrantDUE-0939823. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NationalScience Foundation.References1 Pimmel, Russ and Sheryl Sorby, “Writing Proposals to Meet NSF’s Expectations,” Workshop at 2008 ASEE Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, June 22, 2008.2 Olds, Bar: Evolution, Approaches, and Future Collaborations, Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 94,No. 1, pp. 13-25 (2005)3 National Research Council, Committee on Scientific Principles for Education Research, Scientific Research in Education, Richard Shevelson and Lisa Towne, Editors, National Academy Press, Washington, DC (2002)4 National Research Council

Conference Session

Institutional Perspectives and Boundary Work

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ron D Dempsey, Southern Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

computerengineering technology, have remained stable in their enrollment. This trend is not reflected inenrollments of engineering technology degrees across the United States. Since 2005,engineering technology programs have shown increasing enrollment.7 Figure 1: Fall Enrollment in Engineering Technology and Engineering Programs at SPSU from 2008 – 2012 ET Programs 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Apparel/Textile Eng Tech 32 38 42 45 41 Civil Engineering Technology 395 376 262 195 150 Computer Eng. Tech. 166 144 143 133 168 Electrical

Conference Session

Creative and Cross-disciplinary Methods Part I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jean Hertzberg, University of Colorado, Boulder; Bailey Renee Leppek, University of Colorado, Boulder; Kara E. Gray, University of Colorado, Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

was an unknown quantity to ourstudents, a disproportionate number of women M.E. students enrolled in it, both graduate and undergraduate.Since then it has been so popular with both male and female students that it fills up immediately, and itsdemographics reflect our student population. The hypothesis that women might be influenced by the aestheticsof mechanical engineering is supported by recent work by Cheryan et al, 30,31 who found that women instereotypically male environments (containing ‘Star Trek’ posters and soda cans) , either physical or virtual,were much less interested in computer science careers than women in environments that conveyed ‘ambientbelonging’, such as water bottles and art on the walls. We summarize our

Conference Session

K-12 Teachers: PD, Implementation, and Beyond

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amber Leigh McFarland Kendall, Tufts University; Kristen Bethke Wendell Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Boston

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

helper madeit much easier for her to manage teaching the unit for the first time, and she structured herclass time around when the helper would be available in order to maximize her assistancewith the LEGOTM materials.Student journals. Another tool introduced by the experimental curriculum was the useof student Engineer’s Journals, which provided opportunities for students to share theirprior knowledge about a topic at the beginning of a lesson, record data frominvestigations during the lesson, reflect upon new ideas at the end of a lesson, and planfor their execution of the design challenge. Beyond helping students organize their work,teachers found the journals helpful for organizing instruction. For example: I mean for me [the journal

Conference Session

ChemE Potpourri

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bill Jay Brooks, Oregon State University; Debra Gilbuena, Oregon State University; John L. Falconer, University of Colorado, Boulder; David L. Silverstein, University of Kentucky; Ronald L. Miller, Colorado School of Mines; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

instructor wants to use more of the features available, instead of downloading questionsthey can integrate the use of clickers or have students log in and answer ConcepTests andinventories on their laptops or smart phones (either in-class or for homework). If instructorssolicit responses via laptops or smartphones, they can prompt short answer explanations andconfidence follow-ups in addition to the multiple choice answers. Such written reflection isperceived by students as helpful12 . These more involved features require students to interfacewith the site; the student interface is described in the next section.For faculty, the results from assignments are aggregated, tabulated and archived for later use.They are also downloadable in MS Excel format

Conference Session

Technology in Mechanics Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michelle Marie Grau, Stanford Univeristy; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University; Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Stanford University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

impact offaculty-mentored learning versus online learning conducted with freshmen at MIT [6].At the graduate level, the Delta Design game has been used as a tool to teach graduate studentsreflective practice. Instead of using a real problem, instructors chose to use the Delta Designgame to because it is easier to control the amount of training each student receives and levels theplaying field since no student has outside knowledge of the challenge. Additionally, theinstructor can control the focus of the game such that if the students are having difficulty creatinga viable structure, he or she can draw their focus back to reflective practice by changing thevalues of constraints to make the task easier [4].Details of the RedesignThe Delta Design

Conference Session

Innovative College-Industry Partnerships for the Future

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Samuel P. Clemence, Syracuse University; Sharon W. Alestalo, Syracuse University; Shobha K. Bhatia, Syracuse University; Eric M. Lui, Syracuse University; Ossama M. Salem, Syracuse University

Tagged Divisions

College Industry Partnerships

. Globalengineers should possess cultural sensitivity and knowledge, as well as the interpersonal skills, toadapt within a variety of cultural contexts and with people that differ from their own experiences.A positive attribute of this intercultural literacy is that designs and solutions are no longer boundwithin the technical domain, but should be reflective of the engineer’s cultural understanding andinterpersonal competence. Working closely with the Dubai Contracting Company (DCC) and incollaboration with the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Syracuse University,the authors have successfully designed and implemented an innovative program to providestudents with distinctive skill sets to enhance their capacity as global civil engineers in

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Penelope Peterson; Frank Fisher

following general principles regarding experts have beenidentified9 1. Experts notice features and meaningful patterns of information that are not noticed by novices. 2. Experts have acquired a great deal of content knowledge that is organized in ways that reflect a deep understanding of their subject matter. 3. Experts’ knowledge cannot be reduced to sets of isolated facts or prepositions, but instead, reflects contexts of applicability: that is, the knowledge is “conditionalized” on a set of circumstances. 4. Experts are able to flexibly retrieve important aspects of their knowledge with little attentional effort. 5. Though experts know their disciplines

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Kristin L. Wood; John Wood

illustrates further motivation for promoting hands-on activities. The figure showsKolb’s model of learning, embodied by a cycle that begins with concrete experience, proceedswith reflective observation and conceptualization, and ends, before restarting, with activeexperimentation. By studying and dissecting current machines, the physical components may bedirectly experienced with all senses. Design methods may then be used to hypothesize currentfunctions, and conceptualize new functions and/or solutions to the current configuration.Observation and active experimentation with the current and refined concepts may then beexecuted, realizing mental ideas into physical embodiments. The process may then begin again,where further iteration enhances and

Conference Session

Equity and Belonging

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kaitlyn Anne Thomas, University of Nevada, Reno; Kelly J Cross, Georgia Institute of Technology; Isabel Anne Boyd, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY), Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

is because knowledge and ways of knowing play a rolein power dynamics and control such that the hegemonic majority maintains dominance over thecultural narrative [42]–[44]. The hidden curriculum in engineering reflects the epistemic originsof the profession, which assert the values and norms upheld in engineering learning spaces aswell as the field. These engineering epistemologies are unspoken and unacknowledged (hidden),which can serve to limit underrepresented and underserved communities in engineering learningenvironments. We identify the hidden epistemologies that emerge from the teaming experiencesof African American females and recognize their role in impacting these students’ experiences asengineers.MethodsMethodologyWe performed

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division: Best of FPD

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shabnam Wahed, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Nicole P. Pitterson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

, technologies used for teaching, pedagogical strategies, student engagement, andpotential cognitive demand [32]. Data was recorded every two minutes for every category usinga set of established codes. Along with the codes, thorough notes were taken at each time interval,and an analytical memo was created after every observation. Given that every class had a similarweekday schedule, another important element was the class timetable. For the pilot study, theresearcher performed two classroom observations. She observed each section at a different time.This helped the researcher to compile an analytical memo reflecting on the observation.Semi-structured interviewThe main goal of employing semi-structured interviews for gathering data was to learn moreabout

Conference Session

Equity and Belonging

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Felicity Bilow, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Lucas Adams, Clarkson University; Mohammad Meysami, Clarkson University; Jan DeWaters, Clarkson University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY), Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

Conference Session

Flaming Moe's Influence: Bio-Inspired STEM Explorations, Hot Stuff!

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abeera P. Rehmat, Georgia Institute of Technology; Meltem Alemdar, Georgia Institute of Technology; Dyanne Baptiste Porter, Georgia Institute of Technology; Michael Helms; Jeffrey H Rosen, Georgia Institute of Technology; Marc Weissburg, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE)

qualitative studies and useful for examining the perspective of participants. Weemployed Braun and Clarke's [45] six-phase method for thematic analysis, which encompassedfamiliarizing yourself with data, generating initial codes, searching for themes, reviewing,defining, and naming the themes, and creating the report. Though the method is presented asbeing linear, we took an iterative and reflective process that involved constantly moving backand forth between phases [45], [46] and enriched with deep discussions among the coders todevelop themes. Agreements and disagreements were discussed through deep conversationsamong multiple researchers at different stages [47].The triangulation of data and following the trustworthiness criteria suggested by