Conference Session

Student Learning, Problem Solving, & Critical Thinking 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James A. Kaupp, Queen's University; Brian M Frank, Queen's University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

activities1. IntroductionHigher order skills such as problem solving or critical thinking are key attributes forgraduates of any engineering program, are amongst industries highly desired skills fornew employees and are considered a hallmark of a university education  1-5 . The application of critical thinking helps students solve ill-defined, open-ended,complex problems through the analysis and evaluation of information, evaluatingarguments, and developing conclusions resulting from sound reasoning. These complexproblems are typical of those encountered in professional engineering practice, andrequire the reflective, self-regulatory judgment exemplified by critical thinking. Whilemost programs claim to develop critical thinking in some manner

Conference Session

Discipline Specific Topics and Techniques

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tasha Zephirin, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Catherine G.P. Berdanier, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica Farmer Cox, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Suely M. Black, Norfolk State University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

addition, during intense, annual multi-day retreatsat Cornell University (winter) and Norfolk State University (summer), trainees come together forfurther technical training, professional development, program self-reflection and redesign.Most of the education and training part of the program is delivered in four courses: (1) Technicaland Professional Writing (6 weeks); (2) Training in Independent Research (12 weeks); (3) BestPractices in Teaching and Learning (8 weeks); and (4) Ethics and Intellectual Property (4weeks). The sequence of short, focused modular courses provides a framework conducive to thecycle of (re-)design, enactment, and study of the proposed graduate training activities. It allowsfor students to learn and practice in the same

Conference Session

Addressing the NGSS, Part 1 of 3: Supporting K-8 Science Teachers in Engineering Pedagogy and Engineering-Science Connections

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary McCormick, Tufts University; Kristen B. Wendell, University of Massachusetts Boston; Brian Patrick O'Connell, Tufts University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

recognize a need to plan before begin building, others may create and reviseplans as they begin working with building materials. Throughout this process, students mayrealize and test their design ideas, identifying and applying evaluation criteria, often implicitly,to determine the effectiveness, functionality, or viability of their solution. Students’ evaluationsmay include conducting physical tests, collecting and analyzing information from tests or otherforms of feedback (e.g., peer review, class discussions), and using results and feedback to refinetheir designs. In these ways, students’ engineering design decisions are not based on anyprescribed way of engineering, but instead reflect their reasoning, evaluations, and logic inachieving design

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elliot P. Douglas, University of Florida; Timothy M Raymond, Bucknell University; Cindy Waters, North Carolina A&T State University; William L. Hughes, Boise State University; Mirka Koro-Ljungberg, University of Florida; M David Miller, University of Florida

Tagged Divisions

Materials

opportunity tounderstand how POGIL can be implemented in engineering. In this paper we address thefollowing research questions: 1. Does POGIL lead to increased understanding of materials engineering concepts compared to a lecture class 2. How is POGIL implemented across diverse types of universities?Question 1 is examined through a quantitative component in which POGIL was implementedat four different institutions in the US and gains on the Materials Concept Inventory werecompared to lecture classes. For question 2 a content analysis was conducted on coursematerials used by the instructors and student reflections from the end of the semester.MethodologyPOGIL was used in the undergraduate Introduction to Materials Engineering classes at

Conference Session

Design in the Curriculum

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James D. Sweeney, Florida Gulf Coast University; Kristine R. Csavina, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Lisa Zidek, Florida Gulf Coast University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

-loaded designs (including a mousetrap!) and one veryinnovative design incorporating a photo-flash and photo-diode. For this latter design, the studentteam appropriately documented invention and patenting of various photodiode designs at andprior to around 1893. Special recognitions were made by the instructor to teams with anespecially impressive calibration curve for pulse duration control, a team with the most rigoroustest data set on reliability meeting the main test specification (1 mA through 1 kOhm for 1mSec), and a special ‘innovation’ award for the team with the photodiode approach.Seventeen of the nineteen students submitted the requested personal reflections essays, listing upto five ‘lessons learned’ each from the RDC experience. For

Conference Session

Engineering as a Professional Calling

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph M LeDoux, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jacquelyn E. Borinski, Georgia Institute of Technology; Kimberly Danielle Haight, Georgia Institute of Technology ; Elaine Catherine McCormick, Georgia Institute of Technology; Alisha A.W. Waller, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

decide on a set of learning objectives. Thisrequired balancing the different purposes of the course. What should the relative emphasis be ofchallenging the students to learn and practice one or more specific engineering ways of thinking,versus encouraging the students to grapple with, and reflect on, the central philosophicalquestion of whether there are, in fact, engineering ways of thinking, and if so, what are thoseways of thinking? Ultimately, the course was designed to pursue both these threads ofexploration, separately at first, but later entwined within the students’ final term projects.The following set of learning objectives were developed to balance the two threads of the course:A year or more after having taken this course, students

Conference Session

New Trends in Computing and Information Technology Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tanya Stanko P.E., Innopolis University; Oksana Zhirosh, Unium

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

inmultiple languages and codes that information employs (textual, iconic, hypertextual,audiovisual, multimedia, etc.), should be a recurring, continuing goal throughout theeducation system as a whole, from primary education to higher education2.In addition, international organizations have focused their attention both on thedevelopment of advanced curricula and instruction in general. This has been reflected inseveral projects supported by UNESCO and OECD. One such project, called “DeSeCo”(Determination and Selection of Competencies), had published a number of researchpapers in the 2000s which lay a theoretical foundation for the new understanding of theconcept of competencies in education and in the IT industry5,12,13.In the 1960s, when modern

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brianna L. Dorie, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica E Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Gina Navoa Svarovsky, Science Museum of Minnesota

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

threemain reasons: (1) the sheer prevalence of that code due to the nature of the tasks, (2) the“modeling” activity we observed very closely resembled typical children’s play (thus it is harder toargue that children were engaging in engineering during those times), and (3) previous researchsuggests that there are no significant differences between novices, post-novices, and experts inhow they engage in modeling.5 Beyond the four main behaviors that we focus our discussion on,we also looked at testing, reflection, prediction, and material property codes. Page 24.256.4Table 1. Main codes for Playdates and Engineering Studio engineering behaviors

Conference Session

Impact of Community Engagement on Students

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura M. Patterson, University of British Columbia

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

invaluable to other not-for-profit organizations to solve theirchallenges. In fact, it is an engineer’s obligation “to serve humanity” and share their skills“without reservation for the public good.”1Service learning has been implemented as a pedagogical strategy in technical communicationclasses for engineering students. In the context of first-year engineering curriculum, servicelearning is a useful pedagogical strategy that integrates community engagement with classroomactivities and critical reflection in order to engage students in their obligations as global citizensearly on in their education. In particular, the experiential aspect of service learning engagesthese new students in the complexity and uncertainty of real-world problems they will

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Division Curriculum Exchange

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine Schnittka, Auburn University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

concepts, and attitudes and do not necessarily reflect the views of NSF. Studio STEM Engineering After toward engineering have demonstrated the efficacy of the (www.studiostem.org) includes School the author, faculty from the Studio STEM model.Schnittka, C.G., Evans, M.A., Drape, University of Virginia, Virginia Tech, and Temple University, and a

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Division Curriculum Exchange

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anne Marie Bergen, Cal Poly State University; Katherine C. Chen, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

design. A debrief of the activity is done withthe entire class. In addition, each team is asked to reflect on their process of the design activity and to Page 24.377.2construct their own representation of the engineering design process to share it with the rest of theclass.

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Crystal Jean DeJaegher, University of Virginia; Jennifer L. Chiu, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

similar benefit to engineeringeducation20. For example, students working on a CAD program can share and critiqueother students’ designs within an environment that prompts them to reflect upon andrefine their designs based on evaluations. Online environments also have uniqueopportunities for research, such as logging and tracking student progress that can giveinsight into processes that may contribute to learning outcomes21.This work-in-progress paper aims to understand how explicitly supporting engineeringdesign in an online environment can help precollege students engage in design processes Page 24.820.3through novel use of log data.WISEngineering: Using

Conference Session

Track 2 - Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Ibrahim Ali Olwi, King Abdulaziz University

Tagged Topics

Faculty Development

Storytelling as an Effective Mean for Stimulating Students' Passion in Engineering ClassesAbstractStorytelling was employed as a powerful tool in stimulating students' interest in the classroom ofa sophomore level course in engineering design. Over two years, students’ assessment of themethodology was obtained through a survey that incorporated students that have and not havetaken the course. The outcome of students’ satisfaction and support of telling stories by theinstructor was overwhelming among both groups of students. The impact was not targetedtowards just creating passion in the classroom, but the active participation and reflection on thestories was sought to lead to ethical values pedagogy. To gain multi-cultural

Conference Session

Critical Thinking, Leadership, and Creativity

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael L. Jones, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

curiosity2. Accept the problem momentarily 2. Accept it seriously as one’s own project to be analyzed and solved.3. Work towards a final examination 3. Work realistically towards resolution of the project.4. Assume established professional 4. Professional structuring is connectedknowledge structuring practices as given with personal inclination, interest and curiosity. Reflection loop creates integrative knowledge.5. Finish with final examination. 5. Finish with ideas of how knowledge may be implemented in

Conference Session

Computer Programming and Simulation

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gili Rusak, Siena College

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

heard of programming, let alone worked with it.For the 1st-3rd-grade user study, there were 17 participants all with informed consent from parents. Forthe 4th-6th-grade study, there were 15 participants, 14 of which had informed consent from parents.Students in our user studies had some exposure to computers and technology at home before theprogram. All students mentioned that their family had either a laptop or desktop computer at home.Eighty seven percent of students mentioned that their family had a tablet. Most students reflected thatthey played an average about half an hour on the computer every day. Some mentioned that they playedas much as three hours but this was only a couple of students. All students had played either video gamesor

Conference Session

Engineering & Our Global Society

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

-demanding nature of the curriculum” (p. 1). Their description of an innovativecurriculum for achieving global competence at the Georgia Institute of Technology reflects otherchallenges of study abroad for engineers, including obtaining institutional support, providingincentives for faculty involvement, and overcoming the inertia created by the lack of a traditionof study abroad for engineers.Lohmann, Rollins, and Hoey2 also describe deficiencies in the existing scholarship that assessesthe outcomes of study abroad generally: (1) a tendency to “dwell on logistical and actuarialaspects. . . or student satisfaction;” (2) lack of attention to “student learning effects or careerimpact;” (3) limiting assessment “to the development of psychosocial

Conference Session

Distance Learning in Engineering Technology

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian A. Alenskis, Purdue University, Richmond, Ind.

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

39.3 38.9 50.7 47.8 Non-OLI 2009 73.3 83.9 68.6 70.3 75.3 74.0 Non-OLI Averages: 63.0 77.9 57.7 58.5 66.2 64.3 Table 1. Comparison of Proctored Assessment Averages (Percentages) Applied Statics—Purdue SOET RichmondStudent feedback generally spoke of the same challenges previous statics students have had, yetsome reflected the use of OLI to deliver content. Some feedback distilled from OLI’s MyResponse component:• Frustration with the variation in difficulty among the OLI modules. Sometimes feeling rushed to complete an unexpectedly long module.• Differences between the

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Moses Kwame Tefe, Norwich University; Edwin R. Schmeckpeper, Norwich University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

preparation. Thismeans when students register unselectively into two different classes that are going to be used toobserve the impact of a teaching technique and the method of assessment is to compare thegrades of students from the two settings, it is obvious that the results will not only reflect theimpact of the teaching technique, but will also be a reflection of the students inherentcapabilities. So if students in one of the classes are generally less endowed than students in thesecond class, the results of the experimentation will be skewed and not be a true reflection of theteaching technique being tested. MethodologyIn this study, the investigator is teaching a sophomore engineering survey class

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James F. Groves, University of Virginia; Leigh R. Abts, University of Maryland, College Park; Gail Lynn Goldberg

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

design process (Figure 1) individuals should be able to: 1. Identify a significant challenge and specify a set of requirements that a successful engineering response to the challenge (i.e., a solution) should achieve, 2. Imagine a diverse set of possible solutions to the challenge and use systematic processes to select the most promising solution, 3. Define the solution using scientific knowledge, mathematical techniques, and technology tools and evaluate it via one or more prototypes, 4. Report the findings of the evaluation and conclude whether the prototyped solution can be expected to achieve the previously specified requirements, and 5. Reflect upon the process and recommend iteration or

Collection

2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

WANG Zhiguo; GONG Bengang; YANG Shanlin

System optimization problems are usually solved byshould be as low as possible; d. delivery time, the enterprises linear programming model, it is essentially considering one ofshould push their products to the market as soon as possible or the objectives as the objective function and translating thecomplete the production tasks before the due date. Therefore, remaining objectives into restrictive conditions. This methodthe model objective function should be able to reflect the not only ignores multi-object attributes of the real problemsrequirements of these four aspects. but also leads to size

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregg L. Fiegel, California Polytechnic State University; James L. Hanson, California Polytechnic State University; Nazli Yesiller

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Logistics research projects, and begin communicating with mentors Orientation and Project Participants attend orientation workshop and prepare 1 W Definition research plans with their mentors Research and Library Literature review and library resource workshop with the 2** W Workshop Engineering Librarian Waste management and landfill design/construction 3 Continued Research S seminar with individual reflection

Conference Session

Research Experience in Stormwater Management

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vinod K. Lohani, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

. Page 24.571.5 4Weekly Reflection PapersAll REU fellows submitted weekly reflection papers using VT’s course management software(Scholar) and reflected on their weekly research, social and cultural experiences. These paperswere due by 10:00 p.m. on Thursday every week. The author reviewed these papers beforemeeting with the REU fellows at Friday seminars and answered questions.YouTube VideosREU fellows were divided into teams at the orientation session and were assigned to createYouTube videos (2-3 min) to document their research/social/cultural experiences. A YouTubecompetition was held at the concluding ceremony on the last day of the program. As of summer2013, we have 7 YouTube videos of our

Conference Session

Models of community engagement practices

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aimee S. Navickis-Brasch, University of Idaho, Moscow; Anne Liu Kern, University of Idaho, CDA; Fritz Fiedler, University of Idaho, Moscow; Jillian Rae Cadwell, University of Idaho; Laura Laumatia, Coeur d'Alene Tribe; Kathy C. Haynie, Haynie Research and Evaluation; Christine Meyer, Coeur d’Alene Tribe Department of Education

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

conducting summer camps at places of tribal significance. This provides tribal youthwith an opportunity to learn about the relevance of STEM in their community by engaging themin the development of engineering solutions to local environmental problems.This case study focuses on the first half of the grant, specifically the curriculum development andimplementation for the first-year summer camp, and the post-camp reflections. The followingobjectives guided this study, specifically to describe: 1) how the CBPR methodology is appliedto develop and implement a culturally relevant STEM curriculum that emphasizes engineering,2) the impact of the summer camp experience on student's knowledge and attitudes about STEMcontent, and 3) how the CBPR methodology

Conference Session

Continuing Professional Development Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diane L. Zemke, Independent Researcher; Steven C. Zemke, Gonzaga University

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

Paper ID #8443Using a Community of Practice to Diffuse Instructional Improvements intothe ClassroomDr. Diane L Zemke, Independent Researcher Diane Zemke is an independent researcher and consultant. She holds a PhD in Leadership Studies from Gonzaga University. Her research interests include teamwork, small group dynamics, dissent, organiza- tional change, and reflective practice. Dr. Zemke has published in the International Journal of Engineering Education, the Journal of Religious Leadership, and various ASEE conference proceedings. She is the author of ”Being Smart about Congregational Change.”Dr. Steven C. Zemke

Conference Session

Assessment

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alan Cheville, Bucknell University; Michael S. Thompson, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

. Week Milestone 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 160: Team Formation / Project Selection 0-T1: Problem Definition / Project Scoping 1-T2: Team Research: Project 2-T3: Project Decomposition 3-T4: Individual Research: Subsystems 4-I5: Develop Mock-Up 5-I6: Report / Reflect

Conference Session

Mechanical Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Satyajeet P. Deshpande, Kolano and Saha Engineers, Inc.; Mohan D. Rao, Tennessee Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

sound. Figure 1 illustrates how anacoustic material reacts to impinging sound waves. Figure 1: Representation of porous sound absorption materialThe incident wave impacts the face of the material, reflecting some of its energy and sending therest into the material. The energy sent into the material is either transmitted through the material,or absorbed within the porous structure of the material. The sound absorption coefficient is thesum of the percentages of sound that were not reflected. From Figures 1, the sound transmissioncoefficient, τ, is simply the ratio of the sound power transmitted through the material sample intoanother space to the sound power incident on one side of a material sample. Since some soundenergy

Conference Session

Leadership, Entrepreneurship and Ethics Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sangarappillai Sivaloganathan, United Arab Emirates University; Rajesh Ganithi, UAE University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

were given a shaft of 50 mm diameter from whichthey could manufacture the product. The component given to them for trial manufacturing isshown in Figure 1. Figure 1: A Key-ring Disk, Component for Trial ManufactureThis component has some fine curves and the requirement was to have fine surface finish. Twomachining centres were compared. Though it was not explicitly agreed or declared the students Page 24.464.6were working for some high quality memorabilia items that sell in the high end of the market.They were particular that the items should reflect some engineering concepts or mechanisms.Therefore their observations were

Conference Session

Engineering & Our Global Society

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

wenjuan wang, Beihang University ; Ming Li, Beihang University; Brent K Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Qin Zhu, Purdue University; Jian Yuan, Beihang University; Qing Lei, Beihang University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

China’s engineering schools. During the 20th century,engineering would in turn become one of the most important fields of higher education in China.The renewal of the educational system in early modern China involved three formative policyphases – namely the “renyin kuimao school system” (1902-1911), “renzi kuichou school system”(1912-1916), and “renxu school system” (1917-1922) – that reflected two different approaches tosituating an emerging discipline of engineering within the broader landscape of Chinese highereducation. This paper examines the three educational systems, including the implications of eachin relation to the establishment of engineering as an academic discipline in early modern China.As we discuss, this historical period has

Conference Session

Engineering as a Professional Calling

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julia D Thompson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Mel Chua, Purdue University; Cole Hatfield Joslyn, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

years immediately after ASEE,6 and engineering faculty from religious colleges anduniversities often reference their faith when describing the context of their teaching work.However, when we searched, we found that the experiences of engineering teachers andengineering education researchers have not been as well explored. As graduate students, ournarratives emphasize our enculturation into the engineering education community as bothteachers and researchers; as people of faith, our spiritualities are an important part of ourjourneys. Prior work7 has highlighted the importance of personal narratives as ways to expresscommunity values by “[providing] a vehicle for scholarly discourse that makes explicit ourimplicit knowledge, promotes reflective

Conference Session

Innovative Pedagogy and Assessment in Civil Engineering Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brock E. Barry PE, U.S. Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

my willingness to take a risk?Thus, the first hypothesis associated with this study is that by intentionally taking one’s self outof a comfort zone in front of students, an instructor will ultimately be more comfortable in theclassroom. Secondly, it is also suggested that the students associated with the course appreciateand respect the instructor’s attempt at using a non-traditional method of engineering instruction.Finally, an attempt will be made to determine if the use of poetry actually assisted with studentreinforcement of learned civil engineering concepts. The initial hypothesis will be addressedthrough self-reflection. The second and third hypothesis will be explored through analysis ofstudent-reported survey data.It should be noted