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2021 ASEE Pacific Southwest Conference - "Pushing Past Pandemic Pedagogy: Learning from Disruption"

Authors

Rebeka Sultana, California State University, Long Beach

engineering and hydrology. Due to her passion in student learning and success, she is also involved in research in engineering education. She has published several peer- reviewed journals and conference proceedings in her research areas as well as in engineering education. In her teaching pursuits, Sultana integrates real world examples and research with the theoretical knowledge to prepare the future engineers. She has been involved with American Society of Engineering Education Pacific South West section for the past three years. In her current position, Relations with Industry, she collaborates with industry partners to bring their insight in engineering education. She is licensed Professional Engineer from the state of

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Design in the First Year

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Emine Celik Foust, York College of Pennsylvania

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First-Year Programs

evaluations: two peer evaluations were collected during each module. Most of the students commented that class activities and the project work helped them improve their teamwork skills. However, one student commented that “The peer evaluation papers are the least valuable component of this course, since if you think that one of your teammates is slacking or not putting in enough effort you can just say something to them in person and work it out instead of writing it down. If it really becomes a problem then you can tell the teacher directly.”The fourth statement of the survey is on whether working on a design project increased students’interest in engineering or not. Student survey results in Table 3 show

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Technical Session 4: Environmental Issues and the Impacts of Intersectionality

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Shannon Katherine Gilmartin, Stanford University; Angela Harris, North Carolina State University; Christina Martin-Ebosele, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering, Women in Engineering

intentions and destinations vary by students’ gender andrace/ethnicity? We examine students’ career pathways in other majors to contextualize patterns.Data come from the longitudinal, NSF-funded Engineering Majors Survey (EMS). The firstwave of EMS (EMS 1.0) was administered at a nationally representative sample of 27 U.S.engineering schools in 2015. A second wave was administered to 1.0 respondents in 2016, and athird wave, in 2017. Our baseline sample is maximally composed of 87 1.0 respondents whomarked that they were environmental engineering majors, 695 respondents marking civilengineering majors (our “peer” major), and 6,408 respondents majoring in other engineeringfields. Our longitudinal sample is smaller, requiring more of a detailed

Conference Session

The Challenges that Two-year College Students Face when Transferring to a Four-year College for Engineering and Engineering Technology Program

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Sophia Isabela Barber, Pasadena City College; Sophia Isabella Ibargüen, Pasadena City College; Chloe Sharp, Pasadena City College ; Aaron Reedy, DataClassroom; Tanya Faltens, Purdue University, Main Campus; Yu-Chung Chang-Hou, Pasadena City College; Jared Ashcroft, Pasadena City College

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Diversity

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Two-Year College

their preparation when eventualtransfer occurs [18], resulting in transfer students being considerably less competitive in comparison totheir peers when seeking coveted upper-division research opportunities [19].In recent years there has been a push to provide community college students with opportunities todevelop research skills through course-based undergraduate research experiences (CURES) or byconducting independent research projects [20, 21]. Due to the unexpected circumstances created by theCOVID-19 pandemic, however, the education system transitioned to a remote format that could notsupport many of these research opportunities. With fewer opportunities for community college STEMstudents to engage in undergraduate research, an open

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Stacie I. Ringleb, Old Dominion University; Pilar Pazos, Old Dominion University; Julia Noginova, Old Dominion University; Francisco Cima, Old Dominion University; Orlando M Ayala, Old Dominion University; Krishnanand Kaipa, Old Dominion University; Jennifer Jill Kidd, Old Dominion University; Kristie Gutierrez, Old Dominion University

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Mechanical Engineering

both member- ships, the following Codes have been translated: ASME B31.3, ASME B31.8S, ASME B31Q and ASME BPV Sections I. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Paper ID #34131 While maintaining his industrial work active, his research activities have also been very active; Dr. Ayala has published 90 journal and peer-reviewed conference papers. His work has been presented in several international forums in Austria, the USA, Venezuela, Japan, France, Mexico, and Argentina. Dr. Ayala has an average citation per year of all his published work of

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Nicole Evans McIntyre, University of California, Berkeley; Catherine T. Amelink, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

program.When designing the remote Transfer-to-Excellence program, the administrative team had severalpriorities: First, the team hoped to provide as many interns as possible with a research internship.They also sought to provide an experience as similar as possible to the planned in-personprogram. This required that interns felt a strong sense of community with their research lab andpeer interns. As the interns were all physically isolated from their peers, mentors, and facultyhosts, the administrative team sought to ensure interns felt well supported and as connected aspossible. However, they acknowledged that interns would not be able to spend excessive time onvideo calls, due to risk of zoom fatigue or boredom [9].Twelve faculty hosts unfortunately

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship and Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Sarah E. Zappe, Pennsylvania State University; Stephanie Cutler, Pennsylvania State University; Thomas A. Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

educational research. Her research interests primarily involve creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship education.Dr. Stephanie Cutler, Pennsylvania State University Dr. Stephanie Cutler has degrees in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial and Systems Engineering, and a PhD in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech. She is an Assistant Research Professor and the As- sessment and Instructional Support Specialist in the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education at Penn State as well as a co-founder of Zappe and Cutler Educational Consulting, LLC. Her primary research interest include faculty development, the peer review process, the doctoral experience, and the adoption of evidence-based teaching

Conference Session

Working Together: Approaches to Inclusivity and Interdisciplinarity

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Tawfik Elshehabi, University of Wyoming

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Diversity

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New Engineering Educators

value [2]. However, while educatorscommend active learning, their teaching philosophies are still passive in a traditional writtenformat. There is considerable literature on writing a teaching philosophy; nevertheless, there arelimited attempts to develop a visual representation using emerging technologies [1]-[3]. Thisresearch hypothesizes that creating and sharing a visual teaching and assessment philosophy 1empower student success and foster an inclusive learning environment for everyone to learn andscore an “A.”Teaching Philosophy Literature1-What is a Teaching Philosophy?A teaching philosophy is a narrative that uncovers the instructor’s beliefs and valuesabout teaching and learning, often

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Student Perceptions and Perspectives

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Megan Keough, University of Michigan; Laura Hirshfield, University of Michigan; Robin Fowler, University of Michigan

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

moremanagerial and writing tasks (Strehl & Fowler, 2019). This type of behavior was only observedin non-technical tasks.Male Perceptions of Engineering TeamsTo understand team dynamics, researchers may ask male students about their experiences andobservations on sexism in their teams. In one study, male engineering students were seven timesmore likely than female engineering students to agree that their male peers treated female peersin engineering as equals (Osborne, 2008). This suggests that male students are less likely toobserve inequality in their own contexts and in their own teams, and they likely do not believethey play a part in gendered behavior and discrimination in engineering teams. Another studyobserved a man who had described himself

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 1: Intercultural Competency-infused Teaching

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Roman Taraban, Texas Tech University; Micah Iserman, Texas Tech University; Jessica C. Pittman, Texas Tech University; Nigel Yeo, Texas Tech University; Ryan C. Campbell, Texas Tech University; Jeong-Hee Kim, Texas Tech University; Danny D. Reible, Texas Tech University

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Environmental Engineering

empathy into about design processes in me to get better at the skills I engineering can be a good engineering, you are writing a already use in my daily life. practice in reflective piece of your story. engineering. With how fast paced everything In my personal life, I think being Asking questions through each usually is, I get wrapped up in able to reflect on my behavior step in the process can also help routine without thinking about with my friends or family has in being more reflective and how I really feel about my helped me get to where I am in avoiding mistakes that can classes, my peers, or myself. my

Conference Session

Learning in a Socially-Distanced Environment

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Lucia Rut Capdevila, San Jose State University

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Aerospace

individually and then in groups Ask questions to peers and/or discuss in groups Study in groups Other (please specify)4) How did you prepare for AE 30 Exam 2? (Please select all that apply) Go over everything (pre-lecture activities, textbook, quizzes, notes, slides/lecture notes, and labs) Watch videos Review previous class material Made flash cards Review notes Re-write notes Review slides Read the textbook Study a few hours Rework examples and/or labs Problem solving in groups Study in groups Search for related videos on Youtube Review Solutions Other (please specify)5) Based on your AE 30 Exam 2 grade, did your preparation/study methods work? ◦ Yes ◦ NoThe following question, # 6

Conference Session

Engineering Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Chadia A. Aji, Tuskegee University; M. Javed Khan, Tuskegee University

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Educational Research and Methods

-level math and aerospace engineering courses during the Spring and Fall 2020 semesters.The major change was a move from face-to-face to remote learning during the mid of the Springsemester (March) and the fall semester. The face-to face in-class active learning (peer-to-peer,white board activities, team projects/presentations etc.) had to be aligned with the virtualdelivery/interaction modality. To encourage students prepare for the virtual lesson and watch thepre-class preparatory videos and other learning materials, graded short pre-class online quizzesusing the learning management system and virtual in-class quizzes were administered. Theauthors had provided several professional development workshops to the faculty on thesestrategies prior

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First-Year Programs Division Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Alexander James Carroll, Vanderbilt University; Joshua Daniel Borycz, Vanderbilt University; Julianne Vernon, Vanderbilt University

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First-Year Programs

presenting their projects to their classmates via an oral presentation, eachteam is given approximately one month to conduct background research on their challenge and toreceive peer feedback from other groups. Student groups are asked to create slides to accompanytheir presentation and are required to include a reference slide listing the resources theyconsulted during this process.Project-based learning assignments like this one, in which students develop their own questionsand propose potential solutions to real-world problems, often benefit from information literacyinstruction (ILI) [4], [5]. Successful ILI interventions empower students to explore the contextssurrounding a problem and to synthesize the information they find in order to identify

Conference Session

Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Chi-Ning Chang, The University of Kansas; Guan Kung Saw, Claremont Graduate University; Uriel Lomelí-Carrillo, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Mingxia Zhi, Northside Independent School District; Kahlí Romano, Claremont Graduate University ; Ryan Culbertson, The University of Texas at San Antonio

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

/ethnic minorities (URMs; Black/Hispanic/NativeAmerican), 33.2% reported their household experienced a loss of income during the COVID-19pandemic, 12.0% were students with disabilities, 36.4% were international students, and 38.7%were doctoral students.Measures The survey collected an array of measures on student’s e-mentoring experiences duringthe pandemic. In the mentoring section of the survey, students answered the questions inreference to the primary mentor with whom they learn/work most closely with on campus.Students indicated who their primary mentor was from the following options: academic advisoror thesis/dissertation chair, faculty member, staff member, peer (senior graduate student), orother. To investigate the e-mentoring

Collection

2011 North Midwest Section

Authors

Eric Musselman

how to use an online tool to complete cost estimates so somebasic guidance was provided. In addition to a final report, the students were asked to develop afive to ten minute presentation summarizing their work that was presented in front of the class.Their peers were then allowed to ask questions.Project 1 ResultsSome samples of student work are shown in Table 1 and Figure 1. Table 1 shows how a typicaldecision matrix for the project was created. The three different sites were evaluated over a rangeof categories, with each category assigned a weight to allow for varying importance. Figure 1shows a typical schematic drawing of the floor plan. These drawings are used for other parts ofthe project as well, including determining the LEED credits

Conference Session

CoNECD Session : Day 1 Slot 6 Technical Session 2

Collection

2021 CoNECD

Authors

Breauna Marie Spencer, University of California, Irvine; Sharnnia Artis, University of California, Irvine; Marjorie C Shavers, Heidelberg University

Tagged Topics

CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity

experience negative interactions with their faculty and and peer groups (Beoku-Betts, 2004; Patton & Harper, 2003; Johnson-Bailey, 2007; Love, 2017; Robinson, 2013; Schwartz, Bower, Rice, & Washington, 2003). Indeed, because Black women exist a backdrop of myth and stereotype, their voices are often distorted and misunderstood. If she is opinionated, she is difficult. If she speaks with passion, she is volatile. If she explodes with laughter, she is unrefined. If she pitches her neck as she makes a point, she is streetwise and coarse. So much of what Black women say, and how they say it, pushes other people to buy into the myth that Black women are inferior, harsh, and less

Conference Session

Ethics, Mindfulness, and Reform During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Alexis Powe Nordin, Mississippi State University; Amy K. Barton, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

one of the six ethical frameworksthey had been peer-taught in class OR an engineering professional organization’s code of ethicsinto their papers and presentations (or both). They also had the option to use other ethicsresources in addition to the aforementioned requirements. Students were not required toincorporate the same ethical frameworks for the end-of-semester writing assignment andpresentation that they had taught to the class for the first presentation—in fact, such arequirement would have been difficult since the teams had been scrambled and reassigned for thesecond half of the semester. Thus, the team members were all “specialists” in differentframeworks, necessitating team discussions and decisions about which codes and/or

Conference Session

Preparing Engineering Students for Their Professional Practice

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jia Zhu, Florida International University; Ellen Zerbe, Pennsylvania State University; Monique S. Ross, Florida International University; Catherine G. P. Berdanier, Pennsylvania State University

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

- Preparing job talks - Excellent written and spoken English - Networking with industryIndustry Career Skills - Resume and cover letter writing - Transitioning from postdoc to industry - Leading a collaborative research team in the lab - Leadership on research projects Leadership Skills - Diversity awareness - Openness to critique - Mentoring graduate students and junior postdocs - Managing small groups Mentoring - Peer - mentorship - Access to role models

Conference Session

Mechanics & Mechanics Related

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Brian Lani, Pennsylvania State University, Erie Campus; Charlotte Marr de Vries, Pennsylvania State University, Behrend College

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Mechanical Engineering

2019Hoover [1] reported that there was a 20% enrollment drop since 2010 at state-owned universitiesin PA and forecasts another 15% drop to come. With a declining number of high schoolgraduates entering the system, the School of Engineering has made student retention a priority.Justification for RecitationIn order to effectively engage engineering students, improve passing rates, and increase retentionin their programs, universities have looked to innovative teaching pedagogies. Active learning[2], increased class time [3], recitation [4], project-based learning [5], and peer tutoring [6] arejust a few of the methods chosen to enhance traditional lecture-based courses. However, studiesfor some of these methods point to mixed results when integrated

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kathleen Buse, Advancing Women in the Workforce; Lyndsey McMillon-Brown, NASA Glenn Research Center; L. Nicole Smith, NASA Glenn Research Center; Brian P. Kirkmeyer, Miami University

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

“Gender, Work andLeadership”, which was focused on best practices to engage and retain women and minoritizedindividuals in STEM. The committee created and leveraged personal relationships via grassrootscampaigns to recruit, matriculate, retain, and support women students in the CEC. For example,committee members began a letter writing campaign, writing to high school senior girls who hadbeen accepted to the engineering program encouraging them to enroll. The committee membersbegan conducting outreach at their respective local high schools, and represented the Universityat the TechOlympics, one of the largest annual gatherings of STEM-interested high schoolstudents in the metropolitan area and state. The committee met with University staff

Conference Session

CoNECD Session : Day 3 Slot 4 Technical Session 1

Collection

2021 CoNECD

Authors

Andrea Haverkamp, Oregon State University; Michelle Kay Bothwell, Oregon State University; Devlin Montfort, Oregon State University; Qwo-Li Driskill, Oregon State University

Tagged Topics

CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity

Oregon State University.Michelle Kay Bothwell, Oregon State University Michelle Bothwell is a Professor of Bioengineering at Oregon State University. Her teaching and research bridge ethics, social justice and engineering with the aim of cultivating an inclusive and socially just engineering profession.Dr. Devlin Montfort, Oregon State University Dr. Montfort is an Assistant Professor in the School of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engi- neering at Oregon State UniversityDr. Qwo-Li Driskill, Qwo-Li Driskill is an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Oregon State University. They hold a PhD in Rhetoric & Writing from Michigan State University

Collection

2013 North Midwest Section Meeting

Authors

Byron Garry; Suzette Burckhard

process, he or shemust decide whether or not to proceed with turning the findings into the scholarship of teaching.The faculty must also consider, however, whether the extra effort to write up the material,subject it to another peer review, and disseminate the resulting manuscript would be worth thetime required in terms of faculty rewards. The sad truth is that many departments and institutionsdo not count pedagogical scholarship as part of the faculty members’ scholarly production.6 41At SDSU, in the Professional Staff Evaluation that each faculty fills out each year, faculty areasked to set goals for next year and review their performance from the past year, in four majorareas: teaching and

Conference Session

Socially Responsible Engineering I: Context, Innovation, and Reflection

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Ryan C. Campbell, Texas Tech University; Ngan T.T. Nguyen, Texas Tech University; Jeong-Hee Kim, Texas Tech University; Linda Ann Duke, Kansas State University, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art; Roman Taraban, Texas Tech University; Danny D. Reible P.E., Texas Tech University

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

technique that uses art to foster visual literacythrough facilitated group discussion, has been shown to promote the development of skills thattransfer to other domains. In this paper, we report findings from our use of VTS in anexperimental graduate course in environmental engineering that aims to foster students’capacities for reflection. Using data from writing samples with methods of thematic analysis, weexplore students’ perceptions of their own learning from the VTS portion of this semester-longcourse called Developing Reflective Engineers through Artful Methods. One significant themeidentified was “Knowledge/Skills”, in which students identified specific knowledge gained orskills developed through their VTS experience, including skills of

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Victor E. Lugo Vélez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus; Nayda G. Santiago, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus; Jose Fernando Vega-Riveros, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus; Carmen M. Bellido, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus

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Electrical and Computer

dividesthe project into three phases: design, development, and integration. Each phase has an oralexamination at the end. The course also requires the students to write a proposal, progress, andfinal report with their respective oral presentations. During the first two oral examinations, thecourse faculty question students about their project schedule and task progress before separatingand questioning them about their design choices and their module implementations. Student teamsmust then demonstrate their fully functional and tested prototype for the third oral examination. Capstone project teams and their projects demonstrate the principles of ComplexityTheory. Student teams have the autonomy to choose their team members, project, client

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

McKenzie Landrum, University of Florida; Austin Hayes, University of Florida; Josefina Giamichelle; Sima Sabahi, University of Florida; Sanaz Motamedi, University of Florida

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Industrial Engineering

ANOVA. Not only does thiscourse teach the fundamental concepts, but it includes teaching common software that is used inindustry or higher education, specifically RStudio. Different pedagogical approaches were usedto teach fundamental concepts along with software to students in this study and each approachwas randomly assigned to a single module. The first pedagogical approach is the InstructorGuided Method in which the instructor taught RStudio to students after each topic. The secondpedagogical approach is the Think-Pair-Share Method in which students were assignedmandatory readings and instructor dedicated class time for peer-to-peer discussion. Self-efficacysurveys and conceptual/computational assessments were given for each method to

Collection

1981 North Midwest Section

Authors

Henry L. Kucera; Elton G. Solseng; George L. Pratt

demonstrate energyconservation as energy supplies become expensive andcritical. A rubber band-powered tractor contest seemed to be theanswer. Here was an inexpensive, equal source of energyfor young designers to work with. In many ways rubber bandpower offers chances for more innovation than standardizedmodel airplane engines.The Contest: This type of activity should be meaningful, but alsofun and interesting for all concerned. The sponsoringdepartment should be rewarded by the quantity and qualityof potential students contacted. The actual planning andrunning of the contest can be delegated to undergraduzatestudents in the department. The contestants should beenthused while designing, constructing, and competing withtheir peers. Rules

Conference Session

Continuing Professional Development Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Oludare Adegbola Owolabi P.E., Morgan State University; Oludayo Samuel Alamu, Morgan State University; Jumoke 'Kemi' Ladeji-Osias, Morgan State University; LaDawn E. Partlow, Morgan State University; Mehdi Shokouhian, Morgan State University; Kathy Ann Gullie, Gullie Consultant Services LLC; Krishna Bista; Sotonye Ikiriko, Morgan State University; Mulugeta T. Dugda, Morgan State University

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

and modeling.Dr. Mehdi Shokouhian, Morgan State University Dr. Shokouhian is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering, Morgan State University. His research focuses on performance-based design of structures made of high performance steel and concrete using theoretical, numerical and experimental methods. He has participated in many research projects and has published several peer-reviewed journal papers since 2004.Dr. Kathy Ann Gullie, Gullie Consultant Services LLC Gullie Consultants Services LLC, Owner, Dr. Kathy A. Gullie Ph.D. Dr. Kathy Gullie and her associates at Gullie Consultant Services LLC have been in education, assessment, program development and evalu- ation in New York State for

Collection

2010 North Midwest Section

Authors

Byron Garry

Proceedings of the 2010 ASEE North Midwest Sectional Conferenceassessment including student surveys during and at the end of the course, self-reflection entriesin journals, self-reflection papers, alumni surveys, notebooks, log books, student written user’smanuals, exit surveys, and assessments by a consortium of faculty.Gloria Rogers, ABET's Managing Director of Professional Services, writes extensively on thetopic of assessment. In an article entitled “When is Enough Enough?”8, she says that datacollection activities must be examined in light of good program assessment practice, efficiency,and reasonableness. She says several questions need to be asked, such as, “Is there a clear visionof why specific data are being collected?” She answers

Collection

2021 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Ann Gansemer-Topf; Shan Jiang; Nigel Reuel; Gul Okudan-Kremer; Qing Li; Rebecca Mort; Dong Chen

semester, students presented a project charter on their thesis projects thatdemonstrated their knowledge learned about related PTM skills, approaches to utilizing theseskills in their thesis research, and their learning experiences at the GAPS course. Throughout thesemester they also engaged in reflective writing assignments focused on their application ofskills to their work. A copy of the course syllabus is included in Appendix 1.Purpose of the Paper/Research QuestionsAlthough COVID-19 altered our original intention of in-person course and networkingopportunities, we chose to develop an online course as a way to pilot test some of the materialand assignments. Given the novelty of our approach and project, it was critical to develop anassessment

Conference Session

Cooperative and Experiential Education Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Carol S. Stwalley, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Robert Merton Stwalley III P.E., Purdue University at West Lafayette; Grace Lynn Baldwin; Virginia Lynn Booth-Womack, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Sarah Larose

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative and Experiential Education

between abstract concepts and the practice of their profession [30].The benefits of professional practice in the undergraduate educational experience are numerous.Students that get to view and participate in activities typical of those within their professionduring their collegiate years are retained in school at higher rates than those who do not getsimilar experiences [31]. More maturity, a greater independence of thought and action, and awell-developed sense of responsibility have all been noted in professional practice studentsrelative to their non-participating peers [32]. Dressler & Keeling [33] suggest that a deeperanalysis of the extent of student learning through professional practice includes: an increase indisciplined thinking; an