Conference Session

Pedagogy and Teaching Preparation in Graduate Programs

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Locke Davenport Huyer, University of Toronto; Neal I. Callaghan, University of Toronto; Dawn M. Kilkenny, University of Toronto

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Graduate Studies

of future STEM generations.IntroductionThe changing landscape of academia presents challenge in ensuring graduate trainees areproficient in the development of professional skills outside of the research environment [1]. Thisincludes capacity for knowledge translation of research outcomes to a non-expert audience,curriculum development, and effective project management [2]. Consequently, in preparingfuture faculty to assume academic roles and responsibilities successfully, post-secondaryinstitutions have shifted greater focus to providing teaching development programs for traineeprofessional development [3]. This is particularly important given the competitive nature ofsecuring an academic position. With increasing diversity of academic

Conference Session

Graduate Education Expectations, Preparation, and Pathways

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Maya Denton, University of Texas at Austin; Nathan Hyungsok Choe, Ohio State University; Maura J. Borrego, University of Texas at Austin; David B. Knight, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

5th year negatively predicts completion. Since all students in this program are required to TA,those who TA in early years may have less research responsibility and more time to devote toassociated TA duties without sacrificing any other tasks. However, as doctoral students gainresearch responsibility and feel pressure to make progress on dissertation work, having a TAcould increase their workload unaligned with their projects and inhibit progress, delayinggraduation.In contrast, having an RA assignment or fellowship may allow doctoral students to fully focus onresearch, as shown when RA and fellowship are positive predictors of persistence andcompletion. Students funded on both RAs and fellowships develop important researchcompetencies and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees: Identity

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Debra A. Major, Old Dominion University; Seterra D. Burleson, Old Dominion University; Xiaoxiao Hu, West Virginia University; Kristi J. Shryock, Texas A&M University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Development Lab with Dr. Debra A. Major where she has contributed to several grant-funded projects concerning the underrepresentation of women and minorities in STEM from their undergradu- ate careers into the workforce. Her primary research interests include the work-life interface, workplace gender and cultural issues, and leader support.Xiaoxiao Hu, West Virginia University Xiaoxiao Hu is an Associate Professor in the Management Department at West Virginia University. She received her PhD in Industrial/Organizational psychology from George Mason University. Her primary research areas are on affective experience and relational dynamics in the workplace. She also does re- search on psychometric and measurement issues as

Conference Session

ECCD - Technical Session 2 - Solar Energy

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Saeed Sean Monemi, California State Polytechnic University Pomona

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Prototype Automated Solar Tracking with Power Generation System Abstract — The purpose of this project was to design and build a Solar Tracking System froman electrical and mechanical perspective. The tracking system is equipped with automatedbattery charging circuit and switching capabilities for multiple batteries. The system can run afully autonomous mode using photoresistor to track the sun ensuring optimal coverage. Thepopular ESP8266 Wi-Fi Module is interfaced with an Arduino Mega using its communicationsprotocols for wireless control and monitoring of the system.I. Introduction In our everyday lives we constantly hear the chatter government and activists have inwhich

Conference Session

NSF Grantees: RED 1

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University; Susan Bobbitt Nolen, University of Washington; Michelle Kay Bothwell, Oregon State University; Susannah C. Davis, Oregon State University; Christine Kelly, Oregon State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

students from being able to integrate and extend the knowledge developed in specific courses in the core curriculum to the more complex, authentic problems and projects they face as professionals. Dr. Koretsky is one of the founding members of the Center for Lifelong STEM Education Research at OSU.Dr. Susan Bobbitt Nolen, University of Washington Susan Bobbitt Nolen is Professor Emerita of Learning Sciences & Human Development at the University of Washington. She earned her PhD in Educational Psychology at Pudue University. Her current research interests focus on student engagement in engineering practices and social interaction during learning activ- ity, and their relationship to engineering identity and opportunity

Collection

2019 ASEE Zone I Conference & Workshop

Authors

Brandiff R Caron

of engineering activities. Such ability includes an understanding of the interactions that engineering has with the economic, social, health, safety, legal, and cultural aspects of society, the uncertainties in the prediction of such interactions; and the concepts of sustainable design and development and environmental stewardship. 10. Ethics and equity: An ability to apply professional ethics, accountability, and equity. 11. Economics and project management: An ability to appropriately incorporate economics and business practices including project, risk, and change management into the practice of engineering and to understand their limitations. 12. Life-long learning: An ability to identify and to

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2019 ASEE Zone I Conference & Workshop

Authors

A. Richard Vannozzi; Leonard Anderson

peers to bea valuable experience. Title: A Student Centered, Active Learning Approach to the Delivery of a Visiting Professional Lecture SeriesBackground:The Wentworth Capstone Experience consists of a two semester eight (8) credit multi-disciplinary project-based curriculum. The Wentworth Institute of Technology employs acooperative education model that includes two required co-op experiences. One during theSpring semester of their Junior year and one during the Fall semester of their Senior year. To“make-up” for these two required co-ops during traditional Spring/Fall semesters, Juniors andSeniors attend classes full-time in the Summers of their Junior and

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2017 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Sreedevi Ande P.E.

engagement and inspiration. In order to maximize the outreach to as many high schoolfemale students as possible regarding the GEMS camp and inspiring them towards choosing aSTEM career, high school students in San Antonio were invited to the GEMS camp to participatein hands-on engineering activities. Students gained valuable experience through challengingactivities that emphasized Civil and Electrical Engineering. The students presented theirexperiences, and the knowledge gained throughout the projects, by creating and delivering agroup poster presentation at the end. The outcomes of the camp included student’s increasedability to conceptualize engineering problems and an increased engagement in engineering byincorporating visualization tools in the

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2017 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

John Hansen; Chengzhu Yu

The Heroes Behind the Heroes of Apollo-11: Role of STEM John H. L. Hansen, Lakshmish Kaushik, Chengzhu Yu, Abhijeet Sangwan Center for Robust Speech Systems, Eric Jonsson School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75080, USA {john.hansen, abhijeet.sangwan, lakshmish.kaushik, chengzhu.yu}@utdallas.eduAbstractDuring Apollo-11 project, countless scientists, engineers, technicians worked behind the scenes to ensurethat both the solutions and the execution of the detailed flight plan was a success. It is our goal to create aninteractive application that allows users to explore NASA’s archive of Apollo missions. The application

Conference Session

Emerging Issues in Engineering Education Research and Pedagogy

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joachim Walther, University of Queensland; David Radcliffe

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Educational Research and Methods

month industry placement program that combined work experience with the completion of an industry based final year thesis.32 - Students at Purdue University from the Engineering Projects In Community Service program (EPICS),33, 34 the Global Engineering Alliance for Research and Education (GEARE)35, 36 and the Co-op program.37 - Final year students from the University of Georgia who had gathered their industry Page 13.216.4 experience in vacation work and unstructured internships.The focus groups were based on a semi-structured protocol using critical incident techniques27-30to elicit instances of

Conference Session

The New Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge (BOK2)

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Anderson, Somat Engineering, Inc.; Stuart Walesh, S. G. Walesh Consulting; Kenneth Fridley, University of Alabama

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Civil Engineering

as follows: Foundational 1. Mathematics 2. Natural Sciences 3. Humanities 4. Social Sciences Technical 5. Materials Science Page 13.1249.5 6. Mechanics 7. Experiments 8. Problem Recognition and Solving 9. Design 10. Sustainability 11. Contemporary Issues & Historical Perspectives 12. Risk and Uncertainty 13. Project Management 14. Breadth in Civil Engineering Areas 15. Technical Specialization Professional 16. Communication 17. Public Policy 18. Business and Public Administration 19. Globalization 20. Leadership 21. Teamwork 22. Attitudes 23. Life-Long Learning 24. Professional and Ethical ResponsibilityThe importance

Conference Session

Curricular Innovations

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Manuel Jimenez, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; Ana Nieves, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; Cristina Pomales-Garcia, University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez; Nayda Santiago Santiago, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; José Vega, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; Vilma Lopez, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez

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Educational Research and Methods

the program top high schools students from all over theisland.Engineering programs at the UPRM are five years long. In the CE program, the first two yearsare primarily devoted to mathematics, science, humanities, Spanish, English, and economycourses. In years three and four, the basis of CE is built with core courses in the areas ofsoftware, hardware, and communications. In the fifth year, students take mostly technicalelective courses. The program is structured to fulfill both breadth and depth of knowledge andconcludes in the fifth year with a major design experience through a capstone course identifiedas the “Design Project in Computer Engineering”.The particular academic setting where participating students were chosen included four

Conference Session

Assessment Issues in Environmental Engineering

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Debra Reinhart, University of Central Florida

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Environmental Engineering

2. Design and Conduct Experiments 3. Modern Engineering Tools 4. In-Depth Competence 5. Risk, Reliability and Uncertainty 6. Problem Formulation and Conceptual Analysis 7. Creative Design 8. Sustainability 9. Multimedia Breadth and Interactions 10. Societal Impact 11. Contemporary and Global Issues Professional Outcomes 12. Multi-disciplinary Teamwork 13. Professional and Ethical Responsibilities 14. Effective Communication 15. Lifelong Learning 16. Project Management 17. Business, Public

Conference Session

ERM Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carl Lund, State University of New York at Buffalo

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Educational Research and Methods

ofthe prototype TExT, at its current level of development, in teaching a senior-level undergraduateengineering course is also described.IntroductionTeaching methods that involve and engage the students (e. g. active learning, collaborative learn-ing, cooperative learning, problem-based learning, inquiry based learning, project based learningand case-based learning) have been studied and found to be more effective than traditional thelecture 1, 2. Nonetheless, in 2001 the National Center for Education Statistics reported that 87.7%of engineering faculty used lectures as an instructional method in the classes they taught whileonly 5% indicated the use of methods other than lecture, seminar, lab or field work 3, 4. The bene-fits and desirability

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Curricula

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexa Rihana-Abdallah, University of Detroit Mercy

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Environmental Engineering

spectroscopy 10 Aquatic floral assessment and quantification 11 Aquatic faunal assessment and quantification 12 Bioconcentration and Biomagnification 13 Team project 14 Team project 15 Final Report and PresentationConclusionsThe advantages and need for interdisciplinary studies at the undergraduate level havebeen echoed on numerous fronts. As a mode of discovery and education,interdisciplinary collaboration has delivered much already and promises more—asustainable environment, new discoveries and technologies to inspire young minds, and adeeper understanding and preparedness of our graduates for professional challenges andendeavors. It helps make the higher education system of the United States one of the

Conference Session

Novel Measurement Experiments

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jun Kondo, University of Hartford; Santiago Noriega, University of Hartford; Devdas Shetty, University of Hartford

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Instrumentation

performed. These tests tend to be expensive and timeconsuming. With customers pushing for lower cost and products been developedat very fast pace; companies in many cases can not afford the cost or timeassociated with these test.This has forced companies to look elsewhere to find other types of tests that canprovide them with the necessary accuracy to measure vibration at a lower costwithin a shorter period of time. These test methods include the use ofpiezoelectric accelerometers, strain gauges and laser measuring equipment.ANALYSIS:Of all methods used to measure vibration; the use of lasers is the most appealingsince the equipment has minimum or no contact with the object to be measured.The purpose of this project is to develop a non contact

Conference Session

Gender and Accessibility Issues in K-12 Engineering Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Uchechukwu Abanulo; Ananth Iyer; John Helferty, College of Engineering, Temple University; Joseph Fischgrund, The Pennsylvania School for the Deaf

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

taught for about a decade tofreshmen at the Temple University college of Engineering. The objectives of this project range fromeliminating existing boundaries of engineering education to increasing the anticipation of successamongst the physically impaired. A prior breakthrough in the extension of engineering educationbeyond assumed “limits” was achieved when a young man who was both sight and hearing impairedearned a bachelors degree with honors from the Electrical Engineering department at TempleUniversity. Since then, several outreach programs have been run to increase engineering awarenessin the community, and this project was carried out with the same perspective in mind. In this paper,an overview of the idea of engineering education for

Conference Session

BME Curriculum Development

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Harris, Vanderbilt University; Sean Brophy, Purdue University; Robert Linsenmeier, Northwestern University; Alene Harris, Purdue University

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Biomedical

Research Center inBioengineering Educational Technologies has conducted research and development on methodsto improve bioengineering education for the last 6 years. This project has sought to synthesizelearning science, learning technology, assessment and evaluation and the domain knowledge ofbioengineering so that new approaches to bioengineering education could be developed andtested. This project has resulted in a number of innovations that have been shown to improve theeducational process in bioengineering. We are currently developing methods to disseminatethese findings and make then available to the bioengineering educational community.I. IntroductionRecently, there has been a significant concern expressed by academic, scientific, business

Conference Session

Climate Issues for Women Students

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington; Sheila Edwards Lange, University of Washington

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Women in Engineering

undergraduate and graduate students. The researchpresented here uses an observation about the context of education to frame the research project;and locates the project within the realm of previous research on educational climate. This projecttests the null hypothesis that the context of education does not matter for women’s experience ofclimate. Figure 1 indicates the conceptual framework utilized by this research. The mainvariables of interest are in a bold font.Figure 1. Conceptual Framework of Research Classroom Experiences Laboratory Experiences Relationship with Faculty Climate Retention Professional Development Work/Family BalanceThe contexts in which students are educated are different at the undergraduate and

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Roxanne Toto, Pennsylvania State University; Mark Wharton, Pennsylvania State University; John Cimbala, Pennsylvania State University; John Wise, Pennsylvania State University

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Computers in Education

Instructional Systems at the Pennsylvania State University. Her research interests include the design of online learning and how learning occurs in those environments. Address: 201 Hammond Building, University Park, PA 16802. Telephone: 814-865-4017, FAX: 814-865-4021, email: rtoto@psu.eduMark Wharton, Pennsylvania State University Mark J. Wharton is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Penn State. He teaches undergraduate courses in Electronics (Electronics I, II, and III) and Senior Project Design, the EE capstone design course. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Penn State and his M.S. from the University of Colorado in Boulder. Prior to working at Penn State, Mark spent

Conference Session

International Exchange/Joint Programs in Engineering

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jan Helge Bøhn, Virginia Tech; Manfred Hampe, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt

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International

. The courses at URI are in English and the courses at TUB are in German. • Purdue University’s School of Mechanical Engineering is a participant of the Global Engineering Alliance for Research and Education (GEARE) 5. The core of this program is a junior-year spring/summer semester study-abroad in Germany, India, or China. The courses abroad are in English and transfer back to Purdue so there is no delay in graduation. Concurrently, the students also participate in a two-semester industry- inspired project with students from the other countries and in a two-part industry internship; in both cases, one half of the project and internship is at home, and the other is abroad.The Technische

Conference Session

Design for Manufacture and Industry

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alvin Post, Arizona State University; Thuria Narayan, Arizona State University

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Design in Engineering Education

”.In “Capstone” projects, some instructors may notice that students show a preference formachined parts in their designs. This may result from the ready availability of educationalmachine shops and familiarity with those manufacturing processes. Machined parts are oftenrelatively expensive in production and geometrically simple. In addition to their value in DFXeducation, problems like these may help students develop visualization skill with complex 3-Dparts and assemblies, or lead them to consider using additive manufacturing processes moreoften in design.GradingGood conceptual design practice calls for the generation of many alternative ideas, and someauthors believe criticism can discourage this activity. Certainly, students may be

Conference Session

ECE Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joerg Mossbrucker, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Electrical and Computer

the software developmentenvironment or platform. Integrated development environments (IDE) have come a longway from their terminal-based assembler or compiler origin. The major compilerdevelopment houses have settled on a semi-standard layout and philosophy of their IDE's.Excellent examples are Visual C++ from Microsoft3 and the IAR compiler family4, verysimilar to the layout shown in Figure 1. These B A C Figure 1: Typical IDEThese IDE's are project-based, showing sources (region A in Figure 1), source filedependencies (region B), and status reports (region C) among other information in a mainwindow

Conference Session

MIND Education Trends

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University; Dana Newell, Arizona State University

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Minorities in Engineering

have short exchanges with industry representatives, have a formalmeal at a very nice hotel, and listen to a keynote from a very charismatic engineer from industry,who happened to also be an underrepresented minority.Week Meeting Topics (Fall 05)(2 hrs.)1 Introductions, Time Management (general) Icebreaker, General course information How to “Study” to Get a 4.02 Ice Breaker, Chapter 1: Studying Engineering Video 2: Time Management, How to Catch Up If You Get Behind3 Ice Breaker, Chapter 2: Introduction to Engineering and Engineering Study Video 3: Presentations, Group activity 1-group assignment, project choice4 Engineering student panel – CEMSWE leaders

Conference Session

Software and Web-based Learning in ECE

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dileepan Joseph P.Eng., University of Alberta

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Electrical and Computer

, and recently Azemi and Pauley 8, present advantages ofintroducing computer programming to engineers through MATLAB, either alone or inconjunction with C or C++. Azemi and Pauley briefly mention the design of simple games, e.g.,tic-tac-toe, but focus on a robotics project and its challenges. That project required teaching ofboth MATLAB and C/C++ and the authors conclude by recommending against it.This work validates changes made, despite strong differences of opinion, in 1st year engineeringto go from procedural C++ with virtual robots (Karel) to MATLAB with game development Page 23.624.2(Gorillas). Moreover, the new course introduces

Conference Session

Laboratory Experiences with Mechanical, Materials and Fluid Systems

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bijan Sepahpour, The College of New Jersey

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

, weight, and other physicalcharacteristics of the experiment were not defined at the inception of the project. Initially, thislack of constraints may have been a blessing (for the students) since it did free the design processto vary these factors. However, later, it became clear that the price for such a freedom is dealingwith the lack of starting points/values in the process. Table (1) provides a synopsis of the stepsand the parameters involved in the implementation of the project. Page 24.90.4 Table 1. Steps and the Parameters involved in the successful implementation of the project. # TYPE OF

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shane A. Brown P.E., Washington State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

meanings thatengineers have and developing a model of core engineering concepts requires collectingdata through more long-term and thorough research methods. A graduate student willspend one year working as an intern for a civil engineering design firm to conductethnographic research on engineers’ shared and situated knowledge of fundamental civilengineering concepts. Education Aim: Develop and implement research-based curricular materialssituated in engineering practice. This project will utilize results from specific aims 1and 2 to develop curricular materials, including assessment instruments, for conceptualunderstanding present in engineering practice, aimed at guiding students to thedevelopment of conceptual understandings that are

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patrick A. Tebbe, Minnesota State University, Mankato

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

research, conducted as part of a NSF CCLI Phase 1 project, determined that studentstypically come into a thermodynamics course with a high expectation of being exposed to realworld content. With a traditional textbook and course format these expectations were not met.However, using early versions of the Engaged in Thermodynamics material the student Page 23.484.2expectations were better met. Initial research also indicated that there was a significant relationbetween final grade and the level of student engagement. The focus of the current work is to 1)expand the material content, 2) promote use of the material at other institutions, and 3) assess

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ghulam H. Bham, University of Alaska, Anchorage; Dan Cernusca, Missouri University of Science & Technology

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

. Example web-based screen showing the embedded video for query building.Therefore, the instructor decided to move the GIS laboratory toward the end of the semester bylinking it to the highway design project, the major hands-on activity in the course. This newstructure of the instructional activities was implemented during the last two semesters of theperiod analyzed in this study (Fall 2010 and Spring 2011).Structure and Complexity of Instructional TasksThe structure and complexity of the instructional tasks changed over the implementation cycles.Four major task structure factors that defined the complexity of the instructional tasks throughoutthis study are presented in the following part of this section

Conference Session

Creating and Maintaining Effective Communication Learning in the Curriculum

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig J. Gunn, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

engineering curriculum, a foundationwill be formed upon which a system for improved communication skill in engineering can bebuilt.Initial InvestigationsThere has been for a long time a concerted effort by a number of practitioners across the countryto develop programs that will help students understand the need to communicate in a manner thatwill benefit careers outside of the English world. The Writing Across the Curriculum movementhas done much to support the need to make faculty and students more conscious of theimportance of communication in life and in the workplace. The Northwest Inland Writing Projectat the University of Idaho, the National Writing Project, and the Red Mountain Writing ProjectScholarly Writing Retreat for University Faculty