Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 8

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anahita Ayasoufi, Auburn University; Rick Williams, Auburn University; Golbou Makki

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

attention to an image is a proved brain pathway to involving the thinkingcortex, and hence facilitating the learning.Even before fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) made the pathways of visuallearning visible, the experiential evidence had proven visual thinking to be very effective inincreasing student engagement, class participation, language skills, writing skills, and visualliteracy [2, 3].Although evidence for the learning-enhancement effect of visual thinking has been available fora long time (a review of older research is available in [4]), its usage in teaching, especially inhigher education, has been largely overlooked. The enhancing connection between readingcomprehension and visual imagery was shown for children in third grade

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Denny Davis, Washington State University; Steven Beyerlein, University of Idaho; Olakunle Harrison, Tuskegee University; Phillip Thompson, Seattle University; Michael Trevisan, Washington State University

their understanding with respect Page 12.293.9 to their project experiences. Collect student responses. 4. Ask students to exchange their work and to assess one another’s performance using the rubric associated with the exercise. Ask the assessors to assign a performance score and to write specific comments for improving the performance. Return these to the student whose work was assessed. 5. Collect the student work and assessment feedback provided by a peer. Review these and add instructor comments to the scoring sheet for the benefit of the student being assessed. 6. Return the assessment and feedback (scoring

Conference Session

Capstone Design I

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Promiti Dutta, Columbia University; Alexander Haubold, Columbia University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

her team working experience in addition to rating their fellow peers. Students on teams withgood team dynamics indicate a level of satisfaction with respect to their completed projects andgroup, while the converse is true for students on teams with poor team dynamics. Communitypartners and course instructors also evaluate the teams’ effectiveness as a group. Our resultsindicate a direct correlation between team harmony and quality of project from a pedagogicview. Methods to facilitate evaluation of pre-course assessment surveys are underway. Page 12.1526.2Introduction:A team is defined as a group of people who aggregate to fulfill a common

Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention and Diversity in Engineering Technology

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca Blust, University of Dayton; Mark Patterson, University of Dayton

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

regarding toinstructor adaptations, student adaptation to US educational culture, interactions with faculty andstaff, student interviews, faculty interviews, mid-term evaluations, and student performance. Page 12.916.4ObservationsChinese Student DifferencesChinese students have both positive and challenging aspects that make learning easy and at times,difficult. Based on the teaching of Chinese students in China and in the US, we have observed somepositive aspects that are quite remarkable. Some of these positive aspects are; students are polite andrespectful (not only their professors but also their peers). Additionally, Chinese students are

Conference Session

Assessment

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patrick Terenzini, The Pennsylvania State University; Lisa Lattuca, Pennsylvania State University; Matthew Ohland, Purdue Engineering Education; Russell Long, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

the focal outcome. The variability of these local itemsand scales is considerable. One study's review of instruments used in studies published inarchival journals or conference proceedings identified 286 outcome items that mapped to one ofthe 11 EC2000 outcomes. Between 20 to 40 survey items were associated with each of 11 a-koutcomes.7 The item bank containing these items was subsequently reduced through editing, re-writing, and writing original items and became the foundation for developing nine factoriallyderived scales that (with two exceptions) map unambiguously to the EC2000 learning outcomecriteria.In addition to the measurement uncertainties evident in the wide variety of available items andinstruments scattered throughout the

Conference Session

Beneficial Case Studies in AEC Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edmond Saliklis, California Polytechnic State University; Robert Arens, California Polytechnic State University; Joseph Hanus, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Architectural

architecture critique, many of the issues brought up by jurorsand by the student peers appeared to touch on relatively high level concepts in Bloom’sTaxonomy of Learning. The taxonomies are a language that is proposed to describe theprogressive development of an individual’s cognitive understanding of material.Thus, this paper began as an exploration of the thesis that Architecture faculty are comfortablemoving up and down the continuum of Bloom’s Taxonomy, whereas Civil Engineering facultytraditionally move up from the lowest levels of the taxonomy and they are challenged to reachthe higher levels with their students.The purpose of this paper is to review the literature that might support this thesis, and torecommend how Civil Engineering faculty

Conference Session

Developing Young MINDS in Engineering: Part II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ruba Alkhasawneh, Virginia Commonwealth University; Rosalyn Hobson, Virginia Commonwealth University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

. They also improved several skills they need as engineeringand science students such as writing and mathematical skills. The self-confidence of theparticipants also improved by being placed in a higher math level compared to their peers in thesame major. The supportive environment during the summer program played an important rolefor students which encouraged to work hard and get higher grades.Compared to the non-STP participants group, STP students were well prepared for the transitionfrom high school to the new college life. They earned six additional credit hours; and theiraverage performance in the math class was comparable to if not better than the non-STPstudents. STP students were well prepared for the laboratory work. They overcame the

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Ray N. Nitzsche

immediately instructed and pressured to develop a research programrather than being immediately instructed in ways to improve and establish their teaching skills. 3. Most universities have an office called something like "The Office of ResearchServices" whose purpose is to aid faculty in writing proposals leading to grants and in managingthese research contracts. But, how many universities have an office called something like "TheOffice of Teaching Services" to aid faculty in seeking and implementing ways of improving theirteaching? If they do have each type of office, what is the relative level of funding andimportance? 4. I have two young colleagues who, after a couple of years of concentrating on theirteaching, resulting in good

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tonya Saddler, Northwestern University; Elizabeth Creamer, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

) the student’s researchinterests1 . Still others contend that these limitations in the training of doctoral students are notlikely to change because they have worked well for tenured faculty members in the past14 .Conceptual Framework The Graduate and Professional Student Socialization Model7 offers the mostcomprehensive framework for understanding the socialization process for doctoral students. Itsuggests that graduate students are socialized in their departments and respective fields as theylearn the knowledge and skills needed to be successful in their programs and fields, interact withfaculty members and peers, and become involved in various activities within their fields7. Figure1 displays the conceptual model. One of the core

Conference Session

Feedback and IT: Improving Student Learning

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Steinborn, Darmstadt University of Technology; Joerg Lange, Darmstadt University of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

curriculum. This teaching method encouragessenior students to arrange their tasks to meet their individual schedule limitations. But even atthis stage students have problems to manage their tasks: 19% wrote that they had difficultiesresulting from the freedom in time and place.In contrast to the many advantages that were seen, 39% wrote that they missed the personalcontact to the lecturer. The possibility to ask questions in the moment they arise, thediscussion with the lecturer, the whole area of verbal and non-verbal communication isseverely reduced. To write the questions and post them to the forum, where they are availablefor all peers was a severe disadvantage for 24% of the participants.The motivation of the participants was manifold. It

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Mueller PE P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Mark H. Minster, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

freshmen: Introduction to Sustainability, Rhetoric andComposition, and Introduction to Design. To faculty, the interconnections of these classes areclear and essential to the domains of sustainability, sustainable engineering, and sustainabledesign. In the first three years of the HERE program, however, students tended to see these coursesas only tangentially related. Having students write a proposal to improve sustainability, for 1instance, was seen by students not as an essential engineering skill, but as a composition taskunrelated to “doing something,” which uses engineering skills. As the mismatch betweenobjectives on syllabi and comments on

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Elizabeth Johnson, Playful Learning Lab; Elise Rodich, University of St. Thomas; Hannah French; Annmarie Thomas, University of St. Thomas

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

Paper ID #30695Designing Little Free Libraries for Community Partners in a First-YearGraphics and Design CourseElizabeth Johnson, Playful Learning Lab Elizabeth is an undergraduate student studying Mechanical Engineering. She works as a peer mentor for the Engineering Graphics and Design course and is a Research Assistant in the Playful Learning Lab.Elise Rodich, University of St. Thomas Elise Rodich is studying mechanical engineering with a minor in materials science at the University of St. Thomas. She works for the Playful Learning Lab as an undergraduate student researcher on a variety of projects, including the

Conference Session

Engaging Students with Creativity and Innovation

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alison Henry, University of Alberta; Lucinda Johnston, University of Alberta

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

be able to communicate effectively, concisely, and correctly in written,spoken, and visual forms to a variety of audiences using a wide range of media. Communicationincludes the effective sharing of knowledge and expertise in a variety of situations (to peers, tothe general public and to decision makers) [4].” It is these communication skills that are targetedby the IOR competition.In addition to fostering individual skill development, IOR also invites graduate students toengage with the broader research community on campus. This aligns with the larger institutionalplan promoting engagement “across disciplines, campuses, faculties and units [7],” to enhancestudents’ learning experiences. Participants who attend submission preparation

Conference Session

First-year Programs Division Technical Session 9: Focus on Student Learning, Lifelong Learning, and the Whole Student

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela Thompson P.E., University of Louisville; Patricia A Ralston, University of Louisville

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

addition of the Grand Challenge-basedassignments on student learning outcomes. Thus, the assignments will be retained for futuresemesters but refined to enhance their effectiveness with respect to students’ critical thinkingdevelopment. Efforts should be made to assist students in recognizing the value in using the PEframework to improve and reflect on their own thinking. One possible improvement is givingstudents opportunities to revise their assignments after feedback, thus encouraging them to refinetheir own thinking. Additionally, students will be given opportunities in class to evaluate theirown writing and that of their peers using the PE framework. Like revision, it is hoped that thisactivity will enable students to reflect on their own

Conference Session

Interest and Movitation: Formulating New Paradigms to Increase URM Participation in Engineering

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Christe, Drexel University; Arpit Shah, Drexel University; Jay J. Bhatt, Drexel University; Marisol Rodriguez Mergenthal, Drexel University; Linda Powell, Community College of Philadelphia; Antonios Kontsos, Drexel University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

highereducation environments have been repeatedly demonstrated to overcome these factors. The“Tinto Model of Student Retention”7 provides a useful framework for discussion of academicand social integration, adopted by existing successful programs such as National ScienceFoundation (NSF) funded Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP), whichaims to “build productive capacity and output within institutions having significant enrollment ofminority populations” 8 in STEM fields. Specifically, Tinto’s theory recommends tailoredintervention to meet the needs of specific cohorts (e.g. transfer students, academically “at risk”students, “non-traditional” students). Interventions take the form of undergraduate researchexperiences, faculty and peer

Conference Session

Works in Progress: Facilitating Student Success and Inclusion

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Raja S. Kushalnagar, Rochester Institute of Technology; Gary W. Behm, Rochester Institute of Technology ; Aaron Weir Kelstone; Brian Trager, Rochester Institute of Technology; Mary Rose Weber, Rochester Institute of Technology; Shareef Sayel Ali, Rochester Institute of Technology NTID and VTCSecure's ACE Innovation Lab; Jason Dominick Lee, Rochester Institute of Technology, Center on Access Technology

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

engineeringlectures. Unlike speeches, most engineering lectures include use of detailed visuals such as slidesor diagrams, and sequential procedures. DHH students constantly look away from their laptopdisplay to search and study the visuals. As a result, they spend less time watching lecture visualsand gain less information than their hearing peers. However, the need to process simultaneousaural and visual information can also be taxing for hearing students, and previous studies haveshown that they also benefit from real-time speech-to-text transcription.We evaluated the real-time display of captions (RTD) usability by both deaf and hearing studentsin an engineering class. It further examined the factors that influence hearing students' use ofRTD as an

Conference Session

Track: Faculty - Technical Session 5

Collection

2019 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity

Authors

Leanne DeVreugd, Oakland University; Laila Guessous, Oakland University; Julie Walters, Oakland University; Bradley John Roth; Sanela Martic

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Faculty

, low salaries, and agender-biased environment.WISE@OU worked to address these challenges through workshops and trainings forfaculty in the STEM departments (and across campus). Over the course of the grantprogram, WISE@OU initiatives focused on career planning (including tenure), work-life leave options, granting writing and funding opportunities, and mentoring. 6WISE@OU created a series of luncheons where junior STEM faculty could meet eachother as well as administrators and senior faculty. These events were a uniqueopportunity to bring together faculty who didn’t normally interact. Newly-hired STEMfaculty were contacted at the start of each semester and

Conference Session

Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jared Oluoch, University of Toledo

Tagged Divisions

Computing and Information Technology

CAC and ETAC. In this example, let’sfocus on CAC and ETAC student outcomes 1 and 2. Below is a list of questions that were used inan examination to test and demonstrate achievement of the student outcomes. 1. Write a program that accomplishes the following Generates a random number Asks the user to guess the random number generated If guess is not between 1 and 10, print message “no!” If user has guessed the number correctly, print out “You got it!” Otherwise, print the correct random number generated. 2. Write a Java program that asks the user to enter three integers. Use an if else statement to print out the largest integer. 3. Write a for loop that asks the user to enter five integers

Conference Session

Improving Technical Understanding of All Americans

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Engstrom, ITEA/Cal U

Tagged Divisions

Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

become more prominent in K-12 public education.This emphasis on design and problem solving through applied mathematics and inquiry basedscience are at the center of the National Science Foundation funded project entitled Invention,Innovation, and Inquiry (I3). This project is so named because invention and innovation are thehallmarks of technological thinking and action. This article will describe the background of theproject, how the units of instruction were developed, field testing procedures, findings, andfinally discuss how this curriculum has been implemented in various settings.The purpose of the I3 project was to write ten thematic units that focused on developingtechnological literacy in students, grades 5-6; creating teaching and

Conference Session

Multimedia and Distance Learning in ET

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nikunja Swain, South Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

2006-1703: DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF VIRTUAL INSTRUMENT (VI)MODULES FOR ELECTRICAL POWER SYSTEMS COURSENikunja Swain, South Carolina State University Dr. Nikunja Swain is a Professor of Computer Science at South Carolina State University in Orangeburg, SC. He has over twenty five years of academic experience in teaching various computer sciences, information systems and engineering related graduate and undergraduate courses. He has published a number of articles (45+) in peer-refereed conferences and journals in the areas of Engineering, Management, and Computer Information Systems. He has procured research and development grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Department of

Conference Session

Diversity in K-12 and Pre-college Engineering Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lyndsey Alyssa Wright, Colorado School of Mines; Barbara M. Moskal, Colorado School of Mines

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

success. One such group is students who are diagnosed with dyslexia, a learning disabilitythat results in challenges when learning to read. These students often determine very young thatthey are not as capable in learning as their peers because they struggle to master reading. Yet,many dyslexic students are also gifted, and some researchers believe that some dyslexic studentshave a unique capacity to visualize in three dimensions, which ironically contributes to thechallenge of mastering reading in two dimensions. The ability to reason in three dimensions is anadvantage when learning STEM. This advantage should be recognized, developed andencouraged because many of these students may have the potential to be future scientists andengineers.This

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Lee Tuttle; Charles White; Gwan-Ywan Lai; Trevor Harding

to help the instructor and evaluator determine theimpact of the course on these important competencies. For example, assessment of teamworkskills will involve three separate evaluations: instructor, peer and self evaluation. Instructor levelassessment will involve observation of both the formal and informal cooperative learning groupsduring in-class exercises. The data from these observations can be tracked during the term toidentify whether an improvement has been made. Peer evaluation will be accomplished througha form that students will fill out at the mid-term mark and at the end of the term. Self evaluationwill be more qualitative as students are asked to reflect on their performance as a team memberby writing in their academic journals

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bahar Memarian, University of Toronto; Ashish Amresh, Northern Arizona University; Jeffrey Hovermill, Northern Arizona University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

-based curriculum development process and before they began teaching their students.Consenting students also completed a survey after experiencing the coding lessons their teachersdeveloped and shared their experiences. Data collection included information on teachingmaterials developed by the teachers, teacher-related survey data, and student-related survey data.The data analysis focuses on two aspects of the work, namely the applications developed bythree teachers and their experiences, as well as the findings of their student surveys. While moreteachers and students participated, we were only able to reflect on these three teachers and theirstudents at the time of writing this paper.2.1 Overview of research-practice partnership professional

Conference Session

Faculty Development Division (FDD) Technical Session 11

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathan Luke Howell, West Texas A&M University; Kenneth R. Leitch P.E., West Texas A&M University; Anirban Pal, West Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Faculty Development Division (FDD)

group field trips, and preparing grant applications throughformal concept papers. In this Work-In-Progress paper, we explain the study design for the near term thatwill examine how faculty have been impacted in their participation in the form of in-depth individualinterviews and a survey. At the time of writing, no direct data has been collected as this data is forthcomingin summer and fall of 2024. Any faculty elsewhere who have struggles in areas of junior faculty mentoring,the balance between research and teaching, and growing interdisciplinary research at your institution maybenefit from the lessons we are learning.KEYWORDSinterdisciplinary; water research; faculty development; community connections; integrated research andeducation

Conference Session

New Teaching Methods in Construction Eduction

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kirsten A. Davis, Boise State University

Tagged Divisions

Construction

confidently apply the skills several years later when they enter college, even though they maybe eligible to take pre-calculus at that time.This paper presents the results of a diagnostic construction-related math quiz given in a freshmanlevel CM course over five different semesters, illustrating students’ consistent difficultyperforming these math skills. Since it is imperative that students have confidence applyingconstruction-related math skills upon graduation with a construction management degree, thispaper also proposes strategies to improve students’ construction math skills.IntroductionThe 3Rs, Reading, wRiting and aRithmetic, have long been considered foundational skills in oureducation system, even though there has been much debate over the

Conference Session

Sustainability, Service Learning, and Entreprenuership

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shekar Viswanathan, National University, San Diego; Howard Evans, National University, San Diego

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

- Understand the importance of sustainability concepts.• PLO # 2- Acquire scientific knowledge and methods required to evaluate the sustainability of systems.• PLO # 3 - Learn to design, manufacture, and operate processes in an environmentally conducive manner.• PLO # 4- Demonstrate critical thinking skills required to analyze problems in their social and environmental context.• PLO # 5 - Develop economically, environmentally, and socially sound sustainable decisions• PLO # 6 - Evaluate the impact of products, processes, and activities through life cycle assessment• PLO # 7 - Communicate through graduate level oral and writing skills.• PLO # 8 - Demonstrate understanding of professional and ethical

Conference Session

Track 1 - Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Miquela Trujillo, University of New Mexico; Peter V. Vorobieff; Francisco Martin Vigil, University of New Mexico; Tennille Charisse Bernard, The University of New Mexico; Clinton Lee Corbin, University of New Mexico

Tagged Topics

Curriculum and Lab Development

and the high cost of new laboratory equipment has left manylaboratory courses outdated and understaffed.1 Non-traditional teaching methods such asProblem-Based Learning (PBL) provide a way for instructors to give students the hands-on skillsthat they need and develop their critical thinking skills while working within the financialconstraints placed on most courses. PBL is grounded in the idea that students should befacilitated by instructors in self-directed experiments that encourage critical thinking and Page 20.23.2problem solving amongst peers. It has been seen that PBL is an effective method to engagestudents with the fundamental

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Murray Teitell, DeVry University, Long Beach; William S. Sullivan, DeVry University, Long Beach

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

Mission (M)Senior Society (So)Project Public Need (P)Figure 2: Metrics and Nomenclature for Successful Senior Project As shown in Table 2, sources of measurements can be team members, professors, peers andexternal sources. Each source employs the fixed metrics according to a template and follows theprotocol to estimate the score. Page 23.1108.5Table 2: Multiple Sources of MeasurementsMeasure Source Method TypeFixed Metrics Team Members Scoring Template EstimateFixed Metrics Professor(s) Scoring Template

Collection

2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

PAUL FAGETTE; SHIH-JIUN CHEN; GEORGE R. BARAN; SOLOMON P. SAMUEL; MOHAMMAD F. KIANI

reading of bothtext and peer-reviewed articles, research projects, and presentations. The classes addressmultiple general education requirements while offering enlightenment and understandingof engineering systems, engineering principles, and design.IntroductionEngineering curricula centers upon the training and development of engineers and followsa cloistered academic approach. Rarely can anyone outside the discipline take engineeringcourses. ABET further reinforces this approach in order to maintain rigor and consistencyin the delivery of course work. Coupled with traditional academic boundaries, a generallack of understanding exists by the general public about engineering systems, basicscientific/engineering principles, and engineering design

Collection

2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Sheikh Ghafoor; Stephen Canfield; Michael Kelley; Tristan Hill

move to solving advanced models thatdescribe how the world works. A recent model has been implemented in the college ofengineering at Tennessee Tech (TTU) to base the initial programming experience onhardware in the loop approach where the programming target is a micro-controller. Thiscourse has been offered in both C/C++ and Matlab programming language. From multiple previous implementations, we see that the students that engaged in thehands-on, hardware-based programming activities reported a more positive earlyexperience with programming and its relation to the engineering curriculum relative totheir comparison-group peers. The students participating in the project also reportedimproved confidence in their ability to learn and use