Conference Session

Engineering Student Involvement in K12 Programs

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jill Andrews, University of Michigan; Lorelle Meadows, University of Michigan; Joy Oguntebi, University of Michigan

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

mathematics principles to real-world (engineering) applications, helping secondarystudents understand the importance of a college education, and providing hands-on science andengineering activities.Both Fellows and volunteer undergraduate student tutorsi assist secondary students withhomework, improving study skills, and standardized tests and examinations preparation. Summerscience experiences and academic year activities for teachers offer opportunities to work onengineering research projects with university faculty. Parents are gaining “College Knowledge”through a model Professional Learning Communities / Critical Friends Group format. The modelis designed to be exportable nationwide.This paper focuses on the involvement of university graduate and

Conference Session

SPECIAL SESSION: Describing the Engineering Student Learning Experience Based on CAEE Findings: Part 1

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Helen Chen, Stanford University; Krista Donaldson, Stanford University; Ozgur Eris, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Debbie Chachra, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Gary Lichtenstein, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University; George Toye, Stanford University

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Educational Research and Methods

futureAPPLES deployments and analyses.Introduction/BackgroundThe Academic Pathways Study (APS) of the NSF-funded Center for the Advancement ofEngineering Education (CAEE) is a cross-university study that systematically examines howengineering students navigate their education, and how engineering skills and identity developduring their undergraduate careers1,2. APS research falls under the umbrella of the Center for theAdvancement of Engineering Education (CAEE) whose goals are to: 1. Identify ways to boost the numbers of students who complete engineering degrees (including increasing the numbers of women and traditionally underrepresented groups) 2. Better support those enrolled in engineering programs 3. Encourage greater numbers of

Conference Session

Tools of the Trade

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Niewoehner, U.S. Naval Academy; Craig Steidle, US Naval Academy; Eric Johnson, US Naval Academy

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Engineering Management

Vice Commander of the Naval Air Systems Command. He subsequently served as Associate Administrator of NASA for Deep Space Exploration.Eric Johnson, US Naval Academy Midshipman, US Navy. Midn Johnson is a graduating senior. Page 13.1244.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 The Loss of the Space Shuttle Columbia: Portaging the Leadership Lessons with a Critical Thinking ModelAbstract Business schools have long valued case studies as a tool for both broadening a student’sperspective, and provoking them to deeper consideration of complex situations. The challengewith case studies is

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Physics or Engineering Phy

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Kohlmyer, Georgia Institute of Technology; Michael Schatz, Georgia Institute of Technology; Richard Catrambone, Georgia Institute of Technology; Marcus Marr, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Engineering Physics & Physics

studentsenrolled in the course, much of infrastructure is necessary for maintaining the course. Ourapproach in implementing M&I was to make gradual changes in all these areas.M&I was first offered at Georgia Tech as a small, pilot section of about 40 students, taught by apost-doctoral fellow hired expressly for the purpose of assisting in implementing and teachingthe curriculum. As shown in Table 1, the number and size of lecture sections using the M&Icurriculum have expanded since then. By spring 2008, approximately 30 percent of students Page 13.707.3enrolled in the introductory physics sequence were in M&I-based sections. The number

Conference Session

Design: Content and Context

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anoop Desai, Georgia Southern University; Jean-Claude Thomassian, State University of New York, Maritime College

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Educational Research and Methods

design AbstractThis paper seeks to present a systematic and thorough methodology to incorporate basic sixsigma principles for quality into engineering course design from the ground up. Six sigmaprinciples have been widely used in industry in conjunction with the basic philosophy of ‘leanthinking’ so as to achieve the twin goals of quality enhancement and cost minimization. Theauthors intend to extend an identical thought process to the field of education, beginning at thebasic course level in an engineering setting. The principal advantage of this extension is toincorporate voices of widely varying stakeholders including the community, industry,academicians etc into the basic course structure. Another

Conference Session

Physics Education Research (PER) Relevant for Engineering Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mel Sabella, Chicago State University; Stephanie Barr, Chicago State University

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Educational Research and Methods

to this study. Because class size at Chicago State University issmall (approximately 20 students in introductory physics classes) we do not have the luxury oflarge N studies. We are therefore presenting results that support our claims but larger scalestudies would need to be done to strengthen our arguments. We believe that the use ofqualitative and quantitative research methods address some of the problems associated withsmall N studies. In addition, as mentioned above, interviewees were volunteers so the sample forour qualitative methods is not a random sample of students in the introductory class. We shouldalso note that the study presented is narrow – the student participants we work with are studentsat the urban comprehensive

Conference Session

Assessment

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Wittenborn, Purdue University; Michael Richey, The Boeing Company; Craig Miller, Purdue University

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Educational Research and Methods

format in which both distance learning (through online lectures anddemonstrations) and experiential learning (through hand’s on computer labs) were incorporated.All of the students were engineers or technologists at The Boeing Company, located in thegreater Seattle, Washington area. This study investigates the course through differentmethodologies (quantitative and qualitative), reporters (students and instructors), andinformation (course effectiveness, satisfaction, and transportability). A pre-test/post-test designwas used to test the learning outcomes on PLM theoretical knowledge and CAD skills.Quantitative survey data were also collected from students and instructors in the form of Likert-scale responses. In addition to these quantitative