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2020 ASEE North Central Section conference

Authors

Deanna H Matthews, Carnegie Mellon University; Shuchen Cong, Carnegie Mellon University

required tostructure their approach to investigating and solving the problem by recognizing key areas ofrelevance to the topic and organizing in groups and subgroups appropriate to solving theproblem. The students are expected to discover existing knowledge on the topic, to examine andassess existing policies relevant to the topic, and to analyze alternatives that make society betteroff. Using this background research, and their technical and social analysis education asappropriate, the students then create new knowledge on the subject. This knowledge iscommunicated to an external advisory panel, selected from experts and constituencies ofimportance to the issue. Students make at least one interim progress report during the semester,after which

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2020 ASEE North Central Section conference

Authors

Jason Zapka, Youngstown State University; John Martin, Youngstown State University

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Diversity

factors that enableongoing success and advice on overcoming inevitable challenges will be provided. Topics willinclude university support, leadership, funding, faculty engagement, community networking,student recruitment, project selection criteria, and student assessment. The collaborative studentproject work has benefited students by increasing both their problem solving and communicationskills. One of the overarching issues is the continuous need for a catalyst in order to initiate theinterdisciplinary work each term. In the future, the stimulus for these projects needs to be bothsustainable and somewhat automatic if real growth is to take hold. The consensus of thoseinvolved feel that the Launch Lab organization is an important and valuable

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2020 ASEE North Central Section conference

Authors

V. Dimitra Pyrialakou, West Virginia University; Kakan C Dey P.E., West Virginia University; David Martinelli, West Virginia University; John Deskins, West Virginia University; Julia Daisy Fraustino, West Virginia University ; L Christopher Plein, West Virginia University; Md Tawhidur Rahman, West Virginia University; Karen E Rambo-Hernandez, Texas A&M University; Abhik Roy, West Virginia University

shortpresentations presenting this opportunity to selected undergraduate courses of all three collegesand brief academic advisors about the experience during the registration period of the fall 2019semester.The course design called for multidisciplinary student groups who will work together with fivecore faculty drawn from engineering, economics, and strategic communication to be established.For the first implementation of the HEPC, two groups were formed instead of four to ensure across-disciplinary team while accommodating for the relatively enrollment. One group has beentasked with exploring technology and infrastructure issues and the other is responsible forexploring potential transportation impacts of emerging autonomous vehicles. The two groupswere

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2020 ASEE North Central Section conference

Authors

Ron Averill, Michigan State University; Geoffrey Recktenwald, Michigan State University; Sara Roccabianca, Michigan State University; Ricardo Mejia-Alvarez, Michigan State University

exists between students and faculty;  virtually eliminates the disturbing student strategy of trying to maximize partial credit instead of learning how to solve problems;  requires almost no judgment calls related to partial credit, so scores are as consistent and fair as they possibly can be, assuming the exam itself is written at the appropriate level of difficulty;  enables teaching assistants or teams of graders to perform most or all of the grading steps with few concerns about grading interpretations or consistency;  encourages students to perform additional reflection on exam questions and solution procedures, which improves learning [5];  helps students understand the differences

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2020 ASEE North Central Section conference

Authors

Sanish Rai, West Virginia University Institute of Technology

issues with, and also check with students if they have any otherquestions or difficulty. If students are making errors in their code, they are informed of those errorsand given an opportunity to fix it without penalizing. Students liked this approach since they couldput effort and get an opportunity to earn points even if they may mistake in the first attempt. Also,they would get instant feedback rather than waiting for a week when they would forget about whatcode they wrote.Survey Results The new method of lab assessment was carried out with CS1 and CS2 students for a period of twosemesters. To evaluate the results, an anonymous survey was carried out at the end of the semesterwith both the instructors and students. The student survey consisted