Conference Session

Assessment in Large and Small Programs

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Dana Knox

solutions. Anyone that has been involvedin the administration of an academic program realizes that surveys are not appropriatemechanisms for short and medium-term problems. They can, however, be of great use in longer-range, more substantive changes and improvements to the curriculum. The chemical engineeringdepartment at NJIT uses just five surveys among its twenty assessment tools.Discussion and RecommendationsThe chemical engineering department at NJIT spent a considerable amount of time trying todecide upon new assessment tools that could be devised to satisfy the requirements imposed bythe new EC2000 criteria. This time and effort was largely wasted, and other programs should becautioned against this approach.In the end, the department did

Conference Session

Assessment in Large and Small Programs

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Valerie Young

, a 50 minuteclass period will be devoted to developing a rubric. The instructor will moderate a brainstormingsession about the elements of a good oral presentation, and remind students to refer to the course Page 7.1027.3learning objectives in defining the “Primary Traits” to be evaluated. The fina l rubric will be“Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition CopyrightÓ 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”largely based on what the class produces, though the instructor will revise it to ensure thatessential traits for assessment are included. Both students and the

Conference Session

Assessment in Large and Small Programs

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Newell; Heidi Newell; Kevin Dahm

Session 2613 Rubric Development and Inter-Rater Reliability Issues in Assessing Learning Outcomes 1 James A. Newell, 1Kevin D. Dahm, and 2Heidi L. Newell 1 Department of Chemical Engineering/ 2College of Engineering Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ 08028AbstractThis paper describes the development of rubrics that help evaluate student performanceand relate that performance directly to the educational objectives of the program. Issuesin accounting for different constituencies, selecting items for evaluation, and minimizingtime required for data

Conference Session

Assessment in Large and Small Programs

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Terry

Competency Exam to be administeredduring the senior year. One of the observed benefits of the exam is its role in focusing theattention of both students and faculty members on the core elements of our program. Theexam also provides a quality check for graduating students, and feedback for programimprovement. Our experience to date indicates that the Core Competency Exam, alongwith other elements of our assessment plan, will have a significant positive impact on theeducation of our students.IntroductionAs part of our assessment plan, the Chemical Engineering Department faculty at BrighamYoung University have defined a set of core competencies that we have designated formastery by all of our graduating students1. The intent of these core competencies

Conference Session

Assessment in Large and Small Programs

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Dempster; Chee Lee

Session 2613 Teaching of Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics using Interactive Learning Methods in Large Classes W. Dempster, C.K. Lee, J.T. Boyle Dept. of Mechanical Engineering University of Strathclyde Glasgow,UKAbstractIn this paper the successful implementation of interactive learning techniques to the teachingof large classes is discussed. It is believed that a number of factors, including the use of peerinstruction, classroom communications systems and a team teaching approach has led to

Conference Session

Assessment in Large and Small Programs

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Terry; W. Vincent Wilding

engineering programs,employers of companies that hire our students, an external advisory board, and a studentadvisory board. The new course treats three topics that are fundamental to responsibleengineering practice. These are ethics, the environment, and safety. Course objectives includethe following: 1. To understand and commit to sound ethical behavior; 2. To understand, commit to, and gain experience in environmentally responsible engineering; 3. To understand, commit to, and gain experience in engineering safety.The material in the new course lays a foundation for design problems interspersed throughoutlater courses in the chemical engineering curriculum.The purposes of this paper are: 1) to demonstrate the interaction and contributions

Conference Session

Tablets Large and Small

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ashley Robinson, Virginia Tech; Catherine T. Amelink, Virginia Tech; Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Tech

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Computers in Education

: Proceedingsof the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition.; 2009.6. Lewis JE, Hieb JL. Promoting Faculty Adoption of Tablet PCs in Upper Level Engineering Courses. In:Proceedings of the 2011 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition.; 2011.7. Lohani V, Castles R, Lo J, Griffin O. Tablet PC applications in a large engineering program. In: Proceedings ofthe 2007 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition.; 2007.8. Oh K eun, Gwizdka J. Using tablet computers to increase interaction and collaboration in a higher educationclassroom. In: Barnett M, Vanides J, eds. Re-imagining the Classroom: Innovations in Teaching and Learning withTechnology

Conference Session

Tablets Large and Small

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mahnas Jean Mohammadi-Aragh, Virginia Tech; Christopher B. Williams, Virginia Tech

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Computers in Education

increase student attitudes and successful behaviors that support learning. Since positiveattitudes and successful behaviors emerge with structured use in classrooms, it is prudent toinclude structured laptop use in engineering programs with a personal laptop requirement. Page 25.1197.2While structured computer use has the potential to increase student engagement in large lecturesvia engaging media, interactive polling, or computer-based think-pair-share activities, the realityis that many instructors lack the resources to incorporate structured computer use into theirlectures. Particularly, instructors have reported that one of the top barriers

Conference Session

Tablets Large and Small

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Oscar Antonio Perez, University of Texas, El Paso; Virgilio Gonzalez, University of Texas, El Paso; Mike Thomas Pitcher, University of Texas, El Paso; Peter Golding, University of Texas, El Paso; Hugo Gomez, University of Texas, El Paso ; Pedro Arturo Espinoza, University of Texas, El Paso

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Computers in Education

using electrical engineering concepts and computer technologies to help in everyday real-world applications. Perez has worked with the UTeach program at UTEP since its creation to streamline the transition process for engineering students from local area high schools to college by equipping their teachers with teaching strategies and technologies each summer. Perez en- joys teamwork and believes in education as a process for achieving lifelong learning, rather than as a purely academic pursuit. He currently works on maintaining, upgrading, and designing new computer classroom systems. Perez is inspired because he enjoys working with people and technology in the same environment.Dr. Virgilio Gonzalez, University of

Conference Session

Pedagogy

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Benson Tongue

Conference & Exposition Copyright c 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”As class sizes have steadily expanded, the author has developed a group of techniques andpresentation approaches that combine to keep the class feeling “small” in spite of the ac-tual large number of students. The result is a quality of education delivery (QED) that iscomparable to that found in more modestly enrolled courses. Indeed, in some aspects it isarguable that the QED levels can even increase with greater enrollments.2 I remember you!Students are not going to feel that they’re an integral part of the class if they feel anonymous,and the only way to avoid anonymity is for the professor to actually know them. Hence,we come to a

Conference Session

Assessing with Technology

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

T.M. Wildman; M. L. Wolfe; Jr., O.Hayden Griffin, O.Hayden Griffin,; J. Muffo; G.T. Adel; G.V. Loganathan; Kumar Mallikarjunan, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Tamara Knott, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Marie Paretti, Virginia Tech; Vinod Lohani, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Florida A&M, Iowa State, Lafayette College,Lehigh University, North Carolina A&T, New Jersey Institute of Technology, North DakotaState, Ohio State University, Polytechnic Institute, University of Colorado-Boulder, Universityof Oklahoma, University of South Carolina, Virginia Tech, and West Virginia University.8-18Portfolios have been used to support assessment of student achievement of learning outcomes incommunication and design at the course level and across a program. The use of portfolios hasbeen concentrated in small programs. The development of the use of the ePortfolio inengineering programs has been substantial at Rose Hulman19,20, the University of Washington20-22 , and Oral Roberts University23. Recently the South Dakota

Conference Session

Innovative Practices in NRE Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerome Davis; Charles Bittle; Mitty Plummer

Session 0000 The Impact of Assessment on a Small Nuclear Engineering Technology Program By Jerome J Davis, Mitty C. Plummer, Charles C. Bittle University of North TexasI. Introduction.In the year 2000, the Technology Accreditation Commission (TAC) of the AccreditationBoard for Engineering and Technology (ABET) modified the criteria1 for accreditation ofengineering technology programs. The shift was away from a large number of specificcriteria to a more generalized outcomes based criteria in which the programs wereallowed to state their

Conference Session

Engineering Student Experiences

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Denise Wilson, University of Washington; James J. Pembridge, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach; Caitlin H. Wasilewski, Seattle Pacific University

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Educational Research and Methods

. Most students arecompetitively admitted to engineering and computer science majors after their second year. Thesecond population in this study consists of a small private teaching university in the southeastwhich serves approximately 5,000 students with 33% enrolled in one of the followingengineering programs: Aerospace, Civil, Computer, Electrical, Mechanical, Software, and stillexploring. The university is primarily residential undergraduate institution. All engineeringprograms begin with a common first-year experience with typical class sizes throughout theundergraduate curriculum below 40 students.The Large Public University vs. the Small Private University: Several differences are notablewhen comparing large and small universities

Conference Session

Computer Tools for Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vinod Lohani, Virginia Tech; Ricky Castles, Virginia Tech; Jenny Lo, Virginia Tech; Odis Griffin, Virginia Tech

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Computers in Education

workTablet PC based instruction was implemented in a freshman engineering program at VirginiaTech in fall 2006. This was the first experience of the authors to use digital inking features ininstruction. Two of the four authors (Lohani and Lo) coordinated EngE1024 and taught two largelecture sessions (~150 students per session) and never used the chalkboard for illustrating aconcept by sketching or writing equations, unlike previous semesters. The digital ink/pen featureof the Tablet was effectively used for this purpose. Efforts were made to engage students in alarge classroom by seeking input related to a course related concept or learning objective. Theauthors also used clickers for the purpose of formative assessment in large lectures and had to

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Virgil U. Pierce, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley; Javier Angel Kypuros, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley; Shirley J. Mills, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

chosen based on feedback and input from Calculusinstructors. The topics covered include large portions of both the College Algebra and Pre-Calculus courses, and in addition includes a collection of engineering design challenges aimed ataddressing students’ motivation for mathematics coursework. The instructor has changed in thefirst two cohorts, but in each case was an experienced Pre-Calculus instructor who had alsotaught the modified emporium courses we used for developmental mathematics at UTRGV. Theemporium model involves students using a computer program such as the Assessment andLearning in Knowledge Spaces (ALEKS) in a computer lab1,11-13. The students spend class timeworking on mathematics problems, receive immediate feedback on those

Conference Session

New Engineering Educators 3 - Grading: Grate or Great

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Derek Breid, Saint Vincent College; Tara Gupte Wilson, Ohio State University; Ann D. Christy P.E., Ohio State University

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New Engineering Educators

engineering concepts through low-stakes practice, and as a means ofassessing student progress. One such strategy has been utilized in various courses at a small, privatecollege with a general engineering degree program. This homework approach encourages students toauthentically engage with engineering concepts by incentivizing completion over correctness andrequiring students to complete a metacognitive reflection following each assignment. This approach hasshown strong improvements in the homework habits adopted by the students.In fall 2019, this homework approach was adapted for use in a thermodynamics course at a large, publicresearch institution. Although there are a few practical differences in implementation at the two schools,the purpose is

Conference Session

Technical Session 11: Topics related to Computer Science

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joe Michael Allen, University of California, Riverside; Kelly Downey; Kris Miller; Alex Daniel Edgcomb, Zybooks; Frank Vahid, University of California, Riverside

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Computers in Education

Analysis from Multiple UniversitiesAbstractIn 2017, we introduced a teaching method called many small programs (MSPs) in the CS1courses at our university. Instead of teaching via one large programming assignment (OLP) eachweek, MSPs allow the instructor to assign multiple programming assignments, for example 5 ormore, each week instead. Our previous studies have shown that MSPs can improve the studentexperience by reducing stress and increasing student satisfaction in the course. Furthermore,MSPs have been shown to improve student grade performance in CS1, especially on the codingportion of exams. In a follow-up study, we gained insight on how students were using MSPs, andlearned that students use MSPs in ways

Conference Session

Innovation in Engineering Leadership Education

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cheryl Allendoerfer, University of Washington; Rebecca A. Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Jennifer Karlin, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Ronald R. Ulseth, Iron Range Engineering; Dan Ewert

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Engineering Leadership Development Division

Paper ID #11895Leading Large-Scale Change in an Engineering ProgramDr. Cheryl Allendoerfer, University of Washington Dr. Allendoerfer is a Research Scientist in the College of Engineering at the University of Washington.Prof. Rebecca A Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato Rebecca A. Bates received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Washington in 2004. She also received the M.T.S. degree from Harvard Divinity School in 1993. She is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Integrated Engineering program at Minnesota State University, Mankato, home of the Iron Range and Twin

Conference Session

Globalizing Engineering Education II: Best Practices

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James McConnell, North Carolina State University; Brian D. Koehler, North Carolina State University

Tagged Topics

ASEE Global Programs

Graduate Teaching Assistants for FLS 101. In addition to the courses he teaches in a classroom setting, he is also the instructor of an online Spanish course that blends the elements of the Spanish language with the relationship among culture and technology. He meets regularly with department members to plan collaboratively and articulate content between courses. In addition to teaching, Mr. McConnell leads Engineering Students on a summer semester program to Spain. Although based out of the town of Segovia, students travel to several cities including Toledo, Barcelona, Madrid, Avila and Salamanca. The program is geared toward Engineering students and includes traditional language classes and various excursions such as

Conference Session

Who Should Teach the BOK

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Large Seagrave, University of Utah

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

andleadership principles and attitudes.”3 All of these outcomes concern an intersection between theprofessional practice of Civil Engineering and other disciplines, such as writing, communication,ethics and education. Because it encompasses such a wide range of skills, teaching the entireBOK curriculum poses problems for traditional engineering faculty, not only because they lackpedagogy training in communication and teamwork,4 but because program-required courses mustalso include a full term of technical material. Pressed for time and specializing in technicalskills, many engineering faculty find assessing students’ written communication and teamworkdifficult and time consuming. And yet these written, oral and teamwork deliverables are mostlikely the

Conference Session

Globalizing Engineering Education II: Best Practices

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregg M. Warnick, Brigham Young University

Tagged Topics

ASEE Global Programs

elements14, 15. The fact that ABET is focused on the importance of providing not only coretechnical skills but also a broad “professional” education including global elements underscoresthe importance for engineering programs within higher education to assess their current approachand make appropriate adjustments to better prepare their graduates to be successful living andworking in a global environment.Engineering now includes work that involves interaction in a transnational environment. It is notuncommon for engineers to be involved in large, complex, and multinational projects. Theseprojects include working in teams with members distributed throughout the world. Diversitywithin teams is common with many different cultural and language

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Baker; David Silverstein

Session 2793 Improving Retention of Calculus by Engineering Students in Small Programs David L. Silverstein, John R. Baker University of KentuckyAbstractStudents in engineering and the sciences often complete their studies in mathematicsbefore they have an opportunity to develop an appreciation for the application ofmathematical concepts in their major field. All of the required topics are covered in themath courses students successfully complete, but when asked to apply the conceptslearned in courses taken a year or more prior to application, they are often surprised todiscover that they

Conference Session

Globalizing Engineering Education II: Best Practices

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Yating Chang, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Yi Shen, Purdue University; Joe J.J. Lin, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Daniel Hirleman, University of California, Merced; Eckhard A. Groll, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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ASEE Global Programs

teamconsists of three Chinese engineers, all at about the same rank as you. Your team reports to anengineering manager, who is also Chinese. In a recent team meeting, your manager proposed asolution to a difficult quality control problem. However, you feel you have a much bettersolution to the problem. How would you deal with this situation? Figure 2. Scenarios for Assessing the Global Engineering CompetenceConclusions and RecommendationsBased on our analysis, we present a number of recommendations relevant for those involvedwith developing, evaluating, and/or administering global engineering programs, including:1. Improved Site-Placement Matching – The site-placement model is appealing because it can be scaled to large numbers of students

Conference Session

Programmatic Issues in Engineering Physics

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Denise Martinez, Tarleton State University

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Engineering Physics & Physics

AC 2007-764: FIRST-TIME ACCREDITATION OF A SMALL,MULTIDISCIPLINARY ENGINEERING PHYSICS PROGRAMDenise Martinez, Tarleton State University Dr. Denise Martinez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics, Physics and Engineering at Tarleton State University. Her research interests include K12 Outreach and Engineering Education Techniques and Assessment as well as Control Systems and Signal Processing. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University in 2001 and is a member of the American Society for Engineering Education and the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ismail Jouny

astudent who is not doing well. Therefore, while surveys may work for large institutionswith many graduates, they are clearly insufficient sources of data for small programs. Anattempt at Lafayette’s ECE Department to make an effort to contact all the alumni inorder to get a 90-100% rate of return on surveys was discouraged for various reasons.Small programs can use surveys but must be careful in assigning considerable weight tothe outcome of such inquiries. Although our graduates were instructed that they will bereceiving surveys and that the program will need to know their opinion, return rate onsurveys remained below 50% and therefore did not reach reliable levels.Input from visiting industry leaders, recruiters, and advisory board members may

Conference Session

The Best of Computers in Education

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joe Michael Allen, University of California, Riverside; Frank Vahid, University of California, Riverside; Kelly Downey, University of California, Riverside; Alex Daniel Edgcomb, Zybooks

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

Education, 2018 Weekly Programs in a CS 1 Class: Experiences with Auto-Graded Many-Small Programs (MSP)AbstractWe describe an experiment in changing a CS 1 introductory programming course from thetraditional one large programming assignment per week to seven small assignments per week:“many-small programs” (MSPs). The change was enabled by a program auto-grader that allowedeasy creation of each new assignment in only about 30 minutes, and that gave studentsimmediate score feedback. Students could earn up to 10 points per assignment, and we defined50 out of 70 possible points as full program credit for the week (no extra credit). With that setup,we allowed collaboration. The change was made for one of three class sections

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gustavo B. Menezes, California State University, Los Angeles; Emily L. Allen, California State University, Los Angeles; Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California; Eva Schiorring, StemEval; Paul S. Nerenberg, California State University, Los Angeles

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

significant results of the program is the development of aFYrE Professional Learning Community which includes faculty (both tenure-track and adjunct),department chairs, staff, and administrators from across the campus.IntroductionFor decades, engineering education researchers and practitioners have developed, implementedand assessed a number of interventions to provide support for at-risk students (such as first-generation college students) to help them succeed in college STEM majors, particularly in theirfirst year. These interventions typically target a relatively small number of students and can bemanaged by a small number of faculty and staff.In this Work-in-Progress paper, we report on the challenges and successes of a large-scale First-Year

Conference Session

Student Learning and Assessment

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anne-Marie Lerner, University of Wisconsin, Platteville

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

Error Tracking: An Assessment Tool for Small-Enrollment CoursesIntroduction:A program undergoing ABET accreditation must institute a procedure of assessing studentoutcome1. This is often done in class-by-class analysis. Instructors teaching large-enrollmentclasses have enough students that statistically significant assessment data can be collectedwithout significant hardship to the professor. For small-enrollment classes, the same assessmentdata may not provide any meaningful information, as there may or may not be enough datapoints to derive statistically significant conclusions. A novel method of assessment comprised ofcategorizing and tracking individual errors is presented and discussed in this paper as a

Conference Session

Assessment of Learning in ECE Courses

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura K. Alford, University of Michigan; Andrew Deorio, University of Michigan

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

MinoritiesAbstractHistorically, institutions have struggled to increase the number of underrepresented minority(URM) students completing computer science and computer engineering undergraduatedegrees.There are many potential obstacles to student success. Faculty that teach the large programmingcourses at our university identified three particular obstacles to diversity in computer science andcomputer engineering: stereotyped traits, perceived abilities, and learning environment.Identifying implicit bias and imposter syndrome as components of these obstacles, weimplemented a series of activities designed to lessen the impact of implicit bias and impostersyndrome on our students in large-enrollment introductory computer programming courses.One element of assessing the

Conference Session

FPD11 -- Multidisciplinary Experiences

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John-David Yoder, Ohio Northern University; Beverly Jaeger, Northeastern University; John K. Estell, Ohio Northern University

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First-Year Programs

AC 2007-1599: ONE-MINUTE ENGINEER, NTH GENERATION: EXPANSION TOA SMALL PRIVATE UNIVERSITYJohn-David Yoder, Ohio Northern University JOHN-DAVID YODER is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at ONU. His Doctorate is from the University of Notre Dame. Research interests include education, controls, robotics, and information processing. Prior to teaching, he ran a small consulting and R&D company and served as proposal engineering supervisor for GROB Systems, Inc.Beverly Jaeger, Northeastern University Beverly Jaeger, PhD is a member of Northeastern University’s Gateway Team, a selected group of full-time faculty expressly devoted to the first-year Engineering Program at Northeastern