Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia M. Yaeger; Rose M. Marra; Francesco Costanzo; Gary L. Gray

Session 3530 Assessing News Ways of Teaching Dynamics: An Ongoing Program to Improve Teaching, Learning, and Assessment Patricia M. Yaeger, Rose M. Marra, Gary L. Gray, Francesco Costanzo The Pennsylvania State UniversityAbstractIn spring 1998, a traditional lecture and problem-solving based course in introductory dynamicswas infused with interactive learning activities. The enhanced course called “Interactive Dy-namics” was designed to engage students in a collaborative environment in which students haveeasy access to an array of technological tools (web-based simulations, spreadsheets, computa

Conference Session

Assessment & Accreditation in ECE

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karla Steinbrugge Fant, Portland State University; Branimir Pejcinovic, Portland State University; Phillip Wong, Portland State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

testing benefit students by making sure that they actually mastered the basics and can perform programming tasks before moving on to more complex concepts and courses.  Other benefits, such as assessment of transfer students, may be obtained once the system is in place.  Implementation does require additional resources in terms of trained TAs and helpers but has been shown to scale well to large numbers of students.Proficiency testing has worked well, and we continue to develop it in collaboration with otheruniversities and local high schools where proficiency testing is used for college credit. We hopethat the descriptions and data presented here will encourage other programs to startexperimenting with these

Conference Session

Program Assessment in ET

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Maryanne Weiss; Mark Pagano; Margaret Weeks

doing and how theirgraduates might function in a high tech, global environment; small group (5-7 participants pergroup) discussions of case studies to help participants learn how to develop effective andappropriate program objectives and educational outcomes; and a jigsaw exercise providing anoverview of assessment tools that can be utilized to develop an outcomes assessment plan.Plenary sessions are also held to give participants a foundation in assessment and CQI, and toprovide an opportunity for sharing of lessons learned.The workshops are designed to build upon the course-level assessment knowledge facultymembers already possess by getting them to use it as a foundation for expanding theirunderstanding of assessment to the program level

Conference Session

The Best of Design in Engineering Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn Jablokow, Pennsylvania State University-Great Valley; Danielle DeCristoforo, Lockheed-Martin

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

-course graduate module focused on problem solving leadership and is currently investigating the impact of cognitive style on invention and design.Danielle DeCristoforo, Lockheed-Martin Danielle DeCristoforo is a Proposal Manager at Lockheed Martin TSS (Transportation & Security Solutions) on the MTA (Metropolitan Transportation Authority) Program in New York City. Prior to this position, Danielle worked as a Systems Engineer at LMTSS (since 2002), where she was also a member of the Engineering Leadership Development Program (ELDP) and acted as Deputy Program Manager for a final group project. Danielle received her Master's degree in Systems Engineering from the Great Valley School

Conference Session

Assessment and Evaluation of K-12 Engineering Programs

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heath Tims, Louisiana Tech University; Galen E. Turner III, Louisiana Tech University; Eric Deemer Ph.D., Louisiana Tech University; Krystal S. Corbett, Louisiana Tech University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Engineering Education, 2012 Using Cyber Discovery to Assess Change in Student STEM Related AttitudesAbstractComputer science has been identified by the National Science Foundation (2010) as a science,technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) discipline in which there has been a shortage ofstudents and workers. Identifying ways to increase interest in computing careers has thus becomeincreasingly important in light of the rapid evolution and use of cyber technology in society, as well asgrowing threats to cyber security in both personal and public domains.To address this issue, mathematics, science, engineering, and liberal arts faculty members at LouisianaTech University developed an intervention program, called “Cyber Discovery,” that is

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hyun Kim

Session 2526 COURSE ASSESSMENT ON ORAL COMMUNICATION INTENSIVE LABORATORY Hyun W. Kim Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Youngstown State UniversityAbstractThe Mechanical Engineering Program at Youngstown State University requires its students totake four physical laboratory courses directly related to mechanical engineering. Fluid DynamicsLaboratory and Thermal Fluid Applications Laboratory are the two laboratory courses that coverthe area of fluid thermal sciences. The TFA Laboratory deals with topics in the areas

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kelly Brumbelow, Texas A&M University; Debra A. Fowler, Texas A&M University; James R. Morgan, Texas A&M University; Whitney L. Anthony, Zachry Department of Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

Paper ID #13529Transformation of a large civil engineering department curriculum using theASCE BOK2Dr. Kelly Brumbelow, Texas A&M University Dr. Kelly Brumbelow is an Associate Professor and the Assistant Department Head for Undergraduate Programs in the Zachry Department of Civil Engineering at Texas A&M University. He has been a faculty member at Texas A&M since 2002, where his technical specialty is water resources engineering, planning, and management. Prior to this position, he completed his undergraduate and graduate studies at Georgia Tech, where he taught undergraduate courses for 7 years. His

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Regina Zmich; Thomas Wolff

at least a subset of engineering freshman. The initial idea was simply tocluster students in common classes, but a model already successful at MSU was the living-learningconcept, which had been implemented by two other campus units, the Lyman Briggs School andthe James Madison College. The Lyman Briggs School is a degree-granting unit of the College ofNatural Science which has all students is the program living in the same dorm, taking classestogether, and having professors’ offices in the same building or nearby. The James MadisonCollege provides a similar program in international relations. A focus of both programs was tocounter the large and potentially overwhelming size of MSU by providing the experience of a“small college on the campus

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Paying Attention to Retention

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steffen Peuker, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

,reveals that the cohort exposed to the DYP program had 24 students graduated compared to only5 in the comparison cohort, as shown in Figure 3. This all suggests both a large and persistenteffect that is more evident over time, indicating a small initial investment (i.e., DYP) produceslarge yields. Figure 3: Student who graduate with a BS in Engineering after 4 yearsBased on the student feedback gathered at the end of the term after the implementation of theDYP program, there are indications that students perceived they benefitted from the DYPapproach and that they saw value in this approach for their future success as engineeringstudents. Examples of what students responded to the question “What was the highlight of thiscourse for you

Conference Session

First-year Programs Division Postcard Session 1: Retention and Student Success Strategies

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth R. Kurban, University of Maryland, College Park; Paige E. Smith, University of Maryland, College Park; Kurubel Belay, University of Maryland

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

Paper ID #21696Work in Progress: Assessing the Impact of the First-year Summer ExperienceProgram on Engineering Student Development and Transfer into Engineer-ingDr. Elizabeth R. Kurban, University of Maryland, College Park Elizabeth Kurban serves as the Assistant Director of Retention for the Women in Engineering Program at the University of Maryland Clark School of Engineering. Elizabeth’s professional and research interests broadly surround STEM-field access and persistence for women and underrepresented minoritized student populations. She is passionate about equity, diversity, and inclusion in higher education

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Experiences and Assessment in Environmental Engineering

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

is shown in Table 4.Students were encouraged to complete the surveys as a requirement for the program, but couldopt out (via the informed consent process) or skip specific questions. The post survey seemedoverly long, which seemed to lead to a decrease in response quality, as indicated by lowervariation in responses between questions and a high percentage of seemingly inaccurateresponses on a reverse worded item (that was a direct negative wording of a previously positiveworded survey item).The Likert-based questions were largely based on ABET skills, types of technical knowledgedesired by the faculty mentors, and undergraduate research outcomes in STEM documented bySeymour et al.14. The pre- and post- surveys included Likert-based questions

Collection

2011 North Midwest Section

Authors

Nathan Johnson

3.3 3.6I e e 2.9 3.4ConclusionsAlthough some small modifications to the assessment methodology may be necessary for the2011-2012 school year, the foundation for successful assessment is largely in place. The primarylesson learned during the design and implementation of an ABET assessment methodology forexperimental design (Outcome B) was that communicating clear expectations to students in Proceedings of the 2011 North Midwest Section Conferencepreparation of asking them to demonstrate a skill that is not typically assessed in a class iscritical to success. Additionally, a group design exercise followed by individual descriptions ofthe design process appeared to

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenny L. Lo, Virginia Tech; Tamara W. Knott, Virginia Tech; Thomas D. Walker P.E., Virginia Tech; Vinod K. Lohani, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

AC 2012-3833: ADMINISTRATIVE ADVICE FROM COORDINATORS OFLARGE-ENROLLMENT FIRST-YEAR ENGINEERING COURSES WITHSIGNIFICANT ACTIVE-LEARNING COMPONENTSProf. Jenny L. Lo, Virginia Tech Jenny Lo is an Advanced Instructor at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va. She is currently Co-coordinator of a large first-semester introductory engineering course and has taught a variety of introductory engineering courses.Prof. Tamara W. Knott, Virginia Tech Tamara Knott is Associate Professor of engineering education at Virginia Tech. She is the Course Coordi- nator for one of the three first-year engineering courses offered by the department and also teaches in the graduate program. Her interests include assessment and pedagogy. Within

Conference Session

From Entrepreneurship Education to Market

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James V. Green, University of Maryland, College Park

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

MarylandAbstractLaunched in 2009, the Entrepreneurial Consulting Practicum at the University of Marylandprovides select undergraduate students the opportunity to engage in short-term consultingengagements with a large corporate partner in the region. The program is managed by HinmanCEOs, a program of the Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute (Mtech) in the A. James ClarkSchool of Engineering. The scope of projects addresses engineering and science challenges.At the start of each semester, the corporate client proposes approximately six eight-week longconsulting projects that students may apply to join. Projects are focused on entrepreneurialtopics, to include market assessments, competitive analyses, industry forecasts, and relatedentrepreneurial topics. Each

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods (ERM) Division Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nikhith Kalkunte, University of Texas at Austin; Maura Borrego, University of Texas at Austin; Lindsey McGowen, North Carolina State University at Raleigh; Madiha Qasim, North Carolina State University at Raleigh

(DEI) withinengineering education. Improvement of DEI within these settings faces a variety of obstacles,most notably a dearth of models for effective assessment of DEI initiatives. In this evidence-based practice paper, we detail the process by which a DEI climate survey was adapted andexecuted within a School of Engineering at a large public Texas university. After establishingspecific design criteria and principles, research-practice partnerships were sought out with socialscientists to address gaps in understanding of DEI evaluation. After review of numerous existingsurveys, the 14-item CELL-MET Engineering Research Center’s culture of inclusion scale wasidentified as the most robust scale that met our parameters. Adaptations were made

Conference Session

Research Methods II: Meeting the Challenges of Engineering Education Research

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maura J. Borrego, University of Texas - Austin; Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Cynthia J. Finelli, University of Michigan; Lisa R. Lattuca, University of Michigan; Prateek Shekhar, University of Texas - Austin

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

, paper-based surveys were recommended over electronic versions,particularly for students, although this required scanning or manual entry of the responses. Suchapproaches were thus more costly than web-based approaches, and were not necessarily feasiblein studies involving large numbers of institutions, programs, or participants. Second, for surveyadministration, the researchers often recommended administering student surveys during classtime as an effective strategy when a census of students was not required by the research design.Endorsement of the study from instructors, deans and relevant engineering professional societiesemerged as a common strategy among the responses. Following best practices in recruitmentprocedures, for example, using

Conference Session

Curriculum Issues in Software Engineering

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James McDonald

in 1988 and which has been used as the basis fornumerous small changes in a variety of programs at that institution. Brodeur (2002) outlined aportfolio-based assessment program that was developed for evaluating outcomes of a revisedcurriculum of the Aeronautics and Astronautics engineering program at MIT.A number of authors have proposed and used portfolios to assess student progress in singlecourses and to assess achievement of specific outcomes across subsets of courses in engineeringprograms. Gunn, et al. (1997) describe how a portfolio was used to assess the effectiveness of a Page 10.1392.1first year integrated curriculum. In

Conference Session

Online Programs and Program Assessment

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tilman Wolf, University of Massachusetts Amherst; C. V. Hollot, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Russell Tessier, University of Massachusetts; Bryan Polivka, Shorelight Education; Chris Hoehn-Saric, Shorelight Education; Janet Donghee Kang; Katherine Newman

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

conducted in the classroom, typically assessed and graded by more than one faculty memberas shown in Figure 6.The cohort experience of sharing a classroom with peers has led to very good attendance in theprogram. Students seem to value their interactions with classmates and small group work. As aresult, student persistence has been excellent (see Section 5.1).4.3 Operations PerspectiveThe Field Degree Program and the Live Platform require some level of support from professionalsbeyond the instructor: • Instructional design: Each course offered in the Field Degree Program is developed by a master instructor, typically a tenure-track faculty member, who is responsible for the quality of the course content. This faculty member

Conference Session

Construction Engineering Division (CONST) Technical Session 2

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Behnam Shadravan, Florida A&M University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Construction Engineering Division (CONST)

engineering, research, and teaching experience in Construction Management, Materials and Methods, and Structural, Civil, and Geotechnical Engineering. His research areas are Structural Resilience, Sustain- able Construction Methods and Materials, Sustainable Development, Structural Retrofitting, Damage and Collapse Patterns, Soil Improvement Methods, and engineering education. He has a broad engineering experience in large and small-scale projects, including large dams, bridges, and buildings in different fields of Construction, geotechnical and structural engineering. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Teamwork Assessment Methods in Undergraduate Projects and Lab CoursesTeamwork

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nidal Al-Masoud, Central Connecticut State University; Peter Baumann, Central Connecticut State University; Alfred Gates, Central Connecticut State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

experience while designing rotor blade components and helicopter bodies by research and wind tunnel testing at Kaman Aerospace. Additionally Dr Gates has extensive experience in high temperature fuel cells, Molten Carbonate and Solid Oxide while consulting for FuelCell Energy from 2000 to the present. Page 14.465.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN INTEGRATED OUTCOMES-BASED ASSESSMENT PLAN FOR A NEW ENGINEERING PROGRAMAbstractThis paper describes development of an integrated assessment plan for a new mechanicalengineering program as part of the

Conference Session

Assessment & Evaluation of Graphics Programs

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie Petlick; Alice Scales

using the statistical formulas and often havedeveloped a reputation for being difficult, mechanical, and boring. Where they fail, even in theeyes of many teachers of statistics, is in the larger area of research design. According to Wild,“The process of investigation as a whole should be the heart of any statistics program.”1 Mostgraduate level courses are about calculations rather than role of statistics in an investigation.1,2 In Page 9.1088.1the courses attempt to cover the technical side of statistics, a clear pattern of how and why “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

Engineering Design Graphics Division (EDGD) Technical Session 2

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Derek M. Yip-Hoi, Western Washington University; Jack P. Wilson, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics Division (EDGD)

and in identifying formal evaluation criteria that robustlycapture whether skills have been acquired. Of interest is whether tools can be developed thatprovide more robust formative assessment of a modeling activity. This contrasts with summativeassessment approaches which largely benefits the assessor in reducing grading times byevaluating the result but can miss important tendencies in a student designer that might need tobe corrected. For this to be feasible better metrics that reflect how a modeling activity isprogressing not just with respect to realizing a final shape goal, but also in capturing designintent and meeting best practices is needed. In this paper some of the challenges of evaluating 3DCAD modeling efficacy are explored

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI) Technical Session 10

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lawrence E. Whitman, University of Arkansas at Little Rock; Kristin Dutcher Mann, University of Arkansas at Little Rock; Amar Shireesh Kanekar, University of Arkansas at Little Rock; Albert L Baker, University of Arkansas at Little Rock; Srikanth B Pidugu P.E., University of Arkansas at Little Rock

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI)

specialist in the colonial history of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, she has authored a book and articles about music, dance, and material culture. She often works with K-12 and college faculty to incorporate reading, writing, and primary source document analysis into instruction. Her latest research is part of an interdisciplinary project to examine student perceptions of the use of large language models such as ChatGPT and Microsoft CoPilot in academic work.Dr. Amar Shireesh Kanekar, University of Arkansas at Little Rock Dr. Kanekar is a Professor and Graduate Program Coordinator for Health Education and Health Promotion at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. His 17 years of teaching experience involves more than

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

William Durfee

engineering schools have realized the need for a new model of design education whichstresses not only technical competence, but also provides training in communication, managementand the complete product design cycle, as well as a number of practical, creative designexperiences. Many schools have implemented new courses and programs which include theseexperiences. Large state universities, however, have specific characteristics which require specialattention. These include: (1) large numbers of students, (2) students entering with a wide diversityof backgrounds, abilities, ages and learning styles, and (3) large numbers of transfer studentscoming from public two-year community colleges and four-year non-specialty colleges. Programsthat work in small

Conference Session

Assessment of Biomedical Engineering Programs

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sean Brophy; Robert Roselli

be very time-consuming, particularly in large classes.Technological advances in recent years have led to the development of a number of differentelectronic devices for CCS designed for large lecture halls. One of the earliest is Classtalk,which consists of small palmtop computers or calculators (Texas Instruments and HewlettPackard) that connect to the teacher's computer with cables at each seat 2-7. As students enterthe lecture hall one member from a group selects a computer from a cabinet and connects it tothe cable at his or her seat. The professor then poses a question, the groups deliberate, and theysubmit either a multiple choice or short answer response. Recently, Texas Instruments created asystem called Navigator that uses wireless

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahatsham Hayat, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Sharif Wayne Akil, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Helen Martinez, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Bilal Khan, Lehigh University; Mohammad Rashedul Hasan, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

students in an introductory programming coursereveal the potential of conversational LLMs to offer early warnings about students at risk, therebyfacilitating timely interventions. The findings suggest that while fine-tuning could furtherimprove performance, our training-free approach presents a valuable tool for educators andinstitutions facing resource constraints. The inclusion of broader feature dimensions and thestrategic design of cognitive assessments emerge as key factors in maximizing the zero-shotefficacy of LLMs for educational forecasting. Our work underscores the significant opportunitiesfor leveraging conversational LLMs in educational settings and sets the stage for futureadvancements in personalized, data-driven student

Conference Session

Learning and Assessment I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David B. Benson, Kettering University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

assess the intersection of the material with aprogram of study for a Mechanical Engineering program. Assessment of the trajectory isaccomplished through an evaluation of the textbooks associated with each course and accountsfor degree to which the subject relies on the pre-requisite knowledge and the level of re-instruction included within the text. This map of the content and skill trajectories permits theevaluation of a program of study/curriculum to identify critical points for the addition ofremedial efforts and for instructional emphasis. It also provides a framework for assessingstudent capability and growth in these core content and skill areas and, from a larger vantagepoint, provides tools for examining curricular coherence.Introduction

Conference Session

Assessment of Entrepreneurship Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas K. Miller; Catherine E. Brawner; Matthew Ohland; Guili Zhang

NSF-sponsored SUCCEED (SoutheasternUniversities and Colleges Coalition for Engineering EDucation) Coalition, the EntrepreneursProgram aims to retain student interest in engineering by exposing undergraduate students to thedesign process early in their academic careers and by providing upper class students as mentors.Secondly, it seeks to teach students “real-world” skills such as teamwork, leadership, and thedynamics of entrepreneurship.Multiple approaches to assessment—qualitative means such as surveys and focus groups as wellas quantitative methods such as longitudinal assessment of retention and GPA—triangulate on thebenefit of the program. The design of program is discussed, so that it may serve as a modelprogram. This model should be of

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffery M. Saul; Rhett J. Allain; Duane L. Deardorff; David S. Abbott; Robert J. Beichner

pathetically thin results in learning and understanding–except in the very small percentage of students who are specially gifted in the field.” p. viiOf course, those few who manage to thrive within the current system are thusacademically successful and often go on to careers in academia where they continue thetradition. A lack of exposure to other instructional possibilities, coupled with the generalinertia of large universities, results in a stagnation of educational approaches. Manyschools are grappling with this problem by modifying lectures17, 26, 32, 35, 39, 40 orlaboratory5, 14, 27, 29, 34, 36 experiences. But because of well-established systems forpresenting and grading standard lecture-oriented courses, change is not easy.Nonetheless

Conference Session

Assessment of Engineering Leadership Development

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lawrence Holloway, University of Kentucky; Thomas Ward Lester, University of Kentucky; Joseph Anthony Colella, University of Kentucky College of Engineering

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Leadership Development

disciplinary faculty who will own the change long afterthe change agent has disappeared from the scene.The assessment of the effectiveness of engineering leadership classes has many challenges.Many programs, including the one discussed in this paper, are restricted in nature, either byenrollment management concerns or through a competitive enrollment limited to a small cadre ofstudents with superior academic credentials. Selection bias is almost certainly an underlyingcomplication in assessing such classes. Insofar as employers frequently provide leadershiptraining to their most promising employees, it is also difficult for graduates to separate whataspects of their leadership abilities resulted from their undergraduate versus their subsequentpost