Conference Session

Studies of Student Teams and Student Interactions

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Md Nizamul Hoque Mojumder, Florida International University; Arif Mohaimin Sadri, Florida International University

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Educational Research and Methods

. Malik et al. (2018) explored social media (Twitter) based activism campaigns toexamine engineering diversity factors, whereas conventional methods to increase diversitywithin the engineering domain failed to achieve desired results. Authors claimed that informationfrom social media can also be used for better understanding and developing the diversity ofengineering. They presented findings from #ILookLikeAnEngineer campaign using Twitter data,which aimed at increasing gender diversity in the engineering work as a case study to illustratethe viability of the approach. The campaign provided continuous momentum to the completeeffort to increase diversity and new ways to connect with the relevant audience. The analysisdisplayed that STEM-related

Conference Session

Computers in Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

JUDITH VIRGINIA GUTIERREZ; Aurelio Lopez-Malo, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla; Enrique Palou, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla

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Computers in Education

AC 2012-5424: WORK-IN-PROGRESS: GRADUATE STUDENT PERSPEC-TIVES ON USING TABLET PCS AND ASSOCIATED TECHNOLOGIESMiss JUDITH VIRGINIA GUTIERREZProf. Aurelio Lopez-Malo, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla Aurelio Lopez-Malo is professor and Past Chair, Department of Chemical, Food, and Environmental En- gineering at Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, in Mexico. He teaches food science and engineering related courses. His research interests include emerging technologies for food processing, natural antimi- crobials, and active learningDr. Enrique Palou, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla Enrique Palou is Director, Center for Science, Engineering, and Technology Education in the Department of Chemical, Food, and

Conference Session

The Best of Computers in Education

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jayma Koval, Georgia Institute of Technology; Diley Hernandez, Georgia Institute of Technology; Tom McKlin; Douglas Edwards, Georgia Institute of Technology; Rafael A. Arce-Nazario; Joseph Carroll-Miranda; Isaris Rebeca Quinones Perez, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras; Lilliana Marrero-Solis; Jason Freeman, Georgia Institute of Technology; Taneisha Lee Brown; Pascua Padro; Stephen Garrett; Analia E. Rao; Marion Usselman, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education Division (COED)

show the presence of some interesting gender differences with regards to thesource of sense of belonging and self-efficacy. Girls demonstrate higher levels of intention topersist at the end of the program compared to boys. However, boys seem to be at a higher riskfor ethnicity-related perceived threat.This study, while it constitutes a pilot program evaluation is still limited in some important ways.The overall sample size is small (especially for the Atlanta cohort) and there are differences insizes at each location that can impact our inferences. For example, results showed thatsignificance for sense of belonging and self-efficacy was driven by Puerto Rico students, butsample issues make us unable to determine if this is due to statistical

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Walsh; Sean Pearson; Jeffrey Cotton; Jane Hall; Robert Caverly

institution-wide programs (MIT s UROP, for example [4]), although smallerinstitutions have successful undergraduate research programs as well. While theseundergraduate students may not have the mathematics skills of their graduate counterparts, theydo have the interest and enthusiasm to engage in open-ended work that is out of the mainstreamof the typical structured undergraduate electrical engineering program. Undergraduate studentresearchers can make contributions to faculty research if the faculty mentor carefully specifiesand defines the research problem that the student will address.While the undergraduate research student receives many benefits from being engaged in theresearch effort, their research work can also benefit the faculty member's

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Manufacturing Education

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alley C. Butler, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing Division (MFG)

includes [6] report on teaching shipbuilding courses usingMS-Project, MS-Access, and FORAN, and. The MarineTech project which taught high schoolstudents with Project Based Learning [7]. Others, reported on the use of distance learning duringthe COVID-19 pandemic with games for an undergraduate marine engineering curriculum [8].In an ASEE Peer paper, Verma and Hughes [9] discuss the teaching of Lean Manufacturing atthe Apprentice School at Northrop Grumman, Newport News. Other publications involve theNational Shipbuilding Research Program such as the September 1992 report on the“Shipbuilder’s Classroom of the Future” in which outputs of PC graphics and text, videodisc,audio tape and linear programs are used to meet the needs of the trainee from an

Conference Session

ERM: Teamwork makes the dream work!

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Morgan Fong; Hongxuan Chen, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Geoffrey Herman, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Liia Butler, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

National Science Foundation. This work is also supported by theStrategic Instructional Innovations Program in the Grainger College of Engineering at theUniversity of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The authors would like to thank members of theComputers & Education research area for their invaluable feedback on earlier drafts of this work.References[1] S. Freeman et al., “Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics,” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., vol. 111, no. 23, pp. 8410–8415, Jun. 2014, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1319030111.[2] E. Kyndt, E. Raes, B. Lismont, F. Timmers, E. Cascallar, and F. Dochy, “A meta-analysis of the effects of face-to-face cooperative learning. Do recent studies falsify or verify

Conference Session

Flipped Classrooms in Mechanics

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keri Ryan, University of Nevada, Reno; Adam Kirn, Univeristy of Nevada, Reno

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Mechanics

Paper ID #14025Active Learning and Engagement in Mechanics of SolidsProf. Keri Ryan, University of Nevada, Reno Keri Ryan is an Associate Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of Nevada, Reno. She has taught core courses in mechanics to engineering students for 8 years, and has led the charge to bring innovative teaching methods to this course at University of Nevada, Reno. Besides teaching courses at the undergraduate and graduate level, she maintains an active research program in earthquake engineering.Dr. Adam Kirn, Univeristy of Nevada, Reno Adam Kirn is an Assistant Professor of

Conference Session

Track 2 - Session I - Curriculum Development

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Danilo Garbi Zutin P.E., Carinthia University of Applied Sciences

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Invited - Curriculum Development

collaborative manner that parallelsreal-life working conditions. Importantly, online labs can be also used in workplace settingswhere there is a pressing need to apply these systems to continually provide learningopportunities for workers who must adapt to rapidly changing conditions.Online laboratories is a subfield of the interdisciplinary field of Online Engineering. Onlinecan be defined as an i utilizing the areas of engineering, computing and telematics, wherespecific engineering activities like programming, design, control, observation, measuring,sensing, and maintenance are provided to both remote and local users in a live interactivesetting over a distributed, physically-dispersed network.Learning situations in laboratories can be highly

Collection

2012 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

James A. Lee; Michael J. D'Agostino

careers in the design and construction of the builtenvironment, including civil engineering and construction management. As the concept of sustainable designcontinues to hold greater significance in engineering and related professional disciplines, the laboratory alsoprovides the opportunity to reinforce principles of sustainability, including embodied energy, life cycle assessment,waste management and minimization. In addition, the design project has and continues to provide undergraduateresearch opportunities in the area of concrete design. Some aspects of this work will also be presented in this paper.Keywords: Concrete; Recycling; Aggregates; Wastewater; Sustainability BACKGROUNDIndustry Need

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hrushikesh Godbole, Rochester Institute of Technology ; Elizabeth A. Debartolo, Rochester Institute of Technology ; Shun Takai, Northern Illinois University; Marcos Esterman Jr., Rochester Institute of Technology

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #38551Board 310: Impact of Student/Team Characteristics on Design ProjectOutcomes in Senior Design CoursesMr. Hrushikesh Godbole, Rochester Institute of Technology Hrushi Godbole holds an undergraduate degree in Production Engineering and a masters degree in In- dustrial and Systems Engineering. He is currently a graduate student at Rochester Institute of Technol- ogy pursuing a PhD in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. Prior to starting the PhD program, he has gained five years of industry experience developing new products in the smart lighting industry per- forming various roles including product management

Conference Session

Works in Progress: Assessment and Research Tools

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tamara Ball, University of California - Santa Cruz; Linnea Kristina Beckett, University of California - Santa Cruz; Michael S. Isaacson, University of California - Santa Cruz

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Paper ID #16531From Peripheral to Full Participation: Implications of Learning Theory forEducational Design and Learning Assessment in STEM ApprenticeshipsDr. Tamara Ball, University of California - Santa Cruz Dr. Tamara Ball is a project-scientist working with the the Sustainable Engineering and Ecological De- sign (SEED) collaborative at UCSC. She is the program director for Impact Designs - Engineering and Sustainability through Student Service (IDEASS) and Apprenticeships in Sustainability Science and En- gineering Design (ASCEND). She is interested in understanding how extracurricular and co-curricular innovations

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 12

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexis Gillmore, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Courtney June Faber, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

2023, she was a Research Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in Engineering Fundamentals at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She was also the Director of the Fundamentals of Engineering and Computing Teaching in Higher Education Certificate Program. Her research focuses on empowering engineering education scholars to be more effective at impacting transformational change in engineering and developing educational experiences that consider epistemic thinking. She develops and uses innovative research methods that allow for deep investigations of constructs such as epistemic thinking, identity, and agency. Dr. Faber has a B.S. in Bioengineering and a Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education from Clemson

Conference Session

Outreach and K-12

Collection

2021 Illinois-Indiana Regional Conference

Authors

Gene L. Harding P.E., Purdue University (PPI); Taylor Andrew Hansen, Purdue Alumni

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Outreach and K-12

exposingpotential college students to the engineering technology programs offered locally. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2021 2021 ASEE Illinois-Indiana Section Conference Proceedings | Paper ID 35160One of the authors, observing the popularity of Bluetooth speakers among teenagers, got the ideaof offering a summer camp during which students would build their own Bluetooth speakers. Heregularly speaks to high school students about engineering careers. Each time he did so he askedwhat they thought about such a camp. Interest was high among students, and the director likedthe idea, so it was set. The plan was to design a Bluetooth speaker, then develop hands-oneducational activities to combine with the speaker

Conference Session

Learning about Electric Energy Conversion

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Rubaai, Howard University; Ramesh Chawla, Howard University; Joseph Cannon

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

increasing number of universities have introduced laboratory courseswhich utilize state of the art technology tools to solve relevant real world problems. Many of the Page 13.836.2undergraduate courses in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Dutch UniversityTechnische Universiteit Eindhoven, place great emphasis on the modeling of control systems7.Most of the Master of Science students at the Department of Automatic Control at the LundInstitute of Technology in Sweden are required to complete a basic control course and lab thatutilize mobile desktop processors. The Institute is known as a pioneer in the teaching of real-time programming and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Spencer S. Kim, Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT); Sunday O. Faseyitan, Butler County Community College

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

selection for engineering design.DESIGN OF THE CURRICULUM FOR GPMT EDUCATIONManufacturing technology is integrally tied to advancements in materials science andtechnology. Materials science and technology have played a critical role in the technologicalevolution of our society, from structural steels to optoelectronics and robotics technology.We have enhanced the five current core courses within the current project (NSF AWRARDNo.: DUE- 1044794): that is, materials technology, mechanical engineering technology lab,plastics processing technology, solid modeling and design, and robotics in manufacturing.Also, we established an intensive undergraduate research program for co-op students in themanufacturing and mechanical engineering technology programs

Conference Session

Track 2 - Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Lev Vadimovich Redin, Kazan National Research Technological University, Russia

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Faculty Development

enhances the interpenetration of natural sciences, technical,technological, socio-economics and humanitarian sciences, thereby exerting an activeinfluence on the radical changes in economics, engineering and technology, stimulating thedevelopment of applied research programs. In this case clusters become concentrated withinterconnected particular disciplines with high level of systemic interconnections. Level ofsystemic interconnections implies the degree of informativity of any element of the systemabout a state of other elements of the system. The high level of systemic interconnection issupplied with a principle of transdisciplinarity [9].The content of all sixteenth educational courses is projected in their unity. First of all,emphasize is

Collection

2025 ASEE -GSW Annual Conference

Authors

Olukayode Emmanuel Apata, Texas A&M University; John O Ajamobe, Texas A&M University; Segun Timothy Ajose; Peter Oluwaseyi Oyewole, Kent State University, Kent; Grace Iyinoluwa Olaitan

The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX Copyright © 2025, American Society for Engineering Education 4Figure 1: Framework of AI Applications in the Classroom Ethical and Practical ConsiderationsData Privacy and SecurityData privacy and security are paramount concerns in the application of AI in education. AI systems oftenrequire extensive data collection to personalize learning, posing risks related to data storage andunauthorized access. Irfan and colleagues (2023) highlight the importance of strict data protectionmeasures to handle sensitive student information safely. Educating students and faculty on data

Conference Session

Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 4: Interdisciplinary Graduate Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ari Sherris, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Christine Reiser Robbins, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Hua Li, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Jianhong Ren, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; David Ramirez, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Kai Jin, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies Division (GSD)

of Environmental Engineering at Texas A&M University-Kingsville (TAMUK). He is the graduate coordinator of the doctoral program in environmental engineering. He has served as the Director of the Center for Research Excellence in Science and Technology – Research on Environmental Sustainability in Semi-Arid Coastal Areas, Interim Executive Director of the Eagle Ford Shale Center for Research, Education and Outreach, and program coordinator of several TAMUK’s education programs including the NSF-Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Talent Expansion Program, and the EPA-Multidisciplinary Approach to Educate and Train Undergraduate Students in Air Pollution Issues of the U.S.-Mexico Border Region. Currently

Conference Session

Instructional Strategies in AEC Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Megri, University of Wyoming

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Architectural

development phase - construction documents and specifications phase a. Conceptual Design PhaseThe designer provides the owner with alternative approaches to the design and construction ofthe project, adhering to the budget requirements and the owner’s desires. The designer preparesvarious design schemes and a detailed design program listing all the spaces, functions, estimatedareas, preferred adjacencies and inter-relationships.The results will include small-scale preliminary sketches of the overall form of the building, themassing, relationship diagrams, and an outline of the building in relation to the site. A simplesketch of the key sections and elevations may also be included. The designer presents theseconceptual drawings to the owner

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kyoung-Yun Kim, Wayne State University; Carolyn E Psenka PhD, Wayne State University; Kathy Schmidt Jackson, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Karl R Haapala, Oregon State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

– 5: completecompetency). Students also supplied demographic information about their student status, gender,age, and design-related work experience. Because each course has a different topical orientationand exposes students to varying levels of instruction in environmentally responsible design, ourdata is grouped, analyzed, and compared by course. Presented here is a comparison of 42 responses from students who were enrolled in two Page 26.398.7different classes offered by the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at oneuniversity. This interpretation represents 57% of total responses that we have collected (and weplan to

Conference Session

Security

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathleen Kaplan

refineries, power plants, and water and waste control, which are allassociated with engineering. The protection of these utilities is vital to the welfare of the US, yetthey are becoming more difficult to protect given the “openness” prevalent in our society.Critical infrastructures are controlled by SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition)software applications which are programs for process control. Some SCADA systems are beingrewritten with FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) instead of proprietary software. Thereasons for this change from proprietary to FOSS software are many and diverse, and includegovernment and cost requirements. This may prove to be a major mistake as FOSS may be morevulnerable to cyberattack than non-FOSS.The use of

Collection

2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Paul Blowers

organized inorder to be accessible from long-term memory4. Students who possess isolated informationabout concepts on a factual basis will remain novices and be unable to solve complex problems.Students often have difficulty transitioning from fact recall courses to more integrated andinformationally cross-connected courses in engineering. This may be because students have yetto learn how to create a scaffold for holding new information in a coherent whole where topicsare related to each other. Concept maps may be one way of enabling students to succeed inovercoming this difficult transition to problem solving and critical thinking.Concept maps and their historyA recent meta-analysis of concept and knowledge maps points out that diagrams like

Conference Session

Ocean and Marine Tech Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Radian G Belu, Drexel University (Tech.); Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University (Tech.)

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Ocean and Marine

Paper ID #8139A Senior Student Design Project in Marine and Coastal Environment Moni-toringDr. Radian G Belu, Drexel University (Tech.) Dr. Radian Belu is Assistant Professor within the Engineering Technology (ET) program - Drexel Univer- sity, Philadelphia. He is holding the second position as Research Assistant Professor at Desert Research Institute – Renewable Energy Center, Reno, Nevada. Before joining to the Drexel University Dr. Belu hold faculty and research positions at universities and research institutes in Romania, Canada and United States. He also worked for several years in industry as a project manager and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Corkins, Arizona State University; Jacquelyn Kelly, Arizona State University; Dale Baker, Arizona State University; Sharon Robinson Kurpius; Amaneh Tasooji, Arizona State University; Stephen Krause, Arizona State University

of theaccreditation criteria on student learning outcomes3. The first learning outcome of the ABET,Criterion 3 (a), states that, "Engineering programs must demonstrate that their graduates have anability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science and engineering appropriate to thediscipline"3. Simply stated, this requires that students need to be able to transfer previouslyacquired knowledge and skills to new engineering learning situations and applications.One important subject area taught in a fundamental way in chemistry and in an applied way inengineering is the domain of materials. It is an area of fundamental conceptual knowledge that isapplied to a broad set of disciplines in chemical, mechanical, aerospace, physics and

Collection

AEE Journal

Authors

Jianchu Yao

200°C ~130 seconds for the bulbenvelope. Figure 2. The SIMULINK model of the thermal dynamics of a tungsten bulb.4 SUMMER 2020 VOLUME 8 ISSUE 2ADVANCES IN ENGINEERING EDUCATIONA Temperature Control Project that Facilitates Learningof Difficult Concepts in Control Theory Figure 3. The complete temperature control system with the controller transfer function and the number of bulbs to be determined. Figure 3 illustrates the block diagram of the closed-loop system with the feedback and a controller(whose transfer function is yet to be determined at this point). Note that in Figure 3, since the relation-ship between the electrical power

Conference Session

Track: Learning Spaces, Pedagogy & Curriculum Design Technical Session 9

Collection

2019 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity

Authors

Adrienne Ann Smith, Cynosure Consulting; Rebecca A. Zulli, Cynosure Consulting

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Diversity, Learning Spaces, Pedagogy & Curriculum Design

. Rebecca A. Zulli, Cynosure Consulting c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 AN ASSET APPROACH TO BROADENING P A R T I C I P AT I O N TIP S A ND T OOLS FOR STRATEGIC P L A NNINGA D R I E N N E S M I T H & R E B E C C A Z U L L I L OW EINTRODUCTION• All too often when thinking about recruiting, supporting, and retaining diverse students in our STEM majors and programs, the situation is approached from a deficit mindset; that is, one that focuses on what students or environments lack that must be remedied.• In our work supporting STEM departments with their broadening participation efforts, we focus on fostering an asset-minded approach to strategic planning.• This approach is grounded

Conference Session

Online and Web-based Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

HsinPiao Hsu, Kainan University; Hui-Ying Wu, Ching Yun University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

technological competencyin this rapidly expanding information age. Therefore, it is necessary to use a standard globalplatform to evaluate and compare the gap between Taiwan and other countries when it comes touniversity students’ information competency; this evaluation could be the reference for botheducational and industrial fields in Taiwan. There were three dimensions of motivation for thisstudy: (a) most countries promote related information literacy education programs in order toequip their citizens with advanced information knowledge to imbue them with strong foundationsof development in this information era (Hazzan, 2001) 7, (b) the purpose of informationtechnology is to educate users on how to search, check, and use the information and apply

Conference Session

Hands-On in the Online Classroom

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Eric Davishahl, Whatcom Community College; Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Matthew Parsons Fuentes, Everett Community College

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

Paper ID #34489WIP: Hands-On Statics in the Online ”Classroom”Eric Davishahl, Whatcom Community College Eric Davishahl holds an MS degree in mechanical engineering and serves as associate professor and engineering program coordinator at Whatcom Community College. His teaching and research interests include developing, implementing and assessing active learning instructional strategies and auto-graded online homework. Eric has been a member of ASEE since 2001. He currently serves as awards chair for the Pacific Northwest Section and was the recipient of the 2008 Section Outstanding Teaching Award.Dr. Brian P. Self

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

EVANGELIA G. CHRYSIKOU, Drexel University; John S. Gero, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Julie Milovanovic, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; DongHo Kim, Drexel University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #37901Board 344: Neural Correlates of Learning Preferences and IndividualDifferences in Design Fixation: Preliminary Evidence from FunctionalMagnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)Dr. EVANGELIA G. CHRYSIKOU, Drexel University Dr. Evangelia G. Chrysikou is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Drexel University, the Director of the Applied Cognitive and Brain Sciences PhD Program (https://drexel.edu/coas/academics/departments-centers/psychology/research/applied-cognitive-and-brain- science/), and the Associate Dean for Research for the College of Arts and Sciences. She is also the

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven W. Peretti; Richard M. Felder

credit for it, and no one beingheld individually accountable for any of the material covered. The chemical engineering laboratory course sequence at North Carolina State Universityis currently being restructured to conform more closely to principles of effective pedagogy. Thefollowing features of the new sequence constitute the principal departures from the traditionalinstructional model:1. The students design and run a small number of experiments to accomplish broadly stated objectives, rather than following prescriptive instructions for a large number of predesigned experiments. At the beginning of the semester, the students are told that for each experiment they will be given an apparatus description, safety precautions