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BOARD # 97: WIP: The Effectiveness of Rubric-Based LLM Feedback for Programming Assessments

Conference Session: Computers in Education Division (COED) Poster Session (Track 1.A)
Collection: 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Joel Nirupam Raj; Ashwath Muppa, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology; Rhea Nirmal; Teo W. Kamath; Achyut Dipukumar; Aarush Laddha; Mihai Boicu, George Mason University
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Computers in Education Division (COED)

laboratory conditions, the research aims to provide practical insights for educatorsconsidering these tools. The findings will contribute to broader discussions about technology-enhanced learning and the evolving relationship between artificial intelligence and humaninstruction in technical disciplines.Literature ResearchRecent advances in LLMs have shown their potential to transform educational settings, particularlyin programming courses where timely, detailed feedback is important. Fagbohun et al. [1] statesthat LLMs can automate grading with personalized feedback but that they still require carefulhandling of biases combined with human supervision to ensure that LLMs are fair and efficientand to reduce the occurrence of ethical risks like

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Board 318: Instructor Experiences Integrating Facilitated Socially Engaged Engineering Content in their Courses

Conference Session: NSF Grantees Poster Session
Collection: 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Claudia G Cameratti-Baeza, University of Michigan; Erika A Mosyjowski, University of Michigan; Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan
Tagged Topics: NSF Grantees Poster Session

technical knowledge as well as account for the social and contextual factors thatboth shape and are shaped by engineering processes and solutions. There are numerous calls(e.g., [1] - [5]) for engineering education to help students develop what we refer to as sociallyengaged engineering skills - which relate to conducting engineering work from a holistic andinclusive perspective by gathering, utilizing, and equitably applying rich and diverse contextualinformation about stakeholders, communities, ethics, the environment, and economic factors.Engineering training, long rooted in technocentric views about the nature of work in the field,has typically stressed the development of technical competencies while underemphasizingsocially engaged aspects of

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Impact of Student Tours of Manufacturing Facilities

Conference Session: NSF Grantees' Poster Session
Collection: 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Marilyn Barger, National Science Foundation ATE Centers; Richard Gilbert, University of South Florida; Marie A. Boyette, FLATE
Tagged Topics: NSF Grantees Poster Session

sponsors). Generally, to provide a good tour experience for all, be sure to start six to eight weeks before the event, honor all timing constraints, and follow a checklist and timeline for the event. Start the process with lining up a good match between a school program and a company. Know what the company does, what it makes, how much time they need or want to have the students visit (usually 60-90 minutes),what areas of the plant the students will see, and generally, what the host can offer for the tour. For example, if the company makes components for aircraft or aerospace, an aeronautics or aerospace focused technical program might be a good fit, but that career

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Board 71: The Computer Science Professionals Hatchery

Conference Session: NSF Grantees Poster Session
Collection: 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Amit Jain, Boise State University; Noah Salzman, Boise State University; Donald Winiecki, Boise State University
Tagged Topics: NSF Grantees Poster Session

time or before the first technical computer science course. Students usea custom-designed rubric, which guides the analysis of issues of professional morality and ethicsin a manner that fits into a general engineering process. They apply the framework to multiplecases, mostly drawn from current industry, such as [8], and [9].These cases include situations in which bias is reflected in the context of actual computer-sciencerelated work (such as [9], [10]), and in the design and application of computer-science productsthat reinforce that bias (such as [8], [11]). The students work in teams to apply aproblem-solving rubric based on Rawls’ Theory of Justice ([4]) and draft proposed solutions thatcan be enacted to improve the situation in

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Work in Progress: Lessons Learned Supporting First-Year Students in an Academic Maker Space

Conference Session: Design Across Curriculum 1
Collection: 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors: Victoria Bill, NYU Tandon School of Engineering; Ariane Schoenwiesner, New York University
Tagged Divisions: Design in Engineering Education

pre-lab. The remaining students indicated that theyhad attended the training during welcome week events, before they were required to do so, or aspart of a summer STEM program. Of all respondents, 76 (37%) had previously used amakerspace or similar fabrication facility. Following the required safety orientation, 122 studentsindicated that they continued to use the makerspace for their course project and 82 that they hadsince used the space and tools for a personal project. These combined responses of continued useafter training are shown in Figure 1.Of the respondents, 59 (29%) responded that they had attended additional makerspace training.These trainings were listed on the general training calendar and did not require prior sign up

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BOARD # 72: Leveraging Large Language Models to Create Interactive Online Resources for Digital Systems and Computer Architecture Education

Conference Session: Computers in Education Division (COED) Poster Session (Track 1.A)
Collection: 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Peter Jamieson, Miami University; Ricardo Ferreira, Universidade Federal de Viçosa; José Nacif, Universidade Federal de Viçosa
Tagged Divisions: Computers in Education Division (COED)

approach involves the following steps: 1. Prompt Engineering: Develop effective prompts for LLMs to generate code for interactive components and exercises. 2. Code Generation: Use LLMs to generate initial code for simulations and exercises. 3. Refinement and Integration: Refine the generated code and integrate it with Gradio for inter- active interfaces. 4. Deployment: Deploy the interactive resources on Google Colab for student access.For example, to model a simple flip-flop, the prompt is: 4 Prompt Please create an interactive FlipFlop Type D, where the user has a clock and data check-box switches, and an output color LED. Using svgwrite and iwidgets in

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Board 144: PRIME: Engaging STEM Undergraduates in Computer Science with Intelligent Tutoring Systems

Conference Session: NSF Grantees Poster Session
Collection: 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: James C. Lester, North Carolina State University; Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, University of Florida; Eric N. Wiebe, North Carolina State University; Bradford Mott, North Carolina State University; Andy Smith, North Carolina State University
Tagged Topics: NSF Grantees Poster Session

to text-based coding activities, utilizingBlockly’s ability to generate code from multiple languages from block-based programs. Finally,we are looking to integrate PRIME into more classrooms and develop more refined assessments tobetter evaluate PRIME’S effects on both student CS knowledge and attitudes. References[1] J. Ferguson, M. Roper, M. Wood, and L. Ma, “Investigating and improving the models of programming concepts held by novice programmers,” Comput. Sci. Educ., vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 57–80, 2011.[2] C. Latulipe, N. B. Long, and C. E. Seminario, “Structuring Flipped Classes with Lightweight Teams and Gamification,” in Proceedings of the 46th ACM Technical

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A Grand Challenge-based Framework for Contextual Learning in Engineering

Conference Session: NSF Grantees' Poster Session
Collection: 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Lisa G. Huettel, Duke University; Michael R. Gustafson II, Duke University; Joseph C. Nadeau, Duke University; David Schaad, Duke University; Michael M Barger; Lisa Linnenbrink-Garcia, Duke University
Tagged Topics: NSF Grantees Poster Session

on contextual learning theory, which espouses methodsthat link technical content to an applied context. Its stages progressively guide students fromconsideration of the overarching societal and technical context of a problem, through thediscipline-focused exploration of a related application, and ultimately back to the broad problemcontext to analyze both the contributions and limitations of an engineering approach. Wedescribe how this framework was incorporated into two courses in the Fall 2012 semester: 1) anintroductory course on computational methods taken by all first-year engineering students, and2) an upper-level Electrical and Computer Engineering elective in signal processing.2. Framework DescriptionMeaningfully integrating real

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The Development of Product Archaeology as a Platform for Contextualizing Engineering Design

Conference Session: NSF Grantees' Poster Session
Collection: 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Kemper Lewis, University at Buffalo, SUNY; Deborah A. Moore-Russo Ph.D., University at Buffalo, SUNY; Gül E. Okudan Kremer, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Conrad Tucker, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Timothy W. Simpson, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Sarah E Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Ann F. McKenna, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Adam R Carberry, Arizona State University; Wei Chen, Northwestern University; David W. Gatchell, Northwestern University; Steven B. Shooter, Bucknell University; Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech; Christopher B. Williams, Virginia Tech
Tagged Topics: NSF Grantees Poster Session

Engineer at Honda. List the major modules you will Item 1 need to design. For each module, list the primary issues or requirements that you thinking will drive the design of function and form. When developing the next power generator you expect to work with engineers, as well as Item 2 individuals in the following fields.Data Coding: Each item was coded as showing evidence (or not) of one of five factors: technical,global, societal, economic, and environmental. These five factors are outlined in Table 3. Thesample responses in Table 3 are excerpts from ten different students that are representative of theresponses on the survey. Note that many students would list numerous technical details and theninclude brief

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Restructuring Digital Design Courses in Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology Programs, Preparing the Engineer of 2020

Conference Session: Curriculum and New Course Development in ET
Collection: 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Mihaela Radu, State University of New York - Farmingdale; Mircea Alexandru Dabacan, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Engineering Technology

Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, in 1998. From 1991 he is with the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Applied Electronics, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, teaching in the areas of digital and data acquisition systems. His current research interests include data acquisition systems, FPGA design, and new educational methods to teach digital systems design. Since 2006 he is also the General Manager of Digilent RO, the Romanian branch of Digilent Inc. He used to be a Visiting Professor at Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, USA in 1999-2000. c

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Results from Implementation and Assessment of Case Studies in the Engineering Curriculum

Conference Session: NSF Grantees’ Poster Session
Collection: 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Norb Delatte P.E., Cleveland State University
Tagged Topics: NSF Grantees Poster Session
Tagged Divisions: Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

relevant cases. More details about this research project are providedelsewhere 1.This was a broad project with many aspects. It built on prior work developing failure casestudies for incorporation into engineering courses, with specific application to civil engineering,engineering mechanics, architectural engineering, civil engineering technology, and constructionmanagement.Failure case studies may be used in engineering courses to address technical topics as well asnon-technical topics, such as management, ethics, and professionalism. The authors havedeveloped a number of failure case studies for classroom use. Studies have been carried out overseveral semesters in order to assess the use of failure case studies in civil engineering

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Board #59: Lessons Learned Creating Youth Jobs in an Afterschool Maker Space

Conference Session: NSF Grantees Poster Session
Collection: 2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Amy Hurst, UMBC; Shawn Grimes, Digital Harbor Foundation; Darius McCoy, Digital Harbor Foundation; Nicholas Carter, UMBC; William Easley, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Foad Hamidi, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Gabrielle Salib, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Tagged Topics: NSF Grantees Poster Session

available to the localcommunity for 3D printing and scanning services. Youth who work in the print shop have theopportunity to 1) develop and maintain technical skills; 2) hone “design thinking” skills throughreal-world problem solving; and 3) develop important soft skills (including working with aclient, creating and sticking to a project timeline, and professionalism).Our research is investigating many areas of maker and design thinking, the impact of maker jobs,and how to establish and maintain a community 3D print shop. This print shop has been designedto be a living laboratory to evaluate commercial and research software for 3D modeling,scanning, and fabrication software with youth performing real-world tasks.Related Work3D Printing and

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Fostering Intra- and Entrepreneurship in Engineering Students

Conference Session: Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division New Ideas Session 1
Collection: 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Erin Jablonski, Bucknell University
Tagged Divisions: Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

goals for the optimal design include (but are not limited to) minimizing pressure loss to delivery points (faucet exits) and minimizing both the quantity of fresh (city) water coming into the residence hall and that exiting to the sewer. You have also been asked to develop a small model of a grey-water system as this is a technology that may be unfamiliar to certain stakeholders. Your goals for a 1/12th scale model are to best demonstrate the plumbing and equipment necessary to effectively implement grey-water recovery/reuse with a green roof and rain water capture. There are myriad sources of technical information about grey-water systems, rain water capture, and green roof installations available online and in trade

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Integrating Sustainability Grand Challenges and Experiential Learning into Engineering Curricula: A TUES2 Collaborative Research Project

Conference Session: NSF Grantees’ Poster Session
Collection: 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Claire L. A. Dancz, Arizona State University; Melissa M. Bilec, University of Pittsburgh; Elizabeth A. Adams, Mesa Community College; Mikhail Chester, Arizona State University; Kristen Parrish, Arizona State University; Thomas P. Seager, Arizona State University; Amy E. Landis, Arizona State University
Tagged Topics: NSF Grantees Poster Session
Tagged Divisions: Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Built Environ- ment at Arizona State University (ASU). Kristen’s work focuses on integrating energy efficiency measures into building design, construction, and operations processes. Specifically, she is interested in novel design processes that financially and technically facilitate energy-efficient buildings. Her work also explores how principles of lean manufacturing facilitate energy-efficiency in the commercial building industry. Another research interest of Kristen’s is engineering education, where she explores how project- and experience-based learning foster better understanding of engineering and management principles. Prior to joining ASU, Kristen was at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) as a

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Solutions for Hiring Manufacturing Technology Instructors

Conference Session: NSF Grantees: Workforce Development
Collection: 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors: Karen Wosczyna-Birch, CT College of Technology; Wendy Robicheau
Tagged Topics: NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #29371Solutions for Hiring Manufacturing Technology InstructorsProf. Karen Wosczyna-Birch, CT College of Technology Dr. Karen Wosczyna-Birch is the Executive Director and Principal Investigator of the Regional Center for Next Generation Manufacturing, an National Science Foundation Center of Excellence. She is the state director for the College of Technology, a seamless pathway in technology and engineering from all 12 public community colleges to 8 public and private universities. Dr. Wosczyna-Birch has expertise with both the recruitment and persistence of under represented populations, especially women, to pursue

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Board 351: Preparing Early Engineers Through Context, Connections, and Community

Conference Session: NSF Grantees Poster Session
Collection: 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Eric Davishahl, Whatcom Community College; Anna Fay Booker; Petra Shea McDonnell-Ingoglia, Whatcom Community College; Pat Burnett, Whatcom Community College
Tagged Topics: NSF Grantees Poster Session

solution. The paper assignment encourages a deep explorationof the social and technical aspects of the problem without prioritizing either and with explicitinstruction for students to not propose a solution. Example topics chosen by the students includeocean acidification, housing affordability, and declining bee populations.Student FeedbackThe project external evaluation consultants conducted a site visit during the last third of the termthat included class session observations and student focus groups. Overall student feedback ontheir first quarter experience to date was generally positive as illustrated by the selected studentcomments below. • [Structure and Curriculum] “I mean the curriculum's been designed to make us do as much

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Board 279: Ethics in Artificial Intelligence Education: Preparing Students to Become Responsible Consumers and Developers of AI

Conference Session: NSF Grantees Poster Session
Collection: 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Helen Zhang, Boston College; Irene A. Lee, MIT STEP Lab; Katherine Strong Moore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Sheikh Ahmad Shah, Boston College
Tagged Topics: NSF Grantees Poster Session

educating students tobecome knowledgeable of AI and aware of its interrelated technical, social, and humanimplications. The latter (ethics) is particularly important to K-12 students because they may havebeen interacting with AI through everyday technology without realizing it. They may be targetedby AI generated fake content on social media and may have been victims of algorithm bias in AIapplications of facial recognition and predictive policing. To empower students to recognizeethics related issues of AI, this paper reports the design and implementation of a suite of ethicsactivities embedded in the Developing AI Literacy (DAILy) curriculum. These activities engagestudents in investigating bias of existing technologies, experimenting with ways

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Mobile App Development: A Cross-Discipline Team-based Approach to Student and Faculty Learning

Conference Session: Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division New Ideas Session 1
Collection: 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Sarvesh S. Kulkarni, Villanova University; Frank Klassner, Villanova University; Vijay Gehlot, Villanova University; E.J. Dougherty III, Villanova University; Sue McFarland Metzger, Villanova University; William P. Wagner, Villanova University
Tagged Divisions: Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

LearningAbstractTechnical courses taught in a university setting focus exclusively on technical elegance.Although such a narrow, academically rigorous approach is successful in imparting technicalcompetence in the subject at hand, students do not get an adequate sense of how the practitionersin their profession interact with their counterparts in other professions in the real world. The aimof our cross-disciplinary “Mobile App Development” course is to remedy this missed opportunityby providing an opportunity for students and faculty members from three different disciplines(engineering, computer science, and business) to experience and learn the nuances of each others'fields, while simultaneously introducing the concept of entrepreneurship. Such an unorthodoxmix

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Redefining Assessment Formats to Replicate Real-world Aerospace Engineering Applications

Conference Session: Teaching Methodology & Assessment 1
Collection: 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors: Amelia Greig, University of Texas at El Paso
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Aerospace

developed. Thelearning is deductive only and provides no context for students on why they are learning thematerial or how it will apply to their future engineering careers [1]. Many pedagogical tools thataim to establish connections between the engineering curriculum and industry practices havebeen investigated and implemented with varying degrees of success, such as project basedlearning (PBL) [2,3] competency based learning (CBL) [4], and inductive teaching [1]. However,adjustments to the curriculum to support these alternate pedagogical tools may still overlook theformat of the corresponding assessment items. Assessment techniques that have not beendesigned specifically to complement the course remain in a generic format that is only relevantto

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Pipeline for Progress: Multi-Level Institutional Collaboration for Engineering Education

Conference Session: NSF Grantees' Poster Session
Collection: 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Caye M Drapcho, Clemson University; Lib Crockett, Clemson University
Tagged Topics: NSF Grantees Poster Session

Foundation awarded a three-year grant to the participatinginstitutions of Clemson University, Greenville Technical College and the SC AgricultureEducation Program to design and implement a three-tiered plan to prepare secondary, technicalschool and college students for the growing biomanufacturing/bioprocessing industry. Page 23.969.2Industrial production of biopharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals and biofuel compounds has grownsubstantially worldwide in last 10 years. In the US alone, biofuel production in 2011 had reached15 billion gallons (57 billion liters) per year.1 As this trend continues, the need for skilledtechnicians, engineers and scientists to

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Fusing Rapid Manufacturing with 3-D Virtual Facility and Cyber Tutor System into Engineering Education

Conference Session: NSF Grantees’ Poster Session
Collection: 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Tzu-Liang Bill Tseng, University of Texas, El Paso; Richard Chiou, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.); Radian G. Belu, Drexel University (Tech.)
Tagged Topics: NSF Grantees Poster Session
Tagged Divisions: Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Exercises: A set ofquestions are generated from the RP manuals in order to test the basic knowledge of the studentsin handling them. Then, the results of the students are analyzed and used for further tutoringmethods. FAQ’s: A list of frequently asked questions will be provided with the answers tofacilitate the whole process of operation of RP. The set of questions will include the commonmistakes made by the students while operating the RP’s and also other general information willbe provided using this option. Help (Manual): A manual containing the screen shots of theoperation by an expert will be provided which can work as an help also. These manual containsthe technical information related to the FDM 3000. In general, the proposed TS is based on

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Undergraduates' Perspectives on Readiness, Writing Transfer, and Effectiveness of Writing Instructions in Engineering Lab Report Writing

Conference Session: NSF Grantees Poster Session
Collection: 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors: Sean St. Clair, Oregon Institute of Technology; Dave Kim, Washington State University-Vancouver; Charles Riley P.E., Oregon Institute of Technology
Tagged Topics: NSF Grantees Poster Session

writingexperiences influenced their abilities to write engineering laboratory reports. To accomplish this,writing transfer models were implemented. Theories of learning transfer [5, 6] describe how pastexperiences affect learning in a new setting or situation. In this case, how writing was learned ina previous course affected student’s abilities to write engineering laboratory reports. Studentswere classified as belonging to one of the three transfer groups below. 1. Concurrent Transfer – students who have taken technical writing prior to or concurrently with an engineering laboratory course 2. Vertical Transfer – students who have taken a general education composition course prior to an engineering laboratory course 3. Absent Transfer

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Board # 116 : Collaborative Research: From School to Work: Understanding the Transition from Capstone Design to Industry

Conference Session: NSF Grantees Poster Session
Collection: 2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech; Daria A Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado Boulder; Susannah Howe, Smith College; Julie Dyke Ford Ph.D., New Mexico Tech; Benjamin David Lutz, Virginia Tech; Kevin Kochersberger, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Chris Gewirtz, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Laura Mae Rosenbauer, Smith College; Sidharth Arunkumar, New Mexico Tech
Tagged Topics: NSF Grantees Poster Session

formation experience.2.3 Current Research on School to WorkWhile design education research focuses on classroom practices and experiences, currentresearch on engineering work provides a rich set of studies that highlight the contrast betweenindustry and academic practices 1. Work by Trevelyan 2, Buccarelli 21, 48, Anderson et al. 3, andothers consistently highlights the complex, heterogenous, socio-technical nature of engineeringwork that contrasts sharply with the individual, isolated, closed-ended problem-solving thatcharacterizes much of students’ school experiences. Recent work by Kotys-Schwartz andcolleagues, moreover, has specifically explored differences in design practices between capstoneand industry via learning ethnographies 10, 11

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Design Heuristics: An Evidence-Based Tool to Improve Innovation

Conference Session: NSF Grantees’ Poster Session
Collection: 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Seda Yilmaz, Iowa State University; Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan; Colleen M. Seifert, University of Michigan
Tagged Topics: NSF Grantees Poster Session
Tagged Divisions: Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

in “both” ways – or, more accurately, to ideate along a continuum of thinking that willenable them to generate ideas from radical to incremental (and every point in between) asneeded.Based on Kirton’s8 cognitive diversity research and several exploratory studies with engineers9,11 , we expect to be able to characterize engineers’ preferred ideation approaches. Using Kirton’scognitive style construct and terminology, engineers that are “more adaptive” can becharacterized as preferring more incremental change, whereas engineers that are “moreinnovative” can be characterized as preferring more radical change8. As shown in Figure 1, wehypothesize that ideation behaviors can be shifted from one’s natural preferences through theway a problem is

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Investigating Impacts on the Ideation Flexibility of Engineers

Conference Session: NSF Grantees’ Poster Session
Collection: 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Seda Yilmaz, Iowa State University; Kathryn Jablokow, Pennsylvania State University; Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan; Eli M. Silk, University of Michigan; Meisha Nicole Berg, Iowa State University
Tagged Topics: NSF Grantees Poster Session
Tagged Divisions: Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

students to understand their own natural approaches to idea generation and to learnhow to approach idea generation in other ways.The focus of our work is ideation flexibility, what we define as the ability to ideate in bothincremental and radical ways – or, more precisely, to be able to ideate along a continuum ofapproaches depending on the needs of the problem. Based on existing research, we expect threekey factors to influence ideation flexibility: 1) problem framing (the way a problem and itsconstraints are “set”); 2) the use of ideation tools; and 3) ideation teaming (interactions withothers during ideation). Our research investigates the impacts of these key factors on engineeringideation flexibility and correlates them with students