AC 2009-2013: FACTORS AFFECTING CONCEPT RETENTIONPhilip Parker, University of Wisconsin, Platteville Page 14.623.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Factors Affecting Concept RetentionKeywordsConcept retention, transfer, competencies, fluid mechanicsIntroductionFew would argue with the claim that the quality of the learning experience in prerequisitecoursework has a significant impact on student success in subsequent courses. The premise forthis seems obvious: the more effectively students are taught, the better they will learn, and thebetter they learn, the more they will retain. Surprisingly, the STEM (Science, Technology,Engineering, and
-interface panel, acontrol monitor with advanced programming and sensors, industry-grade extensometers, andmore, thus making them expensive for teaching applications, and in some cases isolating the userfrom the physics of the testing process. The team’s sponsor would like to offer the ability to useand learn from a basic materials tester to undergraduate students enrolled in materialsscience-related courses and projects in order to produce stress-strain curves and assist in thestudy of materials. As the capabilities of commercially-available testers are generally muchgreater than what would be required for classroom and demonstration use, this team was taskedwith developing and manufacturing a design and prototype for materials testers for use by
Transportation (MDOT) “Business Plan.” (August 12, 2009). 7. Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) Home Page. “Plans & Projects: Existing Highways.” (August 20, 2009). 8. Scriba, T., and Seplow, J. “FHWA Rule on Work Zone Safety and Mobility.” Pubic Road, 69 (4), 2006. 9. New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT). “Guidelines for the Use of Time-Related Contract Provision.” Report. New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT). Albany, N.Y., 1999. 10. Lee, E. B. and Ibbs, C. W. “A Computer Simulation Model: Construction Analysis for Highway Rehabilitation Strategies (CA4PRS).” Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, ASCE, 131 (4), 2005, 449-458
Paper ID #16908Comparing Different Learning Activities in a Global Neuroscience MOOCMs. Casey Lynn Haney, Purdue University, West Lafayette Casey Haney is an undergraduate student in junior year at Purdue University and a research assistant in Dr. Jennifer DeBoer’s Lab as a part of the Purdue’s INSPIRE Research Institute for Pre-College Engineering.Ms. S. Zahra Atiq, Purdue University, West Lafayette S. Zahra Atiq is a PhD student at the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University, West Lafayette. Her research interests include: computer science education specifically on teaching computer programming to
models. However, researchers have agreed thatstudies related to the use of computer simulations for inquiry learning have not demonstratedcompelling evidence of their effectiveness in science and engineering domains (Njoo & de Jong,1993 12 ; Winn, 2002 13 ). Njoo and de Jong (1993) 12 pointed out two difficulties encounteredwhen incorporating simulations into educational contexts. The first is that the exploratorylearning processes may be too difficult for learners, and/or that students may not use their Page 14.231.4exploratory skills even though they possess them. In addition, Bodemer et al. (2005) 14 suggestedthat learners may lack pre
Making a Large Class Small Benson H. Tongue Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California Berkeley, CA 947201 I’m teaching HOW many next semester?As budgets shrink and class sizes grow, educators are hard pressed to maintain qualityin their classrooms. At Berkeley, the class size of our required undergraduate mechanicalengineering courses has ballooned from 40-60 students per professor up to the current level of130-170. Although less than the 500-600 students that routinely fill introductory chemistrycourses, 160-odd students certainly would seem to mandate that what once
Paper ID #12484Using a Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Environment (CCLE)to Promote Knowledge Building Pedagogy in an Undergraduate Strength ofMaterials CourseProf. Borjana Mikic, Smith College Borjana Mikic is the Rosemary Bradford Hewlett 1940 Professor of Engineering and the Faculty Director of initiatives in Design Thinking and the Liberal Arts at Smith College. She is former Director of the Picker Engineering Program and of Smith’s Sherrerd Center for Teaching and Learning, as well as being a 2007 recipient of the Sherrerd Prize for Excellence in Teaching. Her current areas of research are in the
Investigator Research Excellence Award. Dr. Ofori-Boadu is currently the Director of the year-round Professional Development Program for undergraduate Architecture, Engineering, and Construction women and the STEAM ACTIVATED! Program for middle-school girls at NC A & T. Andrea is married to Victor Ofori-Boadu and they are blessed with three wonderful children.Samuel PierreAngela White© American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Work in Progress: Faculty Perceptions of STEM Student and Faculty Experiences during the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Fall 2020 Qualitative study.ABSTRACT: COVID-19 is a continuing global pandemic causing significant changes andmodifications in the ways we teach and
Page 24.17.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 A Bus Tracking and Planning System for CTfastrakAbstractThis paper presents the application design and development of a bus tracking and planningsystem that involves mobile application development, database and network communications.This system is specifically designed for a public transportation bus system similar to theCTfastrak. The developed system includes three modules, namely the bus-side application,server-side database and client-side mobile application. Network communication enables theinteractions between the bus-side, server-side and client-side modules. The objective is two-fold:to provide the bus clients more convenience
AC 2010-1159: A LABVIEW-BASED INTEGRATED VIRTUAL LEARNINGPLATFORMSeema Khan, Sonoma State UniversityFarid Farahmand, Sonoma State UniversitySaeid Moslehpour, University of Hartford Page 15.45.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 A LabVIEW-based Integrated Virtual Learning Platform1. IntroductionWith the current economic downturns where educators are constantly confronted with furtherbudget cuts, fewer resources, and larger class sizes, online (or web-based) learning is receivingmore attention than ever before. One key advantage of online learning is that it can providedirect delivery of education at anytime from anywhere to anyone, and thus
arethe parameters for the bandpass signal shown in Figure 2(a).2.2 Teaching with Software and HardwareHow might we teach such SDR concepts to our students? Computer-based demonstrations can be effectivewith students for many DSP topics.9 We can take advantage of the fact that the software package M ATLABand its related toolboxes have become a mainstay in most ECE programs. Given our students’ familiaritywith M ATLAB, computer exercises that implement bandpass sampling theory for SDR would seem to be anatural approach. But we have found with many DSP topics that our students are often not impressed witha software-only “canned demo,” and adding a hardware component greatly improves the effectiveness ofthe demo and/or lab exercise. With properly
AC 2011-2457: AN INTERESTING APPLICATION OF OPTICAL MEA-SUREMENT TECHNIQUESBijan Sepahpour, The College of New Jersey Bijan Sepahpour is a registered Professional Engineer and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at TCNJ. He is currently serving as the chairman of the ME department. He is actively involved in the generation of design-oriented exercises and development of laboratory apparatus and experiments in the areas of mechanics of materials and dynamics of machinery for undergraduate engineering programs. Professor Sepahpour did his undergraduate studies at TCNJ and has degrees from New Jersey Institute of Technol- ogy (NJIT). He has served as the Chair of ASEE Divisions of Experimentation and Laboratory
AC 2010-2270: UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES OF SUPERSONIC TRANSPORTDEVELOPMENTNarayanan Komerath, Georgia Institute of Technology Page 15.1295.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES OF SUPERSONIC TRANSPORT DEVELOPMENT 1. AbstractThe technical and business case for hydrogen-powered supersonic airliners is re-examined as anexercise in multidisciplinary concept innovation by undergraduates at different levels. Aprogression of exercises is used. A conceptual design exercise in a freshman introduction coursewas expanded to modify a conventional hydrocarbon fuelled airliner concept to one
. Copyright 2013, American Society for Engineering EducationThe National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Thermophysical Properties Software[15, 16] was used to generate property values for v (T, p), u (T, p), s (T, p), and h (T, p). TheNIST website provides a thermodynamic property databases for a wide range of substances,covering 74 different fluids. The program uses equations for the thermodynamic and transportproperties to calculate the state points of the fluid or mixture. Behavior of Specific Internal EnergyFor several isotherms, the departures of specific internal energy of compressed liquid water fromtheir saturated states are plotted versus (P-Psat) in Fig. 1. The figure indicates that
American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Paper ID #32786 Dr. Alesia Ferguson, is an Environmental Engineer and Public Health Specialist. She currently is the Chair of the Built Environment Department and oversees three programs: Geomatics, Environmental Health and Safety and Construction Management. Her research work focuses on children’s environmental exposures and quantifying their related activities patterns. She was also a EPA lead trainer for the RRP regulations and a healthy homes specialists. She teaches courses such as Hazards Control, Industrial Hygiene, Fire Prevention
Campus, West Lafayette Dr. Mitchell L. Springer PMP, SPHR, SHRM-SCP Dr. Springer currently serves as an Executive Director for Purdue University’s Polytechnic Institute lo- cated in West Lafayette, Indiana. He has over thirty-five years of theoretical and defense industry-based practical experience from four disciplines: software engineering, systems engineering, program manage- ment and human resources. Dr. Springer possesses a significant strength in pattern recognition, analyzing and improving organizational systems. He is internationally recognized and has contributed to scholarship more than 300 books, articles, presentations, editorials and reviews on software development methodolo- gies, management
2006-1733: DESIGNING AND IMPLEMENTING A PARALLEL COMPUTINGCURRICULUM BASED ON BEOWULF CLUSTERINGFitra Khan, University of Texas-BrownsvilleMahmoud Quweider, University of Texas-BrownsvilleJuan Iglesias, University of Texas-BrownsvilleAmjad Zaim, University of Texas-Brownsville Page 11.418.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Designing and Implementing a Parallel Computing Curriculum Based on Beowulf Clustering1IntroductionThe Computer Science/Computer Information Systems (CS/CIS) Department at The Universityof Texas at Brownsville (UTB) has improved its curriculum by including parallel computingtopics based on a computing and
Computer Science from University of Maryland, College Park in 1986. He is currently Professor of Computer Science at Virginia Tech, where he has been since 1987. He directs the AlgoViz and OpenDSA projects, whose goals resp ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 WIP: Exploring Office Hour Interactions in a Data Structures and Algorithms CourseAbstractLarge universities often have introductory computing courses with hundreds of students, dozensof TAs, and multiple TAs on duty at the same time. We investigate what occurs during office hourinteractions between students and TAs, focusing on a large intermediate data structures coursewith major programming assignments
Paper ID #11234The New Professional Working Adult Learner – The Next Generational Co-hortDr. Mitchell L Springer PMP, SPHR, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. Springer currently serves as the Executive Director for Purdue University’s College of Technology located in West Lafayette, Indiana. He possesses over 35 years of theoretical and industry-based practical experience from four disciplines: Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Program Management and Human Resources. Dr. Springer possesses a significant strength in pattern recognition, analyzing and improving organizational systems. He is internationally
. Theauthor would also like to thank Darla Cooper, Michelle Barton, and Kathy Booth of the @ONEScholars Program, and Charles Iverson of Cañada College for invaluable input, discussions,comments, and suggestions.References1. Birk, J., & Foster, J. (1993). The importance of Lecture in General Chemistry Course Performance. Journal of Chemical Education, 70, 180-182.2. Meltzer, D. E., & K. Manivannan, K. (1996). Promoting Interactivity in Physics Lecture Classes. The Phys. Teacher, 34, 72-76.3. Felder, R.M., Felder, G. N. & Dietz, E. J. (1998). A Longitudinal Study of Engineering Student Performance and Retention. V. Comparisons with Traditionally-Taught Students, J. Engr. Education, 87, 469-480.4. Rodger, S. H. (1995). An
between 55 and 70 minutes.Student Focus Groups Students were screened based on criteria such as their intended STEM major, the number ofcompleted units at SVC, and participation in the Math Engineering Science Achievement (MESA)program. Working in collaboration with the institutional researcher, the principal investigatorgathered the email addresses of students who met the criteria. Six targeted sample focus groups wereSTEM SUCCESS AT AN HSI COMMUNITY COLLEGE 12created to keep similarly experienced students with their peers. Invitations were sent to the selectedSTEM students, inviting them to participate in one of six virtual Zoom meetings. Students wereasked to confirm their
2006-1598: A COMPREHENSIVE SUITE OF TOOLS FOR TEACHINGCOMMUNICATIONS COURSESRobert Kubichek, University of Wyoming Robert F. Kubichek has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wyoming since 1991. His current research interests include communications and signal processing with applications to speech and remote sensing. E-mail: kubichek@uwyo.eduThad Welch, U.S. Naval Academy Thad B. Welch, Ph.D, P.E., is with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Wyoming in Fall 2004. His research interests include the implementation of communication systems using
Paper ID #43398Board 367: Repairing the Reputation of the Teaching ProfessionDr. Sabina Anne Schill, Colorado School of Mines Sabina is a Research Associate at Colorado School of Mines working with Get the Facts Out and Teach@Mines. She got her PhD in Environmental Engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder and her BS in Physics from Westminster College in Salt Lake City. Sabina is interested in teaching, engineering education research, and K-12 STEM education. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Repairing the Reputation of the Teaching ProfessionAbstractBackground
current research focuses on integrating project management processes in undergraduate education. Her main goal is to understand how work management and product development practices widely used in industry can be modified and adapted to streamline undergraduate STEM education.Dr. Alejandra J. Magana, Purdue University Alejandra J. Magana, Ph.D., is the W.C. Furnas Professor in Enterprise Excellence in the Department of Computer and Information Technology and Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Effectiveness of Scrum in Enhancing Feedback Accessibility among Undergraduate Research Students: Insights from Integrated Feedback
AC 2012-4308: INTRODUCING GRAPHICS PROCESSING FROM A SYS-TEMS PERSPECTIVE: A HARDWARE/SOFTWARE APPROACHMr. Michael Steffen, Iowa State University Michael Steffen is a Ph.D. candidate in computer engineering and NSF Graduate Research Fellow. His research interests include computer architecture, graphics hardware, computer graphics, and embedded systems, and specifically he focuses on improving SIMT processor thread efficiency using a mixture of custom architectures and programming models. He received a B.S. degrees in both mechanical engineer- ing and electrical engineering from Valparaiso University in 2007.Dr. Phillip H. Jones III, Iowa State University Phillip H. Jones received his B.S. degree in 1999 and
NTSB to conduct an investigation on significant marine casualties. Through theirinvolvement in this project, students have been exposed to a critical engineering challenge forthe Coast Guard in regulating commercial fishing vessels. Research projects such as these havebeen deemed a high priority for the program; this project married academic research into a real-world problem with student engagement with benefits for the U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. CoastGuard Academy.References[1] National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), “Marine Accident Report: Capsizing andSinking of Commercial Fishing Vessel Scandies Rose”, MAR-21/02, June 29, 2021.[2] Free State Reporting, Inc., “Scandies Rose Marine Board of Investigation Hearing Transcript,Court
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Paper ID #18414In Support of Student Academic Success with Technology: The Student ViewProf. Susan L. Miertschin, University of Houston, College of Technology (MERGED MEMBERSHIP WITHCOE) Susan L. Miertschin, M.Ed., M.S.I.S., is an Associate Professor teaching in the Computer Information Systems program at University of Houston. Her teaching interests are in the areas of (1) information systems applications development and the complementary nature of back-end developer and front-end developer skill sets and (2) managing IT services. Her research interests are program and student as- sessment, the impact of instructional
persistence can be related to race, for example.2 We wanted to account for studentability, as well as any differences due to gender or race/ethnicity. Student ability in this case wasdefined as student performance in Calculus II and Physics for Engineers and Scientists, as wellas the number of times each of those courses was taken. While the university has a formal policyof limiting course retakes to two attempts, there are occasional exceptions made, and they areincluded in these data.Since our research question involved the investigation of performance in Statics while takinginto account a number of control variables, we selected multiple linear regression as our analysistechnique. At its most basic level, regression is an attempt to draw a line
Paper ID #42837Investigating Supports, Barrier and Cultural Navigations During Transitionsas International Faculty MembersDr. Debalina Maitra, Arizona State University Debalina Maitra is a Post-doctoral Research Associate at ASU. Prior to her current role, Debalina Maitra was employed by CAFECS (Chicago Alliance for Equity in Computer Science), a NSF-funded Research Practice Partnership, for almost two years. She complSeyed Hamid Reza Sanei, Penn State University, Behrend College Dr. Sanei is an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Penn State University with teaching experience expanding three universities and