23.1328.2considered best practices for developing deeper learning and 21st century skills and released theirrecommendations, which again included the use of formative assessment.2Real-time Formative AssessmentIn 1998, Black and Wiliam3 published an influential meta-analysis of 250 articles and chaptersabout formative assessment; their broad working definition remains widely used today. Withstrong theoretical underpinnings, formative assessment includes all activities performed byinstructors and students to provide information about student understanding during the learningprocess; this evidence is then used to give students feedback about their understanding and adaptsubsequent teaching and learning strategies to meet student needs. As the label has become
the interests of thisresearch. Also, the research team had the participants map out their daily and weekly schedules,These participants were asked to reconstruct a recent routine day in their school or work life bymapping their movement from place to place and describing their activities in each place. Thisallows researchers to possibly capture aspects of daily work that are less readily available totraditional interviewing practices.20 Additionally, throughout the research, the team decided toexpand these direct and indirect observations to all people and groups that have an impact on thedesign process and final product. These include, but are not limited to, the board in charge ofcornerstone design; the faculty and employees who organize
Paper ID #46378A Novel ”Positive” Approach/analysis for Enhanced Understanding of the”Negative” Statement of the Second Law of Thermodynamics for Heat PumpsDr. Sunil Mehendale, Michigan Technological University Sunil Mehendale is an Associate Professor in the School of Technology at Michigan Technological University. Prior to joining Michigan Tech as a faculty member, he worked for Carrier Corporation, Syracuse, NY as a Staff Engineer and Scientist in the Heat Exchanger and Systems Division. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 A Novel “Positive” Approach/analysis for Enhanced Understanding of
Paper ID #48701Evaluating the Effectiveness of Generative AI for Automated Quiz Creation:A Case StudyMs. Venkata Alekhya Kusam, University of Michigan - Dearborn Venkata Alekhya Kusam received her Master’s degree in Computer and Information Science from the University of Michigan-Dearborn. She is currently working as an AI developer and will be joining the University of British Columbia as a PhD student in Computer Science. Her research interests include Explainable AI (XAI), the integration of AI in education, and the development of human-centric AI systems to enhance learning and accessibility.Zheng Song, University of
Paper ID #47555BOARD # 41: Enhancing Student Engagement and Learning Outcomes: ComparingInteractive Simulations with Traditional Clicker Questions in IntroductoryEngineering CoursesDr. Ehsan Keyvani, University of Colorado Boulder Ehsan is a Teaching faculty at CU Boulder. He has taught at private and public schools for more than a decade. He always explores new tools for teaching such as immersive simulation, mixed-reality modules, and in here, he is presenting his use of 2.5 D simulations for teaching introductory concepts in freshmen and sophomore level chemical engineering courses. ©American
Teaching in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia. She is also the Associate Dean, Academic, for the Faculty of Applied Science.Dr. Alireza Bagherzadeh, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Chemical and Biological Engineering Department, University of British ColumbiaDr. Jon Nakane, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Jon Nakane is an Associate Professor of Teaching in the Department of Materials Engineering at the University of British Columbia, ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025Factors Affecting First-Year Engineering Student Well-being: A Six-YearStudy at a Large, Research-Intensive UniversityAbstractThis Complete
develop the experiment themselves. There were no step-by-step procedures. The lab reports were then used to fulfill the task as targeted to the audiencerather than to report just methods, results, etc.The paper presents details on the both the 2014 and 2015 class structures with exampleassignments and reports. It also compares report grades from previous semesters to the gradesfrom the 2014 and 2015 formats. Results of a student survey and a concept quiz, as well asvarious observations about student performance, pitfalls, and planned modifications are alsoincluded.1. IntroductionOver the past few years, there has been increasing debate over the pros and cons of activelearning in the classroom and many have moved away from the traditional lecture
including Carnegie Mellon University, Olin College, Oregon State University, and Northeastern University, Paul A. DiMilla has been the recipient of the first Whitaker Young Investigator Award from the BMES, a Searle Scholar Award, and an Early Career Development Award from the NSF as well as a three-time recipient of the Omega Chi Epsilon Outstanding Faculty Award from the Northeastern Student Affiliate of AIChE and the Dick Sioui Teaching Award from Northeastern University. He also has led industrial R&D teams at Organogenesis Inc. and Polymerix Corporation developing tissue-engineered medical products and drug- generating biodegradable polymers, respectively, and has co-founded Automated Cell, Inc. In addition to
historically underrepresented students to those that do not? To answer this question, we used the CAPE theoretical framework to measure schools’ Capacity to offer CS, student Access to CS education, student Participation in CS, and Experi- ences of students taking CS [1]. We developed a quantitative instrument based on the results of a qualitative inquiry, then used the instrument to collect data from CS high school practitioners located in the United States (n=185) and performed a comparative analysis of the results. We found that the numbers of students participating in AP CS A courses, CS related as well as non-CS related extracurricular activities, and multiple extracurricular activities increased. However
athird university justify the status quo? How dare I, in my privilege as a white settlertenured faculty member, underestimate the power of organized movements to makechange? My queer activism has taught me that even small shifts can make a life-or-deathdifference in the lives of individuals, and that a sea change can occur within institutionsthrough deliberate organizing. Even losses, though painful, are crucial catalysts andbuilders of sustaining community. As a department head in an engineering discipline, Ibenefit from the trappings of academic middle management. While I resist this notion,the tacit bargain was to exchange one type of power - the free voice of a tenured facultymember engaging critical scholarship - for another - that of an
contributing to 82% the community and to our democratic society * Ethical decision making 64%Project-based learning has the advantage of converting the learning process from being instructor-centered to student-centered approach. PBL encourages students to challenge their skills andknowledge and develops lifelong learning skills that are not experienced with traditional teacher-centered approaches. However, guidelines and expectations must be set to prevent student failureand negative impacts. Weimer [8] discussed some risks and challenges accompanying PBLenvironment. Figure 1 illustrates some of
], students are rarely taught how to formulate their owncreative explanations to educate their present and future audiences in academia and industry.Anecdotally, this type of explicit instruction occurs most often in designated writing courses (e.g.[12]) rather than in technical subjects, yet the latter may expect students to produce original textsinvolving complex science and technology for audiences with varying levels of expertise.Similarly, professional engineers are expected to communicate orally with non-technicalaudiences in a variety of rhetorical situations, which requires the translation of engineeringconcepts, data, and developments [13].Beyond professional expectations, the societal implications of how experts communicate withnon
Development Award from the NSF c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Paper ID #25901 as well as a three-time recipient of the Omega Chi Epsilon Outstanding Faculty Award from the North- eastern Student Affiliate of AIChE and the Dick Sioui Teaching Award from Northeastern. He also has led industrial R&D teams at Organogenesis Inc. and Polymerix Corporation developing tissue-engineered medical products and drug- generating biodegradable polymers, respectively, and has co-founded Auto- mated Cell, Inc. In addition to being an inventor on 12 issued US patents, he has published the textbook
Paper ID #29561Ethics in Engineering or Engineering in Ethics?Mr. Grant A Fore, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis Grant Fore is a Research Associate in the STEM Education Innovation and Research Institute (SEIRI) at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. As a SEIRI staff member, Grant is involved in research development, qualitative and mixed methods research, and programmatic assessment and evalu- ation. His research interests include ethics and equity in STEM education, the intersubjective experience of the instructor/student encounter, secondary STEM teacher professional development
[9]. In an effort to determine whether women are overrepresented in outreach, we reviewedthe ASEE conference papers since 1996, looking for the gender of authors of engineeringeducation papers involving K-12 outreach (Appendix C). A search on ASEE’s online conferencepaper database resulted in 165 papers about K12 outreach, with 268 women authors compared to248 men authors overall. 75% of the papers involved at least one woman, and 30% of papers hadno male authors at all. While these numbers are approximate due to limitations of themethodology1, women are undeniably overrepresented when they account for over half of theauthors in the area of engineering education on outreach programs while accounting for only12% of engineering faculty
for instructors to simply relent some control of their course, still guiding,encouraging, and making clarifications on problems and projects. Additionally, motivation canbe key to a successful format. Bransford et al. [16] state, “Motivation to learn affects the amountof time students are willing to devote to learning…” Motivation of the students to learn caneasily be accomplished through Competition Based Learning. To anyone with any knowledge of the field of engineering education, active learningwould seem to be a logical form of instruction. To most instructors it can be incrediblyintimidating and quite a challenge. And in some cases, active learning is viewed with a skepticalperception by more experienced faculty that have “always
attitudes of students to this course o The gradual evolution of their attitudes and what caused this evolution, and o The growth of students’ understanding of the connectedness between EE and all fields of engineering, and appreciation of the value of EE for their profession.Some of our findings may serve as recipe for success for other service courses.BackgroundWe investigate the student learning in a large introductory, service course in ElectricalEngineering (EE) for non-EE students, mostly from our College of Engineering. Thisreport presents further development of our earlier studies reported at ASEE 2011 and FIE2011 conferences [Comment for Reviewers: Exact references are not given in order notto disclose our affiliation, etc
effective teach- ing decisions, and the application of ideas from complexity science to the challenges of engineering education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 “I came in thinking there was one right practice”: Exploring how to help graduate students learn to read academic researchAbstractIn the fall of 2017, an engineering educator with many years of experience offered a course toincoming doctoral students. The course was focused on helping the students explore approachesto reading published scholarship and develop their own scholarly reading practice. The coursewas taken by a student who documented her experiences in a reflection journal. Against thisbackdrop, this paper uses
team of over 40 academics and practitioners investigated methods for quantifying benefits from automation; the results of this project were published in a manuscript. Dr. Marlin is currently director of the McMaster Advanced Control Consortium (MACC), which develops relevant research through collaboration among university researchers and numerous companies. MACC consists of five professors, 17 industrial members and 25 university researchers, principally graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. He teaches university courses in process control, process analysis, problem solving, and optimization and has published a textbook in process control (Process Control, Designing
this paper addresses each of these big ideas—how technology isdefined and the critical analysis of technology—in turn, and is followed by a description of theSEAS Club context and study methods. The findings for the first and second questions arepresented thereafter and followed by a short discussion.BackgroundWhat is Technology?One goal of STEM education – that is, education related to science, technology, engineering, andmath – is to develop technological literacy in children.1-3 Although there are varying definitionsof what it means to be technologically literate, a necessary starting point is to consider whatcounts as technology and why.4, 5 Other aspects of technological literacy—including how peoplemight interact with, design, or
. The Open Doors survey reports that U.S. students studying abroad numbered 205,983 in2006, double that of 1998.5The demand for native-English-speaking educators abroad is also growing. English “has becomethe language that provides access to higher education and job opportunities, and has becomealmost exclusively the language of diplomatic discussion and business negotiation.”7 Manyeducators are hesitant to work abroad for fear of a language barrier,2 but often a bigger obstacleis lack of adaptability.8 According to Badley, teaching international students at home andteaching abroad are closely related; both require developing global competence. According toBadley, “[t]eaching [in general] has to be seen as context-related, uncertain and
searching for a problem to solve is amongpeople or by reading of their exploits in the daily newspaper or listening to friends andneighbors who will quickly identify any shortcoming of the present technology.The Instructor has found a wealth of significant Problems for previous Capstone Designclasses by simply listening to people or reading all sources of information and always beingreceptive to new problems that need solution. For example, previous Capstone Project themesused by the Instructor included:1. Developing a personalized skier escape mechanism that enables the safe removal of the skier from an avalanche of snow. This need was brought to the attention of any receptive reader after the local newspapers wrote about a recent catastrophe
Graduate Student Service Award (2019), the Disserta- tion Completion Award (2020), and the International Faculty Recognition Award at Utah State University (2022). In August 2021, I joined Utah State University as an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) in Com- puter Science, where I now lead the Data Science and Applications lab (dsa.cs.usu.edu). ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Leveraging Social Media in Engineering Education Research: Latent Dirichlet Allocation MethodAbstractIn our work, we explore how social media analytics can be leveraged in engineering educationresearch to understand lived experiences of marginalized groups outside of engineering
by the ASEE community e.g., to remix and create funshareable instructional content memes, and to create accessible audio and text descriptions for studentswho are blind or have low vision. Text extracted from each scene can also used to improve the accuracyof captions and transcripts, improving accessibility for students who are hard of hearing or deaf.1 Introduction Recent advancements in educational technologies have made available many innovative approaches toengage students with the course materials. In addition to standard-classroom teachings, efficient and reliableeducational tools have been developed to make the content more accessible to all students. ClassTranscribe isan educational web application that is designed to offer
build a functional physical prototype to meet a human-centered societal need [1].HCD principles are threaded throughout the course and students are exposed to the HCD processwith a final prototype design on a HCD topic (e.g., children's toys, elderly applications, disabilityinstrumentation). Student teams prepare formal design reports and give presentations on theirfunctional prototypes. At the time of the study, a course director and four instructors taught thecourse. Each faculty member had several sections of up to 49 undergraduate engineeringstudents, totaling 450 students. A questionnaire was custom-developed by the instructors, whohad a mix of engineering education research, human-centered design research, and engineeringdesign expertise
at religion and sexuality, evaluating how religious identities and morals influence self-concept in the areas of sexuality, sexual expression, self-esteem, and sexual agency.Prof. Bianca L. Bernstein, Arizona State University Bianca L. Bernstein, Ph.D. is Professor of Counseling and Counseling Psychology in the College of In- tegrative Sciences and Arts at Arizona State University. Dr. Bernstein guides the CareerWISE research program, supported by the National Science Foundation since 2006. Her over 250 publications and pre- sentations and over $4 M in external support have focused on the application of psychological science to the career advancement of women and underrepresented minorities and the development of
in the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University, where she currently teaches first-year engineering design courses. Her research interests in engineering education include the identification of variables that impact the first- year experience and the development of strategies to enhance it, retention of underrepresented populations in STEM fields and service-learning in engineering.Elise Gruneisen, Northwestern University American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Work in Progress: Structured Teamwork for Learning Equity in First-Year Engineering DesignIntroductionEngineering programs
Phd in Technology from Purdue University. Her research focuses on the design of interactions and feedback technology for topics that are abstract, such as concepts from statics and physics and use of energy and electricity.Dr. Alejandra J. Magana, Purdue University, West Lafayette Alejandra Magana is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Technology and an affiliated faculty at the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She holds a B.E. in Information Systems, a M.S. in Technology, both from Tec de Monterrey; and a M.S. in Educational Technology and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University. Her research is focused on identifying how model-based cognition
, PA. Her research interests include iden- tity development through co and extra-curricular experiences for engineering students.Dr. Courtney June Faber, University of Tennessee Courtney is a Research Assistant Professor and Lecturer in the College of Engineering Honors Program at the University of Tennessee. She completed her Ph.D. in Engineering & Science Education at Clemson University. Prior to her Ph.D. work, she received her B.S. in Bioengineering at Clemson University and her M.S. in Biomedical Engineering at Cornell University. Courtney’s research interests include epistemic cognition in the context of problem solving, researcher identity, and mixed methods.Dr. Marian S. Kennedy, Clemson University
Engineering Ethics. His research and teaching interests include engineering ethics, moral psychology, philosophy of technology, Chinese philosophy, political philosophy, and contempo- rary European philosophy. Rockwell completed his PhD at Purdue University, West Lafayette, MA at the Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium, and BA at Fordham University, New York.Dr. Horst Hohberger, University of Michigan - Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute Dr. Horst Hohberger is an Associate Teaching Professor for Mathematics at the UM-SJTU Joint Insti- tute (JI) and also serves as the Faculty Advisor for International Programs. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Potsdam, Germany in 2006. His research interests include