Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Denise Jackson, University of Tennessee-Knoxville; Sara Abdulla, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

. Several factors that researchers agree contribute to a student’s academic success are“high standards for academic learning and conduct, meaningful and engaging pedagogy andcurriculum, professional learning communities among staff, and personalized learningenvironments.”13 One of the single major predictors of persistence within engineering is Page 12.129.2academic achievement.8 Academic achievement is associated with several main factors:acquisition of knowledge, intellectual development, and development of skills. In general, moststudents with poor academic competence either voluntarily leave engineering or leave because ofacademic dismissal

Collection

2024 South East Section Meeting

Authors

Priya T Goeser, Georgia Southern University, Armstrong Campus; Thomas Murphy, Georgia Southern University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

for engineering programs. This is a main premise uponwhich engineering and other ambassador programs have been established. One of the objectivesof these programs is to develop diverse leaders by equipping and empowering university students(the ambassadors) with advanced communication and leadership training, so that they may sharetheir passion and excitement about engineering and STEM with K-12 youth, the engineers oftomorrow [1], [2].There are several STEM ambassador programs in Georgia and beyond that have trained studentsto represent the university and college at on-campus events. The student ambassador program atthe University of Georgia is a program that has students who are trained and help promote thecollege of engineering at special

Conference Session

First-year Programs Division Postcard Session 2: Identity and Sense of Belonging

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sura Al-Qudah, Western Washington University ; Jill Davishahl, Bellingham Technical College; Eric Davishahl, Whatcom Community College; Michael Andrew Greiner

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

institution as a community. Results show astatistically significant difference in belongingness among those students in those four categoriesat the five institutions based on students’ classification. However, results suggested thathypothesizing a monotonic increase in the sense of belonging by year in school cannot besupported by the research findings and educators have to ultimately understand what impacts thesense of belonging and how to improve it over time during college years.At each of the three educational institutions where this current study is performed, the percentageof students who are identified as URMs is about one-fourth of the overall engineering studentpopulation. As more initiatives have been emerging in these institutions to help

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Assessment

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenell Wilmot, University of Texas, Austin; Nina Kamath Telang, University of Texas, Austin

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First-Year Programs

analysis techniques, there is a substantialemphasis on the application of these basic principles on difficult engineering problems. Examproblems were designed to engage higher levels of thinking, more than the usual textbook orhomework problems.In the fall 2015 semester, 401 students enrolled in 6 lecture sections with about 65 students ineach section. Four SI sessions were offered weekly; efforts were made to ensure that the sessionsdid not conflict with lecture or lab times and feedback from students was taken intoconsideration to identify suitable session times. Although the students were divided among the 6lecture sections, the exams were common to all lecture sections, ensuring a fair comparison ofexam scores between different student

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session II

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anne Flesher, Truckee Meadows Community College; Ann-Marie Vollstedt, University of Nevada, Reno; Daniel Loranz, Truckee Meadows Community College; Milinda Wasala; Jaspreet Kaur Gill; Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Brandon Protas; Jennifer R Amos, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Indira Chatterjee, University of Nevada, Reno

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

foster deepcollaboration and build a strong community of effective community college teaching faculty witha shared vision and purpose. This aims to ensure that students transfer to the four-yearenvironment equipped with a well-developed engineering identity, self-efficacy, sense ofbelonging, and the T-shaped skills – combining breadth and depth of knowledge - needed to makethe most of their new university environment. This project will thus revolutionize student-centeredinclusive teaching practices and lead to cultural, structural and organizational change at all levels,ultimately impacting high-tech workforce development in the state. One major aspect of the projectis to design and effectively deliver three required engineering courses at the

Conference Session

Manufacturing Education Innovation and Assessment

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna Qualters, Northeastern University; Jacqueline Isaacs, Northeastern University; Thomas Cullinane, Northeastern University; Ann McDonald, Northeastern University; Jay Laird, Metaversal Studios

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

students to experience the ramification of materials processing decisions, i.e.,technological solutions on the triple bottom line through an educational format designed toappeal to the generation labeled as millennial.The decision to use a game methodology reflected, in part, a response to the current educationalconcerns around the millennial generation of students and their impact on higher education2. Thedifferences in learning styles of the millennial student are already having an impact on learningand teaching in higher education3-5. Given the technological context in which children are raisedin the U.S., the standard lecture and textbook homework assignments may not be the best methodfor teaching and communicating new ideas. It is our belief

Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Division (BED) Technical Session 3

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Casey Jane Ankeny, Northwestern University; David P O'Neill, Northwestern University; Ken Gentry, Northwestern University; Philippa Eshun, Northwestern University

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Biomedical Engineering Division (BED)

ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, 2017, pp. 1–9.[19] A. Heimdal, R. T. Thorstensen, and P. Svennevig, “Investigations on the use of Student Peer Review to Improve Supervision of Capstone Courses in the Civil Engineering Education,” in Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education, The Design Society, 2020. doi: 10.35199/EPDE.2020.54.[20] R. A. Flores and F. Rios, “Incorporating peer review techniques to enhance students’ communication skills and team performance in engineering capstone projects,” he International Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 35, no. 6, pp. 1969–1982, 2019.[21] M. Mandala et al., “Impact of collaborative team peer review on the

Conference Session

Distance Learning and Online Teaching Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aleksandr Sergeyev, Michigan Technological University; Nasser Alaraje, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

skillfully toproblems, communicate effectively, work as members of a team, and engage in lifelong learning.As a result, engineers and engineering technologists often enter the workforce inadequatelyprepared to adapt to the complex and ever-changing demands of the high-tech workplace8.Research9-11 shows that active learning, learning that involves hands-on experience, significantlyimproves student comprehension and proficiency. In a study12 where researchers comparedlearning outcomes in a management class, taught using lecture-based methods versus activelearning methods, an improvement of one standard deviation was demonstrated with regard tolong-term memory and use of concepts over time for the active learning group8. Similarly, in astudy of over

Conference Session

Faculty Development II: Building Community Among STEM Educators

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kelly J. Cross, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Natasha Aniceto Mamaril, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Nicole Johnson-Glauch, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Geoffrey L. Herman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Educational Research and Methods

overall research question of howfaculty in STEM develop a collaborative change community with the objective to improve theeducation of undergraduate engineering students by adopting RBIS or developing instructionalinnovations.MethodsThis qualitative study employed an exploratory phenomenologically informed approach tounderstanding collaboration amongst STEM faculty [with the support of universityadministration]. The work consisted of semi-structured interviews with 12 STEM faculty acrossacademic ranks who had been or are currently working on a variety of collaborative teamprojects to implement teaching innovations at a large Midwestern research-intensive institution.ParticipantsA purposeful sampling approach was used to study the participants who

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division: Design Teams

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robin Fowler, University of Michigan; Laura K. Alford, University of Michigan; James A. Coller, University of Michigan; Stephanie Sheffield, University of Michigan; Magel P. Su, California Institute of Technology

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

mentors provide to studentsinclude but are not limited to: annotating examples of previous project designs and technicalcommunication deliverables, attending team meetings outside of class time, rehearsingpresentations with students, and giving advice on a range of topics from technical content toadjusting to life on campus. A previous study conducted on the impact of peer mentors in thiscourse demonstrates that peer mentors are positively received by students; students report thatpeer mentors helped most with development of communication skills, facilitation of betterteamwork amongst team members, and advice on non-course related problems [10].Furthermore, peer mentors facilitate and enhance student learning by providing weekly feedbackto

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 8

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Matthew McConnell, Case Western Reserve University; Kenneth A. Loparo, Case Western Reserve University; Nicholas A. Barendt, Case Western Reserve University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

Device designs aremore complicated than typical IoT sensor nodes and require the convergence of many differenttechnologies.The course breaks these Edge technologies into the following categories: • Networking Communications • Embedded Systems • Sensor Hardware Interfacing • User Interface • Distributed ComputingThese technologies are presented to students through lectures and tutorial examples, thenreinforced by practical, hands-on projects, initially as standalone technologies, but withincreasing integration throughout the semester. For the projects, students are allowed to choosetheir own end-applications, within set guidelines, to improve motivation and promote creativity. 2For the most part, the end-applications themselves are

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine Goodman, University of Colorado, Denver; Heather Lynn Johnson; Maryam Darbeheshti, University of Colorado, Denver; David C. Mays; Tom Altman

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

questions: 1. How can participation in a faculty learning community (FLC) enable or nudge engineering faculty to adopt and personalize mindful reflection and best practices? 2. How and to what degree does faculty participation in an FLC impact engineering college culture? 3. To what degree does faculty participation in an FLC impact engineering student belonging and success?To create the FLC, at least two faculty members were recruited from each of five departments.Together with the principal investigator (PI) team, the FLC has around 15 members. In addition,one research assistant and one or two evaluators usually attend sessions. The FLC meets once permonth for eight months during the academic year, on Friday mornings, a time

Conference Session

Curricular Innovations in Computing -2

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah L. Harris, University of Nevada - Las Vegas; Yingtao Jiang, University of Nevada - Las Vegas; Christine Clark; Ed Jorgensen; Tiberio Garza, Florida International University; Norma A Marrun, University of Nevada - Las Vegas; Valerie L. Taylor

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

Alliance(MESA) to further connect the campus to the community through family engagement and bybuilding and sustaining the connection between students’ families and faculty and staff in thecomputer science and computer engineering departments. Through focus groups and informalinteractions with families, we gained a deeper understanding of what cultivated and sustainedtheir engagement over five years. We ran two focus groups, one in Spanish and one in English;family members self-selected into the focus group based on language affinity. Through thesefocus groups, as well as through informal interactions (at both on and off campus activities,including over meals at local restaurants), we learned about parents’/caregivers’ relationshipswith their

Conference Session

Social Responsibility and Social Justice II: From Classroom to Community

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Katz, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

higher education are identifying the vitiating effects of neoliberalism in education as abusiness mindset dominates and minimizes the loftier goals of higher education. If we want toforestall that continued progression, the engineering education community will need to be moreconscientious about the impacts that these shifts are having on students, faculty, departments,and colleges.Of course, as alluded to with the mention of societal trends, this is more than just themaneuvering of university administrators or private corporations. This is a perennial struggleover institutional ideals and existential purpose. It is a societal shift that has continued sinceneoliberalism gained traction in the 1970s following the stagflation in the Western world

Conference Session

Engineering Education in Africa and the Middle East

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lamyaa El-Gabry, The American University in Cairo - Mechanical Engineering Department

Tagged Divisions

International

skills beyond that and have a profound impact on their characterand an impact on their communities. The substantive engagement with the community is notmerely an act of charity but an enabler to sustained social development. Giving children toys ischarity; engaging children in the design of a toy that appeals to them is community engagementand community based learning.Pedagogies of Engagement and collaborative learningCommunity based learning is one of several methods or strategies for student engagement.Smith et al.2 present a survey of various strategies for engaging undergraduate students,including active learning, service learning, problem-based learning, and team projects. Itincludes a history of these methods and research results on the

Conference Session

Spotlight on Diverse Learners

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones, University of North Carolina; Debarati Basu, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education Division (COED)

or just a desired outcome if we can afford it. The goal of this paper is to present a literature review about equity in computing education and to propose a definition of equity so we can engage the community in a collective, professional, and productive dialogue about equity. We hope that such dialogue would enable us to move forward on assessing equity and thus broadening participation in computing. The definition presented is adapted from equity in health and mirrors prior definitions of equity highlighting the difference between equity and equality. We close with some concrete suggestions on how to use the definition to define actions that CS programs could implement as part of an equity

Conference Session

Panel on Innovative Graduate Education Concepts: Organized by the National Institute of Aerospace

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Shaurette, Purdue University; Joe Orczyk, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

practice10.As Federal research funds began to diminish in the 1970s and 1980s, reduced financial supportfor graduate students impacted the student-faculty mentor relationship by limiting the degree towhich faculty could work directly with students in the research setting. The relationship began toevolve into one where the students worked more independently, often on research that the facultymentor was not involved with. This reduced integration of graduate education and organizedresearch activity occurred at the same time that professional graduate education began to emerge.Professional graduate education, which was intended to provide a more market-drivenpractitioner rather than a researcher, reduced the need for graduate research experiences11.As

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Douglas C Williams, University of Louisiana; Aimee Barber, University of Louisiana at Lafayette; Peter Sheppard, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Nature project clearly impacted teachers’ interest in biomimicry andability to help students apply biomimicry to solving real-world problems. One teacher said thatthe project encouraged students to think about problems in their community and build prototypesto decrease river pollution. Several teachers described using the knowledge of biomimicry tohelp students recognize the extensive use of this concept in engineering and design applications.Others said they planned to make biomimicry a fundamental way to teach problem-solving skillsby turning to nature for solutions.There was strong agreement among most teachers that involvement in the Making Inspired byNature project would foster changes in their classroom curriculum instruction and/or

Conference Session

First-Year and Experiential Learning for Women Engineers

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Madeline JoAnna Szoo, Northeastern University; Courtney Pfluger, Northeastern University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering Division (WIED)

competencies, these results furtherindicate a pressure on female students to drive goal-setting efforts at the start of the semester.Interestingly, among gendered differences in project management and communication skills, menreported greater confidence in their ability to maintain positive interactions with their teammatesand other social aspects at the start of the semester than women in their groups, on average.However, these differences were not statistically significant across genders, so further researchinvolving a larger sample size must take place to determine how women’s social experiencesmight differ from men’s in capstone engineering teams, particularly in instances of mixed-gendergroupings, and what impact (if any) these differences have

Conference Session

Cooperative & Experiential Education Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bhavna Hariharan, Stanford University; Sneha Ayyagari, Stanford University; Jonathan Edward Pang, Stanford University; Paul Dwight Watkins II, Stanford University; Aravind Arun, Stanford University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

Engineers’ Education (GEE) courseThe Global Engineers’ Education (GEE) curriculum is focused on the problem ofsanitation and hygiene faced by an overwhelming part of humanity. Currently 2.6 billionpeople have no access to toilets10. Most of these people are forced to defecate in the open,and lose their dignity and self-respect while making themselves vulnerable to violenceand life threatening disease. Engaging with this issue in collaboration with a partnerorganization in India allows students to experience their role as engineers in context ofthe world they would like to change and improve and this program creates theopportunity for them, as well as for the underserved communities they wish to work with,to thrive.This curriculum aims at educating

Conference Session

Communicating Across Cultural and Epistemological Boundaries

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gordon D. Hoople, University of San Diego; Joel Alejandro Mejia, University of San Diego; Diana A. Chen, University of San Diego; Susan M. Lord, University of San Diego

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

at the University of San Diego. Her teach- ing and research interests include electronics, optoelectronics, materials science, first year engineering courses, feminist and liberative pedagogies, engineering student persistence, and student autonomy. Her research has been sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Dr. Lord is a fellow of the ASEE and IEEE and is active in the engineering education community including serving as General Co-Chair of the 2006 Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference, on the FIE Steering Committee, and as President of the IEEE Education Society for 2009-2010. She is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Edu- cation. She and her coauthors were awarded the 2011

Collection

2013 North Midwest Section Meeting

Authors

Byron Garry; Suzette Burckhard

findings of “Innovation withImpact”, a six-year nation-wide study of top engineering schools. One of the conclusions of thatstudy is that engineering education innovation requires, at the least, engineering and educationexpertise working in continual cycles of educational practice and research.The committee surveyed the College of Engineering faculty on their topics of interest, anddecided on a format of a continuing series of one-hour sessions, led by SDSU engineeringfaculty. Over the last five semesters there have been twelve discussion sessions, on topics suchas teaching on-line, engaging students in the classroom, rubrics, assessment, active learning, andacademic quality and rigor. This paper discusses the goals of the series, what has been

Conference Session

Diversity and Two-year Colleges part 2

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Claire L. A. Dancz, Clemson University; Elizabeth A. Adams, Fresno City College; Carol Haden, Magnolia Consulting, LLC; Yushin Ahn; Karen Willis, Fresno City College; Deanna Craig, Clemson University

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Two-Year College

sustaining their student status [4], [5]. Passive learning and lackof connection to others can have lasting impacts on students’ personal association with a subjectmatter [6].Communities of Practice (CoP) have been used to authentically engage students, avoidingperipheral or observatory experiences, and can enhance students’ ability to move to communitycenters through legitimate participation, implicating learning during the process [2], [7]. CoPprovide both short-term and long-term value to members, including, but not limited to: supportstructures for tackling the challenges of purpose-driven work, processes to engage expertise, andconstruction of collective confidence that has long-term impacts on students’ identity development[8].How individuals

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 8

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Buffardi, California State University, Chico; William Zamora, Califonia State University, Chico; Colleen Robb, California State University, Chico; David Rahn, California State University, Chico

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

realism. For example,involving students in existing free and open source software (FOSS) projects helps address theissues of having a real product and experience maintaining software [12]. Moreover, Ellis andMorelli [13] proposed focusing on FOSS projects with humanitarian purposes to further exposestudents to social impacts of computing. While these approaches offer unique benefits, FOSScontributor teams are globally distributed and consequently, it is not plausible to adhere to theAgile principle of communicating face-to-face [5]. Likewise, from our observations, the FOSScommunity has a concentration of software developers and not nearly as many business people,often making it difficult to fulfill the principle of developers working with

Conference Session

Global Studies, Initiatives, and Study Abroad Programs

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven J. Burian, University of Utah; Pedro Romero, University of Utah

Tagged Divisions

International

Federation (WEF), American Geophysical Union (AGU), and American Society of Engineering Educators (ASEE). He is a registered Professional Engineer in Utah.Dr. Pedro Romero, University of Utah Pedro Romero is Associate Professor of civil engineering. Page 25.559.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Engineering Study Abroad Program on Sustainable Infrastructure Combining Engineering and Non-Engineering StudentsAbstractThe issues facing the engineering community have become more complex. These issues includetopics such as how to develop and maintain

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Angela Linse; Tammy VanDeGrift; Jessica Yellin; Jennifer Turns

groups experienced the program. We are currently using the data to gain insight onthe impact of the program and learn how to improve it. We demonstrate the experiences ofparticipants and the impacts of the program through case studies of participants.IntroductionEngineering graduate students have few opportunities explore and develop scholarly approachesto teaching compared to graduates in other fields. There are at least two reasons to support thispopulation in getting more preparation on teaching. First, graduate students represent the futurefaculty in engineering education. Thus, helping these students become more effective educatorsprovides one means of promoting effective teaching in engineering (a widely accepted nationalgoal). Second

Conference Session

Engaging Faculty Across Disciplines, Colleges, and Institutions

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Andrew Wilkerson P.E., York College PA; Jason Forsyth, York College of Pennsylvania; Christopher Michael Korpela, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Project-Based Learning Using the Robotic Operating System (ROS) for Undergraduate Research Applications Project-based learning (PBL) has been shown to be one of the more effective methodsteachers use in engineering and computer science education. PBL increases the student’smotivation in various topic areas while improving student self-learning abilities. Typically, PBLhas been employed most effectively with junior- and senior-level bachelor of science (B.S.)engineering and computer science students. Some of the more effective PBL techniquesemployed by colleges and universities include robotics, unmanned air vehicles (drones), andcomputer science-based technologies for

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Knox; Randall Kolar; Leslie Fink; Kanthasamy Muraleetharan; Gerald Miller; David Sabatini; Baxter Vieux; Michael Mooney; Kurt Gramoll

capabilities, enhance their communication skills, learn about themselves andhow to work with others, how to integrate different aspects of engineering, how to learn new mate-rial on their own, etc. The second special feature is having opportunities for in-depth reflection onone’s own learning experiences. The introduction and use of learning portfolios will accomplishthis. Learning portfolios are narrative statements written by students about their learning experi-ences, viz, what they have done, what they have learned, a honest assessment of themselves interms of the multiple competencies desired, in this case, for future work in engineering, and anidentification of what they need to learn next to further their professional development as

Conference Session

First-year Programs Division Technical Session 10: Paying Attention to Retention

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William John Palm IV P.E., Roger Williams University; Charles R Thomas, Roger Williams University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

and is licensed as a Professional Engineer in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.Dr. Charles R Thomas, Roger Williams University Page 26.1098.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Living-Learning Communities Improve First-Year Engineering Student Academic Performance and Retention at a Small Private UniversityAbstractLiving-Learning Communities (LLCs), in which students share a residence, one or more classes,and extracurricular activities, have been shown to improve first-year student engagement,academic performance, and retention in non

Conference Session

Problem Solving, Adaptive Expertise, and Social Engagement

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Oenardi Lawanto, Utah State University; Angela Minichiello P.E., Utah State University; Jacek Uziak, University of Botswana; Andreas Febrian, Utah State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

. Two research questions guided the study: (1) What are the gaps, if any,between the instructor’s and students’ interpretation (explicit and implicit task features) of aproblem-solving task?; and (2) How do students’ task interpretation (explicit and implicit)change after engaging in self-evaluation of their problem-solving processes? One hundredtwelve (112) second year engineering undergraduates voluntarily participated in the study. Thepreliminary analysis revealed that students faced challenges interpreting tasks related to theassigned thermodynamics problems, even after engaging in self- evaluation of their problemsolutions. It was also found that students experienced greater difficulty identifying the implicittask information than the