Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Postcard Session (Best of Works in Progress)

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Christine E. King, University of California, Irvine; George Tolomiczenko, Caltech; Nadine B. Afari, CHOC Children's Health Orange County

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Biomedical Engineering

feel safe to seek care, and ensuring healthcareworkers feel safe to provide care. Each team had a healthcare worker who worked directly withthe undergraduate students as part of the design team. At the end of the event, each team gave ashort presentation about their problem and solution and received feedback from a panel ofjudges. Projects were scored in terms of impact, innovation, marketability, andusability/intuitiveness (Table 1). These criteria were developed through collaboration with theinstructors of the UCI senior design program and the Innovation Institute, a healthcare incubatorthat provides services to several healthcare systems including the Children’s Hospital of OrangeCounty. In particular, the scoring criteria were developed to

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CoNECD Session : Day 2 Slot 7 Technical Session 1

Collection

2021 CoNECD

Authors

Catherine Mobley, Clemson University; Catherine E. Brawner, Research Triangle Educational Consultants; Rebecca Brent, Education Designs, Inc; Marisa K. Orr, Clemson University

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CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity

additionalinformation about identity.Case Study # 1: “Kelsea” – Junior Mechanical Engineering Major: “In my classes, seeing howprofessors respond to students, interact with students, I feel like it's pretty equal footed betweenrace and gender.”Kelsea is a junior mechanical engineering major at PWI-State who aspires to work in privateindustry in the area of design or research and development. Kelsea scored in the low range of theMIBI (28 out of 56). When reflecting on her identity circle, she stated that the she felt that herchoices reflected those things that “can impact how you, those experience and qualifiers impacthow you move through the world and express different information and viewpoints.” In the innercircle, closest to her core, Kelsea placed

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maria Chrysochoou, University of Connecticut; Rachael Gabriel, University of Connecticut; Connie Syharat, University of Connecticut; Christa L. Taylor, University of Connecticut

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

engineering. The purpose of thisstudy, conducted in the fourth year our of five years in the project, was to identify the predictorsof students' sense of belonging in engineering, assessing both classroom experiences indepartment courses and out-of-classroom experiences. A survey related to student experiences inengineering courses was administered and data from 144 respondents were included for analysis.Factor analysis identified five classroom-specific factors (engagement, instructional quality,inclusion, learning development, and disengagement) and two out-of-classroom influencingfactors (belonging and community access). Multiple regression models and independent samplet-tests were employed to determine the significant predictors of sense of

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 6: Challenges and Coping Strategies of Engineering Graduate Students

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Liesl Klein, Villanova University; Greg J. Strimel, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI)

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD)

classes, therapy dog visits, guided meditations, and similarevents, but these one-time, free events may not entice students who already feelthey do not have time to take care of basic care for themselves. The culture and environment of an institution can also have an impact onthe student’s well-being and success. Within higher education, there has been astigma around asking for help (Dunn, Iglewicz, and Moutier 2008; Wrench and 6Punyanunt 2004). While an institution may offer and advertise mental healthservices to assist students, many may unlikely pursue them due to feeling thatit will negatively affect their career goals and the perceptions of them by peersand faculty (Dunn, Iglewicz, and Moutier 2008

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FPD 7: First-Year Engineering Courses, Part II: Perceptions and Paradigms

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janaki Isabella Perera, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Brendan Thomas Quinlivan, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Yevgeniya V. Zastavker, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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First-Year Programs

include (1) instructor’s beliefs aboutProject-Based Learning as a teaching practice, (2) instructor’s level of abstraction when talkingabout students, (3) instructor’s affect towards students, (4) value instructors place on one-on-oneinteractions with students, (5) instructors’ perceptions of their role in development of studentmotivation and interest toward their courses, (6) instructors’ perceived ability to impact students,(7) overall teaching goals, and (8) instructors’ motivation towards teaching. From analysis ofthese emergent themes, there appear to be two distinct instructor groups. These groups, which wewill refer to as Personal Coaches and Group Ushers, are observed to have different attitudes andexpressed behaviors towards teaching and

Conference Session

Accreditation and Assessment Concerns in Civil Engineering Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thuy Nguyen, University of Texas at Austin; Kathy Schmidt, University of Texas at Austin; William O'Brien, University of Texas at Austin

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Civil Engineering

thedevelopmental stages and replaced their five literacies by another five skill and knowledge areasthat were more relevant to our student audience as described below. This is a linear model, whichmeans that if one has reached a higher stage of development, one has acquired the skills andknowledge that are characteristic to the lower stages.Descriptions of developmental stages • Stage 1: Functional and Perceptual Knowledge. The learners with functional and perceptual knowledge understand the basic concepts and have the basic knowledge and skills of technology, including hardware recognition, software functions and the usage of internet-based applications. They can also communicate what they know with others effectively

Conference Session

Manufacturing Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul C. Lynch, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College; Joseph Wilck, College of William & Mary; Elizabeth Gaughan, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College

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Diversity

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Manufacturing

engineers, manufacturingengineers, and/or planners [8].The manufacturing industry is considering approaches to reduce the skills gap by partnering withuniversities, community colleges, and certification providers. In a report co-authored by Deloitteand The Manufacturing Institute entitled “Boiling Point? The Skills Gap in U.S. Manufacturing”,it was noted that the lacking skills in college graduates to the manufacturing workforce are thosethat have the most impact on operations and require the most technical training. Themanufacturing industry is impacted by students moving away from STEM fields, which will leadcompanies and manufacturers to be unable to fill technical positions. This issue must be fixedwithin the classrooms across the U.S. by

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Faculty Track - Technical Session III

Collection

2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

Authors

Shawna Vican, University of Delaware

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Faculty

commit itself forcefully andvisibly to improving the diversity of the whole community.” Specific recommendations forfaculty diversity included developing a plan to increase gender diversity among STEM facultyand to increase the number of faculty of color across the university.The university president at the time increased attention to diversity by making it one of fiveguiding principles in the university strategic plan and creating the President’s Diversity Initiativein 2012. In 2014, the provost created the vice provost for diversity position, which is a full-timeadministrative position charged with overseeing diversity efforts for students, faculty, and staff.In 2016 a new university president was appointed. While it is too early to determine

Conference Session

Career Advancement Through Engineering Leadership Development

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Hwangbo Bae, University of Florida; Madeline Polmear, University of Florida; Denise Rutledge Simmons P.E., University of Florida

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Engineering Leadership Development

professional. In particular, there has beenan increasing industry expectation for leadership competencies as the nexus of professional andtechnical skills [3], [4]. For example, Simmons et al. [5] identified a set of leadershipcompetencies from the perspective of industry professionals that included communication,assertiveness, quality control, computer skills, critical thinking, ethics, people focus, andmanagement. These competencies have also been shown in other work to be important forengineering students’ leadership development and career preparation [4], [6], [7]. Leadershipdevelopment is particularly important in the workplace when an employee needs to improve ateam’s affective and behavioral outcomes [8]. These outcomes are dependent on an

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Minoritization Processes and Critical Responses

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Madeleine Jennings, Arizona State University; Rod D. Roscoe, Arizona State University; Nadia N. Kellam, Arizona State University; Suren Jayasuriya, Arizona State University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

to generate awareness of the LGBTQIA+engineering student experience and research on this community, while also highlighting areasthat are lacking or receiving insufficient attention. This work is part of a larger project that aimsto review engineering education research with respect to LGBTQIA+ students, higher educationfaculty and staff, and industry professionals. This literature review was conducted in two phases.First, works from non-engineering disciplines were reviewed to identify popular threads andmajor areas of research on the LGBTQIA+ student experience. This phase was not an exhaustivereview; rather, it was meant to establish specific themes of importance derived from the largerbody of literature on the LGBTQIA+ student experience

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Disability, Neurodivergence, and Sense of Belonging in STEM: Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Furtney, University of Florida; Caroline Doyle, University of Florida

heard and getting individuals involved in research to better their community! This interest is what helped spark the inspiration for my submission to the ASEE National Conference as I worked with those around me to impact change for the involvement of students with disabilities at the University of Florida. I hope to be able to continue to influence change by advocating for diversity and inclusion as I transition into my new career in the biomedical industry! © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com WORK IN PROGRESS: EMPOWERING STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES THROUGH RESEARCH INVOLVEMENTIntroductionIt has been

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Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Arielle Marie Rainey, Colorado School of Mines; Dina Verdin, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Jessica Mary Smith, Colorado School of Mines

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering

belonging in the classroom, citing feelings of exclusion and self-doubtinflicted by their male peers. One Latina student also saw this marginalization by male peers assupported by instructors, and she also discussed her feelings of professors preferring male studentsin their classes. This finding demonstrates how the intersectionality of race and gender contributeto a specific lack of belonging, as is expressed in other interviews with minoritized women [11].Lopez et al. [15] referenced STEM undergraduate formal professor-pupil interactions, of whichinclude classroom spaces, as having a negative impact on a Latino/a students’ sense of familioso,which is described as a cultural value that emphasizes loyalty, responsibility, solidarity

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering: Student Growth

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andre Montes; Sofia Arevalo; Grace O'Connell, University of California, Berkeley

Education, vol. 76, no. 4, pp. 555–581, 2007. [4] P. R. Hernandez, “Sustaining optimal motivation: A longitudinal analysis of interventions to broaden participation of underrepresented students in stem,” Journal of Education Psychology, vol. 105, 2013. [5] S. Laursen, A.-B. Hunter, E. Seymour, H. Thiry, and G. Melton, Undergraduate research in the sciences: Engaging students in real science. John Wiley & Sons, 2010. [6] L. Zhu, C. Eggleton, R. Ma, L. Topoleski, and D. Madan, “Establishing the need to broaden bioengineering research exposure and research participation in mechanical engineering and its positive impacts on student recruitment, diversification, retention and graduation: Findings from the umbc me s-stem scholarship

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 1

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anna Li Coffman, University of Oklahoma; Javeed Kittur, University of Oklahoma

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

five participants(P1, P3, and P4) explicitly connected to the psychomotor domain of learning. On the other hand,only P2 made a connection to the affective domain, though it was a tangential connection to howP2 would be more excited to do homework with less pressure of getting a decent grade. Thus, thisshows how participants are most familiar with the cognitive domain, less aware of the psychomotordomain, and least aware of the affective domain. Although participants are most familiar with thecognitive domain, there is still much to be researched. For example, as P4 and P5 mentioned visualand auditory learning, research may determine which type of learning may engage the cognitivedomain more effectively and help students create mental models

Conference Session

NEE Technical Session - Assessment/Evaluation

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Dallal, University of Pittsburgh

, and the rest (33%) wereneutral. The most frequently-stated (57%) aspect of the positive experience was that the classactivities promoted liveliness or attentiveness during class. This result aligns with therecommendations in [9] to shift the teaching method every 10 to 15 minutes to maintain studentfocus. The in-class problem solving, demos, and review of real applications was also on the top ofthe list of positive factors, as stated by 32 students. Twenty-seven students noted that the classactivities helped clarify complex materials and, in general, helped reinforce the taught topics.Sixteen students reported that the requests to think, be engaged, and communicate with otherstudents and/or the instructor during class time built a positive

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE) Technical Session 4: Engaging Authentic Engineering Practices

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emanuel Joseph Louime; Eunice Yujin Kang; Emma Anderson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Kristin A Searle, Utah State University; Avneet Hira, Boston College

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE)

. Thenegative effects of social isolation are extremely concerning, and go far beyond a student’s educationalsuccesses and failures. “Loneliness reliably increases the risk for developing mental health problems,cardiovascular disease, infectious illness, cognitive decline, and increased mortality [12].” Theconnectedness of students to their peers and families has been demonstrated to not only benefit theireducational outcomes and interests as mentioned earlier, but it has an impact on overall well-being.School closures and the resultant isolation impacted students’ mental health and as lockdowns progressedmany students engaged in online learning were more likely to exhibit symptoms of depression andanxiety [12]. Although direct social interaction can

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Computers in Education Division (COED) Best of CoED Paper Session (Track 1.B)

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jesan Ahammed Ovi, Colorado School of Mines; Gabriel Tomas Fierro, Colorado School of Mines; C. Estelle Smith, Colorado School of Mines

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Computers in Education Division (COED)

motivational and demographic factors contributing to GenAI use, (RQ2) students’ethical concerns about GenAI, and (RQ3) students’ perceived benefits v.s. harms for themselves,science, and society. Analysis revealed a statistically significant rise in GenAI adoption rates from2023 to 2024. Students predominantly leverage GenAI tools to deepen understanding, enhancework quality, and stay informed about emerging technologies. Although most students assesstheir own usage of GenAI as ethical and beneficial, they nonetheless expressed significantconcerns regarding GenAI and its impacts on society. We collected student estimates of“P(doom)” – an informal AI safety term which expresses an individual’s estimated probability ofcatastrophic consequences stemming

Conference Session

That's a Great Idea! Learning-focused Methods to Revitalize Your Courses

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Debarati Basu, Virginia Tech; Walter McDonald, Virginia Tech; Daniel S Brogan, Virginia Tech; Darren K Maczka, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education; Vinod K. Lohani, Virginia Tech

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New Engineering Educators

mentors obtained valuable insights into several practical aspectsmentoring students, and they believe that the lessons they learned will be useful for futurementors. During the 2016 REU program the members of LEWAS lab will engage an REU fellow.The REU fellow will learn to calibrate the sensors of LEWAS lab, and will help in developingcase studies to demonstrate the use of high frequency data in environmental monitoring.Members of the LEWAS lab have been engaged in development of these case studies to assiststudents and to help community members understand the impact of real life events on the waterdata. The REU fellow will also engage in programming new features for the OWLS userinterface using python, HTML5, CSS and JavaScript, which

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Promoting Social Sustainability, Cultural Assets, and Assessing Equity and Diversity Index

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Collette Patricia Higgins; Emily Joanna Kamp; Kenneth Stewart; Azadeh Bolhari, P.E., University of Colorado, Boulder; Daniel Ivan Castaneda, James Madison University

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND)

programs.Specifically, we developed and distributed an instrument at three institutions of higher educationin the United States (US): a public, Hispanic Serving Institution (Angelo State University); aTier-2 research institution (James Madison University); and a Tier-1 research institution(University of Colorado Boulder). This paper summarizes the development of the quantitativeinstrument using the theory of Community Cultural Wealth (CCW), the statistical treatment ofthe survey results, and a discussion of the implications and limitations of some key surveyfindings. We do so to answer our central research question: “What cultural assets doundergraduate engineering students use in their development as engineers?”BackgroundYosso’s (2005) seminal paper on

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International Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Guoyang Zhang; Jiabin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Yang Da Wei

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Diversity

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International

engineering education [4], it is essential to explore the learningoutcomes of international engineering students. In this work-in-progress, we tried tounderstand international engineering students’ learning outcomes and the associatedlearning experiences.Literature ReviewThe number of international students engaged in higher education has been continuallygrowing, from 2 million in 1999 to 5 million in 2016[5]. Also, nearly one-third ofOECD study-abroad students at tertiary education level were enrolled in STEM(Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields of study, with 17% of themin engineering, manufacturing, and construction [5]. Hence, the investigations of thelearning experiences of international engineering students have continued

Collection

2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

Authors

Yongwook Kim, Manhattan College; Salvatore Florio; Qian Wang P.E., Manhattan College

detonations. The study was motivatedby the reality that many steel structures are exposed to public spaces and the protection of thesestructures against close-range blast effects is a major concern to engineers and facility owners,while no building code requirements or procedures are present at the moment. The blast analysisinvolves both highly non-linear finite element analysis based on solid mechanics andcomputational fluid dynamics. The theoretical backgrounds of the analysis are mathematicallyintense and require knowledges from several graduate level courses.To engage undergraduate students in a highly technical and theoretical research project, a newpedagogy is needed; a guided learning component shall be more utilized than an

Conference Session

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division (TELPhE) Technical Session 1

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tatiana V. Goris, Pittsburg State University; Zeshan Ahmad Shah, Pittsburg State University

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Diversity

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division (TELPhE)

research” or “grant-writing activities” have been understoodunder very different angles based on cultural settings, communicational abilities, or even financialsources. Therefore, when working together, various misconceptions regarding proposed tasksrequired consistent clarifications among multicultural participants. This factor caught authors’attentions: the issue was broader than just limited English proficiency of the local Uzbek facultyor students. Even those who spoke English fluently, they thought very differently about goals andoutcomes of common team working. As an American faculty-member who works withinternational graduate students on a routine daily basis, multicultural communications became atopic of the author’s special interests

Conference Session

Efforts to Understand and Support Students' Socioemotional Factors

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Joana Marques Melo, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Educational Research and Methods

data is the likelihood of attrition. We plan to builda strong rapport with participants during their time with CISTAR as well as discuss how theirdata will help inform our evaluation of programs and future efforts to support STEM careerpathways. Regular updates from the center on ongoing efforts will also provide a channel forregular communication beyond the ask for survey data. We also plan to provide information backto participants about the ongoing research to engage them in the process.An additional challenge that we foresee is the process of consenting students engaged in theYoung Scholars program. These students are rising juniors and seniors in high school, whilesome students are over eighteen years of age, many fall under the

Conference Session

Humanitarian and Sustainability in a Global Engineering Context

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christina Kay White, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Renetta G. Tull, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Yevgeniya V. Zastavker, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Rovani Sigamoney, UNESCO

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International

Deans Council (GEDC), and the interviews for this study.Following receipt of responses, we will analyze our methods and the findings to create a visualanalysis of the intersections of GC and SDG. The research team will analyze data about howexperiential learning impacts the engagement and perceptions these global initiatives onuniversity-based curricular and co-curricular opportunities for students. We are looking toexpand and support this work with funding specific to the task, and anticipate that the results ofthis research will inform engineering educators and the broader global community interested inways that communities are engaging in our most pressing issues of modern time. Understandingcomplex aspects of the intersections and aspects

Conference Session

Studies of Shifting In-person Courses to Online and Students' Online Behavior

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jaskirat Singh Batra, Texas A&M University; Sunay Palsole, Texas A&M University

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Educational Research and Methods

data from engineering students at a large engineering school in thesouthwestern United States. Because of the wide variety of videoconferencing technology,communication platforms, and learning management systems that are available for use by theinstructors and students, their impact on student interactions for social learning needs to becarefully considered. In this study, technology or platforms refer to the specific product orservice names whereas methods refer to the general strategy used to accomplish specificobjectives. For example, in the entertainment industry, Netflix, Hulu, or Amazon Prime Videoare the technologies or platforms; On-demand streaming, Movie theater, or Cable TV are themethods. We are interested in answering the

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 3; The Best of All the FPD Papers

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan F. Freeman, Northeastern University; Courtney Pfluger, Northeastern University; Richard Whalen, Northeastern University; Kathryn Schulte Grahame, Northeastern University; Joshua L. Hertz, Northeastern University; Chirag Variawa, Northeastern University; Jennifer Ocif Love, Northeastern University; Mark L. Sivak, Northeastern University; Bala Maheswaran, Northeastern University

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First-Year Programs

sections.5 In another study, also at theUniversity of Virginia, they studied whether hybrid instructional design and hands-on designactivities in a cornerstone course helped students learn the engineering design process.2 In thisstudy, Donahue used previously validated instruments to measure and show that studentsrobustly learned the engineering design process. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University andOhio State University studied whether some degree of instructional scaffolding helped studentsto engage in more design-oriented activities in a cornerstone course and found that first-yearengineering students did exhibit more sophisticated designer-like behavior in a project-basedlearning setting.1 McMaster University surveyed 420 first-year

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Kaufman-Ortiz, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Jason Morphew, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI); N. Sanjay Rebello; Carina Rebello, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

and their science courses maylimit students’ ability to transfer knowledge to other disciplines, leading to inert learning, and theinability to see the relevance of scientific principles to the practices of engineering design. One instance of science and design integration in undergraduate education comes fromEtkina and colleagues [30] who used the ISLE (Investigative Science Learning Environment)curriculum [31] - a curriculum that actively engages students in scientific practices. Etkina andcolleagues [30] found that students who experienced design activities as part of the ISLE labswere more able to reflect on assumptions in procedures, communicated better, and were able toengage with new tasks in more “scientifically productive ways

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Interactive Technology in the Classroom

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Kowalski; Luke Campagnola; Frank Kowalski

acknowledges that when students write about content, theyunderstand it better and remember it longer. This connection between writing and successfullearning strategies has served as the basis of widespread educational reform movements suchWriting Across the Curriculum, Writing to Learn, Writing in the Disciplines, and others. Thesereforms have positively impacted engineering education across the country, including at ourinstitution11. Although one of the great strengths of clicker technology is that it actively engagesstudents with their learning, formulating an original, written response requires an even higherlevel of engagement with the material. Furthermore, multiple-choice questions do little to helpstudents attain an ability to communicate

Conference Session

Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fanyu Zeng, Indiana Wesleyan University

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International

are unable to optimize usage of available resources due to over emphasis on relyingon course contents and lack of training on communication or coordination skills. Clearlyoveremphasis on textbook study and previous experience has compromised developmentof their creativity in problem solving and has caused Chinese students to become lessimaginative. Lack of emphasis on effective communication among a team copes withchallenges of sharing thoughts and experiences on critical thinking and problem solving.This confirms negative impact caused by neglecting importance of team oriented trainingin the software engineering program. Another interesting finding (not shown in Figure1)is Chinese students are not familiar with project management concepts

Conference Session

ETD - Technical Session 7 - ET Pedagogy I

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Johnson, Texas A&M University; Bimal Nepal, Texas A&M University; Shubham Torvi, Texas A&M University

thecollege of engineering. The Texas A&M University has a common first year program for allengineering and engineering technology majors. The FGEn program was established in 2017 andhas been providing mentoring services to about 150 to 160 freshmen every year. The mentorpool consists of both engineering faculty/staff and peer mentors. Unlike many first-generationstudent programs, the FGEn program is a one-on-one mentoring and does not provide anyfinancial assistance to mentees. However, the program offers a variety of programs during theacademic years that help engage the students. Academic performance of the FGEn students andtheir social experience over the last three years are presented in the paper. The results suggestthat the FGEn mentoring