Conference Session

Teaching Outside the Box

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Randy Lewis

Education Annual Conference & Expositi on Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”Following the identification of the chemicals, each team was encouraged to begin designing andbuilding their car. Three weeks before the competition, each team turned in their car design witha general explanation on how the car worked (i.e. how it moved, stopped, etc.). During the lastweek of class, the poster presentations were held. The competition followed and took placeduring an afternoon to promote attendance by both students and faculty. The competition lastedfor approximately three hours. During the first round, all but two cars traveled some distance.For the second round, only one car did not move due to a problem

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Libert; A. G. Enright

e-mail.We also communicate with other faculty. At some point soon, we intend to go to a format of"virtual meetings" to reduce department meetings. These meetings consist of a string of e-mailmessages, with votes on important issues sent to the Program Chair. In this way, facultymembers have more freedom to attend meetings at their convenience, rather than beingconstrained to a certain hour during the week. The secret is to have a "deadline" on all issues,and notify everyone that all votes must be in by the deadline. E-mail meetings tend to be moreconcise, because people tend to sit down when they actually have a free moment, and aren’tdistracted by wanting to be somewhere else. They also don’t have to "sit through" parts of themeeting that

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Technical Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Narayanan M. Komerath, Georgia Institute of Technology; Brian German, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

transport architecture,power beaming for a Space-based exchange and retail power delivery, and testbeds forrenewable energy systems. Finally, interdisciplinary courses at the senior undergraduate levelmesh learning across several subdiscipline and disciplinary areas. Initial samples of formativeassessment data reveal the learning style preferences and problem-solving approaches ofcurrent engineering students as they deal with the availability of diverse resources.Transferable lessons on the various issues in cross-disciplinary learning are distilled fromthese experiences. INTRODUCTIONThe EXTROVERT [1] project is a bold attempt to deal with the issues of learning acrossdisciplines in order to turn advanced

Conference Session

Ensuring Access to K - 12 Engineering Programs

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benita Comeau, Georgia Institute of Technology; Marion Usselman, Georgia Institute of Technology; Donna Llewellyn, Georgia Institute of Technology; Michael Pastirik

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

biophysics from Johns Hopkins University and has taught in the Biology Department at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. She focuses on equity issues in education and K-12 educational reform. Marion is co-PI of the STEP NSF grant.Donna Llewellyn, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Donna C. Llewellyn is the Director of the Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning at the Georgia Institute of Technolgy. Donna received her doctorate from Cornell University in Operations Research and spent ten years on the faculty in Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. Her primary research interests now are in the educational domain, specifically improving access and equity in STEM

Conference Session

Global Perspective and Experiential Learning in Civil Engineering

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John E. Greenleaf P.E., Quinnipiac University; Emils Stires Schnore, Independent construction professional; Patrick M. Strenk P.E., Golder Associates, Inc.

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Civil Engineering

important to retain individuals that complement the goalsand objectives of the project both in terms of construction and education. Once engaged, thisrelationship can be further cultivated through workshops, meetings and other low-stakesactivities prior to an international trip. Ultimately, the long-term success of this partnershipdepends on relationship building and the development of shared goals and expectations, mutualrespect, learning, and sense of project ownership for all participants.1 Welch, M. Billig, S.H. (2004). New Perspectives in Service-learning: Research to Advance the Field. InformationAge Publishing, Charlotte, NC.2 Gonsalves, R.K., (2008) Service-learning from the Perspective of Faculty in Higher Education: A

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erika Mosyjowski, University of Michigan; Kelley Dugan, University of Michigan; Shanna Daly, University of Michigan; Colleen Seifert, University of Michigan; Elizabeth Pollack

justice. Synthesis Lectures on Engineers, Technology, and Society, No. 7. Morgan and Claypool.[11] Shadle, S. E., Marker, A., & Earl, B. (2017). Faculty drivers and barriers: Laying the groundwork for undergraduate STEM education reform in academic departments. International Journal of STEM Education, 4(8), 1-13.[12] Mitchell, L. D., Parlamis, J. D., & Claiborne, S. A. (2015). Overcoming faculty avoidance of online education: From resistance to support to active participation. Journal of Management Education, 39(3), 350–371.[13] Watty, K., McKey, J., & Ngo, L. (2016). Innovators or inhibitors? Accounting faculty resistant to new educational technologies in higher education. Journal of Accounting

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-college Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cheryl Farmer, UTeachEngineering; David T. Allen, University of Texas, Austin; Leema Kuhn Berland, University of Texas, Austin; Richard H. Crawford, University of Texas, Austin; Lisa Guerra, NASA

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

materials for environmental and engineering education. The quality of his work has been recognized by the National Science Foundation, the AT&T Foundation, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors, and the state of Texas. He has won teaching awards at the University of Texas and UCLA. Allen received his B.S. degree in chemical engineering, with distinction, from Cornell University in 1979. His M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in chemical engineering were awarded by the California Institute of Technology in 1981 and 1983. He has held visiting faculty appointments at the California Institute of Technology, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and

Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention & Advising

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Beckett; Thomas Marrero

century. One area that continues to be of concern is thedecline of science, math, and engineering (SME) students. “Undergraduate engineeringenrollment declined from a high of 441,205 students in 1983 to 356,177 students in 1996,representing a 19 percent reduction.”4 Furthermore, the attrition rate for engineering studentsremains high. An estimated 35% of first-year engineering students change their major before thestart of their sophomore year.5While many in academia are quick to blame poor academic preparation in secondary educationfor the difficulties that students face in these fields, Seymour and Hewitt found that a loss ofinterest in the sciences and poor teaching by SME faculty were major concerns for both studentswho persisted in the field

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Course Efforts

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ravi T. Shankar, Florida Atlantic University; Teresa J. Sakraida, Florida Atlantic University, Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing; Francis Xavier McAfee, Florida Atlantic University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

the app was relevant and useful to the health concern chosen. Arts students ensured that theapp was user friendly and pleasing. Faculty members brought together these students for initialintroductions, team formation, progress reports, and final app presentation at semester end. Thefaculty members scored the teams with a rubric for nine app attributes. The rubric was based on afive point Likert scale, as described later under the research section.This project brought together STEM and non-STEM students of both genders in teams, thusreaching a large and diverse community. All our apps are published for free access as Githubrepositories. The app development process would also be useful to faculty members elsewhere.Such Apps can become the

Conference Session

Engineering Physics and Physics Division (EP2D) Technical Session 1

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

CARLOS PINEIDA, Universidad Andres Bello, Chile.; Angeles Dominguez, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico (ITESM); Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile (UNAB); Genaro Zavala, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico; Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics and Physics Division (EP2D)

Paper ID #48150Integrating 3D Printing and Tracker Software for Enhanced Data Acquisitionin Experimental Physics EducationMr. CARLOS PINEIDA, Universidad Andres Bello, Chile. Carlos Pineida has dedicated over 20 years to teaching physics. He earned a Master’s degree in University Teaching, focusing on developing experimental skill in students and fostering their scientific thinking. Carlos has the privilege of inspiring numerous students in the fascinating world of science. He is currently a faculty member at the University Andres Bello in Chile, teaching physics within the faculty of Engineering. He specializes in

Conference Session

Messaging, Motivations and Supports for Women Engineers

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abiola Olayinka Ajala, Morgan State University; Blessing Isoyiza ADEIKA, Morgan State University; Opeyemi Taiwo Adeniran, Morgan State University; Raymond Deji Olamijulo, Morgan State University; Sarah Halleluyah Adeyemi, Morgan State University; Blessing Omomola, Morgan State University; Ayobami Christianah Dunmoye, Morgan State University; Pelumi Olaitan Abiodun, Morgan State University; Oludare Adegbola Owolabi P.E., Morgan State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering Division (WIED)

that fuel their perseverance. Using a mixed-method approach, the studyintegrates qualitative insights from in-depth interviews with faculty and students and quantitativedata were collected through surveys. This comprehensive approach ensures a nuancedunderstanding of themes such as mentorship, work-life balance, representation, leadershipaspirations, and the broader significance of diversity in engineering [3], [4]. Despite significantcontributions from existing literature, research gaps remain in understanding how the intersectionof race, gender, and institutional context uniquely shapes the experiences of women in engineeringat HBCUs. Previous studies often focus on broader issues of gender disparity in STEM or highlightthe role of HBCUs in

Conference Session

Focus on the First Year

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Haas, Georgia Institute of Technology; Adjo A Amekudzi-Kennedy, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jennifer Kaiser, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

simple as finding all the CEErelated academic buildings and taking a selfie in front of them, reviewing the academic advisingresources available and filling out their personal curriculum flowchart, or participating in ourlunch-with-a-prof program in which the school sponsors students and faculty members to engageover lunch various topics professional and personal, e.g., career choice, graduate school, studyabroad, family and others. Each cycle contained a new set of activities from which they wererequired to complete at least three.Results This course has been taught as an optional course for first-year students since Fall 2019.The enrollment each semester is summarized in Table 1 below. The student enrollment increasedthe first three

Conference Session

Assessing Design Coursework II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia Brackin, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; J. Darrell Gibson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

J. DARRELL GIBSON is a Professor of M.E. at Rose-Hulman Inst of Tech where he teaches design, noise control, and structural mechanics. His BS and MS are from Purdue in Aero Engineering and his Ph.D. is from the University of New Mexico in ME. He has also been an Associate Professor at the University of Wyoming and a Visiting Professor at Colorado State Univ. His industrial experience includes General Dynamics Corp, J.I Case Co, Sandia Labs, NASA/Langley Research Center, and NASA/Jet Propulsion Lab. He is a registered PE. Page 12.343.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007

Conference Session

Proven Strategies in Classroom Engagement Part II: Activities for Creative Pedagogy

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Roth, Lafayette College; Kristen L. Sanford Bernhardt, Lafayette College

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

or co-authored over 50 publications and has served as principal or co-principal investigator on nine grants from the National Science Foundation. At Lafayette College Dr. Roth has served as Department Head of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Director of Engineering, and Associate Provost for Academic Operations in addition to multiple faculty committee assignments. She has led campus-wide accreditation and assessment initiatives, implemented new faculty orientation programs, collaborated on the development of multiple proposals to private foun- dations, and coordinated interdisciplinary academic programs. She has received a number of awards in recognition of her scholarship and teaching including a Fulbright

Conference Session

Service Learning Projects in Developing Countries

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jess Everett, Rowan University; Yusuf Mehta, Rowan University; Joshua R. Wyrick, Rowan University; Maria Perez-Colon, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

young engineers early in their academicpursuits to be conscious of sustainability and environmental concerns. Being a part of EngineersWithout Borders and travelling worldwide gives students experiences they could not attain in aclassroom. Service learning gives students the opportunity to make a difference by solving reallife problems around the world, affecting hundreds of people in developing and impoverishedcountries. In doing this, EWB members are given a new global perspective as well as taughtskills that will make them better engineers in workforce, and citizens of the world.By having some students participate in EWB through an official class, the clinic, professors areable to maximize the student experience. For example, students write

Conference Session

Capstone/ET Projects I: Electrical and Computer Focus

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Ulan Dakeev, Sam Houston State University; Ali Aljaroudi, Sam Houston State University; Faruk Yildiz, Sam Houston State University; Reg Recayi Pecen, Sam Houston State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

isreasonable from a fire safety point of view. Virtual simulation permits professional trainers toassess new trainees’ behavior in the response to emergency situations that may not easily berecreated in the real-world due to ethical, safety, cost, and time concerns.Literature ReviewThere is a research gap in term of understanding about effective training solutions capable ofpreparing firefighters for ever-changing threats. To be more specific, the issue is the knowledgegap when considering high intense scenarios in the fire service. The academic knowledge gap isin the lack of training solutions for such incidents. Virtual reality (VR) simulations have thepotential to generate significant benefits to fire service training. These solutions are a

Conference Session

Technical Capacity Building for Developing Countries

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Russel Jones, World Expertise LLC

Tagged Divisions

International

, steps necessary to enhance and ensurethe quality of engineering education, and country-level financing and planning ofcapacity building efforts. A follow up meeting was held in Puerto Rico in January of2006 and a steering committee and several action oriented sub-committees have been setup to pursue the recommendations from the November 2005 conference. This effortclearly demonstrates that cooperative efforts can successfully address issues of capacitybuilding and how the profession can share common concerns and develop effectivesolutions to these concerns.The WFEO Committee on Capacity Building, while continuing its Engineering for the Page

Conference Session

Design and the Community

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Carol Haden; John Tester; Jerry Hatfield

Page 10.563.7course revision is to increase student retention in engineering, this result is of great concern to the “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”instructors. However, there is some indication that many of the student criticisms related to thisissue reflected issues that arise when a course is being taught for the first time.As an example: There was a philosophy of the instructors not to give the students all of theinformation on some projects at the start, so that the students would be forced to discuss the projectwith their teammate(s), analyze the problem, note any information they

Conference Session

Innovations in Design within BME Curricula

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aura Gimm, Duke University; Richard Goldberg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Kevin Caves, Duke University; Robert Malkin, Duke University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

Tennessee, Dr. Malkin was a professor of Electrical Engineering at The City College of New York and a member of the graduate faculty at The City University of New York and a research associate at Columbia University. Dr. Malkin received his MS and PhD in Electrical En- gineering from Duke University in 1991 and 1993, respectively. Prior to attending graduate school, Dr. Malkin taught English in Thailand, worked at EM Microelectronics in Switzerland designing integrated circuits, worked for Cordis Corporation designing pacemakers and worked for Sarns Incorporated design- ing heart lung machines. Dr Malkin received the BS degree in Electrical Engineering from The University of Michigan in 1984. Dr. Malkin is a Fellow of

Conference Session

Enhancing Recruitment and Retention in Engineering Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deborah Hochstein, University of Memphis; Shelia Moses, University of Memphis; Daphne Jones, Memphis City Schools

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

thistype. Many of us assume that this type of counseling is done by parents, teachers and guidancecounselors. The fact of the matter is most of what students know about engineering jobs islearned on television or in the movies. A study done on middle school students’ attitudes andknowledge about engineering, by faculty at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, reported that79% of the students never heard about engineering from a school counselor, 68% never heardabout it personally from a teacher, 44% never heard about it from a parent and 65% never heardabout it from a friend.11 In a separate document, this faculty reported that while schoolcounselors have positive attitudes toward engineers, they lack the fundamental knowledge aboutengineering

Conference Session

Using technology in engineering ethics education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald P. Uhlig, National University; Shatha Jawad, National University; Phillip Zamora, National University; Elizabeth Niven, National University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS)

Paper ID #41401Ethical Use of Generative AI in Engineering: Assessing Students and PreventingThem from Cheating ThemselvesDr. Ronald P. Uhlig, National University Dr. Ron Uhlig is currently Chair, Department of Engineering, Data and Computer Sciences, National University School of Technology and Engineering, College of Business, Engineering and Technology. From 2010-2014, he served as Dean, NU School of Business and Management. He returned to the engineering faculty in 2014. From 2000-2005, he was President/CEO, SegWave, Inc., an educational technology systems company he founded. Previous positions include Vice President

Conference Session

ECE Capstone and Engineering Practice

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Baladi; P. David Fisher

market as areplacement. The product life cycle must include the end of one product with the introduction ofa new product. This often includes the requirement that the process of generating a new productalso leads to the development of new intellectual property (IP) and new markets for thecompany’s core business.These are many of the general issues that routinely design engineers. However, there areadditional ones that relate more specifically to the design of application-specific embeddedcomputers and embedded systems. These are identified and discussed in the sub-sections thatfollow.Real-time CriteriaReal-time systems distinguish themselves from other systems by the involvement of time andsystem correctness13. Embedded systems are used in a

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Oscar R Gonzalez; James F Leathrum; Amit Kumar H; Vishnu Lakdawala; Stephen Zahorian

and assessment are major criteria included in the Accreditation Board of Engineeringand Technology (ABET) 2000 criteria. This is further substantiated by the many recenteducation related conferences which include assessment as a key subject area. Recently the IEEETransactions on Education devoted a complete special issue on assessment (McGourty andKerns 6 ). The issue contains papers on development, implementation, and institutionalization ofeducational assessment in engineering education. A number of assessment instruments thatassess multiple dimensions of learning are also available (for example, see FLAG7 ) to faculty inscience, mathematics, and engineering. In addition, over the past several years, considerableeffort has been devoted to

Conference Session

Public Engineering of Engineering, K12 Standards, and Overview

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Sanders, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

, just as we make thesciences available for the same end through laboratory instruction” 1d, which led MIT to provideleadership to the establishment to the School of Mechanic Arts for secondary students in Boston.In 1882, John Ordway, Vice President of MIT, wrote a letter to the secretary of the PublicEducation Association of Philadelphia, strongly encouraging them to expand the work of theSchool of Mechanic Arts to all of Boston’s public schools 1e.In the 1870s, Harvard graduate Calvin Woodward was professor of mathematics, and dean of thePolytechnic faculty at Washington University in St. Louis. Concerned that his math studentswere having difficulty grasping certain concepts, he began to teach an applied mechanics coursein the early 1870s, in

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE) Technical Session 11: Summer Camps and more!

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Moses Ling P.E., Pennsylvania State University; Maureen Kelliher; Jonathan Michael Broyles, Pennsylvania State University; Ryan L. Solnosky P.E., Pennsylvania State University; Heui Young Park; Lily X. Li, Pennsylvania State University; Baraa J. Alkhatatbeh; Lorine Awuor Ouma

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE)

. • Day 2 consisted of campers participating in a structural truss activity in the early morning, followed by mechanical-focused activities, that included making a simple cardboard building and testing different insulation R-values using heat lamps and temperature sensors. The group then toured the construction site of the new Penn State engineering buildings. • Day 3 consisted of campers studying sustainable building by touring Penn State’s Morningstar house (ultra-sustainable tiny house), guided by a faculty member who was part of the undergraduate team who created the final design. • Day 4 centered on acoustics and lighting and electrical morning, where students

Conference Session

Software Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Cecilia La Place, Arizona State University; Shawn S. Jordan, Arizona State University

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Software Engineering Division

commonplace and accessible at universities around the world,surges of undergraduate Computer Science and Software Engineering students can be foundattending these events to have real world development experiences. Meanwhile, faculty findthemselves continuously adapting themselves and their curriculum to prepare students to beadaptive experts, one who leverages prior or similar knowledge to solve new problems in newcontexts, when they enter the workforce. Capstones and culminating experiences test students’abilities to be adaptive experts, but students are not always prepared to meet the challenge.Hackathons present a unique but accessible opportunity to gain more adaptive experience priorto and during capstone experiences. In this work in progress

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacquelyn Kelly, Arizona State University; James Corkins, Arizona State University; Dale Baker, Arizona State University; Amaneh Tasooji, Arizona State University; Stephen Krause, Arizona State University

constructivist theory and issues of equity. Her research focuses on issues of gendeAmaneh Tasooji, Arizona State University Amaneh Tasooji, Arizona State University Amaneh Tasooji is an Associate Research Professor in the School of Materials at ASU and has been teaching and developing new content for materials science and engineering classes and laboratories. She has developed new content and contextual teaching methods from here experience as a researcher and General Manager at Honeywell Inc. She is currently working to develop new assessments to reveal and address student misconceptions in introductory materials engineering classes.Stephen Krause, Arizona State University Stephen Krause, Arizona

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 1: Intercultural Competency-infused Teaching

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Javiera Constanza Jofré, Universidad Andres Bello, Chile; Angeles Dominguez, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico; Universidad Andres Bello, Chile

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

education at the Tecnologico de Monterrey. Her main research areas are faculty development, teaching methods, and gender issues in STEM education. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Integrating Global Sustainability Challenges in an Organizational Management CourseAbstractPrevious studies indicate that there is a link between a country's engineering capacity and itseconomic development. Future professionals must be capable of integrating the social andenvironmental fields into their engineering solutions. Their vision of the world must answer anew development model that ensures resource availability and well-being for

Conference Session

Professional Development for Graduate Students

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Michael A. Matthews P.E., University of South Carolina; Gina M. Kunz, University of South Carolina; Kevin Brock, University of South Carolina; Darin Freeburg, University of South Carolina

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

, and criticallyreading the research literature relevant to their new project. Course 2 is for graduate studentswho are preparing to write or present their work in a professional venue. The second coursefocuses on writing, in the standards of the discipline, but with an explicit view of meeting criticalthinking standards. These courses were developed to address common faculty concerns abouttheir graduate students, e.g. poor writing skills; inability to comprehend and act on the literature;inability to develop independence of thought; etc.This paper summarizes course syllabi and typical assignments and approaches to assessingstudent work. Work has begun on the efficacy of these courses, addressing several key questionsconcerning skill

Conference Session

Research in Assessment

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alan Chong, University of Toronto; Lisa Romkey, University of Toronto

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

difficult to negotiate. Twofactors may help to mitigate this concern for in the context of graduate attributes assessment.First, the students are being assessed by full faculty members, rather than by teaching assistants.While the consistency of the data across the cohort may still be under question, each individualstudent is being given the professional judgment of an expert in the field. Second, our attempt tobe more granular in the “rough guide” can be viewed an attempt to help create clarity acrossassessors. Writing descriptions of performance levels as a way of increasing inter-rater reliabilityhas been discussed in previous research9 and in fact, research has found that rubric design itselfcan offer the clarity needed for use by evaluators